Actually, there is a legalistic way to hit back at someone who gives you a contingent order to leave their property, as in "Let me search you or I'm going to consider you tresspassing and call the police." By giving you a contingent order, they're threating you with criminal prosecution if you don't follow their instructions, which is often covered under extortion statutes. If you have a lawful recording of their order, a written copy, or enough witnesses willing to testify, you can then hammer THEM with a criminal prosecution.
Just make sure you read your local statutes first if you decide to give this a go. Essentially, though, the way it works is, they can tell you to leave and you have to, but once they put conditions on it and threatening you with prosecution if you don't comply, you can get a little leverage to hit back at them.
I'd suggest consulting a lawyer before you tried to do something like that though.:)
Try having a corn allergy. You'll quickly see how corn is in almost every product on the sheleves at an american supermarket.
This, of course, makes me laugh every time I think of how they want to use corn for ethanol now... the US is about to get a reality check on the dangers of monoculture.
I recently bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu (which I am typing this message on) and it is extremely easy to pick up. One of the cool little things that the post above forgot was that when you're connecting to wireless networks, its a simple dropdown menu that lists all the available networks with bars for their current signal strength. Much easier and more user friendly than windows. Thats true pretty much across the board. The only real problem I've had was when I ran the updates and the basic linux updates screwed up the boot loading. There are instructions on how to fix it but I've been nervous about updating my core ever since that happened.
So, not _perfect_, but compared to Windows I'd say it is very, very good.
I'm writing this on my dell Inspiron E1505 with Ubuntu, and i have to say that this is exactly the laptop I wanted. I've had a few problems, mostly from learning curve with Linux, but getting the machine from Dell and having support plus all the drivers and everything makes it nice and easy to deal with.
I would definitely reccomend one to anyone who needs a laptop for general use.
NOTHING pisses you off more? You either overreact to other people's opinions about video games, or you need to re-evaluate your response to seeing a clown rape your mother while kicking you in the balls.
On the other hand, anyone who came to take a look at Earth and was interested enough to land some ships and take a walk around would probably have evolved in a similar environment to us, thus giving it similar selection pressures.
Off the top of my head, in 30 years how likely is it that we'll be able to reprogram our immune system to protect us from anything that crops up? 60 years from now? 100? Could advances in science allow us to build superconducting magnets at room temperature that make it practical to build a long term radiation shield?
What if you could just build a wormhole and then send one end to the place you want to visit, then step through and look around?
What if we learn how to cross between alternate realities, and have a near infinite number of parallel Earths to live on?
When someone says something is impossible, what they're telling you is that they lack the imagination to figure a way to do it.
Wow, that one actually made me laugh out loud in the middle of class... I thought I could browse under the radar but I think now the professor is on to me...
This was the first question that entered my mind. If vampires are going to figure heavily in it, how are they going to handle the sunlight question? It works in a single player game like Bloodlines because you just have everything take place at night, but... hmmm
Maybe it'll be like a mix of DDO and COH. Vampires will have a hub city that is always dark, Werewolves will have a hub out in the woods, there will be little or no mixing between them except in instanced PVP quests and special PVP zones.
Actually, now that you mention it, it is a little known fact that Ron Perlman is the world's only sufferer from Perlman's Syndrome, a genetic mutation that causes the vocal cords to go through their full adult development while still in the womb.
Literally, Ron Perlman's voice has never changed.
Why someone would mod a post insightful when its obviously a troll perplexes me. No one really has this kind of immature "shut up and take it like a man" attitude. Right?
Actually, in the primaries this year I plan on voting in the Republican primary just so I can vote for Ron Paul.
I won't vote for him in the General, but I think he's the only good candidate on the R side of the column and I want it to be a choice between him and whoever the dems put in.
I'd love to see a race between Ron Paul and Obama. Thats as close to a win win as you get in american politics.
I'm left wondering, does it really take 4+ years just to redo the graphics for starcraft?
I, for one, want to see the resource gathering model taken out of RTS games, at least in the classic "gather spice" way they've been doing it for 15 years. If Starcraft 2 is yet another Dune2 clone with pretty graphics, I'll pass on it.
And a student in various schools for the last 28 years or so, from all the teachers I've talked to and all the classes I've been in the one thing that stands out as improving education is smaller class sizes. If those schools had spent all that money on teachers, bumping their pay and hiring a bunch more, they would have seen notable increases in test scores, graduation rates, and all the other benchmarks people like to look at. It really is that simple. Give a kid a pencil, some paper, and a teacher who can afford to give them some one on one time and you'll see real progress in improving education.
If I had my way, schools wouldn't spend another dime on computers for the next four years or so.
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Just make sure you read your local statutes first if you decide to give this a go. Essentially, though, the way it works is, they can tell you to leave and you have to, but once they put conditions on it and threatening you with prosecution if you don't comply, you can get a little leverage to hit back at them.
I'd suggest consulting a lawyer before you tried to do something like that though.
Never been to a landfill, huh?
Try having a corn allergy. You'll quickly see how corn is in almost every product on the sheleves at an american supermarket.
This, of course, makes me laugh every time I think of how they want to use corn for ethanol now... the US is about to get a reality check on the dangers of monoculture.
Of course, I don't own pigs, but I would have bought some just to feed those assholes to them.
I recently bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu (which I am typing this message on) and it is extremely easy to pick up. One of the cool little things that the post above forgot was that when you're connecting to wireless networks, its a simple dropdown menu that lists all the available networks with bars for their current signal strength. Much easier and more user friendly than windows. Thats true pretty much across the board. The only real problem I've had was when I ran the updates and the basic linux updates screwed up the boot loading. There are instructions on how to fix it but I've been nervous about updating my core ever since that happened. So, not _perfect_, but compared to Windows I'd say it is very, very good.
I'm writing this on my dell Inspiron E1505 with Ubuntu, and i have to say that this is exactly the laptop I wanted. I've had a few problems, mostly from learning curve with Linux, but getting the machine from Dell and having support plus all the drivers and everything makes it nice and easy to deal with. I would definitely reccomend one to anyone who needs a laptop for general use.
NOTHING pisses you off more? You either overreact to other people's opinions about video games, or you need to re-evaluate your response to seeing a clown rape your mother while kicking you in the balls.
Form does tend to follow function.
Or, Someone mixed Bologna DNA into my University!
McDonalds to outsource burger production, focus on making annoying TV commercials. "Its what we do best," says company spokesperson.
What if you could just build a wormhole and then send one end to the place you want to visit, then step through and look around?
What if we learn how to cross between alternate realities, and have a near infinite number of parallel Earths to live on?
When someone says something is impossible, what they're telling you is that they lack the imagination to figure a way to do it.
Wow, that one actually made me laugh out loud in the middle of class... I thought I could browse under the radar but I think now the professor is on to me...
This was the first question that entered my mind. If vampires are going to figure heavily in it, how are they going to handle the sunlight question? It works in a single player game like Bloodlines because you just have everything take place at night, but... hmmm Maybe it'll be like a mix of DDO and COH. Vampires will have a hub city that is always dark, Werewolves will have a hub out in the woods, there will be little or no mixing between them except in instanced PVP quests and special PVP zones.
Actually, now that you mention it, it is a little known fact that Ron Perlman is the world's only sufferer from Perlman's Syndrome, a genetic mutation that causes the vocal cords to go through their full adult development while still in the womb. Literally, Ron Perlman's voice has never changed.
Why someone would mod a post insightful when its obviously a troll perplexes me. No one really has this kind of immature "shut up and take it like a man" attitude. Right?
Well, I just bought one, and its the first notebook I've ever purchased, so there's that.
Its one of the basic rules of a capatalist economy. You pay more for quality.
What about Gravel!? :)
I won't vote for him in the General, but I think he's the only good candidate on the R side of the column and I want it to be a choice between him and whoever the dems put in.
I'd love to see a race between Ron Paul and Obama. Thats as close to a win win as you get in american politics.
Technically, if a kid wanted to see kiddie porn they don't need the internet, they just need a mirror, right?
I, for one, want to see the resource gathering model taken out of RTS games, at least in the classic "gather spice" way they've been doing it for 15 years. If Starcraft 2 is yet another Dune2 clone with pretty graphics, I'll pass on it.
Yep, you're deaf.
If I had my way, schools wouldn't spend another dime on computers for the next four years or so.
It does, however, need more cowbell.
That would actually make them Lawful Neutral. :)