Nobody has ever been strung up from a tree by a crowd of Youtube commenters
Of course not! Half of them wouldn't know what a rope is and attempt to hang said target with a string of cats; The other half would be terrified of the green stuff growing out of the ground and the big table-like-material object that seems to be growing out of it, and quickly run for cover into their basements.
As for the model releases etc, the users effectively give up that right with the new terms of service.
umm..no.
Someone takes a picture of me, unknowingly, and publishes the picture to Instagram. That user can agree and sign whatever they want, you still need a model release, from me, to use it.
I dont get why they dont just allow sick days to roll over into vacation days the next year if not used. This would give you an incentive to only use them if needed, as you wont 'lose' those days if they're not used. But if you do use them, its not like a punishment, which is how I view it when the include sick days with vacation days in a PTO system.
I'd like to point out, you're getting more sick leave in a given year, then I get vacation time (which includes my sick days) in a given year.
This problem seems to be more of an issue in the US, and I think its blindingly odvious why that would be, given the rules in this part of the world. Working from home while sick seems like an utterly stupid concept to me, you're not resting so you'll only make it worse and last longer.
Ontop of this, its common in the US that if you need more than 1 day, you need a doctors excuse. Sometimes its 2 days, but from my experience its usally 1 day. If you only call in sick one day the entire year, and are out for 3 days, even if you're given 10 months of sick leave, without a doctors note they'll fire you on the spot.
The parent is of course, insane, but im afrade you're also inaccurate.
Dec 21st 2012 is the end of the 13th baktun and the beginning of the 14th baktun. This is important to the Mayans as they believed that we live in the 4th itteration of the planet earth. The first 3 failed, for various reasons, the longest being the third, which lasted 13 baktuns. The coming of the 14th baktun is important to them because it means this world will now be the longest running. Previous worlds were not well suited to life, and humans didn't appear untill this particular version. It's a sign that this world is good, pure, and running well. Makes me laugh every time I read something about the end of the world, they couldn't be further from the truth.
Not too clear to me why I cannot question the integrity of a foreign court, just because my own court system has done some questionable things.
I can question the integrity of a foreign court, just as I can question the integrity of a domestic court. You dont get to decide what I can question, thanks.
That depends on how you define life. I define it as "a self-sustaining biological unit suitably equipped to survive in its nominal environment".
I'm generally in agreement with you, but wanted to point out even this is somewhat simple for a definition of 'life'. I was born premature, very premature, about 2 months. At the time (heck even now) my outlook was not very good. I needed help breathing, my heart didn't work quite right, and I really couldn't survive on my own for almost a month after I was born. By this deffinition even after birth, I wouldn't have been considered alive.
I dont think its an argument anyone is going to settle, anytime soon, to be perfectly frank. Life at conception is easy to define, but hard to support. Life by your deffinition is somewhat harder to define, and somewhat confusing to support under the right situation. Realistically it needs to be an individual choice of the parents involved if it means an abortion or whatever the case may be, there are too many variables to cover. Sadly, religious nuts refuse even that solution.
Then point to something that gives the whole story. Throwing your arms into the air and declaring everyone else an idiot hardly makes you look good. Just makes you look like a loonie.
Honestly I cannot imagine a source that would allow you to justify what the US has done in the middle east in general. But, i'm open to it, if such a thing exists. You wont be supplying one, of course, since none actually do.
Excuse me sir but I represent a company holding a trademark on the name Time Management, often refered to as TM. What's more, the company is known internationally as TM(tm). I'm afrade, you and I need to have a little talk..
Depends. Who are you going to lynch? The scumbag lawyer? The patent official(s) who granted this patent? The politicians who have been dragging their feet on patent reform?
If my 'friends' view it as such a pain to contact me personally about things they'd like me to personally attend, im not so sure they're really all that great of friends to begin with.
Yeah but with a dedicated application, any bugs that involved my personal details getting stolen are now at fault to the bank and who wrote the App. If its a bug in my browser they can just claim I didn't take care of my own machine and pretend it never happened.
That's the thing about healthcare, you may not realize you have something someone else really REALLY needs, until its too late.
I dont see whats 'immoral' about holding doctors to the same standard as i'd hold to an accountant, frankly. If anything they should be held to a higher standard, if thats something they cant handle, then maybe they shouldn't be doctors.
That said, you'd think they'd be the first folks on the front lines demanding things like open formats, to make this stuff easier for them. That wont happen unless they're actually held responsible for it however.
Apple is hardly clean of any of this as well with the way they've been throwing their weight around as well.
If anything, everyone involved needs to be dragged into the street and told to knock it off before kneecaps start getting busted. Sadly there's too much money to be made, by all involved, for that to happen.
But dont pretend Apple is innocent in any of it, just makes you out to be a shill instead of having some kind of actual point.
Not that anyone will read this, but I feel it must be said.
I would consider myself an 'Atheist' though im more agnostic, many people consider them one in the same. I also 'believe' in evil, whatever that means. Evil exists. Belief in a god isn't required to believe in evil.
Drilling holes in a dogs head is evil, weather I believe i'll be going to hell or not for it. As for "Voting for the lesser evil" while that may not be the best choice, sometimes its the only real choice you have. That's not to say you need to agree with it, or that its the most logical choice, but there is something said about voting for someone purely so that the other guy doesn't get in.
As ususal the universe isn't black and white, no matter how badly you wish it were.
Actually, for FRAND that's what most companies do, its called cross licensing and some people feel it pushes smaller cell phone companies out of the market (and I think they have a point).
Apple basically said they dont want to do that. They've come out and said, as of whatever date, we'll pay you 1 dollar per phone sold/built instead. The patent company came back with 2.25% of the value of the phone. Honestly I think Apple's is too low, and Motorola is too high, which is why it confuses me Apple wants to go to court if they're to pay anything more than what they've already offered.
Be like eating at a resturant before seeing the prices on the menue, and instead of offering pay for the meal and not be an idiot about it, you instead start demanding you pay 5 dollars for the meal and get your drinks free because you ordered refills after being told about the prices... Or something, it doesn't make any sense to me at all, which is why it's so confusing.
...and Apple has already said they will not pay what everyone else pays.
Everyone else goes into a cross-liscence instead of paying actual money per device, Apple has already refused to do this.
What I find interesting is Apple feels that paying 1 dollar per device MOVING FORWARD is somehow a fair price. I could see an argument that 2.25% of the total value of a phone is too high, but clearly what Apple offers is absurdly low. They then threaten to drag out legal procedings if it goes to court if they are to pay anything more than what they've already demanded.
Even if it was a huge loss to the company, i'd want to nail them to a tree for that alone, you let one company push you around like that suddenly everyone else can now opt for the same. I dont really see the point, all Apple is doing is forcing this to go to court, and any court with an ounce of brainpower will find Apple is not being fair, regardless of what the other side is offering at this point.
The fact that I dont understand the play they're making makes me worry we're not being told something, whatever that is Apple feels its in their favor. That, or they're just a bunch of idiots, which can never be ruled out, for either side.
The classic "FIRE" in a croweded theater situation, its not illegal to do. You can yell fire all you want and nobody will arrest you for your speech. They will arrest you for inciting a panic and getting people hurt however.
The difference is by yelling fire, you're trying to get people to panic, to fear for their lives. Making a low-budget insult-film isn't going to make anyone (save the actors maybe) fear for their actual lives. Getting upset and shooting random people over it, is the fault of the idot getting upset, not the moron who made the bad film.
Another example, I'm perfectly allowed to walk up to you, and threaten to slit your throat and gut you infront of your family. From a freedom of speech perspective, that's legal. I did however, threaten your life, and that's illegal, but as nothing to do with speech. Likewise, I can stand infront of an audiance and state that I feel all Demopublicans should be exiled to Cuba and have all their posessions captured by US Customs and spent to pay off our national debt. That's perfectly legal. It's still a threat, but its not a life-ending threat and its not very specific.
Anyone who spends a little time even thinking about it should be able to see the difference. If you're having trouble telling the difference, the problem isn't how the law is worded, its you. For whatever reason, people seem to find it hard to accept that they're the problem, so its easier to just try to get the law changed to match their insane world views.
You need to learn to read first before demanding citations. Nowhere does he say that unpasteurized milk is bigger than drugs in the black market. I'm not even sure why you'd asume that based on what he said.
Higher than you'd think. While Hobbits have a love of windows, they're noted to also enjoy rounded corners. Seeing as this is a patent problem it doesn't leave them many other options.
That's not how orbital velocity's work. You're not just hovering in space over the planet, you're in active freefall moving so fast you're traveling over the horizon before you hit the ground.
Frankly I never understood this very well either, untill I started playing the game "Kerbal Space Program". Suddenly, I understand why firing the gas into the direction you're traveling makes way more sense, than firing it into space to move you 'closer' to the earth. You're already actively falling inward to earth. All you'd do is slightly speed or slow yourself down, depending on how off center the gas release was. If it was perfectly centered you might manage to oblong the orbit slightly, but unless you had a lot of force, you wont deorbit that way.
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Nobody has ever been strung up from a tree by a crowd of Youtube commenters
Of course not! Half of them wouldn't know what a rope is and attempt to hang said target with a string of cats; The other half would be terrified of the green stuff growing out of the ground and the big table-like-material object that seems to be growing out of it, and quickly run for cover into their basements.
As for the model releases etc, the users effectively give up that right with the new terms of service.
umm..no.
Someone takes a picture of me, unknowingly, and publishes the picture to Instagram. That user can agree and sign whatever they want, you still need a model release, from me, to use it.
Someone else cannot sign my rights away.
I dont get why they dont just allow sick days to roll over into vacation days the next year if not used. This would give you an incentive to only use them if needed, as you wont 'lose' those days if they're not used. But if you do use them, its not like a punishment, which is how I view it when the include sick days with vacation days in a PTO system.
I'd like to point out, you're getting more sick leave in a given year, then I get vacation time (which includes my sick days) in a given year.
This problem seems to be more of an issue in the US, and I think its blindingly odvious why that would be, given the rules in this part of the world. Working from home while sick seems like an utterly stupid concept to me, you're not resting so you'll only make it worse and last longer.
Ontop of this, its common in the US that if you need more than 1 day, you need a doctors excuse. Sometimes its 2 days, but from my experience its usally 1 day. If you only call in sick one day the entire year, and are out for 3 days, even if you're given 10 months of sick leave, without a doctors note they'll fire you on the spot.
I hate this country for its treatment of labor.
The parent is of course, insane, but im afrade you're also inaccurate.
Dec 21st 2012 is the end of the 13th baktun and the beginning of the 14th baktun. This is important to the Mayans as they believed that we live in the 4th itteration of the planet earth. The first 3 failed, for various reasons, the longest being the third, which lasted 13 baktuns. The coming of the 14th baktun is important to them because it means this world will now be the longest running. Previous worlds were not well suited to life, and humans didn't appear untill this particular version. It's a sign that this world is good, pure, and running well. Makes me laugh every time I read something about the end of the world, they couldn't be further from the truth.
...I count 60 advertisements when I visit the steam store...
Err...duh?
Not too clear to me why I cannot question the integrity of a foreign court, just because my own court system has done some questionable things.
I can question the integrity of a foreign court, just as I can question the integrity of a domestic court. You dont get to decide what I can question, thanks.
That depends on how you define life. I define it as "a self-sustaining biological unit suitably equipped to survive in its nominal environment".
I'm generally in agreement with you, but wanted to point out even this is somewhat simple for a definition of 'life'. I was born premature, very premature, about 2 months. At the time (heck even now) my outlook was not very good. I needed help breathing, my heart didn't work quite right, and I really couldn't survive on my own for almost a month after I was born. By this deffinition even after birth, I wouldn't have been considered alive.
I dont think its an argument anyone is going to settle, anytime soon, to be perfectly frank. Life at conception is easy to define, but hard to support. Life by your deffinition is somewhat harder to define, and somewhat confusing to support under the right situation. Realistically it needs to be an individual choice of the parents involved if it means an abortion or whatever the case may be, there are too many variables to cover. Sadly, religious nuts refuse even that solution.
...who said they were illegal, and why would you assume simply refering to an 'immigrant' would result in only illegal immigrants?
Wow, just...wow.
Then point to something that gives the whole story. Throwing your arms into the air and declaring everyone else an idiot hardly makes you look good. Just makes you look like a loonie.
Honestly I cannot imagine a source that would allow you to justify what the US has done in the middle east in general. But, i'm open to it, if such a thing exists. You wont be supplying one, of course, since none actually do.
Excuse me sir but I represent a company holding a trademark on the name Time Management, often refered to as TM. What's more, the company is known internationally as TM(tm). I'm afrade, you and I need to have a little talk..
Depends. Who are you going to lynch? The scumbag lawyer? The patent official(s) who granted this patent? The politicians who have been dragging their feet on patent reform?
Yes
If my 'friends' view it as such a pain to contact me personally about things they'd like me to personally attend, im not so sure they're really all that great of friends to begin with.
Do you have a source for the story? Its not that I dont believe you, I just really would be interested in more info on it!
Yeah but with a dedicated application, any bugs that involved my personal details getting stolen are now at fault to the bank and who wrote the App. If its a bug in my browser they can just claim I didn't take care of my own machine and pretend it never happened.
Its because of this, that this will never happen.
That's the thing about healthcare, you may not realize you have something someone else really REALLY needs, until its too late.
I dont see whats 'immoral' about holding doctors to the same standard as i'd hold to an accountant, frankly. If anything they should be held to a higher standard, if thats something they cant handle, then maybe they shouldn't be doctors.
That said, you'd think they'd be the first folks on the front lines demanding things like open formats, to make this stuff easier for them. That wont happen unless they're actually held responsible for it however.
Apple is hardly clean of any of this as well with the way they've been throwing their weight around as well.
If anything, everyone involved needs to be dragged into the street and told to knock it off before kneecaps start getting busted. Sadly there's too much money to be made, by all involved, for that to happen.
But dont pretend Apple is innocent in any of it, just makes you out to be a shill instead of having some kind of actual point.
Not that anyone will read this, but I feel it must be said.
I would consider myself an 'Atheist' though im more agnostic, many people consider them one in the same. I also 'believe' in evil, whatever that means. Evil exists. Belief in a god isn't required to believe in evil.
Drilling holes in a dogs head is evil, weather I believe i'll be going to hell or not for it. As for "Voting for the lesser evil" while that may not be the best choice, sometimes its the only real choice you have. That's not to say you need to agree with it, or that its the most logical choice, but there is something said about voting for someone purely so that the other guy doesn't get in.
As ususal the universe isn't black and white, no matter how badly you wish it were.
Actually, for FRAND that's what most companies do, its called cross licensing and some people feel it pushes smaller cell phone companies out of the market (and I think they have a point).
Apple basically said they dont want to do that. They've come out and said, as of whatever date, we'll pay you 1 dollar per phone sold/built instead. The patent company came back with 2.25% of the value of the phone. Honestly I think Apple's is too low, and Motorola is too high, which is why it confuses me Apple wants to go to court if they're to pay anything more than what they've already offered.
Be like eating at a resturant before seeing the prices on the menue, and instead of offering pay for the meal and not be an idiot about it, you instead start demanding you pay 5 dollars for the meal and get your drinks free because you ordered refills after being told about the prices... Or something, it doesn't make any sense to me at all, which is why it's so confusing.
...and Apple has already said they will not pay what everyone else pays.
Everyone else goes into a cross-liscence instead of paying actual money per device, Apple has already refused to do this.
What I find interesting is Apple feels that paying 1 dollar per device MOVING FORWARD is somehow a fair price. I could see an argument that 2.25% of the total value of a phone is too high, but clearly what Apple offers is absurdly low. They then threaten to drag out legal procedings if it goes to court if they are to pay anything more than what they've already demanded.
Even if it was a huge loss to the company, i'd want to nail them to a tree for that alone, you let one company push you around like that suddenly everyone else can now opt for the same. I dont really see the point, all Apple is doing is forcing this to go to court, and any court with an ounce of brainpower will find Apple is not being fair, regardless of what the other side is offering at this point.
The fact that I dont understand the play they're making makes me worry we're not being told something, whatever that is Apple feels its in their favor. That, or they're just a bunch of idiots, which can never be ruled out, for either side.
Then you're as much a problem as they are.
The classic "FIRE" in a croweded theater situation, its not illegal to do. You can yell fire all you want and nobody will arrest you for your speech. They will arrest you for inciting a panic and getting people hurt however.
The difference is by yelling fire, you're trying to get people to panic, to fear for their lives. Making a low-budget insult-film isn't going to make anyone (save the actors maybe) fear for their actual lives. Getting upset and shooting random people over it, is the fault of the idot getting upset, not the moron who made the bad film.
Another example, I'm perfectly allowed to walk up to you, and threaten to slit your throat and gut you infront of your family. From a freedom of speech perspective, that's legal. I did however, threaten your life, and that's illegal, but as nothing to do with speech. Likewise, I can stand infront of an audiance and state that I feel all Demopublicans should be exiled to Cuba and have all their posessions captured by US Customs and spent to pay off our national debt. That's perfectly legal. It's still a threat, but its not a life-ending threat and its not very specific.
Anyone who spends a little time even thinking about it should be able to see the difference. If you're having trouble telling the difference, the problem isn't how the law is worded, its you. For whatever reason, people seem to find it hard to accept that they're the problem, so its easier to just try to get the law changed to match their insane world views.
You need to learn to read first before demanding citations. Nowhere does he say that unpasteurized milk is bigger than drugs in the black market. I'm not even sure why you'd asume that based on what he said.
Not as big of a coincidence as you might think.
I live in Green Bay, and let me tell you, that night things went a little crazy. People on the radio were openly talking about Boycotts.
Nothing changes the mind of a group like the NFL faster, then the concept of lost profits.
Higher than you'd think. While Hobbits have a love of windows, they're noted to also enjoy rounded corners. Seeing as this is a patent problem it doesn't leave them many other options.
That's not how orbital velocity's work. You're not just hovering in space over the planet, you're in active freefall moving so fast you're traveling over the horizon before you hit the ground.
Frankly I never understood this very well either, untill I started playing the game "Kerbal Space Program". Suddenly, I understand why firing the gas into the direction you're traveling makes way more sense, than firing it into space to move you 'closer' to the earth. You're already actively falling inward to earth. All you'd do is slightly speed or slow yourself down, depending on how off center the gas release was. If it was perfectly centered you might manage to oblong the orbit slightly, but unless you had a lot of force, you wont deorbit that way.