That's incorrect. We the public also gets to pay for your medical care, through higher insurance premiums or taxes going to Medicare/caid. Since not wearing a seat belt greatly increases those costs, you are harming others.
Gambling, in and of itself, does not harm others. A gambler may do something harmful to support his habbit, but it's not the gambling itself that causes the harm
And it's not the not wearing a seatbelt that causes harm, it's the shitty driving. I have yet to hear of a cop here in BC to hand out a ticket for talking on your cell phone.
btw,/me works for an online casino / sportsbook / poker room. Honestly, I condone it. Gambling isn't the problem, taxation of gambling revenues is the problem, the US govt is just using the guise of values to justify its position, rather than state the fact that they want to horde the tax revenues for themselves.
Thing is, they can arrest a few key CEO's and directors of these gambling companies, but they can't stop it, they can maybe slow it down.
Best way to stop online gambling is to license Las Vegas casinos to take bets online. It'll put the off shore gambling companies out of business.
First, we should perhaps get our priorities straight and worry more about car drivers. One should worry first about the polution and killer fine dust it takes to move a heavy object with people in it, instead of relatively miniscule amounts of polution generated by the burned grass.
Interestingly enough, I drive a 2006 Corolla, and I can stand right beside the exhaust pipe and not be bothered by the smell of the exhaust. It's an ultra low emissions vehicle, and doesn't bother me the least bit. Even my 1998 Wrangler doesn't bother me.
However I can't stand next to a smoker without gagging. I am honestly not interested in the pollution smokers make. I only care the direct smoke invading my space. Smoke inside your house, or hell outside your house, but don't smoke in my path.
If you invade my space - it's considered assault. Any unwelcome contact from another is considered assault. IMO second hand smoke should also be considered assault.
Do want them to rewrite Opera for a site that is not standards compliant?
Had nothing to do with standards. Opera claimed a security hole where MSIE, FF, KTML and Safari did not. They are the underdog. If they want market share, they should be more compliant, not less.
It had to do with a frame redirecting the top to another server. All other browsers allow it, Opera disallows it.
In a democracy, everyone has the option to decide whether they want to do something illegal or not
No. In a civil libertarian society that is the case. In a democracy, the majority decide your values for you. Playing devil's advocate here, but I do think you are wrong there.
Why should he care about anything else but UK law?
Hmm... Here in Canada we passed a law that if someone goes to Thailand on a kiddie sex tour, they still can be tried in Canada, and rightly so IMO.
I guess it's a double-edged sword. Really, he was stupid enough to travel in the USA after the whole BetOnSports.com arrest earlier on, he deserves to be arrested. Personally I think he did this on purpose so he can challenege stupid US laws with his team of lawyers.
I wouldn't support either. People should be allowed to do whatever they want to their onw bodies...
Do you support seat belt laws? Technically the only person you harm is yourself when you don't wear a seat belt. Personally I think people who don't wear seat belts are stupid and get what they deserve, but society has voted that those people are too stupid and we need to save them from themselves.
If a smoker wants to smoke in a public park, let them. It's a public place meant for everyone. You can't please everyone.
If a smoker comes though and blows smoke in my general direction, it should be considered socially acceptable for me to go fart in that smoker's space too.
Thing is, my space belongs to me. I find having cigarette smoke blown in my direction akin to invading my space. I find it more disgusting than the smell of fart, and more harmful to my health.
I think we should start a campaign where we go and fart in smoker's spaces.
. Opera user here and I know for a fact that most of the time I have my user agent set to MSIE 6.0 otherwise a lot of sites give me problems and won't let me load them even though they render just fine.
So instead of MSIE holding 85%, we'll have it holding 85.5%...
Opera is not very relevant, although you might like it ( Personally I think it's an okay browser though I reported a bug in Opera and they turned to me and claimed it's a site issue and not a browser issue... Hardly a response from an underdog browser. Had to revert back to FF because of it.)
I remember when I was a little kid (the 80s) and I wanted to play leisure suit larry. I had to answer a couple of questions that would "verify" my age. Mostly things like "Who was Nixon's Vice Pres?" and other historical jokes that someone under the age of 16 or so probably wouldn't be able to answer.
Uhm, IIRC those answers were in the book. The verification was there to see if you bought the game, not to verify your age.
FWIW, I never bought the game either, and had to fart around with those questions to get in myself when I was a kid too:)
It seems a cheap trick, but I understand why they'd choose not to ship with cable. Depending on whose numbers you believe, the sale of peripherals like this may significantly cut the money lost selling the console itself. I'm assuming that the peripherals are not sold at a loss.
Not only that, but why stop at HDMI?
They'd need to include component video, s-video, composite, AND HDMI in order to make the whole market happy.
And in the grand scheme of things, most DVD players don't come with anything other than the crappiest compositve video cable there is. If you want better quality cables you have to pay for them.
Only on Windows does that work. On Linux you have to add tabbrowser preferences so you can have that functionality. On Linux it normally reloads the page.
I think people compare apples and oranges with that (no pun intended).
The truth is, when you compare the quality of a white box PC to an Apple, then Apple certainly has an edge. You'll never have compatibility issues when you plug Apple parts into an Apple computer. The same can't be said about white box PC's.
Compare a Dell or HP to an Apple and it's a different story. Add Dell RAM to a Dell PC and it's a helluva lot different outcome than if you plug generic RAM into a Dell PC. Sames goes for an Apple.
The better news is that a standard of living in India/China will greatly improve.
The best news is that reaching the 'average' will involve a substantial drop in the quality of life for the West.
Nope. China keeps buying greenbacks at an obscene rate. They have created an economic bubble for their economy. Once they unlease all their US Dollars at once to the market because they have no choice (can't store Greenbacks forever), the USD will devaluate at a rate never before seen.
Instead of declaring war on the US, China is conquoring you guys economically right before your eyes. And you're too busy dumping almost a trillion dollars into Iraq to notice the error of your ways!
And before you say: wasn't me - bible belt did it, or hey - it was a diebold conspiracy! consider how many people really did vote for that moron, and consider again if you guys get what's coming to you in the next decade or two.
Hmm. Just read an article today that the biggest problem in Canada is finding labour, not the other way around. We're doing quite well here.
The problem with NAFTA is that America acts with impunity and hasn't fully bought into NAFTA. Special Interest Groups own your congre$$ional whores, and "lobby" their whores to place duties in spite of NAFTA. Check out Softwood Lumber for example.
Realize that if the price of lumber stays low, the US would have cheaper building materials perhaps keeping the price of housing down a bit. Instead of having a lobby group get their whores in Congress to place duties, why not have a lobby group ask for the US system to follow what we do in Canada where we lease our land to forestry companies to do their logging?
Dunno, but I'm a pretty darned big fan of Canon again. At $20 a cartridge for my i960 it's still a bit steep, but at least a black cartridge is still only $20... And the quality is awesome and it works with Linux...
I still have a secondary printer for black that I get the cartridge refilled at Wal-Mart.
You have the right to tear down your home and put up a scale replica of the Taj Mahal, right?
As zoning laws apply to your property by precdent, licensing applies to the ones and zeros on your HD by precedent.
Wow. that's quite the analogy.
I don't understand how one is related to the other. Putting up a replica of the Taj Mahal is (arguably) an eye sore, and should have community consultation before said replica is built. I don't understand the parallels you've drawn. I don't understand how doing anything to my hard drive has any affect on my neighbours.
If you are going to judge a majority by the actions of a minority, then go ahead.
No, I judge by the military's response to the actions of the minority. Rest assured if the media attention was not on Abu Gharib (sort of like it isn't on Guantanamo Bay), the military response would have been quite different.
Look, I respect those of you who fight in Iraq. You probably believe it's a noble cause. Truth is this war in Iraq has cost the US almost a trillion dollars. Think about the kickass health care system ya'll would have if you invested alomst a trillian dollars into it. How man American's lives would have been saved if the money was better allocated back home, to health and education?
Pure reactionary nonesense... just cause the nukes were bigger and flashier does not mean they were the most destructive. And no no one said "LETS GO KILL A BUNCH OF NIP CIVILIANS THAT'LL SHOW THEM"... well maybe some people did but that wasn't the logic used in picking the targets.
The committee rejected the use of the weapon against a strictly military objective because of the chance of missing a small target not surrounded by a larger urban area. The psychological effects on Japan were of great importance to the committee members.
You cited conjecture. I submitted back to you fact. Get your history straight. The bombing was to make a point.
you have no FUCKING clue what the ground reality is. You would seem to think we go out of our way to kill Iraqi civilians. Wrong. We have our strict rules of engagements.
Was Abu Gharib within those rules of engagement? How about the torture in guantanamo bay? The thing is, you're right, we have no fucking clue, and I'll bet if we knew the whole story it would look a helluva lot worse than it is. you can look at yourselves through rose coloured glasses if you like, the rest of the world with a half a brain knows what this war is really about.
You don't even know why you're there. First it was because Saddam had WMD's. Now that ya'll look like fools in the eye of the world and have turned up nothing, y'all simply change your mission objectives to say it's to liberate the Iraqis (who incidentally did not seem to want you there at all).
I admit I don't have as much of a clue as I'd like. I point you to articles like this where you have the police policing the police, only answering to themselves. I don't buy it and you shouldn't either.
So if you're saying that the US is a better evil than Iraq, I can accept that. Still, who are they then saving? And from what? I hate to say this, but US history is littered with civillian deaths. Let's bring up Vietnam shall we?
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That's incorrect. We the public also gets to pay for your medical care, through higher insurance premiums or taxes going to Medicare/caid. Since not wearing a seat belt greatly increases those costs, you are harming others.
Gambling, in and of itself, does not harm others. A gambler may do something harmful to support his habbit, but it's not the gambling itself that causes the harm
And it's not the not wearing a seatbelt that causes harm, it's the shitty driving. I have yet to hear of a cop here in BC to hand out a ticket for talking on your cell phone.
btw,
Thing is, they can arrest a few key CEO's and directors of these gambling companies, but they can't stop it, they can maybe slow it down.
Best way to stop online gambling is to license Las Vegas casinos to take bets online. It'll put the off shore gambling companies out of business.
First, we should perhaps get our priorities straight and worry more about car drivers. One should worry first about the polution and killer fine dust it takes to move a heavy object with people in it, instead of relatively miniscule amounts of polution generated by the burned grass.
Interestingly enough, I drive a 2006 Corolla, and I can stand right beside the exhaust pipe and not be bothered by the smell of the exhaust. It's an ultra low emissions vehicle, and doesn't bother me the least bit. Even my 1998 Wrangler doesn't bother me.
However I can't stand next to a smoker without gagging. I am honestly not interested in the pollution smokers make. I only care the direct smoke invading my space. Smoke inside your house, or hell outside your house, but don't smoke in my path.
If you invade my space - it's considered assault. Any unwelcome contact from another is considered assault. IMO second hand smoke should also be considered assault.
Do want them to rewrite Opera for a site that is not standards compliant?
Had nothing to do with standards. Opera claimed a security hole where MSIE, FF, KTML and Safari did not. They are the underdog. If they want market share, they should be more compliant, not less.
It had to do with a frame redirecting the top to another server. All other browsers allow it, Opera disallows it.
In a democracy, everyone has the option to decide whether they want to do something illegal or not
No. In a civil libertarian society that is the case. In a democracy, the majority decide your values for you. Playing devil's advocate here, but I do think you are wrong there.
Why should he care about anything else but UK law?
Hmm... Here in Canada we passed a law that if someone goes to Thailand on a kiddie sex tour, they still can be tried in Canada, and rightly so IMO.
I guess it's a double-edged sword. Really, he was stupid enough to travel in the USA after the whole BetOnSports.com arrest earlier on, he deserves to be arrested. Personally I think he did this on purpose so he can challenege stupid US laws with his team of lawyers.
I wouldn't support either. People should be allowed to do whatever they want to their onw bodies...
Do you support seat belt laws? Technically the only person you harm is yourself when you don't wear a seat belt. Personally I think people who don't wear seat belts are stupid and get what they deserve, but society has voted that those people are too stupid and we need to save them from themselves.
Same goes for casino gambling.
If a smoker wants to smoke in a public park, let them. It's a public place meant for everyone. You can't please everyone.
If a smoker comes though and blows smoke in my general direction, it should be considered socially acceptable for me to go fart in that smoker's space too.
Thing is, my space belongs to me. I find having cigarette smoke blown in my direction akin to invading my space. I find it more disgusting than the smell of fart, and more harmful to my health.
I think we should start a campaign where we go and fart in smoker's spaces.
If you live outside of the US and have done something that the US have made illegal then don't go there.
Didn't the US send military troops to columbia to arrest a drug lord back in the 1990's?
. Opera user here and I know for a fact that most of the time I have my user agent set to MSIE 6.0 otherwise a lot of sites give me problems and won't let me load them even though they render just fine.
So instead of MSIE holding 85%, we'll have it holding 85.5%...
Opera is not very relevant, although you might like it ( Personally I think it's an okay browser though I reported a bug in Opera and they turned to me and claimed it's a site issue and not a browser issue... Hardly a response from an underdog browser. Had to revert back to FF because of it.)
You can pay upwards of $70 here in Canada for a monster cable s-video cable.
A high quality component system will cost you similar...
I honestly don't see the difference, but perhaps my tolerance for picture quality is higher than others'.
I remember when I was a little kid (the 80s) and I wanted to play leisure suit larry. I had to answer a couple of questions that would "verify" my age. Mostly things like "Who was Nixon's Vice Pres?" and other historical jokes that someone under the age of 16 or so probably wouldn't be able to answer.
Uhm, IIRC those answers were in the book. The verification was there to see if you bought the game, not to verify your age.
FWIW, I never bought the game either, and had to fart around with those questions to get in myself when I was a kid too
It seems a cheap trick, but I understand why they'd choose not to ship with cable. Depending on whose numbers you believe, the sale of peripherals like this may significantly cut the money lost selling the console itself. I'm assuming that the peripherals are not sold at a loss.
Not only that, but why stop at HDMI?
They'd need to include component video, s-video, composite, AND HDMI in order to make the whole market happy.
And in the grand scheme of things, most DVD players don't come with anything other than the crappiest compositve video cable there is. If you want better quality cables you have to pay for them.
Funny how most people don't know about that.
Only on Windows does that work. On Linux you have to add tabbrowser preferences so you can have that functionality. On Linux it normally reloads the page.
this is blown out of proportion, but I think he's inflating it so for advertising revenue. did you see all the adverts on that page?
Nope, all I see is a 503 message lol!
I think people compare apples and oranges with that (no pun intended).
The truth is, when you compare the quality of a white box PC to an Apple, then Apple certainly has an edge. You'll never have compatibility issues when you plug Apple parts into an Apple computer. The same can't be said about white box PC's.
Compare a Dell or HP to an Apple and it's a different story. Add Dell RAM to a Dell PC and it's a helluva lot different outcome than if you plug generic RAM into a Dell PC. Sames goes for an Apple.
The better news is that a standard of living in India/China will greatly improve.
The best news is that reaching the 'average' will involve a substantial drop in the quality of life for the West.
Nope. China keeps buying greenbacks at an obscene rate. They have created an economic bubble for their economy. Once they unlease all their US Dollars at once to the market because they have no choice (can't store Greenbacks forever), the USD will devaluate at a rate never before seen.
Instead of declaring war on the US, China is conquoring you guys economically right before your eyes. And you're too busy dumping almost a trillion dollars into Iraq to notice the error of your ways!
And before you say: wasn't me - bible belt did it, or hey - it was a diebold conspiracy! consider how many people really did vote for that moron, and consider again if you guys get what's coming to you in the next decade or two.
hurting American and Canadian laborers.
Hmm. Just read an article today that the biggest problem in Canada is finding labour, not the other way around. We're doing quite well here.
The problem with NAFTA is that America acts with impunity and hasn't fully bought into NAFTA. Special Interest Groups own your congre$$ional whores, and "lobby" their whores to place duties in spite of NAFTA. Check out Softwood Lumber for example.
Realize that if the price of lumber stays low, the US would have cheaper building materials perhaps keeping the price of housing down a bit. Instead of having a lobby group get their whores in Congress to place duties, why not have a lobby group ask for the US system to follow what we do in Canada where we lease our land to forestry companies to do their logging?
Who else are you going to buy? HP?
Dunno, but I'm a pretty darned big fan of Canon again. At $20 a cartridge for my i960 it's still a bit steep, but at least a black cartridge is still only $20... And the quality is awesome and it works with Linux...
I still have a secondary printer for black that I get the cartridge refilled at Wal-Mart.
Well, snakes on a plane, but not an airplane
You have the right to tear down your home and put up a scale replica of the Taj Mahal, right?
As zoning laws apply to your property by precdent, licensing applies to the ones and zeros on your HD by precedent.
Wow. that's quite the analogy.
I don't understand how one is related to the other. Putting up a replica of the Taj Mahal is (arguably) an eye sore, and should have community consultation before said replica is built. I don't understand the parallels you've drawn. I don't understand how doing anything to my hard drive has any affect on my neighbours.
If you are going to judge a majority by the actions of a minority, then go ahead.
No, I judge by the military's response to the actions of the minority. Rest assured if the media attention was not on Abu Gharib (sort of like it isn't on Guantanamo Bay), the military response would have been quite different.
Look, I respect those of you who fight in Iraq. You probably believe it's a noble cause. Truth is this war in Iraq has cost the US almost a trillion dollars. Think about the kickass health care system ya'll would have if you invested alomst a trillian dollars into it. How man American's lives would have been saved if the money was better allocated back home, to health and education?
Pure reactionary nonesense... just cause the nukes were bigger and flashier does not mean they were the most destructive. And no no one said "LETS GO KILL A BUNCH OF NIP CIVILIANS THAT'LL SHOW THEM"... well maybe some people did but that wasn't the logic used in picking the targets.
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You cited conjecture. I submitted back to you fact. Get your history straight. The bombing was to make a point.
you have no FUCKING clue what the ground reality is. You would seem to think we go out of our way to kill Iraqi civilians. Wrong. We have our strict rules of engagements.
Was Abu Gharib within those rules of engagement? How about the torture in guantanamo bay? The thing is, you're right, we have no fucking clue, and I'll bet if we knew the whole story it would look a helluva lot worse than it is. you can look at yourselves through rose coloured glasses if you like, the rest of the world with a half a brain knows what this war is really about.
You don't even know why you're there. First it was because Saddam had WMD's. Now that ya'll look like fools in the eye of the world and have turned up nothing, y'all simply change your mission objectives to say it's to liberate the Iraqis (who incidentally did not seem to want you there at all).
I admit I don't have as much of a clue as I'd like. I point you to articles like this where you have the police policing the police, only answering to themselves. I don't buy it and you shouldn't either.
So if you're saying that the US is a better evil than Iraq, I can accept that. Still, who are they then saving? And from what? I hate to say this, but US history is littered with civillian deaths. Let's bring up Vietnam shall we?
but we go out of our way to minimize civilian casualties and avoid use of excessive force.
Rally? this site says between 40,000 and 45,000 people's relatives would disagree with you if every given the chance.
And if you're talking historically, the only country to use a nuke in war was the US, and they targetted civiallians with it,
You guys aren't the good guys; you're not even the better guys,