There's nothing worse than bored academic bleeding-hearts looking for a meek defenseless victim to try out their pet theories on. An apathetic academic lifer ignoring kids who really do need help and really are having severe home problems is worse.
I thought this was quite interesting from the counterclaim:
The Plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, in an attempt to expand their monopoly power into the area of online digital music, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. As such, the Plaintiffs are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.
Let me use a fairly simple example: the six "days" of creation. Literal? not possible -- the physics involved (mass + energy in the form of movement) bringing together the sheer amount of matter contained in the earth's crust and core in a 24 hour period would not result in a planet
You have made the flawed assumption that God is bound by the laws of physics. A creationist would counter "God can do anything, regardless of what science says is possible."
That's why it's useless for a scientist to debate a creationist. They are debating two different worlds - the observable world viewed by science vs. the unobservable world believed in by creationists.
In the creation museum, they're trying to seem a bit more scientific. But in the end it all boils down to faith and "the bible said so."
Gotta wonder, though... how does a god that is supposed to know everything and be everywhere all at once somehow fail to notice that a couple of nekkid monkeys are eating from the naughty apple tree?
He let them make the choice whether to obey him and not eat the fruit, or disobey and eat the fruit. They chose to disobey, and ate the fruit.
"2) Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris had no legal authority nor means to remove them from the voter registration rolls, so it makes no logical sense to blame them."
When has lack of legal authority ever stopped a Bush from doing something to further their cause?
There's also the chance that she was intentionally playing dumb (perhaps she thought it was understood that's what she was doing) in order to try to get a conversation going.
"demanding money from someone, and threatening to financially ruin them if they don't comply, is nothing more than extortion."
What if an auto shop damaged your car when you brought it in for service, then gave it back to you and refused to fix the damage they caused. Does 'demanding money' from them mean you're practicing extortion? No, it means you're suing them for property damage, as is your right under the law.
Unless you threaten violence or some other illegal action (like kidnapping or torching their car) then you're just suing them, and it's not extortion.
And to protect people from frivolous lawsuits, if the judge/jury believe the plaintiff is full of crap and his claims have absolutely no merit, then they can order that the plaintiff pay for the defendant's legal expenses. So the defendant would not be financially ruined.
"because they're bored and have nothing better to spend their time on."
That's half right.
A programmer in his downtime can play video games, watch TV, get drunk, or contribute to open source projects. Being an amateur open source contributer is a great hobby, and is a very good thing to spend your time on. Everyone has spare time once in a while; it doesn't mean they're bored.
DirectX 10 is just a prerequisite for a new computer just to future-proof it.
Buying a graphics card today does not mean you will be future-proofed for tomorrow.
In 9 months or so when DX10 games come out, chances are they'll need better-than-8800 graphics to run at max settings.
If there are no games out now that justify a high-end purchase for you, then get a cheaper mid-range card and save the rest of your money for a better card in 9 months.
Anyone who reviews my post history or goosles me, and digs a little will find that I'm not exactly a proponent of wikipedia.
Dude, I have no intention of goosling you. The only person I goosle is my wife.
Well by goosling your wife, you can only learn a little bit about her, depending on how well her prior contributors did their homework. If you really want to know more about your wife, you should go read some of the websites dedicated to her.
because the majority of things sold on ebay are sold at a LOSS. I buy a DVD player for $599.00 use it for 4 years and sell it online at $199.00 that is a LOSS.
No they do not have a right to tax me for selling something at a loss. And everyone else that is sane thinks that way as well.
You're not talking about selling something at a loss. You're talking about depreciation of a durable good. Read more about how the IRS accounts for depreciation here.
I never used to back when I thought I had to double-click the icon, wait a few seconds, get the pop up window, find the device in the list, click the device, click stop, click okay, click close, remove the device.
Then I discovered that I could single-click the icon, click the device name in the small context menu that comes up, and then remove the device. Now I use this second method all the time, as it's basically just two obvious clicks.
A team of geeks could design their own system, pick their own architecture, load it with Free-as-in-ESR software, and sell it competitively with Windows PC's.
How do I know this?
Cobalt Flux sells an extremely popular dance pad for DDR-type games
A "dance pad" is just a keyboard that you can step on. Computer systems are much more complex.
Most of what you pay for in a dance pad is the sturdy construction and styling and materials. The actual electonics inside are very simple (like a small keyboard) and are probably similar from one model to the next.
design their own system, pick their own architecture, load it with Free-as-in-ESR software, and sell it competitively with Windows PC's...
So why doesn't someone try this? Or does someone?
Try what? Try selling cheap computers without Windows on it?
Linspire does. (here's one at amazon). You could also buy a Dell, wipe the hard drive (or buy one without an OS installed), and install Ubuntu, which includes a free OS and many free Apps.
Or do you mean intentionally boycotting the widely accepted x86 and PC architecture and developing a completely custom hardware framework from scratch to eventually make a product that does word processing, plays media files, communicates on a network, to compete with Dell and Apple? That's called "re-inventing the wheel", and there's no way your friends at the dance pad shop could do it cheaper than Dell does today.
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Why doesn't Vermont (and the rest of the country) replace marriage entirely with civil unions, and leave "marriage" to the religious community?
This whole "sanctity of marriage" vs "gay marriage" debate would be moot if states would just stop meddling with religious ceremonies.
Top 5? I can barely name 5, unless you count old versions of OS's...
in no particular order:
Windows Vista,
KDE,
Gnome,
Mac OSX,
ummm... PocketPC?
Is it Font Smoothing that makes every site look like a LCD does when using non-native resolution? Gotta turn that crap off asap...
It doesn't say he was surprised that they ate from the tree, so it's entirely possible that he always knew they would do it.
Fun note: "22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil."
Does "us" that mean there are multiple gods?
Let me use a fairly simple example: the six "days" of creation. Literal? not possible -- the physics involved (mass + energy in the form of movement) bringing together the sheer amount of matter contained in the earth's crust and core in a 24 hour period would not result in a planet
You have made the flawed assumption that God is bound by the laws of physics. A creationist would counter "God can do anything, regardless of what science says is possible."
That's why it's useless for a scientist to debate a creationist. They are debating two different worlds - the observable world viewed by science vs. the unobservable world believed in by creationists.
In the creation museum, they're trying to seem a bit more scientific. But in the end it all boils down to faith and "the bible said so."
Gotta wonder, though... how does a god that is supposed to know everything and be everywhere all at once somehow fail to notice that a couple of nekkid monkeys are eating from the naughty apple tree?
He let them make the choice whether to obey him and not eat the fruit, or disobey and eat the fruit. They chose to disobey, and ate the fruit.
Mods, crank the parent up to 6.
Oh, big deal. He was only off by a multiple of 5 million or so. ...
"2) Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris had no legal authority nor means to remove them from the voter registration rolls, so it makes no logical sense to blame them."
When has lack of legal authority ever stopped a Bush from doing something to further their cause?
Rejecting your reality and substituting his own ftw.
There's also the chance that she was intentionally playing dumb (perhaps she thought it was understood that's what she was doing) in order to try to get a conversation going.
"demanding money from someone, and threatening to financially ruin them if they don't comply, is nothing more than extortion."
What if an auto shop damaged your car when you brought it in for service, then gave it back to you and refused to fix the damage they caused. Does 'demanding money' from them mean you're practicing extortion? No, it means you're suing them for property damage, as is your right under the law.
Unless you threaten violence or some other illegal action (like kidnapping or torching their car) then you're just suing them, and it's not extortion.
And to protect people from frivolous lawsuits, if the judge/jury believe the plaintiff is full of crap and his claims have absolutely no merit, then they can order that the plaintiff pay for the defendant's legal expenses. So the defendant would not be financially ruined.
"because they're bored and have nothing better to spend their time on."
That's half right.
A programmer in his downtime can play video games, watch TV, get drunk, or contribute to open source projects. Being an amateur open source contributer is a great hobby, and is a very good thing to spend your time on. Everyone has spare time once in a while; it doesn't mean they're bored.
Buying a graphics card today does not mean you will be future-proofed for tomorrow.
In 9 months or so when DX10 games come out, chances are they'll need better-than-8800 graphics to run at max settings.
If there are no games out now that justify a high-end purchase for you, then get a cheaper mid-range card and save the rest of your money for a better card in 9 months.
I think the principal should be held in jail for 12 days, and we'll call it even.
Kind of like on slashdot.
He said he only bought one copy, so I hope he uninstalled it from one machine before putting it on his second test machine.
Remember, the first part of the "Vista Experience" is paying hundreds of dollars for it.
We play!
But remind me... is throwing the triangle or square button?
You're not talking about selling something at a loss. You're talking about depreciation of a durable good. Read more about how the IRS accounts for depreciation here.
I never used to back when I thought I had to double-click the icon, wait a few seconds, get the pop up window, find the device in the list, click the device, click stop, click okay, click close, remove the device.
Then I discovered that I could single-click the icon, click the device name in the small context menu that comes up, and then remove the device. Now I use this second method all the time, as it's basically just two obvious clicks.
Most of what you pay for in a dance pad is the sturdy construction and styling and materials. The actual electonics inside are very simple (like a small keyboard) and are probably similar from one model to the next.
Try what? Try selling cheap computers without Windows on it?
Linspire does. (here's one at amazon). You could also buy a Dell, wipe the hard drive (or buy one without an OS installed), and install Ubuntu, which includes a free OS and many free Apps.
Or do you mean intentionally boycotting the widely accepted x86 and PC architecture and developing a completely custom hardware framework from scratch to eventually make a product that does word processing, plays media files, communicates on a network, to compete with Dell and Apple? That's called "re-inventing the wheel", and there's no way your friends at the dance pad shop could do it cheaper than Dell does today.