I disagree with your analysis. You claim that they tend towards being somewhat decentralized. On the contrary, I think they start out as decentralized "entrepreneurships" and then tend towards becoming centralized "organized crime".
We call these centralized units "the Mob" or "cartels" or something.
Without firsthand knowledge, I'd bet that Somalia's pirate business has consolidated in this fashion in the last few years as well. It's highly unlikely that each pirate vessel and crew act on their own without higher controlling authority.
You could also re-sell anything protected by copyright law that you lawfully purchased without any strings. Neither is true today...
If that is so, how come I was able to resell some books to a used book dealer a few weeks ago? And every time I go out I see one or two stores that deal solely in second hand console games, dvds and audio cds.
Because you are ignoring the word "anything" in the text you quoted. You can do that with books you bought in the U.S., yes. But try going to South Africa, lawfully purchasing a few thousand books (that were printed legally and sold at the MSRP with the author and publisher receiving their checks), and then importing those books into the U.S. (paying whatever customs fees are required).
After you've paid the author, paid the publisher, paid the seller, paid the transporter, and paid both governments, the author/publisher/government? come back and say you can't import those books at all, to hell with First Sale.
SCOTUS will decide the "government?" part of the above.
Only one of the four senators mentioned in the summary or the article voted for CAN-SPAM. And that one senator now has a daughter in law school who provides him with information about technology law that he likely didn't have in 2003.
Then, another tree will be planted to replace it. Your paper doesn't come from ancient trees in the South American rainforest.
No, it came from the truck that brought it to the office from the store, where it was brought from the regional distribution hub, where it was brought from the vendor's distribution warehouse, where it was brought from the staging area at the factory, where it was brought after being soaked in chemicals to bleach it white.
1 page less isn't much, but TFS says 4% less, and 4% less is a lot less overhead waste, regardless of the "renewable" aspect of the source.
I've been a Virgin Mobile customer for five-six years, and have been very happy with Sprint's network. Were I to buy a smart phone, I'd either settle on an iPhone and piggy back on my wife's AT&T account or I'd buy an Android phone and go with Sprint.
Now that my iPod Touch is too old to get new firmware updates, I'm thinking about it...
And how will customers vote with their wallets when the only option, as you say, has a network that "sucks so much"? At this point it's not likely that another company can get into the cell phone business, not with the infrastructure cost that the other providers (yes, built to an extent with government money) have already recovered.
Austin Energy has been giving out free 7-day programmable thermostats for years, with the caveat being that they can control them when necessary to balance load.
This is nothing new to see here, move along territory.
Your complaints about bad pixels - and your refusal to accept even one - is the best explanation among all these comments as to why screen resolution stopped scaling.
Somebody several posts above wrote this:
30" screens are great for developers, too. Everybody knows how useful multiple displays are, but nobody seems to realize just how much better a 30" 2560x1600 screen is than a couple of 21" screens, even though you're pushing about the same number of pixels and display area.
You and he should get together, so you can explain that, assuming equal chance of any given pixel being bad regardless of screen size, the 30" display has twice the failure rate of any given 21" display. And given how the prices scale, I honestly think the chance per pixel of it being bad must go up with the larger displays. Thus, we only get the low-resolution screens at the lower prices.
Since most customers just buy two and put them together anyway, everyone wins except the small percentage of customers that don't like having a split in their viewing area.
Attempted crime is a different law than actual crime. Attempted assault is a lesser crime than assault. Police can charge anyone with anything, but in your example the person would not have committed assault.
In the second example, though, tendering a forged check is itself fraud, regardless of whether they take the check or not. Just carrying a forged check might not be a crime if unless there was intent to use it.
On topic, I can walk up to you and claim to be almost anyone I want to be except a law officer. Lying is not illegal. I can also ask you for your credit card number. Asking isn't illegal either. Asking with the intent to defraud may be illegal; lying with the intent to defaud is less clear. That is exactly the question being asked here, and Congress has chosen to make it explicitly clear by making lying via CID illegal with or without fraud intent.
Allowing blocked CID likely avoids the "anonymous speech is free speech" advocates unless it could be proven that everyone (i.e. whistleblower hotlines, etc.) refused calls with blocked CID.
Unless the fugitive's ex's kid answers the phone, at which time you might realize it's not a known valid number for the fugitive.
Calling the number and hearing who answers, then asking if "Joe" (i.e. the fugitive) is around, is a good way for a bounty hunter to learn if he has the correct number. I've only watched one episode of Dog but that makes me an expert on this.
Not that one should really consider evolution at all when talking about human-related activities, but really - for a cow, it's most important survival trait as a species is the fact that it's so so very tasty.
Compare how many cows there are alive today with other large land herbivores. See? Sure each and every one is going to end up on a plate, but survival of the species is assured.
--
Someone else above claims that cows that exercise produce less methane.
I've never managed to dent my case, there's another USB port on the right side (at least on my model), adapter and battery are going fine, drive works fine, and mine has seared my legs to the bone so I don't notice the heat any longer.
(I will set it on my cooling board when using it in my lap.)
Though if you don't like it, and it's a few years old, you can likely still get 50-60% of its original purchase price back out in resale value. In other words, you can resell now and negate the premium you paid on purchase compared to a standard Windows PC.
There are ways to avoid that "premium product" price tag--buy a model behind from Apple's refurb store, for example.
Alternatively, you can replicate the car model and buy new, then resell, providing the product for those who want to buy used at a discount.
I bought my previous Mac Mini new for $850 or so and resold it for $600. Yeah my MacBook Pro cost like $2400 new but I could still get $1500 for it easy. Incrementally the costs aren't so bad, and my anecdotal evidence suggests that Macs have a lot higher resale value than generic PCs.
The astronaut keeps asking if he can help push the buttons or calculate the trajectory or something. You have to charge more because they know enough to be dangerous.
And other people are welcome to mod up something I've modded down. If Slashdot wants to fix this, they should get rid of the "I agree with this guy!" moderation, i.e. Insightful.
Long story short - unit body construction saved hundreds of pounds of structural steel from car designs. It raised gas mileage. But the whole car - crumple zones and all - simply folds up like a tin can in an accident. Accidents which used to be survivable are now deadly, thanks to the weakening of car frames designed primarily to boost fuel economy.
If you want real change look at things like trying to clean up commercial trucking, or improving the economy of a garbage truck. Run the numbers and tell me what happens if you can improve the mileage of vehicles like garbage trucks.
My city just switched to once-a-week garbage, with bigger bins, down from twice every week. So we just doubled the economy of our garbage trucks.
Plus, were there not central garbage pickup, each house would likely contract with one of multiple companies, each one going through the same neighborhood to pick up 15-20% of the garbage (for their customers). In comparison to the free market, then, garbage pickup is looking pretty good.
Though I would like to see garbage trucks running from hydrogen. Like most other high-weight fleet vehicles, they could likely be profitable if converted now.
The parts you quotes have no relevance at all to this situation.
Prosecuting, Brian Stalk, explained to the jury that possession of a firearm was a "strict liability" charge – therefore Mr Clarke's allegedly honest intent was irrelevant.
Did he know he had the gun, but his honest intent was to turn it in to the police tomorrow? Irrelevant.
Was the gun plastered into a wall of his house, and had been there since a construction crew did renovations several years ago, until a member of that crew "tipped off" the police? I don't think the story you quoted would have even used the words "honest intent" in that situation, as he had no intent whatsoever. And that analogy is much closer to the events in the topic story.
Honestly, though, your company could save money by having projectors installed in your conference rooms, and by buying you a second monitor. Other than you being lazy =p about carrying your oh-so-heavy laptop around, those two things solve your issues.*
*Sorry, no advice on the Lotus Notes infestation at your office.
To better match the analogy to GameStop, though, the book would have cost him $190 used instead of $200 new, and then he'd have to pay the $50 fee to do homework.
Which, if "As Is" was posted at the point of sale for the used book, would be his fault.
And if GameStop has a sign posted in the store pointing out that used products are sold "As Is" and may be missing extras noted on the box, I 100% agree with you.
Lacking downloadable content isn't much different than lacking the free Dragon Age 2 temporary tattoos and bumper sticker, or the instruction manual, or anything else that might be advertised on the box but is missing with a used product. Provided it's posted, let the buyer beware. And yes I include the DVD; provided such a disclaimer is posted, if you are stupid enough to buy a used game without ensuring the DVD is included, it's your fault.
Indeed. This is no different than buying a used box of LEGO bricks that claims "over 543 pieces!". If you buy the box used, and find just 300 parts inside, it is not The Lego Group's fault for false advertising. It's at most misrepresentation on the part of the reseller.
And even misrepresentation can usually be solved by a disclaimer posted at the point of sale stating that used products are sold "As Is". Missing the downloadable content advertised on the box is little different than missing the free stickers and included manual advertised on the box.
Surprisingly, the cat had greater veterinary bill of health requirements than the guinea pig.
Not so surprising, as a cat can and will eat birds, rats, etc., and thus is far more likely to be exposed to disease.
A veterinarian friend once told us that, wherever we go in the world and whatever local food we eat, never ever try to eat a cat (domestic or tiger/lion/etc.). They are filthy animals.
And yes I sleep with three indoor-only cats snuggling me at night. And yet I wash my hands after touching our hedgehog.
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I disagree with your analysis. You claim that they tend towards being somewhat decentralized. On the contrary, I think they start out as decentralized "entrepreneurships" and then tend towards becoming centralized "organized crime".
We call these centralized units "the Mob" or "cartels" or something.
Without firsthand knowledge, I'd bet that Somalia's pirate business has consolidated in this fashion in the last few years as well. It's highly unlikely that each pirate vessel and crew act on their own without higher controlling authority.
You could also re-sell anything protected by copyright law that you lawfully purchased without any strings. Neither is true today...
If that is so, how come I was able to resell some books to a used book dealer a few weeks ago? And every time I go out I see one or two stores that deal solely in second hand console games, dvds and audio cds.
Because you are ignoring the word "anything" in the text you quoted. You can do that with books you bought in the U.S., yes. But try going to South Africa, lawfully purchasing a few thousand books (that were printed legally and sold at the MSRP with the author and publisher receiving their checks), and then importing those books into the U.S. (paying whatever customs fees are required).
After you've paid the author, paid the publisher, paid the seller, paid the transporter, and paid both governments, the author/publisher/government? come back and say you can't import those books at all, to hell with First Sale.
SCOTUS will decide the "government?" part of the above.
Only one of the four senators mentioned in the summary or the article voted for CAN-SPAM. And that one senator now has a daughter in law school who provides him with information about technology law that he likely didn't have in 2003.
If you don't print out this Slashdot article, the tree you think you're saving will just get cut down for someone else.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/how-bad-for-the-environment-can-throwing-away-one,2892/
Then, another tree will be planted to replace it. Your paper doesn't come from ancient trees in the South American rainforest.
No, it came from the truck that brought it to the office from the store, where it was brought from the regional distribution hub, where it was brought from the vendor's distribution warehouse, where it was brought from the staging area at the factory, where it was brought after being soaked in chemicals to bleach it white.
1 page less isn't much, but TFS says 4% less, and 4% less is a lot less overhead waste, regardless of the "renewable" aspect of the source.
I've been a Virgin Mobile customer for five-six years, and have been very happy with Sprint's network. Were I to buy a smart phone, I'd either settle on an iPhone and piggy back on my wife's AT&T account or I'd buy an Android phone and go with Sprint.
Now that my iPod Touch is too old to get new firmware updates, I'm thinking about it...
And how will customers vote with their wallets when the only option, as you say, has a network that "sucks so much"? At this point it's not likely that another company can get into the cell phone business, not with the infrastructure cost that the other providers (yes, built to an extent with government money) have already recovered.
Austin Energy has been giving out free 7-day programmable thermostats for years, with the caveat being that they can control them when necessary to balance load.
This is nothing new to see here, move along territory.
Your complaints about bad pixels - and your refusal to accept even one - is the best explanation among all these comments as to why screen resolution stopped scaling.
Somebody several posts above wrote this:
30" screens are great for developers, too. Everybody knows how useful multiple displays are, but nobody seems to realize just how much better a 30" 2560x1600 screen is than a couple of 21" screens, even though you're pushing about the same number of pixels and display area.
You and he should get together, so you can explain that, assuming equal chance of any given pixel being bad regardless of screen size, the 30" display has twice the failure rate of any given 21" display. And given how the prices scale, I honestly think the chance per pixel of it being bad must go up with the larger displays. Thus, we only get the low-resolution screens at the lower prices.
Since most customers just buy two and put them together anyway, everyone wins except the small percentage of customers that don't like having a split in their viewing area.
Because humans have more rights than nonhumans?
Attempted crime is a different law than actual crime. Attempted assault is a lesser crime than assault. Police can charge anyone with anything, but in your example the person would not have committed assault.
In the second example, though, tendering a forged check is itself fraud, regardless of whether they take the check or not. Just carrying a forged check might not be a crime if unless there was intent to use it.
On topic, I can walk up to you and claim to be almost anyone I want to be except a law officer. Lying is not illegal. I can also ask you for your credit card number. Asking isn't illegal either. Asking with the intent to defraud may be illegal; lying with the intent to defaud is less clear. That is exactly the question being asked here, and Congress has chosen to make it explicitly clear by making lying via CID illegal with or without fraud intent.
Allowing blocked CID likely avoids the "anonymous speech is free speech" advocates unless it could be proven that everyone (i.e. whistleblower hotlines, etc.) refused calls with blocked CID.
Unless the fugitive's ex's kid answers the phone, at which time you might realize it's not a known valid number for the fugitive.
Calling the number and hearing who answers, then asking if "Joe" (i.e. the fugitive) is around, is a good way for a bounty hunter to learn if he has the correct number. I've only watched one episode of Dog but that makes me an expert on this.
For instance that whoosh is going over my head with a full 4 horsepower.
Don't you mean "windpower?"
Not that one should really consider evolution at all when talking about human-related activities, but really - for a cow, it's most important survival trait as a species is the fact that it's so so very tasty.
Compare how many cows there are alive today with other large land herbivores. See? Sure each and every one is going to end up on a plate, but survival of the species is assured.
--
Someone else above claims that cows that exercise produce less methane.
I've never managed to dent my case, there's another USB port on the right side (at least on my model), adapter and battery are going fine, drive works fine, and mine has seared my legs to the bone so I don't notice the heat any longer.
(I will set it on my cooling board when using it in my lap.)
Though if you don't like it, and it's a few years old, you can likely still get 50-60% of its original purchase price back out in resale value. In other words, you can resell now and negate the premium you paid on purchase compared to a standard Windows PC.
There are ways to avoid that "premium product" price tag--buy a model behind from Apple's refurb store, for example.
Alternatively, you can replicate the car model and buy new, then resell, providing the product for those who want to buy used at a discount.
I bought my previous Mac Mini new for $850 or so and resold it for $600. Yeah my MacBook Pro cost like $2400 new but I could still get $1500 for it easy. Incrementally the costs aren't so bad, and my anecdotal evidence suggests that Macs have a lot higher resale value than generic PCs.
The astronaut keeps asking if he can help push the buttons or calculate the trajectory or something. You have to charge more because they know enough to be dangerous.
=p
And other people are welcome to mod up something I've modded down. If Slashdot wants to fix this, they should get rid of the "I agree with this guy!" moderation, i.e. Insightful.
Long story short - unit body construction saved hundreds of pounds of structural steel from car designs. It raised gas mileage. But the whole car - crumple zones and all - simply folds up like a tin can in an accident. Accidents which used to be survivable are now deadly, thanks to the weakening of car frames designed primarily to boost fuel economy.
So you'd rather be in a crash in a 1959 Bel Air than a 2009 Malibu?
If you want real change look at things like trying to clean up commercial trucking, or improving the economy of a garbage truck. Run the numbers and tell me what happens if you can improve the mileage of vehicles like garbage trucks.
My city just switched to once-a-week garbage, with bigger bins, down from twice every week. So we just doubled the economy of our garbage trucks.
Plus, were there not central garbage pickup, each house would likely contract with one of multiple companies, each one going through the same neighborhood to pick up 15-20% of the garbage (for their customers). In comparison to the free market, then, garbage pickup is looking pretty good.
Though I would like to see garbage trucks running from hydrogen. Like most other high-weight fleet vehicles, they could likely be profitable if converted now.
The parts you quotes have no relevance at all to this situation.
Prosecuting, Brian Stalk, explained to the jury that possession of a firearm was a "strict liability" charge – therefore Mr Clarke's allegedly honest intent was irrelevant.
Did he know he had the gun, but his honest intent was to turn it in to the police tomorrow? Irrelevant.
Was the gun plastered into a wall of his house, and had been there since a construction crew did renovations several years ago, until a member of that crew "tipped off" the police? I don't think the story you quoted would have even used the words "honest intent" in that situation, as he had no intent whatsoever. And that analogy is much closer to the events in the topic story.
Honestly, though, your company could save money by having projectors installed in your conference rooms, and by buying you a second monitor. Other than you being lazy =p about carrying your oh-so-heavy laptop around, those two things solve your issues.*
*Sorry, no advice on the Lotus Notes infestation at your office.
To better match the analogy to GameStop, though, the book would have cost him $190 used instead of $200 new, and then he'd have to pay the $50 fee to do homework.
Which, if "As Is" was posted at the point of sale for the used book, would be his fault.
And if GameStop has a sign posted in the store pointing out that used products are sold "As Is" and may be missing extras noted on the box, I 100% agree with you.
Lacking downloadable content isn't much different than lacking the free Dragon Age 2 temporary tattoos and bumper sticker, or the instruction manual, or anything else that might be advertised on the box but is missing with a used product. Provided it's posted, let the buyer beware. And yes I include the DVD; provided such a disclaimer is posted, if you are stupid enough to buy a used game without ensuring the DVD is included, it's your fault.
Indeed. This is no different than buying a used box of LEGO bricks that claims "over 543 pieces!". If you buy the box used, and find just 300 parts inside, it is not The Lego Group's fault for false advertising. It's at most misrepresentation on the part of the reseller.
And even misrepresentation can usually be solved by a disclaimer posted at the point of sale stating that used products are sold "As Is". Missing the downloadable content advertised on the box is little different than missing the free stickers and included manual advertised on the box.
Surprisingly, the cat had greater veterinary bill of health requirements than the guinea pig.
Not so surprising, as a cat can and will eat birds, rats, etc., and thus is far more likely to be exposed to disease.
A veterinarian friend once told us that, wherever we go in the world and whatever local food we eat, never ever try to eat a cat (domestic or tiger/lion/etc.). They are filthy animals.
And yes I sleep with three indoor-only cats snuggling me at night. And yet I wash my hands after touching our hedgehog.