if you download cracked software, install it and play it....suprise! You ARE a pirate.
Correct me if I am, as is so often the case, wrong, but doesn't piracy involve violent theft, murder and mayhem? For instance, storming Valve, looting their office, killing the workers, then setting fire to the building? There's a reason why there aren't any pirates left.
In an emergency, the car could use the tail hook to stop at something like 10G deceleration, so it could come from 60 mph to a dead stop in about 12 feet without harming the (seatbelted) passengers.
Well, except for the broken necks and bruised ribs...
This isn't about taxes. It's about tracking you everyplace you go so they know WHERE you are at any given moment. Also this will allow them to give out speeding tickets, failure to full stop, etc. from the comfort of a computer room. And don't bother with court, the evidence is such you'll be guilty no matter what.
Looks like they've finally found an effective way to keep people away from California.
Hence progressive taxes are for people who have no idea wtf they are talking about (i.e. Basic Economics).
No, progressive taxes are for people that need to eat. The basic idea is that the first bit of income pays for your food, basic shelter, and clothes. After that, it's just improvements to basics and adding luxuries. By the time your tax burden hits 18%, you're sitting pretty in a big house with a nice Porsche (not that Boxter trash) in the driveway.
Honestly, in the old days of the republic, you paid for what you wanted, and that was that.
And government made its money through tariffs. That wouldn't work today, as we're too used to cheap goods from China.
If someone doesn't get a post-high school education, then either that individual is content without it, or realizes he/she could really use one. In that case, the government may help with financial aid and such.
All of those things are social goods - it's in all our interest to have an educated, employed, and involved populace. We live in a society, and sometimes we do things like this because it helps us in the long run.
If we kill enough of the bad people the good people won't have to worry as much
Good and bad in this current melodrama are code words for 'for us' and 'against us'. I wager that we will never run out of bad people unless we depopulate the region.
ACtually as stated by bush himself, if iraq can hold free elections, repair what we bobmed and stop the insurgents from being any meanigfull threat we will be gone when bush is in office.
I'd be surprised to see any of these. The insurgents are people that live in Iraq and view us as invaders, participating in the elections may well be viewed as collaborating, and we need to stop blowing stuff up and restore peace before anybody is going to worry about bomb damage.
You agreed to have HDTV in your house, right - it didn't just happen. Whatever you did to formally agree to it binds you to the terms and conditions of the service. Whether you know it or not, you have signed exactly such a contract. They can't bill you otherwise.
I have a bigass tv and a tuner. There is no contract involved.
It says you can't copy it. COPYright - get it? It doesn't matter if you're doing it for free, for yourself, for profit, for your overlords - copying a protected work is against the law.
Yes, yes it does matter. it matters how much of the work, whether you're selling it, and whether the owner is impacted.
When you watch the broadcast, you're copying it from disk to memory. There have been court cases that show that copyright is indeed pertinent in this situation.
And there have been other cases where it was determined that copying that is intrinsic in the use of a work can be disregarded.
You're in contempt of their wishes, and as they own the work and you don't, they win.
If that were true, parody would be illegal. I suggest you go learn about copyright law before spouting off again. Fact is, they don't really control what I can do with their product except as it (mostly) relates to distribution. I don't have a license, I own a product.
You mean the logo indicating that the equipment in question doesn't spew excessive EM interference? That's different. Apparently, the FCC wants to regulate the content of your communications.
Just because you have the cable running into your house doesn't mean you can then burn it to CDs and pass out to friends, or even burn to CDs and keep for yourself.
Why not? Copyright law says nothing about what you can do with a protected work, so long aas it isn't distributed.
You see, copyright is a weird thing. You are getting a copy of the media, not the rights to copy it yourself.
So I can copy the object, watch it, abuse it or whatever, so long as I don't go selling copies? That's pretty simple. It's too bad I don't have a license to the work - then I could get a replacement when the copy I have gets too badly scratched.
Dubya doesn't care about the budget defecits because he's not going to have to be the one to deal with them down the road. Kinda sad, but there's a disincentive to be long term focused.
Hell, he didn't care about it four years ago. Too busy doing whatever the hell he does.
,p> System Admins and Managers can force unique passwords, keep a long password history, and check desks, but then the burdon falls more heavly on their help desk system.
My response to something like that would be to forget my password every few days. You see, I have about 15 passwords for various things, and I already use a spreadsheet to track them. Oh well.
So, the paper says that EA is going to staff itself with 75% new grads - that figures, as nobody else will work there, what with the current situation.
Some of the statemetns are laughable, though - rigid meritocracy? EA is strong in its management of people? People work long hours out of dedication? And here I thought it'd be an expose, or at least somewhat cynical...
People in NYC are just as nice as Atlanta. The southern charm is just a surface thing - there are still snakes that'll rob you blind, they just act nicer.
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if you download cracked software, install it and play it....suprise! You ARE a pirate.
Correct me if I am, as is so often the case, wrong, but doesn't piracy involve violent theft, murder and mayhem? For instance, storming Valve, looting their office, killing the workers, then setting fire to the building? There's a reason why there aren't any pirates left.
12-14 yr olds don't generally have $50-60 to blow
No they don't, but their parents do.
In an emergency, the car could use the tail hook to stop at something like 10G deceleration, so it could come from 60 mph to a dead stop in about 12 feet without harming the (seatbelted) passengers.
Well, except for the broken necks and bruised ribs...
Ballmerism: Nobody ever knows who built open-source software.
Yeah, it's not like they have changelogs or anything...
Plenty of nice scenery in Nikko
Oh yes, and take your skis - there's some really excellent ski resorts around there.
This isn't about taxes. It's about tracking you everyplace you go so they know WHERE you are at any given moment. Also this will allow them to give out speeding tickets, failure to full stop, etc. from the comfort of a computer room. And don't bother with court, the evidence is such you'll be guilty no matter what.
Looks like they've finally found an effective way to keep people away from California.
Hence progressive taxes are for people who have no idea wtf they are talking about (i.e. Basic Economics).
No, progressive taxes are for people that need to eat. The basic idea is that the first bit of income pays for your food, basic shelter, and clothes. After that, it's just improvements to basics and adding luxuries. By the time your tax burden hits 18%, you're sitting pretty in a big house with a nice Porsche (not that Boxter trash) in the driveway.
Honestly, in the old days of the republic, you paid for what you wanted, and that was that.
And government made its money through tariffs. That wouldn't work today, as we're too used to cheap goods from China.
If someone doesn't get a post-high school education, then either that individual is content without it, or realizes he/she could really use one. In that case, the government may help with financial aid and such.
All of those things are social goods - it's in all our interest to have an educated, employed, and involved populace. We live in a society, and sometimes we do things like this because it helps us in the long run.
I was later accused of giving Satan internet access.
What's the big deal? Maybe he'll answer a 419 email. Either that, or he could spend all his time on slashdot instead of doing something productive.
Youths need to be raised. They need guidance.
That's what parents are for. The school has no business raising my kids.
I have somewhat more skill with a knife, and don't have a ready supply of poison ivy (I live in Australia).
Use a duckbilled Patypus or something. My god, you live in the only country that has a poisonous mammal - surely you can find something.
Aluminium foil
Putting the foil directly behind the tag should cut its range drastically without being very obvious.
If we kill enough of the bad people the good people won't have to worry as much
Good and bad in this current melodrama are code words for 'for us' and 'against us'. I wager that we will never run out of bad people unless we depopulate the region.
ACtually as stated by bush himself, if iraq can hold free elections, repair what we bobmed and stop the insurgents from being any meanigfull threat we will be gone when bush is in office.
I'd be surprised to see any of these. The insurgents are people that live in Iraq and view us as invaders, participating in the elections may well be viewed as collaborating, and we need to stop blowing stuff up and restore peace before anybody is going to worry about bomb damage.
Hey, the moon might crash into the earth too, and render the whole discussion moot.
Or some unscrupulous Monsanto contractor may toss some seeds into your crops. Just a bit more likely.
How naive. You really think the US is going to allow an election outcome that would lessen our influence?
What makes you think we have a say? Occupation is expensive, and we aren't getting anything out of it, so we'll probably leave after Bush is gone.
You agreed to have HDTV in your house, right - it didn't just happen. Whatever you did to formally agree to it binds you to the terms and conditions of the service. Whether you know it or not, you have signed exactly such a contract. They can't bill you otherwise.
I have a bigass tv and a tuner. There is no contract involved.
It says you can't copy it. COPYright - get it? It doesn't matter if you're doing it for free, for yourself, for profit, for your overlords - copying a protected work is against the law.
Yes, yes it does matter. it matters how much of the work, whether you're selling it, and whether the owner is impacted.
When you watch the broadcast, you're copying it from disk to memory. There have been court cases that show that copyright is indeed pertinent in this situation.
And there have been other cases where it was determined that copying that is intrinsic in the use of a work can be disregarded.
You're in contempt of their wishes, and as they own the work and you don't, they win.
If that were true, parody would be illegal. I suggest you go learn about copyright law before spouting off again. Fact is, they don't really control what I can do with their product except as it (mostly) relates to distribution. I don't have a license, I own a product.
ALL of them have an FCC logo
You mean the logo indicating that the equipment in question doesn't spew excessive EM interference? That's different. Apparently, the FCC wants to regulate the content of your communications.
If you read your HDTV contract
Sorry, I didn't sign any such contract.
Just because you have the cable running into your house doesn't mean you can then burn it to CDs and pass out to friends, or even burn to CDs and keep for yourself.
Why not? Copyright law says nothing about what you can do with a protected work, so long aas it isn't distributed.
You see, copyright is a weird thing. You are getting a copy of the media, not the rights to copy it yourself.
So I can copy the object, watch it, abuse it or whatever, so long as I don't go selling copies? That's pretty simple. It's too bad I don't have a license to the work - then I could get a replacement when the copy I have gets too badly scratched.
Think of the Taiwanese motherboard industry being forced to produce two models - one DRMd for the US and the other unrestricted for non-US use.
Yeah, but how much does an extra blob of solder cost, anyways? You didn't think they'd actually manufacture 2 pieces of hardware, did you?
Dubya doesn't care about the budget defecits because he's not going to have to be the one to deal with them down the road. Kinda sad, but there's a disincentive to be long term focused.
Hell, he didn't care about it four years ago. Too busy doing whatever the hell he does.
My response to something like that would be to forget my password every few days. You see, I have about 15 passwords for various things, and I already use a spreadsheet to track them. Oh well.
no, the paper said that 75% of the new hire would eb college grads, which doesn't mean new grads, jsut people with degrees.
What, you think only 10% of EA employees have degrees? They're talking about 75% from campus recruiting.
So, the paper says that EA is going to staff itself with 75% new grads - that figures, as nobody else will work there, what with the current situation.
Some of the statemetns are laughable, though - rigid meritocracy? EA is strong in its management of people? People work long hours out of dedication? And here I thought it'd be an expose, or at least somewhat cynical...
people are pretty nice...southern friendly
People in NYC are just as nice as Atlanta. The southern charm is just a surface thing - there are still snakes that'll rob you blind, they just act nicer.