The Constitution is rather clear when read with the 10th Amendment, most of what the government does these days is unconstitutional.
Well, yeah. If you stop at the 10th Amendment it would seem that way. If you read all the way to the 14th, though, you find that the Federal government gets a lot of power over the states.
most every area of our lives are now controlled by the Federal Government.
Yeah, and it sucks, too. I had to eat waffles for breakfast this morning. I hate waffles. Stupid Federal Government controlling my life.
Anything which reduces the health barrier to nicotine addiction is a bad thing. Period.
That's a terrible position to take, unless you think that smokers somehow morally "deserve" the health problems they end up with. Obviously, if we could reduce the health effects of nicotine addiction to insignficant levels, then smoking wouldn't have to be a big deal. Even reducing them slightly might mean that those who are addicted have a better chance of living longer and more happy lives.
How on earth could that be a bad thing?
I suspect you could come up with a solution that beats this system by mimicing it, then changing its behaviour suddenly.
Unlikely. I'm sure that the programmers added in a check so that even if the "handshake" comes out correctly, the agents will start defecting as soon as their opponent does something that is not consistent with the M/S paradigm.
You might be able to always claim to be a master, though.
I think it's unlikely that MS Music Store will come bundled with Windows.
You are almost certainly wrong. It will come as part of Windows Media Player, just like the iTMS comes as a part of iTunes. Maybe not immediately, but you can bet your ass that it will be integrated before too long.
Hell, it's even worth you Linux users seeding the torrent. It'll mean your dsl connection gets less hammered with 0wn3d Windows boxes doing port scans.
Yeah. I'm sure there are a lot of Windows users who don't know how to run a virus checker but will download SP2 over bittorrent...
My favorite one of those retarded computer stories is when I was signing up for some service and I got the error "I'm sorry, but your email address must be 30 characters or less."
Well, it isn't, so suck it up. They were just asking for a Mailinator address, there.
You fall into the fallacy of assuming that more complicated organisms are somehow better. Read Stephen Jay Gould's Full House for a further explanation, but part of his argument involves the fact that "evolution" is not continuous striving toward an absolute or perfect goal, but the process of variation and adaptation.
The biggest forms of life may produce sexually, but the evolutionarily most successful (in terms of abundance, stability, strength, variation, ability to adapt, pretty much any measure you want) are bacteria, which reproduce asexually.
That's one of the prime reasons you're supposed to read the type of fire extinguisher (A, B, or C, or all of the above) before putting out such a fire.
I know that the first thing I do when I grab a fire extinguisher to put out a fire is to carefully read the label to see what letter is on it.
That's a specious argument. The case that the RIAA will try to make is not that P2P can be used for piracy but that it is overwhelmingly used for piracy. The only one of your "examples" that's remotely similar is the gun one, and that one is protected by the Constitution itself.
It depends. If you listen to new music and buy more than about 12 cds a year, then, yes, $120 a year is cheaper than buying cds, unless you want to pass your cds down to your grandchildren or something.
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The Constitution is rather clear when read with the 10th Amendment, most of what the government does these days is unconstitutional.
Well, yeah. If you stop at the 10th Amendment it would seem that way. If you read all the way to the 14th, though, you find that the Federal government gets a lot of power over the states.
most every area of our lives are now controlled by the Federal Government.
Yeah, and it sucks, too. I had to eat waffles for breakfast this morning. I hate waffles. Stupid Federal Government controlling my life.
Anything which reduces the health barrier to nicotine addiction is a bad thing. Period.
That's a terrible position to take, unless you think that smokers somehow morally "deserve" the health problems they end up with. Obviously, if we could reduce the health effects of nicotine addiction to insignficant levels, then smoking wouldn't have to be a big deal. Even reducing them slightly might mean that those who are addicted have a better chance of living longer and more happy lives.
How on earth could that be a bad thing?
So, in the first case you perjured yourself, and in the second you got off on a technicality.
The system works!
I suspect you could come up with a solution that beats this system by mimicing it, then changing its behaviour suddenly.
Unlikely. I'm sure that the programmers added in a check so that even if the "handshake" comes out correctly, the agents will start defecting as soon as their opponent does something that is not consistent with the M/S paradigm. You might be able to always claim to be a master, though.
"How about if we agree that one of us sucks?"
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Sweet! I can finally play all my copies of Duck Hunt simultaneously!
Is it the freedom or the privacy that bugs you the most?
Yeah! We've had nothing but problems with those immigrants ever since we got here!
No it couldn't. Either P=NP or P!=NP. There's no "neither" option allowed.
I think it's unlikely that MS Music Store will come bundled with Windows.
You are almost certainly wrong. It will come as part of Windows Media Player, just like the iTMS comes as a part of iTunes. Maybe not immediately, but you can bet your ass that it will be integrated before too long.
Yeah, but I bet that the average density of Jupiter is higher than that of a VW Beetle.
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You'd get a totally unrealistic idea of Jupiter's size just by looking at that one number
Hell, it's even worth you Linux users seeding the torrent. It'll mean your dsl connection gets less hammered with 0wn3d Windows boxes doing port scans.
Yeah. I'm sure there are a lot of Windows users who don't know how to run a virus checker but will download SP2 over bittorrent...
There wasn't a ruling. They went out of business. No legal precedent set.
My favorite one of those retarded computer stories is when I was signing up for some service and I got the error "I'm sorry, but your email address must be 30 characters or less." Well, it isn't, so suck it up. They were just asking for a Mailinator address, there.
You fall into the fallacy of assuming that more complicated organisms are somehow better. Read Stephen Jay Gould's Full House for a further explanation, but part of his argument involves the fact that "evolution" is not continuous striving toward an absolute or perfect goal, but the process of variation and adaptation.
The biggest forms of life may produce sexually, but the evolutionarily most successful (in terms of abundance, stability, strength, variation, ability to adapt, pretty much any measure you want) are bacteria, which reproduce asexually.
but is there wifi and will my powerbook work up there?
Yeah, but your ping is really going to suck.
That's one of the prime reasons you're supposed to read the type of fire extinguisher (A, B, or C, or all of the above) before putting out such a fire.
I know that the first thing I do when I grab a fire extinguisher to put out a fire is to carefully read the label to see what letter is on it.
That's a specious argument. The case that the RIAA will try to make is not that P2P can be used for piracy but that it is overwhelmingly used for piracy. The only one of your "examples" that's remotely similar is the gun one, and that one is protected by the Constitution itself.
Or until you die.
Which one do you think is more likely?
Perhaps they should check their contracts. I'm pretty sure that's not in my job description.
It depends. If you listen to new music and buy more than about 12 cds a year, then, yes, $120 a year is cheaper than buying cds, unless you want to pass your cds down to your grandchildren or something.
What did you do, mail them an envelope of cash?
Contest that with your credit card company.
Unless you have a greenhouse out back, even fresh tomatoes come in some sort of package, at the very least a crate.
I used to get 15 to 20 spams a day...Now that 30 mins of my day is freed up... It takes you two minutes to look at a single spam message?
You don't have to login to use the computer labs???