The chargeback levels from some countries are enormous. When a country accounts for only 2% of your business but makes up 20% of your chargeback, it doesn't take a business genius to decide that country's purchases aren't worth it.
The only court conviction in the theater tragedy was handed down last month to Zaurbek Talkhigov, who was charged with using his cellphone to pass key information about law enforcement activities during the crisis. The charge was based on tapes of Talkhigov's cellphone conversations. A Moscow court sentenced Talkhigov, 25, to 8 1/2 years in prison on June 20 and ordered the tapes destroyed.
There was a lot of controversy surrounding the use of the narcotic gas in the theater. This just looks like the police botched the job and mopped up a whistleblower.
Do you think the US would do the same thing today to the camera crew that caught the tear gas tank pumping flame into the building at Waco?
Unless you overdose.
Overdosing is caused by inconsistant product due to it's illegality and lack of regulation.
Or are negligent becuase you're high or strung out (whilst driving, etc.)
Impared driving under the influence is wrong be it from alcohol, drugs, or lack of sleep.
Or have to steal to feed your habit.
Stealing is only an issue because the prices of drugs are enormously inflated by Prohibition.
Or are blackmailed by someone who threatens to tell your boss about your coke addiction.
The only stigma to coke addiction is it's illegality. There are many other things a person could be blackmailed with.
Or get poisoned by a bad fix.
Again, Prohibition prevents drugs from being regulated and purity standards enforced.
Or catch HIV or another nasty illness from sharing a dirty needle with another addict.
Prohibition laws prevent IV users from getting clean needles. The prick of a needle or the prick of a sexual partner can both transmit disease.
Or are ripped off by your dealer.
Wouldn't happen if you purchased it legitimately from a pharmacy.
Or are hurt because you found yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time when you needed to get a fix badly.
Keeping drugs illegal forces users to with bad people in bad environments.
Or lose your life, family, friends and material possessions because of your addiction.
Addiction can be difficult thing no matter what the addiction is. By making addicts criminals, it only help ensure that they do not get the help they need.
Yep, having a hard drug habit never hurt anyone.
It hurts people a lot worse by keeping them illegal.
Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.
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Great job and kudos to the OpenGroupware folks and their sponsors.
Be it by code of bytes or code of law?
Are the card companies afraid more of revealing technology to their competitors, or of revealing their benchmarking cheats...er optimizations?
What's so surprising about that?
Most open source projects have been non-profitable so far.
The search for intelligent life on Earth continues.
Since they went to all the trouble of making the virtual sets, they might as well let us kill stuff in them.
The chargeback levels from some countries are enormous. When a country accounts for only 2% of your business but makes up 20% of your chargeback, it doesn't take a business genius to decide that country's purchases aren't worth it.
There was a lot of controversy surrounding the use of the narcotic gas in the theater. This just looks like the police botched the job and mopped up a whistleblower.
Do you think the US would do the same thing today to the camera crew that caught the tear gas tank pumping flame into the building at Waco?
http://www.amasci.com/emotor/emot1.html
You can use a TV screen as your high voltage source.
I had a variation of this spinning on my office PC a few years back.
Nothing says geek quite like a monitor powered ion motor on your desk.
IANAL, but is USL SOL if SCO says BFD about IBM's IP?
Maybe more companies will bait their software with easy exploits to snare those who try to circumvent it
If nothing else, it gives the companies an excuse to their shareholders for shoddy coding.
What about prostitution and stripping? Isn't that about satisfying "man's appetite" for sexual stimulus?
Yes. What is your point?
Could you dumb it down a little. I just don't understand all this technical jargon.
On second thought, let them get outsourced to India.
After a year or two, they will beg for domestic support again.
Overdosing is caused by inconsistant product due to it's illegality and lack of regulation.
Or are negligent becuase you're high or strung out (whilst driving, etc.)
Impared driving under the influence is wrong be it from alcohol, drugs, or lack of sleep.
Or have to steal to feed your habit.
Stealing is only an issue because the prices of drugs are enormously inflated by Prohibition.
Or are blackmailed by someone who threatens to tell your boss about your coke addiction. The only stigma to coke addiction is it's illegality. There are many other things a person could be blackmailed with.
Or get poisoned by a bad fix.
Again, Prohibition prevents drugs from being regulated and purity standards enforced.
Or catch HIV or another nasty illness from sharing a dirty needle with another addict.
Prohibition laws prevent IV users from getting clean needles. The prick of a needle or the prick of a sexual partner can both transmit disease.
Or are ripped off by your dealer.
Wouldn't happen if you purchased it legitimately from a pharmacy.
Or are hurt because you found yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time when you needed to get a fix badly.
Keeping drugs illegal forces users to with bad people in bad environments.
Or lose your life, family, friends and material possessions because of your addiction.
Addiction can be difficult thing no matter what the addiction is. By making addicts criminals, it only help ensure that they do not get the help they need.
Yep, having a hard drug habit never hurt anyone.
It hurts people a lot worse by keeping them illegal.
Oh God, I wish I could have made it through watching Titanic without understanding the dialogue.
Helix Developers Can Now Easily Create Helix DNA Client Products Supporting Synchronized Multimedia
Or, combine it with random movement printing, and you could paint the Mona Lisa in a parking lot while doing doughnuts.
A quick scan and you could rest assured that your phone wasn't giving you cancer.
Until it does, that is.
It seems that the technique can be expanded upon though.
Perhaps something akin to the x-ray backscatter imagers reported earlier on Slashdot.
What would be a small toot at sea level would be a station shaker at partial pressure.
Plus, the fart/air ratio would be higher, so it might disperse quicker but might be gaggingly worse till it does.
Since when did real knowledge and skills come out of a book?
Adminsitrators with the purse strings really eat that kind of thing up and it would go a long way towards justifing the expense.
A GPS unit with each child could allow the teacher with a laptop at their base to actually see where they are at all times.
Damn, why couldn't classes have been this cool when I was a youngun?