For those who don't feel like reading the article:
"Libertarians like it; therefore, I don't. I prefer our current form of crony 'capitalism', which employs the state to protect the assets of IP creators like myself while I can pontificate about the 'rich' (that is, people other than me) paying their 'fair share'." *
* WARNING: This article contains Appeal to Authority, which the Philosopher General has determined may be hazardous to your health.
Correct. In the USA, you must remain silent. There is rarely anything you can say in your defense that will help you, and that you invoked your right to remain silent cannot be considered ipso facto evidence of guilt as in less enlightened places.
I don't live in Texas, but seriously dude: this has nothing to do with the discussion. I'm sure if I knew where you lived, I could bring up some horrible red herring about it.
Yeah, but if a lien is placed, you only have as few as 6 months to pay if off and the interest is super high, like 25%. It's a smorgasbord for tax lien investors. They get close to 25% return in 6 months, or they get a house.
It should be a hard sell everywhere. If I put all my money and effort into building a house, I don't think that when it's done everyone in the world is entitled to do what they please with it.
You're not talking about the unselectively bred domestic cats. A field mouse sneaks in once or twice a year, but it doesn't make it out alive. One of them isn't exactly a lap cat, but both are quite friendly to humans.
I'm not sure why any intelligent person would think this is funny. THREE operating systems have come out after XP-- it's not like this 12 year old OS is the latest from Microsoft. You're making Linux zealots look even dumber than they are.
It's time people like you did something productive for society, instead of trying to exact some kind of schoolyard vengeance on people who disagree with you.
So what you're trying to say is that companies shouldn't sell cars with communications and entertainment technology to make drivers' 45 minute commutes more enjoyable, because you'd rather use communications and entertainment technology to make your 45 minute bus commute enjoyable?
Nothing in history was like this. We used to burn whale oil. Once "rock oil" became easier and cheaper to refine, whale oil began to fall into disuse. Natural gas and electricity helped the process. We don't need to suddenly stop using fossil fuels tomorrow, because the planet is not a plane crossing the ocean. If one Gollum-like person hides out with his precioussssss kerosene lamp in a cave, it's not going to ruin the planet for the rest of us. Frankly, I'm tired of radicals and their zero-tolerance policies. We can discuss how quickly this needs to happen, but we need to agree that neither "tomorrow" nor "1,000 years from now" are acceptable answers.
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Far too much for anything to be considered a serious article.
For those who don't feel like reading the article:
"Libertarians like it; therefore, I don't. I prefer our current form of crony 'capitalism', which employs the state to protect the assets of IP creators like myself while I can pontificate about the 'rich' (that is, people other than me) paying their 'fair share'." *
* WARNING: This article contains Appeal to Authority, which the Philosopher General has determined may be hazardous to your health.
Correct. In the USA, you must remain silent. There is rarely anything you can say in your defense that will help you, and that you invoked your right to remain silent cannot be considered ipso facto evidence of guilt as in less enlightened places.
I don't live in Texas, but seriously dude: this has nothing to do with the discussion. I'm sure if I knew where you lived, I could bring up some horrible red herring about it.
Yeah, but if a lien is placed, you only have as few as 6 months to pay if off and the interest is super high, like 25%. It's a smorgasbord for tax lien investors. They get close to 25% return in 6 months, or they get a house.
I think Disney owes me about $100 billion for this terrible VHS of "The Black Hole". Plus, it's really grainy.
I joke-- not a bad movie, but they probably released such a poor quality copy to help hide the wires holding up the robots.
Hmm... I can't chargeback cash, either.
Because there totally isn't crime or a black market in places like China.
It should be a hard sell everywhere. If I put all my money and effort into building a house, I don't think that when it's done everyone in the world is entitled to do what they please with it.
You're a slave by definition if you rely on anyone else to provide those things.
Disney characters are protected by trademarks, not copyright. No one should give a crap about not being able to sell Mickey Mouse T-shirts.
You're not talking about the unselectively bred domestic cats. A field mouse sneaks in once or twice a year, but it doesn't make it out alive. One of them isn't exactly a lap cat, but both are quite friendly to humans.
That's the key-- outside on a farm. It's pretty much impossible to keep an unspayed female indoors.
I'm not sure why any intelligent person would think this is funny. THREE operating systems have come out after XP-- it's not like this 12 year old OS is the latest from Microsoft. You're making Linux zealots look even dumber than they are.
I'd noticed this on one of two lingering Windows XP machines last month. Good to know I'm not nuts.
It's time people like you did something productive for society, instead of trying to exact some kind of schoolyard vengeance on people who disagree with you.
I think he was asking if your blue cube was a police box...
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That's a pretty good analogy. Although I don't remember Art Garfunkel making anyone his bitch while ordering them to "suck it down".
So what you're trying to say is that companies shouldn't sell cars with communications and entertainment technology to make drivers' 45 minute commutes more enjoyable, because you'd rather use communications and entertainment technology to make your 45 minute bus commute enjoyable?
Cadillac doesn't make a "sports car", genius.
It could also be because there are government-based financial incentives for single mothers to keep having children, and no disincentives.
What are the great advances in energy storage technology, again? You know, to allow those wind and solar systems to provide base load?
Probably cheaper than that produced by huge wind and solar farms.
Nothing in history was like this. We used to burn whale oil. Once "rock oil" became easier and cheaper to refine, whale oil began to fall into disuse. Natural gas and electricity helped the process. We don't need to suddenly stop using fossil fuels tomorrow, because the planet is not a plane crossing the ocean. If one Gollum-like person hides out with his precioussssss kerosene lamp in a cave, it's not going to ruin the planet for the rest of us. Frankly, I'm tired of radicals and their zero-tolerance policies. We can discuss how quickly this needs to happen, but we need to agree that neither "tomorrow" nor "1,000 years from now" are acceptable answers.