No mod points, so a "me too". Fully half my comments are of the "API unexpected outputs" variety or the "language braindead a/o insane, here's the workaround" variety.
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This guy's only hope now is jury nullification. If he can manage to sneak an RIAA hater into the jury box, and that hater wants the guy to walk badly enough to hang the jury, he can cause a mistrial. If the defendant hits the jackpot, that hater can turn the jury and actually acquit the guy.
The judges can't overrule the law, but the jury answers to no-one, and finds as it sees fit.
I'd settle for an adapter for my Steel Battalion controller. Thing's twice as complicated as any keyboard I've owned and has a light-up, plastic-shielded eject button. Nerdgasm.
decide whether you want to trust that YA is truly C'd
I am not a lawyer, so I'd get one. I'd trot out the NYCL-signal, but I don't want to volunteer him for EVERY legal question on here, just every legal question regarding the RIAA.:) I'd get one other than through my employer so there's no conflict of interest.
Get your lawyer to tell you what you'd need to best protect yourself from when the BSA Gestapo comes knocking, and start looking for other work, preferably at a large company that understands that you don't want to go to jail. Granted, prison laundry is steady income, but it's not really a good option for advancing one's career.
It's not like you don't know the practice is illegal; but the legal hair-splitting (Can I update a server with a pirated Windows install? Can I install FOSS on a computer that has pirated Photoshop?) should be done by a professional.
And shortly after the click, Haywood is visited by the United States Secret Service and made to participate in a very uncomfortable conversation in which it is relayed to him the full meaning and import of what he has done and what fate might befall him if he were to engage in such behavior again.
When the NSA works for your boss, you can get tracking information PDQ.
You mean you don't think the video gamer demographic is waiting with bated breath for Viola Hero? "Man, you guys, AFI's pretty sweet, but I wish we could just play some -chamber music-."
Yeah, probably right.
(I'm 30, just got Rock Band 1 and 2, and would buy the HELL out of some Beatles DLC.)
You kid, but that could very well be a Challenge within the game (Beatles Tribute Band: five stars and play the bass lefty and you get quadruple money or something), or even an Achievement/Trophy on 360/PS3. Didn't one of the Guitar Hero games give you an achievement for only strumming up while playing the bass?
Look up "cellulosic ethanol". They take the corn HUSKS and other non-food biomass, and turn it into ethanol. Now you're taking it out of fertilizer instead of off your plate (or off your dinner's plate), but it's a step in the right direction.
Try Jumpgate (aka Jumpgate Classic) or Vendetta Online. Both are twitch-based space flight sims that might be able to scratch the itch. Jumpgate Evolution might be worth a look as well, but it's not out yet, while JGC and VO will give you a free, no-CC trial today.
That's an interesting point. I don't think you have to have direct authority to be a leader, though. I also think you'd have a hard time finding somebody who thought that the President of the United States isn't a leader. He is the head of state of the single remaining "superpower" (whatever that means anymore), runs the largest corporation in the world (the Executive Branch employs more people than anybody else), and is the commander-in-chief of the largest armed forces on the planet. Whether you want to count all the citizens as those whom he leads, or just those over whom he has direct authority, I would contend that he is a leader.
I didn't know he'd seen UFOs. I don't believe in UFOs, and I've never seen one. What I have seen is Kucinich do what he could to fight a perceived wrong, which is more than I can say for the rest of Congress.
Christ, it's not like he'll win. It's a protest vote. Better to not vote at all?
What COULD he do? As a Senator, he could only do 3 things; Vote for amendments eliminating the immunity provision (He did)
Good.
Vote against the bill, denying law enforcements precious tools (He didn't)
"precious tools"? The ability to spy on Americans, in violation of their rights guaranteed by Amendment IV to the United States Constitution? It's not like the requirements to get a FISA warrant (someone with a pulse to stand in front of a secret court and say "gimme" at some point not necessarily before you started spying) were exactly onerous.
Vote FOR the bill and bide his time (He did)
He could have voted AGAINST the bill, knowing full well that it'll pass, but sticking to what he said he'd do, and differentiating himself from his unpopular predecessor and his main competition.
He could have SPOKE against the bill, supporting the filibuster and calling out those members of his Party that were letting people off the hook for committing felonies and letting the Government off the hook for violating the Constitution. He really does speak well, and he chose not to speak here.
The man would not have lost political capital by opposing the least popular President ever (?) and he wouldn't have lost a lot of financial capital because he doesn't need AT&T's money. He could have gained both (for keeping his word) and he failed. This was a losing move for Senator Obama.
Make no mistake, Obama has clearly stated he is against granting the telecoms immunity;
And Bush clearly stated that he was a uniter, not a divider, and that's what counts, right? What a politician SAYS means exactly zero. What he DOES is what counts, and this is what he did. This kind of behavior is what you take to the bank, not a statement.
there's simply nothing yuo can do when OTHER blue dog democrats with cushy incumbent seats wantto retain their fat lobbyist paychecks and vote with their wallets. rather than their constituent's values, defeating perfectly logical amendments.
Sure there is. You can lead. You can say, "No, I won't gut the Constitution. You all can, but I won't." The man is running to be the leader of 300-some million Americans and can't successfully convince 51 Senators to uphold an oath they all took to defend the Constitution.
Obama, today, lost my vote (which will be a write-in, probably Kucinich, because he sticks to what he believes in, he shares beliefs with me, and his wife's got that wood-elf hot thing going), and a hundred bucks that I'll send to the EFF instead. Call it a futile gesture, but I'm doing what I can do.
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I know you sign my performance reviews every year, but that doesn't mean you can invade my home like this.
No mod points, so a "me too". Fully half my comments are of the "API unexpected outputs" variety or the "language braindead a/o insane, here's the workaround" variety.
//Can't handle this elegantly due to race condition with otherFunction().
//This visual element shouldn't need padding, but doesn't look right unless you specify the following margins
//The only way to tack a listener onto this element is to do it this hacked-up way:
//IDE code highlighting gets confused with regexps - this works as it seems it ought, despite funny colors.
This reply is written by me. Since it was written at work, and I work for the federal government of the United States of America, it is in the public domain, and available for anyone to copy, use or modify as they see fit. Feel free to bill my employer for your five bucks.
You're not -old-!
Well I can't just call you Anonymous Coward...
This guy's only hope now is jury nullification. If he can manage to sneak an RIAA hater into the jury box, and that hater wants the guy to walk badly enough to hang the jury, he can cause a mistrial. If the defendant hits the jackpot, that hater can turn the jury and actually acquit the guy.
The judges can't overrule the law, but the jury answers to no-one, and finds as it sees fit.
Harvest it for pearls, but beware the mindworms. They'll turn you crazier than Sister Miriam Godwinson.
They say if you stare at it long enough, you can see a sailboat in some weird 3D, but I'm not convinced.
I'd settle for an adapter for my Steel Battalion controller. Thing's twice as complicated as any keyboard I've owned and has a light-up, plastic-shielded eject button. Nerdgasm.
You rang?
How do you think she got roped into doing it in the first place?
"The refrigerator is downright noxious. Somebody needs to clean it."
"Sally can't smell anything anyhow, make her do it."
"It's gross as hell, but at least I don't have to smell it. Okay."
decide whether you want to trust that YA is truly C'd
I am not a lawyer, so I'd get one. I'd trot out the NYCL-signal, but I don't want to volunteer him for EVERY legal question on here, just every legal question regarding the RIAA. :) I'd get one other than through my employer so there's no conflict of interest.
Get your lawyer to tell you what you'd need to best protect yourself from when the BSA Gestapo comes knocking, and start looking for other work, preferably at a large company that understands that you don't want to go to jail. Granted, prison laundry is steady income, but it's not really a good option for advancing one's career.
It's not like you don't know the practice is illegal; but the legal hair-splitting (Can I update a server with a pirated Windows install? Can I install FOSS on a computer that has pirated Photoshop?) should be done by a professional.
And shortly after the click, Haywood is visited by the United States Secret Service and made to participate in a very uncomfortable conversation in which it is relayed to him the full meaning and import of what he has done and what fate might befall him if he were to engage in such behavior again.
When the NSA works for your boss, you can get tracking information PDQ.
You mean you don't think the video gamer demographic is waiting with bated breath for Viola Hero? "Man, you guys, AFI's pretty sweet, but I wish we could just play some -chamber music-."
Yeah, probably right.
(I'm 30, just got Rock Band 1 and 2, and would buy the HELL out of some Beatles DLC.)
You kid, but that could very well be a Challenge within the game (Beatles Tribute Band: five stars and play the bass lefty and you get quadruple money or something), or even an Achievement/Trophy on 360/PS3. Didn't one of the Guitar Hero games give you an achievement for only strumming up while playing the bass?
Mammoth Lakes, CA
Week of Sept 2, 2007
No precipitation.
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KMMH/2007/9/3/WeeklyHistory.html
See the radar loop from that date by using the link in the Radar Archive box near the bottom-right of this page:
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=HNX®ion=c1&lat=37.65124893&lon=-118.98217010&label=Mammoth%20Lakes%2C%20CA
Look up "cellulosic ethanol". They take the corn HUSKS and other non-food biomass, and turn it into ethanol. Now you're taking it out of fertilizer instead of off your plate (or off your dinner's plate), but it's a step in the right direction.
google://jumpgate
google://"vendetta online"
Try Jumpgate (aka Jumpgate Classic) or Vendetta Online. Both are twitch-based space flight sims that might be able to scratch the itch. Jumpgate Evolution might be worth a look as well, but it's not out yet, while JGC and VO will give you a free, no-CC trial today.
That's an interesting point. I don't think you have to have direct authority to be a leader, though. I also think you'd have a hard time finding somebody who thought that the President of the United States isn't a leader. He is the head of state of the single remaining "superpower" (whatever that means anymore), runs the largest corporation in the world (the Executive Branch employs more people than anybody else), and is the commander-in-chief of the largest armed forces on the planet. Whether you want to count all the citizens as those whom he leads, or just those over whom he has direct authority, I would contend that he is a leader.
I didn't know he'd seen UFOs. I don't believe in UFOs, and I've never seen one. What I have seen is Kucinich do what he could to fight a perceived wrong, which is more than I can say for the rest of Congress.
Christ, it's not like he'll win. It's a protest vote. Better to not vote at all?
Oh, Christ, my kingdom for mod points.
What COULD he do? As a Senator, he could only do 3 things;
Vote for amendments eliminating the immunity provision (He did)
Good.
Vote against the bill, denying law enforcements precious tools (He didn't)
"precious tools"? The ability to spy on Americans, in violation of their rights guaranteed by Amendment IV to the United States Constitution? It's not like the requirements to get a FISA warrant (someone with a pulse to stand in front of a secret court and say "gimme" at some point not necessarily before you started spying) were exactly onerous.
Vote FOR the bill and bide his time (He did)
He could have voted AGAINST the bill, knowing full well that it'll pass, but sticking to what he said he'd do, and differentiating himself from his unpopular predecessor and his main competition.
He could have SPOKE against the bill, supporting the filibuster and calling out those members of his Party that were letting people off the hook for committing felonies and letting the Government off the hook for violating the Constitution. He really does speak well, and he chose not to speak here.
The man would not have lost political capital by opposing the least popular President ever (?) and he wouldn't have lost a lot of financial capital because he doesn't need AT&T's money. He could have gained both (for keeping his word) and he failed. This was a losing move for Senator Obama.
Make no mistake, Obama has clearly stated he is against granting the telecoms immunity;
And Bush clearly stated that he was a uniter, not a divider, and that's what counts, right? What a politician SAYS means exactly zero. What he DOES is what counts, and this is what he did. This kind of behavior is what you take to the bank, not a statement.
there's simply nothing yuo can do when OTHER blue dog democrats with cushy incumbent seats wantto retain their fat lobbyist paychecks and vote with their wallets. rather than their constituent's values, defeating perfectly logical amendments.
Sure there is. You can lead. You can say, "No, I won't gut the Constitution. You all can, but I won't." The man is running to be the leader of 300-some million Americans and can't successfully convince 51 Senators to uphold an oath they all took to defend the Constitution.
Obama, today, lost my vote (which will be a write-in, probably Kucinich, because he sticks to what he believes in, he shares beliefs with me, and his wife's got that wood-elf hot thing going), and a hundred bucks that I'll send to the EFF instead. Call it a futile gesture, but I'm doing what I can do.
Hope they've got better protective uniforms than a track suit.
"I'm goin', I'm goin'!"