Calling somebody a crank doesn't excuse you or anybody else from considering evidence.
Yes actually, it does. See, the amount of facts out there is so staggering that no one has enough time to sit around and listen to bullshit crackpot theories anymore. We barely have enough time for the REAL stuff.
Good for you if you have enough time to fill your existence with the "noise", but most of us are concentrating on the "signal". Please stop trying to distract us, and get back to learning "science" from the National Enquirer.
I've experienced this personally, in Houston. And I am Canadian (so no fingerprints or photo for me). But I have traveled OFTEN to the US, NEVER overstayed, do NOT have a criminal record, etc. Yet I was grilled for about 10 minutes, primarily about how I earned my living. It seems being a physician wasn't enough to satisfy this guy, he wanted to know how much money I had. I figure that's no one's business. So he questioned even more.
It would certainly be a shock to arrive and have your phone confiscated.
After being given dirty looks by the immigration officer, asked many personal and even rude questions, being fingerprinted and photographed, and generally made to feel like a terrorist, I suspect having your phone confiscated is the least of a tourist's worries when coming to the US. In fact, you rather expect it at some point.
This is the whole point - Company B isn't going to reverse engineer the widget and set up its own manufacturing facility overnight. Company A has all that time to establish itself as the brand leader and the ORIGINAL. If company B can afford to sell the widget for 25% less and still turn a profit, I'm sure company A can make money too. They don't suddenly go out of business - unless they're complacent. But complacency isn't company B's fault now, is it?
You must be new here. 90% of interesting or useful comments receive a Troll, Flamebait or Offtopic mod. This has been the case for the past year or so. But don't worry. The INTELLIGENT readers on slashdot read all comments, at -1, anyway.
Seriously, seriously, its completely ridiculous that ANY document that binds you legally to do or not do something would TAKE AWAY your right to a LAW suit.
All he has to say is "OK, I don't agree with your stupid EULA. Here's your piece of junk, give me a refund in full."
If they fail to give him a refund then he has a case outside the EULA - he said he didn't agree with it.
They leverage power, make certain demands, stated either subtly or outright, and you either pay their tributes and taxes or something bad happens to you.
However this only works if your victi - er partner feels they have something to lose. The little guy, however, was the undoing of the Roman empire, and it will be the undoing of Microsoft. Mark my words. And long live the internet.
Give me a break... First of all, what if he created the account several years ago and hasn't visited in that long? If the said girlfriend sees only that he has an account and automatically jumps to "He's cheating on me, the louse!" then I think they have some trust issues that go way deeper than Match.com.
I can tell from your post that you haven't been around women that much. Of course the mere fact that he has an account means that he's cheating. Who said women were rational, level headed beings? It's the first thing that comes to their minds.
A better way to counter the threat is to just destroy any Iranian launch facilities now.
Umm - or an even better way perhaps is to back down and quit with the aggressive posturing, blame, accusations and name-calling?
Who is guilty of starting a bar fight - the guy who smacked someone in the face, or the jerk who kept repeatedly harassing the guy until he got smacked?
How do you explain homosexuality when it occurs in individuals of other species in the animal kingdom, you Bible-thumping fucktard?/oops, did I just go all ad-hominem on you?
Actually I'm an atheist. This would have been clear had you actually read what I wrote. So considering you are headed in exactly the opposite direction to rational conversation with your post, I guess you'll fail to understand that I'm also a homophobe, and I merely posted what I did to rile all the gay people on slashdot. I don't BELIEVE in a genetic basis for homosexuality. You/They can't PROVE there is one (yet). So I am as free to preach MY views as they are theirs since this isn't about SCIENCE yet - nothing has been proven.
All their theories and conjecture and arguments make me laugh. Simply put, you fell for a troll, retard.
know enough to know that you can't definitively rule out genes having some influence on homosexuality.
Yeah, the same argument is used to claim the existence of "God", because you can't "disprove it".
I think it is a LOT more likely that homosexuals are so desperate for some sort of justification for their lifestyle to be accepted by society that a "genetic" theory suits them just fine. Aww, it's not THEIR fault. It's a gene.
that if the gene [for homosexuality] were discovered
This always makes me laugh. An inheritable cause for people who kind of by definition can't (or rather won't) have children. Yeah, homosexuality is a "gene"...
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Calling somebody a crank doesn't excuse you or anybody else from considering evidence.
Yes actually, it does. See, the amount of facts out there is so staggering that no one has enough time to sit around and listen to bullshit crackpot theories anymore. We barely have enough time for the REAL stuff.
Good for you if you have enough time to fill your existence with the "noise", but most of us are concentrating on the "signal". Please stop trying to distract us, and get back to learning "science" from the National Enquirer.
You just don't get it, do you?
It's WATER (please enclose cheque for $30 million).
When members of a profession start referring to non-members as 'laymen', it is time to start shooting them.
I think layman is a lot better than vulgar, don't you, you vulgar person?
At least the vultures can't take open source away from us.
Want to bet? Give it a few more years and coding will be a thing of the past, you HACKER you. Get against the wall, right next to the terrorists.
I've experienced this personally, in Houston. And I am Canadian (so no fingerprints or photo for me). But I have traveled OFTEN to the US, NEVER overstayed, do NOT have a criminal record, etc. Yet I was grilled for about 10 minutes, primarily about how I earned my living. It seems being a physician wasn't enough to satisfy this guy, he wanted to know how much money I had. I figure that's no one's business. So he questioned even more.
Like it or not, patents are a mainstay of the US economy.
So, uhhh, how many years before the US economy expires?
It would certainly be a shock to arrive and have your phone confiscated.
After being given dirty looks by the immigration officer, asked many personal and even rude questions, being fingerprinted and photographed, and generally made to feel like a terrorist, I suspect having your phone confiscated is the least of a tourist's worries when coming to the US. In fact, you rather expect it at some point.
I avoid the US nowadays.
Company A now goes out of business.
Why?
This is the whole point - Company B isn't going to reverse engineer the widget and set up its own manufacturing facility overnight. Company A has all that time to establish itself as the brand leader and the ORIGINAL. If company B can afford to sell the widget for 25% less and still turn a profit, I'm sure company A can make money too. They don't suddenly go out of business - unless they're complacent. But complacency isn't company B's fault now, is it?
there is a whole new up and coming world out there (ironically fueled by US economic suicide.)
I didn't expect it to happen in my lifetime, but carry on. There's a reason why emerging market funds are leading the way nowadays.
Why did this get rated troll?
You must be new here. 90% of interesting or useful comments receive a Troll, Flamebait or Offtopic mod. This has been the case for the past year or so. But don't worry. The INTELLIGENT readers on slashdot read all comments, at -1, anyway.
So why can't museums have them?
Like almost everything else out of NASA for the past 30 years, this makes no sense.
but until then they will use the patent system against same big corporations that abuse it too, giving them a taste of their own medicine.
Until a big corporation buys them. Ooops. Microsoft says - all your patches are belong to us.
Enough complaining got back to my parents that I could only operate late late late at night....
Why, did the lights stop coming on at 3am? LOL! I would have loved to have seen your eerie neighborhood....
"Its one of them durned UFO things!" Nahh, it's just VAXcat dicking around with the radio again...
Soon, wardrivers will be able to steal power from homes they pass by, reducing their own energy bills. :D
Especially if they do it in their electric cars!
Just as long as they don't make lighbulbs that zap Redshirts who get in the way
But then who is going to kill all these redshirts?
Seriously, seriously, its completely ridiculous that ANY document that binds you legally to do or not do something would TAKE AWAY your right to a LAW suit.
All he has to say is "OK, I don't agree with your stupid EULA. Here's your piece of junk, give me a refund in full."
If they fail to give him a refund then he has a case outside the EULA - he said he didn't agree with it.
They leverage power, make certain demands, stated either subtly or outright, and you either pay their tributes and taxes or something bad happens to you.
However this only works if your victi - er partner feels they have something to lose. The little guy, however, was the undoing of the Roman empire, and it will be the undoing of Microsoft. Mark my words. And long live the internet.
Give me a break... First of all, what if he created the account several years ago and hasn't visited in that long? If the said girlfriend sees only that he has an account and automatically jumps to "He's cheating on me, the louse!" then I think they have some trust issues that go way deeper than Match.com.
I can tell from your post that you haven't been around women that much. Of course the mere fact that he has an account means that he's cheating. Who said women were rational, level headed beings? It's the first thing that comes to their minds.
A better way to counter the threat is to just destroy any Iranian launch facilities now.
Umm - or an even better way perhaps is to back down and quit with the aggressive posturing, blame, accusations and name-calling?
Who is guilty of starting a bar fight - the guy who smacked someone in the face, or the jerk who kept repeatedly harassing the guy until he got smacked?
Now this fucktard Bush has only about half a year to go, and he does his very best to rekindle the cold war.
Citizen, I don't think you have been paying attention. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been allies with Eastasia...
How do you explain homosexuality when it occurs in individuals of other species in the animal kingdom, you Bible-thumping fucktard? /oops, did I just go all ad-hominem on you?
Actually I'm an atheist. This would have been clear had you actually read what I wrote. So considering you are headed in exactly the opposite direction to rational conversation with your post, I guess you'll fail to understand that I'm also a homophobe, and I merely posted what I did to rile all the gay people on slashdot. I don't BELIEVE in a genetic basis for homosexuality. You/They can't PROVE there is one (yet). So I am as free to preach MY views as they are theirs since this isn't about SCIENCE yet - nothing has been proven.
All their theories and conjecture and arguments make me laugh. Simply put, you fell for a troll, retard.
know enough to know that you can't definitively rule out genes having some influence on homosexuality.
Yeah, the same argument is used to claim the existence of "God", because you can't "disprove it".
I think it is a LOT more likely that homosexuals are so desperate for some sort of justification for their lifestyle to be accepted by society that a "genetic" theory suits them just fine. Aww, it's not THEIR fault. It's a gene.
Anyone know if combination restrictions apply?
Yes, but most of them are not compatible with life, so chances are you don't have any.
that if the gene [for homosexuality] were discovered
This always makes me laugh. An inheritable cause for people who kind of by definition can't (or rather won't) have children. Yeah, homosexuality is a "gene"...
I'll see your Lucy Liu and raise you one Uma Thurmann