You're wrong. Your bill in a restuarant is debt and not a purchase.
If you do a dine and dash, it is not legally theft. They willingly brought you the food, you didn't steal anything; they willingly gave it to you. But they brought it to you because you led them to believe you would pay for it. So you have obtained goods and services by falsehood; in other words fraud.
So if you are willing to settle up your bill in cash and they won't accept it it's their problem, not yours.
Reading is a solitary activity, a lot of people read a lot and don't talk about it. At least a quarter of my coworkers are heavy readers judging by the books on desks and seeing them read at breaks, yet we don't talk about it.
Sports fans on the other hand seem to do nothing but discuss it and assume everyone else shares their interest. So there's a perception that sports are a lot more popular than they are and books a lot less. But the finances don't lie.
Why do people like you enjoy bragging about how stupid you are.
If you add up the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL revenue for 2016 and multiply the total by 4 you've got about the value of the book publishing industry. They're approximately $10 billion, $8 billion, $10 billion, $4 billion and $121 billion respectively for 2016.
Even more impressive considering the big 4 sports have sweetheart deals with cable companies for revenue from people who never watch their content and a lot of people read library books cutting into the book industry.
And where will Buffet, Gates, and Bezos get more than a few billion US dollars between them? They don't have bins full of money like scrooge mcduck, they have shares in companies, they can't get the actual money out in cash, if they withdrew more than a few percent of their wealth, they would collapse the rest of those companies and be left with nothing.
Fixed number of bitcoins is irrelevant. Pyramids are fixed by the finite number of suckers on the planet.
It's a pyramid scheme in the sense that the people who started it get most of the value while putting in a minimal investment while the people who come later give a lot of money to the earlier people for a tiny, tiny, piece of the game.
Second, they need to start prosecuting these morons that cause flights to be diverted. Idiots starting fights & generally being morons need to start paying for these infractions else it's a badge of honor. "Remember that flight a few years ago that had to land in Colorado? Yeah, that was me. Woooo-hoooooo."
You want people to be held accountable for their actions? Heretic.:)
The problem seems to be laptops with all the esoteric hardware. The drivers come from the PC vendor and then you've got the worst of the spyware back.
I've been using self-assemled PC desktops where I can get actual hardware drivers and Mac laptops for decades and that's why I won't touch a PC laptop.
Often such use violates the license the buyer agrees to when purchasing the track. But nobody reads the licenses -- and, more importantly, no one enforces them
This right here, from TFS. It has nothing at all to do with small artists releasing rights on a stock website. It's no different if they use a no-name composer from AudioJungle or whoever the RIAA is trying to push this week. It violates the copyright. If you don't want your work illegally used used in a way you don't like, don't make it available.
Why do you treat libraries like charities over there?
I live in a fair sized city, and 7% of the municipal budget goes straight into the libraries. We have an excellent, modern library system and they don't need charity.
I know. It was a higher end tape deck that automatically sense the extra holes in the tape and recorded differently (higher levels?). The stereo system was pretty high end, and it also pre-scanned the whole playlist in the CD changer that I wanted to record to pick up the loudest passage and set the record level of the tape deck accordingly. It was a big improvement compared to cheap tapes, but the Metal tapes were still disappointing compared to the CDs directly.
I got a 10 pack of them at Costco for $50 if I remember right. I'm pretty sure a couple of them are still unopened somewhere in the house.
I bought some Metal Bias type IV tapes back in the day. They were about $5 each which was a lot of money back then when cheap tapes were 3 for $1 and normal tapes about 75 cents.
They did sound significantly better than regular tapes but not something I'd qualify as even "pretty good".
Using the phrase "of the Century" is a very strong indication it's time to stop reading and move on because it's probably something irrelevant and uninteresting.
The space laboratory was supposed to become a symbol of China's ambitious bid to become a space superpower. After two years in space, Tiangong 1 started experiencing technical failure. Last year Chinese officials confirmed that the space laboratory had to be scrapped.
Every time I buy Chinese made tech, I start out with high hopes for it. Then 2 years later everything starts breaking and I have to give up and scrap it and buy something good.
I'm very pro-science. I'm just anti-mixing science and politics because politics turns everything to BS. And if you follow science at all, you can see that the current state of US science is plummeting down that slippery slope.
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It's fixed dollar prizes.
But there's the usual boilerplate rules like it's their sole discretion to validate winning tickets.
You're wrong. Your bill in a restuarant is debt and not a purchase.
If you do a dine and dash, it is not legally theft. They willingly brought you the food, you didn't steal anything; they willingly gave it to you. But they brought it to you because you led them to believe you would pay for it. So you have obtained goods and services by falsehood; in other words fraud.
So if you are willing to settle up your bill in cash and they won't accept it it's their problem, not yours.
Reading is a solitary activity, a lot of people read a lot and don't talk about it. At least a quarter of my coworkers are heavy readers judging by the books on desks and seeing them read at breaks, yet we don't talk about it.
Sports fans on the other hand seem to do nothing but discuss it and assume everyone else shares their interest. So there's a perception that sports are a lot more popular than they are and books a lot less. But the finances don't lie.
Why do people like you enjoy bragging about how stupid you are.
If you add up the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL revenue for 2016 and multiply the total by 4 you've got about the value of the book publishing industry. They're approximately $10 billion, $8 billion, $10 billion, $4 billion and $121 billion respectively for 2016.
Even more impressive considering the big 4 sports have sweetheart deals with cable companies for revenue from people who never watch their content and a lot of people read library books cutting into the book industry.
ROgers, Bell, and telUS. Also known as ROBUS because they rob us blind.
And where will Buffet, Gates, and Bezos get more than a few billion US dollars between them? They don't have bins full of money like scrooge mcduck, they have shares in companies, they can't get the actual money out in cash, if they withdrew more than a few percent of their wealth, they would collapse the rest of those companies and be left with nothing.
Fixed number of bitcoins is irrelevant. Pyramids are fixed by the finite number of suckers on the planet.
It's a pyramid scheme in the sense that the people who started it get most of the value while putting in a minimal investment while the people who come later give a lot of money to the earlier people for a tiny, tiny, piece of the game.
So exactly what part of "Pyramid Scheme" do these idiot "investors" not understand.
Second, they need to start prosecuting these morons that cause flights to be diverted. Idiots starting fights & generally being morons need to start paying for these infractions else it's a badge of honor. "Remember that flight a few years ago that had to land in Colorado? Yeah, that was me. Woooo-hoooooo."
You want people to be held accountable for their actions? Heretic. :)
The problem seems to be laptops with all the esoteric hardware. The drivers come from the PC vendor and then you've got the worst of the spyware back.
I've been using self-assemled PC desktops where I can get actual hardware drivers and Mac laptops for decades and that's why I won't touch a PC laptop.
Often such use violates the license the buyer agrees to when purchasing the track. But nobody reads the licenses -- and, more importantly, no one enforces them
This right here, from TFS. It has nothing at all to do with small artists releasing rights on a stock website. It's no different if they use a no-name composer from AudioJungle or whoever the RIAA is trying to push this week. It violates the copyright. If you don't want your work illegally used used in a way you don't like, don't make it available.
NVIDIA just launched its fastest graphics card yet ...... In concert with EA's official launch today of Star Wars Battlefront II
So....how are AMD GPUs these days?
Why do you treat libraries like charities over there?
I live in a fair sized city, and 7% of the municipal budget goes straight into the libraries. We have an excellent, modern library system and they don't need charity.
What does your town waste its money on?
Another trend is to avoid passive structures such as "a paper was written," instead using the more active form, "I wrote a paper."
Hillary is very fond of saying "Mistakes were made" but she has never once said "I made a mistake."
So tell me again why "internet enabled" is a consumer-friendly feature for anything other than a computer you use you access the internet?
I know. It was a higher end tape deck that automatically sense the extra holes in the tape and recorded differently (higher levels?). The stereo system was pretty high end, and it also pre-scanned the whole playlist in the CD changer that I wanted to record to pick up the loudest passage and set the record level of the tape deck accordingly. It was a big improvement compared to cheap tapes, but the Metal tapes were still disappointing compared to the CDs directly.
I got a 10 pack of them at Costco for $50 if I remember right. I'm pretty sure a couple of them are still unopened somewhere in the house.
I bought some Metal Bias type IV tapes back in the day. They were about $5 each which was a lot of money back then when cheap tapes were 3 for $1 and normal tapes about 75 cents. They did sound significantly better than regular tapes but not something I'd qualify as even "pretty good".
Let me guess, the "reader" who posted this just turned 15?
Using the phrase "of the Century" is a very strong indication it's time to stop reading and move on because it's probably something irrelevant and uninteresting.
And so the cycle is complete.
If you're as absolutist as "The Cloud is your enemy," then you're not suited for a job in modern IT.
And to bring us back full circle, this is why modern IT is a disaster, the entire point of this article.
The space laboratory was supposed to become a symbol of China's ambitious bid to become a space superpower. After two years in space, Tiangong 1 started experiencing technical failure. Last year Chinese officials confirmed that the space laboratory had to be scrapped.
Every time I buy Chinese made tech, I start out with high hopes for it. Then 2 years later everything starts breaking and I have to give up and scrap it and buy something good.
I'm anti science, huh. Wow AC, you got me.
I'm very pro-science. I'm just anti-mixing science and politics because politics turns everything to BS. And if you follow science at all, you can see that the current state of US science is plummeting down that slippery slope.
There's a lot of money in predicting an impeding major natural disaster that needs more research to pin down.
True, but that just shows how stupid these tech companies are. It's been 20+ years since I copied a song through a 3.5mm audio jack.
CD Extractor and L3Enc for DOS made analog copying pointless.