No, he's talking about how if you get hit in the head by a bullet or shrapnel, without a helmet on, you mostly likely aren't a head injury statistic, but a dead guy statistic.
The best part was when they doubled their late fees, and advertised it as "NO LATE FEES" then in microscopic print "because we doubled the late fees and renamed them restocking fees"
The RIAA has never gone after anybody, they just like it when people think they do, especially when news companies do. News companies usually aren't stupid and don't get it wrong like that. Slashdot does though. Even when the linked articles mention which specific corporation is ACTUALLY SUING, the/. summary and title all magically replace EMI, Universal, Sony, or whichever other company with "RIAA SUES", which is a complete lie. So the real reason the RIAA won't go after EMI is because the RIAA doesn't go after anybody, ever. Plus, beyond that, King Crimson isn't a member of the RIAA, and they haven't signed an agreement with the RIAA allowing the RIAA to sue in their stead. You'll note that the BSA and the MPAA won't go after EMI for this, either, because they have no legal standing to do so, being as how it is not their copyright.
There was a CNN report a while back, they tried out these police radar guns. Clocked a tree right in front of them going 17 MPH. So sounds like your GPS is way more accurate than the infallible radar gun used to convict;)
Companies threaten to sue people for posting their Ads online, and regularly issue DMCA takedown notices to youTube. So no, apparently free advertising doesn't trump their fear of losing their "Intellectual Property." I wonder what the people in charge would do if they ever found out that not only does their advertising department give their IP away for free, they are actively paying TV stations to broadcast it to unlicensed viewers! And what is worse, the cable companies are CHARGING FOR THE SERVICE!!!!
But yes, shirts and cans and car logos are blurred because the guys at whatever "reality" show called Coke and said "So how many millions to not blur your can so people will know we drink coke?" and Coke said "Piss off" and then they blurred it, but what else has a giant red and white can? It's just like when you see a car with a blurred logo...how many car companies have a logo that is some sort of blue oval with blurred writing in it?
People in first world countries should be able to have jobs. And if somebody is willing to do your job for $500 a month in some low wage country, you can't expect WALMART/IBM/ETC to pay you any more, that's just silly. The right thing to do ethically is forbid all companies from selling goods imported from any foreign country with a minimum wage lower than the local minimum wage.
Now of course a Republican will object to this because "waah waah waah free market" but if you like Chinese goods so much, why don't you shut down your WALMART and open up a retail outlet IN CHINA?
I have the Windows 2000 upgrade disk I used right here, it can upgrade your 9x or NT4 install to 2000, or it can do a fresh install if you insert your older version's disk first for verification. I don't remember when I got it...but it wasn't long after the launch. Reading old press releases, the 9x upgrade box was being priced in late 1999, and was available for sale Feb 2000, along with all other boxes. In January you could buy it preloaded from certain OEMs, but that was it. Unless there was some sort of delay I don't see mentioned anywhere, the 9x upgrade box was available the second the NT upgrade was, which was after it was first available preloaded, but the same time it was available as a stand-alone box.
Halo 6 will exist, its already in the works. Won't be called Halo 6 though. Peter Jackson is creating a trilogy of Halo-universe games under Wingnut Interactive. He's also currently producing Halo the movie.
Its also interesting that there are basically two studies cited in that article. One says cellphones cause lethal malfunctions in life support systems 75% of the time, out of 80 tests. The other says that out of 300 tests, no effect was observed at all, serious or otherwise. That's a pretty serious difference. It is interesting to note that my GPRS phone has not caused my vacuum cleaner, washing machine, or microwave to fail catastrophically like they appear to cause medical grade pumps to do with near certainty.
According to some studies, it still is. It seems that gum disease sets off an inflammatory response throughout your body, not just in your gums, leading to a dramatic increase in heart disease.
You misunderstand. Its not just that they got 10x the plays as they should have. What it was is that if you put money in, it registers as 10x the amount. So they would put a dollar in, then cash out and get $10 out, then they'd take that $10 and put it back in, it would register as $100, and they'd cash out their $100. Then they'd put their $100 in, it would register as $1,000, and they'd cash it out. And you think that's reasonable? They never even used the slot machine.
Ignore the fact that its a slot machine. Lets pretend its some vending machine full of chips. You put $1, and it says "$10" up top. So you hit "coin return" and it spits out $10 worth of change. So you realize this is awesome, and put that $10 back in and hit the coin return to get even more money, and you keep going until its empty of all its change. That's perfectly reasonable? You had no nefarious intent, and thought it was functioning as intended.
This would only reduce the footprint to zero if there is no energy cost in processing the fuel, and if it uses only algae that would not otherwise have been grown, or at least would have otherwise been burnt. I'm sure its not bad though, can't be worse than oil I wouldn't think. Regardless of any carbon sink arguments though, it turns fuel into a renewable resource instead of a dwindling finite resource, and that can't be a bad thing.
The & is the one true Symbol, and 7 is His prophet. Those heretics who disagree will burn in the fires of hell for all of eternity for their blasphemy.
Well no, you're not making anything, your friend is making the unauthorized copy. Best you could be got for would be accessory after the fact to copyright infringement, or perhaps conspiracy to commit copyright infringement;)
I'm not clear on precisely how this is supposed to be related, because we're concerned about manufacturers raising prices.
It's related because Sony will say this TV cannot be sold for less than $1299, and WalMart will say "We're going to sell it for $1199 and you're going to like it", then all of the sudden, WalMart has it for $100 than anywhere else is legally allowed to sell it for.
That's their policy. It's probably the policy of just about everywhere. If somebody returns a defective product, replace it with the defective product somebody else returned. The article says that after the 6th refurbished on in a row, he insisted that they only send him new models. They probably said "Yeah OK" and then sent him a bunch more refurbished 360s anyways. Mystery solved.
Well exactly, having a pay service but giving free access to individuals minus redistribution rights, and no way of enforcing it or even checking it, isn't going to succeed. There's no law that says whatever decision you make, you are guaranteed to be successful. Unfortunately the way you fix a broken business model is to change it. In this case the bit that was causing problems was having identical pay and free versions, and trusting people not to use the free version if they should be paying, and the way you fix that is just have a pay version.
There are established rules that say that a defendant cannot be compelled to create new documents for the plaintiff, even if the new document would just be a compilation and/or summary of other documents. TorrentSpy maintains that they do not currently log IP addresses, and therefore an order to begin logging IP addresses and turn over their logs would be illegal. The judge has ruled that RAM is legally a document, and therefore they DO in fact have such documents in their possession, if for a very short period of time. As such, he has stated that a requirement to enable logging does not constitute creating a new document, and is simply transcribing a document from one format to another, which they CAN be required to do. And that's why he referenced the RAM, because without acknowledging that this data is contained in the RAM "document" at one point, they cannot be legally compelled to enable logging.
That sounds an awful lot like paranoid schizophrenia, with a touch of anti-big-governmentism (now defined as a dangerous psychological condition) please report to your nearest Federal Psychiatric Health Facility for mandatory evaluation and potential indefinite incarser...err, I mean, "medical care".
A few years ago the government was looking at requiring mandatory mental health screenings every few years, once you turn 12 or so, and making it a felony to refuse. This is pretty much exactly what the USSR did to silence critics. After all, you arrest them even through they committed no crime, you're the bad guy, and they're a martyr. If a "routine screening" discovers they are "mentally insane" then their entire argument is immediately dismissed as the (oddly articulate) ramblings of a disturbed mind, and you can lock them away forever with no trial, and nobody will say boo...after all they aren't in jail, they are in a "health care facility", and it's not "indefinite" per se, just until they are "cured", which means as soon as they love Big Brother and hate Immanuel Goldstein. Anyways, I don't believe the proposal went over well at the time, but with all this talk about mental health and school shootings, look for it to reappear with strong bipartisan support.
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No, he's talking about how if you get hit in the head by a bullet or shrapnel, without a helmet on, you mostly likely aren't a head injury statistic, but a dead guy statistic.
The best part was when they doubled their late fees, and advertised it as "NO LATE FEES" then in microscopic print "because we doubled the late fees and renamed them restocking fees"
The RIAA has never gone after anybody, they just like it when people think they do, especially when news companies do. News companies usually aren't stupid and don't get it wrong like that. Slashdot does though. Even when the linked articles mention which specific corporation is ACTUALLY SUING, the /. summary and title all magically replace EMI, Universal, Sony, or whichever other company with "RIAA SUES", which is a complete lie. So the real reason the RIAA won't go after EMI is because the RIAA doesn't go after anybody, ever. Plus, beyond that, King Crimson isn't a member of the RIAA, and they haven't signed an agreement with the RIAA allowing the RIAA to sue in their stead. You'll note that the BSA and the MPAA won't go after EMI for this, either, because they have no legal standing to do so, being as how it is not their copyright.
There was a CNN report a while back, they tried out these police radar guns. Clocked a tree right in front of them going 17 MPH. So sounds like your GPS is way more accurate than the infallible radar gun used to convict ;)
Companies threaten to sue people for posting their Ads online, and regularly issue DMCA takedown notices to youTube. So no, apparently free advertising doesn't trump their fear of losing their "Intellectual Property." I wonder what the people in charge would do if they ever found out that not only does their advertising department give their IP away for free, they are actively paying TV stations to broadcast it to unlicensed viewers! And what is worse, the cable companies are CHARGING FOR THE SERVICE!!!!
But yes, shirts and cans and car logos are blurred because the guys at whatever "reality" show called Coke and said "So how many millions to not blur your can so people will know we drink coke?" and Coke said "Piss off" and then they blurred it, but what else has a giant red and white can? It's just like when you see a car with a blurred logo...how many car companies have a logo that is some sort of blue oval with blurred writing in it?
People in first world countries should be able to have jobs. And if somebody is willing to do your job for $500 a month in some low wage country, you can't expect WALMART/IBM/ETC to pay you any more, that's just silly. The right thing to do ethically is forbid all companies from selling goods imported from any foreign country with a minimum wage lower than the local minimum wage.
Now of course a Republican will object to this because "waah waah waah free market" but if you like Chinese goods so much, why don't you shut down your WALMART and open up a retail outlet IN CHINA?
Can't have it both ways ;)
Or $100,000 is you are using Excel 2007 ;)
I have the Windows 2000 upgrade disk I used right here, it can upgrade your 9x or NT4 install to 2000, or it can do a fresh install if you insert your older version's disk first for verification. I don't remember when I got it...but it wasn't long after the launch. Reading old press releases, the 9x upgrade box was being priced in late 1999, and was available for sale Feb 2000, along with all other boxes. In January you could buy it preloaded from certain OEMs, but that was it. Unless there was some sort of delay I don't see mentioned anywhere, the 9x upgrade box was available the second the NT upgrade was, which was after it was first available preloaded, but the same time it was available as a stand-alone box.
That reminds me of that quote, "Man, how did they keep server farms cool before air conditioning was invented?"
Halo 6 will exist, its already in the works. Won't be called Halo 6 though. Peter Jackson is creating a trilogy of Halo-universe games under Wingnut Interactive. He's also currently producing Halo the movie.
The real question is, did George Lucas' legacy shoot first?
Its also interesting that there are basically two studies cited in that article. One says cellphones cause lethal malfunctions in life support systems 75% of the time, out of 80 tests. The other says that out of 300 tests, no effect was observed at all, serious or otherwise. That's a pretty serious difference. It is interesting to note that my GPRS phone has not caused my vacuum cleaner, washing machine, or microwave to fail catastrophically like they appear to cause medical grade pumps to do with near certainty.
You forgot about the Eye of Dashi and the other Shen Gong Wu!
According to some studies, it still is. It seems that gum disease sets off an inflammatory response throughout your body, not just in your gums, leading to a dramatic increase in heart disease.
Solution 2 is rather than periodic prompts, measure the temperature of the air, too ;)
You misunderstand. Its not just that they got 10x the plays as they should have. What it was is that if you put money in, it registers as 10x the amount. So they would put a dollar in, then cash out and get $10 out, then they'd take that $10 and put it back in, it would register as $100, and they'd cash out their $100. Then they'd put their $100 in, it would register as $1,000, and they'd cash it out. And you think that's reasonable? They never even used the slot machine.
Ignore the fact that its a slot machine. Lets pretend its some vending machine full of chips. You put $1, and it says "$10" up top. So you hit "coin return" and it spits out $10 worth of change. So you realize this is awesome, and put that $10 back in and hit the coin return to get even more money, and you keep going until its empty of all its change. That's perfectly reasonable? You had no nefarious intent, and thought it was functioning as intended.
This would only reduce the footprint to zero if there is no energy cost in processing the fuel, and if it uses only algae that would not otherwise have been grown, or at least would have otherwise been burnt. I'm sure its not bad though, can't be worse than oil I wouldn't think. Regardless of any carbon sink arguments though, it turns fuel into a renewable resource instead of a dwindling finite resource, and that can't be a bad thing.
The & is the one true Symbol, and 7 is His prophet. Those heretics who disagree will burn in the fires of hell for all of eternity for their blasphemy.
Well no, you're not making anything, your friend is making the unauthorized copy. Best you could be got for would be accessory after the fact to copyright infringement, or perhaps conspiracy to commit copyright infringement ;)
I'm not clear on precisely how this is supposed to be related, because we're concerned about manufacturers raising prices. It's related because Sony will say this TV cannot be sold for less than $1299, and WalMart will say "We're going to sell it for $1199 and you're going to like it", then all of the sudden, WalMart has it for $100 than anywhere else is legally allowed to sell it for.
Well exactly, having a pay service but giving free access to individuals minus redistribution rights, and no way of enforcing it or even checking it, isn't going to succeed. There's no law that says whatever decision you make, you are guaranteed to be successful. Unfortunately the way you fix a broken business model is to change it. In this case the bit that was causing problems was having identical pay and free versions, and trusting people not to use the free version if they should be paying, and the way you fix that is just have a pay version.
There are established rules that say that a defendant cannot be compelled to create new documents for the plaintiff, even if the new document would just be a compilation and/or summary of other documents. TorrentSpy maintains that they do not currently log IP addresses, and therefore an order to begin logging IP addresses and turn over their logs would be illegal. The judge has ruled that RAM is legally a document, and therefore they DO in fact have such documents in their possession, if for a very short period of time. As such, he has stated that a requirement to enable logging does not constitute creating a new document, and is simply transcribing a document from one format to another, which they CAN be required to do. And that's why he referenced the RAM, because without acknowledging that this data is contained in the RAM "document" at one point, they cannot be legally compelled to enable logging.
A few years ago the government was looking at requiring mandatory mental health screenings every few years, once you turn 12 or so, and making it a felony to refuse. This is pretty much exactly what the USSR did to silence critics. After all, you arrest them even through they committed no crime, you're the bad guy, and they're a martyr. If a "routine screening" discovers they are "mentally insane" then their entire argument is immediately dismissed as the (oddly articulate) ramblings of a disturbed mind, and you can lock them away forever with no trial, and nobody will say boo...after all they aren't in jail, they are in a "health care facility", and it's not "indefinite" per se, just until they are "cured", which means as soon as they love Big Brother and hate Immanuel Goldstein. Anyways, I don't believe the proposal went over well at the time, but with all this talk about mental health and school shootings, look for it to reappear with strong bipartisan support.