Mod parent up. Entrapment is a term thrown around quite frequently, but it has an actual legal meaning that is far more narrow than most people understand.
A court would laugh in the face of anyone claiming this to be entrapment.
Shielding individuals from the costs of their care provides no incentive for people to make economical health care choices Why is the US by far the biggest spender on health care, then?
"The United States spends more than 15 percent of its GDP on health care -- no other nation even comes close to that number. France spends about 11 percent, and Canadians spend 10 percent." - http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/06/28/sicko.fact.ch eck/
The actual controversy is better understood in terms of a turnpike (a.k.a. toll road). A third party -- not the taxi service you have hired -- has set up this nice road that is, realistically, the only good way for you to get from point A to point B. But if you travel along it, you'll have to pay a fee. You're either misinformed or misinforming about the fight going on with Net Neutrality. No one opposes the idea of toll roads - after all, we pay our ISPs for their services, and they pay the big ones for theirs, and so on and so forth.
Net Neutrality is about not letting those big ISPs charge the users' destinations - YouTube, Google, MSN, etc. In your toll road analogy, it'd be as if the people you're going to visit have to pay a toll too. I already pay my ISP for access. Google already pays for their bandwidth. Why should they have to pay again?
"beating someone up" isn't a crime on the books - they call it "battery" - yet it's a commonly accepted term that no one bitches about. Why are you whining only about "piracy"?
This product is just one in a long series, in a trend to completely overlook the needs of blind users. This, like the Mona Lisa display at the Louvre, is not aimed at blind users. Plain and simple.
Just a little addition to my rant: I noticed that even simple changes to the firmware, that would make the interface more suited for blind people, like returning to the initial state of the menus, if no interaction for a minute (or such), is being dropped in newer models, even thought it costs nothing to implement. It's almost as if manufacturers have a requirement to make their electronic gadgets less usable by the blind. Or, people are complaining that it's annoying. I frequently leave something like a phone number sitting on my phone's screen for several minutes. I get annoyed enough by the screen going into sleep mode - if it dropped me out of the screen entirely I'd be pissed.
Ask your grandmother what a "whale tail" is, then ask a high school student. Expect different answers.
"Piracy" has become an accepted enough term for copyright infringement, to the point where one of the largest such sites calls itself The Pirate Bay. Deal with it, for goodness sake.
Drupal lets you modify the way it works without touching the core files. That way, when it comes time to upgrade to a new version, your modifications aren't lost when you upload the new set of files.
Joomla doesn't let you do much without editing core files, and that's a security and maintenance *nightmare*.
Impeachment roughly equals an indictment. It has nothing to do with guilt - it is a formal statement of charges. House impeaches, Senate tries and potentially convicts. Only after the Senate convicts an impeached President is that President 'guitly'.
Get your facts straight before challenging others'.
The conclusion is that if someone destroyes the original, "you" die. Really die. The duplicate may have all your memories and skills, and will think it is the original, but it is not.
Okay, let's assume that for a moment. Will anyone actually give a shit?
The components of my body already renew themselves. What substantive difference does it make to replace it all at once instead of bit by bit?
Care to refute the numbers, then? The IPCC gives figures for how much solar radiation heats the earth. They're either blatantly, massively wrong but there's a massive conspiracy of just about every climate scientist to hide it... or you're misinterpreting things.
For one, power generation doesn't equal warming. The sun's rays don't create greenhouse gases. Human power generation does. Equating the two is comparing apples to starships.
But as I said above, if he cannot use multiple powers at the same time, he would have to die in the blast. It was explicitly stated in the show that his survival of the blast would not be due to a hero being immune to the effects of his own power (i.e. iceman never getting frostbite, the human torch never getting burns) but because he got the healing factor from the cheerleader.
He didn't meet the cheerleader in the alternate timeline episode (the only reason he came into contact with her in the story timeline was Hiro going back in time from the alternate future to get him to), yet he'd survived the blast.
He believes that gay marriages should be handled at the state level, not federal, and he voted against the FMA (Federal Marriage Amendment).
He is on record saying he would have voted for DOMA, and he cosponsored the Marriage Protection Act, in direct and blatant violation of the Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution.
He also voted for the so-called "Partial Birth" Abortion ban, saying "Despite its severe flaws, this bill nonetheless has the possibility of saving innocent human life, and I will vote in favor of it." Pity he can't keep his personal views from affecting which bits of the Constitution he honours and when, eh?
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Mod parent up. Entrapment is a term thrown around quite frequently, but it has an actual legal meaning that is far more narrow than most people understand.
A court would laugh in the face of anyone claiming this to be entrapment.
"The United States spends more than 15 percent of its GDP on health care -- no other nation even comes close to that number. France spends about 11 percent, and Canadians spend 10 percent." - http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/06/28/sicko.fact.c
Net Neutrality is about not letting those big ISPs charge the users' destinations - YouTube, Google, MSN, etc. In your toll road analogy, it'd be as if the people you're going to visit have to pay a toll too. I already pay my ISP for access. Google already pays for their bandwidth. Why should they have to pay again?
Choose to not have health insurance? Are you kidding?
"beating someone up" isn't a crime on the books - they call it "battery" - yet it's a commonly accepted term that no one bitches about. Why are you whining only about "piracy"?
Ah, yes, the "language is unchangeable" argument.
Ask your grandmother what a "whale tail" is, then ask a high school student. Expect different answers.
"Piracy" has become an accepted enough term for copyright infringement, to the point where one of the largest such sites calls itself The Pirate Bay. Deal with it, for goodness sake.
IANAL, but I suspect some law firm's going to go "this has huge potential for legal fee awards and PR value, let's take it on contingency".
Somehow, I doubt the New York Times buys photos for $1.00 or for "personal use".
If they change the format in anyway then it's clearly new stuff.
So, you're saying I should have to pay for a separate iPod license to the songs I have on CDs?
No? Then why is it so different for photographs?
Let's not forget, they still encode e-mail addresses and names in these 'DRM free' tracks. I still consider that DRM.
Well, if we're making up definitions these days, I'm calling your post a monkey made out of dragon feces.
Saves 'em what, something like $60 per computer?
Considering that low end computers are in the $300-$400 range these days, that's a pretty big chunk of change.
That's great, but what happens when we realise we are about to smack into a huge lump of rock at 10% C?
You add a 50 meter per second side thrust and in 20 seconds you're a kilometre to one side of it.
What, spacegoing ships won't have a radar for 20 seconds worth of advanced warning of rocks?
But is the point of a-la carte pricing to bring us less choice?
What about the choice not to pay for channels we don't watch?
Drupal lets you modify the way it works without touching the core files. That way, when it comes time to upgrade to a new version, your modifications aren't lost when you upload the new set of files.
Joomla doesn't let you do much without editing core files, and that's a security and maintenance *nightmare*.
Uh, no.
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Impeachment roughly equals an indictment. It has nothing to do with guilt - it is a formal statement of charges. House impeaches, Senate tries and potentially convicts. Only after the Senate convicts an impeached President is that President 'guitly'.
Get your facts straight before challenging others'.
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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12
The conclusion is that if someone destroyes the original, "you" die. Really die. The duplicate may have all your memories and skills, and will think it is the original, but it is not.
Okay, let's assume that for a moment. Will anyone actually give a shit?
The components of my body already renew themselves. What substantive difference does it make to replace it all at once instead of bit by bit?
They're making up for panning the iPod as 'lame'.
Not to mention willingly posing for another photo that winds up printed in the New York Times...
Care to refute the numbers, then? The IPCC gives figures for how much solar radiation heats the earth. They're either blatantly, massively wrong but there's a massive conspiracy of just about every climate scientist to hide it... or you're misinterpreting things.
For one, power generation doesn't equal warming. The sun's rays don't create greenhouse gases. Human power generation does. Equating the two is comparing apples to starships.
Hiro is an incompetant time traveller (in fact, they handle it this way in Dr. Who as well.).
He's not incompetent. He's in an outdated TARDIS model with things breaking down (for example, it's stuck as a police box) without a normal crew.
But as I said above, if he cannot use multiple powers at the same time, he would have to die in the blast. It was explicitly stated in the show that his survival of the blast would not be due to a hero being immune to the effects of his own power (i.e. iceman never getting frostbite, the human torch never getting burns) but because he got the healing factor from the cheerleader.
He didn't meet the cheerleader in the alternate timeline episode (the only reason he came into contact with her in the story timeline was Hiro going back in time from the alternate future to get him to), yet he'd survived the blast.
I suspect he's just as immune as Ted was.
I'm not quite sure which of your rights is being infringed upon by such a watermark.
Yep, you're right. Thousands of scientists and every relevant scientific organisation forgot the sun! You got 'em!
Oh, wait. The various IPCC reports already deal with solar radiative forcing.
He believes that gay marriages should be handled at the state level, not federal, and he voted against the FMA (Federal Marriage Amendment).
He is on record saying he would have voted for DOMA, and he cosponsored the Marriage Protection Act, in direct and blatant violation of the Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution.
He also voted for the so-called "Partial Birth" Abortion ban, saying "Despite its severe flaws, this bill nonetheless has the possibility of saving innocent human life, and I will vote in favor of it." Pity he can't keep his personal views from affecting which bits of the Constitution he honours and when, eh?