Now that Vonage bill, which was originally $15, and has crept up to about $20 due to various fees, will probably end up being just as much as a similar regular landline once they start taxing the crap out of it. Was a good thing while it lasted.
So the pertinent question is will these non-English domains be forced to have an English version to retain compatibility? You can't say that typing an English domain name is too much of a hassle for non-English speakers and then solve the problem by saying that now everyone's going to have to have keyboards in dozens of character sets if they want to be able to access all the domains available on the Internet.
People thought XP was bad too, for the same reasons. Their stuff didn't work right and it was a resource hog compared to '98 (most casual users skipped over Win2K).
XP was not finished when it came out and now it is the flagship operating system. This happens everytime, there are problems cause some old POS hardware doesn't have a driver for Vista yet (or at all) and there are bugs here and there in the OS. Time will change it, whether the anti-MS crowd likes it or not, and MS will stay rich another day.
Quite a bit has changed in the past 200 years. Judges have whittled away that power as much as possible so that now a judge can override a jury verdict on a point of law and if a judge learns that a juror is deciding based on his disagreement with the law and not the facts of the case, he can dismiss the juror.
The judge instructs them of the range of penalties should they find her liable. Her defense was poor so they had little choice but to do so. The per-infringement penalty handed down was actually on the low end. It can go up to $150k per offense. It's the law that is ridiculous.
"Believing in God has made me feel good at times; it's also made me feel bad at times. Is it logical to believe in God just because it makes you warm and fuzzy inside? Is it logical to disbelieve in God just because you're life is "shit"? These questions are meaningless because they are merely sentimental. God exists or does not exist however we feel about Him."
Indeed, however it is logical to disbelieve if you treat it as the null hypothesis. Until something is supported with verifiable evidence it is logical to assume it never happened/doesn't exist/doesn't work/etc.
Doesn't mean 100 others won't have it. Since there is no legit 'banning' of a book it will be available at most outlets. Most of your 'examples' to the contrary are mere speculative tin-foil theories anyway which have little to do with it.
So you are seriously claiming that none of these laws existed before Bush's administration? I just think it's so funny when people get a hot-button issue and use it as a scapegoat for everything even when it has nothing to do with it. Many liberals have been in office and they have not changed copyright laws in your favor. Neocons are not the root cause of this issue.
The naysayers always bring this argument up, and you can see on its face how it would seem plausible to a pessimist but there is no evidence to back it up. If it was true there wouldn't be many cures at all. Instead some problems even very recently have been solved by simple vaccines, and the pharmaceutical companies behind them still sell the "cure". Moreover, there is never a whole lot of positive feeling towards people getting rich off disease but somebody has to MAKE the drugs and that costs LOTS of money.
You have to wonder if any of these knee-jerk fanboys actually read the article. I like Linux a lot but it's not perfect in *every* aspect and desktop performance/features is one of its weaker areas. I also love how everyone seems to think this guy is some dumb troll as if they know more about how Linux works than a guy who hacks the kernel for performance.
When the FBI conducts a background check, as opposed to some private company, this is a requirement they have. They will check it against their existing database. This is commonplace for security clearance processing and certain types of permits and licenses. Not too surprising that a financial institution would check into it as well.
A whole lot more people are going to starve if we crash our economy by imposing ridiculous restrictions on certain things which will do nothing to reverse the warming at all.
CO2 accounts for such a minute portion of all greenhouse gases, the mere notion that we could reverse this warming by driving hybrid cars or whatever is pretty absurd. Should we do more to prevent harmful gases from polluting our air? Absolutely. Is the world going to end because of CO2? No.
The kind of changes the "do something about it" zealots are proposing would be far more disastrous.
I agree with you on several points. I would posit that the original person who identified two distinct groups was partially right, but that "anti-troop" is not really one of them. The two groups we have which are against this war are A) the people who thought that it was a bad idea based on logical reasoning and B) the people who are anti-war and anti-violence at all costs, who would protest WWII if it were going right now, and think that Ghandi could solve every problem in the world by rolling over and showing his belly. These groups do get mixed because they both have a problem with this war, only one is pointing out flaws in the reasoning while the other is holding up signs like "No Blood for Oil", chanting peace slogans, and giving more benefit of the doubt to our enemies than our soldiers.
As for the media, it is biased, there is no getting around that. Most of it is biased against the war but I believe that has a lot to do with the fact that the media is entirely uninformed when it comes to what is really going on in Iraq. If you read things published by those who are over there you get a very different take on what is going on than what the mainstream media gives you. You can hear success stories, things that are improving, things that work, and things that don't. On the news you hear the negative, the blood, the gore. It's just like the evening local news which talks incessantly about violence, crime, and corruption, only in the case of Iraq it is halfway around the world and nobody is actually living it so they take what is fed to them on face value. You have to realize you are being told news stories by people who are essentially hearing stories second-hand (or worse) and editing, filtering, and mis-communicating them whether intentional or not. People rightfully doubt the politicians behind this war because politicians often have ulterior motives but then they lower their guard and accept without question what the politicians on the other end of the spectrum tell them because they happen to agree on one point.
Does moral relativism help you sleep at night? Thinking about how al Qaeda is being oppressed and the US is like the Nazis? Maybe you can draw me a picture to go with it.
I am not a huge fan of this war but you need to get your terms straight. Murder is what the jihadis do when they blow up a car or restaurant full of innocent people, including women and children, on purpose. Killing is what the soldiers are doing, and they do it to the asshats who perform acts like I just described.
And to get an example of what happens to these socialist countries when people DO immigrate to them and in general take Sweden as an example. The native population is losing its identity for foreign immigrants, many being Muslims. The political correctness there is astonishing and any sense of national identity is immediately condemned as racism. Sweden went from a powerful and prosperous nation in the mid-20th century to have a sluggish economy as the workhorses left for more favorable tax conditions. Even the Swedish revenue collection agency itself outsources to cheaper countries because its own taxes are much higher. Now in Sweden the tax burden exceeds 50% of the GDP.
Only they are called 'warranties' and they are optional. Over in the socialist countries the government tells you how it's going to be and you pay higher prices + VAT + other taxes to get the 'protections'. Don't be fooled, it's isn't 'free'.
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"Your tax burden in general should never be decreased - it's just a matter of how it's taken from you."
I heartily disagree with that.
Now that Vonage bill, which was originally $15, and has crept up to about $20 due to various fees, will probably end up being just as much as a similar regular landline once they start taxing the crap out of it. Was a good thing while it lasted.
So the pertinent question is will these non-English domains be forced to have an English version to retain compatibility? You can't say that typing an English domain name is too much of a hassle for non-English speakers and then solve the problem by saying that now everyone's going to have to have keyboards in dozens of character sets if they want to be able to access all the domains available on the Internet.
People thought XP was bad too, for the same reasons. Their stuff didn't work right and it was a resource hog compared to '98 (most casual users skipped over Win2K).
XP was not finished when it came out and now it is the flagship operating system. This happens everytime, there are problems cause some old POS hardware doesn't have a driver for Vista yet (or at all) and there are bugs here and there in the OS. Time will change it, whether the anti-MS crowd likes it or not, and MS will stay rich another day.
Did Vista adopt CUPS?
If there's no value in learning something more difficult then there wouldn't be much point in learning the ins and outs of Linux....
Quite a bit has changed in the past 200 years. Judges have whittled away that power as much as possible so that now a judge can override a jury verdict on a point of law and if a judge learns that a juror is deciding based on his disagreement with the law and not the facts of the case, he can dismiss the juror.
The judge instructs them of the range of penalties should they find her liable. Her defense was poor so they had little choice but to do so. The per-infringement penalty handed down was actually on the low end. It can go up to $150k per offense. It's the law that is ridiculous.
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"Believing in God has made me feel good at times; it's also made me feel bad at times. Is it logical to believe in God just because it makes you warm and fuzzy inside? Is it logical to disbelieve in God just because you're life is "shit"? These questions are meaningless because they are merely sentimental. God exists or does not exist however we feel about Him."
Indeed, however it is logical to disbelieve if you treat it as the null hypothesis. Until something is supported with verifiable evidence it is logical to assume it never happened/doesn't exist/doesn't work/etc.
Doesn't mean 100 others won't have it. Since there is no legit 'banning' of a book it will be available at most outlets. Most of your 'examples' to the contrary are mere speculative tin-foil theories anyway which have little to do with it.
So you are seriously claiming that none of these laws existed before Bush's administration? I just think it's so funny when people get a hot-button issue and use it as a scapegoat for everything even when it has nothing to do with it. Many liberals have been in office and they have not changed copyright laws in your favor. Neocons are not the root cause of this issue.
If you write it yourself, it is almost guaranteed to be a POS.
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Hardy har har.
The naysayers always bring this argument up, and you can see on its face how it would seem plausible to a pessimist but there is no evidence to back it up. If it was true there wouldn't be many cures at all. Instead some problems even very recently have been solved by simple vaccines, and the pharmaceutical companies behind them still sell the "cure". Moreover, there is never a whole lot of positive feeling towards people getting rich off disease but somebody has to MAKE the drugs and that costs LOTS of money.
You have to wonder if any of these knee-jerk fanboys actually read the article. I like Linux a lot but it's not perfect in *every* aspect and desktop performance/features is one of its weaker areas. I also love how everyone seems to think this guy is some dumb troll as if they know more about how Linux works than a guy who hacks the kernel for performance.
When the FBI conducts a background check, as opposed to some private company, this is a requirement they have. They will check it against their existing database. This is commonplace for security clearance processing and certain types of permits and licenses. Not too surprising that a financial institution would check into it as well.
A whole lot more people are going to starve if we crash our economy by imposing ridiculous restrictions on certain things which will do nothing to reverse the warming at all.
CO2 accounts for such a minute portion of all greenhouse gases, the mere notion that we could reverse this warming by driving hybrid cars or whatever is pretty absurd. Should we do more to prevent harmful gases from polluting our air? Absolutely. Is the world going to end because of CO2? No.
The kind of changes the "do something about it" zealots are proposing would be far more disastrous.
I agree with you on several points. I would posit that the original person who identified two distinct groups was partially right, but that "anti-troop" is not really one of them. The two groups we have which are against this war are A) the people who thought that it was a bad idea based on logical reasoning and B) the people who are anti-war and anti-violence at all costs, who would protest WWII if it were going right now, and think that Ghandi could solve every problem in the world by rolling over and showing his belly. These groups do get mixed because they both have a problem with this war, only one is pointing out flaws in the reasoning while the other is holding up signs like "No Blood for Oil", chanting peace slogans, and giving more benefit of the doubt to our enemies than our soldiers.
As for the media, it is biased, there is no getting around that. Most of it is biased against the war but I believe that has a lot to do with the fact that the media is entirely uninformed when it comes to what is really going on in Iraq. If you read things published by those who are over there you get a very different take on what is going on than what the mainstream media gives you. You can hear success stories, things that are improving, things that work, and things that don't. On the news you hear the negative, the blood, the gore. It's just like the evening local news which talks incessantly about violence, crime, and corruption, only in the case of Iraq it is halfway around the world and nobody is actually living it so they take what is fed to them on face value. You have to realize you are being told news stories by people who are essentially hearing stories second-hand (or worse) and editing, filtering, and mis-communicating them whether intentional or not. People rightfully doubt the politicians behind this war because politicians often have ulterior motives but then they lower their guard and accept without question what the politicians on the other end of the spectrum tell them because they happen to agree on one point.
Does moral relativism help you sleep at night? Thinking about how al Qaeda is being oppressed and the US is like the Nazis? Maybe you can draw me a picture to go with it.
Some people think about more than just themselves. Do you cry for every dead Nazi casualty of WW2?
I am not a huge fan of this war but you need to get your terms straight. Murder is what the jihadis do when they blow up a car or restaurant full of innocent people, including women and children, on purpose. Killing is what the soldiers are doing, and they do it to the asshats who perform acts like I just described.
And to get an example of what happens to these socialist countries when people DO immigrate to them and in general take Sweden as an example. The native population is losing its identity for foreign immigrants, many being Muslims. The political correctness there is astonishing and any sense of national identity is immediately condemned as racism. Sweden went from a powerful and prosperous nation in the mid-20th century to have a sluggish economy as the workhorses left for more favorable tax conditions. Even the Swedish revenue collection agency itself outsources to cheaper countries because its own taxes are much higher. Now in Sweden the tax burden exceeds 50% of the GDP.
Only they are called 'warranties' and they are optional. Over in the socialist countries the government tells you how it's going to be and you pay higher prices + VAT + other taxes to get the 'protections'. Don't be fooled, it's isn't 'free'.