I am not a lawyer (and to those who get annoyed when they see IANAL lines, you can get into quite a bit of trouble representing or even implying you're one when you're not), but:...
How would you know whether you can get in trouble for pretending to be a lawyer? Are you some kind of lawyer?
Yeah, right. What on earth would make you think that that's going to happen? Why would you have to pay an insurance premium for your car's emissions? Re-registration costs $700?
Is ABC no longer part of "the media?" Because that story (which, by the way, was one of the worst opinion pieces I've ever read -- including a lot of college op-ed) seemed pretty pro-sweatshop to me.
Some things are wrong, regardless of the consequences. An economic system that would require someone to work for 80+ hours a week to make a living is wrong.
Then get a Volkswagon. You can run hook your laptop up to the computer in a VW (or Audi, Seat, or Skoda) and get all sorts of nifty information (http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/), and even adjust the performance and emissions characteristics of the car. The open-source part is the trick, though. Aside from the expensive connector, you have to pay another couple hundred bucks for the software. I'd be very happy if somebody wrote some freeware similar to VAG-COM.
what college did you go to? was it perhaps... a state school? what about primary and secondary school? did you go a public school? do you employ or interact with anybody who learned to read because the state paid for them to?
do you ever drive? are you represented by some sort of state official? do you feel safer because people can be arrested and put in jail for breaking the law?
don't claim that your state did nothing to earn your tax money, troll.
I work in a mixed Mac / PC environment. I've found that the better solution to interoperability problems is to simply have computers on both platforms; we never have conversion problems, because the programs that run on PC's only don't output data that needs to be used on the Mac. Besides, for $249, you can almost buy a cheap PC and KVM. i just don't see the point. Who needs Virtual PC?
Fortunately, American isn't basing their case on the idea that their prices are their "intellectual property," but instead are claiming that Farechase was trespassing on their chattel. I wonder if the decision on this could effect cases involving DoS attacks?
Where I believe the article jumps way off base is putting the responsibility for investment in the filling stations on to the tax payer. All those existing gas stations got there without having to do this! A demand existed from the customers, which in turn gave incentive for investing in those gasoline stations.
Actually, those gas stations did use taxpayer money to get there; the federal government subsidized the building of the roads, covered in gas-powered cars. They were insured a customer base because the cost of buying a car was relatively low due to the fact that it didn't include the cost of building roads for cars to drive on. (Unlike the rail, where the cost of a train ticket did include the cost of the rail.)
Now that the gas standard has been established, it will require tax money to get off of it -- if the government decides that it's a worthwhile venture
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I am not a lawyer (and to those who get annoyed when they see IANAL lines, you can get into quite a bit of trouble representing or even implying you're one when you're not), but: ...
How would you know whether you can get in trouble for pretending to be a lawyer? Are you some kind of lawyer?
Surely you mean strumpet.
Try Greek.
It's not so scary once you know that subliminal suggestion doesn't work.
Yeah, right. What on earth would make you think that that's going to happen? Why would you have to pay an insurance premium for your car's emissions? Re-registration costs $700?
Is ABC no longer part of "the media?" Because that story (which, by the way, was one of the worst opinion pieces I've ever read -- including a lot of college op-ed) seemed pretty pro-sweatshop to me.
Some things are wrong, regardless of the consequences. An economic system that would require someone to work for 80+ hours a week to make a living is wrong.
at least he'll have you for company when the statue of liberty blows up.
Then get a Volkswagon. You can run hook your laptop up to the computer in a VW (or Audi, Seat, or Skoda) and get all sorts of nifty information (http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/), and even adjust the performance and emissions characteristics of the car. The open-source part is the trick, though. Aside from the expensive connector, you have to pay another couple hundred bucks for the software. I'd be very happy if somebody wrote some freeware similar to VAG-COM.
what college did you go to? was it perhaps ... a state school? what about primary and secondary school? did you go a public school? do you employ or interact with anybody who learned to read because the state paid for them to?
do you ever drive? are you represented by some sort of state official? do you feel safer because people can be arrested and put in jail for breaking the law?
don't claim that your state did nothing to earn your tax money, troll.
I work in a mixed Mac / PC environment. I've found that the better solution to interoperability problems is to simply have computers on both platforms; we never have conversion problems, because the programs that run on PC's only don't output data that needs to be used on the Mac. Besides, for $249, you can almost buy a cheap PC and KVM. i just don't see the point. Who needs Virtual PC?
However, that only reinforces the propriety of my alias. OED defines grammaticaster as:
So we're both wrong.
Fortunately, American isn't basing their case on the idea that their prices are their "intellectual property," but instead are claiming that Farechase was trespassing on their chattel. I wonder if the decision on this could effect cases involving DoS attacks?
Is Orson Scott Card behind this somehow?
Actually, those gas stations did use taxpayer money to get there; the federal government subsidized the building of the roads, covered in gas-powered cars. They were insured a customer base because the cost of buying a car was relatively low due to the fact that it didn't include the cost of building roads for cars to drive on. (Unlike the rail, where the cost of a train ticket did include the cost of the rail.)
Now that the gas standard has been established, it will require tax money to get off of it -- if the government decides that it's a worthwhile venture
no, no, no ... not intel; apple. "think different."
sounds boring. when i go to the zoo, i want to see the real thing, dammit!
Brilliant! Now we'll finally have access to everyone's thoughts! Although it's not as though most of us are exactly keeping them secret ...
... my cordless phones. I've had THREE of them since July, and the one I'm using is about to get thrown out. Piece of crap.