Depends on the drugs. Depends on what else you're doing with them. Depends on who you're getting them from. Depends on why you're doing them and how much your addiction is costing everyone else.
A popular FOSS app is rarely better than the popular commercial products it's mimicking, but it's usually better than something J. Corporate Devteam can build from the ground up. I.e., good FOSS apps are generally in the upper half of the bell curve for features and quality. But not too far up in the upper half.
You should be allowed to do it as long as you don't step on anyone else's TLDs.
The only problem it causes then is that DNS gets less efficient as servers below the TLDs now have to process a lot more information to find out where to send a request for "www.domain.h4xxx0rr3a1m" and the like.
But there's no way that's less efficient overall than the ridiculous bureaucratic and petty-political process needed to get a new tld erected.
And it would, indeed, free the network from the clutches of ICANN, where it should never have been placed following the death of IANA.
A lot of the interstitial schtick was getting played, to the point of dreary, redundant unwatchabilty, but the running commentary on the movies could never get old.
At some point there will be so many "generic" channels spreading out dull-witted viewers that it will be more profitable to specialize.
It's hard to imagine, with 1300+ active channels coming down from just one satellite network (I'm not making that number up; I can count them on my DirecTV receiver; they include the music channels, but they also include a bunch of 2-way interactive gaming channels and on-demand content channels, some of them 1080p and/or 3-D; there's a literally ungodly fuckload of bandwidth in the sky right now), that this point has not yet been reached and good niche channels still find it reasonable to go lamestream.
Then again, I watch about 8 hours of broadcast a week (time-shifted, natch), and get my teleccentricity fixes from Netflix, whether in disc or IP form, or from other corners of my Roku boxen.
You don't "own" your deposits. You have lent that money to the bank, and it's theirs to use as they please (within the limits of the banking regulations). All you have is an account receivable that they, typically, do the bookkeeping on for you. The bank is a debtor and you are a creditor. The laws of your state regarding the relationship between depositors and banks are likely built around the words "debt", and "credit".
Your account with PayPal (which isn't even a real bank in the U.S., it's classified as a payment service) allows you to request them to pay you back at any time. Usually they will, but there may be reasons they can't, or won't. Then it's up to you to deal with them as a creditor going after a deadbeat debtor when that happens. Same as if it was a bank or your cousin Lenny.
That policy does not apply only to 501(c)(3)'s. They were emphasizing that it also applies to them.
PayPal needs you to have a bank account for at least two reasons: 1. identification; the presumption being if a bank believes you are who you are, then you are; for what that's worth. 2. to fund your account automatically if you make a payment from your PayPal account in excess of your PayPal balance; there's actually a whole list of things PayPal can try in order to cover your payment, so having an empty bank account isn't automatically going to stop the transaction.
CTR is full of crap, is ladling it out generously, and a whole slew of slashdotters are eating it with relish and ketchup on top.
"They opted to apply an exceptional hurdle for us to clear in order to continue as a customer,
Apparently, there's nothing exceptional about it; they require every account holder to link their account to a real bank account and permit paypal to access it:
Be careful what you wish for. The speediest trials are often not found in favor of the defendant.
The "speedy trial" thing is about unnecessary delay, not necessary delay, which includes developing the case, vetting the evidence, locating witnesses, etc.
The defense needs time to develop its case as well, especially when it's skating on ice as thin as Manning's is.
If you're expecting the entity that's prosecuting you to also defend you fairly, then you need a lawyer of your own checking their math even worse than you think.
In the materials he was supposed to read when signing for his clearance, he was told how to handle information he believed was improperly classified. He refused to follow procedure or the law that would have gotten the improperly classified information declassified, and chose "glory" or some shit like that, ostensibly at the urging of Julian Assange.
Manning deserves to spend many years in jail, possibly the rest of his life, and if evidence is evolved that his actions caused someone to be identified and killed by the enemy, he deserves the death penalty.
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Depends on the drugs. Depends on what else you're doing with them. Depends on who you're getting them from. Depends on why you're doing them and how much your addiction is costing everyone else.
I'm not in the middle east. If you're hiding money from my government, you're a criminal here.
A popular FOSS app is rarely better than the popular commercial products it's mimicking, but it's usually better than something J. Corporate Devteam can build from the ground up. I.e., good FOSS apps are generally in the upper half of the bell curve for features and quality. But not too far up in the upper half.
Maybe.
How about if you microwave your head by accident?
Shouldn't it be more robust than your money?
They shred. Only now they do it in a futuramic way.
There goes the last place you can hide your crimes.
There's really no such thing as freedom or anarchy, but control is real and needs to be dealt with harshly when it becomes onerous.
And he totally knew you!
You would sit at the back, never raised your hand, and refused to sign the attendance sheet.
You should be allowed to do it as long as you don't step on anyone else's TLDs.
The only problem it causes then is that DNS gets less efficient as servers below the TLDs now have to process a lot more information to find out where to send a request for "www.domain.h4xxx0rr3a1m" and the like.
But there's no way that's less efficient overall than the ridiculous bureaucratic and petty-political process needed to get a new tld erected.
And it would, indeed, free the network from the clutches of ICANN, where it should never have been placed following the death of IANA.
Leave a bottle of vegetable oil somewhere (back of an upper cabinet is excellent) for a long time (year or 2) without disturbing it.
When you finally do disturb it, you are likely to find that its exterior is sticky, and that it may be puddling around the base of the container.
Oil can climb, and it can get through seals you thought were tight. All it takes is thermo- and electro-dynamics.
Quantum-fluid frictionlessness not required.
A lot of the interstitial schtick was getting played, to the point of dreary, redundant unwatchabilty, but the running commentary on the movies could never get old.
At some point there will be so many "generic" channels spreading out dull-witted viewers that it will be more profitable to specialize.
It's hard to imagine, with 1300+ active channels coming down from just one satellite network (I'm not making that number up; I can count them on my DirecTV receiver; they include the music channels, but they also include a bunch of 2-way interactive gaming channels and on-demand content channels, some of them 1080p and/or 3-D; there's a literally ungodly fuckload of bandwidth in the sky right now), that this point has not yet been reached and good niche channels still find it reasonable to go lamestream.
Then again, I watch about 8 hours of broadcast a week (time-shifted, natch), and get my teleccentricity fixes from Netflix, whether in disc or IP form, or from other corners of my Roku boxen.
Summarizer clearly forgets the years when there was no palpable science fiction on the channel and it was all horror shit.
But they can freeze your account when they find your "bank" no longer responds to transactions.
That's how all banks work.
You don't "own" your deposits. You have lent that money to the bank, and it's theirs to use as they please (within the limits of the banking regulations). All you have is an account receivable that they, typically, do the bookkeeping on for you. The bank is a debtor and you are a creditor. The laws of your state regarding the relationship between depositors and banks are likely built around the words "debt", and "credit".
Your account with PayPal (which isn't even a real bank in the U.S., it's classified as a payment service) allows you to request them to pay you back at any time. Usually they will, but there may be reasons they can't, or won't. Then it's up to you to deal with them as a creditor going after a deadbeat debtor when that happens. Same as if it was a bank or your cousin Lenny.
That doing business in the streets and doing business on Craigslist get you the same reputation.
So unless you're a hooker, a drug dealer, or a newsboy, get a fucking office.
I'm not sure what your profession is, but it's not prosecutor, because you've made accusations and passed sentence without giving any evidence.
Lied.
That policy does not apply only to 501(c)(3)'s. They were emphasizing that it also applies to them.
PayPal needs you to have a bank account for at least two reasons: 1. identification; the presumption being if a bank believes you are who you are, then you are; for what that's worth. 2. to fund your account automatically if you make a payment from your PayPal account in excess of your PayPal balance; there's actually a whole list of things PayPal can try in order to cover your payment, so having an empty bank account isn't automatically going to stop the transaction.
CTR is full of crap, is ladling it out generously, and a whole slew of slashdotters are eating it with relish and ketchup on top.
So they can recoup deposits they determine were made in error or due to fraud.
eBay used to allow half a dozen payment services to do payments for auctions.
Now, you can hardly find anyone willing to take cash or a credit card.
Libertarians, unsurprisingly, respond to offers of cash for their companies the same way that regular Republicans do.
"They opted to apply an exceptional hurdle for us to clear in order to continue as a customer,
Apparently, there's nothing exceptional about it; they require every account holder to link their account to a real bank account and permit paypal to access it:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/paypal-on-cutting-off-courage-to-resist-this-has-nothing-to-do-with-wikileaks/
right to a speedy trial
Be careful what you wish for. The speediest trials are often not found in favor of the defendant.
The "speedy trial" thing is about unnecessary delay, not necessary delay, which includes developing the case, vetting the evidence, locating witnesses, etc.
The defense needs time to develop its case as well, especially when it's skating on ice as thin as Manning's is.
If you're expecting the entity that's prosecuting you to also defend you fairly, then you need a lawyer of your own checking their math even worse than you think.
Manning is a dipshit.
In the materials he was supposed to read when signing for his clearance, he was told how to handle information he believed was improperly classified. He refused to follow procedure or the law that would have gotten the improperly classified information declassified, and chose "glory" or some shit like that, ostensibly at the urging of Julian Assange.
Manning deserves to spend many years in jail, possibly the rest of his life, and if evidence is evolved that his actions caused someone to be identified and killed by the enemy, he deserves the death penalty.
As for PayPal,
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/paypal-on-cutting-off-courage-to-resist-this-has-nothing-to-do-with-wikileaks/
whatever it is, it's not acting politically in this case.