Under Canadian law, it is not an infringement to possess digital locks and liability is limited to actual damages in non-commercial cases.
But this is the important part. If you're ripping something for personal purposes, the most they can possibly sue you for is what they can prove they lost. This means that you aren't going to get ten-thousand dollar fines for ripping your BR of Cars so the kids' fingerprints don't get all over the disc. My lawyer has told me to "just eat" a fairly easy $2500 wrong. That means unless you're a commercial offender (i.e. selling for profit) you're going to be just fine.
And even if you own handbrake + a lot of other ripping tools, that in itself is not a crime and it couldn't be used for getting a warrant.
Look guys, it's a few glitches. There are what, 350 million people in the US, half are eligible to vote, so 175 million voters. A couple of thousand counted wrong is tops a few VOTE RECORDED: MITT ROMNEY
A few years ago, I was in Seattle for a band trip. On the Sunday morning, a dozen of us went up to Everett to see the Boeing factory.
The first plane ready to get out the door was 787 #1, the FAA smasher, so we got to see it fairly close. We also got to see the Dreamcargo? whatever it's called take off. That's a funny looking plane.
They are very cool planes, and if you're ever in the PNW, I highly recommend heading to Everett and checking out the factory. It's incredible.
That's a common misconception. According to this study, tax rates for fuel-based vehicles are lower than required due to people who bike and pay property taxes.
That's approx $38k in Canada. (It's currently $1.19/L, I used $1/L) and fuel consumption of 10km/L. (approx 23 mpg) My car has about 80,000 in it and I've had it for 4 years, 20,000 km per year = $2380 in gas a year.
I pay about $1500 a year in electricity, including a 20kW forced-air electric furnace and an electric HW tank. Assuming that the car uses the same power as the furnace (I don't know for sure) it's about $960 a year for the power to run the car. That's a savings of $1420 a year.
A cheap car that would meet my requirements would run approx. $20k to start. The Tesla would be $80, so $60k difference. That would be a 42-year ROI. Li-Ion batteries will last approximately 5 years. Now, the problem with this car, and I hate to say this because it should be obvious, is that it isn't cool-looking. It looks like a plain old sedan. If I am going to spend that much on a car, I want, you know, a bit of a panty-melter.
That's weird though, I'm sure I didn't spend that much on gas, the fuel should only have been about $1500 a year. Was my ex doing a lot of extra driving? Oh...dammitsomuch.
I'm more concerned with the Obama aides in the White House who owe back taxes. They all have security clearances, and an adversary could use that as leverage to extract intelligence or other favors.
You can't be blackmailed with public knowledge. "We'll tell your friends about you back taxes if you don't give us this document!"
"Uh... that's on my website. What next, you're going to threaten to spill the beans on my porn collection?"
Base DC is 10, really weird story so +20, DC would be 30, not 40.
You'd also add their Bluff skills to the roll, you'd add a d20 roll, 30, and your Sense Motive to see who wins the opposed check. Sense Motive is Wisdom-based, not Charisma based. Some feats, notably Keen Intellect, allow the swapping of another stat, but you would still use Sense Motive.
Yeah, I could set up a proxy no problems. You and I can, but you can't honestly expect the Great Market to do that. I can instead get anything I want without market restrictions using my black box, which outputs full 1080p.
I'm not sure why you'd spend more on a remote than on components. That $10 job is a learning remote and controls every box I have -- my Panasonic TV and BR, my black box, the cable box, and the receiver.
You can't get Amazon or Hulu outside the US. Netflix is seriously underpowered outside the US as well.
I have a Universal remote. It was $10 at what used to be Radio Shack.
I have a browser in everything. Even my microwave can run Chrome. The shittiest browser I've ever used, and I include the one I wrote in College using BCB+, was the whatever the fuck Nintendo has on the Wii. The browser on my WATCH is better and it doesn't even have an Internet connection.
Nintendo banks on their legacy games, and frankly their selection is terrible compared to the other consoles.
I remember taking my engineering pledge back when I graduated, and among the things we said were:
"What do you know?" "Nothing" "Hmmph, That's about the sum total of our knowledge as well. Come join our camp."
One of my fellow graduates was... less than pleased.
I've never really thought of any of my knowledge as particularly special. I didn't have a particularly high GPA either (passable, I knew the material rather than roting the tests, which surprised the hell out of people when I explained how you could cancel out certain variables) so I know I'm wrong a reasonable portion of the time. Maybe the two go hand-in-hand.
Why? Simple. Some people are assholes. They'll gun down or throw acid on girls because they want to go to school. These are not the people that are going to sit down around the breakfast table and discuss their problems rationally over a croissant. They're fucking assholes and they deserve to lose their Earth privileges.
Yes, innocent people are going to die in the resulting inferno. Same as if we went in there with guns a-blazin, kicking in doors and dealing with IEDs. At least the innocent people aren't going to be our guys and girls, are they? I know they're all still humans and the loss of life still sucks. That's how you win wars, by kicking ass and then rebuilding once it's all done.
Now, maybe it would be for the best if we just left the whole lot of those backwards countries (if you don't have universal suffrage, education, and free speech, you're a backwards shithole) to rot and burn themselves out in their own stupidity. There's a good argument for that. The problem is that they are bringing that shit here to the civilized world.
It would be better by far if we could just walk up to these folks and jab `em with a syringe full of cyanide. Really, a lot of US politicians should get the jab too, but baby steps.
Good point though, can you guys drone strike your own Congress?
It's called "Unskilled and Unaware", and there is a paper, there's an effect named after the authors.
Everyone, regardless of skill level, rates their skill at about 65%. Experts realize they have a ton more to know about the field while novices think they know all there is to know.
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Hail Discordia!
Not "Hail Spell-checker!"
Under Canadian law, it is not an infringement to possess digital locks and liability is limited to actual damages in non-commercial cases.
But this is the important part. If you're ripping something for personal purposes, the most they can possibly sue you for is what they can prove they lost. This means that you aren't going to get ten-thousand dollar fines for ripping your BR of Cars so the kids' fingerprints don't get all over the disc. My lawyer has told me to "just eat" a fairly easy $2500 wrong. That means unless you're a commercial offender (i.e. selling for profit) you're going to be just fine.
And even if you own handbrake + a lot of other ripping tools, that in itself is not a crime and it couldn't be used for getting a warrant.
a few glitches......are you kidding me?
Are you seriously telling me that a 38-word post was tl;dr and you ERROR: VOTE ALREADY RECORDED.
I just wanted you to know that this was a very nice sliver of comedy gold and that someone else got the joke.
The fuck happened there? I swear I ERROR: VOTE ALREADY RECORDED.
Look guys, it's a few glitches. There are what, 350 million people in the US, half are eligible to vote, so 175 million voters. A couple of thousand counted wrong is tops a few VOTE RECORDED: MITT ROMNEY
Seriously, a porn link in your sig?
Anyway... clearly Anonymous hasn't learned how to delete BGP filters and inject fake routes yet.
The only reason you replied was to bookmark!
Dreamlifter! Yes, thank you, I couldn't remember the name!
A few years ago, I was in Seattle for a band trip. On the Sunday morning, a dozen of us went up to Everett to see the Boeing factory.
The first plane ready to get out the door was 787 #1, the FAA smasher, so we got to see it fairly close. We also got to see the Dreamcargo? whatever it's called take off. That's a funny looking plane.
They are very cool planes, and if you're ever in the PNW, I highly recommend heading to Everett and checking out the factory. It's incredible.
That's a common misconception. According to this study, tax rates for fuel-based vehicles are lower than required due to people who bike and pay property taxes.
www.vtpi.org/whoserd.pdf PDF link
That's approx $38k in Canada. (It's currently $1.19/L, I used $1/L) and fuel consumption of 10km/L. (approx 23 mpg) My car has about 80,000 in it and I've had it for 4 years, 20,000 km per year = $2380 in gas a year.
I pay about $1500 a year in electricity, including a 20kW forced-air electric furnace and an electric HW tank. Assuming that the car uses the same power as the furnace (I don't know for sure) it's about $960 a year for the power to run the car. That's a savings of $1420 a year.
A cheap car that would meet my requirements would run approx. $20k to start. The Tesla would be $80, so $60k difference. That would be a 42-year ROI. Li-Ion batteries will last approximately 5 years. Now, the problem with this car, and I hate to say this because it should be obvious, is that it isn't cool-looking. It looks like a plain old sedan. If I am going to spend that much on a car, I want, you know, a bit of a panty-melter.
That's weird though, I'm sure I didn't spend that much on gas, the fuel should only have been about $1500 a year. Was my ex doing a lot of extra driving? Oh...dammitsomuch.
I actually pose a navigation hazard with my shirt off.
I went to Belize in August, and while I wasn't the only Caucasian there, when they said "they white guy" I knew who they meant.
No, all life there was incinerated by the debris of the second Death Star.
Okay, that just made my day.
Starship Troopers and The Postman.
I'm more concerned with the Obama aides in the White House who owe back taxes. They all have security clearances, and an adversary could use that as leverage to extract intelligence or other favors.
You can't be blackmailed with public knowledge. "We'll tell your friends about you back taxes if you don't give us this document!"
"Uh... that's on my website. What next, you're going to threaten to spill the beans on my porn collection?"
Base DC is 10, really weird story so +20, DC would be 30, not 40.
You'd also add their Bluff skills to the roll, you'd add a d20 roll, 30, and your Sense Motive to see who wins the opposed check. Sense Motive is Wisdom-based, not Charisma based. Some feats, notably Keen Intellect, allow the swapping of another stat, but you would still use Sense Motive.
Yeah, I could set up a proxy no problems. You and I can, but you can't honestly expect the Great Market to do that. I can instead get anything I want without market restrictions using my black box, which outputs full 1080p.
I'm not sure why you'd spend more on a remote than on components. That $10 job is a learning remote and controls every box I have -- my Panasonic TV and BR, my black box, the cable box, and the receiver.
You can't get Amazon or Hulu outside the US. Netflix is seriously underpowered outside the US as well.
I have a Universal remote. It was $10 at what used to be Radio Shack.
I have a browser in everything. Even my microwave can run Chrome. The shittiest browser I've ever used, and I include the one I wrote in College using BCB+, was the whatever the fuck Nintendo has on the Wii. The browser on my WATCH is better and it doesn't even have an Internet connection.
Nintendo banks on their legacy games, and frankly their selection is terrible compared to the other consoles.
I remember taking my engineering pledge back when I graduated, and among the things we said were:
"What do you know?"
"Nothing"
"Hmmph, That's about the sum total of our knowledge as well. Come join our camp."
One of my fellow graduates was... less than pleased.
I've never really thought of any of my knowledge as particularly special. I didn't have a particularly high GPA either (passable, I knew the material rather than roting the tests, which surprised the hell out of people when I explained how you could cancel out certain variables) so I know I'm wrong a reasonable portion of the time. Maybe the two go hand-in-hand.
I play Xbox 360 and I support drone strikes.
Why? Simple. Some people are assholes. They'll gun down or throw acid on girls because they want to go to school. These are not the people that are going to sit down around the breakfast table and discuss their problems rationally over a croissant. They're fucking assholes and they deserve to lose their Earth privileges.
Yes, innocent people are going to die in the resulting inferno. Same as if we went in there with guns a-blazin, kicking in doors and dealing with IEDs. At least the innocent people aren't going to be our guys and girls, are they? I know they're all still humans and the loss of life still sucks. That's how you win wars, by kicking ass and then rebuilding once it's all done.
Now, maybe it would be for the best if we just left the whole lot of those backwards countries (if you don't have universal suffrage, education, and free speech, you're a backwards shithole) to rot and burn themselves out in their own stupidity. There's a good argument for that. The problem is that they are bringing that shit here to the civilized world.
It would be better by far if we could just walk up to these folks and jab `em with a syringe full of cyanide. Really, a lot of US politicians should get the jab too, but baby steps.
Good point though, can you guys drone strike your own Congress?
It's called "Unskilled and Unaware", and there is a paper, there's an effect named after the authors.
Everyone, regardless of skill level, rates their skill at about 65%. Experts realize they have a ton more to know about the field while novices think they know all there is to know.
Brilliant! You give the source code AND you put in flaws in the verification that you already know about, so you can trivially pwn the boxen.
He's right.
If the tormentor was religious, he'd be molesting boys in church rather than teasing a girl on the Internet to the point where she kills herself.
That's why I used a counterfeit card to buy my phone and gave it a fake name.