It's not Amazon you need to convince, it's the publisher of the book who made Amazon turn off the feature for that title.
Especially if the publisher doesn't offer you a way to pay a surcharge to turn it back on. If you are visually impaired or have a visually impaired dependent, you should be able to force them to turn it back on for free on a case-by-case basis under the Americans with Disabilities Act. (It would be pushing it to have them provide it for free when your relationship is just "friends".)
It's more like that Wraith vaccine from Stargate Atlantis.
Yes, use your own people as poison bait to kill off the Wraith/mosquitoes and just hope there are more of you than there are of them. What's the population of mosquitoes compared to humans in the infected areas?
"You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down." -- Zapp Brannigan
Yeah, they're just hurting someone by being HITMEN. So how about instead of requiring the law enforcement be omniscient enough to catch every hitman before he strikes, we prohibit the hitmen from advertising to help stop hits being ordered?
But, they could be hitmen who don't do anything but stay at home and lounge around. You could ask them to kill anything, and they'd tell you, "No! We don't kill anything!"
Anyway, the real ones will just move their listings to housekeeping services.
Paul Stephens: [sarcastically] And tell your pals no funny stuff. I'm very tense, and there's no telling what I might do. Elizabeth Stephens: Paul? Dr. John Matthewson: [sotto voce] Take it easy. You're fine. Paul Stephens: [sarcastically] No, I'm a terrorist. Haven't you been watching television? Elizabeth Stephens: Paul, what are you talking about? John Matthewson: Look, just let us t-- Elizabeth Stephens: Paul? Dr. John Matthewson: Paul? [Paul has driven off, leaving the payphone dangling]
Dr. John Matthewson: Look, he trusts me. Let me do it. I'll get it back. That's what we want, isn't it? Lt. Colonel Conroy: How do we know this thing won't be armed? Dr. John Matthewson: Armed? Lt. Colonel Conroy: That's right. He used the phrase, "I'm a terrorist." Here. [consulting transcript] Lt. Colonel Conroy: [without sarcasm] "No, I'm a terrorist. Haven't you been watching television?" Dr. John Matthewson: You people really live in your own world, don't you? Lt. Colonel Conroy: Well, we don't have the luxury of living in yours.
selling is legal fucking is legal how can selling fucking not be legal?
It is if the people fucking are being paid and the payer isn't participating in the fucking. You can sell videos of it if you have documentation that the fuckers are of legal age (depending on the jurisdiction).
Genuine offers for criminal acts are prosecutable. Disingenuous ones are not. It helps when the latter is readily apparent (such as by occurring in a work of fiction by a fictional character).
It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated. See the war between and eventual fate of the G'Gugvuntts and the Vl'Hurgs.
Thank you for that. Now I can assign rules for specific sites without encoding large obscure tag sequences for sites that don't put their underscore-delimited FQDN in the ID tag of BODY. (Actually only my workplace did that so that I could style the gnats results with overflow properties that wouldn't affect any other sites.)
I've decided to tag the book on Amazon.com with "typointitle".
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Conscience, consciousness, and consciencousness?
I think I just heard the screams of a million spell checkers cry out, and then were suddenly silenced.
(Mine is flagging "consciencousness", Dictionary.com suggests "conscientiousness", and Google suggests "conscienciousness". Amazon concurs that the title is accurate.)
If you can't tell what something is through the plastic wrapper due to strange color or texture, then don't open it! Nothing good ever came out of one of these packages.
Chris: Here Mitch, taste this. Go on, you won't hurt my feelings, just try it. [Mitch tastes it] Chris: What do you think, too sweet? Mitch: What is it? Chris: I don't know, I found it in one of the labs. [Mitch starts to induce vomiting] Chris: Relax, it's just yogurt.
[looking in O'Neill's refrigerator] Teal'c: Are you conducting some sort of scientific experiment, O'Neill? Jack O'Neill: Hey, come on, that salsa's still good.
Occasionally you get a chem student who thinks the fume hood works like the sneeze guard at a salad bar and forgets that he has to actually turn it on himself.
Or the mucus due to her allergies acted as a filter preventing her from inhaling the toxic elements.
Because that's one of your nasal mucus' jobs: to stop you from breathing in any more of the stuff that's causing you to produce mucus (usually by trapping and isolating it). And no, mouth-breathing does not totally bypass this function as anyone who has gagged on their own mucus can attest.
Jarvik: [of Tarrant] I was his captain. Servalan: And what crime did you commit? Jarvik: No crime. Servalan: Don't lie to me, Jarvik. One word and your life is on that screen. [Jarvik gestures for her to go ahead. She enters data.] Servalan: [to computer:] Jarvik. Formerly of Federation Space Academy, now in HQ construction grades. [Servalan reads, seeing no reason in the record] Servalan: [to Jarvik:] Why? Jarvik: Because I'm a human being. Servalan: But is that a reason to-- Jarvik: And so are you. But when was the last time you felt the warmth of the Earth's sun on your naked back? Or lifted your face to the heavens, and laughed with the joy of being alive? How long since you wept at the death of a friend? [Jarvik pauses] Jarvik: Doesn't mean a thing to you, does it, Madam President? You've surrounded yourself with machines and weapons, mindless men and heartless mutoids; and when they've done your work, and the machines have done your thinking, what is there left in you that feels?! [Jarvik throws something at the computer screen, smashing it]
Yeah, but I was commenting about the GP, not the 3GP (now 3GP and 5GP).
And we are approaching soon a time when every native-born citizen who was not in a computer database at birth or sooner will be dead, and everyone else who is legally here is entered into one upon entry.
I've heard that in some state laws (perhaps county or even city laws) there were laws making it illegal to be out in public without a minimum amount of cash on your person. Like laws requiring one to produce a physical ID (when they still existed), this was used to round up indigent persons.
There may still be some regarding carrying too much cash in the name of anti drug-trafficking laws, except in that case it is the cash that is arrested under suspicion of being proceeds from crime (and, cash not being a person, is not entitled to a defense). There are some anecdotal cases of people going to and from rural auctions having their cash and sometimes vehicles (for having areas where drugs could be concealed) seized in this manner.
Lastly, I must end with a favorite quotation from M*A*S*H regarding self-identification:
Hawkeye: What's up, Radar? Radar: Well, indigenous personnels again, sir, requesting medical attention. That's his I.D. Card. Hawkeye: What, did we advertise a weekend special? [Hawkeye reads card] Hawkeye: "Kim Luck"? That's the second one we had today. Radar: That's the way it runs sometimes, sir. Hawkeye: [to Korean] Can you identify yourself? Kim Luck #2: [thumps chest, smiling] This is me. Hawkeye: Well, I guess you wouldn't kid me about a thing like that. Bring him to the hospital. Radar: Yes, sir. Hawkeye: This must be our Kim-Lucky day.
Except in his situation, where he was driving. If he's not in a registered driver's database, he's a suspect for the offense of driving without a license.
In some states, an adult is legally required to provide ID to any cop who asks - it's actually illegal to walk down the street without a driver's license (or non-driver's ID). We seem to have little regard for the Constitution.
I'd like to see some corroboration of that. As I understand it, you can be compelled to identify yourself if requested by a law enforcement officer. You are not required to provide identification: providing your name is sufficient. You are not required to carry identification.
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It's not Amazon you need to convince, it's the publisher of the book who made Amazon turn off the feature for that title.
Especially if the publisher doesn't offer you a way to pay a surcharge to turn it back on. If you are visually impaired or have a visually impaired dependent, you should be able to force them to turn it back on for free on a case-by-case basis under the Americans with Disabilities Act. (It would be pushing it to have them provide it for free when your relationship is just "friends".)
Hell even the lowly food industry says, "We hope you are satisfied with you're candy bar, but if you're not, return unused portion for refund."
I prefer this formulation: "If you are dissatisfied with your life, return unused portion for partial refund."
I'm especially proud of the conundrum implied within.
Little buggers are really hard to kill
And there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito.
It's more like that Wraith vaccine from Stargate Atlantis.
Yes, use your own people as poison bait to kill off the Wraith/mosquitoes and just hope there are more of you than there are of them. What's the population of mosquitoes compared to humans in the infected areas?
"You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down." -- Zapp Brannigan
Yeah, they're just hurting someone by being HITMEN. So how about instead of requiring the law enforcement be omniscient enough to catch every hitman before he strikes, we prohibit the hitmen from advertising to help stop hits being ordered?
But, they could be hitmen who don't do anything but stay at home and lounge around. You could ask them to kill anything, and they'd tell you, "No! We don't kill anything!"
Anyway, the real ones will just move their listings to housekeeping services.
Paul Stephens: [sarcastically] And tell your pals no funny stuff. I'm very tense, and there's no telling what I might do.
Elizabeth Stephens: Paul?
Dr. John Matthewson: [sotto voce] Take it easy. You're fine.
Paul Stephens: [sarcastically] No, I'm a terrorist. Haven't you been watching television?
Elizabeth Stephens: Paul, what are you talking about?
John Matthewson: Look, just let us t--
Elizabeth Stephens: Paul?
Dr. John Matthewson: Paul?
[Paul has driven off, leaving the payphone dangling]
Dr. John Matthewson: Look, he trusts me. Let me do it. I'll get it back. That's what we want, isn't it?
Lt. Colonel Conroy: How do we know this thing won't be armed?
Dr. John Matthewson: Armed?
Lt. Colonel Conroy: That's right. He used the phrase, "I'm a terrorist." Here.
[consulting transcript]
Lt. Colonel Conroy: [without sarcasm] "No, I'm a terrorist. Haven't you been watching television?"
Dr. John Matthewson: You people really live in your own world, don't you?
Lt. Colonel Conroy: Well, we don't have the luxury of living in yours.
d)it's a test of faith.
I'll be dead before I take that final exam.
selling is legal
fucking is legal
how can selling fucking not be legal?
It is if the people fucking are being paid and the payer isn't participating in the fucking. You can sell videos of it if you have documentation that the fuckers are of legal age (depending on the jurisdiction).
Context matters.
Genuine offers for criminal acts are prosecutable. Disingenuous ones are not. It helps when the latter is readily apparent (such as by occurring in a work of fiction by a fictional character).
It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated. See the war between and eventual fate of the G'Gugvuntts and the Vl'Hurgs.
* "You wanna buy some weed?"
Got any dandelions?
* "If you'll give me $20, I'll give you head."
Already got the head. I just need to decide between a body or a frameset.
* "If you can come up with a porno starring a 6 year old, I'll pay you $250."
I'll see if Jennifer Lien will reprise her role as Kes.
* "If you'll shoot my wife, I'll give you $500."
Will that be with a regular or a telephoto lens?
Thank you for that. Now I can assign rules for specific sites without encoding large obscure tag sequences for sites that don't put their underscore-delimited FQDN in the ID tag of BODY. (Actually only my workplace did that so that I could style the gnats results with overflow properties that wouldn't affect any other sites.)
"allowed" != "endorsed".
"Do as I say not as I do"?
I've decided to tag the book on Amazon.com with "typointitle".
Conscience, consciousness, and consciencousness?
I think I just heard the screams of a million spell checkers cry out, and then were suddenly silenced.
(Mine is flagging "consciencousness", Dictionary.com suggests "conscientiousness", and Google suggests "conscienciousness". Amazon concurs that the title is accurate.)
If you can't tell what something is through the plastic wrapper due to strange color or texture, then don't open it! Nothing good ever came out of one of these packages.
Chris: Here Mitch, taste this. Go on, you won't hurt my feelings, just try it.
[Mitch tastes it]
Chris: What do you think, too sweet?
Mitch: What is it?
Chris: I don't know, I found it in one of the labs.
[Mitch starts to induce vomiting]
Chris: Relax, it's just yogurt.
[looking in O'Neill's refrigerator]
Teal'c: Are you conducting some sort of scientific experiment, O'Neill?
Jack O'Neill: Hey, come on, that salsa's still good.
Occasionally you get a chem student who thinks the fume hood works like the sneeze guard at a salad bar and forgets that he has to actually turn it on himself.
Ah, and now I won't have to do it myself.
That leaves more time for my other remixes I also haven't had time to realize.
You know, I've been meaning to do an anime music video mixing that song with that episode of Cowboy Bebop.
Or the mucus due to her allergies acted as a filter preventing her from inhaling the toxic elements.
Because that's one of your nasal mucus' jobs: to stop you from breathing in any more of the stuff that's causing you to produce mucus (usually by trapping and isolating it). And no, mouth-breathing does not totally bypass this function as anyone who has gagged on their own mucus can attest.
Jarvik: [of Tarrant] I was his captain.
Servalan: And what crime did you commit?
Jarvik: No crime.
Servalan: Don't lie to me, Jarvik. One word and your life is on that screen.
[Jarvik gestures for her to go ahead. She enters data.]
Servalan: [to computer:] Jarvik. Formerly of Federation Space Academy, now in HQ construction grades.
[Servalan reads, seeing no reason in the record]
Servalan: [to Jarvik:] Why?
Jarvik: Because I'm a human being.
Servalan: But is that a reason to--
Jarvik: And so are you. But when was the last time you felt the warmth of the Earth's sun on your naked back? Or lifted your face to the heavens, and laughed with the joy of being alive? How long since you wept at the death of a friend?
[Jarvik pauses]
Jarvik: Doesn't mean a thing to you, does it, Madam President? You've surrounded yourself with machines and weapons, mindless men and heartless mutoids; and when they've done your work, and the machines have done your thinking, what is there left in you that feels?!
[Jarvik throws something at the computer screen, smashing it]
Yeah, but I was commenting about the GP, not the 3GP (now 3GP and 5GP).
And we are approaching soon a time when every native-born citizen who was not in a computer database at birth or sooner will be dead, and everyone else who is legally here is entered into one upon entry.
("Blank is beautiful.")
it is always the Dwellers in the Forest who will come off worst.
Are you saying I have pointy ears and a flair for magic and archery?
I'm saying you need to brush up on your Douglas Adams.
I've heard that in some state laws (perhaps county or even city laws) there were laws making it illegal to be out in public without a minimum amount of cash on your person. Like laws requiring one to produce a physical ID (when they still existed), this was used to round up indigent persons.
There may still be some regarding carrying too much cash in the name of anti drug-trafficking laws, except in that case it is the cash that is arrested under suspicion of being proceeds from crime (and, cash not being a person, is not entitled to a defense). There are some anecdotal cases of people going to and from rural auctions having their cash and sometimes vehicles (for having areas where drugs could be concealed) seized in this manner.
Lastly, I must end with a favorite quotation from M*A*S*H regarding self-identification:
Except in his situation, where he was driving. If he's not in a registered driver's database, he's a suspect for the offense of driving without a license.
In some states, an adult is legally required to provide ID to any cop who asks - it's actually illegal to walk down the street without a driver's license (or non-driver's ID). We seem to have little regard for the Constitution.
I'd like to see some corroboration of that. As I understand it, you can be compelled to identify yourself if requested by a law enforcement officer. You are not required to provide identification: providing your name is sufficient. You are not required to carry identification.
"Papers, please," is not the law in the US.