Wow -- you have some rough coffee shops where you live. A half block from my office is the popular chess (and to a lesser extent, go) hangout. There are a not insignificant number of guys who hang out there every day for hours on end. Nobody cares -- the place wouldn't be the same without them. Note -- this shop also provides free wifi.
The big issue I have with the arrest is with the coffee shop ownership -- I mean, we can expect the cops to be ridiculous, but we should be able to expect a higher standard of reasonableness from regular citizens. I can't imagine it is against the law to use wifi with permission. Case dismissed if the owners simply said they give everyone permission. One can only hope there will be a change of ownership.
If people want the registry lists to be meaningful, they shouldn't load them up with spam. If people start realizing that people are on the list because they took a leak behind a tree, people will stop paying attention to the list or at least treat it with skepticsm. The "protect children" crowd is doing themselves a big disservice by adding ridiculous acts to sex offender list and thereby making its meaning ambiguous.
You have not apparently met insurance company "independent" evalauators -- these doctors are also known by a less pretentious term: "whore" or alternatively, "prostitute".
Secondly, the point about well timed lights is great. I drive a stretch of road with well timed lights. Every day I see someone race past me only to stop at the next light. By the time I get there, the light is green so I just continue through, passing the racer who has had to come to a complete stop and is now trying to accelerate off the line. He'll pass me again only to have to stop again while I cruise on by. In other words, he wastes gas, risks a speeding ticket, and never really gets ahead of me. It's especially funny when the racer is some guy in a big truck with oversized tires. I just laugh and thank him for the money (oil related dividends are the best revenge).
When we get to that point, expect all out lawlessness to ensue. If jay walking will get you a few years, you might as well do a real crime. And when minor crimes take most of your life, WTF, might as well go out big.
Increasingly draconian sententencing is rather counter-productive in the sense that it may help increase the severity of crimes performed, or the desperation of those close to being nabbed.
I don't see how birth control could affect matriarchal lineage -- I mean, seriously, it might be hard(ish) to figure out who the dad is, but it's darn obvious who the mother is.
2.9) look up what sort of prison time extortion is worth -- if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
3) Tell the CEO to pay you 25,000 bonus or you will report them to the BSA, and the SEC(assuming they're public). ...
3b) Tell your lawyer they fired you for not doing something illegal. NEVER EVER EVER tell anyone about step 3.
Don't ask "your company's" legal counsel. Their duty is to the company, not to you. I don't disagree with the first part however, getting your own legal counsel wouldn't hurt.
I can tell you there is no right to free counsel in WA state for most civil matters (cases dealing with termination of parental rights are one exception, civil commitments probably another). For the most part, the idea is that providing free counsel to anyone who wants it would increase litigation in an already litigious society. I have no idea if NY offers free lawyers to anyone, but I do find it hard to believe. Got a citation?
I know a number of artists (ceramics) and the fact is, making art is extremely hard work - much harder than going out and being a wage-slave. It takes a lot of guts, constant toil (physical and intellectual), and it's very hit or miss. The people I know love their art, but making art is perhaps 30% of the equation for making a living at it. I know I could never go through that level of stress -- I'm just not close to brave enough to face actual starvation. By the same token, to actually be good at something takes more than evenings after work (I'm a hobbyist like that) -- it takes complete dedication. So personally, I feel sad for those whose work is subject to digital duplication (writers, photographers, actors, and musicians).
Yeah yeah yeah -- evil record companies blah blah blah -- it doesn't change the fact illegal copying has probably made it harder for some artists to earn a living at their art.
re: your "money" is gone. That's a fair point. By the same token though, if a person works hard to make a song, and people figure out how to have the song without compensating for the labor, it seems fair to say that the person who made the song "got robbed" -- perhaps not in a stuatory "stealing" sense, but definitely in the colloquial sense of "ripped off".
As an aside, there is no reason why money is either finite or physical. Value is finite, but money can be infinite given appropriate inflation. Secondly, money as it is presently used is a mixture of digital and physical, with the digital presumably backed by physical, but there is no reason why money can't be purely digital. The physical money we use is really nothing more than ink, paper, and an agreement that it can be exchanged for things of value. Physical money isn't backed by anything with intrinsic value.
Except if this became widespread, you would be hurt even if your money was left untouched. The increased "counterfeit" money would devalue the money in your account. The scale has to be large enough but if it is, you are damaged without even being touched.
I'm not trying to troll, just trying to think some things out. For example, money (to a large degree) is nothing more than data anymore. Having money means having a balance record on some computer somewhere, a little platic card in your pocket, and a merchant who takes cards. If someone transfered an account balance from some random other person to himself, would that be theft? There are no tangible items involved in the transfer -- just some shifting of database records?
Many people who work on it are the same people who also work on Firefox.
Perhaps then they can work on what drove me away from Camino -- the way it stores login data. If one site has two different logins (eg, gallery and blog), Camino barfs and remembers only one. Firefox can remember both. Or at least this was true some months ago when I finally got fed up with Camino, trashed it, and went back to Firefox.
Who gives a rip about how great he is with babies. "Pro-family values" is religious-right code for discrimination agains gay people, public funding of religion, and so forth. Compare to the libertarian take: http://www.lp.org/media/article_464.shtml. Ron Paul can go get bent.
He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values.
Code for just another religious right whack-job. When oh when will we get a socially progressive, financially conservative party -- one that believes in small government in all respects.
The Laserjet 4l I bought during grad school in 1995, is presently in service in my office as a check writing printer where it sees limited but daily use. It's quite easy to find magnetic toner (we print the entire check, including the numbers at the bottom) and it works perfectly with linux. I love the old HP stuff.
Except of course for the fact that the rest of the world is connected to the internet too. All this means is that internet radio stations move out of the US. It doesn't mean you won't be able to listen to internet radio.
Either that or disguised as a check. The ridiculous part is that they come from the same half dozen companies -- literally every damn week from each one. The sadder fact is that I already consolidated many years ago and I'm not even eligible.
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Because everyone is too afraid of suicide bombers. The methods and philosophies of the dark ages are apparently working.
And shall we add some other attribute to the FSM, present it, and let the debate ensue? There is no need to teach silliness.
Wow -- you have some rough coffee shops where you live. A half block from my office is the popular chess (and to a lesser extent, go) hangout. There are a not insignificant number of guys who hang out there every day for hours on end. Nobody cares -- the place wouldn't be the same without them. Note -- this shop also provides free wifi. The big issue I have with the arrest is with the coffee shop ownership -- I mean, we can expect the cops to be ridiculous, but we should be able to expect a higher standard of reasonableness from regular citizens. I can't imagine it is against the law to use wifi with permission. Case dismissed if the owners simply said they give everyone permission. One can only hope there will be a change of ownership.
If people want the registry lists to be meaningful, they shouldn't load them up with spam. If people start realizing that people are on the list because they took a leak behind a tree, people will stop paying attention to the list or at least treat it with skepticsm. The "protect children" crowd is doing themselves a big disservice by adding ridiculous acts to sex offender list and thereby making its meaning ambiguous.
You have not apparently met insurance company "independent" evalauators -- these doctors are also known by a less pretentious term: "whore" or alternatively, "prostitute".
First off, why is this marked redundant?
Secondly, the point about well timed lights is great. I drive a stretch of road with well timed lights. Every day I see someone race past me only to stop at the next light. By the time I get there, the light is green so I just continue through, passing the racer who has had to come to a complete stop and is now trying to accelerate off the line. He'll pass me again only to have to stop again while I cruise on by. In other words, he wastes gas, risks a speeding ticket, and never really gets ahead of me. It's especially funny when the racer is some guy in a big truck with oversized tires. I just laugh and thank him for the money (oil related dividends are the best revenge).
When we get to that point, expect all out lawlessness to ensue. If jay walking will get you a few years, you might as well do a real crime. And when minor crimes take most of your life, WTF, might as well go out big.
Increasingly draconian sententencing is rather counter-productive in the sense that it may help increase the severity of crimes performed, or the desperation of those close to being nabbed.
Actually, Cambodia has good work conditions compared to its neighbors. There was a story on "This American Life" a couple years ago which was quite interesting: http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1 109
See the part "Act Two. Dreams of Distant Factories."
I don't see how birth control could affect matriarchal lineage -- I mean, seriously, it might be hard(ish) to figure out who the dad is, but it's darn obvious who the mother is.
As long as they repeat GM's unprofitability, the world has nothing to fear.
Don't ask "your company's" legal counsel. Their duty is to the company, not to you. I don't disagree with the first part however, getting your own legal counsel wouldn't hurt.
I can tell you there is no right to free counsel in WA state for most civil matters (cases dealing with termination of parental rights are one exception, civil commitments probably another). For the most part, the idea is that providing free counsel to anyone who wants it would increase litigation in an already litigious society. I have no idea if NY offers free lawyers to anyone, but I do find it hard to believe. Got a citation?
I know a number of artists (ceramics) and the fact is, making art is extremely hard work - much harder than going out and being a wage-slave. It takes a lot of guts, constant toil (physical and intellectual), and it's very hit or miss. The people I know love their art, but making art is perhaps 30% of the equation for making a living at it. I know I could never go through that level of stress -- I'm just not close to brave enough to face actual starvation. By the same token, to actually be good at something takes more than evenings after work (I'm a hobbyist like that) -- it takes complete dedication. So personally, I feel sad for those whose work is subject to digital duplication (writers, photographers, actors, and musicians).
Yeah yeah yeah -- evil record companies blah blah blah -- it doesn't change the fact illegal copying has probably made it harder for some artists to earn a living at their art.
OT, but on an inflation adjusted basis, gas really isn't that expensive. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/25opec/sld004.htm 1981 stands out as the ugliest thus far.
re: your "money" is gone. That's a fair point. By the same token though, if a person works hard to make a song, and people figure out how to have the song without compensating for the labor, it seems fair to say that the person who made the song "got robbed" -- perhaps not in a stuatory "stealing" sense, but definitely in the colloquial sense of "ripped off".
As an aside, there is no reason why money is either finite or physical. Value is finite, but money can be infinite given appropriate inflation. Secondly, money as it is presently used is a mixture of digital and physical, with the digital presumably backed by physical, but there is no reason why money can't be purely digital. The physical money we use is really nothing more than ink, paper, and an agreement that it can be exchanged for things of value. Physical money isn't backed by anything with intrinsic value.
Except if this became widespread, you would be hurt even if your money was left untouched. The increased "counterfeit" money would devalue the money in your account. The scale has to be large enough but if it is, you are damaged without even being touched.
I'm not trying to troll, just trying to think some things out. For example, money (to a large degree) is nothing more than data anymore. Having money means having a balance record on some computer somewhere, a little platic card in your pocket, and a merchant who takes cards. If someone transfered an account balance from some random other person to himself, would that be theft? There are no tangible items involved in the transfer -- just some shifting of database records?
Who gives a rip about how great he is with babies. "Pro-family values" is religious-right code for discrimination agains gay people, public funding of religion, and so forth. Compare to the libertarian take: http://www.lp.org/media/article_464.shtml. Ron Paul can go get bent.
From http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/AboutRon_fx.html:
Code for just another religious right whack-job. When oh when will we get a socially progressive, financially conservative party -- one that believes in small government in all respects.
The Laserjet 4l I bought during grad school in 1995, is presently in service in my office as a check writing printer where it sees limited but daily use. It's quite easy to find magnetic toner (we print the entire check, including the numbers at the bottom) and it works perfectly with linux. I love the old HP stuff.
Except of course for the fact that the rest of the world is connected to the internet too. All this means is that internet radio stations move out of the US. It doesn't mean you won't be able to listen to internet radio.
You're student loans must be low. I shredded one yesterday for more than $1600.
Either that or disguised as a check. The ridiculous part is that they come from the same half dozen companies -- literally every damn week from each one. The sadder fact is that I already consolidated many years ago and I'm not even eligible.