I don't think this: sounds much like an opinion at all.
True, it's not really... but it was my response to you.
Yes it is (or at least, should be). But this has nothing to do with what I was responding to.
Sure it does. If these methods work, they need to show they have, or let the methods be taken away.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
Can you imagine the prosecution saying that to a judge in a trial? I can't... well I can, but it ends very badly for the prosecution.
You're telling me that you cannot even conceive of a situation where the government might have a compelling interest in keeping a foiled terrorist plot under-wraps?
Irrelevent; if they need to restrict our freedom for safety, they must provide the evidence. If they can't, or are unwilling, they lose. As I said, the burden of proof is on them to show they have just cause to limit our freedoms. This nonsense of "oh, well we said so, so that's good enough" is simply that; nonsense. Besides, as another poster pointed out, if the new laws DID in fact play a critical role, they'd be bleating that "see, it helped!" I can't even find THAT much for an specific case. Surely they can say they used their new law in one particular case, without going into detail?
They don't get a free pass to arbitrarly restrict our rights.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's a much stronger statement than the GP's.
Right.. this is my opinion, not the GPs.
And you offer just as much evidence (none).
The burden is on the state to show that the limiting of liberities is outweighed by the need for public safety. That's consistent with the 5th and 15th Amendments.
Anyway, there is proof. Research the few foiled terror plots since 9/11, none of them used anything outside normal police work.
Well, I'll have to remmber that if I travel. The problem is the oversized enter key pushes the |\ key and the usual position is the backspace key is halved in size. That's the main problem I have with the larger enter keys.
Fine, prove that there was not attack because of it, and prove there would have been an attack had we not spent the money. Then I'll accept it. But the reality is that anything stopped was through the old traditional channels which existed pre-9/11.
Sony can't provide it for you free of charge, which is what you want.
Your argument is "I ONLY want it this way, otherwise I'll steal it." I don't really have any sympathy for you; either pay for dark knight in one of the options legally available, or go without. It's not "big bucks," you can buy a BR Dark Knight for $29.99 at your local best buy, and a player costs $129.99, and that's a one time expense.
You clearly can afford the $1,000+ TV that does 1080p, so take your selfish dumbass arguement and shove it up your ass.
The reason TPB can "afford" to give you the movie is because they're criminals that didn't foot the bill to pay for the movie to be made to begin with.
I'm not sure MoneyDance will work for me; I have the H&B version of Money, and actually use it to create invoices and track business expenses. The only other option seems to be Quickbooks.. and I was happy to leave Quicken years ago..
You missed the fact that this happened recently - a 6 weeks ago.
Yes, I thought you meant you tried it five years ago, sorry.
Also, AT&T is AT&T, unlike Verizon which is/was a partnership (Vodaphone?).
You sure about that? Especially after the buyout? A VZW employee once told me VZW and Verizon were two different companies, and didn't have anything to do with each other.
You are right that most of AT&T's cell is the old Cingular net and that they phased out the original AT&T TDMA network. It's the old network that I dropped for poor coverage. I'll soon find out first hand about how they're doing now.
Well, I'm happy with it, if that helps. Of course, as I said, AT&T took Unicel after VZW bought Unicel and Vermont told VZW they couldn't keep Unicel in VT... so maybe right now that has more to say of Unicel than AT&T.:-)
My biggest problem with AT&T is probably their SBC/Ed Whiteacre legacy.
Hmm... never dealth with SBC, nor do I know who Ed is. If he ran Cingular in 2001 up until recently, I'd say he did a good job.. otherwise, I dunno.
Now Ed is going to run GM. I see no more GM cars in my future.
Sadly, I was never able to see any American car in my future. I bought my first new car in 2002, and was shocked how crappy pretty much any American car was. I liked the Chevy Impala at the time, but when I saw that the warranty was mostly a joke, I couldn't imagine buying one. My Acura (honda) is still running exteremly well, some 120,000 miles and all scheduled services later.
First of all, I'm in Chicago. Experiences may vary. They complain about basic phone reception being much spottier than Verizon and others. AT&Ts 3G coverage and speeds are getting better (they say) but it's not what they would like - good all the time at least if you are in the city or near burbs. It's not. They also complain about rates and AT&T customer service. My guess is that if they had Sprint's rates they'd forgive some of the coverage issues.
Hmm... my coverage is the same as Verizon, which is to say except for a couple of dead spots, really good (although no 3g). Of course maybe this is because Vermont forbid VZW from taking Unicel here and forced them to give it to ATT. Also, the CSRs are way better than the clones at VZW. Of course, I still had bitter feelings for VZW from when they were BAM. And I had Cingular before coming to VT, and I liked them better as well..
Sprint isn't really an option here; they have poor coverage, and that's one of the reasons I ditched Virgin mobile (which uses Sprint's network).
My own experience with AT&T has been mixed and I haven't had their cell service since I dropped it 5 years ago because of poor coverage. I have an AT&T land line and recently I checked into their DSL when Comcast started having issues and AT&T sent me a "special" offer. Their web site didn't work correctly so I couldn't sign up. I sent them a nasty note. They responded (nice surprise!) and blamed my problems on my browser cache. They said to call them and they could sign me up over the phone. I responded by saying that I couldn't have much faith in an internet service that couldn't sign me up over the internet. (I knew it wasn't my cache.) Any way, I passed.
Well, AT&T isn't AT&T Wirless, just like VZW isn't Verizon. If anything, "the new AT&T" is Cingular, which I actually was impressed with.
It turns out my problem was that I was on a Mac using Safari. Their site didn't work with Safari. Now considering they are the exclusive U.S. iPhone provider, you'd think they could do better than that!
Um, didn't the iPhone only come out two years ago?
No, I think there's a good argument that we need copyright to encourage people to make money off their works... otherwise everyone would just take and enjoy without giving back to the person which created it.
Its pretty simple; I invest time and effort and money to create a piece of softwar, I should be able to charge for it, and someone using my software without paying me is stealing.
As for the latter part of your comment, yes, it is illegal and we need to fix the law.
You want me to go through hoops in order to play content, then pay them for it? This would give them reason to put even more draconian policies in place since they are actually making money.
Yes, because it puts you in the right. Buying it and then unlocking it for format shifting purposes if not morally wrong.
I agree; Money is a good program. Of course, it's not the only app on Windows I use, but since we're both in the same boat... what do you plan on to replace Money?
And please, nobody say GNUCash. It's a pile of crap... I actually moved from GNUCash TO Money!
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Yes, I'm using component for both the Wii and PS3.
Wrong. The first three games had 3D characters on top of pre-rendered backgrounds.
3D characters rendered in a 2D space is still a 2D game. Games like RE have been done long before any console actually supported true 3D graphics.
The Wii has some fun games, and I have one of those too, but they look like absolute crap on a hi-def TV.
Well, they even just look ok on my SDTV 480i from 2002. Even the PS3 puts out better graphics on my set..
Resident Evil
Huh? RE is 2D, until RE4. It doesn't take 3d to scale sprites.
There is no such thing.
I don't think this: sounds much like an opinion at all.
True, it's not really... but it was my response to you.
Yes it is (or at least, should be). But this has nothing to do with what I was responding to.
Sure it does. If these methods work, they need to show they have, or let the methods be taken away.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
Can you imagine the prosecution saying that to a judge in a trial? I can't... well I can, but it ends very badly for the prosecution.
You're telling me that you cannot even conceive of a situation where the government might have a compelling interest in keeping a foiled terrorist plot under-wraps?
Irrelevent; if they need to restrict our freedom for safety, they must provide the evidence. If they can't, or are unwilling, they lose. As I said, the burden of proof is on them to show they have just cause to limit our freedoms. This nonsense of "oh, well we said so, so that's good enough" is simply that; nonsense. Besides, as another poster pointed out, if the new laws DID in fact play a critical role, they'd be bleating that "see, it helped!" I can't even find THAT much for an specific case. Surely they can say they used their new law in one particular case, without going into detail?
They don't get a free pass to arbitrarly restrict our rights.
I think you need to read up on the history of Russia. Yes, they can keep that many people in jail indefinatly.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's a much stronger statement than the GP's.
Right.. this is my opinion, not the GPs.
And you offer just as much evidence (none).
The burden is on the state to show that the limiting of liberities is outweighed by the need for public safety. That's consistent with the 5th and 15th Amendments.
Anyway, there is proof. Research the few foiled terror plots since 9/11, none of them used anything outside normal police work.
Clearly you're not thinking differently enough!
I don't get this complaint; I have a desktop with 1GB RAM that runs Vista Ultimate just fine.
Well, I'll have to remmber that if I travel. The problem is the oversized enter key pushes the |\ key and the usual position is the backspace key is halved in size. That's the main problem I have with the larger enter keys.
Yes, and as science is finding out, it's not really unique like they once thought it was.
Fine, prove that there was not attack because of it, and prove there would have been an attack had we not spent the money. Then I'll accept it. But the reality is that anything stopped was through the old traditional channels which existed pre-9/11.
Sony can't provide it for you free of charge, which is what you want.
Your argument is "I ONLY want it this way, otherwise I'll steal it." I don't really have any sympathy for you; either pay for dark knight in one of the options legally available, or go without. It's not "big bucks," you can buy a BR Dark Knight for $29.99 at your local best buy, and a player costs $129.99, and that's a one time expense.
You clearly can afford the $1,000+ TV that does 1080p, so take your selfish dumbass arguement and shove it up your ass.
The reason TPB can "afford" to give you the movie is because they're criminals that didn't foot the bill to pay for the movie to be made to begin with.
I'm not sure MoneyDance will work for me; I have the H&B version of Money, and actually use it to create invoices and track business expenses. The only other option seems to be Quickbooks.. and I was happy to leave Quicken years ago..
I see the dislike. Well, I suppose it's a good thing he's off to finish of GMC.
You missed the fact that this happened recently - a 6 weeks ago.
Yes, I thought you meant you tried it five years ago, sorry.
Also, AT&T is AT&T, unlike Verizon which is/was a partnership (Vodaphone?).
You sure about that? Especially after the buyout? A VZW employee once told me VZW and Verizon were two different companies, and didn't have anything to do with each other.
You are right that most of AT&T's cell is the old Cingular net and that they phased out the original AT&T TDMA network. It's the old network that I dropped for poor coverage. I'll soon find out first hand about how they're doing now.
Well, I'm happy with it, if that helps. Of course, as I said, AT&T took Unicel after VZW bought Unicel and Vermont told VZW they couldn't keep Unicel in VT... so maybe right now that has more to say of Unicel than AT&T. :-)
My biggest problem with AT&T is probably their SBC/Ed Whiteacre legacy.
Hmm... never dealth with SBC, nor do I know who Ed is. If he ran Cingular in 2001 up until recently, I'd say he did a good job.. otherwise, I dunno.
Now Ed is going to run GM. I see no more GM cars in my future.
Sadly, I was never able to see any American car in my future. I bought my first new car in 2002, and was shocked how crappy pretty much any American car was. I liked the Chevy Impala at the time, but when I saw that the warranty was mostly a joke, I couldn't imagine buying one. My Acura (honda) is still running exteremly well, some 120,000 miles and all scheduled services later.
Hmm... even I feel late to the game, and my UID is much lower than yours.
First of all, I'm in Chicago. Experiences may vary. They complain about basic phone reception being much spottier than Verizon and others. AT&Ts 3G coverage and speeds are getting better (they say) but it's not what they would like - good all the time at least if you are in the city or near burbs. It's not. They also complain about rates and AT&T customer service. My guess is that if they had Sprint's rates they'd forgive some of the coverage issues.
Hmm... my coverage is the same as Verizon, which is to say except for a couple of dead spots, really good (although no 3g). Of course maybe this is because Vermont forbid VZW from taking Unicel here and forced them to give it to ATT. Also, the CSRs are way better than the clones at VZW. Of course, I still had bitter feelings for VZW from when they were BAM. And I had Cingular before coming to VT, and I liked them better as well..
Sprint isn't really an option here; they have poor coverage, and that's one of the reasons I ditched Virgin mobile (which uses Sprint's network).
My own experience with AT&T has been mixed and I haven't had their cell service since I dropped it 5 years ago because of poor coverage. I have an AT&T land line and recently I checked into their DSL when Comcast started having issues and AT&T sent me a "special" offer. Their web site didn't work correctly so I couldn't sign up. I sent them a nasty note. They responded (nice surprise!) and blamed my problems on my browser cache. They said to call them and they could sign me up over the phone. I responded by saying that I couldn't have much faith in an internet service that couldn't sign me up over the internet. (I knew it wasn't my cache.) Any way, I passed.
Well, AT&T isn't AT&T Wirless, just like VZW isn't Verizon. If anything, "the new AT&T" is Cingular, which I actually was impressed with.
It turns out my problem was that I was on a Mac using Safari. Their site didn't work with Safari. Now considering they are the exclusive U.S. iPhone provider, you'd think they could do better than that!
Um, didn't the iPhone only come out two years ago?
they'd dump AT&T if they had an alternative. None of them like AT&T at all.
Can you tell me why? I just switched from vzw, and am much happier with ATT. They have a cheaper plan, and it seems like better coverage.
When I signed the contract, I was able to get unlimited data added for $15/mo. (they no longer offer this plan)
Huh? I just switched to ATT this month, and I have the option for unlimited data for $15 / month. It's on both my wifes line and my line.
No, I think there's a good argument that we need copyright to encourage people to make money off their works... otherwise everyone would just take and enjoy without giving back to the person which created it.
Its pretty simple; I invest time and effort and money to create a piece of softwar, I should be able to charge for it, and someone using my software without paying me is stealing.
As for the latter part of your comment, yes, it is illegal and we need to fix the law.
You want me to go through hoops in order to play content, then pay them for it? This would give them reason to put even more draconian policies in place since they are actually making money.
Yes, because it puts you in the right. Buying it and then unlocking it for format shifting purposes if not morally wrong.
Get off it already. Do you have something more recent than five years ago?
I agree; Money is a good program. Of course, it's not the only app on Windows I use, but since we're both in the same boat... what do you plan on to replace Money?
And please, nobody say GNUCash. It's a pile of crap... I actually moved from GNUCash TO Money!