Ebay should not allow ANY trade in animal parts or even imitation of such parts.
Imitation? What harm does that do? Is this like where they bust you for kiddie porn because your 30 year old girlfriend took a picture wearing pigtails and a miniskirt? As a side note, there is a genetic condition that resulted in tuskless elephants or elephants with very small tusks. It was very rare. Now, "thanks" to poaching and slaughter, that condition is very visible. Some populations of elephants have 30% rate of that genetic abnormality.
Wow, it sounds like they are adopting to environmental pressure. Tusklless elephants don't get shot. Who knew that such a large animal with such small birthrates could evolve so quickly?
What happens when the virus writer is in another country? What if that country doesn't care?
Then they probably won't care when I spend 1000 times the amount of the attempted extortion to fly over there and beat the extortionist to death.
Like not pissing everybody off ?
The U.S. could eat garbage, piss gasoline and cause it to rain thousand dollar bills and the rest of the world would still hate us.
It's like how we hate Microsoft no matter what they do, even if they do something that we would have adored Apple for doing.
In other words, I think that the Bible is the literal word of God and should be followed literally, and that some of the stories are illustrations rather than a description of actual events.
Anyways if you read any book that was filled with non-literal stories why would you believe any of it.
So any work of non-fiction which contains a fable, parable, allegory, metaphor or simile is out? I would have to throw out all my science and math textbooks. They are chock full of word problem examples that didn't really happen.
For that matter, I read a lot of fiction. Does that mean that I can not learn something from these books? When lost in the woods, should I abstain from trying to fashion a makeshift compass because I learned how to do it from a work of fiction?
That poll did not have the answer that I would have chosen, which is that it is the word of God and contains both literal meaning and parables. It's a big book, it doesn't have to all be one or the other. To me, that Gallup poll was like asking to choose one of: Does it rain all the time, or is it sunny all the time.
TRS-80s were awesome. I worked with a hardware guy once and he built a seismometer and we used a TRS-80 to read the seismometer output from the serial port and make a graph.
My best guess is vibrations from launch transmitted through the ground, and possibly shifting of the soil around the flame trenches, are the culprit. I'm thinking along the lines of an undetected void forming over the decades in the soil giving way.
That gets my vote too. Anyone who has been there for a launch can tell you that the vibrations from two miles away are incredible. That and Florida is basically a large sand dune.
If I borrow your car from you, then hand the keys over to some random drunk guy I meet in a bar, would you still say it's my fault when your car gets wrapped around a tree?
Frankly, I would sue you, the drunk guy, and just to be sure, the tree.
One presumes, though that BoNY did proper due diligence in researching their archiving company, and a slipup like this from the archiving company is completely unexpected. But BoNY is still to blame for not encrypting their data, and Archive America is to blame for losing the tapes. And Society is to blame for not properly educating people that stealing from other people is wrong.
That won't work for the phone companies. They can't just use their current percentage take on the phones and convert it to a lease because of the usury laws in the United States. You're just not allowed to charge that kind of interest, so they have to bury it in as part of the contract.
But you are forgetting that the gas company will give you a brand new car (a $25,000 value) in exchange for your signing that 5 year agreement. And I am sure that you will have no problem paying $3000 a month for the car plus up to 50 gallons of gas per month. (Gas in excess of 50 gallons will cost $20 per gallon. Some plans may offer rollover gallons). You can also buy insurance for a replacement car should yours be stolen or broken. The cost of the insurance is only $1,000 a month. If you use this insurance, you have to pay a deductible of $10,000, and you will receive a refurbished (aka rebuilt from salvage) car. The radio only plays mp3s which you have to purchase for $4 for each 6 second snippet from shady third parties who hang out at the gas station. These shady guys will then charge you $6 a week for a guy to come up to you at the gas station, tell you a very lame joke, and also take a gallon of gas from you. The gas company will claim no responsibility for the actions of these companies which they allow to use their stations. And why would they when you can plainly see the bums handing over half their earnings to the gas station?
If you terminate the contract prior to your five year commitment, you have to pay a one time termination fee of $20,000. At that point, if you go to another carrier, you will find that their gas doesn't work with your vehicle.
If you do stay past five years, you can continue paying the same rate month after month even though the car is paid for, so you are essentially paying $3000 a month for (up to) 50 gallons of gas.
The 'free' phone, contract extension, termination fee model has worked because the market likes it.
No, it's worked because that is basically the only option other than pay-as-you-go, which are even more expensive. It's kind of like the airlines. As soon as one adds a surcharge, takes away a service, etc., all the other ones follow suit. It's not free market if the "competitors" all have the exact same terms.
Do they not have insurance in Canada? Mine is 2.99 a month and covers loss, theft, or virtually any type of damage. I've used it three times and it's painless and simple.
Wow, you're lucky. Mine costs $7.99 a month, and if you have to use it, you have to pay a $99 deductible, which is more expensive than the phone costs on ebay, plus they give you a refurb which is even cheaper. I don't have insurance anymore, after I found this out. Four months of not paying insurance and I can afford to buy a phone off of ebay if I need to.
The article says that Archive America lost the tapes, so how is this the banks fault? And why does the heading says Bank of NY loses this data, when in fact it was Archive America which lost all this data? My guess is because Bank of NY has money, but Archive America doesn't.
That's going to suck. Half the male population will be in the can. After all, it is an inherent and beneficial genetic trait to be attracted to woman who are in their child bearing years. Yes, that does include teenagers. Don't get me wrong, child porn is disgusting and wrong, but being attracted to a fully developed young woman fully capable of bearing a child is not wrong, just illegal.
Yes, in our modern society, most young women are not emotionally, educationally, or mentally prepared to support a child at the time when they are capable of bearing one, but fortunately or unfortunately, nature has not caught up with society.
I dated a very tiny girl a few years ago. She was 22 and yet still got carded every time we went out, even got stopped by the cops once wondering why she wasn't in high school. So now are you telling me that some of my mementos from our relationship could now be illegal?
The fact that a person is of age in some jurisdictions is not important. You could be arrested for pedophilia for having sex with a 30 year old dressed up in pigtails and a schoolgirl outfit. You can also be arrested for having sex with a 17.5 year old who looks 30 and is not wearing pigtails and a schoolgirl outfit. The law has its cake and is going to eat it too.
At one company I worked for we actually created an open server that would take the SQL issued and add a where clause (if applicable) to restrict the results to only those rows applicable to their cost center, then pass it through to the real server (Sybase in this case).
It worked well in our environment because all of the FACT tables had Cost Center information in them, and the Dimension tables could be queried without such a where clause because they didn't reveal anything about the other cost centers.
It was like having many datamarts without having to maintain separate Databases.
So driving while talking on your cell phone - if you hit a pedestrian and kill them - is murder?
Well, did you hit and kill them on purpose, or because you weren't paying attention, or because they dropped down off of the bridge they just jumped from? Assuming you mean you were distracted and hit them, then it is legally negligent homicide, but I still consider it morally murder. Or for that matter, buying a worthless piece of plastic crap you don't need that supports the continued operation of a sweatshop in the third world which uses child labor - where next Tuesday a 9 year old boy will die because of the conditions there - is murder?
Well, that depends. Is the child's condition better working in a sweatshop, or not working at all? It's not like if the sweatshop closed down they'd start giving all these kids $5.25 an hour to do something else, they'd just starve. I'm not saying sweatshops are awesome workplaces, but in many circumstances, it beats the alternative.
Same reason Karaoke, car ricing, myspace-type "no-html knowledged required" web sites and so forth are popular. Form over function is the way of the world these days. You get to act like you're a cool guitar player, but you don't have to take the time to learn how to play the guitar.
I tried to play guitar hero once. It didn't map out right for me. There weren't enough strings or frets.
Now if they would make an interface to a genuine MIDIed guitar and gave you 10,000 times more points than the people just mashing buttons, that would be a game I could get into.
One wonders, if customs is outside of U.S. jurisdiction, then by what authority do the customs agents determine who can pass through to the states or not? Certainly not by U.S. authority because U.S. authority only holds on U.S. soil. They can't have their cake and eat it too. Or are customs agents like embassies, encapsulating the agents body in U.S. soil?
I agree with you there. When I went to see "I Am Legend", I was not aware that there were mutated humans in it at all. In fact, I got next to nothing about the movie from the trailer except there was wildlife and fields of grass in NYC. That and Will Smith was enough to make it worth checking out for me.
More than likely a queen had made a nest in a piece of equipment and the nest took hold and started producing workers, and then someone decided to ship the piece of equipment.
So if ants destroy your equipment and you are an atheist, then they still cover you? Or does the insurance company have to be atheist too?
I don't like those acts of God clauses because 95% of the time, it is an act of God that causes the equipment problems. I thought that was why we purchase insurance?
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Ebay should not allow ANY trade in animal parts or even imitation of such parts.
Imitation? What harm does that do? Is this like where they bust you for kiddie porn because your 30 year old girlfriend took a picture wearing pigtails and a miniskirt?
As a side note, there is a genetic condition that resulted in tuskless elephants or elephants with very small tusks. It was very rare. Now, "thanks" to poaching and slaughter, that condition is very visible. Some populations of elephants have 30% rate of that genetic abnormality.
Wow, it sounds like they are adopting to environmental pressure. Tusklless elephants don't get shot. Who knew that such a large animal with such small birthrates could evolve so quickly?
What happens when the virus writer is in another country? What if that country doesn't care?
Then they probably won't care when I spend 1000 times the amount of the attempted extortion to fly over there and beat the extortionist to death.
Like not pissing everybody off ?
The U.S. could eat garbage, piss gasoline and cause it to rain thousand dollar bills and the rest of the world would still hate us.
It's like how we hate Microsoft no matter what they do, even if they do something that we would have adored Apple for doing.
In other words, I think that the Bible is the literal word of God and should be followed literally, and that some of the stories are illustrations rather than a description of actual events.
Anyways if you read any book that was filled with non-literal stories why would you believe any of it.
So any work of non-fiction which contains a fable, parable, allegory, metaphor or simile is out? I would have to throw out all my science and math textbooks. They are chock full of word problem examples that didn't really happen.
For that matter, I read a lot of fiction. Does that mean that I can not learn something from these books? When lost in the woods, should I abstain from trying to fashion a makeshift compass because I learned how to do it from a work of fiction?
That poll did not have the answer that I would have chosen, which is that it is the word of God and contains both literal meaning and parables. It's a big book, it doesn't have to all be one or the other. To me, that Gallup poll was like asking to choose one of: Does it rain all the time, or is it sunny all the time.
TRS-80s were awesome. I worked with a hardware guy once and he built a seismometer and we used a TRS-80 to read the seismometer output from the serial port and make a graph.
My best guess is vibrations from launch transmitted through the ground, and possibly shifting of the soil around the flame trenches, are the culprit. I'm thinking along the lines of an undetected void forming over the decades in the soil giving way.
That gets my vote too. Anyone who has been there for a launch can tell you that the vibrations from two miles away are incredible. That and Florida is basically a large sand dune.
If I borrow your car from you, then hand the keys over to some random drunk guy I meet in a bar, would you still say it's my fault when your car gets wrapped around a tree?
Frankly, I would sue you, the drunk guy, and just to be sure, the tree.
One presumes, though that BoNY did proper due diligence in researching their archiving company, and a slipup like this from the archiving company is completely unexpected. But BoNY is still to blame for not encrypting their data, and Archive America is to blame for losing the tapes. And Society is to blame for not properly educating people that stealing from other people is wrong.
That won't work for the phone companies. They can't just use their current percentage take on the phones and convert it to a lease because of the usury laws in the United States. You're just not allowed to charge that kind of interest, so they have to bury it in as part of the contract.
But you are forgetting that the gas company will give you a brand new car (a $25,000 value) in exchange for your signing that 5 year agreement. And I am sure that you will have no problem paying $3000 a month for the car plus up to 50 gallons of gas per month. (Gas in excess of 50 gallons will cost $20 per gallon. Some plans may offer rollover gallons). You can also buy insurance for a replacement car should yours be stolen or broken. The cost of the insurance is only $1,000 a month. If you use this insurance, you have to pay a deductible of $10,000, and you will receive a refurbished (aka rebuilt from salvage) car. The radio only plays mp3s which you have to purchase for $4 for each 6 second snippet from shady third parties who hang out at the gas station. These shady guys will then charge you $6 a week for a guy to come up to you at the gas station, tell you a very lame joke, and also take a gallon of gas from you. The gas company will claim no responsibility for the actions of these companies which they allow to use their stations. And why would they when you can plainly see the bums handing over half their earnings to the gas station?
If you terminate the contract prior to your five year commitment, you have to pay a one time termination fee of $20,000. At that point, if you go to another carrier, you will find that their gas doesn't work with your vehicle.
If you do stay past five years, you can continue paying the same rate month after month even though the car is paid for, so you are essentially paying $3000 a month for (up to) 50 gallons of gas.
Hang on a sec. If I buy my own phone and don't wish to subsidize a new phone via a contract, then I have to pay MORE money every month? WTF?
The 'free' phone, contract extension, termination fee model has worked because the market likes it.
No, it's worked because that is basically the only option other than pay-as-you-go, which are even more expensive. It's kind of like the airlines. As soon as one adds a surcharge, takes away a service, etc., all the other ones follow suit. It's not free market if the "competitors" all have the exact same terms.
Do they not have insurance in Canada? Mine is 2.99 a month and covers loss, theft, or virtually any type of damage. I've used it three times and it's painless and simple.
Wow, you're lucky. Mine costs $7.99 a month, and if you have to use it, you have to pay a $99 deductible, which is more expensive than the phone costs on ebay, plus they give you a refurb which is even cheaper. I don't have insurance anymore, after I found this out. Four months of not paying insurance and I can afford to buy a phone off of ebay if I need to.
The article says that Archive America lost the tapes, so how is this the banks fault? And why does the heading says Bank of NY loses this data, when in fact it was Archive America which lost all this data? My guess is because Bank of NY has money, but Archive America doesn't.
Any ... nation's foreign policy is based entirely on perceived self interest. Morality has absolutely nothing to do with it.
There. Fixed it for you.
That's going to suck. Half the male population will be in the can. After all, it is an inherent and beneficial genetic trait to be attracted to woman who are in their child bearing years. Yes, that does include teenagers. Don't get me wrong, child porn is disgusting and wrong, but being attracted to a fully developed young woman fully capable of bearing a child is not wrong, just illegal.
Yes, in our modern society, most young women are not emotionally, educationally, or mentally prepared to support a child at the time when they are capable of bearing one, but fortunately or unfortunately, nature has not caught up with society.
I dated a very tiny girl a few years ago. She was 22 and yet still got carded every time we went out, even got stopped by the cops once wondering why she wasn't in high school. So now are you telling me that some of my mementos from our relationship could now be illegal?
The fact that a person is of age in some jurisdictions is not important. You could be arrested for pedophilia for having sex with a 30 year old dressed up in pigtails and a schoolgirl outfit. You can also be arrested for having sex with a 17.5 year old who looks 30 and is not wearing pigtails and a schoolgirl outfit. The law has its cake and is going to eat it too.
At one company I worked for we actually created an open server that would take the SQL issued and add a where clause (if applicable) to restrict the results to only those rows applicable to their cost center, then pass it through to the real server (Sybase in this case).
It worked well in our environment because all of the FACT tables had Cost Center information in them, and the Dimension tables could be queried without such a where clause because they didn't reveal anything about the other cost centers.
It was like having many datamarts without having to maintain separate Databases.
So driving while talking on your cell phone - if you hit a pedestrian and kill them - is murder?
Well, did you hit and kill them on purpose, or because you weren't paying attention, or because they dropped down off of the bridge they just jumped from? Assuming you mean you were distracted and hit them, then it is legally negligent homicide, but I still consider it morally murder.
Or for that matter, buying a worthless piece of plastic crap you don't need that supports the continued operation of a sweatshop in the third world which uses child labor - where next Tuesday a 9 year old boy will die because of the conditions there - is murder?
Well, that depends. Is the child's condition better working in a sweatshop, or not working at all? It's not like if the sweatshop closed down they'd start giving all these kids $5.25 an hour to do something else, they'd just starve. I'm not saying sweatshops are awesome workplaces, but in many circumstances, it beats the alternative.
Same reason Karaoke, car ricing, myspace-type "no-html knowledged required" web sites and so forth are popular. Form over function is the way of the world these days. You get to act like you're a cool guitar player, but you don't have to take the time to learn how to play the guitar.
I tried to play guitar hero once. It didn't map out right for me. There weren't enough strings or frets.
Now if they would make an interface to a genuine MIDIed guitar and gave you 10,000 times more points than the people just mashing buttons, that would be a game I could get into.
One wonders, if customs is outside of U.S. jurisdiction, then by what authority do the customs agents determine who can pass through to the states or not? Certainly not by U.S. authority because U.S. authority only holds on U.S. soil. They can't have their cake and eat it too. Or are customs agents like embassies, encapsulating the agents body in U.S. soil?
I agree with you there. When I went to see "I Am Legend", I was not aware that there were mutated humans in it at all. In fact, I got next to nothing about the movie from the trailer except there was wildlife and fields of grass in NYC. That and Will Smith was enough to make it worth checking out for me.
More than likely a queen had made a nest in a piece of equipment and the nest took hold and started producing workers, and then someone decided to ship the piece of equipment.
So if ants destroy your equipment and you are an atheist, then they still cover you? Or does the insurance company have to be atheist too?
I don't like those acts of God clauses because 95% of the time, it is an act of God that causes the equipment problems. I thought that was why we purchase insurance?