Drat, I was going to just moderate in this thread, but this is too good for me to pass up. No one is stopping brick and mortar stores from selling online. Also, when online stores sell things to people who are within their own state they charge sales tax anyways. I think that this is fair and equitable. There is no reason why my state should be trying to tax a business that is located in california for selling something to me. Also, some states don't have sales tax, so they already have an "unfair" advantage over businesses based in places which do have sales tax. Of course, I'm fundamentally against "general" taxation and believe that our tax forms should include an itemized list that we can select to spend our portion of the tax we paid on. That way programs that were universally dislike would disappear quickly, programs that just a few people liked could be supported somewhat, but very popular programs would get even more money. I'm also against Social Security and Medicare. Mostly because I'll never collect SocSec, and even when my wife and I were both unemployed we didn't qualify for Medicare and as a consequence have large amounts of medical bills. So I'm paying all of this money out into services I will never see a return from, and a good 40% of my tax money gets taken to fund a military industrial complex that I don't support!
Some cable providers do check your mac-addie, of course you can just press the little reset button on the cablemodem every time you switch pcs/nics and it works just fine....
Just as a note, the cable installer guys get paid per customer, not per hour (based on questions I asked the installer when I had cable from Comcast in baltimore). So they love to get out of there quick. It means they made 17$ for 5-10 minutes of their time.
I've noticed that people who normally wouldn't be rude, become rude when using the cellphone, or somehow believe that having a cellphone is a license to be a jackass. I know some people who would NEVER think of interruping a conversation at their home to answer the phone, who will cut you off in midsentence to answer their cellphone. It's crazy. I don't want then banned from most places, I just want the people using them to understand that sometimes it disrupts other people, and we won't put up with it.
Here's the deal, if I'm on a 11 hour flight to brisbane, and you're screaming into your cellphone at 3am while I try to sleep, I *WILL* tell you to shut the fuck up. That is your only warning. If you continue screaming into your cellphone I *WILL* get out of my seat, take your cellphone from you and destroy it. You can sue me, you can have me arrested, you can start a fist fight with me on the plane, whatever floats your boat. But I am DAMN sure not going to go without sleep solely for your convenience.
Why should a band be known to the average guy on the street? Two of my favorite bands, The Brobdingnagian Bards (www.thebards.net) and Emerald Rose are barely known to the average band, but their concerts are often sold out. People cluster around the for autographs, and they make decent money. They just have an audience, they play for that audience. They have lots of fans, those fans just don't intersect with the "average guy" all that much.
The same way anyone else would, get a loan. Or, talk to the owner of the stadium, arrange a deal whereby the cash from the concert is split with the owner of the stadium. It's not that hard. If they sell a few thousand mp3s they should have the starting capitol to do small tours, sell more music, do larger tours, sell more music, do MASSIVE tour, sell LOTS of music, then rent a stadium. It's not like they are going to have 250 thousand rabid fans 3 days after they release their first track. It takes time to build that kind of fanbase, and in that time they should be building capitol from their music sales and local concerts to help boost them further.
Should just be a slashbox that has all of the wired headlines in it, then whenever Wired updates the headline goes there, and all stories about wired articles are automatically rejected.
I'm currently driving a 1986 Honda Accord that has 245 THOUSAND miles on it. The worst problem it has had so far was the alternator needing to be replaced. It runs great still. Heck, the radio doesn't work and the heat/ac is broken. But it drives!
If it does Java it does CGOBAN! Available from the fine folks at http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/comp/cgoban/ The new version, version 2 does not support the Go Modem protocol, which means you can't play against GnuGo, but it does have a great KGS client built in.
You are quite fundamentally WRONG. And a moron. The glass does NOT change shape, it never did, if it does in the future the human race will have been LONG extinct and won't notice. Glass is warped in old buildings because the techniques for creating glass windows mostly SUCKED. So the glass started out warped. The bases are thicker so the glass won't FALL OUT. The only time I have actually glass with melt lines is after a massive housefire when we were cleaning the place out. Glass MIGHT flow on a geological time scale on the order of a billion years or so, but hell, given that much time what doesn't?
You aren't "you" from one moment to the next. Every instant you die and are reborn. There is no way to prove that you are the same person you believe you were a moment ago.
The fundamental truth is that we are energy, there is no rule or law that says our fundamental concept of self is inherently linked to our bodies. If the brain survives then the self lives on. If the information that is in the brain can be perfectly captured then the self can live on for eternity. The self is the sum of experiences, the memories, impressions, and knowlege contained within.
Red hair could be an indicator of the presence of an entirely seperate gene which controls or regulates pain tolerance which just happens to show up frequently in people with red hair. That would be my guess.
Kintanon The following statement was placed here to overcome the 20 second posting limit. The previous satement was placed here to overcome the 20 second posting list.
If that were true, I'd commit more sex crimes per day than most serial rapists... If measuring porn intake were a way to rate someones propensity to commit sex crimes I would certainly have been in jail for the last 4 years.
Additionally libertarianism advocates the privatization of what really should be public services - roads, electricity, gas, etc. Witness the debacle in California last summer as an example of what deregulation can cause.
Muahahah! Failure to do any research has effectively destroyed your argument. The problem in California was that the Government only partially deregulated the power companies. The power companies were not allowed to pass their costs on to the consumer when prices got higher for them. They were being forced to purchase power from other companies at higher cost than they were allowed to charge the consumer. That is a recipe for destruction and the problem was not de-regulation, but the remaining regulations regarding the price of electricity. Deregulation is not always good, but in this case it was not at fault for the disaster.
You're right, watching some schmuk try to imitate it is pretty funny, which is why I'm glad I tried it at home and not out somewhere with people... Apparently the INTENSE BURNING that I experienced after slapping my hand onto my desk while covered in crazy glue is the normal sensation associated with the act. And the many many bits of skin I left behind are also standard reaction to that particular procedure. So, in the future, please refrain from mentioning interesting properties of your hands as I will almost certainly be compelled to test to see if I share those properties.
Kintanon Oh, BTW, I'm immune to poison ivy and poison oak. I can rub the stuff all over me and not so much as twitch.
They already have. Depending on what banks ATM you use, and sometimes depending on your location geographically there are different prompts. Some ask about language preference, some have an extra 'Fast Cash' menu, some have other things that are nonstandard. I imagine some blind folks get really annoyed by it.
What I heard (admittedly second or third hand from a legal assistant) was that the coffee was hot enough to malform the plastic lid (Not the styrofoam cup itself which I initially stated, oops) so that it did not sit properly on the cup. That may or may not be true, but it was what I was told at the time.
We don't pick which path of events occure, only which one we see. God sees them all. All possible events do happen, just not within the view of humanity.
Kintanon And yes, this is all posited from the beginning point of 'God does exist' regardless of the truth of that statement.
I burn myself on hot coffee I bought: US - sue for >$1.000 Sweden: Get a free coffee
Stop using this one. The situation as, "Coffee melts styrofoam cup and pours onto my crotch giving me 3rd degree burns - Sue for medical costs, be told to fuck off, sue for some rediculous amount." Not to mention that McDs had previously had complaints about their coffee being dangerously hot. I've spilled hot coffee on myself straight out of the pot and it didn't give me 3rd degree burns.
And yet every day hundreds of people with no jobs, no incomes, and quite likely no housing or prospects for getting any have children. And that's A-OK because then they can roll up to the nearest government hand out office and pick up their crackcheck and some food stamps.
Shawn is in a hell of a lot better position to take responsibility for another human being than a lot of people who have bio kids.
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Drat, I was going to just moderate in this thread, but this is too good for me to pass up.
No one is stopping brick and mortar stores from selling online. Also, when online stores sell things to people who are within their own state they charge sales tax anyways. I think that this is fair and equitable. There is no reason why my state should be trying to tax a business that is located in california for selling something to me.
Also, some states don't have sales tax, so they already have an "unfair" advantage over businesses based in places which do have sales tax.
Of course, I'm fundamentally against "general" taxation and believe that our tax forms should include an itemized list that we can select to spend our portion of the tax we paid on. That way programs that were universally dislike would disappear quickly, programs that just a few people liked could be supported somewhat, but very popular programs would get even more money. I'm also against Social Security and Medicare. Mostly because I'll never collect SocSec, and even when my wife and I were both unemployed we didn't qualify for Medicare and as a consequence have large amounts of medical bills. So I'm paying all of this money out into services I will never see a return from, and a good 40% of my tax money gets taken to fund a military industrial complex that I don't support!
Kintanon
Some cable providers do check your mac-addie, of course you can just press the little reset button on the cablemodem every time you switch pcs/nics and it works just fine....
Kintanon
Just as a note, the cable installer guys get paid per customer, not per hour (based on questions I asked the installer when I had cable from Comcast in baltimore). So they love to get out of there quick.
It means they made 17$ for 5-10 minutes of their time.
Kintanon
I've noticed that people who normally wouldn't be rude, become rude when using the cellphone, or somehow believe that having a cellphone is a license to be a jackass. I know some people who would NEVER think of interruping a conversation at their home to answer the phone, who will cut you off in midsentence to answer their cellphone. It's crazy. I don't want then banned from most places, I just want the people using them to understand that sometimes it disrupts other people, and we won't put up with it.
Kintanon
Here's the deal, if I'm on a 11 hour flight to brisbane, and you're screaming into your cellphone at 3am while I try to sleep, I *WILL* tell you to shut the fuck up. That is your only warning. If you continue screaming into your cellphone I *WILL* get out of my seat, take your cellphone from you and destroy it. You can sue me, you can have me arrested, you can start a fist fight with me on the plane, whatever floats your boat. But I am DAMN sure not going to go without sleep solely for your convenience.
Kintanon
Why should a band be known to the average guy on the street?
Two of my favorite bands, The Brobdingnagian Bards (www.thebards.net) and Emerald Rose are barely known to the average band, but their concerts are often sold out. People cluster around the for autographs, and they make decent money. They just have an audience, they play for that audience. They have lots of fans, those fans just don't intersect with the "average guy" all that much.
Kintanon
Muahahha! My .sig is an example of this. It's blatant advertising for my little bro's webcomic!
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Kintanon
The same way anyone else would, get a loan.
Or, talk to the owner of the stadium, arrange a deal whereby the cash from the concert is split with the owner of the stadium. It's not that hard.
If they sell a few thousand mp3s they should have the starting capitol to do small tours, sell more music, do larger tours, sell more music, do MASSIVE tour, sell LOTS of music, then rent a stadium. It's not like they are going to have 250 thousand rabid fans 3 days after they release their first track. It takes time to build that kind of fanbase, and in that time they should be building capitol from their music sales and local concerts to help boost them further.
Kintanon
Should just be a slashbox that has all of the wired headlines in it, then whenever Wired updates the headline goes there, and all stories about wired articles are automatically rejected.
Kintanon
I'm currently driving a 1986 Honda Accord that has 245 THOUSAND miles on it. The worst problem it has had so far was the alternator needing to be replaced. It runs great still. Heck, the radio doesn't work and the heat/ac is broken. But it drives!
I love Japanese cars.
Kintanon
If it does Java it does CGOBAN! Available from the fine folks at http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/comp/cgoban/ The new version, version 2 does not support the Go Modem protocol, which means you can't play against GnuGo, but it does have a great KGS client built in.
Kintanon
You are quite fundamentally WRONG. And a moron.
The glass does NOT change shape, it never did, if it does in the future the human race will have been LONG extinct and won't notice. Glass is warped in old buildings because the techniques for creating glass windows mostly SUCKED. So the glass started out warped. The bases are thicker so the glass won't FALL OUT. The only time I have actually glass with melt lines is after a massive housefire when we were cleaning the place out.
Glass MIGHT flow on a geological time scale on the order of a billion years or so, but hell, given that much time what doesn't?
Kintanon
You aren't "you" from one moment to the next. Every instant you die and are reborn. There is no way to prove that you are the same person you believe you were a moment ago.
The fundamental truth is that we are energy, there is no rule or law that says our fundamental concept of self is inherently linked to our bodies. If the brain survives then the self lives on. If the information that is in the brain can be perfectly captured then the self can live on for eternity. The self is the sum of experiences, the memories, impressions, and knowlege contained within.
Kintanon
Yeah, and when My Dark Master, Sony, declares war on those bastards and their worthless Xbox I'll be on the front lines! All hail Sony!
Kintanon
Red hair could be an indicator of the presence of an entirely seperate gene which controls or regulates pain tolerance which just happens to show up frequently in people with red hair. That would be my guess.
Kintanon
Cultural Context.
Kintanon
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The previous satement was placed here to overcome the 20 second posting list.
If that were true, I'd commit more sex crimes per day than most serial rapists...
If measuring porn intake were a way to rate someones propensity to commit sex crimes I would certainly have been in jail for the last 4 years.
Kintanon
Additionally libertarianism advocates the privatization of what really should be public services - roads, electricity, gas, etc. Witness the debacle in California last summer as an example of what deregulation can cause.
Muahahah! Failure to do any research has effectively destroyed your argument. The problem in California was that the Government only partially deregulated the power companies. The power companies were not allowed to pass their costs on to the consumer when prices got higher for them. They were being forced to purchase power from other companies at higher cost than they were allowed to charge the consumer. That is a recipe for destruction and the problem was not de-regulation, but the remaining regulations regarding the price of electricity.
Deregulation is not always good, but in this case it was not at fault for the disaster.
Kintanon
You're right, watching some schmuk try to imitate it is pretty funny, which is why I'm glad I tried it at home and not out somewhere with people... Apparently the INTENSE BURNING that I experienced after slapping my hand onto my desk while covered in crazy glue is the normal sensation associated with the act. And the many many bits of skin I left behind are also standard reaction to that particular procedure. So, in the future, please refrain from mentioning interesting properties of your hands as I will almost certainly be compelled to test to see if I share those properties.
Kintanon
Oh, BTW, I'm immune to poison ivy and poison oak. I can rub the stuff all over me and not so much as twitch.
They already have. Depending on what banks ATM you use, and sometimes depending on your location geographically there are different prompts. Some ask about language preference, some have an extra 'Fast Cash' menu, some have other things that are nonstandard. I imagine some blind folks get really annoyed by it.
Kintanon
What I heard (admittedly second or third hand from a legal assistant) was that the coffee was hot enough to malform the plastic lid (Not the styrofoam cup itself which I initially stated, oops) so that it did not sit properly on the cup. That may or may not be true, but it was what I was told at the time.
Kintanon
We don't pick which path of events occure, only which one we see. God sees them all. All possible events do happen, just not within the view of humanity.
Kintanon
And yes, this is all posited from the beginning point of 'God does exist' regardless of the truth of that statement.
You obviously fall into the second group then.
Kintanon
I burn myself on hot coffee I bought:
US - sue for >$1.000 Sweden: Get a free coffee
Stop using this one.
The situation as, "Coffee melts styrofoam cup and pours onto my crotch giving me 3rd degree burns - Sue for medical costs, be told to fuck off, sue for some rediculous amount." Not to mention that McDs had previously had complaints about their coffee being dangerously hot. I've spilled hot coffee on myself straight out of the pot and it didn't give me 3rd degree burns.
Kintanon
And yet every day hundreds of people with no jobs, no incomes, and quite likely no housing or prospects for getting any have children. And that's A-OK because then they can roll up to the nearest government hand out office and pick up their crackcheck and some food stamps.
Shawn is in a hell of a lot better position to take responsibility for another human being than a lot of people who have bio kids.
Kintanon