>> Your proposal then requires the school boards to fund such productions for every topic of every grade - in some cases multiple levels of one subject for each grade.
No it doesn't. It requires them (the thousands of them) to fund one topic at one level in one grade, then see what happens after that. Maybe don't start with social studies which might be obsolete in five years, and instead start with fourth grade multiplication which won't change in the next 50. Then go from there at an affordable pace.
In Texas a moving violation 24 miles over the speed limit is a traffic violation. It is neither a misdemeanor nor a felony and therefore not a crime. You cannot be arrested. Speeding 25 or more above the limit is a misdemeanor. Failure to pay a fine may be a crime, but the moving violation itself is not.
Texas has such a tax, for example. When my wife and I played World of Warcraft, we had to pay the monthly (or quarterly, whatever) subscription charge and a tax on the service. People in most other states don't have to, because Texas has had its take on internet-only services like that from before 1998.
Before WoW, my wife and I played EverQuest, except she started her account when we still lived in Tennessee. Even after we moved to Texas, her account was never subjected to the Texas tax, even though mine was and both accounts were (now) on the same address and credit card. Oops, I guess EA's system to collect taxes was flawed. It wasn't until about when we cancelled that I finally realized this was why we were being charged different amounts.
Tipping is circular logic. Because some jobs traditionally receive tips, the law is written to say that employers need only pay those employees like $3 an hour base line, with the rest of their income up to minimum wage being made up of tips.
Thus, because they pay their employees less, they can charge you less for the food (supposedly). Thus, the prices in the menu are based on the assumption that you and everyone else will tip.
If no one tips, the owner has to make up the difference to minimum wage, and to do that he'll have to raise prices. So you end up paying for the tip anyway.
This circular logic breaks down at places like Outback Steakhouse, where they famously pay their hostesses and (bus boys IIRC?) less than minimum wage, but don't allow them to accept tips, then argued in court that because the "jobs" traditionally allow tips overall, they qualify as tip jobs even if it's not allowed at their stores. (Then they do forced tip share with the servers, so that the servers are forced to share their income not just amongst themselves but with the hostesses and bus boys as well.) I don't eat there any more, but if you do, be sure to tip your server in cash so they can pocket it and avoid this crap.
They will still have a monopoly in my area regardless of who owns what.
This is off topic, since TWC isn't the same company as TWI, but...
They keep talking about the "lack of overlap" in their markets, but that's bogus. Comcast and TWC overlap in the "negotiating with content providers" market. The larger the company, the harder they can negotiate against the cable channel providers not already owned by one of them. They might say this will yield lower prices for consumers, but you and I know that's total bullshit.
What it actually means is that they'll either drop channels that won't negotiate, and focus more on providing only channels they create, or the third-party channels they keep will need more ads - more in-show ads - and cheaper shows (reality TV) to make up the difference in revenue they lost.
I don't like the content providers either (give me a la carte or give me death!) but TWC and Comcast at two separate negotiating tables is much better for consumers than a merged monolith at one table.
Alamo food isn't really that good any more. They seriously buggered up their menu a year+ back, and basically offer just burgers and (small) pizzas now. I think the owners are more focused on their Drafthouse Films brand and being a distributor now rather than stay focused on the perfect movie experience.
It's still a good place to see a film that you can't see anywhere else, but if you're seeing a major release, even Austin has theaters with a better experience - Flix Brewhouse for one.
Why assume 2200? In my experience, more things now rely on two digit years, not less. If a bad programmer today is coding something that never deals with historical records, only future dates, what is the incentive to be diligent about using four digit years? We've already established he's not very good, and if he even thought about, it, he probably assumes he won't be working 86 years from now when someone notices his bug.
Sure, but it's so much worse now than it was then. I was trying to add old Doctor Who to my DVD queue. With each add it pops up other recommendations, but a lot of the time none of them were Doctor Who episodes!
It seems to recommend obscure crap when I'm adding a popular/cult item, and it recommends Frozen or some other recent big budget thing when I'm adding older obscure stuff. I have to think their algorithms have been messed with by their marketing and suits to push things their distribution contracts require them to, not what their users actually want.
If you are using concentrated solar thermal instead of photovoltaics, the molten slag is your battery. Use both so you get PV in the morning when your salt is cool. Winds are higher in the morning too. And of course a safe thorium reactor for baseline never hurt anybody.
Yeah, because he survived organ failure, cataracts, and four heart attacks in four months along with daily baths, shaves, and medicine for months to expel the radiation, it must be safe to just knock it down with a wrecking ball or maybe dynamite.
Most senior citizens (those 65 or older) became senior citizens since 1995, when the web started taking off. Many became senior citizens after 2005, when it had mostly saturated middle-class households.
It's not so much that granny embraced the internet, it's that she embraced the internet and then aged into being "granny".
When I lived in regular Texas, Green Mountain was my 100% wind provider, and my rates only went down for the ~6 years I used them.
Austin doesn't give me a choice as I have to use the municipal service. I'm still 100% wind but angry they didn't grandfather my past record of wind power into a lower early adopter rate.
I'm 37 and use VIM for VHDL development. Most of my coworkers in their 30s use VIM or Emacs, while those in their 20s use Notepad++. This is for hardware engineers; I dunno what software uses.
While there are some libertarians that support regulation of trade speech, many seem to prefer caveat emptor. Fraud, then, would be policed not through prevention but through litigation, or (for some libertarians) not at all, and instead be a life lesson.
What would that life lesson probably be? "This libertarian utopia sucks; I want regulation back." At least that's my guess.
On the other hand, if you contracted with your neighbor to rent a patch of his land, and you ran your own antenna up there so you could get the OTA signals yourself separately from his reception, that should be A-ok. That's even true if he already had a spare antenna installed and you just rent it from him.
Dinah's The Hopper is similar to, but not exactly the same as, this service. The equipment is still owned centrally and rented to each user; it just resides in distributed houses rather than one central location, and is streamed over the user's personal bandwidth instead of a company's. That is, unless The Hopper is installed in an office.
When our Constitution has social wording in it ("cruel and unusual" come to mind, but there are many other examples) and the SCOTUS' job is to interpret laws relative to the Constitution (so says them + history), then of course they have to look at social effects.
You should write into your contract that you're allowed to take samples from fields where your bees work, and that the farmer is liable for damages if something happens to your bees, you test those samples, and find the bad pesticides.
Contract law is a lot simpler than laws to "protect nature", and since the nature in this case has an owner (you) it's not just a common resource to exploit.
No help if neighboring farms spray that pesticide, of course.
There is nothing that civil law can do that is punitive to the managers. They didn't do anything; the company did things, and they are merely one of the louder of the company's schizophrenic voices. To get at them where it matters (their wallet), you'd have to go after company assets and hope it indirectly affects them as the parent suggests.
Only criminal law could pierce that veil and go after them directly, and while that can be quite punitive, it's not bloody likely.
Stolen doesn't just apply to the physical world. It means that you've been deprived of something you previously possessed.
If your physical thing is stolen, you no long possess it. If your asset is stolen, you no longer possess it. Most people have digital assets in the form of cash in a bank or stocks in an account; there is nothing physical for either. Bit coins fall in this category. If your trade secret is stolen, you no longer have a secret.
If your copyright is infringed upon, you still hold the copyright. If your patent is infringed upon, you still hold the patent.
Loving County, Texas, has a population of 82 or so. Buy enough land and move 83* voters into that county, and you can be elected sheriff, and become official law enforcement.
Simple as that.**
* Probably some of the 82 are kids, so you probably need fewer than this.
Sad as it may be, I think websites that lack flash videos are the ones sliding into irrelevance. Forget using words to convey an idea - even still images are passé - if it can be said it can be shown in a video or animated gif. At least that's how it feels on 90% of the web.
They're "green eggs and ham" patents and shouldn't be approved.
If method x can't be patented, then it can't also be patented on a computer, on the internet, with a touchscreen, with a mouse / on a plane, in a car, on a boat, in a house.
If the method is nonpatentable when implemented somewhere / then it's nonpatentable everywhere!
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>> Your proposal then requires the school boards to fund such productions for every topic of every grade - in some cases multiple levels of one subject for each grade.
No it doesn't. It requires them (the thousands of them) to fund one topic at one level in one grade, then see what happens after that. Maybe don't start with social studies which might be obsolete in five years, and instead start with fourth grade multiplication which won't change in the next 50. Then go from there at an affordable pace.
In Texas a moving violation 24 miles over the speed limit is a traffic violation. It is neither a misdemeanor nor a felony and therefore not a crime. You cannot be arrested. Speeding 25 or more above the limit is a misdemeanor. Failure to pay a fine may be a crime, but the moving violation itself is not.
It's also about internet-only services.
Texas has such a tax, for example. When my wife and I played World of Warcraft, we had to pay the monthly (or quarterly, whatever) subscription charge and a tax on the service. People in most other states don't have to, because Texas has had its take on internet-only services like that from before 1998.
Before WoW, my wife and I played EverQuest, except she started her account when we still lived in Tennessee. Even after we moved to Texas, her account was never subjected to the Texas tax, even though mine was and both accounts were (now) on the same address and credit card. Oops, I guess EA's system to collect taxes was flawed. It wasn't until about when we cancelled that I finally realized this was why we were being charged different amounts.
Tipping is circular logic. Because some jobs traditionally receive tips, the law is written to say that employers need only pay those employees like $3 an hour base line, with the rest of their income up to minimum wage being made up of tips.
Thus, because they pay their employees less, they can charge you less for the food (supposedly). Thus, the prices in the menu are based on the assumption that you and everyone else will tip.
If no one tips, the owner has to make up the difference to minimum wage, and to do that he'll have to raise prices. So you end up paying for the tip anyway.
This circular logic breaks down at places like Outback Steakhouse, where they famously pay their hostesses and (bus boys IIRC?) less than minimum wage, but don't allow them to accept tips, then argued in court that because the "jobs" traditionally allow tips overall, they qualify as tip jobs even if it's not allowed at their stores. (Then they do forced tip share with the servers, so that the servers are forced to share their income not just amongst themselves but with the hostesses and bus boys as well.) I don't eat there any more, but if you do, be sure to tip your server in cash so they can pocket it and avoid this crap.
They will still have a monopoly in my area regardless of who owns what.
This is off topic, since TWC isn't the same company as TWI, but...
They keep talking about the "lack of overlap" in their markets, but that's bogus. Comcast and TWC overlap in the "negotiating with content providers" market. The larger the company, the harder they can negotiate against the cable channel providers not already owned by one of them. They might say this will yield lower prices for consumers, but you and I know that's total bullshit.
What it actually means is that they'll either drop channels that won't negotiate, and focus more on providing only channels they create, or the third-party channels they keep will need more ads - more in-show ads - and cheaper shows (reality TV) to make up the difference in revenue they lost.
I don't like the content providers either (give me a la carte or give me death!) but TWC and Comcast at two separate negotiating tables is much better for consumers than a merged monolith at one table.
Alamo food isn't really that good any more. They seriously buggered up their menu a year+ back, and basically offer just burgers and (small) pizzas now. I think the owners are more focused on their Drafthouse Films brand and being a distributor now rather than stay focused on the perfect movie experience.
It's still a good place to see a film that you can't see anywhere else, but if you're seeing a major release, even Austin has theaters with a better experience - Flix Brewhouse for one.
Why assume 2200? In my experience, more things now rely on two digit years, not less. If a bad programmer today is coding something that never deals with historical records, only future dates, what is the incentive to be diligent about using four digit years? We've already established he's not very good, and if he even thought about, it, he probably assumes he won't be working 86 years from now when someone notices his bug.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a... cease and desist order. :(
C&D Comics?
Sure, but it's so much worse now than it was then. I was trying to add old Doctor Who to my DVD queue. With each add it pops up other recommendations, but a lot of the time none of them were Doctor Who episodes!
It seems to recommend obscure crap when I'm adding a popular/cult item, and it recommends Frozen or some other recent big budget thing when I'm adding older obscure stuff. I have to think their algorithms have been messed with by their marketing and suits to push things their distribution contracts require them to, not what their users actually want.
If you are using concentrated solar thermal instead of photovoltaics, the molten slag is your battery. Use both so you get PV in the morning when your salt is cool. Winds are higher in the morning too. And of course a safe thorium reactor for baseline never hurt anybody.
Yeah, because he survived organ failure, cataracts, and four heart attacks in four months along with daily baths, shaves, and medicine for months to expel the radiation, it must be safe to just knock it down with a wrecking ball or maybe dynamite.
84% of statistics are made up on the spot. 79% of people know THAT!
Wow, that high? I would have expected it to be lower.
Most senior citizens (those 65 or older) became senior citizens since 1995, when the web started taking off. Many became senior citizens after 2005, when it had mostly saturated middle-class households.
It's not so much that granny embraced the internet, it's that she embraced the internet and then aged into being "granny".
When I lived in regular Texas, Green Mountain was my 100% wind provider, and my rates only went down for the ~6 years I used them.
Austin doesn't give me a choice as I have to use the municipal service. I'm still 100% wind but angry they didn't grandfather my past record of wind power into a lower early adopter rate.
I'm 37 and use VIM for VHDL development. Most of my coworkers in their 30s use VIM or Emacs, while those in their 20s use Notepad++. This is for hardware engineers; I dunno what software uses.
While there are some libertarians that support regulation of trade speech, many seem to prefer caveat emptor. Fraud, then, would be policed not through prevention but through litigation, or (for some libertarians) not at all, and instead be a life lesson.
What would that life lesson probably be? "This libertarian utopia sucks; I want regulation back." At least that's my guess.
On the other hand, if you contracted with your neighbor to rent a patch of his land, and you ran your own antenna up there so you could get the OTA signals yourself separately from his reception, that should be A-ok. That's even true if he already had a spare antenna installed and you just rent it from him.
Dinah's The Hopper is similar to, but not exactly the same as, this service. The equipment is still owned centrally and rented to each user; it just resides in distributed houses rather than one central location, and is streamed over the user's personal bandwidth instead of a company's. That is, unless The Hopper is installed in an office.
When our Constitution has social wording in it ("cruel and unusual" come to mind, but there are many other examples) and the SCOTUS' job is to interpret laws relative to the Constitution (so says them + history), then of course they have to look at social effects.
You should write into your contract that you're allowed to take samples from fields where your bees work, and that the farmer is liable for damages if something happens to your bees, you test those samples, and find the bad pesticides.
Contract law is a lot simpler than laws to "protect nature", and since the nature in this case has an owner (you) it's not just a common resource to exploit.
No help if neighboring farms spray that pesticide, of course.
There is nothing that civil law can do that is punitive to the managers. They didn't do anything; the company did things, and they are merely one of the louder of the company's schizophrenic voices. To get at them where it matters (their wallet), you'd have to go after company assets and hope it indirectly affects them as the parent suggests.
Only criminal law could pierce that veil and go after them directly, and while that can be quite punitive, it's not bloody likely.
Stolen doesn't just apply to the physical world. It means that you've been deprived of something you previously possessed.
If your physical thing is stolen, you no long possess it.
If your asset is stolen, you no longer possess it. Most people have digital assets in the form of cash in a bank or stocks in an account; there is nothing physical for either. Bit coins fall in this category.
If your trade secret is stolen, you no longer have a secret.
If your copyright is infringed upon, you still hold the copyright.
If your patent is infringed upon, you still hold the patent.
Loving County, Texas, has a population of 82 or so. Buy enough land and move 83* voters into that county, and you can be elected sheriff, and become official law enforcement.
Simple as that.**
* Probably some of the 82 are kids, so you probably need fewer than this.
** This was tried. It didn't work. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Sad as it may be, I think websites that lack flash videos are the ones sliding into irrelevance. Forget using words to convey an idea - even still images are passé - if it can be said it can be shown in a video or animated gif. At least that's how it feels on 90% of the web.
They're "green eggs and ham" patents and shouldn't be approved.
If method x can't be patented, then it can't also be patented
on a computer, on the internet, with a touchscreen, with a mouse /
on a plane, in a car, on a boat, in a house.
If the method is nonpatentable when implemented somewhere /
then it's nonpatentable everywhere!