True. But I would say that first, all those methods require love. This judge is the type of guy I would be very worried would shake a baby to death because satisfying his anger and sense of justice is greater than his love for his daughter.
The full video This is messed up. He's going at her with the belt, and telling her to lay down on the bed so he can beat her behind, or she's going to get it "in your fucking face".
And the mother... "I'm going to smack her. You turn over on the bed and take it like a grown woman." Did hubby beat her too?
And him later, "I'm going to [whack] BEAT you into submission. You want to put some more computer games on? You want some more? Fucking computer. blah blah in the fucking goddamn house " (3:25). "Putting a fucking gang of them on I'll just keep beating you and BEATING YOU, that's how upset I am" (4:40)
If copyright didn't exist, I would be free to take gpl code and lock it up in closed applications. So Stallman's position against copyright is a logical fail - like a lot of his other positions, by the way.
His "dream world" will never exist, because the GPL works against people investing in copyleft software. Look no further than the sub-1% of people who use linux on the desktop. The year of the linux desktop will never happen, in part because of the gpl.
The year of the bsd desktop has arrived, thanks to apple. Funny thing, apple chose to use bsd instead of linux early on because of the gpl. And subsequent users certainly did benefit - apple hired freebsd developers to work on it, improve it, and bsd continues to benefit from the relationship. Linux could have had the same benefits, but instead we have an os with a hundred crappy desktops, all of which either lack major features or break on updates, and all of which can't even match creaky old XP.
After 15 years of using linux, I'm looking for alternatives because my time is worth more than dealing with the crap that is KDE, Gnome, E, LXDE, Openbox, etc. Adding more features should take a back seat to stability. Not having sound subsystems that take 100% of core for days on end, or libraries that crap themselves when 2 different applications are open and all of a sudden every keypress results in a 10-second delay because it's corrupted itself AGAIN (kde excels in that respect).
We used to joke about Windows bitrot, but linux desktops have it as well. They are not ready for prime time, and the licensing is preventing anyone from producing a proper one because it costs real money to debug, not the paltry sums Shuttleworth is throwing at his latest piece of trash.
It's significant that the only way that linux is useable by the masses is when it's buried out of sight. And when it's buried out of sight, it can be swapped out if required, so it becomes less and less relevant.
The blog writer is full of it. Their "logic" is not supported by anything but their own "logic". Go talk to someone who works in retail finance. When you apply for a loan, the risk assessment is based on your maximum, not current, balance, because you can go up to your maximum balance without requesting new credit be extended.
Your credit rating will go up and down with your payment and credit history - however, your borrowing capacity is not the same. You can have an excellent credit rating and still not be able to borrow because you've got that unused capacity "overhang". Don't confuse debt with wealth.
Some people are jerks, no matter where they're from. Beatings don't work. Not in animals, and not in humans.
The only time it (force to the point of harm) can be justified is to prevent greater immediate harm.
There was a time when people thought it was justified to slap a woman around to "calm her down". Before that, it was okay to beat slaves to "beat some sense of respect into them."
Spanking a kid makes as little sense as beating a dog because it pooped in the house, or rubbing their nose in it. There are easier ways to house-break a dog. And better ways to raise a kid.
His initial request is still perfectly valid to give her something to do between his visits.
No it's not. A computing device with no net connection. That's as isolating as a cell phone with no cell phone account. Once you get past playing bejeweled, there's not much...
Not when the estate is responsible for all other costs of pursuing litigation, such as transcripts, witnesses, etc. Look at the bills over the last couple of years - millions blown even after the supposed fee cap.
He would have done better spending it on booze and hookers, and returning the empties for a refund.
Even given that blowing all that cash on booze & hookers and returning the empties would have brought in more cash than continuing the pursuit of the suit, it wouldn't have been legal under the bankruptcy laws for him to do this. By law, the trustee(s) is/are obligated to continue pursuit until a final judge drops the final hammer for good or evil.
[citation needed]
Better yet, don't bother - they're not. Trustees have a huge amount of discretion in bankruptcy. Your belief is as inaccurate as the one that "corporations are required by law to maximize shareholder value" - often repeated, NEVER backed up when challenged, because no such law exists.
Second, there already is a judgment in place. Appeals are a cost/benefits analysis that are in the trustee's discretion. There is no law requiring any and all avenues be exhausted to the ruination of the estate. Your belief would result in every bankruptcy having every possible useless appeal to the supreme court being made "just in case".
At the age of 16 you do not whip your child with a belt or whatever. You ground her, cut her spending, talk to her but whipping or spanking only shows you are not in control and fall back to physical violence to push you wishes. Falling back to physical violence is quite common in foreign politics of the USA so he is probably the judge they deserve.
Why is this okay at ANY age? Because they can't defend themselves or fight back as well if they're younger? Because they're more likely to be intimidated and less likely to tell someone else if they're younger?
At what age do you think it is okay to start beating them? And should the kid have the right to physically defend themselves from such assaults, and if so, to what extent? To the same extent as an adult with a gun would do?
Why exactly should federal charges be brought against him? I don't think beating your kid is a federal crime.
Come to Canada. It *is* a federal crime and the law has been upheld by the Supreme Court, just like drunk driving, and you will be charged. You'll have to make bail and promise to come back for your trial, and if you don't your sorry ass will be extradited from the US.
âoeWhatever oneâ(TM)s belief in higher authority, if you live in Canada you are subject to the laws of Canada as interpreted by the courts, in this case the Supreme Court of Canada,â Stevens-Guille said in the ruling. âoeSpare the rod and spoil the child is not the byword of the discipline of children in this country in 2010,â he added.
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In 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada banned spanking of children under 2 and over 12 and criminalized it at any age with an implement such as the common wooden spoon.
And there is no statute of limitations on child abuse in Canada.
More likely he is beating lashing his daughter for violating the law. It is not necessarily a statement on whether the law is just.
No, he's beating his daughter because he's an idiot with anger management and control issues. If it's not okay to beat a stranger for "violating the law", then it's certainly not okay to beat someone you're supposed to love, and who you have a legal responsibility to protect from bad stuff such as illegal physical assaults like this.
Not when the estate is responsible for all other costs of pursuing litigation, such as transcripts, witnesses, etc. Look at the bills over the last couple of years - millions blown even after the supposed fee cap.
He would have done better spending it on booze and hookers, and returning the empties for a refund.
Just look at how many idiots continued to buy GM stock after it was officially bankrupt and they were told that the stock was worth zero, "just in case."
Just to let you know, I use OpenSuSE 11.4 (been using SuSE since '97) and try my best not to use any Microsoft product
So you don't use the msfonts download? Opensuse fonts are ugly even with it (try zooming the screen while running YaST2)... considering how bad it looks even with msfonts, I'd hate to see how your system renders/mangles text.
"We saw what you did with your classes, so we added some more classes to your classes to hide your classes because we have more class."
"We saw what you did with your syntax so we added some more syntax to your syntax to hide your syntax because we are more syntaxy."
"We saw that java still sucks so we added some more suckiness to java's suckiness to hide java's suckiness because our suckiness sucks less... sort of... maybe..."
"... because our next step is to distract you from our new suckiness by adding more xml..."
but even so, she spends most of her days just watching daytime TV, like the Price is Right and talk shows. The family has tasked me with finding her an easy-to-use, not overly expensive device that would mentally challenge her
Try watching something WITH her instead. Or, since her eyesight is still good, playing cards or something else that is not physically demanding, and allows for both mental stimulation and social interaction. There's a reason you see all those old folks playing bridge or bingo or dominoes, and it's not because of the games themselves. (get one of those 12 or 15-pip domino sets and give it a whirl - everyone from 9 to 90 can enjoy it).
Software does a whole lot more than it used to. Faster CPUs mean you can have software that operates at about the same speed as the old version, only it's about 100 times more feature rich and useful. That isn't zero progress.
It's not progress when todays' linux desktops run slower than either of XP, Vista, or Win7 on the same machine. It's bloat.
It's not progress when the same machine that ran KDE perfectly fine a few years ago struggles to run a lightweight DE such as LXDE today - because of bloat. Even after quadrupling the RAM available.
It's bloat.
It's stupid.
It's one of the reasons why, as a percentage of consumers, linux on the desktop is actually falling, at a time when the desktop, for many, is becoming irrelevant.
And Shuttleworth is dreaming if he still believes he'll have 200 million Ubuntu users by 2014. His exit strategy - to have Amazon buy into Canonical - is dead.
... is that Cahn (the trustee) found there was still some loose change floating around, and he can continue to grind out trustee fees by demanding BSF continue to litigate for free as per the agreement.
Not that anyone else even cares any more. Even if SCO were to somehow win everything they ask for in some parallel universe, it wouldn't affect anyone outside the USofA, and there's enough connectivity now that all the data centers running linux could just move north and south of the borders.
I've always read that closing credit cards -- reducing your maximum available credit -- and therefore also increasing your ratio of current debt to maximum credit, can temporarily hit your credit score.
Nope. Your maximum credit available is determined by your capacity to carry debt, plus your history of paying back debt. A credit card with a zero balance has the same effect as co-signing a loan for someone else - your total debt load has to take into account future events, such as you maxing out your credit card or being called on to pay the note you co-signed.
Credit card issuers want you to believe the opposite, because it's in their self-interest. After all, if they told the truth, most people would only have 1 (or even zero) credit cards.
Also, even if you pay your balance every month, you're still paying in higher costs. Merchants have to pay 2% to 4% to the card company. Take 3% of what you spend every year and multiply it by a hundred million people. That's a LOT of money. And if you're going to pay by cash or debit card, you can always ask for a discount. On a $1,000 purchase, paying $40 less is a "Good Thing".
Most people don't even try to bargain because they wrongly assume you can't ask for (and get) a cash discount at places like Best Buy.
Well, if your purchases have 50% tacked on them in interest, then you probably should cut your cards up as they're clearly not for you. But most of us can use credit cards responsibly and not pay a single cent in finance fees, aside maybe from a missed payment once in a long while.
First, I cut mine up decades ago.
Second, the credit card companies have a name for people who pay their balance in full every month - they're called deadbeats. Really. Not joking.
Third, half the people out there are carrying a balance. Thanks to the wonders of compound interest, most of them will pay 50% or more in total interest on every purchase, because they're just paying the minimum. and rolling over the debt. And that's not counting all those "pay in 36 interest-free payments" deals where you've actually prepaid the interest and had it rolled into your purchase.
All that interest paid is future money taken out of the local economy. It also contributes to higher prices, since people focus on "the payment" and not the actual cost (which explains the housing bubble being caused by ARMs and other scams).
Closing credit card accounts can hurt your credit rating.
Not true. Your total credit carrying capacity is reduced by the maximum balance you COULD charge against your credit card, even if the balance is currently zero. This is because you can, at any time, load it to the max without any review.
Example: If your total consumer credit carrying capacity is $50k, and you have credit cards with a balance of $0, but limits of $10k each, you won't get a $40k loan. Drop one card, you now qualify for that same loan.
This is a dirty little secret the banks won't tell you unless you really push them, because they make more profit off those monthly basic fees than they do from any other operation.
So, all you really need to do is keep, at most, one credit card to maintain some sort of record. Get rid of the rest, and the fees, and be happy.
You might ask them to correct one line on their "About Us" page - "Sure, we're proud of the fact that our 417,000 members have entrusted us with $15 billion of their assets, making us Canada's largest Credit Union".
That's not quite true. Caisse Populaire Desjardins is North America's largest credit union ($175 billion in assets). If it were a US bank, it would be #16 in terms of size, beating out Citizens (#20), State Street (#19), SunTrust (#16), American Express (# 21), KeyCorp (#24) and TD Bank US (# 18).
But definitely still something to be proud of - it seems that credit unions are at the forefront in pushing sustainable and green programs.
you can imagine my surprise when I find out Americans (and Canadians) pay bank fees at all
That *IS* surprising, because all Canadian banks have to offer at least one no-fees type account by law. Go to TD Canada Trust - branches open 7 days a week,checking account with 10 free cheques/debit transactions per month if you maintain a minimum balance, pay online, no holds on direct deposit of pay, etc.
And if you're 60 or over, no monthly fee, no minimum balance, unlimited transactions/checks, free personalized cheques, free bank drafts/travelers checks ($USD or $CAN), free bank-by-mail.
Of course, the deal for people living in most states isn't quite so good (TD Bank instead of TD Canada Trust), but it still beats out most US-based banks.
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True. But I would say that first, all those methods require love. This judge is the type of guy I would be very worried would shake a baby to death because satisfying his anger and sense of justice is greater than his love for his daughter.
The full video This is messed up. He's going at her with the belt, and telling her to lay down on the bed so he can beat her behind, or she's going to get it "in your fucking face".
And the mother ... "I'm going to smack her. You turn over on the bed and take it like a grown woman." Did hubby beat her too?
And him later, "I'm going to [whack] BEAT you into submission. You want to put some more computer games on? You want some more? Fucking computer. blah blah in the fucking goddamn house " (3:25). "Putting a fucking gang of them on I'll just keep beating you and BEATING YOU, that's how upset I am" (4:40)
This is someone who has lost it.
If copyright didn't exist, I would be free to take gpl code and lock it up in closed applications. So Stallman's position against copyright is a logical fail - like a lot of his other positions, by the way.
His "dream world" will never exist, because the GPL works against people investing in copyleft software. Look no further than the sub-1% of people who use linux on the desktop. The year of the linux desktop will never happen, in part because of the gpl.
The year of the bsd desktop has arrived, thanks to apple. Funny thing, apple chose to use bsd instead of linux early on because of the gpl. And subsequent users certainly did benefit - apple hired freebsd developers to work on it, improve it, and bsd continues to benefit from the relationship. Linux could have had the same benefits, but instead we have an os with a hundred crappy desktops, all of which either lack major features or break on updates, and all of which can't even match creaky old XP.
After 15 years of using linux, I'm looking for alternatives because my time is worth more than dealing with the crap that is KDE, Gnome, E, LXDE, Openbox, etc. Adding more features should take a back seat to stability. Not having sound subsystems that take 100% of core for days on end, or libraries that crap themselves when 2 different applications are open and all of a sudden every keypress results in a 10-second delay because it's corrupted itself AGAIN (kde excels in that respect).
We used to joke about Windows bitrot, but linux desktops have it as well. They are not ready for prime time, and the licensing is preventing anyone from producing a proper one because it costs real money to debug, not the paltry sums Shuttleworth is throwing at his latest piece of trash.
It's significant that the only way that linux is useable by the masses is when it's buried out of sight. And when it's buried out of sight, it can be swapped out if required, so it becomes less and less relevant.
Thank the gpl for screwing everyone over.
The blog writer is full of it. Their "logic" is not supported by anything but their own "logic". Go talk to someone who works in retail finance. When you apply for a loan, the risk assessment is based on your maximum, not current, balance, because you can go up to your maximum balance without requesting new credit be extended.
Your credit rating will go up and down with your payment and credit history - however, your borrowing capacity is not the same. You can have an excellent credit rating and still not be able to borrow because you've got that unused capacity "overhang". Don't confuse debt with wealth.
Some people are jerks, no matter where they're from. Beatings don't work. Not in animals, and not in humans.
The only time it (force to the point of harm) can be justified is to prevent greater immediate harm.
There was a time when people thought it was justified to slap a woman around to "calm her down". Before that, it was okay to beat slaves to "beat some sense of respect into them."
Spanking a kid makes as little sense as beating a dog because it pooped in the house, or rubbing their nose in it. There are easier ways to house-break a dog. And better ways to raise a kid.
No it's not. A computing device with no net connection. That's as isolating as a cell phone with no cell phone account. Once you get past playing bejeweled, there's not much ...
Come on, at least email ...
[citation needed]
Better yet, don't bother - they're not. Trustees have a huge amount of discretion in bankruptcy. Your belief is as inaccurate as the one that "corporations are required by law to maximize shareholder value" - often repeated, NEVER backed up when challenged, because no such law exists.
Second, there already is a judgment in place. Appeals are a cost/benefits analysis that are in the trustee's discretion. There is no law requiring any and all avenues be exhausted to the ruination of the estate. Your belief would result in every bankruptcy having every possible useless appeal to the supreme court being made "just in case".
Why is this okay at ANY age? Because they can't defend themselves or fight back as well if they're younger? Because they're more likely to be intimidated and less likely to tell someone else if they're younger?
At what age do you think it is okay to start beating them? And should the kid have the right to physically defend themselves from such assaults, and if so, to what extent? To the same extent as an adult with a gun would do?
Come to Canada. It *is* a federal crime and the law has been upheld by the Supreme Court, just like drunk driving, and you will be charged. You'll have to make bail and promise to come back for your trial, and if you don't your sorry ass will be extradited from the US.
And no, we also do it to Canadians as well - and there is no "religious excuse".
And there is no statute of limitations on child abuse in Canada.
No, he's beating his daughter because he's an idiot with anger management and control issues. If it's not okay to beat a stranger for "violating the law", then it's certainly not okay to beat someone you're supposed to love, and who you have a legal responsibility to protect from bad stuff such as illegal physical assaults like this.
BTW: This was not a one-time incident.
So remove the msfonts package, change the dpi on your screen to 120dpi or 150dpi, and be ready to cry after a few hours.
He would have done better spending it on booze and hookers, and returning the empties for a refund.
Ever use one of those?
She's probably better off with a really big light-weight pillow to rest it on (assuming no ventilation or heat build-up issues).
Just look at how many idiots continued to buy GM stock after it was officially bankrupt and they were told that the stock was worth zero, "just in case."
Who would that be? Everyone currently running for the whitehouse has a political agenda, including Cain.
I emailed them telling them I was running linux and refused to pay, and to please sue me ... total silence.
So you don't use the msfonts download? Opensuse fonts are ugly even with it (try zooming the screen while running YaST2) ... considering how bad it looks even with msfonts, I'd hate to see how your system renders/mangles text.
"We saw what you did with your classes, so we added some more classes to your classes to hide your classes because we have more class."
"We saw what you did with your syntax so we added some more syntax to your syntax to hide your syntax because we are more syntaxy."
"We saw that java still sucks so we added some more suckiness to java's suckiness to hide java's suckiness because our suckiness sucks less ... sort of ... maybe ..."
"... because our next step is to distract you from our new suckiness by adding more xml ..."
Try watching something WITH her instead. Or, since her eyesight is still good, playing cards or something else that is not physically demanding, and allows for both mental stimulation and social interaction. There's a reason you see all those old folks playing bridge or bingo or dominoes, and it's not because of the games themselves. (get one of those 12 or 15-pip domino sets and give it a whirl - everyone from 9 to 90 can enjoy it).
It's not progress when todays' linux desktops run slower than either of XP, Vista, or Win7 on the same machine. It's bloat.
It's not progress when the same machine that ran KDE perfectly fine a few years ago struggles to run a lightweight DE such as LXDE today - because of bloat. Even after quadrupling the RAM available.
It's bloat.
It's stupid.
It's one of the reasons why, as a percentage of consumers, linux on the desktop is actually falling, at a time when the desktop, for many, is becoming irrelevant.
And Shuttleworth is dreaming if he still believes he'll have 200 million Ubuntu users by 2014. His exit strategy - to have Amazon buy into Canonical - is dead.
Not that anyone else even cares any more. Even if SCO were to somehow win everything they ask for in some parallel universe, it wouldn't affect anyone outside the USofA, and there's enough connectivity now that all the data centers running linux could just move north and south of the borders.
So who would that leave? Pretty much nobody.
Nope. Your maximum credit available is determined by your capacity to carry debt, plus your history of paying back debt. A credit card with a zero balance has the same effect as co-signing a loan for someone else - your total debt load has to take into account future events, such as you maxing out your credit card or being called on to pay the note you co-signed.
Credit card issuers want you to believe the opposite, because it's in their self-interest. After all, if they told the truth, most people would only have 1 (or even zero) credit cards.
Also, even if you pay your balance every month, you're still paying in higher costs. Merchants have to pay 2% to 4% to the card company. Take 3% of what you spend every year and multiply it by a hundred million people. That's a LOT of money. And if you're going to pay by cash or debit card, you can always ask for a discount. On a $1,000 purchase, paying $40 less is a "Good Thing".
Most people don't even try to bargain because they wrongly assume you can't ask for (and get) a cash discount at places like Best Buy.
First, I cut mine up decades ago.
Second, the credit card companies have a name for people who pay their balance in full every month - they're called deadbeats. Really. Not joking.
Third, half the people out there are carrying a balance. Thanks to the wonders of compound interest, most of them will pay 50% or more in total interest on every purchase, because they're just paying the minimum. and rolling over the debt. And that's not counting all those "pay in 36 interest-free payments" deals where you've actually prepaid the interest and had it rolled into your purchase.
All that interest paid is future money taken out of the local economy. It also contributes to higher prices, since people focus on "the payment" and not the actual cost (which explains the housing bubble being caused by ARMs and other scams).
Not true. Your total credit carrying capacity is reduced by the maximum balance you COULD charge against your credit card, even if the balance is currently zero. This is because you can, at any time, load it to the max without any review.
Example: If your total consumer credit carrying capacity is $50k, and you have credit cards with a balance of $0, but limits of $10k each, you won't get a $40k loan. Drop one card, you now qualify for that same loan.
This is a dirty little secret the banks won't tell you unless you really push them, because they make more profit off those monthly basic fees than they do from any other operation.
So, all you really need to do is keep, at most, one credit card to maintain some sort of record. Get rid of the rest, and the fees, and be happy.
That's not quite true. Caisse Populaire Desjardins is North America's largest credit union ($175 billion in assets). If it were a US bank, it would be #16 in terms of size, beating out Citizens (#20), State Street (#19), SunTrust (#16), American Express (# 21), KeyCorp (#24) and TD Bank US (# 18).
But definitely still something to be proud of - it seems that credit unions are at the forefront in pushing sustainable and green programs.
That *IS* surprising, because all Canadian banks have to offer at least one no-fees type account by law. Go to TD Canada Trust - branches open 7 days a week,checking account with 10 free cheques/debit transactions per month if you maintain a minimum balance, pay online, no holds on direct deposit of pay, etc.
And if you're 60 or over, no monthly fee, no minimum balance, unlimited transactions/checks, free personalized cheques, free bank drafts/travelers checks ($USD or $CAN), free bank-by-mail.
Of course, the deal for people living in most states isn't quite so good (TD Bank instead of TD Canada Trust), but it still beats out most US-based banks.