No wait: The FreeMasons. No, ugh, the Knights Templar. Communists? Tri-Lateral Commission? Perhaps...Satan?!?
This will interfere with the Black Helicopters
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But at least the drones will be armed with missles, as opposed to the helicopters which are just filled with multinational troops armed to the teeth. A few of those missles can sure clear up a traffic jam caused by those the administration have determined to be so obviously guilty that no trial is necessary. So don't even ask about it.
The rumor about Britney Spears concerning ClearChannel is that she since she did not have ClearChannel book/control her latest tour, ClearChannel radio stations "independently" decided her newest album did not deserve to be on the hot play lists.
Considering the lack of discernable quality difference in her albums (take that as you will), this seems a plausible explanation.
When someone from a major corporation explains that what they are doing is a good thing and exclaims
DON'T PANIC
the one thing you can be sure you need to do forthwith is PANIC!!!!
No delays now. Start running down the streets screaming at the top of your lungs, rending your clothes and flinging yourself into plate glass windows. It's for your own good.
Get in your shots now. In a few months, your service agreement will forbid such anti-corporate comments. And since they corporations work for the common good, that's reasonable. Now sit down, watch Rollerball, take your pills and stop idolizing Jonathan. Rollerball is not about individuals.
They all used the BSD stack because it was well written, fairly comprehensive, and free to be used. The stack was an implementation of the protocol, it wasn't the underlying protocol itself.
My argument is twofold: a) Microsoft is aware of and probably covetous of some pieces of OSS software and b) there are a number of writers of GPL software who do not want Microsoft to ever commercially exploit their work.
Their use of the BSD stack is a good example of their attention to the OSS field. BSD will have to do for now, because if anyone had proof of Microsoft's use of GPL software in one of their proprietary programs, there would probably already have been a lawsuit.
Microsoft, despite their 10,000 programmers, used the BSD licensed TCP/IP stack when they decided to start paying attention to such things (since they license allows this, there is nothing "wrong" here).
They would quite likely love to cut costs by using GPL'd software of various sorts as the foundation for their proprietary software. Their railing against the cancerous nature of the GPL seems to indicate their frustration at not being given free reign to do with such software as they wish.
I would guess that there are a number of programmers who GPL specifically to ensure that their work is never legally usable by Microsoft. I think they would be quite displeased with this interpretation.
I think he meant "scaring proprietary software developers away". They are the only ones who'd be concerned about the derivative work issue.
And why shouldn't they be scared away? If they want to make proprietary software, then let them. They just can't use GPL'd software programs or libraries as a replacement for paying for development of their own. There is always BSD licensed work to explore, if they are so inclined.
I still take photos on film. I know how long negatives can last with minimal degradation of image quality.
I also know how long term untrustworthy digital storage is. In fact, I'm thinking of digitizing my SVHS wedding video and putting in on film stock as a "I'm sure it's okay" backup. I'd also make it into a DVD, but who knows how long that will last.
is not considered to be slaughtered, then the 72 hours limit wouldn't apply.
Or, you'd be able to grow for two days and eat it on the third.
That's why the seed meat is kosher slaughtered
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If the seed meat is derived from a properly kosher slaughtered cow, then it shouldn't count as "flesh stripped from a living animal". Unless they counted the nutrient pool meat as a living animal, which would seem to be a difficult position to support.
Not true about human steak
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Human protein is not better for consumption. It is in fact worse. Carnivore and omnivore proteins are of a different nature then herbivore proteins. The human digestive system is not designed to break them down and use them efficiently. It in fact takes more energy to break them down to their base constituents and rebuild them then is gained from the eating. That is why eating dog and snake are considered good "winter" foods in some Asian cultures. The extreme amounts of energy required to break them down warms the body. The fact that they're a drain isn't as well known.
By the way, I don't have any first-hand gustatory experience with any of the above.
It might be kosher (two maybes, an if and a but)
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If the original animal that provided the base meat was slaughtered in the proper manner by a shochet, then the meat grown from that initial seed meat might be considered to be an extension of it, and as such covered.
Alternative interpretation: Once the original (kosher slaughtered) seed meat is provided, no other animals are harmed. The subsequent meat, since it is not derived from harming an animal, might be categorized in the same way as milk is.
If viable, this latter interpretation would in theory allow for kosher cheeseburgers as long as the meat was grown not raised (you wouldn't be mixing).
Except, you're not allowed to do something that appears to violate the law. Unless it was instantly obvious to a passerby that the new type of cheeseburger was not made with real meat, it would not be legal. Or in theory if a person was in a restaurant marked as kosher that ONLY served grown meat cheeseburgers, so no doubt would be placed on the eaters actions.
As Homer would also say
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So let me see if I got this straight: The entire point of this stay, and the SCOTUS involvement is to decide where a case can be tried when Internet jurisdiction is involved. None of the other issues involved with DVDs are coming into play.
So it's basically a chance for the US SC to decide whether or not they agree with the Australian SC, which seems to feel that jurisdiction is wherever anything is read, not where it is published or intended to be read.
Or are there other issues I haven't mentioned here?
John Stossel reported on 20/20 that tests commissioned by ABC News indicated organic produce was more likely than conventional produce to be contaminated by E. coli bacteria. Stossel also said, "Our tests surprisingly found no pesticide residue on the conventional samples [of produce] or the organic" -- thereby contradicting one of organic food's primary selling points.
The report was aired twice before Stossel was forced to retract the statements which were patently false because the group that supposedly did the tests kept complaining that the tests described had never been done.
The first actual study of the issue was completed in May and showed that organically grown produce contained a third as many pesticide residues as conventionally grown foods.
Stossel knew there was no study to support his ridiculous claims, but it meshed with his political beliefs and he didn't think anyone would call him on it.
More details about the real study are here. More about Stossel's junk science can be found here.
The authors are astonishingly naive if they can look at the huge number of exploitable holes available and declare "Oh, things aren't that bad because nobody has really exploited them so far."
Do we doubt that there are malicious, destructive and/or idiotic people out there? Do we doubt that there are enough relatively easy-to-exploit bugs out there that can have amazingly destructive consequences?
While I would love for there to be a more holistic approach to security, as long as the majority software platform (with all of it's variants) is rife with holes and the security repair falls exclusively to the same people who built it bad in the first place, I'll take point-by-point/line-by-line review any day of the week and twice on Tuesday.
Stossel will claim that the government has no business interfering with the business model of MS, then he'll throw lots of misleading/off-topic/deeply suspect/just plain wrong details at you, look into the camera and demand "Give me a break" and sit back and ignore everyone's pointing out his logical failures.
He's a worthless hack. Has been for years. Remember his insecticide claims?
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Though I would like to see Buffy overflow every now and then.
No wait: The FreeMasons. No, ugh, the Knights Templar. Communists? Tri-Lateral Commission? Perhaps ...Satan?!?
But at least the drones will be armed with missles, as opposed to the helicopters which are just filled with multinational troops armed to the teeth. A few of those missles can sure clear up a traffic jam caused by those the administration have determined to be so obviously guilty that no trial is necessary. So don't even ask about it.
Considering the lack of discernable quality difference in her albums (take that as you will), this seems a plausible explanation.
DON'T PANIC
the one thing you can be sure you need to do forthwith is PANIC!!!!
No delays now. Start running down the streets screaming at the top of your lungs, rending your clothes and flinging yourself into plate glass windows. It's for your own good.
Get in your shots now. In a few months, your service agreement will forbid such anti-corporate comments. And since they corporations work for the common good, that's reasonable. Now sit down, watch Rollerball, take your pills and stop idolizing Jonathan. Rollerball is not about individuals.
You're forgetting the statutory requirement to announce "What a country!" every hour on the hour.
My argument is twofold: a) Microsoft is aware of and probably covetous of some pieces of OSS software and b) there are a number of writers of GPL software who do not want Microsoft to ever commercially exploit their work.
Their use of the BSD stack is a good example of their attention to the OSS field. BSD will have to do for now, because if anyone had proof of Microsoft's use of GPL software in one of their proprietary programs, there would probably already have been a lawsuit.
They would quite likely love to cut costs by using GPL'd software of various sorts as the foundation for their proprietary software. Their railing against the cancerous nature of the GPL seems to indicate their frustration at not being given free reign to do with such software as they wish.
I would guess that there are a number of programmers who GPL specifically to ensure that their work is never legally usable by Microsoft. I think they would be quite displeased with this interpretation.
And why shouldn't they be scared away? If they want to make proprietary software, then let them. They just can't use GPL'd software programs or libraries as a replacement for paying for development of their own. There is always BSD licensed work to explore, if they are so inclined.
I also know how long term untrustworthy digital storage is. In fact, I'm thinking of digitizing my SVHS wedding video and putting in on film stock as a "I'm sure it's okay" backup. I'd also make it into a DVD, but who knows how long that will last.
Or, you'd be able to grow for two days and eat it on the third.
If the seed meat is derived from a properly kosher slaughtered cow, then it shouldn't count as "flesh stripped from a living animal". Unless they counted the nutrient pool meat as a living animal, which would seem to be a difficult position to support.
By the way, I don't have any first-hand gustatory experience with any of the above.
Alternative interpretation: Once the original (kosher slaughtered) seed meat is provided, no other animals are harmed. The subsequent meat, since it is not derived from harming an animal, might be categorized in the same way as milk is.
If viable, this latter interpretation would in theory allow for kosher cheeseburgers as long as the meat was grown not raised (you wouldn't be mixing).
Except, you're not allowed to do something that appears to violate the law. Unless it was instantly obvious to a passerby that the new type of cheeseburger was not made with real meat, it would not be legal. Or in theory if a person was in a restaurant marked as kosher that ONLY served grown meat cheeseburgers, so no doubt would be placed on the eaters actions.
Mmmmmmmm .... labby ....
So it's basically a chance for the US SC to decide whether or not they agree with the Australian SC, which seems to feel that jurisdiction is wherever anything is read, not where it is published or intended to be read.
Or are there other issues I haven't mentioned here?
The report was aired twice before Stossel was forced to retract the statements which were patently false because the group that supposedly did the tests kept complaining that the tests described had never been done.
The first actual study of the issue was completed in May and showed that organically grown produce contained a third as many pesticide residues as conventionally grown foods.
Stossel knew there was no study to support his ridiculous claims, but it meshed with his political beliefs and he didn't think anyone would call him on it.
More details about the real study are here. More about Stossel's junk science can be found here.
Do we doubt that there are malicious, destructive and/or idiotic people out there? Do we doubt that there are enough relatively easy-to-exploit bugs out there that can have amazingly destructive consequences?
While I would love for there to be a more holistic approach to security, as long as the majority software platform (with all of it's variants) is rife with holes and the security repair falls exclusively to the same people who built it bad in the first place, I'll take point-by-point/line-by-line review any day of the week and twice on Tuesday.
(Got in a Yaacov Smirnoff quote WITHOUT using "In Soviet Russia")
He's a worthless hack. Has been for years. Remember his insecticide claims?
Imagine the overclocking!
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then maybe it wouldn't be expanding at an ever increasing rate. And some exercise wouldn't hurt either.
the Langoliers are for? Aren't they supposed to eat all that stuff up? Including Balki?