so when your job ends up being in india you'll be able to talk to your boss in his own language. Although chances are they'll already speak english quite well. But finding a scholarship for "Indian (dot, not feather) studies" would be more productive realistically and pragmatically than looking for a scholarship for tech-based study.
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I was more 3l33t at that very moment than everyone else on the planet.
How could that "fizzle in my snizzle" (or whatever the whole -izzle thing is) be left off? I'll concede I have no clue what it supposedly means, but I assume it means or refers to something. Once it got used in an Old Navy commercial, that was the final straw with me.
you can't be compelled to testify against yourself per the 5th Amendment, but here she voluntarily provided evidence (which formed the basis for her being charged with a [stupid] crime), which is not the same as being forced to testify against herself. Just because the evidence implicates her doesn't mean it's a 5th amendment violation... this is a no-brainer.
Finally, it's good to see someone agree with me that spam (I take it a step further and say all unsolicited advertising/direct marketing) is a form of terrorism. Not all terrorism involves a guy named mohammed with a bomb strapped to his chest. Destroying bridges, buildings, or more ephemeral things like email are all terrorist actions and should be dealt with accordingly -- death with due process.
The concept of CIVIL law is to "set right that which was wronged." The concept of CRIMINAL law is to create a deterrent to an action society deems to be a problem. The punishment should depend on the size of the problem. Spam and faith-based terrorism are the two largest man-made problems facing the human race today. Executing spammers (after a fair trial with all afforded due process) is the only way the spam problem will ever be abated.
They'll start putting it in the water, or giving the shots at birth, etc. Whatever happened to freedom? Freedom means being allowed to do things that are dumb/unhealthy/dangerous. And don't give me any of that "your second-hand smoke hurts me" crap, as we all know that's a load of crap. Now, if you want to quit smoking for health reasons, good for you--you have my best wishes. But when possible, the gov't will start giving mandatory anti-THC/opiate/alcohol/etc vaccines at birth.
that being said, i think the word "vaccine" in the title of this thread is highly misused... it seems these shots allow people to quit smoking much more easily.
The same reason parents won't tell their kids that jesus and god are not real... to do so would make controlling their childrens' behavior much harder. Gotta have those supernatural rewards and punishments in order to get the kids to behave.
copyrights protect expressions of ideas, and do not reward the labor spent creating those ideas. The "sweat of the brow" theory of copyright was tossed out a long time ago by the Supreme Court in the Feist case. Nice try, though. Labor has absolutely nothing to do with deserving a copyright monopoly.
I don't think atheism is fairly called a religion. The problem is that the word atheism ends in '-ism' which is a suffix that implies "one who does something." If 98% of people are playing dodgeball does that mean the 2% who refuse to do so are nondodgeballists? Just because someone refuses to take part in something doesn't mean their non-action is in itself an action of partaking in something else. If you ask me to play dodgeball and I say no thanks, I have not gone on to start my own game, i've simply declined to join you in yours. Only for the religious majority (the majority being the ones who come up with the words we use) could calling atheism "a religion" be a convenient use of symantics. It's meant to be insulting, in effect saying religion is inescapable, even if you refuse to join us in religion, that very refusal is tantamount to starting your own religion. That's bullshit. Nonbelief is not a nother form of belief, even though both can be re-phrased as saying "i believe in god/no god." A true atheist simply doesn't believe in god and religion. Atheists don't go to atheist-church and they don't pray to a nonexistant god. Again, just because I don't join you doesn't mean i've gone and joined something else.
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Nope, it's by far the worst non-reality show ever to disgrace the airwaves. Not only is it not funny, but the timing of the show is so miserable that it makes me sick... after every 'joke' there is a 20 second pause as the camera focuses on the actor and plays the laugh-track. Every one stays frozen for 20 seconds or so as this continues. It's horrible. And the jokes are never funny.
Example: A girl walks in with a pretty red dress, raymond say "You look like a prostitute" and the laugh track plays for 20 seconds as the camera stays focused on Raymond (it might shift over to the girl in the dress to show her outraged face for 10 or 15 seconds afterwards). How this show can stay on tv baffles me.
I think people watch this show and think it's sophisticated and intelligent because it has piano music as the theme song. It must be sophisticated if that's the case....
Since being christian is a 'choice' how would you feel about my law banning christianity in America? All christian churches are to be closed down, the religion loses all its tax benefits, and anyone practicing christianity is sent to a special camp in Alaska to be 'retrained' in another religion. Since christianity is a 'choice' (not genetic, as there is no 'christian gene') you would see no constitutional problem, since constitutional rights such as free exercise of religion and equal protection don't apply to choices?
patents are a social policy to create a tradeoff that provides, at least in theory, an incentive to create new ideas. Patents do not exist to protect any "rights" at all.
it's a travesty that the largest domestic terrorist organization, the DMA, is allowed to give input into the creation of our anti-terror laws. Yes, unsolicited commercial advertising is a form of terrorism.
as long as the patent office continues not to do its job and simply rubber-stamps every patent that comes its way, then yes... a business model built around patent litigation is not a stupid idea.
even if, starting tomorrow, all speakers and microphones have to have DRM built into them, all it takes is one non-DRMed speaker and microphone to make a non-DRMed MP3 of a song. Unless every single speaker & microphone (and camera if you wanna talk about filming movies) in existence today will be rounded up and burned... the analog gap will still exist. All it takes is one microphone and one set of speakers from the year 2002.
I think what he was referring to was the analog gap. If my ears can hear it, and/or if my eyes can see it, i can copy it and stick it on the net. Your analogy to a house actually sums up the point. If there is an inside to the house, there is always a way to get in there.
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so when your job ends up being in india you'll be able to talk to your boss in his own language. Although chances are they'll already speak english quite well. But finding a scholarship for "Indian (dot, not feather) studies" would be more productive realistically and pragmatically than looking for a scholarship for tech-based study.
I was more 3l33t at that very moment than everyone else on the planet.
just goes to show how innacurate this "survey" is... best album of the year isn't even listed.
You know... come to think of it, i don't think I've ever heard anyone say it in real life, i.e. not on TV.
How could that "fizzle in my snizzle" (or whatever the whole -izzle thing is) be left off? I'll concede I have no clue what it supposedly means, but I assume it means or refers to something. Once it got used in an Old Navy commercial, that was the final straw with me.
you can't be compelled to testify against yourself per the 5th Amendment, but here she voluntarily provided evidence (which formed the basis for her being charged with a [stupid] crime), which is not the same as being forced to testify against herself. Just because the evidence implicates her doesn't mean it's a 5th amendment violation... this is a no-brainer.
Finally, it's good to see someone agree with me that spam (I take it a step further and say all unsolicited advertising/direct marketing) is a form of terrorism. Not all terrorism involves a guy named mohammed with a bomb strapped to his chest. Destroying bridges, buildings, or more ephemeral things like email are all terrorist actions and should be dealt with accordingly -- death with due process.
The concept of CIVIL law is to "set right that which was wronged." The concept of CRIMINAL law is to create a deterrent to an action society deems to be a problem. The punishment should depend on the size of the problem. Spam and faith-based terrorism are the two largest man-made problems facing the human race today. Executing spammers (after a fair trial with all afforded due process) is the only way the spam problem will ever be abated.
living in a house full of smoke is vastly different than claiming the guy puffing on a cigarette in the park is going to give you cancer.
Oh wait, I'm sure it's implied that American copyright laws apply everywhere in our universe. Nevermind.
They'll start putting it in the water, or giving the shots at birth, etc. Whatever happened to freedom? Freedom means being allowed to do things that are dumb/unhealthy/dangerous. And don't give me any of that "your second-hand smoke hurts me" crap, as we all know that's a load of crap. Now, if you want to quit smoking for health reasons, good for you--you have my best wishes. But when possible, the gov't will start giving mandatory anti-THC/opiate/alcohol/etc vaccines at birth.
that being said, i think the word "vaccine" in the title of this thread is highly misused... it seems these shots allow people to quit smoking much more easily.
The same reason parents won't tell their kids that jesus and god are not real... to do so would make controlling their childrens' behavior much harder. Gotta have those supernatural rewards and punishments in order to get the kids to behave.
copyrights protect expressions of ideas, and do not reward the labor spent creating those ideas. The "sweat of the brow" theory of copyright was tossed out a long time ago by the Supreme Court in the Feist case. Nice try, though. Labor has absolutely nothing to do with deserving a copyright monopoly.
and i respect the 419er's business model infinitely more.
For a start... and oh yeah, charge nothing (ok, $10 for manuals if ya must) for windows.
I don't think atheism is fairly called a religion. The problem is that the word atheism ends in '-ism' which is a suffix that implies "one who does something." If 98% of people are playing dodgeball does that mean the 2% who refuse to do so are nondodgeballists? Just because someone refuses to take part in something doesn't mean their non-action is in itself an action of partaking in something else. If you ask me to play dodgeball and I say no thanks, I have not gone on to start my own game, i've simply declined to join you in yours. Only for the religious majority (the majority being the ones who come up with the words we use) could calling atheism "a religion" be a convenient use of symantics. It's meant to be insulting, in effect saying religion is inescapable, even if you refuse to join us in religion, that very refusal is tantamount to starting your own religion. That's bullshit. Nonbelief is not a nother form of belief, even though both can be re-phrased as saying "i believe in god/no god." A true atheist simply doesn't believe in god and religion. Atheists don't go to atheist-church and they don't pray to a nonexistant god. Again, just because I don't join you doesn't mean i've gone and joined something else.
Nope, it's by far the worst non-reality show ever to disgrace the airwaves. Not only is it not funny, but the timing of the show is so miserable that it makes me sick... after every 'joke' there is a 20 second pause as the camera focuses on the actor and plays the laugh-track. Every one stays frozen for 20 seconds or so as this continues. It's horrible. And the jokes are never funny.
Example: A girl walks in with a pretty red dress, raymond say "You look like a prostitute" and the laugh track plays for 20 seconds as the camera stays focused on Raymond (it might shift over to the girl in the dress to show her outraged face for 10 or 15 seconds afterwards). How this show can stay on tv baffles me.
I think people watch this show and think it's sophisticated and intelligent because it has piano music as the theme song. It must be sophisticated if that's the case....
Since being christian is a 'choice' how would you feel about my law banning christianity in America? All christian churches are to be closed down, the religion loses all its tax benefits, and anyone practicing christianity is sent to a special camp in Alaska to be 'retrained' in another religion. Since christianity is a 'choice' (not genetic, as there is no 'christian gene') you would see no constitutional problem, since constitutional rights such as free exercise of religion and equal protection don't apply to choices?
patents are a social policy to create a tradeoff that provides, at least in theory, an incentive to create new ideas. Patents do not exist to protect any "rights" at all.
it's a travesty that the largest domestic terrorist organization, the DMA, is allowed to give input into the creation of our anti-terror laws. Yes, unsolicited commercial advertising is a form of terrorism.
as long as the patent office continues not to do its job and simply rubber-stamps every patent that comes its way, then yes... a business model built around patent litigation is not a stupid idea.
liars.
one great band, Uncle Tupelo, forked into two great bands--Son Volt and Wilco. Forking is good. QED.
even if, starting tomorrow, all speakers and microphones have to have DRM built into them, all it takes is one non-DRMed speaker and microphone to make a non-DRMed MP3 of a song. Unless every single speaker & microphone (and camera if you wanna talk about filming movies) in existence today will be rounded up and burned ... the analog gap will still exist. All it takes is one microphone and one set of speakers from the year 2002.
I think what he was referring to was the analog gap. If my ears can hear it, and/or if my eyes can see it, i can copy it and stick it on the net. Your analogy to a house actually sums up the point. If there is an inside to the house, there is always a way to get in there.