I read slashdot daily and almost never post, but I wanted to let you know that I agree almost 100% with most of your arguments. I am also a Catholic and I argued there were other ways to go about this. The bright red line in the law was that he was her husband, she knew he would be making these decisions, not her parents.
If her parents wanted to argue against him their better and more moral argument, in my opinion, would have been that he was breaking the law by having a common law wife (illegal in Flordia) and therefore no longer her wife.
Bottom line though, his wife, his decision. She knew that when she got married and it is not our place to judge.
While I agree that taking someone's driver's license for non driving things (and here in Florida one of those things is dropping out of high school), parking tickets is one of those things that is related to driving.
If you can't keep it out of a fire lane, for instance, you shouldn't be driving it around.
-Alidar
Regardless of 'social pressure', something being ridiculed is not the same as lack of free speech. In fact, the reason something is allowed to be ridiculed is the freedom of speech.
The fact actually is that someone like Bill Gates has exactly the amount of control that his employees and consumers give him.
At any point they are allowed to get another job or use other software.
I know it isn't a popular opinion on Slashdot, but business is good. Businesses employee people and employed people can do more of the things that they want. People who run successful business should be taxed the same as everyone else; taxing them more discourages them from being more successful.
For Americans, the "Bill of Rights" is supposed to insure a right to privacy among other things, protection from warrantless searches. RFID has the potential to negate both of these precepts at the very least, with the ability to do so covertly.
Actually, the Bill of Rights bars the government from warrentless searches. There is not a right to privacy anywhere in the Bill of Rights or the rest of the Constitution.
I couldn't agree more. Where I currently work I have a ton of projects running in PostGres, anyone who says it has all the features is, well, just wrong.
Of course I complain, spout the advantages of a better RDBMS and then almost shoot myself because the other half of my department (don't ask why we are split down the middle) use nothing but Oracle.
I keep chanting Ours is not reason why ours is but to do and die over and over and over.
The fact that we have a free market means that anyone can build a new printer and sell it (including yourself).
What's stopping you?
The fact of the matter is that printers make a company no money except for the ink. If I were a printer manufacturer I would surely want to maximize my profit, as I'm sure you would to.
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I do not think this is cartridge expiring thing is a good thing, I even think it should be labeled, but because it is a free market I will research any major purchases before I make them.
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In order to support this (that the West was as bad as the UUSR) you will need to find the killing fields and remnants of gulags in America. Until you do, I do not think you have much of a leg to stand on.
As far as there being some idiots in America wanting to burn books, I would much rather know who and where they are as opposed to the government shoving them in prison.
Oh, and just in case you have forgotten, in the United States it was always envisioned that states would pass laws etc that meshed with their local opinions and views. If a majority of people in Kansas decided that they would like a law that said Evolution was wrong, they would be in their right, it would just be unconstitutional to punish people for saying that law is wrong (like what happens in a lot of countries).
I can't speak to if that other person working 30 hours has worked there 6 times longer than you or has an actual degree or something of the like. I do not think that a majority of people make six figure salaries.
I do believe that I started out coming from a family that was under the lowest echelon of poverty and have managed to put myself through school and provide for my family (yes, including healthcare). I did this by working my a-- off and making sure that if I was doing a job, no one else was going to do it better.
Explain to me again why I should pay for your healthcare?
If they were passed with no intention of being enforced, what was the point?
What is worse saying "I'll pretend to believe this and do nothing about it" or "I'll follow the laws that are on the books regardless."?
As far as the rest, I hate to break it to you but the Federal Government was not supposed to guarantee anything close to free healthcare and mandated work weeks and wages. The US was not founded with the idea that "everyone is free because we will give everyone everything they need" it was founded with the idea that if you leave people alone they will pull themselves up by the bootstraps and make their own lives better.
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I think I love you.
I also liked the fact that it didn't require a congressional act for one case. I've always preferred working for the rule and not the exception.
Excellent points.
I read slashdot daily and almost never post, but I wanted to let you know that I agree almost 100% with most of your arguments. I am also a Catholic and I argued there were other ways to go about this. The bright red line in the law was that he was her husband, she knew he would be making these decisions, not her parents.
If her parents wanted to argue against him their better and more moral argument, in my opinion, would have been that he was breaking the law by having a common law wife (illegal in Flordia) and therefore no longer her wife. Bottom line though, his wife, his decision. She knew that when she got married and it is not our place to judge.
My wife is a photographer and does portraits and weddings. She offers the rights to the pictures as an additional fee.
Lots of photographers offer this and we looked for it when we hired our wedding photographer.
While I agree that taking someone's driver's license for non driving things (and here in Florida one of those things is dropping out of high school), parking tickets is one of those things that is related to driving.
If you can't keep it out of a fire lane, for instance, you shouldn't be driving it around. -Alidar
Regardless of 'social pressure', something being ridiculed is not the same as lack of free speech. In fact, the reason something is allowed to be ridiculed is the freedom of speech.
The fact actually is that someone like Bill Gates has exactly the amount of control that his employees and consumers give him.
At any point they are allowed to get another job or use other software.
I know it isn't a popular opinion on Slashdot, but business is good. Businesses employee people and employed people can do more of the things that they want. People who run successful business should be taxed the same as everyone else; taxing them more discourages them from being more successful.
Where did you read this?
For Americans, the "Bill of Rights" is supposed to insure a right to privacy among other things, protection from warrantless searches. RFID has the potential to negate both of these precepts at the very least, with the ability to do so covertly.
Actually, the Bill of Rights bars the government from warrentless searches. There is not a right to privacy anywhere in the Bill of Rights or the rest of the Constitution.
No one reads speed limit signs, doesn't make the speed limit any more or less applicable.
If you have to buy the damn game, why do pay to play every month?
Ummm, you don't? Just don't play it. No one is making you play this game, and it is not your right to play this game either.
No one can sue the government unless the government allows it.
How would primitive man have an understanding that the 'grey hunk of matter' was responsible for their ability to think?
Procescutors have to bring up things that tend to establish the innocence of the defendant, its called exculpatory evidence.
Actually wouldn't they call and say "We got your application, you forgot to fill it out. Lets take care of that right now?"
I'm going to be shot but....
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I like movie previews before the movies
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Well, you could always make a printer and not copyright the design of the cartridges.
A free market does not mean I can set no ground rules on the use of my product.
The moment it does copyrights and patents become useless.
I couldn't agree more. Where I currently work I have a ton of projects running in PostGres, anyone who says it has all the features is, well, just wrong.
Of course I complain, spout the advantages of a better RDBMS and then almost shoot myself because the other half of my department (don't ask why we are split down the middle) use nothing but Oracle.
I keep chanting Ours is not reason why ours is but to do and die over and over and over.
The fact that we have a free market means that anyone can build a new printer and sell it (including yourself).
What's stopping you?
The fact of the matter is that printers make a company no money except for the ink. If I were a printer manufacturer I would surely want to maximize my profit, as I'm sure you would to.
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I do not think this is cartridge expiring thing is a good thing, I even think it should be labeled, but because it is a free market I will research any major purchases before I make them.
In order to support this (that the West was as bad as the UUSR) you will need to find the killing fields and remnants of gulags in America. Until you do, I do not think you have much of a leg to stand on.
As far as there being some idiots in America wanting to burn books, I would much rather know who and where they are as opposed to the government shoving them in prison.
Oh, and just in case you have forgotten, in the United States it was always envisioned that states would pass laws etc that meshed with their local opinions and views. If a majority of people in Kansas decided that they would like a law that said Evolution was wrong, they would be in their right, it would just be unconstitutional to punish people for saying that law is wrong (like what happens in a lot of countries).
I'm sorry but I think if we were cutting off the hands off shoplifters I would hope most people would be smart enough not to shoplift.
Oh, that's the point of a justice system....
I can't speak to if that other person working 30 hours has worked there 6 times longer than you or has an actual degree or something of the like. I do not think that a majority of people make six figure salaries.
I do believe that I started out coming from a family that was under the lowest echelon of poverty and have managed to put myself through school and provide for my family (yes, including healthcare). I did this by working my a-- off and making sure that if I was doing a job, no one else was going to do it better.
Explain to me again why I should pay for your healthcare?
If they were passed with no intention of being enforced, what was the point?
What is worse saying "I'll pretend to believe this and do nothing about it" or "I'll follow the laws that are on the books regardless."?
As far as the rest, I hate to break it to you but the Federal Government was not supposed to guarantee anything close to free healthcare and mandated work weeks and wages. The US was not founded with the idea that "everyone is free because we will give everyone everything they need" it was founded with the idea that if you leave people alone they will pull themselves up by the bootstraps and make their own lives better.