The theory is bullshit. They dilute a compound until they're essentially giving somebody water and claiming that the water will have some memory of some compound being dissolved in it and that will cure people of their illnesses. Placebos might work, but the theory is pure bunkum.
The crux of John Fund's ENTIRE article is, to paraphrase, "Net Neutrality is bad because it was created by SOCIALISTS! AND MARXISTS! AND THEY DON'T DENY IT!"
That is, of course, the problem with a lot of the commentary about Net Neutrality (although more on the side against Net Neutrality than for, I've noticed, although maybe that's just my own biases showing). None of the commentary actually address the issues of why Net Neutrality is or isn't necessary. Rather, it devolves into arguments about collateral issues like crying socialism like John Fund does here. He thinks Net Neutrality is bad because a "socialist" came up with it. As if a person's political views will render a person's idea per se invalid.
There are always those who thinks the way to score political points is to try to fit the word "socialism" as many times as they can into an article and call it an argument.
Yeah, I've been using Beta 7 for a while and for whatever odd reason, I've been getting momentary freezes as it's doing routine stuff. Is this happening to anyone else, or just my specific configuration?
If I am wrong, perhaps you'd like to explain why I am wrong rather than simply stating I'm an idiot. I'm assuming you have an MBA, so I'm sure this will be entertaining.
Polaroid is a shell of itself. It's just a holding company nowadays that licenses the Polaroid name out to various cheap manufacturers who make random devices under that name. This is why you see crap like Polaroid DVD players and whatnot. There is no Polaroid manufacturing, R&D, or marketing divisions - it just exists to license out the trademark to anyone willing give them a bag of cash.
That's why naming Lady Gaga as a Creative Director is bunkum. You can't have a creative director if the company DOESN'T CREATE ANYTHING.
I like electronic music and I like Daft Punk and I like the soundtrack to Tron Legacy. Save the looking down your nose for a job at some hipster used record store.
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During one of the brief looks at the console, it noted that it was "SolarOS", which I think is a nice reference to SunOS, which would've been around at the time Kevin Flynn disappeared (1989).
Is it me or does Garrett Hedlund look like a young Peter Weller? They should get him for that Robocop reboot that has been in development hell for ages.
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Daft Punk is amazing. The soundtrack fits into a movie of this type so well, I just had to buy it right after watching the movie on IMAX. The Daft Punk music suits a movie like Tron so much more than the original's symphonic score, I think.
Also, watching Michael Sheen do this unholy cross between Ziggy Stardust and Frank-N-Furter is hilarious.
There is some sort of logical disconnect where the UK wants to block porn on the internet, but any idiot with some change change can buy a copy of the Sun and get glamour models IN THE F&@KING NEWSPAPER.
The difference between apple cider and juice is the amount of processing done to it. Juice is usually filtered so it's often clear, while cider is often made with apple residue within, creating that opaque brown color.
This is Kay Bailey Hutchinson proving her conservative bona fides after the shellacking she got from the 2010 Texas Republican Gubernatorial primary. Too bad she's decided to take sides against consumers to prove that she's a good party member.
You may not be a birther, but your logic is about as faulty as a birther's.
To renounce one's citizenship, one must:
1. appear in person before a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer,
2. in a foreign country (normally at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate); and
3. sign an oath of renunciation
And minor children can't have their citizenship renounced by their parents.
So no, Obama didn't renounce his citizenship, even if he put down Indonesia on his college aid forms since a) He was doing this for a college and not before a US consular or diplomatic officer, b) he wasn't in a foreign country (he was in the US), and c) a college aid form is NOT an oath of renunciation.
Also, regarding the claim he gamed the system for his own ends, you started off your comment saying that he spent millions of dollars sealing his college records. So you essentially admit that you have NO PROOF that he actually put Indonesian down as his citizenship in his college aid forms. All you cite is "There is some though (sic)", which is nothing but speculation.
Even if Anonymous is made up of random people who care about the issue of the moment, you can still investigate people who have committed specific offenses against a specific target. And, as we have seen, the vast majority of Anonymous are script kiddies who don't know how to hide their footprints, so that shouldn't be entirely too difficult.
Not exactly. If the Supreme Court actually did decide that there were no new facts that made it necessary to reverse themselves or consider the case separately, they would've simply denied issuing a writ of certiorari.
It's because copyright doesn't only pertain to the right to copy, but also the right to distribute.
17 USC 106 gives a copyright owner the exclusive right to: "(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; "
Thus, the First Sale doctrine is, essentially, a defense against a claim of infringement of the copyright owner's right to distribute. Sure, nobody's copying, but what Costco is doing is distribution, which also is covered.
Yes, but a limited application of Right of First-Sale as a defense in 1 Circuit out of 13 Circuits is hardly the same as saying saying "First-Sale Doctrine" is lost overseas. This particular Supreme Court decision has no precedential force behind it.
The headline is overstating things a lot. The First-Sale Doctrine isn't lost overseas. Since this is a 4-4 tie decision by the Supreme Court, only the lower court decision is upheld. There is no precedential force behind the decision at all. Thus, the only thing that can be said about this is that Costco loses this particular instance, but the right of First-Sale overseas remains in effect since this decision isn't useful for any subsequent precedent.
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The theory is bullshit. They dilute a compound until they're essentially giving somebody water and claiming that the water will have some memory of some compound being dissolved in it and that will cure people of their illnesses. Placebos might work, but the theory is pure bunkum.
If deception isn't necessary for placebos to work, does this mean the homeopathic medicine advocates can admit it's bullshit now?
The crux of John Fund's ENTIRE article is, to paraphrase, "Net Neutrality is bad because it was created by SOCIALISTS! AND MARXISTS! AND THEY DON'T DENY IT!"
That is, of course, the problem with a lot of the commentary about Net Neutrality (although more on the side against Net Neutrality than for, I've noticed, although maybe that's just my own biases showing). None of the commentary actually address the issues of why Net Neutrality is or isn't necessary. Rather, it devolves into arguments about collateral issues like crying socialism like John Fund does here. He thinks Net Neutrality is bad because a "socialist" came up with it. As if a person's political views will render a person's idea per se invalid.
There are always those who thinks the way to score political points is to try to fit the word "socialism" as many times as they can into an article and call it an argument.
Yeah, I've been using Beta 7 for a while and for whatever odd reason, I've been getting momentary freezes as it's doing routine stuff. Is this happening to anyone else, or just my specific configuration?
Sorry, Drinkypoo, I clicked reply on the wrong person.
If I am wrong, perhaps you'd like to explain why I am wrong rather than simply stating I'm an idiot. I'm assuming you have an MBA, so I'm sure this will be entertaining.
Polaroid is a shell of itself. It's just a holding company nowadays that licenses the Polaroid name out to various cheap manufacturers who make random devices under that name. This is why you see crap like Polaroid DVD players and whatnot. There is no Polaroid manufacturing, R&D, or marketing divisions - it just exists to license out the trademark to anyone willing give them a bag of cash.
That's why naming Lady Gaga as a Creative Director is bunkum. You can't have a creative director if the company DOESN'T CREATE ANYTHING.
Condescend much, fella?
I like electronic music and I like Daft Punk and I like the soundtrack to Tron Legacy. Save the looking down your nose for a job at some hipster used record store.
During one of the brief looks at the console, it noted that it was "SolarOS", which I think is a nice reference to SunOS, which would've been around at the time Kevin Flynn disappeared (1989).
Is it me or does Garrett Hedlund look like a young Peter Weller? They should get him for that Robocop reboot that has been in development hell for ages.
Daft Punk is amazing. The soundtrack fits into a movie of this type so well, I just had to buy it right after watching the movie on IMAX. The Daft Punk music suits a movie like Tron so much more than the original's symphonic score, I think.
Also, watching Michael Sheen do this unholy cross between Ziggy Stardust and Frank-N-Furter is hilarious.
Although, to be fair, the Sun is barely a newspaper so much as it's just newsprint.
There is some sort of logical disconnect where the UK wants to block porn on the internet, but any idiot with some change change can buy a copy of the Sun and get glamour models IN THE F&@KING NEWSPAPER.
As I recall, Giger has night terrors and the stuff he paints is the stuff he sees in his dreams.
The difference between apple cider and juice is the amount of processing done to it. Juice is usually filtered so it's often clear, while cider is often made with apple residue within, creating that opaque brown color.
This is Kay Bailey Hutchinson proving her conservative bona fides after the shellacking she got from the 2010 Texas Republican Gubernatorial primary. Too bad she's decided to take sides against consumers to prove that she's a good party member.
You may not be a birther, but your logic is about as faulty as a birther's.
To renounce one's citizenship, one must:
1. appear in person before a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer,
2. in a foreign country (normally at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate); and
3. sign an oath of renunciation
And minor children can't have their citizenship renounced by their parents.
http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html
So no, Obama didn't renounce his citizenship, even if he put down Indonesia on his college aid forms since a) He was doing this for a college and not before a US consular or diplomatic officer, b) he wasn't in a foreign country (he was in the US), and c) a college aid form is NOT an oath of renunciation.
Also, regarding the claim he gamed the system for his own ends, you started off your comment saying that he spent millions of dollars sealing his college records. So you essentially admit that you have NO PROOF that he actually put Indonesian down as his citizenship in his college aid forms. All you cite is "There is some though (sic)", which is nothing but speculation.
Even if Anonymous is made up of random people who care about the issue of the moment, you can still investigate people who have committed specific offenses against a specific target. And, as we have seen, the vast majority of Anonymous are script kiddies who don't know how to hide their footprints, so that shouldn't be entirely too difficult.
Not exactly. If the Supreme Court actually did decide that there were no new facts that made it necessary to reverse themselves or consider the case separately, they would've simply denied issuing a writ of certiorari.
And you won't. It's a per curiam decision, so the Supreme Court issues the decision as a whole.
It's because copyright doesn't only pertain to the right to copy, but also the right to distribute.
17 USC 106 gives a copyright owner the exclusive right to: "(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; "
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000106----000-.html#3
However, 17 USC 109 limits that exclusive right to control distribution beyond the first sale.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/109.html
Thus, the First Sale doctrine is, essentially, a defense against a claim of infringement of the copyright owner's right to distribute. Sure, nobody's copying, but what Costco is doing is distribution, which also is covered.
Yes, but a limited application of Right of First-Sale as a defense in 1 Circuit out of 13 Circuits is hardly the same as saying saying "First-Sale Doctrine" is lost overseas. This particular Supreme Court decision has no precedential force behind it.
For the curious, here's the actual decision.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1423.pdf
It's two sentences long and simply states:
"PER CURIAM
The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
JUSTICE KAGAN took no part in the consideration or decision of this case."
The headline is overstating things a lot. The First-Sale Doctrine isn't lost overseas. Since this is a 4-4 tie decision by the Supreme Court, only the lower court decision is upheld. There is no precedential force behind the decision at all. Thus, the only thing that can be said about this is that Costco loses this particular instance, but the right of First-Sale overseas remains in effect since this decision isn't useful for any subsequent precedent.
http://www.slate.com/id/2109077/ --- A good analysis of what happens when a tied decision occurs.
The Person of the Year was never an endorsement, merely an indication of someone who was important for something for a year.
Remember, Hitler was Man of the Year (1938), and Stalin was Man of the Year twice (1939 & '42).