You may think that this shouldn't matter, or you may (correctly) observe there's some low levels of hypocrisy here on the movie studios part.
I was with you up until here. Where's the hypocrisy? Usually the produce something where they want to show it in theaters, and most theaters don't want to show unrated movies. So they edit the movie to get the rating they want. Typically, they are now releasing on DVD the unrated version along with the rated version.
I don't blame the movie studios though; I blame the ansine rating system they must 'volunterly' follow.
Schools should directly bill the parents of the students. There's no reason to take property tax and fund the schools with it. Its unfair to those who don't have children.
Do parents which homeschool have to pay less property tax because they are no longer using public education? No? Well, then the kids have the right to go to school, and the school (being a government institution) must meet the same standards as other government officals (police).
And when a student says "no, i do not consent to being searched" the school is obligated to get a warrant. Merely attending school is not probible cause for a drug search.
Clearly you need to read up on where our rights come from. There are two basic thoughts; logically, you have rights as a human, or, you have 'god given' rights. Either way, children DO have rights. Not being able to defend your rights does not mean you don't have them.
Please, don't post anymore regarding rights until you've read and understand what our founders believed. Until then, your opinion is worthless.
So why don't you post your address, so we can all search through your house? After all, you have nothing to hide, and we promise not to use any bank info we find.
You can only lose your rights via proper due process of law, not just by being in school. Kids have rights too, and nothing can change that fact. Schools have LESS authority over kids than the kids parents. Your line of reasoning would allow schools to force a certain religion on the student, dispite the parents wishes.
Then they are stupid because you can't change the past. It doesn't matter why you're poor. The only thing that matters is what you're going to do about it.
I think the GP was referring to an upgrade of MS Office with new features in the document format that the plugin doesn't know about.
Well duh. What if they build a feature ODF doesn't support at all? Should they not add the feature? No, they should, and if you choose to use a document format that doesn't support, tough shit. You want to make everyone equal by handicapping everyone to the lowest common denominator.
Why can't MS just work with a stinkin open document format?
Because it could hinder their ability to add features they think will make the money.
If the current open doc format doesn't have all the features that MS Office wants/needs, then MS can expand the spec and work _with_ the open format instead of against it.
Why should they? They spent the money to develop the feature. Now they have to spend more money trying to convience people to add that feature to the open format? You want them to HELP their competitors implement the feature that they created to set them apart? What kind of backward thinking is that?
cause you know... nothing posted on the net in Holland will EVER been seen by someone in the US.
Cause, you know, the ad in question is a BILLBOARD. Ad campaigns don't generally get noticed across the world.
even if the person who may be offended never gets word of whats going on it doesnt make it any less offencive.
Actually ya it does, since if the only people that heard it didn't think it was offensive, than it wasn't offensive either.
FWIW, people choose what they are offended by; something bothers them because they want it to bother them. Take your PC bullshit nonsense and leave the planet please.
But again, its nothing I had any control over (and your statement is likely not true, since as far back as I can tell, my family lived in the 'North' since coming from Scotland). So its pretty irrelevent.
What difference does it make if someone was born into a poor economic class because their ansestors were slaves or because they were just foolish with finances?
The only thing I can think of is if people worry about a Microsoft "upgrade" breaking this plug-in. And then having to wait for the patch to the plug-in.
This shouldn't be an issue. See, when you build a plugin, you build to a specific API. So if you want it to work in Office XP, for example, you code against Office XPs API. But those APIs are always 'brought forward', so your plugin would continue to work in Office 2003 for example. A break whihc you suggest would likely break ALL plugins people have written.
Whats more disturbing is that everyone knows the threat level will never drop below the midpoint; it only goes up and down between three and five, it never will hit one or two.
Your arguement rests on the belief by young culture that 'newer is better.' What then is the purpose of the black over white ad? Only the people screaming the ad is racist are saying PSP color selection has to do with black and white people. And suggesting that is in and of itself silly.
as i replyed to another comment.... the only reason they even made the other ads was a "cover our ass" move so that when the sh1t hit the fan from their main ad they could claim plausable denialbility
Bull. You have no proof whatsoever, and are making up racism where there is none. The facts are against you, since there isn't a history of racism between blacks and whites in the Netherlands, so there's no reason to think that a white over black only ad would have caused any kind of stir. The ones upset are Americans; those that had a small chance of ever hearing about the ad in the first place.
There have been plenty of ad campaigns with dueling entities in the past; it makes things more interesting to see different ads witha similar theme, as its more like story telling than a static picture. You're seeing racism because you want to (more to the point, because you felt you were discrimated against, you see it everywhere because of your experiences.. kinda the opposite of seeing the world with 'rosy' glasses).
I don't see how they're training anyone that way...
I used to skip commercials with a plain old VCR. First, I wouldn't bother with a DVR that didn't let me fast forward commercials. I watch only live TV, but I use the commericals to go do something else. I'm already annoyed by them, given that Adelphia's cable boxes are broken and don't give the 'fixed' volume output on digital out.
Please cite where inflation jumped 10% since about the 30s or 40s (when major banking laws came into being to prevent runaway inflation and runs on banks).
Also, even if what you claim is true, you have to be retiring at one of those 'burst' times for it to have a major impact over the dividens your building. There's a reason 401(k)s are buying stocks and not putting your savings into a normal bank account.
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Why bother watching a movie at all if it has so many objectionable things to you that you have to buy this technology?
You may think that this shouldn't matter, or you may (correctly) observe there's some low levels of hypocrisy here on the movie studios part.
I was with you up until here. Where's the hypocrisy? Usually the produce something where they want to show it in theaters, and most theaters don't want to show unrated movies. So they edit the movie to get the rating they want. Typically, they are now releasing on DVD the unrated version along with the rated version.
I don't blame the movie studios though; I blame the ansine rating system they must 'volunterly' follow.
In the context of the actual case which the thread is dicussing, its more like walking onto a military base without permission.
They are in prison becasue they are habitual criminals and have been convicted of THREE felonies. Is possession of pot even a felony in California?
Possession is a felony in all states I believe. It most ceratinly is in CA.
So yes, a habitual pot smoker is a habitual criminal. Is it the kind of criminal we should waste our time locking up? No.
Wow, they doubled their US presence! Really easy to do when you have 100 stores! Idiot.
Schools should directly bill the parents of the students. There's no reason to take property tax and fund the schools with it. Its unfair to those who don't have children.
Do parents which homeschool have to pay less property tax because they are no longer using public education? No? Well, then the kids have the right to go to school, and the school (being a government institution) must meet the same standards as other government officals (police).
And when a student says "no, i do not consent to being searched" the school is obligated to get a warrant. Merely attending school is not probible cause for a drug search.
Clearly you need to read up on where our rights come from. There are two basic thoughts; logically, you have rights as a human, or, you have 'god given' rights. Either way, children DO have rights. Not being able to defend your rights does not mean you don't have them.
Please, don't post anymore regarding rights until you've read and understand what our founders believed. Until then, your opinion is worthless.
In all 50 states, its manditory for kids to be enrolled in school or have home schooling. In zero states, you are REQUIRED to have a drivers license.
Nobody has the right to be present or bring objects onto another person's property without permission of that property owner.
And if this were a private home, you'd be right, but its a public school. A government institution no less. So searches without warrants are illegal.
So why don't you post your address, so we can all search through your house? After all, you have nothing to hide, and we promise not to use any bank info we find.
You can only lose your rights via proper due process of law, not just by being in school. Kids have rights too, and nothing can change that fact. Schools have LESS authority over kids than the kids parents. Your line of reasoning would allow schools to force a certain religion on the student, dispite the parents wishes.
Then they are stupid because you can't change the past. It doesn't matter why you're poor. The only thing that matters is what you're going to do about it.
I think the GP was referring to an upgrade of MS Office with new features in the document format that the plugin doesn't know about.
Well duh. What if they build a feature ODF doesn't support at all? Should they not add the feature? No, they should, and if you choose to use a document format that doesn't support, tough shit. You want to make everyone equal by handicapping everyone to the lowest common denominator.
Why can't MS just work with a stinkin open document format?
Because it could hinder their ability to add features they think will make the money.
If the current open doc format doesn't have all the features that MS Office wants/needs, then MS can expand the spec and work _with_ the open format instead of against it.
Why should they? They spent the money to develop the feature. Now they have to spend more money trying to convience people to add that feature to the open format? You want them to HELP their competitors implement the feature that they created to set them apart? What kind of backward thinking is that?
cause you know... nothing posted on the net in Holland will EVER been seen by someone in the US.
Cause, you know, the ad in question is a BILLBOARD. Ad campaigns don't generally get noticed across the world.
even if the person who may be offended never gets word of whats going on it doesnt make it any less offencive.
Actually ya it does, since if the only people that heard it didn't think it was offensive, than it wasn't offensive either.
FWIW, people choose what they are offended by; something bothers them because they want it to bother them. Take your PC bullshit nonsense and leave the planet please.
But again, its nothing I had any control over (and your statement is likely not true, since as far back as I can tell, my family lived in the 'North' since coming from Scotland). So its pretty irrelevent.
What difference does it make if someone was born into a poor economic class because their ansestors were slaves or because they were just foolish with finances?
The only thing I can think of is if people worry about a Microsoft "upgrade" breaking this plug-in. And then having to wait for the patch to the plug-in.
This shouldn't be an issue. See, when you build a plugin, you build to a specific API. So if you want it to work in Office XP, for example, you code against Office XPs API. But those APIs are always 'brought forward', so your plugin would continue to work in Office 2003 for example. A break whihc you suggest would likely break ALL plugins people have written.
Yes, I have written Outlook plugins.
Whats more disturbing is that everyone knows the threat level will never drop below the midpoint; it only goes up and down between three and five, it never will hit one or two.
Your arguement rests on the belief by young culture that 'newer is better.' What then is the purpose of the black over white ad? Only the people screaming the ad is racist are saying PSP color selection has to do with black and white people. And suggesting that is in and of itself silly.
as i replyed to another comment.... the only reason they even made the other ads was a "cover our ass" move so that when the sh1t hit the fan from their main ad they could claim plausable denialbility
Bull. You have no proof whatsoever, and are making up racism where there is none. The facts are against you, since there isn't a history of racism between blacks and whites in the Netherlands, so there's no reason to think that a white over black only ad would have caused any kind of stir. The ones upset are Americans; those that had a small chance of ever hearing about the ad in the first place.
There have been plenty of ad campaigns with dueling entities in the past; it makes things more interesting to see different ads witha similar theme, as its more like story telling than a static picture. You're seeing racism because you want to (more to the point, because you felt you were discrimated against, you see it everywhere because of your experiences.. kinda the opposite of seeing the world with 'rosy' glasses).
Yes, because you aren't forced to get cable or satillite to watch TV.
I don't see how they're training anyone that way...
I used to skip commercials with a plain old VCR. First, I wouldn't bother with a DVR that didn't let me fast forward commercials. I watch only live TV, but I use the commericals to go do something else. I'm already annoyed by them, given that Adelphia's cable boxes are broken and don't give the 'fixed' volume output on digital out.
Please cite where inflation jumped 10% since about the 30s or 40s (when major banking laws came into being to prevent runaway inflation and runs on banks).
Also, even if what you claim is true, you have to be retiring at one of those 'burst' times for it to have a major impact over the dividens your building. There's a reason 401(k)s are buying stocks and not putting your savings into a normal bank account.
297 in the US is making huge inroads? Sorry, not when McDonalds has 13,000 stores in the US.
The issue is the US Gov is flipping out over the hacking equivilant of shoplifting a toothbrush.
Sorry, but its not. He entered a military computer system. Its more equivelent to trying to walking into a militrary base without permission.
Go lookup the three strikes laws.