This is my hard drive. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My data is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My data, without me, is useless. Without my data, I am useless. I must secure my data true. I must make more secure than my enemy who is trying to steal my data. I must defeat him before he defeats me. I will... My hard drive and I know that what counts in information warfare is not the scripts we write, the AV packages we deploy, nor the smoke we create with false data. We know that it is the redundancy and security that counts. We will secure and survive... My hard drive is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its power connection and its interface. I will keep my data clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will... Before God, I swear this creed. My hard drive and I are the defenders of my data. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is Liberty's and there is no enemy, but peace!
Apple have always called their music subsidiary/operation "iTunes" as far as I know... unless you can show me different, in which case I'll stand corrected.
Xerox managed to prevent genericisation of its trademark by encouraging people to use "photocopy" instead of "Xerox". LEGO tried the same thing but it didn't work as well. That's not to say it was a failure, Tyco doesn't call its construction bricks "LEGO" anywhere in its literature. They called them "Blocks and "Super Blocks". Champagnes made and bottled anywhere but the Champagne region of France will quickly find themselves the subject of lawsuits concerning protected regional trademarks - a California Brut isn't a champagne, it's expensive sparkling white wine. Another example of such protectionism is the successful suit against Walmart/ASDA UK by the Parma region of Italy in the 1990s which prevented ASDA from selling cut-price wafer ham which was not prepared in Parma - meaning ASDA had to label their product using the generic name, prosciutto (or wafer ham - it depends what week it is). ASDA got hit by Cheddar (cheese manufacturers based in the Cheddar Gorge region of Somerset) as well, the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire (for pork pies prepared in a certain way as well as their source), own brand minted sugar cakes (which ASDA originally called Kendal Mint Cake but which were actually not made anywhere near the town on the Southern edge of the Lake District, but were in fact made in a backroom of a factory in Worksop, Nottinghamshire - now ASDA sell Kendal branded Kendal mint cakes), Pontefract (cakes not made in Pontefract, W. Yorkshire)... The scale of distinctiveness of a trademark (hence of availability of protection) is a sliding one.
1. flu vaccines do contain live virus. This is even alluded to in the marketing literature as to the "scientific" basis behind its effectiveness. 2. before vaccines are distributed for public consumption, pharmaceutical companies obtain blanket immunity from ANY civil liability when vaccines a: fail and b: cause injury. Why absolve yourself of liability if such things didn't happen? 3. Sticking someone with a needle instantly bypasses 80% of the body's immune system, which includes the skin. At which point, you're directly exposing the most vulnerable part of the immune system (the blood-brain barrier) which entirely relies on the efficacy of the rest of it you've just bypassed, to some of what would ordinarily be fairly benign inerts what is now even more potentially dangerous than swallowing a cupful of plutonium nitrate.
Mothers maiden name: Facebook Date of birth: Facebook Pet's name: Facebook Name of last school you attended: Facebook Name of favourite teacher (you're probably still in touch with?): Facebook
All I need is your IBAN, I can connect that to a name via your bank, and your Facebook account via your email (which most people who have both will have used the SAME EMAIL ADDRESS) and I own your fucking life.
By the way, Band Aid is a genericised trademark (meaning they can't really sue you for using it, fallout from Johnson & Johnson vs. Geldof et. al which set precedent in that names that have fallen into everyday vernacular aren't really defensible - LEGO is very specific and describes precisely ONE product), Kleenex is still a trademark which Kimberly-Clark aggressively defend, and yeah, like I already said about LEGO.
except soldiers, with the rare exception of scout snipers, are trained to aim for the centre of mass (the trunk). Head shots are rare in the extreme, especially over ranges above 7 yards.
EHP is designed to expand or explode in a mushroom fashion on impact, turning into many smaller tumbling fragments that shred whatever they're passing through. This is what's called projectile spalling. Boattail hardpoint rounds are designed to drill through the point of impact causing hard tissue such as bone, to shatter and spall through while the projectile remains largely intact and expend its energy drilling through. If a BT doesn't hit bone, it causes little damage compared with a hollowpoint with the same muzzle energy.
BTW, the US claiming jurisdiction in a war zone doesn't wash with the ICC. Under Bush who said no US citizen, soldier or contractor will be held to account for the death of any foreigner (2002ish), anyone who picks up a rifle under the banner of the Star and Stripes is potentially a war criminal.
stop trying to excuse lazy writing. English is English, if you want to try and rape a language, go and try raping Icelandic, the Language Ministry up there'll skin you alive. As we English don't have a Language Ministry, you have the pedants and Aspies to deal with, and we are MANY.
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oxforddictionaries.com is as much the OED as the paper version is. If you think it's not, tell the people that fucking publish it.
This is my hard drive. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My data is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
My data, without me, is useless. Without my data, I am useless. I must secure my data true. I must make more secure than my enemy who is trying to steal my data. I must defeat him before he defeats me. I will...
My hard drive and I know that what counts in information warfare is not the scripts we write, the AV packages we deploy, nor the smoke we create with false data. We know that it is the redundancy and security that counts. We will secure and survive...
My hard drive is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its power connection and its interface. I will keep my data clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will...
Before God, I swear this creed. My hard drive and I are the defenders of my data. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is Liberty's and there is no enemy, but peace!
- Me (from the Rifleman's Creed)
Apple have always called their music subsidiary/operation "iTunes" as far as I know... unless you can show me different, in which case I'll stand corrected.
Xerox managed to prevent genericisation of its trademark by encouraging people to use "photocopy" instead of "Xerox". LEGO tried the same thing but it didn't work as well. That's not to say it was a failure, Tyco doesn't call its construction bricks "LEGO" anywhere in its literature. They called them "Blocks and "Super Blocks". Champagnes made and bottled anywhere but the Champagne region of France will quickly find themselves the subject of lawsuits concerning protected regional trademarks - a California Brut isn't a champagne, it's expensive sparkling white wine. Another example of such protectionism is the successful suit against Walmart/ASDA UK by the Parma region of Italy in the 1990s which prevented ASDA from selling cut-price wafer ham which was not prepared in Parma - meaning ASDA had to label their product using the generic name, prosciutto (or wafer ham - it depends what week it is). ASDA got hit by Cheddar (cheese manufacturers based in the Cheddar Gorge region of Somerset) as well, the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire (for pork pies prepared in a certain way as well as their source), own brand minted sugar cakes (which ASDA originally called Kendal Mint Cake but which were actually not made anywhere near the town on the Southern edge of the Lake District, but were in fact made in a backroom of a factory in Worksop, Nottinghamshire - now ASDA sell Kendal branded Kendal mint cakes), Pontefract (cakes not made in Pontefract, W. Yorkshire)... The scale of distinctiveness of a trademark (hence of availability of protection) is a sliding one.
maybe you should consider a few facts:
1. flu vaccines do contain live virus. This is even alluded to in the marketing literature as to the "scientific" basis behind its effectiveness.
2. before vaccines are distributed for public consumption, pharmaceutical companies obtain blanket immunity from ANY civil liability when vaccines a: fail and b: cause injury. Why absolve yourself of liability if such things didn't happen?
3. Sticking someone with a needle instantly bypasses 80% of the body's immune system, which includes the skin. At which point, you're directly exposing the most vulnerable part of the immune system (the blood-brain barrier) which entirely relies on the efficacy of the rest of it you've just bypassed, to some of what would ordinarily be fairly benign inerts what is now even more potentially dangerous than swallowing a cupful of plutonium nitrate.
everything is a crime when the State decides it is.
Question is, how low can you keep your head?
(yes, I confess, my road bikes currently have no lights on them - in contravention of the Road Traffic Act. Come get me).
Mothers maiden name: Facebook
Date of birth: Facebook
Pet's name: Facebook
Name of last school you attended: Facebook
Name of favourite teacher (you're probably still in touch with?): Facebook
All I need is your IBAN, I can connect that to a name via your bank, and your Facebook account via your email (which most people who have both will have used the SAME EMAIL ADDRESS) and I own your fucking life.
no I'm seriously decrying the raping of proper English.
it's common practice to describe the scene and leave it to the consumer's imagination. That's how terror control works.
um... bollocks?
Just because someone doesn't have a criminal record, doesn't mean they're squeaky clean - it just means they haven't been caught yet.
By the way, Band Aid is a genericised trademark (meaning they can't really sue you for using it, fallout from Johnson & Johnson vs. Geldof et. al which set precedent in that names that have fallen into everyday vernacular aren't really defensible - LEGO is very specific and describes precisely ONE product), Kleenex is still a trademark which Kimberly-Clark aggressively defend, and yeah, like I already said about LEGO.
say that to the cartographers who named White Sands and the CCOHS who talk in great detail about various dusts.
Try again.
neither is LEGO, it's a Danish company.
so 4.6 songs, then?
it's a simple answer: 4/pi -0.5 ohms considering that on an infinite grid there are infinite paths to oh I've just been punked..
LEGO is a trademark, you do not pluralise trademarks. The correct plural form of LEGO is LEGO or LEGO bricks.
when you fucking idiots are GIVING IT AWAY on your fucking Facebook accounts??
this hit G+ several days ago. I'll be impressed when it comes with two quad-cannon emplacements and smugglers nooks.
except soldiers, with the rare exception of scout snipers, are trained to aim for the centre of mass (the trunk). Head shots are rare in the extreme, especially over ranges above 7 yards.
EHP is designed to expand or explode in a mushroom fashion on impact, turning into many smaller tumbling fragments that shred whatever they're passing through. This is what's called projectile spalling. Boattail hardpoint rounds are designed to drill through the point of impact causing hard tissue such as bone, to shatter and spall through while the projectile remains largely intact and expend its energy drilling through. If a BT doesn't hit bone, it causes little damage compared with a hollowpoint with the same muzzle energy.
BTW, the US claiming jurisdiction in a war zone doesn't wash with the ICC. Under Bush who said no US citizen, soldier or contractor will be held to account for the death of any foreigner (2002ish), anyone who picks up a rifle under the banner of the Star and Stripes is potentially a war criminal.
stop trying to excuse lazy writing. English is English, if you want to try and rape a language, go and try raping Icelandic, the Language Ministry up there'll skin you alive. As we English don't have a Language Ministry, you have the pedants and Aspies to deal with, and we are MANY.
just... no.
ha! Love it!
mod this thing up.
uh... looking at the About page, this does indeed seem to be the legitimate OED editorial team.
you want definitive English you go to the OED. Merriam-Webster is an American English dictionary.