How so? You have to carry a driver's license if you want to drive. The supreme court ruled you have to show them ID if you have it and they ask. I don't know about this "failure to identify." I'll have to look it up, but I wouldn't put it past the 5-0 to invent such a crime.
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This is -1 offtopic, but apartment has one 'p' in English. In French, it has two. Since I got regular spelling tests in French but not English from middle school on, I spelled it wrong for years. Thank goodness for spell checking in Firefox 2.0. No I'm not using it right now, so don't ream me for spelling errors.
Yes, you equally have (had?) the right stand in line and wait for a PS3 or to pay someone else to do it for you. Once you get one, you have the right to keep it, return it for a refund, or sell it to the highest bidder. Or did you think someone was supposed to just give you a game system?
I have a plasma. I play beaucoup video games on it. I've yet to experience anything other than (very) temporary ghosting. Yes, this is anecdotal, but so was the parent post. For more anecdotes, statistics, fanboy spin, and expert opinions than you could ever want, check out avsforum.com.
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I have a digital cable box. There's no firewire. If there were, my TV wouldn't display it. Most TVs wouldn't. HDMI is the new standard. Yes, it has DRM. It is buggy (in my implementation at least) and it sucks. Oh well, at least I don't need seperate audio cables.
Oh yeah. I believe my debit card is maxed at $400 a day. I know I was turned down when I tried to buy an Xbox 360 on it. So, as long as I check my balance often, I shouldn't be bouncing rent checks. How about yours?
Your points are right on, and that scares me as someone who uses one every day. What I like about my debit card is that all my transactions appear immediately online. Seriously, I can refresh the page immediately after making an online transaction and it's there. Also, I don't have to worry about paying the bill.
Does anyone know of a credit card with smart and fast online access and excellent fraud protection? Automatic bill pay would be nice too, but then it might be similar to a debit card.
Oh, now we have to protect "may be endangered" animals too. Besides, I seriously doubt any sort of human habits are affecting a creature that lives at those depths. If it's almost extinct, it's because of natural selection.
Funding like this violates the principle of transparent spending. Where I live, we pay a separate fee for trash collection, but we still have a cable monopoly, although the service is surprisingly good. Only when citizens have a clear idea of where money is collected and spent can they have a say in trimming the bottom line.
Are you saying that the idea of a frivolous lawsuit is a myth or that governmentally or politically affiliated persons file them as disinformation?
I should clarify that I can envision a lawsuit as described above as being winnable. It's not an entirely frivolous suit either, as it would likely achieve the end of forcing the business owner to put down the sand in the first place. I do find it an unfair lawsuit, as failing to place sand does not rise to the level of negligence, unless there's a law stating that all business owners must salt the sidewalk when it snows.
Guilt is not legally the same as liability. Liability does not imply moral culpability. Perhaps if civil courts were run by the Vatican, then this would be true from your perspective. I agree with you on the wrongness of harming community relationships. Fighting a lawsuit harms both the plaintiff and the defendant, and rarely are these settled in a way that leaves amicable relationships intact. What communities need is a bit more forgiveness, and a lot less incentive for lawyers and plaintiffs to file lawsuits except as a last resort.
The reason frivolous lawsuits exist is because business owners attempt to skimp out on their responsibilities to begin with. If you acted morally towards the people coming on to your property there'd be no grounds for a lawsuit. See definition of frivolous.
At which point you take pictures of the salt you put down, and there's no way they can win in court. Decided to take a larger profit and forgo putting salt down? Well, that was YOUR mistake. How is the sidewalk in front of a business the responsibility of its (the business's) owner? He doesn't own it.
As well it should, if you were guilty. Why are we mixing liability with morals here? Not every tort is a sin. Are you a lawyer?
So why not just carry standard property owner liability insurance and be done with it? Good call.
Not all lawyers will take on class actions either. It generally requires a ton of cash, which is why the lawyers get the better part of the settlement in the end. It's more like entrepeneurship than being a mercenary.
The founders didnt intend a lot of things that happen anyways. Regardless, I think if they had intended for those laws to be constitutional, they would have written the amendment to say so. Copyright is explicit in the constitution and the amendment doesn't specifically mention it, so I'd say copyright is constitutional. On the other hand, I think the first amendment clearly protects libel, slander, and incitement to violence, and the founders intended it this way. They had, after all, just slandered the king and incited the people to violent overthrow of his rule of the colonies.
Network transparency is good, but I know lots of people whose "desktop" is a bunch of xterms tiled across a large screen. You don't need a menu for apps you access every day, so this makes a lot of sense to me.
SO WRONG IT HURTS! Uniques are worthless. What if 20 people behind a corporate firewall click through your ad or look at your landing page. 1 unique. While not a panacea for the larger problem, this particular problem is easily overcome by just setting a cookie.
The trash talking 12 year old is way cliched and inaccurate. It seems most of these kids' parents have figured it out by now, because the only people trash talking me now sound like they're in their late teens or 20s.
<rant>Oh, and to all the people who seem to think that Gears of War <b>ranked</b> matches are their own private games: screw you. If your "clan" or whatever needs to practice together, go find another one to play private matches against. Yes I know the game won't let you form a group and take on all comers. Get over it. Next person who tells me to move to the other team is getting reported for cheating because that's what it is when you abuse the system to do something explicitly disallowed by the developers.</rant>
I can't wait to see how many THOUSANDS of +5 insightful responses we get in here, since so MANY people are so instantly ready to criticize, they MUST have solutions themselves, right? Otherwise they are just typical internet windbag hypocrites.Solution: Kill them all. Leave my rights alone.
I'm sure the founding fathers never intended for the 1st Ammendment to include websites and Oprah being beamed around the world influencing people's minds with BS either.I don't want to argue the second amendment here, but what part of the first's freedom of speech and freedom of the press excludes websites? How could the founding fathers (like it matters) intend for freedom of speech to include things that hadn't been invented yet?
People of the Mac: your machines can run Windows now. Upgrade, pay the Microsoft tax (since you have so much disposable income;), and reboot when you want to game. Who cares what OS is running behind your game that takes up the whole screen?
I have personal experience with the TAAS, the predecessor to TASP. As I recall, it was a joke. It was designed to be so easy as to make even a state whose educational system is as piss poor as Texas look good. Who's teaching to that test? Or did something change since I've been there.
The motivation to do well in high school is, unfortunately, too far off for most high schoolers to comprehend. You do well so you can get into a decent college, so you can get a decent job and make decent money or so you can go to grad school and get a job that makes decent money, or so you can go to professional school and make a metric ton of money.
If you are absolutely sure you can never afford college, even with financial aid, loans, and work-study programs, then I guess it makes sense to drop out.
I will acknowledge that many jobs towards which traditional colleges are hostile make good money. Auto mechanics, for instance, make bank and have ample entrepeneurship opportunities. Still, I think it's prudent to finish high school before going into professional training.
Keep in mind that I'm not saying that everything they teach you isn't worthless in real life. As indicated above, it's the self-discipline you're demonstrating. I can't think of many professions that don't require that.
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How so? You have to carry a driver's license if you want to drive. The supreme court ruled you have to show them ID if you have it and they ask. I don't know about this "failure to identify." I'll have to look it up, but I wouldn't put it past the 5-0 to invent such a crime.
This is -1 offtopic, but apartment has one 'p' in English. In French, it has two. Since I got regular spelling tests in French but not English from middle school on, I spelled it wrong for years. Thank goodness for spell checking in Firefox 2.0. No I'm not using it right now, so don't ream me for spelling errors.
Yes, you equally have (had?) the right stand in line and wait for a PS3 or to pay someone else to do it for you. Once you get one, you have the right to keep it, return it for a refund, or sell it to the highest bidder. Or did you think someone was supposed to just give you a game system?
I've only played the bundled Wii sports on a friend's machine (all sold out), but I was disappointed that the motion detection seemed very course.
I have a plasma. I play beaucoup video games on it. I've yet to experience anything other than (very) temporary ghosting. Yes, this is anecdotal, but so was the parent post. For more anecdotes, statistics, fanboy spin, and expert opinions than you could ever want, check out avsforum.com.
I have a digital cable box. There's no firewire. If there were, my TV wouldn't display it. Most TVs wouldn't. HDMI is the new standard. Yes, it has DRM. It is buggy (in my implementation at least) and it sucks. Oh well, at least I don't need seperate audio cables.
Oh yeah. I believe my debit card is maxed at $400 a day. I know I was turned down when I tried to buy an Xbox 360 on it. So, as long as I check my balance often, I shouldn't be bouncing rent checks. How about yours?
Your points are right on, and that scares me as someone who uses one every day. What I like about my debit card is that all my transactions appear immediately online. Seriously, I can refresh the page immediately after making an online transaction and it's there. Also, I don't have to worry about paying the bill.
Does anyone know of a credit card with smart and fast online access and excellent fraud protection? Automatic bill pay would be nice too, but then it might be similar to a debit card.
I think he's saying that he doesn't know how long it took to download.
Oh, now we have to protect "may be endangered" animals too. Besides, I seriously doubt any sort of human habits are affecting a creature that lives at those depths. If it's almost extinct, it's because of natural selection.
Funding like this violates the principle of transparent spending. Where I live, we pay a separate fee for trash collection, but we still have a cable monopoly, although the service is surprisingly good. Only when citizens have a clear idea of where money is collected and spent can they have a say in trimming the bottom line.
Are you saying that the idea of a frivolous lawsuit is a myth or that governmentally or politically affiliated persons file them as disinformation?
I should clarify that I can envision a lawsuit as described above as being winnable. It's not an entirely frivolous suit either, as it would likely achieve the end of forcing the business owner to put down the sand in the first place. I do find it an unfair lawsuit, as failing to place sand does not rise to the level of negligence, unless there's a law stating that all business owners must salt the sidewalk when it snows.
Guilt is not legally the same as liability. Liability does not imply moral culpability. Perhaps if civil courts were run by the Vatican, then this would be true from your perspective. I agree with you on the wrongness of harming community relationships. Fighting a lawsuit harms both the plaintiff and the defendant, and rarely are these settled in a way that leaves amicable relationships intact. What communities need is a bit more forgiveness, and a lot less incentive for lawyers and plaintiffs to file lawsuits except as a last resort.
Not all lawyers will take on class actions either. It generally requires a ton of cash, which is why the lawyers get the better part of the settlement in the end. It's more like entrepeneurship than being a mercenary.
Explain to me again why is is negligent to serve hot coffee. Some people probably like it that way.
The founders didnt intend a lot of things that happen anyways. Regardless, I think if they had intended for those laws to be constitutional, they would have written the amendment to say so. Copyright is explicit in the constitution and the amendment doesn't specifically mention it, so I'd say copyright is constitutional. On the other hand, I think the first amendment clearly protects libel, slander, and incitement to violence, and the founders intended it this way. They had, after all, just slandered the king and incited the people to violent overthrow of his rule of the colonies.
Network transparency is good, but I know lots of people whose "desktop" is a bunch of xterms tiled across a large screen. You don't need a menu for apps you access every day, so this makes a lot of sense to me.
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Your anecdote is interesting, but IMO the built-in USB is my favorite part of my "old" (6 months) shuffle. Makes a great memory stick!
The trash talking 12 year old is way cliched and inaccurate. It seems most of these kids' parents have figured it out by now, because the only people trash talking me now sound like they're in their late teens or 20s.
<rant>Oh, and to all the people who seem to think that Gears of War <b>ranked</b> matches are their own private games: screw you. If your "clan" or whatever needs to practice together, go find another one to play private matches against. Yes I know the game won't let you form a group and take on all comers. Get over it. Next person who tells me to move to the other team is getting reported for cheating because that's what it is when you abuse the system to do something explicitly disallowed by the developers.</rant>
I can't wait to see how many THOUSANDS of +5 insightful responses we get in here, since so MANY people are so instantly ready to criticize, they MUST have solutions themselves, right? Otherwise they are just typical internet windbag hypocrites.Solution: Kill them all. Leave my rights alone.
Let's see that one get modded to +5 insightful.
I'm sure the founding fathers never intended for the 1st Ammendment to include websites and Oprah being beamed around the world influencing people's minds with BS either.I don't want to argue the second amendment here, but what part of the first's freedom of speech and freedom of the press excludes websites? How could the founding fathers (like it matters) intend for freedom of speech to include things that hadn't been invented yet?
People of the Mac: your machines can run Windows now. Upgrade, pay the Microsoft tax (since you have so much disposable income ;), and reboot when you want to game. Who cares what OS is running behind your game that takes up the whole screen?
I have personal experience with the TAAS, the predecessor to TASP. As I recall, it was a joke. It was designed to be so easy as to make even a state whose educational system is as piss poor as Texas look good. Who's teaching to that test? Or did something change since I've been there.
The motivation to do well in high school is, unfortunately, too far off for most high schoolers to comprehend. You do well so you can get into a decent college, so you can get a decent job and make decent money or so you can go to grad school and get a job that makes decent money, or so you can go to professional school and make a metric ton of money.
If you are absolutely sure you can never afford college, even with financial aid, loans, and work-study programs, then I guess it makes sense to drop out.
I will acknowledge that many jobs towards which traditional colleges are hostile make good money. Auto mechanics, for instance, make bank and have ample entrepeneurship opportunities. Still, I think it's prudent to finish high school before going into professional training.
Keep in mind that I'm not saying that everything they teach you isn't worthless in real life. As indicated above, it's the self-discipline you're demonstrating. I can't think of many professions that don't require that.