The guy's a jerk, but he won't get the tax break. That goes to the taxable entity that writes the donation check.
You can make a donation to just about every nonprofit "in honor of" somebody, but if the donated funds come out of your bank account, you get the tax break.
Guess what, asshole? As recounted in most of links posted in this thread (and this one: eff whitepaper), whoever controls these machines can determine the "winner" of the next election. Not the voters.
When voters may be disenfranchised without knowing about it and without recourse to an audit/recount, that is a horrific conspiracy.
73.1 percent of men use the Internet compared to 69 percent of woman.
What, has some magician sawed this poor woman into pieces, and failed to reattach 31% of her? And, while he desperately Reads The FM on how to complete the trick, she surfs the 'net?
Bzzzt. "Criminals" have all the same rights as everyone else. Innocent until proven guilty, remember?
Actually, we're in total agreement. The "all the rights" phrase came from the parent post, which had descended into a kind of "damn civil society, always saying no when I wanna shoot somebody" spiral.
For this post I'll assume you live in the United States.
Local laws vary, but I believe most US Citizens have the right to use lethal force in self-defense only. Self defense, not property defense.
Criminals do not have all of the rights, but they do have some. Your right is to life first, but after that, your recourse is to the criminal justice system.
I wouldn't prefer your paper-tiger "have a nice day" response. I would prefer information-gathering and timely reporting to the police: the arm of government we invented for exactly these situations.
The site is a bulletin board. Here follow codeman's 2 informational messages (the formatting sucks, but what can you do?:
---first post---
ok i did some hacking on the walgreess version and here's what i have done..
first thanks to zonyl for getting me some cameras to mess with..
ok if you look at
[this]
you will see there is a daughter board on there with the nand flash for picture storage..
if you remove that board you can add a smartmedia socket and using smartmedia card you will
be able to get the pics with a smartmedia reader standard jpg's but it will not do more that
25 pics still (think its using fat12)..
also there is a serial port there labeled rs232 it a ttl level serial port..
pin 1 rx []square on board
pin 2 tx
pin 3 gnd
pin 4 data out ?? for lcd ?? video ??
if you hook up a max232 type chip to the board and a pc , in a term program hit
space bar and the camera will return a 0x01 hex (looks like it does autobaud rate)
and if you hit the - key twice it will trigger the flash and count the remaining
counter down but does not write to flash.
and if you send a 029 dec (hold alt and type 029 on keypad then release alt) if will
change the format of the data coming out on pin 4..( dont know yet )
so far thats all i got in one night..
codeman
---next post---
here are some pic to get a better idea of how it works
Dear LA County:
4 Sale: seaventean 8t jigabite hard disk dryves, str8 from the back of my car. Only $5 each.
Do you think that would be taken seriously by any government procurement agent? Do you think that San Francisco would have been forced by statute to build the "Golden Motherfucking Cock Bridge" if some crazy, tripped out, pornographic construction team made a cheaper proposal than any other? Of course not.
Why? Because terminology and presentation matter, they're a qualitative factor in the purchasing decision. LA County is just another customer in the big free market. Somebody will fill their needs with a "primary/secondary", "mother/daughter" drive or somesuch.
Please. Railing against "political correctness" is its own kind of egotistical wankery.
Truth is, taken together, the words master and slave have a shameful history, and terrible connotations in this country in particular. They are also easily replaceable in tech jargon (I like primary/secondary, but you can see many good examples in this discussion).
LA County is infringing no one's rights. You can still call the relationship master/slave if you want, that's OK. Just don't expect them to buy disks from you. That's their right.
Right. And the list has 50 million numbers on it, each number potentially representing more than one person!
The question becomes: if the courts do overturn this, do US citizens believe enough in this measure to make it a constitutional amendment?
Oh, and if the list is not enforceable, and the telemarketers already have a copy of it, have we just handed them a nice fat list of phone numbers that they can now legally call? Bastards!
What's more important than feeling good and happy? Isn't that the motivation for just about everything humans do?
Work and "responsibility" might make you feel good and happy, while marijuana does the trick for someone else, while--to continue this devil's advocacy--seeming to have a societal impact equivalent to alcohol. Sure, it may not be productive like work, but so what?
I wonder about the paper-is-best, email-doesn't-count argument when it comes to writing your congressperson.
I've talked to a couple of people who work in jobs requiring lots of communication with Capitol Hill offices, and they say that the anthrax scare of 2001 is still affecting mail delivery to Congress. Word is that US mail delivery to Congress can take up to 2 months.
As late as of last month, the Brentwood mail sorting facility was still closed for decontamination.
Until the mail situation gets straightened out, I'm going to stick with email. My Senators (Sarbanes and Mikulski) and Representative (Ruppersburger) do pretty well with responding to email. Whether or not they weigh it as heavily as they weigh(ed) paper mail...I hope that they would.
Quotha: Do you think that it really doesn't matter what the wogs do to each other? I think that the people there are human
Thanks for weighing in on that. I was waiting for a patriot to clear that up for me.
Quothagain: 1) Its government appeared to be trying to build weapons which it could use against us, and would surely have used them against us if it could.
I don't know about you, but somewhere around the 10th grade I learned about the difference between appearance and reality. If you lack recourse to the comedies of William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night, etc.), might I suggest you engage any willing transsexual in some "research." Point here is, people who commit action based on appearance rather than reality often end up feeling burned.
I won't even address point #2 Its government was surely sponsoring terrorism , as it's "surely" a repetition of your seeming/being mistake in #1.
As for #3: Its government was murdering its citizens to stay in power, why not check out the history of US action in Central and South America in the 20th century? I'd think your expression of sympathy for the dusky sons of Iraq should surely extend to the impoverished folk south of our great Country's borders. See Eduardo Galeano's 3-volume history Memory of Fire for details, but US governments throughout the years have demonstrated no compunction for murdering those who would challenge their power.
It might be that all government is murder. But where would that leave us?
Re:you pay for bulk (snail) mail too
on
I, Spammer
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Actually, the bulk mail discount does not depend on higher first class rates as much as it depends on the work-shifting that occurs from post office to bulk-mailer.
To get the bulk rate, a mailer has to presort their pieces by zip code groups. Since the sorting of mail pieces is a big part of the cost of processing mail for the post office, the bulk discount makes decent economic sense (though the article you cite does say that this discount may be set a fraction too high).
You're neglecting the fact that you, the consumer, benefit from the bulk rate. In a lot of cases, credit-card bills, utility bills, non-profit newsletters (non-profits receive an even larger bulk discount) and other pieces of mail that you want to receive come with the presorted bulk rate discount attached. If your credit-card co. had to pay full freight, don't you think they'd pass along the cost?
I'd bet that, all things considered, the costs and benefits of the bulk-rate discount for snail mail come out nearly even.
Von uns freundlich babelfish (nicht ein babelpoet):
Who during lifetime on ground connection after death an angel will not become good the view towards skies asks you then why one it to see can only if the clouds schlafengehn can one us in the sky longs we to have fear and are alone God white I wants no angel to be you to live term sunshine separately from us infinitely far it to have to stars claws (completely firm) thereby it not of the sky to fall only if the clouds schlafengehn can one us in the sky let us long themselves we to have fear and are alone God white I wants no angel to be only if the clouds schlafengehn can one us in the sky let us long we to have fear and are alone God white I wants no angel its
Hello Arthur Smith.
Your house at 3808 Foster Avenue will be assessed at $58,330 come July 1. Assessment means little to market value, however. I've known houses to sell for nearly double their assessed rate, depending on other factors (like location, and then again, location [Canton's still pretty much a seller's market, right?])
I would have loved to see some transfer information (always my favorite part of the Maryland Real Property Search site-you usually get to see what people paid for their houses).
E-mail spammers have another advantage over their snail-mail counterparts: senders of traditional paper junk mail have to pay for printing the things. This extra cost associated with paper junk-mail is another check on how much of it you get.
Per-piece costs depend on the size of the press run, of course, but say you wanted to send a 4-color, 1-page brochure to 100,000 addresses. You might pay.10 a piece for the printing, a $10,000 fee right up front.
Your internet spammer, however, has the advantage of paying nothing to "print" their ad.
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Engadget just posted pics of the iPhone apres moi, le Deluge. There's a line forming outside my local Apple store now.
The guy's a jerk, but he won't get the tax break. That goes to the taxable entity that writes the donation check. You can make a donation to just about every nonprofit "in honor of" somebody, but if the donated funds come out of your bank account, you get the tax break.
Guess what, asshole? As recounted in most of links posted in this thread (and this one: eff whitepaper), whoever controls these machines can determine the "winner" of the next election. Not the voters. When voters may be disenfranchised without knowing about it and without recourse to an audit/recount, that is a horrific conspiracy.
I'd love one: baltimoretimNOSPAM@yahoo.com minus the NOSPAM, obviously.
How long will our government ignore the (fundamental) elemental threat?
What, has some magician sawed this poor woman into pieces, and failed to reattach 31% of her? And, while he desperately Reads The FM on how to complete the trick, she surfs the 'net?
Actually, we're in total agreement. The "all the rights" phrase came from the parent post, which had descended into a kind of "damn civil society, always saying no when I wanna shoot somebody" spiral.
Local laws vary, but I believe most US Citizens have the right to use lethal force in self-defense only. Self defense, not property defense.
Criminals do not have all of the rights, but they do have some. Your right is to life first, but after that, your recourse is to the criminal justice system.
I wouldn't prefer your paper-tiger "have a nice day" response. I would prefer information-gathering and timely reporting to the police: the arm of government we invented for exactly these situations.
---first post---
ok i did some hacking on the walgreess version and here's what i have done..
first thanks to zonyl for getting me some cameras to mess with..
ok if you look at [this] you will see there is a daughter board on there with the nand flash for picture storage ..
if you remove that board you can add a smartmedia socket and using smartmedia card you will be able to get the pics with a smartmedia reader standard jpg's but it will not do more that 25 pics still (think its using fat12)..
also there is a serial port there labeled rs232 it a ttl level serial port ..
pin 1 rx []square on board pin 2 tx pin 3 gnd pin 4 data out ?? for lcd ?? video ?? if you hook up a max232 type chip to the board and a pc , in a term program hit space bar and the camera will return a 0x01 hex (looks like it does autobaud rate)
and if you hit the - key twice it will trigger the flash and count the remaining
counter down but does not write to flash .
and if you send a 029 dec (hold alt and type 029 on keypad then release alt) if will change the format of the data coming out on pin 4..( dont know yet )
so far thats all i got in one night ..
codeman
---next post---
here are some pic to get a better idea of how it works
daughter card removed [here]
smartmedia socket added [here]
here it is complete. [here]
another one [here]
there is a door for the smartmedia card
codeman
Do you think that would be taken seriously by any government procurement agent? Do you think that San Francisco would have been forced by statute to build the "Golden Motherfucking Cock Bridge" if some crazy, tripped out, pornographic construction team made a cheaper proposal than any other? Of course not.
Why? Because terminology and presentation matter, they're a qualitative factor in the purchasing decision. LA County is just another customer in the big free market. Somebody will fill their needs with a "primary/secondary", "mother/daughter" drive or somesuch.
Truth is, taken together, the words master and slave have a shameful history, and terrible connotations in this country in particular. They are also easily replaceable in tech jargon (I like primary/secondary, but you can see many good examples in this discussion).
LA County is infringing no one's rights. You can still call the relationship master/slave if you want, that's OK. Just don't expect them to buy disks from you. That's their right.
The question becomes: if the courts do overturn this, do US citizens believe enough in this measure to make it a constitutional amendment?
Oh, and if the list is not enforceable, and the telemarketers already have a copy of it, have we just handed them a nice fat list of phone numbers that they can now legally call? Bastards!
Work and "responsibility" might make you feel good and happy, while marijuana does the trick for someone else, while--to continue this devil's advocacy--seeming to have a societal impact equivalent to alcohol. Sure, it may not be productive like work, but so what?
I've talked to a couple of people who work in jobs requiring lots of communication with Capitol Hill offices, and they say that the anthrax scare of 2001 is still affecting mail delivery to Congress. Word is that US mail delivery to Congress can take up to 2 months.
As late as of last month, the Brentwood mail sorting facility was still closed for decontamination.
Until the mail situation gets straightened out, I'm going to stick with email. My Senators (Sarbanes and Mikulski) and Representative (Ruppersburger) do pretty well with responding to email. Whether or not they weigh it as heavily as they weigh(ed) paper mail...I hope that they would.
"Any reproduction... by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited."
So Hatch had better not be making any money off of the links.
In fact, I'd be very surprised if any payment arrangement existed between utahpr0n.com and Hatch. But wouldn't it be interesting if one did?
Didn't Congress bust Dan Rostenkowski(sp?) for as much?
I agree completely. Seeing "google" used as a verb is almost as bad as seeing "their" used as a verb.
Thanks for weighing in on that. I was waiting for a patriot to clear that up for me.
Quothagain: 1) Its government appeared to be trying to build weapons which it could use against us, and would surely have used them against us if it could.
I don't know about you, but somewhere around the 10th grade I learned about the difference between appearance and reality. If you lack recourse to the comedies of William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night, etc.), might I suggest you engage any willing transsexual in some "research." Point here is, people who commit action based on appearance rather than reality often end up feeling burned.
I won't even address point #2 Its government was surely sponsoring terrorism , as it's "surely" a repetition of your seeming/being mistake in #1.
As for #3: Its government was murdering its citizens to stay in power, why not check out the history of US action in Central and South America in the 20th century? I'd think your expression of sympathy for the dusky sons of Iraq should surely extend to the impoverished folk south of our great Country's borders. See Eduardo Galeano's 3-volume history Memory of Fire for details, but US governments throughout the years have demonstrated no compunction for murdering those who would challenge their power.
It might be that all government is murder. But where would that leave us?
Actually, the bulk mail discount does not depend on higher first class rates as much as it depends on the work-shifting that occurs from post office to bulk-mailer. To get the bulk rate, a mailer has to presort their pieces by zip code groups. Since the sorting of mail pieces is a big part of the cost of processing mail for the post office, the bulk discount makes decent economic sense (though the article you cite does say that this discount may be set a fraction too high). You're neglecting the fact that you, the consumer, benefit from the bulk rate. In a lot of cases, credit-card bills, utility bills, non-profit newsletters (non-profits receive an even larger bulk discount) and other pieces of mail that you want to receive come with the presorted bulk rate discount attached. If your credit-card co. had to pay full freight, don't you think they'd pass along the cost? I'd bet that, all things considered, the costs and benefits of the bulk-rate discount for snail mail come out nearly even.
Von uns freundlich babelfish (nicht ein babelpoet): Who during lifetime on ground connection after death an angel will not become good the view towards skies asks you then why one it to see can only if the clouds schlafengehn can one us in the sky longs we to have fear and are alone God white I wants no angel to be you to live term sunshine separately from us infinitely far it to have to stars claws (completely firm) thereby it not of the sky to fall only if the clouds schlafengehn can one us in the sky let us long themselves we to have fear and are alone God white I wants no angel to be only if the clouds schlafengehn can one us in the sky let us long we to have fear and are alone God white I wants no angel its
I would have loved to see some transfer information (always my favorite part of the Maryland Real Property Search site-you usually get to see what people paid for their houses).
Latitude: 39.284339
Longitude: -76.575952
So do you consider that Canton or Patterson Park?
This is a neat demonstration of technology, but do you worry about people knowing where you are?
E-mail spammers have another advantage over their snail-mail counterparts: senders of traditional paper junk mail have to pay for printing the things. This extra cost associated with paper junk-mail is another check on how much of it you get. Per-piece costs depend on the size of the press run, of course, but say you wanted to send a 4-color, 1-page brochure to 100,000 addresses. You might pay .10 a piece for the printing, a $10,000 fee right up front.
Your internet spammer, however, has the advantage of paying nothing to "print" their ad.