I believe a speeding ticket is a fine imposed by the government, yet is not due to a criminal act. Misdemeanors are not treated equally with felonies - only one makes you a criminal.
Nope, both misdemeanors and felonies are criminal acts. In fact, that's what the very first sentence of the misdemeanor Wikipedia entry says:
A misdemeanor, or misdemeanour, in many common law legal systems, is a "lesser" criminal act.
By the way, I didn't have time to mention it in my previous response, but consider this: unless the Governor and a bunch of members of the state legislature are Libertarian, then I don't think you can consider the "Libbies" to be "already good."
And if they are already in charge in Illinois, then you could vote Green for all the local offices to help the Green party in your state, while still voting for Barr for President to help the Libertarians nationally. Besides, straight ticket voting ought to be discouraged anyway!
I think it actually describes most people, really. Unfortunately, what tends to happen is that the major parties give everybody half of what they want, and half of what the politicians want: the Democrats are for protecting the commons and are socially liberal, but are also fiscally liberal and totalitarian, and the Republicans are for personal responsibiility and fiscally conservative, but are also socially conservative and totalitarian. And everybody puts up with it because they have inertia and media support (which is the same thing, really).
Everybody gets so distracted arguing about the half of their chosen party's platform that they actually support that they completely miss the fact that other parties exist that match their politics much better.
The alternative, is using a non free os and a non free runtime, so it's a small step forwards if nothing else.
Or you can use a Free OS and a Free runtime (i.e., plain WINE), but it won't work quite as well (depending on which software you want to run, of course).
Personally, I think using -- and particularly, paying for -- Crossover is just fine; Codeweavers contributes back to WINE and even employs WINE devs. What you should avoid is Cedega, made by those bastards at Transgaming who forked WINE before it became GPL.
It doesn't matter who you vote for with regards to the Democratic and Republican parties. it does matter which third-party you vote for, however: it helps that party come closer to achieving critical mass, so that its candidates can do things like:
Get on the ballot without having to re-petition each time
Get admitted to debates
Get taken seriously in the media
etc.
In other words, being able to say "the X party got 5% of the vote! is much more valuable in terms of actually changing things than saying "X party got 2%, Y party got 2%, and other minor parties got 1%." 5% isn't enough to win anything, but it is enough to get serious attention. 2% isn't.
Therefore, if you want "none of the above" -- if you want change, then tactically your best option is voting for whichever third party is biggest. And that happens to be the Libertarian party. The party's actual platform is irrelevant (at least, as long as it's not the NAZI-pedophile-serial killer party or something), because it's not going to be put into practice anyway.
Personally, I'm sort of half-Libertarian, half-Green: for personal responsibility, against abusing the commons, against big government, for Federalism and States' Rights, for civil rights, fiscally conservative, socially liberal, etc. My dream would be to see a Green-Libertarian coalition endorse a single Presidential candidate. But until then, voting Libertarian is the next best thing.
Go for Barr. As an Atlantan, I'm familiar with both candidates, and I feel qualified to say that McKinney is relatively paranoid and unstable. Barr has his faults too, but they're related to his ideology, not his mental health. I feel I can overlook his religious views since as a Libertarian I don't think he'd act on them, and he's probably the most reasonable candidate that party has had in a long time.
Besides, the Libertarian and Green parties are different enough that if you're trying to decide between them, you're likely trying to vote for "not Republicrats" anyway, and the Libertarian party fits that goal better because it has more momentum than the Green party.
Ah, those Fujitsus probably used some non-standard handwriting stuff then -- and the handwriting recognition is one of the few things that Microsoft actually did right (along with its input devices and C# (but not.NET)).
It wasn't an issue of trying to find an old tablet, by the way; I already have an X60 Tablet. I just prefer Win2K over WinXP for ethical reasons (no Activation -- regardless of the fact that my copies of XP Tablet Edition and Vista Business came with the machine, and are thus legal).
I guess I'll just investigate slimming down XP (and maybe backporting Vista's handwrting recognition -- it really is better, but not enough for the rest of the OS to be worth it) instead.
I don't see light DRM as being acceptable if it is just going to be continuously broken days after it comes out. I'd be fine with DRM IF it remains uncrackable (and obviously, not restrictive).
This position is isomorphic to the position that all DRM is unacceptable.
Windows 2000 was more popular, and some people were even recommending using Windows 95, which required finding Windows tablet functionality that had been backported to 95.
Do you have a link to this Win2K tablet functionality backport?
My university recently implemented an emergency warning that would violate that law.
However, I agree with you, if it were amended to say "...without prior, explicit written consent." Of course, the real issue is, how would you enforce such a thing? All the telemarketing calls I get are illegal anyway (on several levels, since I only use a cell phone), but I don't see anything getting done about them.
It's fricking one and a half tons. And looks it, too. Meaning all those fucking businessmen and housewives in their SUVs will think twice before getting into a fight with me. I'm not some New Beetle.
I hate to break it to you, but New Beetles are pretty close to 1.5 tons (2,712 lbs) too. It's only the old Beetles that were tin cans.
What he essentially said was that if you buy S&P 500 index funds, you essentially buy X shares of auto manufacturer stock (along with X shares of every other stock in the S&P 500 -- that's what an index fund is). But what if you don't want the auto manufacturer stock? Obviously you want to sell it, but you can't because it's part of the index fund. So instead you short the stock (i.e., sell shares you don't actually own, and then buy them back to cover it later), which is essentially equivalent to "buying" a negative number of shares. +X shares + (-X) shares = 0 shares. Get it now? I thought it was pretty neat...
Doing so voids all warrantees on the system, so if the system breaks down later for whatever reason, even unrelated to the mod, you'll still get a nice big bugger off from the company.
Microsoft can't do that. According to the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act, the warranty remains in effect unless Microsoft can prove (and the onus is on them, not you) that the modification caused the problem.
Of course, the real issue is that you might not want to reveal the intent of the modification (i.e., copyright infringement).
Still, how can you mathematically represent the total driving situation, wherein:
It takes energy just to sit still (no distance moved) on an upslope, relative to the cosine of the slope compared to vertical.
You can't do just the opposite -- recover energy sitting still on a downslope.
That's when you consider the work done by the engine on the clutch or torque converter -- the friction on the clutch surface or transmission fluid creates heat. I'm not sure what the equations are (as I've not yet taken a thermodynamics class), but that's what's going on.
Let's just assume that the drivetrain is 100% efficient; actual losses can be factored in later.
Unfortunately, you can't do that because not only are the drivetrain losses significant in this case, they're the only significant thing!
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Nope, both misdemeanors and felonies are criminal acts. In fact, that's what the very first sentence of the misdemeanor Wikipedia entry says:
Fines are imposed by the government in criminal cases. Damages are awarded to the plaintiff in civil cases. They're not the same thing.
By the way, I didn't have time to mention it in my previous response, but consider this: unless the Governor and a bunch of members of the state legislature are Libertarian, then I don't think you can consider the "Libbies" to be "already good."
And if they are already in charge in Illinois, then you could vote Green for all the local offices to help the Green party in your state, while still voting for Barr for President to help the Libertarians nationally. Besides, straight ticket voting ought to be discouraged anyway!
I think it actually describes most people, really. Unfortunately, what tends to happen is that the major parties give everybody half of what they want, and half of what the politicians want: the Democrats are for protecting the commons and are socially liberal, but are also fiscally liberal and totalitarian, and the Republicans are for personal responsibiility and fiscally conservative, but are also socially conservative and totalitarian. And everybody puts up with it because they have inertia and media support (which is the same thing, really).
Everybody gets so distracted arguing about the half of their chosen party's platform that they actually support that they completely miss the fact that other parties exist that match their politics much better.
Sarcasm: Look it up.
Or you can use a Free OS and a Free runtime (i.e., plain WINE), but it won't work quite as well (depending on which software you want to run, of course).
Personally, I think using -- and particularly, paying for -- Crossover is just fine; Codeweavers contributes back to WINE and even employs WINE devs. What you should avoid is Cedega, made by those bastards at Transgaming who forked WINE before it became GPL.
What level does Earth: Final Conflict fit in?
See also: Transgaming.
It doesn't matter who you vote for with regards to the Democratic and Republican parties. it does matter which third-party you vote for, however: it helps that party come closer to achieving critical mass, so that its candidates can do things like:
In other words, being able to say "the X party got 5% of the vote! is much more valuable in terms of actually changing things than saying "X party got 2%, Y party got 2%, and other minor parties got 1%." 5% isn't enough to win anything, but it is enough to get serious attention. 2% isn't.
Therefore, if you want "none of the above" -- if you want change, then tactically your best option is voting for whichever third party is biggest. And that happens to be the Libertarian party. The party's actual platform is irrelevant (at least, as long as it's not the NAZI-pedophile-serial killer party or something), because it's not going to be put into practice anyway.
Personally, I'm sort of half-Libertarian, half-Green: for personal responsibility, against abusing the commons, against big government, for Federalism and States' Rights, for civil rights, fiscally conservative, socially liberal, etc. My dream would be to see a Green-Libertarian coalition endorse a single Presidential candidate. But until then, voting Libertarian is the next best thing.
Go for Barr. As an Atlantan, I'm familiar with both candidates, and I feel qualified to say that McKinney is relatively paranoid and unstable. Barr has his faults too, but they're related to his ideology, not his mental health. I feel I can overlook his religious views since as a Libertarian I don't think he'd act on them, and he's probably the most reasonable candidate that party has had in a long time.
Besides, the Libertarian and Green parties are different enough that if you're trying to decide between them, you're likely trying to vote for "not Republicrats" anyway, and the Libertarian party fits that goal better because it has more momentum than the Green party.
...and? That's probably what the machines are actually running!
What's with this hypothetical language ("would" and "if")? It's already happened -- hanging chads are caused by bad UI too!
Ah, those Fujitsus probably used some non-standard handwriting stuff then -- and the handwriting recognition is one of the few things that Microsoft actually did right (along with its input devices and C# (but not .NET)).
It wasn't an issue of trying to find an old tablet, by the way; I already have an X60 Tablet. I just prefer Win2K over WinXP for ethical reasons (no Activation -- regardless of the fact that my copies of XP Tablet Edition and Vista Business came with the machine, and are thus legal).
I guess I'll just investigate slimming down XP (and maybe backporting Vista's handwrting recognition -- it really is better, but not enough for the rest of the OS to be worth it) instead.
This position is isomorphic to the position that all DRM is unacceptable.
Do you have a link to this Win2K tablet functionality backport?
Now imagine how impressive the largest pterosaurs must have been...
The ones that call me don't know what car I have. Once when they called, I decided to play along:
Asshole: "What year and brand is your car?"
Me: 1992 Saturn (a blatant lie, by the way)
Asshole: Uhh... [click]
More useful? Yes. Prohibitively expensive? Also, yes.
And "the russian frontier?!" Seriously? Who the heck would want to go there anyway?
Indeed. Quite a lot of our aid is in the form of food. Note the saying "teach a man to fish" and all that...
My university recently implemented an emergency warning that would violate that law.
However, I agree with you, if it were amended to say "...without prior, explicit written consent." Of course, the real issue is, how would you enforce such a thing? All the telemarketing calls I get are illegal anyway (on several levels, since I only use a cell phone), but I don't see anything getting done about them.
Or the telemarketers who are just flat-out illegal anyway. For example, I get calls for that "extended auto warranty" crap on my cell phone!
I hate to break it to you, but New Beetles are pretty close to 1.5 tons (2,712 lbs) too. It's only the old Beetles that were tin cans.
I was enlightened by it, and I'm no economist.
What he essentially said was that if you buy S&P 500 index funds, you essentially buy X shares of auto manufacturer stock (along with X shares of every other stock in the S&P 500 -- that's what an index fund is). But what if you don't want the auto manufacturer stock? Obviously you want to sell it, but you can't because it's part of the index fund. So instead you short the stock (i.e., sell shares you don't actually own, and then buy them back to cover it later), which is essentially equivalent to "buying" a negative number of shares. +X shares + (-X) shares = 0 shares. Get it now? I thought it was pretty neat...
Microsoft can't do that. According to the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act, the warranty remains in effect unless Microsoft can prove (and the onus is on them, not you) that the modification caused the problem.
Of course, the real issue is that you might not want to reveal the intent of the modification (i.e., copyright infringement).
That's when you consider the work done by the engine on the clutch or torque converter -- the friction on the clutch surface or transmission fluid creates heat. I'm not sure what the equations are (as I've not yet taken a thermodynamics class), but that's what's going on.
Unfortunately, you can't do that because not only are the drivetrain losses significant in this case, they're the only significant thing!