I'd imagine that the only reason any of them would do so is fear that they're helping you violate some professional photographer's copyright, not because they're worried that professionals are taking advantage of their cheap printing.
If so, just include an equally profesional looking shot of yourself in the mirror taking the picture on each roll.
I don't suppose you're using a 1.1 megapixel camera because you're afraid your photos will look too good to get them printed otherwise, are you?
I'm pretty sure by "national debt" the GP poster is talking about the national debt (imagine that!), and not the personal debts of all of the people in the nation.
One might argue that it's overly cynical to compare the actions of the democratically-elected US government in building up a crushing national debt to those of brutal dictators borrowing money they can never pay back to personally enrich themselves and to finance the oppression of their people.
I'm not sure it would be a successful argument, but I like to think that there's something inherently different between citizens who are too weak to overthrow their government by force and are thus saddled with crushing debt that makes it impossible to rebuild their countries as opposed to citizens who are so incredibly stupid that they keep electing people who spend irresponsibly and build up a debt that will hurt future generations.
Unfortunately, it's probably easier to eliminate a dictator in a bloody civil war than it is to convince people that it's not in the long-term interests to elect someone who's going to make sure they get an expensive bridge to nowhere to temporarily create some construction jobs at the cost of having to maintain the thing in the future and pay the interest on the debt built up to build the thing.
He was just trying some superstitious pseudovoodoo there.
He hates Apple, yet everything he ever says about them turns out to be spectacularly false. So he decided to try writing that they'd be successful, in the hopes that they'd immediately go out of business. It didn't work, so he's gone back to bashing them.
Actually, if you'd read the act that you cite (I know, that's a huge thing to ask), you'd see it has absolutely nothing to do with what you're claiming it does.
As the name implies, the act involves warranties. VW can not put a clause in their warranty that says that the warranty is void if you use aftermarket parts made by Neuspeed in your car.
It says exactly nothing about whether Neuspeed can make parts for VW cars, whether it can advertise them as being for VW cars, or even whether it can claim they're actually made by VW when they're not.
Of course, once you look at their code, they'll sue you for violating the license if you ever write a single line of code in the future, claiming it resembles their code (even if only in the sense you used the same character set).
Never trust anyone who says you can see something secret but only if you agree to a license that says you'll never use the information you've seen. No good can possibly come of it.
If the courts in the UK decide that someone else can use the gmail.com domain in the UK, good luck making DNS work right without having Google give it up everywhere else, too.
(And I do metamoderate whenever I'm offered the chance, and have Excellent karma as well. I assume I read too many articles, which is a really dumb criterion for getting mod points)
Unless a UK court issues a decision against Google that also requires everyone else in the world to switch from the current DNS system to one that will easily allow Google to own the "gmail.com" domain everywhere except the UK and someone else to use it inside the UK, then yes, having them stop using the domain in the UK will probably mean they stop using it everywhere.
I imagine the change now in the UK has a lot more to do with their right to market their service in the UK as "Gmail", rather than any anticipated future technical problems with using "gmail" in their URL.
On the other hand, it's been quite some time since they started redirecting any web traffic from gmail.com to mail.google.com, so it is possible they're expecting to lose the domain altogether. But if so, it seems foolish to keep giving non-UK users new gmail.com addresses.
Of course, they turned it into absolute crap and quickly cancelled it. But they were halfway there.
I can't comment on how they're doing with "The Office"; I haven't watched any of it and I don't plan to. I don't think they deserve another chance to prove to me they're not completely incompetent.
More accurately, if the majority of the American public can't, then too bad for the coin.
Other than stamp vending machines, I've never gotten change in dollar coins. Is Walmart even still trying to push them like they were when the new ones were first introduced?
Um, the new dollar coin, the Sacagawea, cannot be mistaken for a quarter at all
Not with visual inspection, sure. But try sticking your hand into a pocket full of change and reliably pulling out a dollar coin instead of a quarter. Compare your success rate to that with pennies, dimes, and nickels. Come back and tell me the dollar coin wasn't poorly designed.
There does not, however, seem to be a "verifying 'facts' you made up before posting them on slashdot and looking like a dumbass for dummies" book, though.
Before long, you'll have huge bridges leading to every uninhabited tiny island in the state, and 8-lane interstates connecting one patch of permafrost to another one 500 miles away.
I agree that the replicators are the focus of evolution, just as I believe the mass of the sun causes an attraction which makes the Earth revolve around it.
I would not say that the Sun "wants" the Earth to travel in an elliptical path through space, and would consider anyone who does insist that it does is a fool. I'd consider them more of a fool if they thought that by denying that fact, I didn't understand gravitation and I believed that the Earth was using its own power to revolve.
And I suppose memes and genes want to be anthropomorphized, too?
Ascribing motives and desires to genes is, in my opinion, one of the worst things you could possibly take away from Dawkins work. The selfishness of genes is a metaphor. Genes are not capable of consciousness, and do not want anything.
That's the great thing about America's class mobility. Even an ignorant yokel can go on to be an ignorant tenured professor or an executive at a Fortune 1000 company.
You missed the point of the parent posted by a mile.
No, I didn't. The drive in the ipod mini wouldn't cost a smart consumer anywhere near $500. It certainly doesn't cost Apple $500 in the volumes they're buying.
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If so, just include an equally profesional looking shot of yourself in the mirror taking the picture on each roll.
I don't suppose you're using a 1.1 megapixel camera because you're afraid your photos will look too good to get them printed otherwise, are you?
One might argue that it's overly cynical to compare the actions of the democratically-elected US government in building up a crushing national debt to those of brutal dictators borrowing money they can never pay back to personally enrich themselves and to finance the oppression of their people.
I'm not sure it would be a successful argument, but I like to think that there's something inherently different between citizens who are too weak to overthrow their government by force and are thus saddled with crushing debt that makes it impossible to rebuild their countries as opposed to citizens who are so incredibly stupid that they keep electing people who spend irresponsibly and build up a debt that will hurt future generations.
Unfortunately, it's probably easier to eliminate a dictator in a bloody civil war than it is to convince people that it's not in the long-term interests to elect someone who's going to make sure they get an expensive bridge to nowhere to temporarily create some construction jobs at the cost of having to maintain the thing in the future and pay the interest on the debt built up to build the thing.
He hates Apple, yet everything he ever says about them turns out to be spectacularly false. So he decided to try writing that they'd be successful, in the hopes that they'd immediately go out of business. It didn't work, so he's gone back to bashing them.
As the name implies, the act involves warranties. VW can not put a clause in their warranty that says that the warranty is void if you use aftermarket parts made by Neuspeed in your car.
It says exactly nothing about whether Neuspeed can make parts for VW cars, whether it can advertise them as being for VW cars, or even whether it can claim they're actually made by VW when they're not.
Never trust anyone who says you can see something secret but only if you agree to a license that says you'll never use the information you've seen. No good can possibly come of it.
(And I do metamoderate whenever I'm offered the chance, and have Excellent karma as well. I assume I read too many articles, which is a really dumb criterion for getting mod points)
I imagine the change now in the UK has a lot more to do with their right to market their service in the UK as "Gmail", rather than any anticipated future technical problems with using "gmail" in their URL.
On the other hand, it's been quite some time since they started redirecting any web traffic from gmail.com to mail.google.com, so it is possible they're expecting to lose the domain altogether. But if so, it seems foolish to keep giving non-UK users new gmail.com addresses.
Of course, they turned it into absolute crap and quickly cancelled it. But they were halfway there.
I can't comment on how they're doing with "The Office"; I haven't watched any of it and I don't plan to. I don't think they deserve another chance to prove to me they're not completely incompetent.
If you people are going to instsit on a strict meaning of the word "theft", please do the same for every other word.
Other than stamp vending machines, I've never gotten change in dollar coins. Is Walmart even still trying to push them like they were when the new ones were first introduced?
Not with visual inspection, sure. But try sticking your hand into a pocket full of change and reliably pulling out a dollar coin instead of a quarter. Compare your success rate to that with pennies, dimes, and nickels. Come back and tell me the dollar coin wasn't poorly designed.
It was a really good paper.
They "can't"? They have plans to do so in certain situations, whether you think it's a good idea or not.
When they turn off the civilian channel, you can bet the military is still going to be using their channels.
It'll never happen. The government in the US would rather have every single American be killed by terrorists than risk seeing a nude human body.
There does not, however, seem to be a "verifying 'facts' you made up before posting them on slashdot and looking like a dumbass for dummies" book, though.
Do you mean you can generate a megawatt hour every year, or you can constantly have an output of 1 million watts for a year?
Better rending in Firefox and less dishonesty! What's not to like?
Before long, you'll have huge bridges leading to every uninhabited tiny island in the state, and 8-lane interstates connecting one patch of permafrost to another one 500 miles away.
You must be new here. How'd you get a user ID in the 24000s? Are they recycling old ones now?
I would not say that the Sun "wants" the Earth to travel in an elliptical path through space, and would consider anyone who does insist that it does is a fool. I'd consider them more of a fool if they thought that by denying that fact, I didn't understand gravitation and I believed that the Earth was using its own power to revolve.
Ascribing motives and desires to genes is, in my opinion, one of the worst things you could possibly take away from Dawkins work. The selfishness of genes is a metaphor. Genes are not capable of consciousness, and do not want anything.
That's the great thing about America's class mobility. Even an ignorant yokel can go on to be an ignorant tenured professor or an executive at a Fortune 1000 company.
No, I didn't. The drive in the ipod mini wouldn't cost a smart consumer anywhere near $500. It certainly doesn't cost Apple $500 in the volumes they're buying.
For the record, I've never lost a job due to offshoring, and I still think the article is stupid.