Holding back evidence, especially when used for tricky maneuvering in the court, is highly frowned upon by our legal system. There's something called full disclosure. Judges often exclude the held back evidence from being used.
The labor laws here in California are very explicit on who can be exempt.
1. You are a manager of at least 2 people. or 2. You must be licensed to legally perform your job (e.g. doctor or lawyer).
That's it. Everyone working 80 hours a week and not getting paid overtime, guess what. You're getting screwed because you MUST, by law, be paid overtime.
IANAL, but I was told this by a labor law attorney.
I just put together a dual processor/dual core AMD 64 system that has that chip set. Thursday night the hardware firewall feature decided to disable all net access. It let the box get an IP address from the router, but that was it. Everything else (local network and internet) was completely blocked. I spent a couple of hours messing with it, reinstalling drivers, etc, before giving up and calling a friend that is a Windows expert (it's a dual boot system). He spent a couple of hours messing with it and walked away defeated. I ended up disabling the two built in nics in the bios and tossing in a spare generic nic I had laying around.
So this guy happens to be an expert in climatology. Based upon available data and his expertise, he states that there is insufficient evidence that humans are the cause of global warming and, in fact, the evidence tends towards a natural cycle. So what happens here on slashdot? People who have no clue about climate science beyond what they learn on PBS are calling him all kinds of names.
I think this adds a great deal of weight to his claim about how he as been treated.
Just because you are an expert in one field of science or engineering does not make you an expert in another. So just just the fuck up, please.
Wrong. Ebonics was used used in one school in Oakland. They tried to get it to qualify as a second language so they could get ESL special funding, but that that was smacked down big time.
The very rich will ALWAYS find ways around paying these taxes. It's the middle class small business owner who gets screwed.
As for leveling the playing field by stealing money. That's NOT the job of this government and is evil, plain and simple. Everybody should have equal opportunity, but to go all out to level the playing field is a system that was proven invalid by the collapse of communism.
$2,000,000 is easily surpassed if you run a small family business. You die, and to pay the taxes your wife/kids have to sell the business you spent all your life building. The death tax isn't just on the cash on hand. It's on everything, property value, inventory, stocks, bonds, etc. It's an evil tax that hasn't been completely repealed because people like you are naive enough to believe only the very rich benefit from it.
Since 1636 on my father's side, shortly after that on my mom's. We've been here since before here was a country. The Mayflower carried the help over and we followed in a later ship (I love annoying those snobbish Mayflower assholes).
A number of posters are arguing that the patent period needs to be reduced to some rather short interval, typically around 5 years. The problem is, it often takes about that long just to get the financial backing to turn your patented widget into a viable commercial product. A too short of a patent period and no one would be stupid enough to fund a patented project. Just wait a few years and you can skip paying the inventor his share.
The problem has never been how long a patent lasts. The 20 year period is actually quite reasonable. The problem is how easy some really stupid shit can be patented, and how much of a pain it is to get a bad patent revoked.
Unfortunately, I'll bet money that Congress will do to patents what they did to copyright, make a bad situation worse. (bad for the little guy, wonderful for the megacorps).
Ok, _which_ Christian Bible, then? There are hundreds of variations which often contradict each other in huge ways (ignoring the fact that they all contradict themselves). And to repeat what others have said here, saying the Bible is the direct word of g-d is a very new and isolated concept.
Wrong, those people do not meet YOUR definition of Christian. The last time I checked, you were not considered the final authority on who and who is not a Christian.
It's bad enough when you make the mistake yourself because you didn't know any better. It's unforgivable when you spend time researching the available skills and making sure you make exactly the right choices needed to create the character you have in mind, then having the damn company patch the game and nerfing the skills into uselessness. Thank you Blizzard.
The ability to re-allocate all skills and stats at each leveling is something I have wished for in the past and should have been a given when Blizzard patched the game and changed everything.
You had snow! Luxury! Back in my day we didn't get to wade through the snow during our beating so we didn't get the nice numbing effect. You kids today have it too easy.
Before I had given up on D2X, I played on a private closed realm (thank you bnetd!). A group of us had become sick and tired of the dupers, hackers, and pkers on the regular realms and decided to go out on our own. We had a blast. We modified the game to our liking. Probably the single most important change we made was to improve the quality of drops. Not a lot, but enough that you could spend your time playing the game instead of worrying about finding the gear you needed to play the game. We also un-nerfed some of the skills. For example, the necro corpse-explosion was back to its former glory. Because of the improvement in equipment and skills, we increased the toughness of the monsters (though we removed physical immunes entirely). This, unfortunately, made hard-core just a little bit too difficult to be viable.
A few months ago I dug out my dusty Diablo II Expansion disks to give it another go after taking a year off from playing. I decided to create characters that only used items they found themselves, avoiding the item trading aspect entirely. I built an Amazon up to a reasonably high level (>70) who was completely and totally useless in hell difficulty. It didn't matter how well I had assigned skills. Without the good really good items, she couldn't hold her own. The game should have been fun and playable with the items normally obtained by a player simply progressing through the game. I wasn't about to spend hours each night for weeks on end farming for decent gear, but that's what it would have taken to make the character useful in hell. Farming is boring: Create a game, go kill Meph, notice he dropped complete crap, repeat 99 more times, and still don't find anything useful.
Trying to go with a party to get to some of the more difficult areas with the better treasure was also a waste of time. Usually some asshole had the "grab item" hack so the items disappeared before they hit the ground.
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Either that or it ends when one side is exterminated.
You've obviously have never been married.
Holding back evidence, especially when used for tricky maneuvering in the court, is highly frowned upon by our legal system. There's something called full disclosure. Judges often exclude the held back evidence from being used.
The labor laws here in California are very explicit on who can be exempt.
1. You are a manager of at least 2 people.
or
2. You must be licensed to legally perform your job (e.g. doctor or lawyer).
That's it. Everyone working 80 hours a week and not getting paid overtime, guess what. You're getting screwed because you MUST, by law, be paid overtime.
IANAL, but I was told this by a labor law attorney.
I've seen his act, the Wiki entry reporting his death was way overdue.
A few minutes with photoshop and it WILL be embarrassing nude photos that he'll want removed.
I couldn't find any option to do that. I could completely enable the nic, or completely disable it. Stupid, yes.
I just put together a dual processor/dual core AMD 64 system that has that chip set. Thursday night the hardware firewall feature decided to disable all net access. It let the box get an IP address from the router, but that was it. Everything else (local network and internet) was completely blocked. I spent a couple of hours messing with it, reinstalling drivers, etc, before giving up and calling a friend that is a Windows expert (it's a dual boot system). He spent a couple of hours messing with it and walked away defeated. I ended up disabling the two built in nics in the bios and tossing in a spare generic nic I had laying around.
So what you want to say is, "Please! Think of the children!"
So this guy happens to be an expert in climatology. Based upon available data and his expertise, he states that there is insufficient evidence that humans are the cause of global warming and, in fact, the evidence tends towards a natural cycle. So what happens here on slashdot? People who have no clue about climate science beyond what they learn on PBS are calling him all kinds of names.
I think this adds a great deal of weight to his claim about how he as been treated.
Just because you are an expert in one field of science or engineering does not make you an expert in another. So just just the fuck up, please.
Wrong. Ebonics was used used in one school in Oakland. They tried to get it to qualify as a second language so they could get ESL special funding, but that that was smacked down big time.
Yeah, let's give communism another try. After all, the death of 100,000,000+ as a result of that failed system can be easily ignored.
The very rich will ALWAYS find ways around paying these taxes. It's the middle class small business owner who gets screwed.
As for leveling the playing field by stealing money. That's NOT the job of this government and is evil, plain and simple. Everybody should have equal opportunity, but to go all out to level the playing field is a system that was proven invalid by the collapse of communism.
$2,000,000 is easily surpassed if you run a small family business. You die, and to pay the taxes your wife/kids have to sell the business you spent all your life building. The death tax isn't just on the cash on hand. It's on everything, property value, inventory, stocks, bonds, etc. It's an evil tax that hasn't been completely repealed because people like you are naive enough to believe only the very rich benefit from it.
Since 1636 on my father's side, shortly after that on my mom's. We've been here since before here was a country. The Mayflower carried the help over and we followed in a later ship (I love annoying those snobbish Mayflower assholes).
A reach-around?
I wasn't even considering software patents in my previous post. I consider one day too long for software patents (business plan patents, too!).
A number of posters are arguing that the patent period needs to be reduced to some rather short interval, typically around 5 years. The problem is, it often takes about that long just to get the financial backing to turn your patented widget into a viable commercial product. A too short of a patent period and no one would be stupid enough to fund a patented project. Just wait a few years and you can skip paying the inventor his share.
The problem has never been how long a patent lasts. The 20 year period is actually quite reasonable. The problem is how easy some really stupid shit can be patented, and how much of a pain it is to get a bad patent revoked.
Unfortunately, I'll bet money that Congress will do to patents what they did to copyright, make a bad situation worse. (bad for the little guy, wonderful for the megacorps).
Ok, _which_ Christian Bible, then? There are hundreds of variations which often contradict each other in huge ways (ignoring the fact that they all contradict themselves). And to repeat what others have said here, saying the Bible is the direct word of g-d is a very new and isolated concept.
Wrong, those people do not meet YOUR definition of Christian. The last time I checked, you were not considered the final authority on who and who is not a Christian.
Now I know you're making this up. You can't right click on a Mac.
It's bad enough when you make the mistake yourself because you didn't know any better. It's unforgivable when you spend time researching the available skills and making sure you make exactly the right choices needed to create the character you have in mind, then having the damn company patch the game and nerfing the skills into uselessness. Thank you Blizzard.
The ability to re-allocate all skills and stats at each leveling is something I have wished for in the past and should have been a given when Blizzard patched the game and changed everything.
You had snow! Luxury! Back in my day we didn't get to wade through the snow during our beating so we didn't get the nice numbing effect. You kids today have it too easy.
Before I had given up on D2X, I played on a private closed realm (thank you bnetd!). A group of us had become sick and tired of the dupers, hackers, and pkers on the regular realms and decided to go out on our own. We had a blast. We modified the game to our liking. Probably the single most important change we made was to improve the quality of drops. Not a lot, but enough that you could spend your time playing the game instead of worrying about finding the gear you needed to play the game. We also un-nerfed some of the skills. For example, the necro corpse-explosion was back to its former glory. Because of the improvement in equipment and skills, we increased the toughness of the monsters (though we removed physical immunes entirely). This, unfortunately, made hard-core just a little bit too difficult to be viable.
A few months ago I dug out my dusty Diablo II Expansion disks to give it another go after taking a year off from playing. I decided to create characters that only used items they found themselves, avoiding the item trading aspect entirely. I built an Amazon up to a reasonably high level (>70) who was completely and totally useless in hell difficulty. It didn't matter how well I had assigned skills. Without the good really good items, she couldn't hold her own. The game should have been fun and playable with the items normally obtained by a player simply progressing through the game. I wasn't about to spend hours each night for weeks on end farming for decent gear, but that's what it would have taken to make the character useful in hell. Farming is boring: Create a game, go kill Meph, notice he dropped complete crap, repeat 99 more times, and still don't find anything useful.
Trying to go with a party to get to some of the more difficult areas with the better treasure was also a waste of time. Usually some asshole had the "grab item" hack so the items disappeared before they hit the ground.