Sales, to prospective account: "Yeah, we can get rid of that for you, but it's gonna cost. That shit's dangerous, and there's a stack of regulations as tall as your beautiful daughter (whom it would be a shame for anything to happen to, by the way) that we have to follow to the T. Price per pound is gonna be three, four figures at least."
Engineering, to Capo: "Yeah, we can dump that for you. You want the barge back? Effectively cheaper to just sink the whole thing. Nickel a ton, if we don't have to buy a new chain cutter to hijack it, or the tug don't break down."
Consigliere, to Accountant: "Fuhgedaboudit." (Translation: Do it.)
Enough money there it'd almost be worth having to eat ricotta 5 meals a day to get into it.
There's really no difference in illegal activity between undocumented immigrants and natural-born citizens. Except that whole illegal-immigrant label, really.
So if you are singling out illegal immigrants as a source of crime, while ignoring the same statistical prevalence in the majority population of the nation, then you are a racist. Or a bigot, if you prefer to see brown-skinned white-folks as genetic white-folks, though the rest of us know you're really ticked off because they're as different as another race. But you'll get called racist and you won't have the moral authority to win the semantic argument against it.
So how about focussing on a real problem, like the way the rich are manipulating the laws to create a nation of poor people regardless of citizenship, instead of a fake one based on the racism you insist you don't have while nobody's buying that for a second.
Of course they can be bought. Nominally they're bought by the voters, who pay by returning the guy to congress for particular legislation. But voter votes are bought by the representative, either by voting for particular legislation or trading for votes that get particular legislation through while losing other legislation.
It's not a bad system; it's just more complicated than "shut up and raise your hand the way we tell you to or we won't vote for you in November". It's what you get for boiling the results of 2-6 years of work down to For or Against on election day.
If your guy is unwilling to compromise and trade, he becomes a predictable sucker, and when he really wants something done he will be alone in wanting it, and his stance as an iconoclast isn't worth a handful of navy bean soup in the history of lawmaking.
Ghawd i wish the whole human centipede meme would just go away. I thought nothing could be worse than tub girl or goatse, but in the end you know those two were complicit in their depravity, while the hc is torture on top of being hors-categorie sick, and the fact that it's fictional makes it none better. Flesh crawling now.
$2B in loan guarantees is not $2B in cost. Unless the plant goes belly-up, which should be a low-probability event for something this simple. The expected-value of the cost on this probably about $50-100M, so the gov't is effectively spending about $1k per house.
But if it works, it's spending $0.
But if it doesn't work, it's spending that $20k/house for electricty those houses will never see.
You're specifying a case there that misses the point a little.
Going to the coffee shop is public data.
What rooms you spend the most time in at home is not, unless you give someone permission to upload your GPS data it to the web for others to see. (and yes, even with GPS's shitty accuracy it's possible to figure that out, statistically)
Lip-syncing is using the exact recording someone else made, over a picture of you making no sound and maybe dancing funny with your pets.
Fair use would be excerpting a line or two of the original recording, or singing a verse or two as part of a larger work, or parodying it with different lyrics or music, although there are exceptions to this for things like using sound clips in movies or sampling in records where there's huge money involved, or where it's clear you're leveraging the work for profit without adding much to it yourself.
I don't think that playing most or all of someone else's recording as the primary basis for your work is fair use. You can't change something slightly and call it "derivative," either. You can't even steal the hook accidentally and claim it's not someone else's property. Just ask George Harrison. No, he isn't; Beatles never really die.
Not to logicjack but "various provisions" is not an extension of all provisions, and his point in reading the 4th amendment may not have applied to the whole act.
It's also possible (though never very sightly) that he voted quid for some pro quo elsewhere. That's how representative government works. It'd gridlock otherwise.
If by "opt-in" you mean "opt-in or this app won't work even though it's not obvious at all why a game involving flinging birds at pigs would require such a thing..."
And yes, the question is, do we give them a reason to hate us for not helping them more.
Reagan's cut-and-run policy in Afghanistan is what allowed the Taliban and al Quaeda to grow without limitation and without refutation of their mantra of hating us and anything we stood for (and it was clearly a mantra of propaganda; Osama bin Laden's porn stash shows his leadership and his alliance with religion to have been a total facade for a political goal).
If they'd had the ability to get a nuke, instead of just plane-crashing lessons, 9/11 could have been very much different.
The key is, over time, to undermine the ability of the Sheik to do that, by making the democratic government the source of things the people used to rely on the Sheiks for.
Then when a Sheik disagrees with the government, he's a crackpot fighting your government, not your government in person.
If that's not working, it's a testament of how Dubya designed the peace, and it's pretty clear he designed it for nothing other than permanent and massive cashflow for his buddies at Halliburton.
Ever step barefoot on a 1x1 in the middle of the night on your way to the bathroom?
Jacks. The original. Nothing else comes close. Put a superball in your pocket with a handful of them, and nobody will even know you're on your way to interdict an infantry march.
Anyway, this is cute stuff, but it's horribly low-volume and inefficient with the manpower they have. And that thing is vulnerable to a quick kid with a hammer, or a savvy sapper with a hand-grenade and a berm to hide behind.
They should be spending their time doing the diplomatic legwork to get someone to ship them a few hundred tanks, helicopters, and predator drones.
Because otherwise they're not fighting a war, they're putting on a show.
Seriously, I need a smartphone to go on the web to download an app so I can push one button to call a phone-bot to dial up issue text that I could get just by going to a website on the same phone?
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Angry Birds works just fine in Airplane mode. Doesn't even put up a blank box where the ad it fails to fetch would go.
No. It's cake batter. It's kinda funny really.
Sales, to prospective account: "Yeah, we can get rid of that for you, but it's gonna cost. That shit's dangerous, and there's a stack of regulations as tall as your beautiful daughter (whom it would be a shame for anything to happen to, by the way) that we have to follow to the T. Price per pound is gonna be three, four figures at least."
Engineering, to Capo: "Yeah, we can dump that for you. You want the barge back? Effectively cheaper to just sink the whole thing. Nickel a ton, if we don't have to buy a new chain cutter to hijack it, or the tug don't break down."
Consigliere, to Accountant: "Fuhgedaboudit." (Translation: Do it.)
Enough money there it'd almost be worth having to eat ricotta 5 meals a day to get into it.
The Mafia is about as monolithic as Anonymous is. It's only a monopoly to those on the outside.
There's really no difference in illegal activity between undocumented immigrants and natural-born citizens. Except that whole illegal-immigrant label, really.
So if you are singling out illegal immigrants as a source of crime, while ignoring the same statistical prevalence in the majority population of the nation, then you are a racist. Or a bigot, if you prefer to see brown-skinned white-folks as genetic white-folks, though the rest of us know you're really ticked off because they're as different as another race. But you'll get called racist and you won't have the moral authority to win the semantic argument against it.
So how about focussing on a real problem, like the way the rich are manipulating the laws to create a nation of poor people regardless of citizenship, instead of a fake one based on the racism you insist you don't have while nobody's buying that for a second.
Of course they can be bought. Nominally they're bought by the voters, who pay by returning the guy to congress for particular legislation. But voter votes are bought by the representative, either by voting for particular legislation or trading for votes that get particular legislation through while losing other legislation.
It's not a bad system; it's just more complicated than "shut up and raise your hand the way we tell you to or we won't vote for you in November". It's what you get for boiling the results of 2-6 years of work down to For or Against on election day.
If your guy is unwilling to compromise and trade, he becomes a predictable sucker, and when he really wants something done he will be alone in wanting it, and his stance as an iconoclast isn't worth a handful of navy bean soup in the history of lawmaking.
Ghawd i wish the whole human centipede meme would just go away. I thought nothing could be worse than tub girl or goatse, but in the end you know those two were complicit in their depravity, while the hc is torture on top of being hors-categorie sick, and the fact that it's fictional makes it none better. Flesh crawling now.
It's less than that. A loan guarantee for $2B is not $2B in cash. Divide by 20-40, there. 0.00007-0.00014%.
And why? Because the MIC has a much better lobby than the alternative-energy people do.
$2B in loan guarantees is not $2B in cost. Unless the plant goes belly-up, which should be a low-probability event for something this simple. The expected-value of the cost on this probably about $50-100M, so the gov't is effectively spending about $1k per house.
But if it works, it's spending $0.
But if it doesn't work, it's spending that $20k/house for electricty those houses will never see.
But if you make the mirrors out of PV panels, they pay for themselves in just 10 years.
And I thought it was part of a blue-plate special with beans as a double-bill.
You're specifying a case there that misses the point a little.
Going to the coffee shop is public data.
What rooms you spend the most time in at home is not, unless you give someone permission to upload your GPS data it to the web for others to see. (and yes, even with GPS's shitty accuracy it's possible to figure that out, statistically)
It does no good to tar the entire government with that accusation.
Single out the cosponsors of this bill when you do that.
And point out the ones who voted against it.
Lip-syncing is fair use?
Lip-syncing is using the exact recording someone else made, over a picture of you making no sound and maybe dancing funny with your pets.
Fair use would be excerpting a line or two of the original recording, or singing a verse or two as part of a larger work, or parodying it with different lyrics or music, although there are exceptions to this for things like using sound clips in movies or sampling in records where there's huge money involved, or where it's clear you're leveraging the work for profit without adding much to it yourself.
I don't think that playing most or all of someone else's recording as the primary basis for your work is fair use. You can't change something slightly and call it "derivative," either. You can't even steal the hook accidentally and claim it's not someone else's property. Just ask George Harrison. No, he isn't; Beatles never really die.
Not to logicjack but "various provisions" is not an extension of all provisions, and his point in reading the 4th amendment may not have applied to the whole act.
It's also possible (though never very sightly) that he voted quid for some pro quo elsewhere. That's how representative government works. It'd gridlock otherwise.
I bet it's got an enormous codocil.
If by "opt-in" you mean "opt-in or this app won't work even though it's not obvious at all why a game involving flinging birds at pigs would require such a thing..."
It's covered under the 4th Amendment, unless the data are visible to the public, which Franken's bill will allow users to prevent.
We need another Al Franken decade.
We get that out of every war.
And yes, the question is, do we give them a reason to hate us for not helping them more.
Reagan's cut-and-run policy in Afghanistan is what allowed the Taliban and al Quaeda to grow without limitation and without refutation of their mantra of hating us and anything we stood for (and it was clearly a mantra of propaganda; Osama bin Laden's porn stash shows his leadership and his alliance with religion to have been a total facade for a political goal).
If they'd had the ability to get a nuke, instead of just plane-crashing lessons, 9/11 could have been very much different.
Yes. Think of the children bolting your Glock to their skateboard.
This'd be a hell of a video game, now I think about it.
COD needs a Mattel mod.
A solider is one step up from a true-datter.
The key is, over time, to undermine the ability of the Sheik to do that, by making the democratic government the source of things the people used to rely on the Sheiks for.
Then when a Sheik disagrees with the government, he's a crackpot fighting your government, not your government in person.
If that's not working, it's a testament of how Dubya designed the peace, and it's pretty clear he designed it for nothing other than permanent and massive cashflow for his buddies at Halliburton.
What comes next? Weapon grade Lego?
Duplo. Even sounds more weapony.
Ever step barefoot on a 1x1 in the middle of the night on your way to the bathroom?
Jacks. The original. Nothing else comes close. Put a superball in your pocket with a handful of them, and nobody will even know you're on your way to interdict an infantry march.
North Egypt?
Anyway, this is cute stuff, but it's horribly low-volume and inefficient with the manpower they have. And that thing is vulnerable to a quick kid with a hammer, or a savvy sapper with a hand-grenade and a berm to hide behind.
They should be spending their time doing the diplomatic legwork to get someone to ship them a few hundred tanks, helicopters, and predator drones.
Because otherwise they're not fighting a war, they're putting on a show.
Seriously, I need a smartphone to go on the web to download an app so I can push one button to call a phone-bot to dial up issue text that I could get just by going to a website on the same phone?
Recall this fucktard. He's unfit to serve.