YouTube has been shuttering or demonetizing channels that feature firearm content. Seems like your channel can get suspended on one single complaint from a rabid anti-gunner, even if you haven't violated any rules. And then you have to fight to get it back up again.
And reddit just recently included firearms along with drugs, stolen goods, sexual services in a list of things that can't be bought, sold or traded. One of those things is perfectly legal.
Many firearms video channels have moved to Full30.com, a new site set up just for that purpose. And many shuttered sub-reddits have reopened on MeWe.com.
My son asked me to get Geometry Dash for him on his iPad. "Cool," I thought, "he wants a geometry game."
Such a disappointment. The game has no geometry whatsoever, and I have to hear the same annoying pounding electronic music repeated endlessly whenever we drive anywhere.
This is the game that Geometry Dash should have been.
I got so pissed off this summer RVing around the US. Over half the gas pumps would ask for the PIN, and I'd have to go inside. And of those, at half the places I had to charge a large amount, and then go back in after to get a credit for what I didn't use.
And then, in stores, being asked to physically sign a credit card slip. With an actual pen, like a bloody caveman.
Speaking of Kurosawa, I was going to point out that on some of the Criterion editions of Kurosawa's movies, they have very interesting commentary tracks recorded by film historians.
Kurosawa will not be able to record any commentaries in the future either, since he died in 1998.
I think licensing or selling of trademarks should be illegal altogether.
The whole point of trademark law was not to create some kind of "intellectual property" that the holder could license or sell, or be sold off as an asset in a bankruptcy sale.
The point of it was to protect consumers. So that when you bought a bottle of "Bass Pale Ale" (one of the oldest trademarks in the world), you could be reasonably sure it was made by the right people, and not some cheap knock-off. Consumer protection.
When trademarks can be bought, sold and licensed, consumer protection goes out the window. Who makes that "Honeywell" humidifier? Not Honeywell, that's for sure.
When a company goes out of business, it's trademarks should die with it. Anything else is a deceit, intended to scam the consumer.
There are many common contract clauses that courts have found to be unenforceable. Arbitration-only and class-action-blocking clauses both seem like prime candidates to be found unenforceable.
The only reason I got Netflix in the first place was because I got Unblock.US at the same time.
I was slowly working my way through all the original Twilight Zone series, when suddenly I couldn't get it anymore. Not available in Canada. Now the available selection is crap again. Even the US selection had a hell of a lot of B-movie filler.
I would totally cancel it now, and tell them exactly why, except unfortunately my kids still find plenty to watch. So I can't.
This could cut down on shopping rage too. Personally, I get very frustrated at crowded stores whenever some asshat parks his cart in the middle of the aisle with no consideration for how it affects other people.
It would be great if people could just move about freely without their carts, while the carts negotiate routes amongst themselves and generally keep out of each other's way.
It's yet another question of what constitutes "speech". The courts have interpreted all sorts of things to be protected "speech". Even things that had nothing at all to do with tongues and larynxes.
Usually, folks around here applaud the courts when they decide that, for example, source code is speech. Will we still be applauding when they decide that pressing "Delete" is speech?
When I was kid in the 70s and 80s, there was regular shampoo. Or, if you had money, you could buy the expensive "Pantene" shampoo.
Today, when you go to the store, they have an entire shelf dedicated to Pantene shampoos. The Pantene website lists no less than 25 different shampoos. Anti-breakage. Colour-preserve. Heat-shield. Sheer volume. Damage Detox Deep Cleanse Purifying Shampoo.
The actual differences between the formulas must be soooo tiny. Maybe no difference at all.
And then add another 15 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioners on top of that.
What people want from a streaming service is every movie, every TV episode, and every piece of music ever made at any any point in history, anywhere in the world, at a modest fee.
Netflix certainly wasn't that, but it was trying to be. If it's going to stop even trying, then they're just driving people back to BitTorrent. Because that's what BitTorrent is, and it's free.
Until people are given what they want at a fair price, they will continue to find it elsewhere.
"Natural selection is not evolution" is actually correct. Evolution is the observed fact that species change over time. The fact that evolution has occurred is not really open to debate, unless you're prepared to entertain loony notions like "God put those fossils there to test our faith."
Natural selection is the mechanism that Darwin proposed to explain why/how evolution happens.
Sure, I can hide the origin so it's not obvious where the money came from. So, if I'm a high-school chemistry teacher, and I used this bit-coin trick to "launder" the millions of dollars I made selling meth, then can I just go out and buy a mansion and fleet of Lamborghinis, and expect to stay out of jail? I think not...
Perhaps I just don't understand what "money laundering" means, but I don't really see how bit-coin is of any use whatsoever for money laundering.
Money-laundering, as I understand it, means to disguise the true origin of ill-gotten funds, so as to make the income appear legitimate.
I think there's confusion in the two different means of the word "disguise". In one sense, it means simply to hide or obscure. In another sense, it means to make something or someone appear to be something else.
Bank robbers wear a disguise in the first sense. A bank-robber doesn't wear a Richard Nixon mask because he wants people to think Richard Nixon robbed the bank. He just doesn't want to be identified in a line-up. This is the same kind of disguise that bit-coin offers. And even in that, it doesn't really stand up.
But I think people interested in money-laundering are using the other sense of the word: they want to be able to actually spend their ill-gotten gains without arousing suspicion. They need to make it look like legitimate income. That is why Walter White bought a car-wash.
Merely obscuring the true origin of your money is useless. If the government is even a tiny bit curious about the true origin of your money, you're already well and truly fucked, whether or not they can ever figure it out.
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That's was exactly what popped into my head too.
Imagine if the Internet stopped.
YouTube has been shuttering or demonetizing channels that feature firearm content. Seems like your channel can get suspended on one single complaint from a rabid anti-gunner, even if you haven't violated any rules. And then you have to fight to get it back up again.
And reddit just recently included firearms along with drugs, stolen goods, sexual services in a list of things that can't be bought, sold or traded. One of those things is perfectly legal.
Many firearms video channels have moved to Full30.com, a new site set up just for that purpose. And many shuttered sub-reddits have reopened on MeWe.com.
"Subsidence is a great driver of our economy." - SF Bay Gondoliers Association
My son asked me to get Geometry Dash for him on his iPad. "Cool," I thought, "he wants a geometry game."
Such a disappointment. The game has no geometry whatsoever, and I have to hear the same annoying pounding electronic music repeated endlessly whenever we drive anywhere.
This is the game that Geometry Dash should have been.
Really? That's cool.
I got so pissed off this summer RVing around the US. Over half the gas pumps would ask for the PIN, and I'd have to go inside. And of those, at half the places I had to charge a large amount, and then go back in after to get a credit for what I didn't use.
And then, in stores, being asked to physically sign a credit card slip. With an actual pen, like a bloody caveman.
The 9th circuit is the only one of those that's not a prime number.
Speaking of Kurosawa, I was going to point out that on some of the Criterion editions of Kurosawa's movies, they have very interesting commentary tracks recorded by film historians.
Kurosawa will not be able to record any commentaries in the future either, since he died in 1998.
I think licensing or selling of trademarks should be illegal altogether.
The whole point of trademark law was not to create some kind of "intellectual property" that the holder could license or sell, or be sold off as an asset in a bankruptcy sale.
The point of it was to protect consumers. So that when you bought a bottle of "Bass Pale Ale" (one of the oldest trademarks in the world), you could be reasonably sure it was made by the right people, and not some cheap knock-off. Consumer protection.
When trademarks can be bought, sold and licensed, consumer protection goes out the window. Who makes that "Honeywell" humidifier? Not Honeywell, that's for sure.
When a company goes out of business, it's trademarks should die with it. Anything else is a deceit, intended to scam the consumer.
There are many common contract clauses that courts have found to be unenforceable. Arbitration-only and class-action-blocking clauses both seem like prime candidates to be found unenforceable.
Is there any case law along those lines?
Everybody has the right to demand good government, and complain if they don't get it. Even people who didn't vote.
A just and fair government does not have to be earned by voting or miltary service or paying taxes. It is the birthright of every person.
The only reason I got Netflix in the first place was because I got Unblock.US at the same time.
I was slowly working my way through all the original Twilight Zone series, when suddenly I couldn't get it anymore. Not available in Canada. Now the available selection is crap again. Even the US selection had a hell of a lot of B-movie filler.
I would totally cancel it now, and tell them exactly why, except unfortunately my kids still find plenty to watch. So I can't.
This could cut down on shopping rage too. Personally, I get very frustrated at crowded stores whenever some asshat parks his cart in the middle of the aisle with no consideration for how it affects other people.
It would be great if people could just move about freely without their carts, while the carts negotiate routes amongst themselves and generally keep out of each other's way.
I live in fear of losing my edge and becoming irrelevant. Maybe I already have.
It's yet another question of what constitutes "speech". The courts have interpreted all sorts of things to be protected "speech". Even things that had nothing at all to do with tongues and larynxes.
Usually, folks around here applaud the courts when they decide that, for example, source code is speech. Will we still be applauding when they decide that pressing "Delete" is speech?
When I was kid in the 70s and 80s, there was regular shampoo. Or, if you had money, you could buy the expensive "Pantene" shampoo.
Today, when you go to the store, they have an entire shelf dedicated to Pantene shampoos. The Pantene website lists no less than 25 different shampoos. Anti-breakage. Colour-preserve. Heat-shield. Sheer volume. Damage Detox Deep Cleanse Purifying Shampoo.
The actual differences between the formulas must be soooo tiny. Maybe no difference at all.
And then add another 15 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioners on top of that.
By "as unique as fingerprints", I assume then mean "not very unique".
What people want from a streaming service is every movie, every TV episode, and every piece of music ever made at any any point in history, anywhere in the world, at a modest fee.
Netflix certainly wasn't that, but it was trying to be. If it's going to stop even trying, then they're just driving people back to BitTorrent. Because that's what BitTorrent is, and it's free.
Until people are given what they want at a fair price, they will continue to find it elsewhere.
I think that counts as two toppings.
"Natural selection is not evolution" is actually correct. Evolution is the observed fact that species change over time. The fact that evolution has occurred is not really open to debate, unless you're prepared to entertain loony notions like "God put those fossils there to test our faith."
Natural selection is the mechanism that Darwin proposed to explain why/how evolution happens.
An AK-47 receiver made out of a rusty shovel:
http://thechive.com/2012/12/06...
Perhaps the problem is that the receiver is the legally-controlled part of the gun. Everything else is spare parts. Making receivers is easy now.
I'm no expert, but it seems to me that making a barrel is the hardest part. Why isn't the barrel the controlled part?
Sure, I can hide the origin so it's not obvious where the money came from. So, if I'm a high-school chemistry teacher, and I used this bit-coin trick to "launder" the millions of dollars I made selling meth, then can I just go out and buy a mansion and fleet of Lamborghinis, and expect to stay out of jail? I think not...
Perhaps I just don't understand what "money laundering" means, but I don't really see how bit-coin is of any use whatsoever for money laundering.
Money-laundering, as I understand it, means to disguise the true origin of ill-gotten funds, so as to make the income appear legitimate.
I think there's confusion in the two different means of the word "disguise". In one sense, it means simply to hide or obscure. In another sense, it means to make something or someone appear to be something else.
Bank robbers wear a disguise in the first sense. A bank-robber doesn't wear a Richard Nixon mask because he wants people to think Richard Nixon robbed the bank. He just doesn't want to be identified in a line-up. This is the same kind of disguise that bit-coin offers. And even in that, it doesn't really stand up.
But I think people interested in money-laundering are using the other sense of the word: they want to be able to actually spend their ill-gotten gains without arousing suspicion. They need to make it look like legitimate income. That is why Walter White bought a car-wash.
Merely obscuring the true origin of your money is useless. If the government is even a tiny bit curious about the true origin of your money, you're already well and truly fucked, whether or not they can ever figure it out.
Your joke is too subtle without a reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise
In another sense, China is a province of Taiwan. It just happens to be under the control of a band of rebels at present.
There are no La Brea Tar Pits in Scotland!!