I've heard at least one person mention that he recieves donations to keep his blog up. If this guy recieves a donation from a candidate, is this law suddenly applicable to him?
I say, the less laws, the better off we'll all be in every respect.
Myself, I like quite a few laws. Especially the ones that forbid people from walking into my house and taking all my money. Although I must admit that the vast majority of laws are utter bullshit.
I (like you?) preffer to get my news from a source which is indifferent to the question I seek to answer. In most cases, though, I am forced to try to average out two opposing viewpoints, and the more sources I have, the better. I also apperciate that blogs can be set up by anyone and does not need to stay in anyone's favor in order to survive. If one is taken down, it can be replaced by someone else. Effectively, you just can't threaten blogs to remove their content because if it is important someone in another country will replace it. While I do not myself read blogs, I think they are an important source if you absolutely must know all the facts (and more!) about something.
Oh, and do you really preffer organizations without an ax to grind? Some people find it offensive when their viewpoint is not represented.
Yea, people should quit using the definitons for "liberal" and "conservative" as if they were definitions for "Liberal" and "Conseravative". And, of course, the real definitions, which are not necessarily in the dictionary.
D'oh! If you have the choice between making it cheap by removing features XOR making it cheap from mass production with full features, choose to keep the features.
Yet they are here illegally, and something needs to be done about that.
Well, we could try arresting them.
In all seriousness, don't make a law that you don't intend to enforce. There are good reasons for restricting immigration. Sure, there could be exceptions for bright/hard-working people, but these should also be in the laws.
Wait until the high school kids try to get into MIT...
What, do you think that this sort of achievement won't win them entry into one of the top schools? MIT is not the only thing out there nor is it necessarily the best for your purposes.
If he's making so much money, why is he filing for bankruptcy?
Usually being bankrupt means you no longer owe anyone anything (this is not true in some places). In any case, if I made a metric crapload of money "illegally" I would spend it immediately (or hide it) because otherwise I would just have to pay it all when the gravy train crashes.
First of all, the search "miserable failure" is not a keyword spammers go for. Second, searching for frequently spammed words will give you horrid results (what are you looking for, to buy viagra, to find medical infromation on viagra, to find the chemical composition of viagra, to find the latest news on viagra??) because people will use that term when searching for vastly different things, and even so, the fact that the result is what you consider spam only shows that someone tried to break the search engine. You should judge the SE based on the type of information that you (or the average person) is searching for. Or you could restrict yourself to a certain type of information, such as "spam words", pictures, blogs, educational information, and see which SE finds the best results for that type of information.
No, if the EU decides to ban Microsoft it will implement the ban after a reasonable time frame. Within that time, thousands of previously MS-only software companies will provide linux/mac verisions of their software. All the major games/other software will be ported. I mean, you really don't want to miss out on half the software sales in the world. Sure, lots of things won't be ported, but lots of things will.
Anyways, this is all moot because microsoft would never annoy the EU enough to get banned.
Kinda scary to think that a single company could destroy whole governments with just a few carefully-planned steps. And THAT justifies the $5M fine per day - Fear that Microsoft might have realized just how much power they have, not just in a monetary sense, but in a critical infrastructure sense.
Not really. For one thing, governements and any important businesses will have daily (or more frequent) backups of anything important, redundancy, and also a variety of operating systems (even if these are not official). What they could do is halt any progress for a while.
They could cause much pain, but that would be a suicidal move -- everyone in the entire world would switch away from Microsoft as soon as anything like this happens. No one would risk such a catastrophe happening to them.
Unless you like it. Being a code monkey really sucks, but being a head programmer ought to be a lot more interesting. Anyways, it all depends on the person you ask. I am quite unsocial and would not like to be a PHB.
Take the money.
That, however, does seem like good advice. However, there is no compensation for leaving a job you love for a job you hate. (That is, if you would do your old job as a hobby afterwards).
Yes, I'm sure that the monetary compensation for getting fired far outweighs the fact that you'll have to explain to your next employer that you were fired for being a f*ing lazy asshole.
the government cannot request that the book "Practical Guide to Terrorist Attacks" be taken off library shelves.
It can ask, I suppose. But the library has the right to ignore them. And unless the government happens to be the main contributer to the library (which is often the case) the library just might do that.
Let me guess. You're a religious atheist* and have your head farther up your ass than most of them. Just because the people who talk loudest about intelligent design are usually full of bullshit and just pushing their agenda, doesn't mean that intelligent design does not make predictions that can be tested objectively. Those who twist intelligent design are easily identified: they abscribe properties to the Intelligent Designer without proving that they follow from anything, or use intelligent design as an excuse to make additional assumptions.
* The term religous atheist refers to people who accept atheism by faith, and defend it as any other religious person defends their faith. It does not apply to atheists who have studied a theory of the origin and evolution of life and been convinced of its veracity.
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Hey! I happen to like Cherry Coke.
Quit being stupid, the compressed air is for when you need more strength than your electric motor will provide.
I've heard at least one person mention that he recieves donations to keep his blog up. If this guy recieves a donation from a candidate, is this law suddenly applicable to him?
I say, the less laws, the better off we'll all be in every respect.
Myself, I like quite a few laws. Especially the ones that forbid people from walking into my house and taking all my money. Although I must admit that the vast majority of laws are utter bullshit.
I think the government has the power to do just about anything they want, but not the authority to do so. That's why some of us are scared.
I (like you?) preffer to get my news from a source which is indifferent to the question I seek to answer. In most cases, though, I am forced to try to average out two opposing viewpoints, and the more sources I have, the better. I also apperciate that blogs can be set up by anyone and does not need to stay in anyone's favor in order to survive. If one is taken down, it can be replaced by someone else. Effectively, you just can't threaten blogs to remove their content because if it is important someone in another country will replace it. While I do not myself read blogs, I think they are an important source if you absolutely must know all the facts (and more!) about something.
Oh, and do you really preffer organizations without an ax to grind? Some people find it offensive when their viewpoint is not represented.
Yea, people should quit using the definitons for "liberal" and "conservative" as if they were definitions for "Liberal" and "Conseravative". And, of course, the real definitions, which are not necessarily in the dictionary.
Probably all over the place. Email your internet provider and ask what software they use.
Now, what I really want is open source money.
D'oh! If you have the choice between making it cheap by removing features XOR making it cheap from mass production with full features, choose to keep the features.
Yet they are here illegally, and something needs to be done about that.
Well, we could try arresting them.
In all seriousness, don't make a law that you don't intend to enforce. There are good reasons for restricting immigration. Sure, there could be exceptions for bright/hard-working people, but these should also be in the laws.
Wait until the high school kids try to get into MIT...
What, do you think that this sort of achievement won't win them entry into one of the top schools? MIT is not the only thing out there nor is it necessarily the best for your purposes.
Unfortunately Richter is in the US where all he has to do is claim he's compliant with the (I) CAN-SPAM (AS-MUCH-AS-I-LIKE) act and he's home free.
That should read "home-free less $50,000,000 or his (actual) assets, whichever is smaller"
If he's making so much money, why is he filing for bankruptcy?
Usually being bankrupt means you no longer owe anyone anything (this is not true in some places). In any case, if I made a metric crapload of money "illegally" I would spend it immediately (or hide it) because otherwise I would just have to pay it all when the gravy train crashes.
If he were innocent, he could have mounted a successful defense.
You forgot the word "usually".
In any case, this particular f**** bastard deserves anything he might get, and I don't think he could win anyways.
from the oogling-others-against-google dept.
First of all, the search "miserable failure" is not a keyword spammers go for. Second, searching for frequently spammed words will give you horrid results (what are you looking for, to buy viagra, to find medical infromation on viagra, to find the chemical composition of viagra, to find the latest news on viagra??) because people will use that term when searching for vastly different things, and even so, the fact that the result is what you consider spam only shows that someone tried to break the search engine. You should judge the SE based on the type of information that you (or the average person) is searching for. Or you could restrict yourself to a certain type of information, such as "spam words", pictures, blogs, educational information, and see which SE finds the best results for that type of information.
What, are they just a pile of shit?
Just take a word or a phrase and leeticize (that's my new favorite nonce word of the day) it so it still reads more or less the same.
You don't by any chance mean 1337!c!z3, do you?
No, if the EU decides to ban Microsoft it will implement the ban after a reasonable time frame. Within that time, thousands of previously MS-only software companies will provide linux/mac verisions of their software. All the major games/other software will be ported. I mean, you really don't want to miss out on half the software sales in the world. Sure, lots of things won't be ported, but lots of things will.
Anyways, this is all moot because microsoft would never annoy the EU enough to get banned.
Kinda scary to think that a single company could destroy whole governments with just a few carefully-planned steps. And THAT justifies the $5M fine per day - Fear that Microsoft might have realized just how much power they have, not just in a monetary sense, but in a critical infrastructure sense.
Not really. For one thing, governements and any important businesses will have daily (or more frequent) backups of anything important, redundancy, and also a variety of operating systems (even if these are not official). What they could do is halt any progress for a while.
They could cause much pain, but that would be a suicidal move -- everyone in the entire world would switch away from Microsoft as soon as anything like this happens. No one would risk such a catastrophe happening to them.
Programming sucks.
Unless you like it. Being a code monkey really sucks, but being a head programmer ought to be a lot more interesting. Anyways, it all depends on the person you ask. I am quite unsocial and would not like to be a PHB.
Take the money.
That, however, does seem like good advice. However, there is no compensation for leaving a job you love for a job you hate. (That is, if you would do your old job as a hobby afterwards).
Yes, I'm sure that the monetary compensation for getting fired far outweighs the fact that you'll have to explain to your next employer that you were fired for being a f*ing lazy asshole.
the government cannot request that the book "Practical Guide to Terrorist Attacks" be taken off library shelves.
It can ask, I suppose. But the library has the right to ignore them. And unless the government happens to be the main contributer to the library (which is often the case) the library just might do that.
When will this culture of death end?
When will this culture of death die off?
Let me guess. You're a religious atheist* and have your head farther up your ass than most of them. Just because the people who talk loudest about intelligent design are usually full of bullshit and just pushing their agenda, doesn't mean that intelligent design does not make predictions that can be tested objectively. Those who twist intelligent design are easily identified: they abscribe properties to the Intelligent Designer without proving that they follow from anything, or use intelligent design as an excuse to make additional assumptions.
* The term religous atheist refers to people who accept atheism by faith, and defend it as any other religious person defends their faith. It does not apply to atheists who have studied a theory of the origin and evolution of life and been convinced of its veracity.