So if you want to pay in cash, you first sign that the sales contract. Once the contract is signed, you have a debt for that amount. Now you open your suitcase full of cash and they are obligated to take it in payment of the debt. You better have a witness with you however as you count the money on the table.
The courts here in the US are increasingly realizing that an IP address alone, without other evidence of wrongdoing is no longer good enough to justify a prosecution or civil case. Even the dumbest prosecutors are beginning to realize this. Throttling an open AP down to say 512 kb/s will allow checking of e-mail or a simple query to to Google, but will not allow the downloading of huge files or watching of video. The speed of such a connection is still considerably faster than dial-up, and therefore is plenty fast enough for receiving simple text files. No one will have the patience to sit in front of my house in a car for hours to downloads megabyte files onto a laptop. I download large files using a hardwired connection to my computers. Sometimes, when friends come over with their laptop, I connect them to my ethernet so that they can use my high-speed Internet connection as necessary for downloads. I turn off the AP entirely at night and when I'm not home.
I run an open unprotected AP, which has been throttled down to a very low speed. It is good enough for an interloper to do a little surfing, but downloading any meaningful amount of data or watching a video is impractical. My other computers are all wired in to the network. Since it is not illegal to run an open AP, this gives me deniable plausibility, if some jerk is patient enough to download something illegal. I also turn the AP off entirely when it is not needed for a wireless only device like my iPad. I don't use the latter to download any big files.
If you can find out who's stealing your bandwidth, you don't need the police -- you need a lawyer. In civil matters they are a *lot* more scary.
The trouble is that lawyers are very expensive. I need my wireless connection only for the iPad. Most of the time I use my main computer which uses a wired connection. So the Wi-Fi is always turned off unless I actively need It. As soon as I'm done, off it goes. Any leech cannot get a reliable Internet connection for long. When they get disconnected, just before a big download completes, that is very frustrating.
Turning it off is exactly what I do when I am not actively using any wireless devices. My main computer is wired to the modem through an ethernet switch. Most of the time I use my main computer. The wireless AP also uses a directional antenna, is restricted to a fraction of the normal Internet speed and turned off most of the time unless I actually need it. I don't even bother with a password.
The problem that employers have is knowing ahead of time who would and who would not be able to do the job they need done. If for example there are a dozen applicants for a welder job, how does an employer pick the best applicant? Some kid out of high school might be the best welder, but is not likely to get the job over someone who can present some kind of fancy school certificate. It is not likely that there are many employers who will take each applicant and have them actually weld something, to try to determine who the best welder is. A college degree or a school certificate has become a primary filtering mechanism to narrow down the number of applicants that would even be considered for the job opening.
Any time there is a big pile of money somewhere, there will always be people who will try their best to get some of it in their pockets. The availability of medical insurance has jacked up medical costs. Anything the government subsidizes always costs somebody more than it otherwise would. For most of us that increased cost comes in the form of taxes.
Exactly! Maybe students who are not highly motivated should learn a trade, because only highly motivated and intelligent students can succeed in college. It does take more discipline to study and work at home. A big problem is that they don't teach discipline and self-control anymore in our public schools. The teach students how to feel good about themselves and toe the line to whatever happens to be politically correct at the moment.
The solution is to put the dirty bags in the washing machine together with dirty towels and to put the keyboards into the dishwasher together with the dirty dishes. Then both will be clean and sanitary. Now wasn't that easy?
That garbage patch citation is garbage. Almost all of that garbage comes because of illegal dumping from ships. Most people don't throw their used plastic grocery bags into any ocean. Those bags however do occasionally become useful for carrying a picnic to the beach. Bags that are carelessly left there could end up in the ocean, but that is a problem of education. Children should be taught that leaving garbage in the environment is highly undesirable and bad behavior.
What about a person who uses public transit and forgot to take his/her reusable bag to work with them? They decide to shop for a few groceries after work. Now, how do they get them home if plastic bags are not allowed anymore? What about paper bags? Do they end up with a huge, expensive collection of reusable bags? Do they forgo shopping and eat at a fast food joint? I wish that politicians would finally stop responding to pressure from lobbying groups and start using their brains for change, if they have any.
I was always under the impression that reusable bags are supposedly ecologically friendlier. Is that still the case, if the reusable bags require the use of water and energy, in order to keep them clean so that they don't spread germs? Here, in our little town in the middle of nowhere, we got to choose between plastic and paper bags. Recently, because of the pressure of environmentalists, the supermarket has decided to only have paper bags. I think paper bags are best. They come from a renewable resource, they decay in an environmentally friendly way and they are much more convenient than remembering to carry a reusable bag of some kind which has to be washed frequently.
Of course, let's add to the federal deficit some more by funding another useless study. Never mind that it makes perfect sense that reusable bags could harbor and spread of germs. The fact that in neighboring counties there is no jump in disease, where there is no plastic bag prohibition, is indicative that there is truth to this germ spreading allegation of reusable shopping bags. Common sense will tell most people that, but then common sense isn't all that common anymore.
A patent is like a treasure. You have to be able to protect it from thieves. A treasure such as a large pile of gold, is ultimately protected by force of arms. If it is an immense treasure you need a large army to defend it. The only difference is that the army defending a treasure uses guns, whereas a patent treasure is defended by an army of lawyers. In either case, if you can't afford a large army, the treasury will be stolen from you by someone who can afford such an army.
So many inventions are stolen from the original inventor, namely God who put these inventions into the natural realm. You mention Velcro. That is one of them. The patent system in all countries is broken, because someone with a huge money supply can in almost all cases steal the patent, especially if it is really economically worthwhile. Even if someone invented something as radical as antigravity, that invention would still be only as good as dirt, unless the inventor had financial backing required to hire an army of lawyers against all potential ripoff attempts.
What good would a touch friendly tablet device be with corporate software that was never written with touch in mind? If a company has to rewrite their corporate software anyway, then Microsoft's expensive brick would be a big waste of resources. A cheap ultra book would be a more appropriate solution, not needing a complete software UI overhaul.
One of the major things that evolutionists ignore, is the origin of information. Science is primarily about the exploration of the laws of nature. Has any evolutionist ever demonstrated how any law, natural or human can come into existence without the activity of a mind? Evolutionists generally do not deny the existence of numerous laws of nature that can be tested and have been found to be consistent throughout the universe. They have however no real explanation of how those laws came into being. Creationists ascribe the existence of the laws of nature to a supreme mind, the mind of God. DNA is an information storage medium. Where does all the information that is stored in DNA come from? All man-made information storage media get their information only and exclusively from the activity of the minds of human beings. Creationists consistently assert that the information stored in DNA comes from the mind of God.
And therein lies the problem. "Oh, but the law permits them to".
Stallman saw this shit coming decades ago, sadly he's right:x
Why not go a step further and mandate that all computer makers preinstall government approved spyware? Any user who removes such government mandated malware shall be guilty of a felony with a mandatory five-year prison sentence./sarcasm
If we would take the King James Bible as a reference point, what books would the Catholics and/or Eastern Orthodox Christians add to this? Which ones would they leave out? Do any of the added books that are not in the King James Bible contradict the ones that are? If so, does that change the overall message of the Bible? What do you consider to be that main message?
If you believe in an everlasting, all wise and all-powerful God, then you should have no trouble believing that he can communicate with all humans. If you believe that the Bible is that communication, then the minimum content that ALL Christians embrace would be the only true word of God. This minimum content does not include the Apocrypha, the gospel of Thomas, the book of Enoch and other extraneous writings that have been at one time or another been claimed by various groups as being part of the Bible.
According to the biblical record, the judgment of the flood made the environment of the new Earth unsuitable for huge cold-blooded creatures such as dinosaurs. The earth became much colder and seasons were instituted. Before the flood it was never cold enough on earth to rain. That is why there is a reference to the rainbow in the biblical record. That was something never seen before.
The God of Richard Dawkin's imagination is way too small and puny. The God of the Bible is infinite and eternal, outside of time and space. To him, the universe with all its galaxies is like an aquarium might be to us. We humans live in that aquarium and that is all the knowledge we have. God is the keeper of this aquarium we find ourselves in. Unless this God chooses to communicate with us in some way, the only knowledge we can gain about him is the fact that this aquarium appears to be pretty fantastic and big to us little mortal humans. It turns out that God did communicate himself to us, by entering the aquarium, time and space, and becoming a human. This is the unique message of the Bible. Jesus Christ is God come to earth, and into our time dimension, dwelling in a mortal human body. He conquered death and invites those that believe in him, to join him in a new physical, immortal body he will place this into, outside of the aquarium, beyond time and space.
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So if you want to pay in cash, you first sign that the sales contract. Once the contract is signed, you have a debt for that amount. Now you open your suitcase full of cash and they are obligated to take it in payment of the debt. You better have a witness with you however as you count the money on the table.
The courts here in the US are increasingly realizing that an IP address alone, without other evidence of wrongdoing is no longer good enough to justify a prosecution or civil case. Even the dumbest prosecutors are beginning to realize this. Throttling an open AP down to say 512 kb/s will allow checking of e-mail or a simple query to to Google, but will not allow the downloading of huge files or watching of video. The speed of such a connection is still considerably faster than dial-up, and therefore is plenty fast enough for receiving simple text files. No one will have the patience to sit in front of my house in a car for hours to downloads megabyte files onto a laptop. I download large files using a hardwired connection to my computers. Sometimes, when friends come over with their laptop, I connect them to my ethernet so that they can use my high-speed Internet connection as necessary for downloads. I turn off the AP entirely at night and when I'm not home.
I run an open unprotected AP, which has been throttled down to a very low speed. It is good enough for an interloper to do a little surfing, but downloading any meaningful amount of data or watching a video is impractical. My other computers are all wired in to the network. Since it is not illegal to run an open AP, this gives me deniable plausibility, if some jerk is patient enough to download something illegal. I also turn the AP off entirely when it is not needed for a wireless only device like my iPad. I don't use the latter to download any big files.
If I turn my modem off and then on again, I get a new IP address each time. As long as the modem remains on, the IP never changes.
If you can find out who's stealing your bandwidth, you don't need the police -- you need a lawyer. In civil matters they are a *lot* more scary.
The trouble is that lawyers are very expensive. I need my wireless connection only for the iPad. Most of the time I use my main computer which uses a wired connection. So the Wi-Fi is always turned off unless I actively need It. As soon as I'm done, off it goes. Any leech cannot get a reliable Internet connection for long. When they get disconnected, just before a big download completes, that is very frustrating.
Turning it off is exactly what I do when I am not actively using any wireless devices. My main computer is wired to the modem through an ethernet switch. Most of the time I use my main computer. The wireless AP also uses a directional antenna, is restricted to a fraction of the normal Internet speed and turned off most of the time unless I actually need it. I don't even bother with a password.
The problem that employers have is knowing ahead of time who would and who would not be able to do the job they need done. If for example there are a dozen applicants for a welder job, how does an employer pick the best applicant? Some kid out of high school might be the best welder, but is not likely to get the job over someone who can present some kind of fancy school certificate. It is not likely that there are many employers who will take each applicant and have them actually weld something, to try to determine who the best welder is. A college degree or a school certificate has become a primary filtering mechanism to narrow down the number of applicants that would even be considered for the job opening.
Any time there is a big pile of money somewhere, there will always be people who will try their best to get some of it in their pockets. The availability of medical insurance has jacked up medical costs. Anything the government subsidizes always costs somebody more than it otherwise would. For most of us that increased cost comes in the form of taxes.
Exactly! Maybe students who are not highly motivated should learn a trade, because only highly motivated and intelligent students can succeed in college. It does take more discipline to study and work at home. A big problem is that they don't teach discipline and self-control anymore in our public schools. The teach students how to feel good about themselves and toe the line to whatever happens to be politically correct at the moment.
Even if he had, those patents would have expired ages ago. He also does not send us the bill for the energy that His sun sends our way every day. (-:
The solution is to put the dirty bags in the washing machine together with dirty towels and to put the keyboards into the dishwasher together with the dirty dishes. Then both will be clean and sanitary. Now wasn't that easy?
That garbage patch citation is garbage. Almost all of that garbage comes because of illegal dumping from ships. Most people don't throw their used plastic grocery bags into any ocean. Those bags however do occasionally become useful for carrying a picnic to the beach. Bags that are carelessly left there could end up in the ocean, but that is a problem of education. Children should be taught that leaving garbage in the environment is highly undesirable and bad behavior.
What about a person who uses public transit and forgot to take his/her reusable bag to work with them? They decide to shop for a few groceries after work. Now, how do they get them home if plastic bags are not allowed anymore? What about paper bags? Do they end up with a huge, expensive collection of reusable bags? Do they forgo shopping and eat at a fast food joint? I wish that politicians would finally stop responding to pressure from lobbying groups and start using their brains for change, if they have any.
I was always under the impression that reusable bags are supposedly ecologically friendlier. Is that still the case, if the reusable bags require the use of water and energy, in order to keep them clean so that they don't spread germs? Here, in our little town in the middle of nowhere, we got to choose between plastic and paper bags. Recently, because of the pressure of environmentalists, the supermarket has decided to only have paper bags. I think paper bags are best. They come from a renewable resource, they decay in an environmentally friendly way and they are much more convenient than remembering to carry a reusable bag of some kind which has to be washed frequently.
Of course, let's add to the federal deficit some more by funding another useless study. Never mind that it makes perfect sense that reusable bags could harbor and spread of germs. The fact that in neighboring counties there is no jump in disease, where there is no plastic bag prohibition, is indicative that there is truth to this germ spreading allegation of reusable shopping bags. Common sense will tell most people that, but then common sense isn't all that common anymore.
A patent is like a treasure. You have to be able to protect it from thieves. A treasure such as a large pile of gold, is ultimately protected by force of arms. If it is an immense treasure you need a large army to defend it. The only difference is that the army defending a treasure uses guns, whereas a patent treasure is defended by an army of lawyers. In either case, if you can't afford a large army, the treasury will be stolen from you by someone who can afford such an army.
So many inventions are stolen from the original inventor, namely God who put these inventions into the natural realm. You mention Velcro. That is one of them. The patent system in all countries is broken, because someone with a huge money supply can in almost all cases steal the patent, especially if it is really economically worthwhile. Even if someone invented something as radical as antigravity, that invention would still be only as good as dirt, unless the inventor had financial backing required to hire an army of lawyers against all potential ripoff attempts.
What good would a touch friendly tablet device be with corporate software that was never written with touch in mind? If a company has to rewrite their corporate software anyway, then Microsoft's expensive brick would be a big waste of resources. A cheap ultra book would be a more appropriate solution, not needing a complete software UI overhaul.
One of the major things that evolutionists ignore, is the origin of information. Science is primarily about the exploration of the laws of nature. Has any evolutionist ever demonstrated how any law, natural or human can come into existence without the activity of a mind? Evolutionists generally do not deny the existence of numerous laws of nature that can be tested and have been found to be consistent throughout the universe. They have however no real explanation of how those laws came into being. Creationists ascribe the existence of the laws of nature to a supreme mind, the mind of God. DNA is an information storage medium. Where does all the information that is stored in DNA come from? All man-made information storage media get their information only and exclusively from the activity of the minds of human beings. Creationists consistently assert that the information stored in DNA comes from the mind of God.
And therein lies the problem. "Oh, but the law permits them to".
Stallman saw this shit coming decades ago, sadly he's right :x
Why not go a step further and mandate that all computer makers preinstall government approved spyware? Any user who removes such government mandated malware shall be guilty of a felony with a mandatory five-year prison sentence. /sarcasm
If we would take the King James Bible as a reference point, what books would the Catholics and/or Eastern Orthodox Christians add to this? Which ones would they leave out? Do any of the added books that are not in the King James Bible contradict the ones that are? If so, does that change the overall message of the Bible? What do you consider to be that main message?
If you believe in an everlasting, all wise and all-powerful God, then you should have no trouble believing that he can communicate with all humans. If you believe that the Bible is that communication, then the minimum content that ALL Christians embrace would be the only true word of God. This minimum content does not include the Apocrypha, the gospel of Thomas, the book of Enoch and other extraneous writings that have been at one time or another been claimed by various groups as being part of the Bible.
According to the biblical record, the judgment of the flood made the environment of the new Earth unsuitable for huge cold-blooded creatures such as dinosaurs. The earth became much colder and seasons were instituted. Before the flood it was never cold enough on earth to rain. That is why there is a reference to the rainbow in the biblical record. That was something never seen before.
The Gospel of Thomas is not in the Bible and is therefore bogus and false!
The God of Richard Dawkin's imagination is way too small and puny. The God of the Bible is infinite and eternal, outside of time and space. To him, the universe with all its galaxies is like an aquarium might be to us. We humans live in that aquarium and that is all the knowledge we have. God is the keeper of this aquarium we find ourselves in. Unless this God chooses to communicate with us in some way, the only knowledge we can gain about him is the fact that this aquarium appears to be pretty fantastic and big to us little mortal humans. It turns out that God did communicate himself to us, by entering the aquarium, time and space, and becoming a human. This is the unique message of the Bible. Jesus Christ is God come to earth, and into our time dimension, dwelling in a mortal human body. He conquered death and invites those that believe in him, to join him in a new physical, immortal body he will place this into, outside of the aquarium, beyond time and space.