You only say that it's bizarre, because you've never had a Beowulf of Natalie Portmans trying to dig the petrified grits from your pants. Give it a try someday, buddy.
Except that my online company includes friends at locations thousands of miles away
And yet, they are still friends. The association begs the question, "Why are they friends?" If you like and share their comments about the joys of smoking pot, even though you live in NC, it is an indication that you lean toward approving of the use of pot. No big deal, in and of itself, but if combined with an extremely large utility bill, and a propensity for buying large amounts of gardening chemicals, even though you live in a town home, and being caught with a large roll of cash, there may be a suspicion that you might be growing and selling pot. At least, that will be the argument used by the police to get a warrant to break down you door and pointlessly ruin your life.
Birds of a feather, flock together, and you WILL be known by the company you keep. These cliches don't go away just because you keep the company digitally.
The thing the database helped Obama with is figuring out which ideology to throw out in a particular speaking engagement, i.e., he was better at keeping his lies straight this time.
There are multiple ways of handling this. The grandparent's lawyer accepted the position the a patent search is pointless. There are so many patents covering so many things that are so broad, if you're doing anything at all interesting it is most likely covered, (or worse, can be construed to be covered) by someone else's patent that a search is bound to uncover something. You'll never be able to ship anything. If you don't look, then you won't feel any ramifications until the patent holder identifies the infringement and brings a case. The lawyers will either be able to play courtroom games until the patent holder runs out of money and settles for a pittance, or licenses the patent, buy the holder out, or play patent-portfolio with the holder.
The parents lawyer advises to do the naive but proper thing. His methodology will insure the company never ships a line of code, and in the end he is no better protected than the grand-parent's company.
That proves a process has been at work. Does nothing to prove the initial condition. You can make a supposition that the process has been at work for a long time, therefore it MUST have begun as position $X, but that is nonetheless an unsupportable supposition.
Yes, throwing out the Old Testament. The point of the Old Testament was to prove that men could not live by a set of rules. No one would ever be perfect. And just a hint of sin was enough to taint the whole person.
Instead, God himself would provide a sacrifice. An unblemished lamb that would sacrifice himself to cover the sins of all who would ask for it.
God set up a universe with the pre-emininent rule being that sins must be paid for. Very much like the Laws of Thermodynamics. Men sinned, but God gave them a path to pay for those sins. All men could do was demonstrate how they could screw up (the point of the Old Testament), so God himself came to earth, lived perfectly as a man, and then allowed himself to be sacrificed to cover the sins of whoever asked for it. That was the transition to the New Testament. The way to heaven was no longer through making oneself perfect, but relying on God to do it for you.
Instead of reading the Bible to garner ammunition to attack Christians with, you might consider trying to understand the themes involved. You don't have to believe someones point of view in order to understand it.
Finding it, purchasing it, and then waiting on it is the issue.
You used to have to go downtown to the theater and take a whole evening to watch a movie. The we progressed to going to a video store and browsing for half an hour to find a movie to watch for the evening. Now, we sit in our jammies and pick something from the Netflix menu, or maybe choose something from RedBox and pick it up when we make a beer run.
Being able to download a 3D file, make some adjustments/enhancements/personalizations and then print the birthday gift when your late to the party already will sell a tone of 3D printers.
As further support, I still remember the first computer printer I ever saw. It was as large as an armoir, and shook the building when it printed. The print head looked like it was taken straight from and IBM Selectric typewriter. It took several minutes to print a page, and it ONLY did text.
That was less than thirty years ago, when very few people even realized that other people had computers in their homes.
Then make it a strictly state-controlled business, where legal authority releases prostitution authorizations, regularly check on the health of the operators, etc.
Unsupportable? Really? The US Federal Government did not institute a program that bought and destroyed used cars? The market price of a used car did not skyrocket immediately? Dude, you really need to pull your head out of the big O and get some fresh air.
Any thinking libertarian believes wholeheartedly in INFORMED consent. I'm libertarian, and I think restaurants should be required to print caloric information in their menus (as for the argument that it's too expensive: If you don't know enough about food to easily come up with that information, what the fuck are you doing running a restaurant?).
So take your "libertardian" insult and stick it up your arse as you suck on your government overlord's cock.
And the leaders of one of the most powerful militaries in the world said what he did couldn't be done. They said it publicly. Billy may not have been a genius, but he definitely rubbed against the grain to push a new technology, and publicly embarrassed a large group of arrogant bastards. His assertions marked the beginning of the end for the supremacy of the battleship, and the beginning of the rise of air power. You don't need to be a genius to be a pioneer.
A better solution is a ship full of drones. Nothing says power like, "We just killed each and every one of your war-mongering generals. Please feel free to loot and pillage your weaker neighbor." Which is what tends to happens when an uneducated populace is released from their war-mongering generals, and something we have the habit of doing. But, only after we have supported the war-mongering generals for a few years.
The "DR DOS eats babies" message was used as proof of a pattern. MS was actually sued for their per-processor contracts, and using their market clout to kill DR's business. DR had some big contracts with major PC builders...until the builders got a visit from MS representatives. A few months later, DR was having to shutter their doors.
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You only say that it's bizarre, because you've never had a Beowulf of Natalie Portmans trying to dig the petrified grits from your pants. Give it a try someday, buddy.
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Except that my online company includes friends at locations thousands of miles away
And yet, they are still friends. The association begs the question, "Why are they friends?" If you like and share their comments about the joys of smoking pot, even though you live in NC, it is an indication that you lean toward approving of the use of pot. No big deal, in and of itself, but if combined with an extremely large utility bill, and a propensity for buying large amounts of gardening chemicals, even though you live in a town home, and being caught with a large roll of cash, there may be a suspicion that you might be growing and selling pot. At least, that will be the argument used by the police to get a warrant to break down you door and pointlessly ruin your life.
Birds of a feather, flock together, and you WILL be known by the company you keep. These cliches don't go away just because you keep the company digitally.
You didn't build that!
How does a "small fringe" hold the party hostage?
Your logic is an absurdity.
The thing the database helped Obama with is figuring out which ideology to throw out in a particular speaking engagement, i.e., he was better at keeping his lies straight this time.
but nothing is as easy as a train..
As someone who has used Amtrak to convince his children that trains aren't so bad, I must say that you are sadly confused.
Which reports to the internet whenever someone lays down so that you can know who's been sleeping in your bed? Are you a bear?
There are multiple ways of handling this. The grandparent's lawyer accepted the position the a patent search is pointless. There are so many patents covering so many things that are so broad, if you're doing anything at all interesting it is most likely covered, (or worse, can be construed to be covered) by someone else's patent that a search is bound to uncover something. You'll never be able to ship anything. If you don't look, then you won't feel any ramifications until the patent holder identifies the infringement and brings a case. The lawyers will either be able to play courtroom games until the patent holder runs out of money and settles for a pittance, or licenses the patent, buy the holder out, or play patent-portfolio with the holder.
The parents lawyer advises to do the naive but proper thing. His methodology will insure the company never ships a line of code, and in the end he is no better protected than the grand-parent's company.
Well, we didn't start it.
No. A Democrat.
That proves a process has been at work. Does nothing to prove the initial condition. You can make a supposition that the process has been at work for a long time, therefore it MUST have begun as position $X, but that is nonetheless an unsupportable supposition.
Yes, throwing out the Old Testament. The point of the Old Testament was to prove that men could not live by a set of rules. No one would ever be perfect. And just a hint of sin was enough to taint the whole person.
Instead, God himself would provide a sacrifice. An unblemished lamb that would sacrifice himself to cover the sins of all who would ask for it.
God set up a universe with the pre-emininent rule being that sins must be paid for. Very much like the Laws of Thermodynamics. Men sinned, but God gave them a path to pay for those sins. All men could do was demonstrate how they could screw up (the point of the Old Testament), so God himself came to earth, lived perfectly as a man, and then allowed himself to be sacrificed to cover the sins of whoever asked for it. That was the transition to the New Testament. The way to heaven was no longer through making oneself perfect, but relying on God to do it for you.
Instead of reading the Bible to garner ammunition to attack Christians with, you might consider trying to understand the themes involved. You don't have to believe someones point of view in order to understand it.
Cost isn't the issue.
Buying it isn't the issue.
Finding it, purchasing it, and then waiting on it is the issue.
You used to have to go downtown to the theater and take a whole evening to watch a movie.
The we progressed to going to a video store and browsing for half an hour to find a movie to watch for the evening.
Now, we sit in our jammies and pick something from the Netflix menu, or maybe choose something from RedBox and pick it up when we make a beer run.
Being able to download a 3D file, make some adjustments/enhancements/personalizations and then print the birthday gift when your late to the party already will sell a tone of 3D printers.
As further support, I still remember the first computer printer I ever saw. It was as large as an armoir, and shook the building when it printed. The print head looked like it was taken straight from and IBM Selectric typewriter. It took several minutes to print a page, and it ONLY did text.
That was less than thirty years ago, when very few people even realized that other people had computers in their homes.
3D printers everywhere are inevitable.
It seems worthy to you, because you aren't the one paying for it.
Then make it a strictly state-controlled business, where legal authority releases prostitution authorizations, regularly check on the health of the operators, etc.
Done already. It's called "marriage".
Unsupportable? Really? The US Federal Government did not institute a program that bought and destroyed used cars? The market price of a used car did not skyrocket immediately? Dude, you really need to pull your head out of the big O and get some fresh air.
Any thinking libertarian believes wholeheartedly in INFORMED consent. I'm libertarian, and I think restaurants should be required to print caloric information in their menus (as for the argument that it's too expensive: If you don't know enough about food to easily come up with that information, what the fuck are you doing running a restaurant?).
So take your "libertardian" insult and stick it up your arse as you suck on your government overlord's cock.
And the leaders of one of the most powerful militaries in the world said what he did couldn't be done. They said it publicly. Billy may not have been a genius, but he definitely rubbed against the grain to push a new technology, and publicly embarrassed a large group of arrogant bastards. His assertions marked the beginning of the end for the supremacy of the battleship, and the beginning of the rise of air power. You don't need to be a genius to be a pioneer.
A better solution is a ship full of drones. Nothing says power like, "We just killed each and every one of your war-mongering generals. Please feel free to loot and pillage your weaker neighbor." Which is what tends to happens when an uneducated populace is released from their war-mongering generals, and something we have the habit of doing. But, only after we have supported the war-mongering generals for a few years.
And how quickly you forget the budget bills sitting on Harry Reid's desk.
And yet Romney is running adds here in NC promising to "restore the Defense spending that Obama took away."
If you can't see they're identical on spending money they don't have, then you're clueless.
So under freedom of speech, should they be allowed to publish neo-Nazi material too?
Not just allowed...encouraged.
That way, we know who they are and can avoid them, or round them up for questioning if a temple is bombed.
How about Monty Python's "History of the World"?
The "DR DOS eats babies" message was used as proof of a pattern. MS was actually sued for their per-processor contracts, and using their market clout to kill DR's business. DR had some big contracts with major PC builders...until the builders got a visit from MS representatives. A few months later, DR was having to shutter their doors.