a grass or garden plant that would either stop fire ants (and only fire ants) from breeding or would lower the potency of that witches-brew they use for a sting.
When one party to an "Agreement" can change the terms and conditions of that "Agreement" and the other party has no recourse other than to accept the changes or abandon the "Agreement" in its entirety, then there never was an "Agreement", just a set of required terms and conditions. "Agreements" imply a certain amount of trust and honor between parties. Intuit's "Agreement" is anything but that.
We went through this with 56K modem and 802.11g standards. A vendor's marketing department tries to get the jump on everyone else by introducing equipment that is "pre-standard". People buy them to get the latest whiz-bang capability and either don't care about the consequences or are too clueless to understand them. If the approved standard turns out to be what the equipment uses then the company is home free with an existing market share. If not then marketing beats on engineering to put together a minimum cost (to the company) upgrade path. If there is no practical upgrade path then the customer is left with a doorstop and no recourse because the unread fine print says compatibility is not guaranteed. Either way the company profits by being first out of the gate.
No, you can not legislate morality and ethics, only behaviour. Morality and ethics are expressions of a person's internal belief system. Society creates laws to govern the behaviour of those individuals whose sense of morality and ethics are deficient or unacceptable (this is important) as defined by that society.
When I say "Do Not Call Me" I mean exactly that. No exceptions. And, while we're on the subject, pre-recorded messages should be banned altogether unless they are from a service you own or are paying for such as a home or office security system. I want a human at the other end of the line that I can cuss at if the call pisses me off.
Yeah, yeah - as if we didn't do dumb stuff when we were their age too. They'll sort themselves out eventually and the process is fun to watch. Sometimes.
The first half-century is where you learn enough to appreciate the second.
Depends on what your goal is. If you're starting a long-term project to change Islam so it no longer provides a "God's Will" excuse to kill non-believers then Iraq would be a convenient place to start. Centrally located and probably the least fundamentalist thanks to Saddam.
Another young voice heard from! The "correctness" of anyones activities in politics, diplomacy, and war is determined by the situation before and during the time they occur, not afterwards. Hindsight is best used for learning and not condemning.
Company property is for company use, your personal property is for your use. Don't mix them unless there is a written agreement. If you're foolish enough to do otherwise then you deserve whatever consequences come from it.
We're fat because so many of us have a lethargic lifestyle helped along mostly by technology. We also produce inexpensive food in vast quantities even after we give much of it away, sell more at below cost, and pay our farmers not to grow it.
Absolutely correct, we don't. Why should we? The rest of you have had a couple millenia to shape the world into something you could feel safe with and you didn't do it. Now it's our turn. Save your comments until we're finished, you may actually like the job we do.
While you're at it, if you want to display a geophysical trend and mankind's possible influence on it, you'll need to include data from before the time mankind was here. Then you'll get an idea of how insignificant we really are.
Like I said, you pick your data carefully and you can justify any theory you want. Your example graph runs from 1958 to 1982 and apparently only has measurements from October in it. What about the other 11 months, the years since 1982, and the centuries prior to 1958? Extrapolated ice core sample data would suffice.
That cycle was discovered a long time ago during the IGY. The "Ozone Hole" over the Antarctic was larger in the mid-50's than it is today. If you carefully pick your measurement time during it's natural grow/shrink cycle, you can use the data to support any theory you want.
It takes the agreement of several juries (conviction, sentencing, multiple automatic appeals) before a death sentence can be carried out. When that number of people agree that the convicted person must die based on the evidence presented to them, the personal preferences of the Governor or President are irrelevant.
It wasn't GW that sentenced them to death, it was the juries. If you have a problem with the death penalty, complain about the elected officials who permit that penalty and the private citizens who assign it, not the public servants who are required to carry it out.
What can I say? Great minds think alike. Except for the Febreze which hadn't been invented yet and using a different brand of detergent, we were using this method in the 60's and 70's to clean radios of the OD green variety. I miss those transistors with pilot lights.
Get a clean 55 gallon drum and mix one gallon of strong (Dawn is good) dishwashing detergent, a half gallon of Febreze (for the stink), and lots of hot (at least 120F) water. A small fire under the drum will keep the water hot or if you're lucky enough to have one, an immersion heater. Pull the disk drives out of the equipment and put the rest in the drum to soak for a hour. Tie a stiff-bristle brush to a long stick and scrub the equipment as needed. When you think the stuff is clean enough, rinse it thoroughly in another 55 gallon drum of clean hot water. Remove from the rinse, shake off the excess water and dunk it in a drum of 99% isopropyl alcohol to absorb the rest of the water. Air dry and check for damage before returning to service. Do this outside and keep the alcohol drum away from the two with the fires under them. When finished, seal the drums and leave them with somebody you don't like.
Further examples: If I use the telephone to sell illegal drugs, is the phone company responsible? If I set up illegal drug sales by using the recorded announcement on the voicemail system the phone company provides me, are they responsible? Why would an ISP-hosted web page be different from that voicemail announcement? There may be some obligation to take down the announcement or web page but neither company should be criminally liable for the content.
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a grass or garden plant that would either stop fire ants (and only fire ants) from breeding or would lower the potency of that witches-brew they use for a sting.
When one party to an "Agreement" can change the terms and conditions of that "Agreement" and the other party has no recourse other than to accept the changes or abandon the "Agreement" in its entirety, then there never was an "Agreement", just a set of required terms and conditions. "Agreements" imply a certain amount of trust and honor between parties. Intuit's "Agreement" is anything but that.
We went through this with 56K modem and 802.11g standards. A vendor's marketing department tries to get the jump on everyone else by introducing equipment that is "pre-standard". People buy them to get the latest whiz-bang capability and either don't care about the consequences or are too clueless to understand them. If the approved standard turns out to be what the equipment uses then the company is home free with an existing market share. If not then marketing beats on engineering to put together a minimum cost (to the company) upgrade path. If there is no practical upgrade path then the customer is left with a doorstop and no recourse because the unread fine print says compatibility is not guaranteed. Either way the company profits by being first out of the gate.
No, you can not legislate morality and ethics, only behaviour. Morality and ethics are expressions of a person's internal belief system. Society creates laws to govern the behaviour of those individuals whose sense of morality and ethics are deficient or unacceptable (this is important) as defined by that society.
When I say "Do Not Call Me" I mean exactly that. No exceptions. And, while we're on the subject, pre-recorded messages should be banned altogether unless they are from a service you own or are paying for such as a home or office security system. I want a human at the other end of the line that I can cuss at if the call pisses me off.
Yeah, yeah - as if we didn't do dumb stuff when we were their age too. They'll sort themselves out eventually and the process is fun to watch. Sometimes.
The first half-century is where you learn enough to appreciate the second.
Pile of socks + washing machine = prime number generator.
Depends on what your goal is. If you're starting a long-term project to change Islam so it no longer provides a "God's Will" excuse to kill non-believers then Iraq would be a convenient place to start. Centrally located and probably the least fundamentalist thanks to Saddam.
Another young voice heard from! The "correctness" of anyones activities in politics, diplomacy, and war is determined by the situation before and during the time they occur, not afterwards. Hindsight is best used for learning and not condemning.
Company property is for company use, your personal property is for your use. Don't mix them unless there is a written agreement. If you're foolish enough to do otherwise then you deserve whatever consequences come from it.
It doesn't come with a "Grammar for Dummies" book.
We're fat because so many of us have a lethargic lifestyle helped along mostly by technology. We also produce inexpensive food in vast quantities even after we give much of it away, sell more at below cost, and pay our farmers not to grow it.
Absolutely correct, we don't. Why should we? The rest of you have had a couple millenia to shape the world into something you could feel safe with and you didn't do it. Now it's our turn. Save your comments until we're finished, you may actually like the job we do.
While you're at it, if you want to display a geophysical trend and mankind's possible influence on it, you'll need to include data from before the time mankind was here. Then you'll get an idea of how insignificant we really are.
Like I said, you pick your data carefully and you can justify any theory you want. Your example graph runs from 1958 to 1982 and apparently only has measurements from October in it. What about the other 11 months, the years since 1982, and the centuries prior to 1958? Extrapolated ice core sample data would suffice.
That cycle was discovered a long time ago during the IGY. The "Ozone Hole" over the Antarctic was larger in the mid-50's than it is today. If you carefully pick your measurement time during it's natural grow/shrink cycle, you can use the data to support any theory you want.
The litter box goes in whatever room the cat wants it in. It's their house and you're just there to feed and entertain them.
On a side note, those LitterMaid automatic litter boxes are expensive but worth every penny.
It takes the agreement of several juries (conviction, sentencing, multiple automatic appeals) before a death sentence can be carried out. When that number of people agree that the convicted person must die based on the evidence presented to them, the personal preferences of the Governor or President are irrelevant.
It wasn't GW that sentenced them to death, it was the juries. If you have a problem with the death penalty, complain about the elected officials who permit that penalty and the private citizens who assign it, not the public servants who are required to carry it out.
Patent applications involve lawyers, patent disputes involve lawyers, patent enfocement involves lawyers, and patent legislation involves lawyers. See a pattern here? Think anything is going to change?
In humans it's called "dying"
What can I say? Great minds think alike. Except for the Febreze which hadn't been invented yet and using a different brand of detergent, we were using this method in the 60's and 70's to clean radios of the OD green variety. I miss those transistors with pilot lights.
Oops, for a 55 gallon wash cycle, use 10 gallons of detergent and 2 gallons of Febreze. Don't get it on you.
Get a clean 55 gallon drum and mix one gallon of strong (Dawn is good) dishwashing detergent, a half gallon of Febreze (for the stink), and lots of hot (at least 120F) water. A small fire under the drum will keep the water hot or if you're lucky enough to have one, an immersion heater. Pull the disk drives out of the equipment and put the rest in the drum to soak for a hour. Tie a stiff-bristle brush to a long stick and scrub the equipment as needed. When you think the stuff is clean enough, rinse it thoroughly in another 55 gallon drum of clean hot water. Remove from the rinse, shake off the excess water and dunk it in a drum of 99% isopropyl alcohol to absorb the rest of the water. Air dry and check for damage before returning to service. Do this outside and keep the alcohol drum away from the two with the fires under them. When finished, seal the drums and leave them with somebody you don't like.
Further examples: If I use the telephone to sell illegal drugs, is the phone company responsible? If I set up illegal drug sales by using the recorded announcement on the voicemail system the phone company provides me, are they responsible? Why would an ISP-hosted web page be different from that voicemail announcement? There may be some obligation to take down the announcement or web page but neither company should be criminally liable for the content.