the difference of degree is sufficient enough to be very thankful that this is the US rather than Germany in 1932.
I think it's a big mistake to say that it couldn't happen here. Germany went over a cliff, but we're on a slippery slope, and judging by the polls, a little of over half of America can't wait to make it to the bottom.
I'm on pretty good terms with my banker, and she told me that a flag goes up on transfers over $5000, especially if they're frequent. The topic came up when I decided to take cash out of a "risk free" CD prematurely so I could buy a motorcycle.
Basically, if you're moving large sums of cash into and out of your personal accounts on a regular basis, the bank notifies the authorities. Since in most cases, it's all legit and checks out, you don't even know you've been investigated.
Oh, and one more thing. You can call the FBI and ask if they have a file on you. The answer will most likely be, "Now you do."
I just did what I do for every law school class, wait until the end then cram like hell. Doesn't work as well as it did in HS or undergrad, unfortunately..
My buddy had study habits like that. He made it through Hastings OK, but he had to take the Bar three times. He finally passed the Bar, thank god.
Been to Groklaw lately, have we? =) Or perhaps you also have an interest in the history of law.
The concept is not new. However, between (roughly) 1850 and 1930 case law been one of the central pillars of legal reform. Our current system did not spring up all in one piece, like Athena from Zeus's head.
Uh yeah, and you conveniently dropped four little letters this time around.
Does every single program need to be useful to every single user to be included? How does it hurt your poor sainted grandmother if Apple has included an application she'll never use?
On the other hand, this would be a lot of fun for the kids on a family computer, and would be at least a little bit of compensation for the Mac not being the greatest game machine. And it's probably "healthier" (whatever that means) for kids to slap together loops and call it music than to attack hookers with chainsaws and steal automobiles.
And this "nearby laptop with a wifi card" is connected to what?
To the world at large via the internet eventually, I'd imagine. Really, it's not that hard to figure this out. You might think you're somehow playing the Devil's Advocate, but really you're being intentionally dense for the sake of argument. I know you're not stupid.
So, I guess if cum buckets are influential, you must damned well be a senator then, eh?
Good one. Obviously took more thought than mine. I'll trade insults with you any day. =) It was supposed to be a joke, and I'm glad you got into the spurt, I mean, spirit of it.
Sorry if I seemed to go off in a tangent, either joke-wise or otherwise.
I joked about Canada and got modded as a troll. Now if I made comments about dot heads, pakis, and people who use towels for headgear, I'd have gotten modded insightful.
I know this is slashdot, but you're being paranoid and hyper-defensive for assuming that I was challenging your post or your contentions. You'll notice I don't say, "you're wrong".
Try rereading my post. Then ask if it's possible to hold a discussion or exchange views outside of the debate format that is the norm on slashdot.
If you really need to argue with me on some topic, then let's talk about your mom. If fat = influence, your momma would be the most influential person on earth.
The Contax was plagued by a too small buffer, making it inappropriate for many uses. It was a good studio camera. And the lenses!! My butthole gets wet whenever someone mentions Zeiss.
know people invest to make money. But I also think a lot of Apple's investors have a degree of loyalty, born out of disgust with MS.
You probably think wrong. Seriously, other than a few big holdings (Jobs owns 5 million shares, for example), the majority of the stock is held by mutual funds, pensions, and other institutions. The purpose of these institutions is to make money, and if there was money to be made by selling to MS, they'd leap at it. No personal feelings of loyalty enter into it.
Thankfully, I don't think MS ever will attempt to take over Apple. Where would they get their free R&D if they did?
Apple didn't steal the GUI from Xerox PARC. They paid something like a million in stock for the privilege.
MS, on the other hand, didn't just steal the idea. They got a lot of mileage out of imitating Apple, and will probably continue to do so.
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It's kind of ironic, actually - I'm arguing both sides of the waste problem at once in this section:). I'm trying to convince some people that it exists, while trying to convince one very zealous individual that it really isn't that much worse than the chemical waste problem.
That wouldn't be Doc you're trying to convince, would it? =)
I know this is corny, but Torvalds is wealthy in friends. He has touched the lives of many across the globe in a good way, and asked nothing in return*.
Gates and Jobs, on the other hand, probably have few friends, and fewer outside the circle of other business moguls. Sure, a lot of people "want to be their friend", because of their money and their power. (I've met Jobs, and I think he's a total prick. I'll still blindly buy anything he sells, however, and drink gratefully from the glass of kool aid he offers me as I bathe in the warm aura of the Reality Distortion Field.)
Linus, on the other hand, is loved because he did something really cool in creating the Linux kernel, and then did something even cooler by giving it away under the GPL. Linus is a mensch.
But I'll probably get modded down for this opinion. =)
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Which is why we can invade Iraq in order to fight terrorism. All we have to do is manipulate the meanings and we can justify anything.
Many attacks have been foiled, including major ones.
You have any reputable sources for that statement? Or are you just repeating something someone on Fox News told you?
the difference of degree is sufficient enough to be very thankful that this is the US rather than Germany in 1932.
I think it's a big mistake to say that it couldn't happen here. Germany went over a cliff, but we're on a slippery slope, and judging by the polls, a little of over half of America can't wait to make it to the bottom.
I'm on pretty good terms with my banker, and she told me that a flag goes up on transfers over $5000, especially if they're frequent. The topic came up when I decided to take cash out of a "risk free" CD prematurely so I could buy a motorcycle.
Basically, if you're moving large sums of cash into and out of your personal accounts on a regular basis, the bank notifies the authorities. Since in most cases, it's all legit and checks out, you don't even know you've been investigated.
Oh, and one more thing. You can call the FBI and ask if they have a file on you. The answer will most likely be, "Now you do."
Maybe he works for the Alternative Public Defender office.
I just did what I do for every law school class, wait until the end then cram like hell. Doesn't work as well as it did in HS or undergrad, unfortunately..
My buddy had study habits like that. He made it through Hastings OK, but he had to take the Bar three times. He finally passed the Bar, thank god.
Been to Groklaw lately, have we? =) Or perhaps you also have an interest in the history of law.
The concept is not new. However, between (roughly) 1850 and 1930 case law been one of the central pillars of legal reform. Our current system did not spring up all in one piece, like Athena from Zeus's head.
Uh yeah, and you conveniently dropped four little letters this time around.
Does every single program need to be useful to every single user to be included? How does it hurt your poor sainted grandmother if Apple has included an application she'll never use?
On the other hand, this would be a lot of fun for the kids on a family computer, and would be at least a little bit of compensation for the Mac not being the greatest game machine. And it's probably "healthier" (whatever that means) for kids to slap together loops and call it music than to attack hookers with chainsaws and steal automobiles.
Aren't drum kits (real live physical drums as well as software drums) for dummies by definition? =)
And this "nearby laptop with a wifi card" is connected to what?
To the world at large via the internet eventually, I'd imagine. Really, it's not that hard to figure this out. You might think you're somehow playing the Devil's Advocate, but really you're being intentionally dense for the sake of argument. I know you're not stupid.
So, I guess if cum buckets are influential, you must damned well be a senator then, eh?
Good one. Obviously took more thought than mine. I'll trade insults with you any day. =) It was supposed to be a joke, and I'm glad you got into the spurt, I mean, spirit of it.
Sorry if I seemed to go off in a tangent, either joke-wise or otherwise.
I joked about Canada and got modded as a troll. Now if I made comments about dot heads, pakis, and people who use towels for headgear, I'd have gotten modded insightful.
I know this is slashdot, but you're being paranoid and hyper-defensive for assuming that I was challenging your post or your contentions. You'll notice I don't say, "you're wrong".
Try rereading my post. Then ask if it's possible to hold a discussion or exchange views outside of the debate format that is the norm on slashdot.
If you really need to argue with me on some topic, then let's talk about your mom. If fat = influence, your momma would be the most influential person on earth.
But then the battery wouldn't be replaceable. =)
You don't need a Starbucks, you just need a nearby laptop with a wifi card set up as a base station.
Obviously.
The Contax was plagued by a too small buffer, making it inappropriate for many uses. It was a good studio camera. And the lenses!! My butthole gets wet whenever someone mentions Zeiss.
How is fortified wine going to help?
uh, internet radio.
Wrong. Apple paid Xerox for the PARC research and technologies that they used.
Entertaining sideshow =! influential
know people invest to make money. But I also think a lot of Apple's investors have a degree of loyalty, born out of disgust with MS.
You probably think wrong. Seriously, other than a few big holdings (Jobs owns 5 million shares, for example), the majority of the stock is held by mutual funds, pensions, and other institutions. The purpose of these institutions is to make money, and if there was money to be made by selling to MS, they'd leap at it. No personal feelings of loyalty enter into it.
Thankfully, I don't think MS ever will attempt to take over Apple. Where would they get their free R&D if they did?
So Gates is sort of like Robin Hood? He steals from the rich and gives to the poor? Oh, wait, he steals from anyone.
Apple didn't steal the GUI from Xerox PARC. They paid something like a million in stock for the privilege.
MS, on the other hand, didn't just steal the idea. They got a lot of mileage out of imitating Apple, and will probably continue to do so.
It's kind of ironic, actually - I'm arguing both sides of the waste problem at once in this section :). I'm trying to convince some people that it exists, while trying to convince one very zealous individual that it really isn't that much worse than the chemical waste problem.
That wouldn't be Doc you're trying to convince, would it? =)
I know this is corny, but Torvalds is wealthy in friends. He has touched the lives of many across the globe in a good way, and asked nothing in return*.
Gates and Jobs, on the other hand, probably have few friends, and fewer outside the circle of other business moguls. Sure, a lot of people "want to be their friend", because of their money and their power. (I've met Jobs, and I think he's a total prick. I'll still blindly buy anything he sells, however, and drink gratefully from the glass of kool aid he offers me as I bathe in the warm aura of the Reality Distortion Field.)
Linus, on the other hand, is loved because he did something really cool in creating the Linux kernel, and then did something even cooler by giving it away under the GPL. Linus is a mensch.
But I'll probably get modded down for this opinion. =)
*Unless you count the GPL =)