And that there's the problem. There's no incentive to keep creating, which is the entire purpose of copyright. Thanks for making such a great argument against it!
I didn't vote for the war. Does that mean I'm still a fair target? And if so, why the fuck do you suddenly turn hypocrite and NOT think that all of Afghani society became a big target because of their "freedom fighters" or "terrorists"?
I really think your argument justifies us just nuking the entire country and calling it good. I mean, their whole society is at war with us, just as we are with them, right?
Intent. We didn't intend the cluster bombs to kill civilians. They specifically intend bombings in marketplaces to kill and scare as many people as possible.
Just like me killing a man is murder, but killing him because he broke into my house and is threatening my family is justifiable homicide. Same act, same outcome, different intent changes the ballgame.
The Japanese were NOT about to surrender. It's a pride thing. Anyone in Japan's position who had the word "surrender" in their vocabulary WOULD have, but their military leaders pretty much didn't until they experienced the "vaporizing a cuple[sic] of important population centers" and realized that they would lose what they took through their early war action, period. Moreover, Hiroshima and Nagasaki actually weren't huge population centers... they were much more industrial centers, with a lower civilian population than MANY of the other targets that could have been hit.
Read a history book sometime, rather than sound bites. As well as books from BOTH sides of the Pacific. It might open your eyes.
We would have, if they hadn't made it our business. They weren't taking care of things over there, they generated people who attacked the US as evil, and we responded in kind.
That's not defending our other imperialist tendencies. There's no excuse for that, and many of our leaders are simply petty warmongers. But to say that the action in Afghanistan was unjustified is a seriously intellectually dishonest statement.
Informative gives karma. Funny doesn't. Maybe the mods that actually got it were feeling like handing out karma for a very good joke, rather than the "typical" funny?
DLP doesn't have "hard" pixels like LCD's. I believe when scaling they can slightly "flutter" the mirrors so that the edges are softer. I'm pretty sure that's the main issue with scaling is that there are hard edges between the pixels on an LCD.
That's a bit nebulous of information, but it's my experience at least. DLP just tends to show multiple resolutions better than LCD has in my experience with quite a few different TV's.
I think it's the A750, actually. I'll have to check. I bought it open-box at Circuit City for $1500 (LED's have way too long of a life to worry about, and the screen and case are in perfect condition), so I didn't check the model number terribly carefully. I just knew that the Samsung's got great reviews, and the one on display looked great, and it was the right price.
You can't create data, no. But you can infer apparently correct data. And as those in the graphics industry know, appearances of being right are all that really matter;)
Nope. You don't technically NEED anything other than food, water and shelter. Commercialism is for businesses, but it's not bad for consumers. Just remember, people are different. My brother in law just bought a 20" or so standard def flat-screen. For their living room. It's their only TV. I just bought a 61" 1080p LED engine Samsung DLP. Big difference in price, and capabilities, but the smaller TV is good enough for him. On the other hand, he's got multiple speakers hooked up to the audio center in his office that are over a grand each. I think he's got something like 7.1 sound at minimum, all computer balanced and so on. My sound system is some old (think 70's era) Pioneer speakers hooked up to the speaker outputs of my 5.1 combo DVD player. Once I run some speaker cables, we'll have 5.1 surround sound, but until then, it's just fine for me. Big difference in price, and capabilities. You don't need the biggest and best of everything to be happy, but if you know what you like and can afford it, there's no harm in indulging yourself a bit. Why else would you not be living on a commune?
Meh. SD works pretty well on a 61" DLP. On an LCD with bad scaling, SD looks like utter shit, which is probably what you're seeing. On a DLP (and much less commonly an LCD) with decent scaling, SD is no worse than on a non-HD set, and sometimes better. If you had a different display, you might even agree with him.
Subsistence farming for all! Technology that costs money means you have too much money, come join the commune!
Some people LIKE having more than the bare minimum necessary to survive. A Corvette is a "waste", but damn if they aren't fun to drive. I'll pay for that privilege. A big screen TV does look better than a smaller one, especially if it's high-def. I'll pay more for that capability. Don't get me wrong... I only paid $1500 for my 61" 1080p DLP, so I still got a good deal relative to the market price. But it's more than a 13" WalMart el-cheapo that "works" costs, too. The difference is what your priorities are, and what you want to spend your money on. But just because someone doesn't have the same priorities as you do doesn't make them stupid or a fool with their money. If anything, it simply makes you look jealous by your denigrating their choices.
Andy my wife has actually lost weight during her pregnancy (4 months so far!). It depends a lot on if you had any extra weight in the first place. If you look at most recommendations, you'll see from 100-300 more calories a day is all a woman typically needs to keep up with the demands of a baby. More than that, and it's just using pregnancy as an excuse to eat more.
One of my friends thought that laundry soap smelled really good. She thought she was going crazy, and finally told her doctor, who apparently said that certain smell cravings like that were tied to different deficiencies, and once she got her started with the correct supplement (not sure what it was), the craving went away instantly. Your mother was probably deficient in some nutrient.
...if there's any kind of transparent film, it will likely impede electrical current. I think you know not of what you speak. Isopropyl alcohol, especially if you get 90% or so, is about all that is in electrical contact cleaner.
The WHOLE POINT is to remove any films or dirt that prevent connection.
The trackpoint is a pain in the ass to use. It's useful if you're a very keyboard-centric person that only very rarely needs the mouse, but 99% of computer users use the mouse almost exclusively. Seriously... go watch people in a typical office trying to use an Office application.
If you use credit wisely, you get a better deal by borrowing money many times than by buying things in cash. New big screen TV? Keep your cash in the bank earning interest for the 18 months of no interest they give you. You get a better credit report, and you actually have more money at the end than if you had just bought the TV outright.
Not using credit is not being exceptionally smart with your money or handling your money well, it's simply living within your means.
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You're making two HUGE assumptions. One, that it acts like a scale (which is somewhat plausible), and two, that nature won't add to the 100 pound weight. Or subtract from the gold. Or move some of the gold off the scale. Or... you get my drift.
Not really. A mouse and keyboard, the only weight you have to keep suspended is your hand. And even then, only barely so. Try holding your arms out without any weight in them for long periods of time. More than 10 minutes, even if you move them around. Just keep them up in the working position for this thing.
It's relevant to you getting a job because if you're in a position of responsibility for money, people who have bad habits with their own money will very, very likely not have good habits with the company's money.
I'm not saying that I agree with checking EVERY employee's credit, but doing so is a reasonable step in some instances.
He didn't say ALL women did. Just that "someone women did", which I'd read to mean that only SOME women go for guys who flash wads of cash. Usually they're the shallow ones whose beauty is quite literally only skin deep.
Yes. I posted a response to a slashdot post to keep my Craigslist scamming going full-steam ahead. Nothing gets by you. I shall call you "Old Eagle Eyes".
You just have to use a little bit of intelligence... if it seems to be too good to be true, it very often is. But if someone's selling a set of nice couches fairly cheap because they want to get rid of them? My wife got a nice microfiber loveseat and chaise set for $500. Buying them new would have been about that much per piece. I met a few girls I went on a few dates with, never really amounted to much, but it wasn't ever a bad experience. You just can't trust it any more than the bulletin board at the local supermarket. Treat it as such, and you'll be fine.
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And that there's the problem. There's no incentive to keep creating, which is the entire purpose of copyright. Thanks for making such a great argument against it!
I didn't vote for the war. Does that mean I'm still a fair target? And if so, why the fuck do you suddenly turn hypocrite and NOT think that all of Afghani society became a big target because of their "freedom fighters" or "terrorists"?
I really think your argument justifies us just nuking the entire country and calling it good. I mean, their whole society is at war with us, just as we are with them, right?
Intent. We didn't intend the cluster bombs to kill civilians. They specifically intend bombings in marketplaces to kill and scare as many people as possible.
Just like me killing a man is murder, but killing him because he broke into my house and is threatening my family is justifiable homicide. Same act, same outcome, different intent changes the ballgame.
The Japanese were NOT about to surrender. It's a pride thing. Anyone in Japan's position who had the word "surrender" in their vocabulary WOULD have, but their military leaders pretty much didn't until they experienced the "vaporizing a cuple[sic] of important population centers" and realized that they would lose what they took through their early war action, period. Moreover, Hiroshima and Nagasaki actually weren't huge population centers... they were much more industrial centers, with a lower civilian population than MANY of the other targets that could have been hit.
Read a history book sometime, rather than sound bites. As well as books from BOTH sides of the Pacific. It might open your eyes.
We would have, if they hadn't made it our business. They weren't taking care of things over there, they generated people who attacked the US as evil, and we responded in kind.
That's not defending our other imperialist tendencies. There's no excuse for that, and many of our leaders are simply petty warmongers. But to say that the action in Afghanistan was unjustified is a seriously intellectually dishonest statement.
That's assuming people are smart.
*psssssssshhhhhhh*
And that's the sound of your argument being invalidated ;)
MANY people would be caught with these techniques, simply because practices like that are difficult to do properly all the time.
Informative gives karma. Funny doesn't. Maybe the mods that actually got it were feeling like handing out karma for a very good joke, rather than the "typical" funny?
DLP doesn't have "hard" pixels like LCD's. I believe when scaling they can slightly "flutter" the mirrors so that the edges are softer. I'm pretty sure that's the main issue with scaling is that there are hard edges between the pixels on an LCD.
That's a bit nebulous of information, but it's my experience at least. DLP just tends to show multiple resolutions better than LCD has in my experience with quite a few different TV's.
Best part about the DLP's is that standard-def doesn't look bad when it's scaled. Nowhere near as bad as LCD scaling looks.
I think it's the A750, actually. I'll have to check. I bought it open-box at Circuit City for $1500 (LED's have way too long of a life to worry about, and the screen and case are in perfect condition), so I didn't check the model number terribly carefully. I just knew that the Samsung's got great reviews, and the one on display looked great, and it was the right price.
You can't create data, no. But you can infer apparently correct data. And as those in the graphics industry know, appearances of being right are all that really matter ;)
Nope. You don't technically NEED anything other than food, water and shelter. Commercialism is for businesses, but it's not bad for consumers. Just remember, people are different. My brother in law just bought a 20" or so standard def flat-screen. For their living room. It's their only TV. I just bought a 61" 1080p LED engine Samsung DLP. Big difference in price, and capabilities, but the smaller TV is good enough for him. On the other hand, he's got multiple speakers hooked up to the audio center in his office that are over a grand each. I think he's got something like 7.1 sound at minimum, all computer balanced and so on. My sound system is some old (think 70's era) Pioneer speakers hooked up to the speaker outputs of my 5.1 combo DVD player. Once I run some speaker cables, we'll have 5.1 surround sound, but until then, it's just fine for me. Big difference in price, and capabilities. You don't need the biggest and best of everything to be happy, but if you know what you like and can afford it, there's no harm in indulging yourself a bit. Why else would you not be living on a commune?
Meh. SD works pretty well on a 61" DLP. On an LCD with bad scaling, SD looks like utter shit, which is probably what you're seeing. On a DLP (and much less commonly an LCD) with decent scaling, SD is no worse than on a non-HD set, and sometimes better. If you had a different display, you might even agree with him.
Subsistence farming for all! Technology that costs money means you have too much money, come join the commune!
Some people LIKE having more than the bare minimum necessary to survive. A Corvette is a "waste", but damn if they aren't fun to drive. I'll pay for that privilege. A big screen TV does look better than a smaller one, especially if it's high-def. I'll pay more for that capability. Don't get me wrong... I only paid $1500 for my 61" 1080p DLP, so I still got a good deal relative to the market price. But it's more than a 13" WalMart el-cheapo that "works" costs, too. The difference is what your priorities are, and what you want to spend your money on. But just because someone doesn't have the same priorities as you do doesn't make them stupid or a fool with their money. If anything, it simply makes you look jealous by your denigrating their choices.
Andy my wife has actually lost weight during her pregnancy (4 months so far!). It depends a lot on if you had any extra weight in the first place. If you look at most recommendations, you'll see from 100-300 more calories a day is all a woman typically needs to keep up with the demands of a baby. More than that, and it's just using pregnancy as an excuse to eat more.
One of my friends thought that laundry soap smelled really good. She thought she was going crazy, and finally told her doctor, who apparently said that certain smell cravings like that were tied to different deficiencies, and once she got her started with the correct supplement (not sure what it was), the craving went away instantly. Your mother was probably deficient in some nutrient.
...if there's any kind of transparent film, it will likely impede electrical current. I think you know not of what you speak. Isopropyl alcohol, especially if you get 90% or so, is about all that is in electrical contact cleaner.
The WHOLE POINT is to remove any films or dirt that prevent connection.
The trackpoint is a pain in the ass to use. It's useful if you're a very keyboard-centric person that only very rarely needs the mouse, but 99% of computer users use the mouse almost exclusively. Seriously... go watch people in a typical office trying to use an Office application.
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If you use credit wisely, you get a better deal by borrowing money many times than by buying things in cash. New big screen TV? Keep your cash in the bank earning interest for the 18 months of no interest they give you. You get a better credit report, and you actually have more money at the end than if you had just bought the TV outright.
Not using credit is not being exceptionally smart with your money or handling your money well, it's simply living within your means.
You're making two HUGE assumptions. One, that it acts like a scale (which is somewhat plausible), and two, that nature won't add to the 100 pound weight. Or subtract from the gold. Or move some of the gold off the scale. Or... you get my drift.
Not really. A mouse and keyboard, the only weight you have to keep suspended is your hand. And even then, only barely so. Try holding your arms out without any weight in them for long periods of time. More than 10 minutes, even if you move them around. Just keep them up in the working position for this thing.
It's relevant to you getting a job because if you're in a position of responsibility for money, people who have bad habits with their own money will very, very likely not have good habits with the company's money.
I'm not saying that I agree with checking EVERY employee's credit, but doing so is a reasonable step in some instances.
He didn't say ALL women did. Just that "someone women did", which I'd read to mean that only SOME women go for guys who flash wads of cash. Usually they're the shallow ones whose beauty is quite literally only skin deep.
Yes. I posted a response to a slashdot post to keep my Craigslist scamming going full-steam ahead. Nothing gets by you. I shall call you "Old Eagle Eyes".
You just have to use a little bit of intelligence... if it seems to be too good to be true, it very often is. But if someone's selling a set of nice couches fairly cheap because they want to get rid of them? My wife got a nice microfiber loveseat and chaise set for $500. Buying them new would have been about that much per piece. I met a few girls I went on a few dates with, never really amounted to much, but it wasn't ever a bad experience. You just can't trust it any more than the bulletin board at the local supermarket. Treat it as such, and you'll be fine.