I believe it was Cyrano de Bergerac who suggested reaching the moon by standing on a large magnet platter, and holding another one of the same size. Then, you take the one you are holding, and continually toss it above your head, catch it, and repeat. The magnetic attraction between the two platters will cause the one you are standing on to lift up as you toss up the other one.
Nothing's better than my friend's 88 Pontiac Bonneville in high school -- you could pull the key straight out of the ignition while driving the car, and nothing would happen. Boy was he surprised when someone, as a joke, locked the keys in the trunk with the engine running!
Amazing, yet not surprising, that no one else has yet asked anything about the parent thread here. So Feinstein makes some ridiculous allegations towards the White House, without substantiating them at all, and everyone takes it as gospel.
You people are unbelievable... yet not surprising.
It seems like you're saying that the sites have house players that they give unfair information to. I think that's pretty ridiculous, when you consider how much money they're making just by doing "honest" business, and the fact that the lion's share of the online games occur at lower stakes.
Add onto that the fact that people, like me, use software like PokerTracker to keep track of opponents' behavior (simply by storing and analyzing the hand history information that the poker sites make available to its users).
With one click of a button, I can see which of my opponents have been most profitable in their play, and I can also see what hands they have won with, and exactly how they played them. It would be pretty obvious if someone had inside information.
Add onto that the fact that, just as with bots, if the games are unbeatable, then people will stop playing. Then the sites dry up their source of income (both in terms of rake and supposed cheat play).
Eliminate the Department of Education. Take any and all money that was being given to it, and cut that much from the national tax bill. If states, counties, or local municipalities need more money for schools since they are no longer receiving federal funds, they can levy additional taxes at the local level. The net taxation will still decline, as the cost of sending tax money to Washington and then back to local governments is huge.
Ding ding ding!
I think you hit on what this election will be remembered for -- how far the Democratic Party has fallen that they can't find a single decent candidate to field for president.
It's his time and money, he can do what he wants with them. (Although GWB and JFK probably think that they can do a better job of telling you what you should be doing with your own time and money.)
And he's not wasting the nation's resources. The LP will not accept federal money to run their campaigns, even though they wouldn't get any anyhow. (Isn't it nice how the Dems and Reps set up a system under which only they are allowed to use our nation's resources?)
But the landlord in these cases owns the walls, the balcony, and has the legal authority to regulate the noise in the apartment's airspace. The landlord does not own, nor does he have the legal authority to regulate, this spectrum of bandwidth.
This is what most people think, but in reality, a resident assistant (or resident director, or anyone) does not have any extraordinary rights to invade your privacy. If an RA walks past your door and smells pot, they have two options: 1) Knock on the door and ask to come in to inspect what is going on; or 2) Call the police.
If you refuse them the ability to do (1), then they can just do (2). Of course, if you let them do (1), they will just do (2) in a few moments anyhow. Either way, if you do not give them access to your room (regardless if they would like to enter because of drugs, alcohol, noise, or whatever), they can not knock down the door to get in -- they can only call the police. In fact, I have never heard of a dorm where RAs have keys to resident rooms.
Now, many times, the RAs, on a power trip, will try to make you believe that you need to let them in. They will tell you that if you don't tell them what is going on, then they will search your room. They have no right to do so, and in fact it is illegal for them to do so against your will. If the cops come, _they_ can act on reasonable suspicion (for instance, the clearly-identifiable smell of marijuana). Of course, if you can't smell it from the hallway and they don't have this reasonable suspicion, then they have no right to enter your room without a search permit.
Nothing makes campus housing that different from any other form of rented housing. You are still paying money to rent a living space, in which you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Unless an illegal act is observed from outside the confines of your room (e.g., smelling pot form the hall, or seeing beer bottles when you door in open), no one has the right to invade your privacy without prior notice.
Well, the Green Party would probably strike down this law, and then pass a new one telling us exactly which artists we are allowed to listen to, and in what format, and using which bitrate, with which playback device.
Vote Libertarian.
Reno 911!
Dangle: Jones, run his name through the computer.
Jones: Should I Google him?
Dangle: Google? You have a f--king police computer. You don't need to use f--king Google. You're spending too much time looking for Internet porn.
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With this line of thinking, we should instead be taking out ads on KFC buckets.
Viewers of any intelligence wouldn't be listening to what a _comedian_ has to say about politics.
Can we *please* bring back Craig Kilborn now?
Did Al Gore invent that, too?
I believe it was Cyrano de Bergerac who suggested reaching the moon by standing on a large magnet platter, and holding another one of the same size. Then, you take the one you are holding, and continually toss it above your head, catch it, and repeat. The magnetic attraction between the two platters will cause the one you are standing on to lift up as you toss up the other one.
Use magnets to get to the moon? Brilliant!
Nothing's better than my friend's 88 Pontiac Bonneville in high school -- you could pull the key straight out of the ignition while driving the car, and nothing would happen. Boy was he surprised when someone, as a joke, locked the keys in the trunk with the engine running!
Good ol' American engineering.
THANK YOU.
Amazing, yet not surprising, that no one else has yet asked anything about the parent thread here. So Feinstein makes some ridiculous allegations towards the White House, without substantiating them at all, and everyone takes it as gospel.
You people are unbelievable... yet not surprising.
Add onto that the fact that people, like me, use software like PokerTracker to keep track of opponents' behavior (simply by storing and analyzing the hand history information that the poker sites make available to its users).
With one click of a button, I can see which of my opponents have been most profitable in their play, and I can also see what hands they have won with, and exactly how they played them. It would be pretty obvious if someone had inside information.
Add onto that the fact that, just as with bots, if the games are unbeatable, then people will stop playing. Then the sites dry up their source of income (both in terms of rake and supposed cheat play).
Eliminate the Department of Education. Take any and all money that was being given to it, and cut that much from the national tax bill. If states, counties, or local municipalities need more money for schools since they are no longer receiving federal funds, they can levy additional taxes at the local level. The net taxation will still decline, as the cost of sending tax money to Washington and then back to local governments is huge.
Ding ding ding! I think you hit on what this election will be remembered for -- how far the Democratic Party has fallen that they can't find a single decent candidate to field for president.
It's his time and money, he can do what he wants with them. (Although GWB and JFK probably think that they can do a better job of telling you what you should be doing with your own time and money.)
And he's not wasting the nation's resources. The LP will not accept federal money to run their campaigns, even though they wouldn't get any anyhow. (Isn't it nice how the Dems and Reps set up a system under which only they are allowed to use our nation's resources?)
But the landlord in these cases owns the walls, the balcony, and has the legal authority to regulate the noise in the apartment's airspace. The landlord does not own, nor does he have the legal authority to regulate, this spectrum of bandwidth.
This is what most people think, but in reality, a resident assistant (or resident director, or anyone) does not have any extraordinary rights to invade your privacy. If an RA walks past your door and smells pot, they have two options: 1) Knock on the door and ask to come in to inspect what is going on; or 2) Call the police. If you refuse them the ability to do (1), then they can just do (2). Of course, if you let them do (1), they will just do (2) in a few moments anyhow. Either way, if you do not give them access to your room (regardless if they would like to enter because of drugs, alcohol, noise, or whatever), they can not knock down the door to get in -- they can only call the police. In fact, I have never heard of a dorm where RAs have keys to resident rooms. Now, many times, the RAs, on a power trip, will try to make you believe that you need to let them in. They will tell you that if you don't tell them what is going on, then they will search your room. They have no right to do so, and in fact it is illegal for them to do so against your will. If the cops come, _they_ can act on reasonable suspicion (for instance, the clearly-identifiable smell of marijuana). Of course, if you can't smell it from the hallway and they don't have this reasonable suspicion, then they have no right to enter your room without a search permit. Nothing makes campus housing that different from any other form of rented housing. You are still paying money to rent a living space, in which you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Unless an illegal act is observed from outside the confines of your room (e.g., smelling pot form the hall, or seeing beer bottles when you door in open), no one has the right to invade your privacy without prior notice.
Well, the Green Party would probably strike down this law, and then pass a new one telling us exactly which artists we are allowed to listen to, and in what format, and using which bitrate, with which playback device. Vote Libertarian.
Where can I get an Electronic Sackbut?
Reno 911! Dangle: Jones, run his name through the computer. Jones: Should I Google him? Dangle: Google? You have a f--king police computer. You don't need to use f--king Google. You're spending too much time looking for Internet porn.