Revelations was the only time I paid attention in church when I was growing up. The rest seemed like it wasn't even written in English as much reading into it as you had to do.
As surprised as some American Protestants might be at this tidbit of information, it wasn't in fact written in English. Oh yeah, and King James wasn't one of the Apostles.
I removed the slave jumper from my hard drive, then plugged it in to the connector directly adjacent to the mobo on the ribbon cable. You know, so it wasn't at the back of the bus anymore.
While I "created" Wesley Crusher, and my likeness is inextricably linked with him
Reminds me of the Halloween movies: The mask Mike Meyers (the serial killer, not the SNL alumnus) wears is supposedly a kid's Captain Kirk Halloween mask painted white. I always wondered if Shatner got any royalties for those movies. I'm guessing no.
I guess you don't count as a slashdot reader because you don't actually bother to read what people post. So far nobody has spoken up in favor of the reckless driving, the porn, or the automotive onanism. The only issue has been whether or not the additional "theft of communications" charge was warranted.
The only way for the free market to function optimally is for the government to retract itself from the market entirely, and cease any tampering with the free market.
It's time to put this tired old libertarian fantasy to rest. The "free market," as you call it, wouldn't even exist without government. For the free market to work, we need a system of property rights, which requires some form of legislation to decide who can own what, a judicial system to settle disputes, and an executive branch to enforce those property rights (i.e. by jailing people for stealing.) For any decently-sized economy, there needs to be a commonly accepted currency-- again something the government sets up. And a capitalist economy is impossible without a relatively stable social order-- thanks to government. If the government withdrew completely from the economic sphere, we wouldn't have capitalism. We'd have barbarism, rival warlords slaughtering people for control of resources. You can argue that the government is currently regulating the market well or regulating it poorly, but there would be no market if it did not regulate it at all.
This whole thing started when Bill G got laughed out of the homebrew computer club for throwing a hissy fit over how people were copying his version of basic.
Bill Gates was never a member of the Homebrew Computer Club, which met in California while Bill was at Harvard. The "hissy fit" you refer to was a full-page ad that "Micro Soft" (as they were then called) ran in (I believe) an Altair enthusiasts' newsletter when he found out that paper tapes of his BASIC were being copied and traded at the club. The ad contained the infamous accusation to hobbyists that "most of you steal your software".
The division into Fellowship, Towers, and Return was something of an arbitrary one made by publishers to avoid selling the entire Lord of the Rings in one huge volume. Tolkien himself divided the work into six books; thus if you crack open a copy of Fellowship, you will see the heading "BOOK I" at the beginning, and "BOOK II" when they get to Rivendell.
Given enough eyes, all conspiracy theories are shallow. No need to put the blame on Stalinist revision when good ol' supply and demand accounts for it just fine.
I think all the Segway proves is that throwing lots of cutting-edge technology at something does not guarantee its success. Nobody wants to pay the price of a good used car for an electric scooter, no matter how hard it is to tip over. You can buy a bike for a whole lot less.
I also think that another difference is that they aren't actually offering you money to not use another competitor's product but instead offering a discount on their own product.
This is also covered by the Clayton act: "...or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price..."
Um, how does buying an XBox count as screwing Microsoft? Whether you run Windows or Linux on it, you've still paid for it and they've still got your money.
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Revelations was the only time I paid attention in church when I was growing up. The rest seemed like it wasn't even written in English as much reading into it as you had to do.
As surprised as some American Protestants might be at this tidbit of information, it wasn't in fact written in English. Oh yeah, and King James wasn't one of the Apostles.
I removed the slave jumper from my hard drive, then plugged it in to the connector directly adjacent to the mobo on the ribbon cable. You know, so it wasn't at the back of the bus anymore.
While I "created" Wesley Crusher, and my likeness is inextricably linked with him
Reminds me of the Halloween movies: The mask Mike Meyers (the serial killer, not the SNL alumnus) wears is supposedly a kid's Captain Kirk Halloween mask painted white. I always wondered if Shatner got any royalties for those movies. I'm guessing no.
"Foster's-- Australian for Canadian Beer!"
Just because.
The truth is, the Monkees didn't play their own instruments for the most part.
I guess you don't count as a slashdot reader because you don't actually bother to read what people post. So far nobody has spoken up in favor of the reckless driving, the porn, or the automotive onanism. The only issue has been whether or not the additional "theft of communications" charge was warranted.
This is being done. If I'm not mistaken, there was a /. article about the practice ("War-spamming") not too long ago.
it might mean that your required to have anti-virus software installed in order to use the internet.
If only one would be required to know the difference between "your" and "you're" to use the internet...
How many studios are owned by "special people"?
How many by jews?
Can you name even one of these nefarious Jew-controlled TV studios?
Of course not. You're too "special".
My god, man, how many more years of the Korean War do you need? The show lasted four times longer than the actual war in the first place.
The only way for the free market to function optimally is for the government to retract itself from the market entirely, and cease any tampering with the free market.
It's time to put this tired old libertarian fantasy to rest. The "free market," as you call it, wouldn't even exist without government. For the free market to work, we need a system of property rights, which requires some form of legislation to decide who can own what, a judicial system to settle disputes, and an executive branch to enforce those property rights (i.e. by jailing people for stealing.) For any decently-sized economy, there needs to be a commonly accepted currency-- again something the government sets up. And a capitalist economy is impossible without a relatively stable social order-- thanks to government. If the government withdrew completely from the economic sphere, we wouldn't have capitalism. We'd have barbarism, rival warlords slaughtering people for control of resources. You can argue that the government is currently regulating the market well or regulating it poorly, but there would be no market if it did not regulate it at all.
This whole thing started when Bill G got laughed out of the homebrew computer club for throwing a hissy fit over how people were copying his version of basic.
Bill Gates was never a member of the Homebrew Computer Club, which met in California while Bill was at Harvard. The "hissy fit" you refer to was a full-page ad that "Micro Soft" (as they were then called) ran in (I believe) an Altair enthusiasts' newsletter when he found out that paper tapes of his BASIC were being copied and traded at the club. The ad contained the infamous accusation to hobbyists that "most of you steal your software".
No, in fact I'll bet plain ol' Keanu Reeves could do it. Whoa!
Umm, explain to me how the hell Buffy the Vampire Slayer qualifies either as great, or as having anything at all to do with computer science?
The division into Fellowship, Towers, and Return was something of an arbitrary one made by publishers to avoid selling the entire Lord of the Rings in one huge volume. Tolkien himself divided the work into six books; thus if you crack open a copy of Fellowship, you will see the heading "BOOK I" at the beginning, and "BOOK II" when they get to Rivendell.
which is why most commercial airliners ARE automated (can take off, fly to their destination, and land unaided), and have been for years.
'Snews to me. What do we pay pilots for, then? To make soothing announcements over the intercom?
Given enough eyes, all conspiracy theories are shallow. No need to put the blame on Stalinist revision when good ol' supply and demand accounts for it just fine.
It's not what he really thinks.
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Wow! The Amazing Kreskin posts on
Criswell predicts that with this project, "the average American income could increase from today's ~$35,000/y-person to more than $150,000/y-person."
I just hope this is more accurate than his other predictions.
I think all the Segway proves is that throwing lots of cutting-edge technology at something does not guarantee its success. Nobody wants to pay the price of a good used car for an electric scooter, no matter how hard it is to tip over. You can buy a bike for a whole lot less.
...thanks to guerilla actions by the Symbianese Liberation Army!
I also think that another difference is that they aren't actually offering you money to not use another competitor's product but instead offering a discount on their own product.
This is also covered by the Clayton act: "...or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price..."
Um, how does buying an XBox count as screwing Microsoft? Whether you run Windows or Linux on it, you've still paid for it and they've still got your money.
How it would have effected the Pilgrims sailing from Plymouth
I don't know... I can't see why the explosion should have called any Pilgrims into existence. It might have affected them, though.