Merriam Webster and American Heritage both disagree with you.
Unless you're going to start writing everything in Old English, I'm going to have to assume that you're not contending that the English language can't evolve.
No, it's not definitely wrong. Octopus is an English word, and English-speaking people (and, more importantly, professional lexicographers) have no problem with "octopi".
Next you're going to tell me that anyone who uses the word "automobile" is wrong, because that word cannot possibly exist. Or that if I write about Plato instead of Platon, I'm no longer talking about a Greek philosopher. Sorry, but your pedantic obsession with etymology has no bearing on correct English usage.
But if not, it's because they're incompetent, not because of the lack of a national ID card. Having such a card would not, as the original poster suggested, make any difference in their ability to do so. The card cannot be justified purely on the idea that it would allow the IRS to make it easier to do our taxes.
It may be possible to justify the card on some other basis, but not this one. National standards for driving might be a more compelling argument, and they've already done it for truck drivers, but I think that falls flat. CDLs are easy to regulate federally because it's hard to argue that it doesn't fall under "regulating interstate commerce." Congress already clearly knows that they have no Constitutional right to regulate other driving directly, which is why they're trying to influence states by withholding funding instead of just passing a law requiring a federal drivers license.
The real question is what purpose the 10th Amendement even serves anymore, when Congress can just use financial bullying to expand its powers instead of directly making law.
Right, because such a large % of the Yugo-driving target market for Apple's cheap devices reads Slashdot, and cares what one random person here has to say.
Plus the margins on those games are much higher. Once you sell enough to cover development costs, your future sales are basically all profit (less the compartively tiny cost of manufacturing the disks and packaging).
In Apple's case, they're not paying anything to create the music, but they've got to pay RIAA for every sale, and their distribution costs are significant. The economics are just completely different.
Well, clearly they'd have to hire some people with a clue, but it's not like web design people are in short supply these days. Just go knocking on the windows of expensive cars in the Bay Area with the owners sleeping in them, and you'll have a team of layed-off programmers in no time.
Sure, but when there are only 2 political parties with any influence, and the one that's most anti-immigrant is also the most pro-business, good luck with that. We'd need at least an anti-immigrant, anti-business party or a pro-immigrant, pro-business party to really get anything done.
Look at Bush's immigration reform plan. He can't get half his own party to support it because it would let people who came here illegally stay here to work for a limited amount of time.
Well, a ban on showing your underwear is a bit different than a restriction on what kind of underwear you're allowed to wear.
They're both incredibly stupid ideas, but at least the VA law is enforceable without giving the police the power to spot check random people by making them drop their pants.
Of course, one would hope a competent court would strike a law like that down.
There's really no reason the IRS couldn't just put together a website that works exactly like TurboTax's online version right now. They don't need a national ID card; it's not like Intuit has some way to authenticate my identity that wouldn't be available to the IRS. With or without a national ID card, the IRS isn't going to do that (and would you trust them to make their software get you the best possible refund?)
You can now buy a Mac for less than the price of Photoshop. Granted, if you already own Windows versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash, the upgrade costs to replace the software are going to be higher than the hardware costs.
In the meantime, put the windows boxes behind a firewall.
Actually, no US city has an Attorney General. All 50 states and the federal government have attorneys general, but I can guarantee that all of them have better things to do with their time than talk to you about your warranty. But, you know, feel free to make stuff up and get modded "informative" for it.
AppleCare has no deductible for covered repairs, and covers different stuff than a homeowner's policy would. If your logic board dies, your homeowner's policy most likely won't cover anything, even after a deductible. Apple will replace it for free, if you didn't do something stupid to break it. If the machine is stolen or destroyed in a fire or other household disaster, AppleCare won't cover it, but insurance might.
However, a judge is perfectly entitled (and may be constiutionally required--speedy trial) to get impatient.
I suggest you reread the first 4 words of the sixth amendment. "In all criminal prosecutions[...]".
On the other hand, even without a Constitutional requirement, it's probably fair for a judge to tell people to stop wasting his time and the taxpayers' money if they're not going to present any actual evidence.
I was going to install perl, but I read somewhere about this CPAN thing that has an overwhelming number of available libraries I could use, so I decided to avoid it even though it was free.
I'm getting sick and tired of the Libertarian Party and its strangehold grip on power in Washington. They've got like, what, 30 seats in the Senate now?
If you hadn't noticed, most of the "features" of the previous update (10.3.7) involved WoW performance tuning.
Maybe this could help bring more game development to the Mac. Sure it's just one game they've done this for, but showing a willingness to change their OS to improve a third-party developer's game seems like it would make them attractive to other game developers, too.
Every time I've "repaired" permissions on my machine, it's set the permissions on postfix's files such that postfix refuses to run because the permissions are set wrong.
Thanks, but I'll believe my mail server before an Apple utility if believing the Apple utility means that any email sent to me bounces.
Right, because there are a bunch of programmers out there who love open source so much that they contribute to projects they don't even use, for the sheer love of writing code.
Makes it hard to debug the code, if you're not going to run it, but what the hell.
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As I understand it, plant patents only forbid asexual propagation of patented plants, and allow reproduction from seed.
Unless you're going to start writing everything in Old English, I'm going to have to assume that you're not contending that the English language can't evolve.
Next you're going to tell me that anyone who uses the word "automobile" is wrong, because that word cannot possibly exist. Or that if I write about Plato instead of Platon, I'm no longer talking about a Greek philosopher. Sorry, but your pedantic obsession with etymology has no bearing on correct English usage.
But if not, it's because they're incompetent, not because of the lack of a national ID card. Having such a card would not, as the original poster suggested, make any difference in their ability to do so. The card cannot be justified purely on the idea that it would allow the IRS to make it easier to do our taxes.
It may be possible to justify the card on some other basis, but not this one. National standards for driving might be a more compelling argument, and they've already done it for truck drivers, but I think that falls flat. CDLs are easy to regulate federally because it's hard to argue that it doesn't fall under "regulating interstate commerce." Congress already clearly knows that they have no Constitutional right to regulate other driving directly, which is why they're trying to influence states by withholding funding instead of just passing a law requiring a federal drivers license.
The real question is what purpose the 10th Amendement even serves anymore, when Congress can just use financial bullying to expand its powers instead of directly making law.
Reno does not even claim to be a "major city".
Excuse me while I got and kick myself a few more times for selling at $18 when I bought my house.
Right, because such a large % of the Yugo-driving target market for Apple's cheap devices reads Slashdot, and cares what one random person here has to say.
In Apple's case, they're not paying anything to create the music, but they've got to pay RIAA for every sale, and their distribution costs are significant. The economics are just completely different.
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and what method did you use to come up with that number?
Just created a new fork for a distro that will REALLY succeed on the desktop this time, and haven't told anyone else about it until right now.
Well, clearly they'd have to hire some people with a clue, but it's not like web design people are in short supply these days. Just go knocking on the windows of expensive cars in the Bay Area with the owners sleeping in them, and you'll have a team of layed-off programmers in no time.
Look at Bush's immigration reform plan. He can't get half his own party to support it because it would let people who came here illegally stay here to work for a limited amount of time.
They're both incredibly stupid ideas, but at least the VA law is enforceable without giving the police the power to spot check random people by making them drop their pants.
Of course, one would hope a competent court would strike a law like that down.
There's really no reason the IRS couldn't just put together a website that works exactly like TurboTax's online version right now. They don't need a national ID card; it's not like Intuit has some way to authenticate my identity that wouldn't be available to the IRS. With or without a national ID card, the IRS isn't going to do that (and would you trust them to make their software get you the best possible refund?)
In the meantime, put the windows boxes behind a firewall.
Actually, no US city has an Attorney General. All 50 states and the federal government have attorneys general, but I can guarantee that all of them have better things to do with their time than talk to you about your warranty. But, you know, feel free to make stuff up and get modded "informative" for it.
AppleCare has no deductible for covered repairs, and covers different stuff than a homeowner's policy would. If your logic board dies, your homeowner's policy most likely won't cover anything, even after a deductible. Apple will replace it for free, if you didn't do something stupid to break it. If the machine is stolen or destroyed in a fire or other household disaster, AppleCare won't cover it, but insurance might.
And I suggest YOU reread the last 2 messages of this thread.
I suggest you reread the first 4 words of the sixth amendment. "In all criminal prosecutions[...]".
On the other hand, even without a Constitutional requirement, it's probably fair for a judge to tell people to stop wasting his time and the taxpayers' money if they're not going to present any actual evidence.
I was going to install perl, but I read somewhere about this CPAN thing that has an overwhelming number of available libraries I could use, so I decided to avoid it even though it was free.
I'm getting sick and tired of the Libertarian Party and its strangehold grip on power in Washington. They've got like, what, 30 seats in the Senate now?
What? Zero you say? Huh.
Maybe this could help bring more game development to the Mac. Sure it's just one game they've done this for, but showing a willingness to change their OS to improve a third-party developer's game seems like it would make them attractive to other game developers, too.
Thanks, but I'll believe my mail server before an Apple utility if believing the Apple utility means that any email sent to me bounces.
Plus it made the second button and scrollwheel fall off my mouse!
You need a DVI to S-Video adapter. GP didn't claim that it has "an S-video port", but it does do S-Video.
Makes it hard to debug the code, if you're not going to run it, but what the hell.