Well consider your sample base to include at least two, possibly three.
I say possibly three, because I'm not shure IF a human embryo = human, but then no-one has a definitive answer for this. Given that shouldn't we assume abortion is usualy the same as taking a human life (not necessarily murder, there can be valid reasons).
And I'm most definately not religious person. I don't have those sort of answers, and frankly neigther dose anyone else, let alone some multi-translated book a few hundred pages in size.
The reason third party candidates get so few votes is decause of the self fullfiling prophesy that no-one else can win. Just what they want.
You sir (this is generaly aimed at all who vote lesser of two evils, not just the parent poster) are likely to get the government you deserve.
Unfortunately your gonna take the rest of us who want a sane government with you to hell in a handbasket.
Vote for the lesser of two evils? let's rephrase that. Vote for evil.
Hard to say, over-rated IS an abused mod, I've seen it. Pretty shure I got hit once or twice myself.
The problem isn't really whether he is over/underrated (currently 1,insightfull). It's the fact that under/over-rated don't get meta-modded.
If a moderator honestly thinks a post deserves to be modded down, (s)he should have the guts to subject himself to meta-mod. Also over/under-rated should be fixed. There are, rare, valid reasons to use them, but with the no-metamod glitch they get abuse as political tools rather than honest moderating.
gak, not as familiar with cli tools in linux as I would like. But I'm talking about stuff outside the partitions themselves, And without looking up that tool specificaly your usage looks like it's partition specific.
I have a drive that has had a c-dilla 'protected' program installed on it, then used as a linux test install where I first wiped it completely erasing partition info after wiping the partitions. and completely re-partitioning it.
I later put xp and said program back on the disk, durring install the program detected a 'previous install' and forced me through extra hoops to install the program that didn't make me a happy camper to say the least. So it's obviously writing to areas outside the areas eigther linux or windows normaly writes to on any sort of formatting or partitioning or installing.
Well I'm going to go google and such to parse dd a bit better than my currently very low cluefullness. Though what I'd really like to look at and perhaps edit the data itself. I'm much more interested in how it works to tell the truth.
yes, as a pratical matter dates are pretty much meaningless. The people who convert that written check into an actuall transaction in the computer system are often paid by how many checks they 'code' per day, or at least have quotas. This is why you should always double check your statements and make shure the right amount is debited. Those peons are typeing in thier best guesse of your handwriting as fast as they can. pretty much if it has a signature and routing numbers and amount in both fields it'll be entered, or at they'll try.
This is probably a bs story, or exagerated, or somthing.A friend of mine's father (retired police officer) was eigther the cop issuing the ticket or recivied the ticket himself. But what supposedly happend is the judge found a guy guilty and find him for some traffic violation. Well the 'defendant' dissagreed with the verdict, and knew about what leagaly constituted a check. Since the court allowed him (by ordinance!) to pay eigther cash or personal check drawn on a local bank (branch within x miles of city hall or within city) he proceded to take a new white t-shirt and 'write' a check on the back of it. Supposedly the court was stuck with eigther accepting that for payment, or delcining to accept any payment releasing the man from having to pay at all.
Now for all I know I'm repeating a 3rd hand urban legend. But I thought it amusing and almost on topic, hopefully the mods don't dissagree too, much.:)
Thank you. I did not know that. How long has this been the case?
I'm shure the companies can still make a little this way though, depending on how average daily balances are used and the specifics of the timing.
Even if that 'tax money' only sits for a day or so It likely raises the average balance.
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Thus roughly, though actually a non-replicating form of malware would be a better analogy.
I make the rough equality thusly. He is on the pure basis of his own infantile ego causing often expensive, time-comsuming to fix, damage to someone elses property, without thier permission.
While a virus or worm may spread it's damage making it somewhat worse.
Here's a simplified form, I put code on your system without your permision that does things you don't want and, untill fixed, reduce the utility and value of your system.
Or I cover your property in paints and other crap without your permision, lowering your property value, anoying your neighbors, and possibly offending you untill you pay to have it fixed and cleaned up.
I do eigther to aggrandize my own ego and show how cool/1337 I am.
I recognize many here may place a higher personal value on thier computer systems than say thier car or home, I tend that way myself, but on a pure moral basis the distinction is minimal once you remove the self-propagating nature of some malware. And a single instance of mal-ware is usually less expensive to fix than vandalism.
If you believe that simply not lying is the same as telling the truth your a sheep waiting to get sheared. I've heard people state facts such the listener believe the opposite of what is true. And do it well. Simply leaving out one fact from a set can change the totality enough to seriously misslead someone.
"If you had, it would be hard to suggest that interview with the woman before her son was killed was staged. The woman's grief was very much real. I thought of the scene in Saving Private Ryan when Pvt Ryan's mother is told of her other sons' deaths."
Not entirely shure it's what you meant, but this looks like you are saying her grief couldn't be fake because it's so much like a FICTIONAL characters FAKE grief.
Again not shure if that was your intent or not, but that's what it looks like.
"More States are looking into this as it appears friendly to the consumer while moving funds into state coffers."
Follow the money and find the real reasons.
almost anytime some stranger offers to help for altruistic reasons it's a good idea to keep an eye on your own wallet. Governments are stranger than most.
Another way companies get a free ride is on your withholdings. They have to turn that in quarterly iirc, but they take it out of your check every pay period. Guess what they do with that money in the meantime. That's right, anything they want including just collecting intrest. As long as it's sent to uncle sam on time all is kosher.
However it does simplify the employee's life in many cases as (s)he doesn't have to deal with it but once a year as a result.
For what it's worth, Pizza Hut's gift certificates (not the gift cards that are replaceing them) are actually checks, made out to Pizza Hut inc. This is done in part for accounting reasons, but mainly so they can be used at both corporate owned stores and franchise stores. So if you have one it should work at any pizza hut in the USA (this whole post assumes USA, sorry rest of world, I just don't know how they do it elsewhere).
Actually it's not a good idea to pass anything off as any sort of money. I've heard stories of people trying to do 'private money' before, never ends good.
There is a current trend/fad in some area for small to smaller bussiness and persons to engage in barter systems and universally they do everything they can to avoid anything that looks like money.
While Sec.8 Clauses 5&6 don't directly prohibit private money, congress and the courts tend to get pretty anal over anything remotely resembling money.
Look at what happened to those guys who tried to create a private alternative to the federal reserve system.
The guy who's site you linked to reminds me of those websites that claim you don't have to actually pay federal income tax and have some serious tin-foil hat reasons why not. Admitedly this last item is more of a gut feeling than anything so take with a grain of salt.
And in any case IANAL and you really should consult a good one for advice before trying to do anything remotely different than the accepted fiscal intruments.
You should probably get an expert for any instruments ouside of cash, credit card, or check. Especialy if you don't deal with such things on a regular basis.
I was under the impression that post-dateing a check (dated so as to prevent cashing before a certain date) was illeagle. A check issued had to be dated for date of issuance to payee. At least in my state that's what I've been told.
I've also recently had no problem cashing a check where the check was accidently dated for the wrong (future) month, so it's possible that a check is simply counted as valid from the moment it's filled out and signed.
The slow degredation is for a reason. First off it partialy gets around these state laws in some cases.
But the main reason is people lose these cards. Do you want to foot the bill on keeping a gift card on file and useable at any of a chains stores when the card has $.98 on it and hasn't been used in 4 years. odds are the card is long since lost or eaten by the dog, or accidently droped into an airplanes toilet or just plain tossed out.
These state laws need to account for this problem. Elsewise they can put a rather expensive burden on the companies issueing them.
Just to use one example. the pizza hut gift card will start decaying if there are no transactions for 12 consecutive months, the decay is somthing like $1 every 6 moths or so. A transaction is ANY action that references the card. including visiting the local hut and asking it how much is on the card. This is strictly to keep the database from filling up with 'dead' cards that have been lost, thrown away, etc. Now that I think about it the transaction can even be going online and checking a cards balance. And of course using or adding money to a card counts as well.
The degradation is called a maintenance fee as well to help deal with the state laws in various states that prohibit 'expiration'.
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No it's not valid social commentary. It's just vandalism. If he was to paint his message where he had a right to do so, then it might be valid.
"First off, yes hardware under Linux/BSD is not as easy as it is under windows. "
Actual, in just my experience, it's been easier than windows this last year or so. I have usualy just installed the distro,rebooted once. That's it everything works. This has been true for me since mandrake shipped a version that would install (I used to get divide by zero errors on three different machines with two different major version numbers).
Before that I had to dig a bit and find out what resolutions and refresh rates and irq's and ports, and so on were on a specific machine.
Though I suppose if you do have some odd hardware linux don't recognize off the bat it could be a pain bewcause most hardware vendors don't ship with linux drivers.
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Nope, didn't do it, was no where near there and besides your nieghbors with the blue chevy are lying anyway. I'm eslewhere every friday anyway.
Besides that you've miss-guesed my age by 15years min. (yes this sadly says I actualy lived through the disco era of sufficient age to still be traumatized)
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Try getting ahold of what's used to prevent eyeglasses from fogging over. It sounds like that's what was used to 'paint' 6a on in the first place. Obviously somthing happened to make that area not fog the same.
Clean the hell out of the thing, then put a nice coating of no-fog on it.
Don't know if that will help, but seems worth a try if it's driving you nuts and the chems don't cost to much.
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Nice sounding words, but unless you have permision by the owners, all you are doing is damaging the property of others. Using property you did not pay for. It's not art at all, it's just vandalism. It's roughly of the same morals as writing a computer virus.
It's possible to achieve shock and suprise in art through legitimate means. but what your doing is no different if I went to your home while you were gone and peeled out in your yard, t.p.ed your trees and broke your windows. I could claim it was performance art, but somehow I don't think you'd be any happier or less willing to press charges if I were caught.
To be more honest the copy angle wasn't the only one the riaa were pushing, it was just one of them. The other was selling people the same stuff they had already bought on vynl. The whole 'it's now a better more perfect version' angle didn't work as well as they had hoped. The fact that a cd could be almost guanranteed authentic as the entry level cost of being able to make cd's let alone duplicate them was rather high (though once you payed a few hundred grand or whatever for the machines the cost per cd was pretty good, eventualy cheaper than tape).
So yeah the copy angle was only one reason, perhaps not enough on it's own. I was really only trying to show that the riaa has had some of the current mindset all along, the whole p2p explosion has only pushed it to new hights.
Actually the betamax thing was when they tried to declare video taping a copyright violation. got struck down. Here I was showing the whole new tech threatens our bussiness model so it must be illeagle meme isn't new eigther. Crap even goes back to the horse and buggy vs automobile era a hundred years ago.
I think we need to find a way to pacify them and get what we want. Maybee if we had a p2p system they could release low bitrate (say <128 mono, about halfway between am and fm??) versions and downloaders could verify it's the free leagle version. If the music is good I'm shure many (not all, some are quite happy to hear am quality music) would then buy the cd.
Just an idea.
There is a difference between interpretation and claiming a=!a. Interpretation means taking the original meaning and aplying it to a new situation.
There has to be a reasonable limit. For example, you can't get some guns and rifles under strict limits out of the second amendment, what the founding fathers said on the issue only makes it MORE obvious than the amendment itself.
You can't get alot of things SCOTUS and the courts has said out the constitution, but they do it anyway.
And I never said the founding fathers were perfect, heck some of them owned slaves, but they were pretty smart and carefull about the constitution. You know they even left in a clear methode to fix anything in it we later decided was wrong. The courts are not that method, thier job with regards the constitution is to deal with the grey areas and to apply it to things and situations that did not exist when the constitution was framed. Not to decide the words mean somthing they very clearly did not.
And btw it's not the judge you normaly ask to reduce a charge in a speeding ticket, it's the prossecuting attorney. The judge generaly has to accept the change in charges and plea, but that's mostly a formality at that point.
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Well consider your sample base to include at least two, possibly three.
I say possibly three, because I'm not shure IF a human embryo = human, but then no-one has a definitive answer for this. Given that shouldn't we assume abortion is usualy the same as taking a human life (not necessarily murder, there can be valid reasons).
And I'm most definately not religious person. I don't have those sort of answers, and frankly neigther dose anyone else, let alone some multi-translated book a few hundred pages in size.
Mycroft
The reason third party candidates get so few votes is decause of the self fullfiling prophesy that no-one else can win. Just what they want.
You sir (this is generaly aimed at all who vote lesser of two evils, not just the parent poster) are likely to get the government you deserve.
Unfortunately your gonna take the rest of us who want a sane government with you to hell in a handbasket.
Vote for the lesser of two evils? let's rephrase that. Vote for evil.
Mycroft
Hard to say, over-rated IS an abused mod, I've seen it. Pretty shure I got hit once or twice myself.
The problem isn't really whether he is over/underrated (currently 1,insightfull). It's the fact that under/over-rated don't get meta-modded.
If a moderator honestly thinks a post deserves to be modded down, (s)he should have the guts to subject himself to meta-mod. Also over/under-rated should be fixed. There are, rare, valid reasons to use them, but with the no-metamod glitch they get abuse as political tools rather than honest moderating.
Mycroft
gak, not as familiar with cli tools in linux as I would like. But I'm talking about stuff outside the partitions themselves, And without looking up that tool specificaly your usage looks like it's partition specific.
I have a drive that has had a c-dilla 'protected' program installed on it, then used as a linux test install where I first wiped it completely erasing partition info after wiping the partitions. and completely re-partitioning it.
I later put xp and said program back on the disk, durring install the program detected a 'previous install' and forced me through extra hoops to install the program that didn't make me a happy camper to say the least. So it's obviously writing to areas outside the areas eigther linux or windows normaly writes to on any sort of formatting or partitioning or installing.
Well I'm going to go google and such to parse dd a bit better than my currently very low cluefullness. Though what I'd really like to look at and perhaps edit the data itself. I'm much more interested in how it works to tell the truth.
Mycroft
yes, as a pratical matter dates are pretty much meaningless. The people who convert that written check into an actuall transaction in the computer system are often paid by how many checks they 'code' per day, or at least have quotas. This is why you should always double check your statements and make shure the right amount is debited. Those peons are typeing in thier best guesse of your handwriting as fast as they can. pretty much if it has a signature and routing numbers and amount in both fields it'll be entered, or at they'll try.
Mycroft
This is probably a bs story, or exagerated, or somthing.A friend of mine's father (retired police officer) was eigther the cop issuing the ticket or recivied the ticket himself. But what supposedly happend is the judge found a guy guilty and find him for some traffic violation. Well the 'defendant' dissagreed with the verdict, and knew about what leagaly constituted a check. Since the court allowed him (by ordinance!) to pay eigther cash or personal check drawn on a local bank (branch within x miles of city hall or within city) he proceded to take a new white t-shirt and 'write' a check on the back of it. Supposedly the court was stuck with eigther accepting that for payment, or delcining to accept any payment releasing the man from having to pay at all. :)
Now for all I know I'm repeating a 3rd hand urban legend. But I thought it amusing and almost on topic, hopefully the mods don't dissagree too, much.
Mycroft
Thank you. I did not know that. How long has this been the case?
I'm shure the companies can still make a little this way though, depending on how average daily balances are used and the specifics of the timing.
Even if that 'tax money' only sits for a day or so It likely raises the average balance.
Mycroft
Thus roughly, though actually a non-replicating form of malware would be a better analogy.
I make the rough equality thusly. He is on the pure basis of his own infantile ego causing often expensive, time-comsuming to fix, damage to someone elses property, without thier permission.
While a virus or worm may spread it's damage making it somewhat worse.
Here's a simplified form, I put code on your system without your permision that does things you don't want and, untill fixed, reduce the utility and value of your system.
Or I cover your property in paints and other crap without your permision, lowering your property value, anoying your neighbors, and possibly offending you untill you pay to have it fixed and cleaned up.
I do eigther to aggrandize my own ego and show how cool/1337 I am.
I recognize many here may place a higher personal value on thier computer systems than say thier car or home, I tend that way myself, but on a pure moral basis the distinction is minimal once you remove the self-propagating nature of some malware. And a single instance of mal-ware is usually less expensive to fix than vandalism.
Mycroft
If you believe that simply not lying is the same as telling the truth your a sheep waiting to get sheared. I've heard people state facts such the listener believe the opposite of what is true. And do it well. Simply leaving out one fact from a set can change the totality enough to seriously misslead someone.
Mycroft
"If you had, it would be hard to suggest that interview with the woman before her son was killed was staged. The woman's grief was very much real. I thought of the scene in Saving Private Ryan when Pvt Ryan's mother is told of her other sons' deaths."
Not entirely shure it's what you meant, but this looks like you are saying her grief couldn't be fake because it's so much like a FICTIONAL characters FAKE grief.
Again not shure if that was your intent or not, but that's what it looks like.
Mycroft
Yeah, but what are odds she'd say no after see-ing a ring bigger than her? And the odds of NOT jumping off a very tall place if she did say no.
Mycroft
"More States are looking into this as it appears friendly to the consumer while moving funds into state coffers."
Follow the money and find the real reasons.
almost anytime some stranger offers to help for altruistic reasons it's a good idea to keep an eye on your own wallet. Governments are stranger than most.
Mycroft
Another way companies get a free ride is on your withholdings. They have to turn that in quarterly iirc, but they take it out of your check every pay period. Guess what they do with that money in the meantime. That's right, anything they want including just collecting intrest. As long as it's sent to uncle sam on time all is kosher.
However it does simplify the employee's life in many cases as (s)he doesn't have to deal with it but once a year as a result.
Mycroft
For what it's worth, Pizza Hut's gift certificates (not the gift cards that are replaceing them) are actually checks, made out to Pizza Hut inc. This is done in part for accounting reasons, but mainly so they can be used at both corporate owned stores and franchise stores. So if you have one it should work at any pizza hut in the USA (this whole post assumes USA, sorry rest of world, I just don't know how they do it elsewhere).
Mycroft
Actually it's not a good idea to pass anything off as any sort of money. I've heard stories of people trying to do 'private money' before, never ends good.
There is a current trend/fad in some area for small to smaller bussiness and persons to engage in barter systems and universally they do everything they can to avoid anything that looks like money.
While Sec.8 Clauses 5&6 don't directly prohibit private money, congress and the courts tend to get pretty anal over anything remotely resembling money.
Look at what happened to those guys who tried to create a private alternative to the federal reserve system.
The guy who's site you linked to reminds me of those websites that claim you don't have to actually pay federal income tax and have some serious tin-foil hat reasons why not. Admitedly this last item is more of a gut feeling than anything so take with a grain of salt.
And in any case IANAL and you really should consult a good one for advice before trying to do anything remotely different than the accepted fiscal intruments.
You should probably get an expert for any instruments ouside of cash, credit card, or check. Especialy if you don't deal with such things on a regular basis.
Mycroft
I was under the impression that post-dateing a check (dated so as to prevent cashing before a certain date) was illeagle. A check issued had to be dated for date of issuance to payee. At least in my state that's what I've been told.
I've also recently had no problem cashing a check where the check was accidently dated for the wrong (future) month, so it's possible that a check is simply counted as valid from the moment it's filled out and signed.
Mycroft
The slow degredation is for a reason. First off it partialy gets around these state laws in some cases.
But the main reason is people lose these cards. Do you want to foot the bill on keeping a gift card on file and useable at any of a chains stores when the card has $.98 on it and hasn't been used in 4 years. odds are the card is long since lost or eaten by the dog, or accidently droped into an airplanes toilet or just plain tossed out.
These state laws need to account for this problem. Elsewise they can put a rather expensive burden on the companies issueing them.
Just to use one example. the pizza hut gift card will start decaying if there are no transactions for 12 consecutive months, the decay is somthing like $1 every 6 moths or so. A transaction is ANY action that references the card. including visiting the local hut and asking it how much is on the card. This is strictly to keep the database from filling up with 'dead' cards that have been lost, thrown away, etc. Now that I think about it the transaction can even be going online and checking a cards balance. And of course using or adding money to a card counts as well.
The degradation is called a maintenance fee as well to help deal with the state laws in various states that prohibit 'expiration'.
Mycroft
No it's not valid social commentary. It's just vandalism. If he was to paint his message where he had a right to do so, then it might be valid.
Mycroft
"First off, yes hardware under Linux/BSD is not as easy as it is under windows. "
Actual, in just my experience, it's been easier than windows this last year or so. I have usualy just installed the distro,rebooted once. That's it everything works. This has been true for me since mandrake shipped a version that would install (I used to get divide by zero errors on three different machines with two different major version numbers).
Before that I had to dig a bit and find out what resolutions and refresh rates and irq's and ports, and so on were on a specific machine.
Though I suppose if you do have some odd hardware linux don't recognize off the bat it could be a pain bewcause most hardware vendors don't ship with linux drivers.
Mycroft
Nope, didn't do it, was no where near there and besides your nieghbors with the blue chevy are lying anyway. I'm eslewhere every friday anyway.
Besides that you've miss-guesed my age by 15years min. (yes this sadly says I actualy lived through the disco era of sufficient age to still be traumatized)
Mycroft
Try getting ahold of what's used to prevent eyeglasses from fogging over. It sounds like that's what was used to 'paint' 6a on in the first place. Obviously somthing happened to make that area not fog the same.
Clean the hell out of the thing, then put a nice coating of no-fog on it.
Don't know if that will help, but seems worth a try if it's driving you nuts and the chems don't cost to much.
Mycroft
Nice sounding words, but unless you have permision by the owners, all you are doing is damaging the property of others. Using property you did not pay for. It's not art at all, it's just vandalism. It's roughly of the same morals as writing a computer virus.
It's possible to achieve shock and suprise in art through legitimate means. but what your doing is no different if I went to your home while you were gone and peeled out in your yard, t.p.ed your trees and broke your windows. I could claim it was performance art, but somehow I don't think you'd be any happier or less willing to press charges if I were caught.
Mycroft
Care to expound a bit?
Mycroft
To be more honest the copy angle wasn't the only one the riaa were pushing, it was just one of them. The other was selling people the same stuff they had already bought on vynl. The whole 'it's now a better more perfect version' angle didn't work as well as they had hoped. The fact that a cd could be almost guanranteed authentic as the entry level cost of being able to make cd's let alone duplicate them was rather high (though once you payed a few hundred grand or whatever for the machines the cost per cd was pretty good, eventualy cheaper than tape).
So yeah the copy angle was only one reason, perhaps not enough on it's own. I was really only trying to show that the riaa has had some of the current mindset all along, the whole p2p explosion has only pushed it to new hights.
Actually the betamax thing was when they tried to declare video taping a copyright violation. got struck down. Here I was showing the whole new tech threatens our bussiness model so it must be illeagle meme isn't new eigther. Crap even goes back to the horse and buggy vs automobile era a hundred years ago.
I think we need to find a way to pacify them and get what we want. Maybee if we had a p2p system they could release low bitrate (say <128 mono, about halfway between am and fm??) versions and downloaders could verify it's the free leagle version. If the music is good I'm shure many (not all, some are quite happy to hear am quality music) would then buy the cd.
Just an idea.
MYcroft
There is a difference between interpretation and claiming a=!a. Interpretation means taking the original meaning and aplying it to a new situation.
There has to be a reasonable limit. For example, you can't get some guns and rifles under strict limits out of the second amendment, what the founding fathers said on the issue only makes it MORE obvious than the amendment itself.
You can't get alot of things SCOTUS and the courts has said out the constitution, but they do it anyway.
And I never said the founding fathers were perfect, heck some of them owned slaves, but they were pretty smart and carefull about the constitution. You know they even left in a clear methode to fix anything in it we later decided was wrong. The courts are not that method, thier job with regards the constitution is to deal with the grey areas and to apply it to things and situations that did not exist when the constitution was framed. Not to decide the words mean somthing they very clearly did not.
And btw it's not the judge you normaly ask to reduce a charge in a speeding ticket, it's the prossecuting attorney. The judge generaly has to accept the change in charges and plea, but that's mostly a formality at that point.
Mycroft