Anyone above second grade ought to know weight and mass are not interchangeable.
Anybody above second grade should know that words often have more than one meaning, which is controlled by context. Weight and mass are different if you're using their SCIENTIFIC definition. If you're using their COMMON definitions, weight and mass mean the same thing, especially when comparing objects that are both on this planet.
Unless you're trying to tell me that two people with the same mass arn't going to weigh the same.....
All you high school kids, pay attention, because I'm about to impart a valuable life lesson upon you.
Jocks don't hate you because you suck at sports. Jocks hate you because you're smarter than them.
That's why you're never going to get jocks to like you by getting better at sports. Even if you succeed, then you'll just be someone who is smarter than them AND is good at sports, and they'll just hate you more.
He didn't say that sports made you lose weight. He said that aerobic activity (like running a lot) led to a leaner state of fitness than anaerobic activity (like Rugby training), and thus that BODY MASS was not a good indicator of overall FITNESS.
The article says the study reached two conclusions:
1) (And most relevant to the politics) Access to sporting facilities had negligible effect on the activity of children. Children with access to sporting facilities used them, got tired, and were not very active when they got home. Children without access got home and, not having had a chance ot do sporting stuff at school, were more active outside of school. So, basically, the body is wired to get X amount of activity a day, and if it doesn't get it at sporting facilities paid for by the state, will get it after school anyway. Ergo, spending money on sporting facilities doesn't help kids get more excercise.
2) (And this is a specious conclusion) Amount of activity has no bearing on the child's Body Mass Index. They try and make this say that therefore, activity has nothing to do with obesity, but BMI is a body-mass index, not an obesity index. If you have fat, and you exercise, you may very well lose fat and get thinner and not lose any weight, because you also tend to gain muscle when you exercise. so kids who exercise may way the same as kids who don't, but are still probably much less fat.
Now, if the study measured how much FAT the kids had and didn't notice a difference with excercise, then they might be on to something, but they didn't, so they're not.
My three-year-old son is smarter than a bunch of politicians....the more politicians in the bunch, the greater the advantage your three-year-old son has.
You're write that creating an emulator isn't a copyright violation. (You're wrong that writing an emulator that violates DMCA is a copyright violation; it's not, it's a DMCA violation.)
But the copyright violation GP is referring to is not creating the emulator. The violation is copying the game ROM to use on the emulator, as the game ROM is most definitely copywritten.
Funny. I seem to recall a lot of screaming about the possibility for abuse and I distinctly recall being told to shut the fuck up, we can *trust* them to do the right thing.
The problem with this whole discussion is that it's about the FBI failing to keep track of how many letters they issued.
So now the government is saying "We'll keep better track of how many letters we issue, problem solved!"
NO! PROBLEM NOT SOLVED!
The *REAL* problem is that the government can compel release of private information WITHOUT A WARRANT! All this fiasco does is let the government substitute 'not counting the number of letters' for the REAL problem of 'being able to issue letters' and then pretend that since they've solved problem #1 that there is no problem at all.
Not all abuse is the same, and we should be clear here as to what the FBI actually did and didn't do. A good analogy here is that an FBI agent using their service firearm to unjustly shoot and kill a civilian is different from FBI agents failing to keep track of which agents have which guns and make sure they return them when they leave the agency. One case you expect criminal prosecution and the other case you'd expect some administrative action.
Same here. No one is alleging that the FBI used these Patriot Act powers outside of their intended purpose. What the FBI didn't do, that they should have, was properly account for the letters they did use, specifically, properly count the number used, and properly follow up with the recipients of the letters.
So yes, if FBI agents were using this power to get information that the law was not designed for them to get, then I'd expect criminal prosecution. But, as it appears is the case, the FBI just didn't properly ACCOUNT for the letters they did use, an administrative penalty seems perfectly sufficient to address the problem.
That all, of course, is separate from the issue of whether this law should exist at all (it shouldn't).
If forced to account for the "income", can't I also offset it by the "expense"?
Did you claim that laptop as a business deduction when you bought it? If you did, then you'll have to claim the money from the sale as income. If not, you've already paid your income tax on the money you spent on the laptop, so getting some of it back selling it later isn't taxed.
If you're talking about manufacturing, yes. If you're talking about mining, then yes. Those skills are character skills, and they act the same for all characters, and the only way to get better is to spend more time training the character skills.
I disagree here. You can max out mining skills pretty quickly, expcept for the 'really nice' rocks, and even those your ability to SURVIVE while mining is more important than your raw mining skills.
For manufacturing/trade, I have very basic skills in those areas but I *KNOW* I get more money doing them than a lot of older players do because I'm just smarter about it.
I've found that, in general, skills make it more CONVENIENT to do things, but don't make the difference in whether you can do it BETTER than anyone else.
Espcially if you SPECIALIZE. Getting really good at one thing is not that hard. What older players get as an advantage is that they are really good at more things. Which, again, is more convenient, but doesn't give them much of an advantage at beating you at any particular thing.
You're missing part of the equation here. The 'fast-track' approval for the military (obviously) doesn't involve as rigorous testing as the standard civilian approval process.
The military is willing to accept medical devices that have been fast tracked. The civilian market is not - even if the FDA 'fast-tracked' something for the civilian market, nobody would likely use it because they wouldn't want to face the liability for using a device that hadn't gone through the 'real' testing.
You're also missing that the military environment is different. In Iraq, potential amputation injuries are frequent, and distance to proper care can be far. In the US, the usefulness of this device would be limited, as by the time someone who happened to have one of these devices got to you and it put in, you'd already be at the major trauma center anyway.
This idea was discussed in considerable depth on various anti-spam lists several years ago. Nearly all hosts on the Internet talk to one mail server: the one designated for mail submission from the network they're on. (s/one/few/ for networks large enough to have multiple SMTP gateways.)
Or you could just block all connections on port 25 to all servers other than the designated SMTP server for all computers on the network (unless, maybe, the owner of that computer asked nicely.)
There is an element of states' rights here, and the federal government has become larger and more intrusive into the affairs of the states than the original framers of the Constitution intended.
When the constitution was written, it would take weeks to travel from the northern end of the country to the southern end. And actually traveling, on a horse, from the northern end to the southern end, was the only way to get a message from one end to the other.
Now, anyone can get anywhere in the country in less than a day. You can send a message anywhere on the planet in milliseconds.
So it only makes sense that more an more things become standardized at the federal level instead of the state level, because the states are not nearly as distinct from each other as they were in 1798.
It's ok to have a device that might fail if you have a low-tech backup procedure that will suffice until you can get a replacement.
In this case specifically, if your thumb-print reader fails, all soldiers are already equipped with a low-tech backup - a knife to cut off the thumb for scanning later.
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What's reasonable is what she paid to defend herself whether it be $1 or $1M.
That's not reasonable at all, and can't be the way the system is allowed to work.
If it were, my defense to a lawsuit, ESPECIALLY if I had a lot of cash to pay lawyers, could very well be:
"I'm going to spend $100 million paying my lawyers to win this case, and for $100 million they will win, and then I am sticking you with the bill."
A fair legal process demands that only REASONABLE fees are recoverable.
And, more generally, the less money given to the sharks, the better off our economy is.
Just search for 'border guard fetish'. They should wave you right through...
But you may also want to read up on 'personal lubricant', just in case you get an agent who stops you anyway - then you might REALLY be in trouble.
in much the same way as if humans exist they have to have skin
The contents of the chest freezer in my basement prove otherwise.
Anyone above second grade ought to know weight and mass are not interchangeable.
Anybody above second grade should know that words often have more than one meaning, which is controlled by context. Weight and mass are different if you're using their SCIENTIFIC definition. If you're using their COMMON definitions, weight and mass mean the same thing, especially when comparing objects that are both on this planet.
Unless you're trying to tell me that two people with the same mass arn't going to weigh the same.....
All you high school kids, pay attention, because I'm about to impart a valuable life lesson upon you.
Jocks don't hate you because you suck at sports. Jocks hate you because you're smarter than them.
That's why you're never going to get jocks to like you by getting better at sports. Even if you succeed, then you'll just be someone who is smarter than them AND is good at sports, and they'll just hate you more.
Read the Fing Grandparent.
He didn't say that sports made you lose weight. He said that aerobic activity (like running a lot) led to a leaner state of fitness than anaerobic activity (like Rugby training), and thus that BODY MASS was not a good indicator of overall FITNESS.
The article says the study reached two conclusions:
1) (And most relevant to the politics) Access to sporting facilities had negligible effect on the activity of children. Children with access to sporting facilities used them, got tired, and were not very active when they got home. Children without access got home and, not having had a chance ot do sporting stuff at school, were more active outside of school. So, basically, the body is wired to get X amount of activity a day, and if it doesn't get it at sporting facilities paid for by the state, will get it after school anyway. Ergo, spending money on sporting facilities doesn't help kids get more excercise.
2) (And this is a specious conclusion) Amount of activity has no bearing on the child's Body Mass Index. They try and make this say that therefore, activity has nothing to do with obesity, but BMI is a body-mass index, not an obesity index. If you have fat, and you exercise, you may very well lose fat and get thinner and not lose any weight, because you also tend to gain muscle when you exercise. so kids who exercise may way the same as kids who don't, but are still probably much less fat.
Now, if the study measured how much FAT the kids had and didn't notice a difference with excercise, then they might be on to something, but they didn't, so they're not.
Another thing this study missed is that BMI is BODY-MASS-INDEX. Weight divided by height, NOT *FAT* divided by height.
People who exercise reduce fat, but ALSO gain muscle. This is probably especially true in kids.
Are you going to try and prove to a happy person that are, in fact, just as angry and boring as you are? What's the point?
How are you going to get any happier if you don't take happiness from others?
My three-year-old son is smarter than a bunch of politicians. ...the more politicians in the bunch, the greater the advantage your three-year-old son has.
You're write that creating an emulator isn't a copyright violation. (You're wrong that writing an emulator that violates DMCA is a copyright violation; it's not, it's a DMCA violation.)
But the copyright violation GP is referring to is not creating the emulator. The violation is copying the game ROM to use on the emulator, as the game ROM is most definitely copywritten.
Funny. I seem to recall a lot of screaming about the possibility for abuse and I distinctly recall being told to shut the fuck up, we can *trust* them to do the right thing.
The problem with this whole discussion is that it's about the FBI failing to keep track of how many letters they issued.
So now the government is saying "We'll keep better track of how many letters we issue, problem solved!"
NO! PROBLEM NOT SOLVED!
The *REAL* problem is that the government can compel release of private information WITHOUT A WARRANT! All this fiasco does is let the government substitute 'not counting the number of letters' for the REAL problem of 'being able to issue letters' and then pretend that since they've solved problem #1 that there is no problem at all.
Not all abuse is the same, and we should be clear here as to what the FBI actually did and didn't do. A good analogy here is that an FBI agent using their service firearm to unjustly shoot and kill a civilian is different from FBI agents failing to keep track of which agents have which guns and make sure they return them when they leave the agency. One case you expect criminal prosecution and the other case you'd expect some administrative action.
Same here. No one is alleging that the FBI used these Patriot Act powers outside of their intended purpose. What the FBI didn't do, that they should have, was properly account for the letters they did use, specifically, properly count the number used, and properly follow up with the recipients of the letters.
So yes, if FBI agents were using this power to get information that the law was not designed for them to get, then I'd expect criminal prosecution. But, as it appears is the case, the FBI just didn't properly ACCOUNT for the letters they did use, an administrative penalty seems perfectly sufficient to address the problem.
That all, of course, is separate from the issue of whether this law should exist at all (it shouldn't).
Three months is NOTHING in MMORPG time. A MMORPG where you can to something 'the best' in three months is a shitty MMORPG.
That depends on what, exactly, you spend $X on, and what, exactly, you got $Y for, and when you got it.
If you were planning this out, you'd try and make sure it came out as a capital gain instead of income, but it's taxable either way.
If forced to account for the "income", can't I also offset it by the "expense"?
Did you claim that laptop as a business deduction when you bought it? If you did, then you'll have to claim the money from the sale as income. If not, you've already paid your income tax on the money you spent on the laptop, so getting some of it back selling it later isn't taxed.
What does it matter if other players are 'more advanced' than you are? What's the difference between that and really advanced, intelligent NPC's?
Would you bitch about the fact that you can never beat CONCORD? No matter what you do, those CONCORD ships will blow you to pieces in seconds?
What difference does it make if the things that are 'better' than you are are NPC ships or PC ships?
If you're talking about manufacturing, yes. If you're talking about mining, then yes. Those skills are character skills, and they act the same for all characters, and the only way to get better is to spend more time training the character skills.
I disagree here. You can max out mining skills pretty quickly, expcept for the 'really nice' rocks, and even those your ability to SURVIVE while mining is more important than your raw mining skills.
For manufacturing/trade, I have very basic skills in those areas but I *KNOW* I get more money doing them than a lot of older players do because I'm just smarter about it.
I've found that, in general, skills make it more CONVENIENT to do things, but don't make the difference in whether you can do it BETTER than anyone else.
Espcially if you SPECIALIZE. Getting really good at one thing is not that hard. What older players get as an advantage is that they are really good at more things. Which, again, is more convenient, but doesn't give them much of an advantage at beating you at any particular thing.
How will they distribute the money? Proportional to the CD sales?
As I have sold NONE of my CD's in Canada, clearly I have suffered the largest losses to piracy, and deserve the largest share of the levy.
Amazing how the people you vote for become "them" when the policies you voted for blow up in your face...
Hey now, I wanted to put them in timeout BEFORE they fucked everything up. But I'm forward-thinking like that.
Remember, in both 2000 and 2004, exactly HALF of the country voted for Republican time-out.
You're missing part of the equation here. The 'fast-track' approval for the military (obviously) doesn't involve as rigorous testing as the standard civilian approval process.
The military is willing to accept medical devices that have been fast tracked. The civilian market is not - even if the FDA 'fast-tracked' something for the civilian market, nobody would likely use it because they wouldn't want to face the liability for using a device that hadn't gone through the 'real' testing.
You're also missing that the military environment is different. In Iraq, potential amputation injuries are frequent, and distance to proper care can be far. In the US, the usefulness of this device would be limited, as by the time someone who happened to have one of these devices got to you and it put in, you'd already be at the major trauma center anyway.
No, Chicago sent Obama to the Senate. Check your numbers in the rest of Illinois.
He's a Democrat. Same thing happens for all the white democrats Illinois sends to the Senate.
This idea was discussed in considerable depth on various
anti-spam lists several years ago. Nearly all hosts on the
Internet talk to one mail server: the one designated for
mail submission from the network they're on. (s/one/few/
for networks large enough to have multiple SMTP gateways.)
Or you could just block all connections on port 25 to all servers other than the designated SMTP server for all computers on the network (unless, maybe, the owner of that computer asked nicely.)
There is an element of states' rights here, and the federal government has become larger and more intrusive into the affairs of the states than the original framers of the Constitution intended.
When the constitution was written, it would take weeks to travel from the northern end of the country to the southern end. And actually traveling, on a horse, from the northern end to the southern end, was the only way to get a message from one end to the other.
Now, anyone can get anywhere in the country in less than a day. You can send a message anywhere on the planet in milliseconds.
So it only makes sense that more an more things become standardized at the federal level instead of the state level, because the states are not nearly as distinct from each other as they were in 1798.
It's ok to have a device that might fail if you have a low-tech backup procedure that will suffice until you can get a replacement.
In this case specifically, if your thumb-print reader fails, all soldiers are already equipped with a low-tech backup - a knife to cut off the thumb for scanning later.