Yeah but if they're in the above-ground environment (along the side of the road or swirling in the Pacific Gyre), then they're still preferable to conventional plastic bags.
Conventional plastic bags (including Glad or Hefty) are photodegradable, but not biodegradable. Although some companies manufacture 'plastic' bags made of cornstarch, which is of course biodegradable.
I bet if he goes to prison, he'll get a whole network's worth of tubes shoved up his decrepit cornhole.
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What Apple needs is someone with charisma. The problem with Gil Amelio, Robert Sculley, et al. was that they had the personality of damp toast. In order to remain quirky and anti-establishment, Apple needs a likewise CEO.
If you sell that grill at the flea market, or on eBay, it damn sure is taxable, though. You're making money from the sale of an item -- by engaging in the sale, you are making a profit -- it is esentially self-employment even if it is not your main source of income.
Erm, no. You would only be taxed if you realised a capital gain -- i.e., if you sold it for more than you paid for it. With used items, you almost never sell it for more than you paid -- unless it's a collector's item that regularly appreciates in value.
I agree. In fact, I wish the provision of email services would become divorced from that of connectivity. If my ISP would allow me to opt out of their email service in return for paying several dollars less a month, I would gladly pay $5 or so per month to use Gmail. Requiring everybody to pay a nominal fee would open up a useful means of verifying identity upon signup. I know many of you will say, 'Spammers will just sign up using stolen credit card information!' but hopefully Suzy Feltersnatch's bank will notice $500 in charges to Gmail and pop up a fraud flag.
People forget that pretty much either way Obama could've voted, he would've been fucked. Had he voted Nay, he would've looked weak on foreign affairs and national security, a point that McCain would surely beat to a puree. Furthermore, had the Senate bill been voted down, we would have months more of wrangling over a successor bill. Now that he's voted Yea, he's angered a lot of civil libertarians. I don't envy the guy at all. The bill is not perfect -- but let's remember that the best shouldn't be made the enemy of the good. And perhaps when we have a more enlightened president and more enlightened representatives and senators, a superior bill will repair the damage.
Sadly I don't see this happening with Windows anytime soon. Microsoft has never had a knack for making those internal transparent emulators like classic and rosetta.
I respectfully disagree. Surely they can take VirtualPC and/or Hyper-V and make something out of it that could run legacy Win32 apps. Methinks the future is the Singularity kernel with some form of.NET on top. And at the risk of sounding like a fanboi, I will say that the NT Executive was never a problem. In fact, it's a piece of software engineering beauty. What makes Windows utterly awful is the shite Win32 userspace on top of that gorgeous kernel.
we'd get way too many people involved who would just see running for office as a free paycheck.
Erm...and we don't have this situation now? How many people do you think actually run for office in order to serve the public -- as opposed to seeking money, recognition, and power? Not bloody many....
Dubya: Now, now boys. Relax.
Oily: But Dubya, our profits are gonna get socked if these damn solar doohickeys keep springing up ever'whar!
Coal: Yeah, and our strip-minin' will go to hell!
Cheney (laughs): I've got the answer. We'll steal from the environmentalist wacko playbook. Let's say we want to do an environmental impact study of solar panels!
Dubya: Well gollee, Dick! That's smart thinkin'! OK boys, go back to makin' yer billions. Just don't forget to cut Dicky and me in on the stash.
(Meeting ends.)
Women who are abused are not the ones to blame. The first time, no they're not to blame. If it becomes a pattern, then yeah, they do assume at least 50% of the blame.
Unless that movie/album/application is: a) in the public domain or b) appropriately licensed through CopyLeft, ShareAlike, &c., then downloading such without properly compensating the copyright owners is theft. Like it or not, intellectual property is still someone's property, whether it belongs to the public-at-large or a finite number of private entities. So converting the original implication into its logical inverse doesn't make the latter true.
Don't like it? Bad luck. You can't say you weren't warned. For the 3% of SUV owners with a legitimate reason for driving one, my condolences. For the remaining 97% who only bought one out of penis envy or a facile attempt at keeping up with the Jones, I have only this to say: 'Reap as ye sow, motherfuckers!'
Wonderful points. I would also add that if laws/regs forced the onus of losses on the financial institutions themselves (rather than allowing them to write losses off as a cost of business), said firms would rapidly implement better security mechanisms. As it stands, banks have little incentive to prevent these crimes, because the victims have the burden of proof and responsibility for cleaning up the resulting mess.
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I agree with you completely. Everybody repeat after me: 'TRADE NOT AID!'
Yeah but if they're in the above-ground environment (along the side of the road or swirling in the Pacific Gyre), then they're still preferable to conventional plastic bags.
Conventional plastic bags (including Glad or Hefty) are photodegradable, but not biodegradable. Although some companies manufacture 'plastic' bags made of cornstarch, which is of course biodegradable.
The public servants haven't been such for a long time.
Have the vast majority of elected officials ever truly served the public, rather than merely power-tripping?
I bet if he goes to prison, he'll get a whole network's worth of tubes shoved up his decrepit cornhole.
What Apple needs is someone with charisma. The problem with Gil Amelio, Robert Sculley, et al. was that they had the personality of damp toast. In order to remain quirky and anti-establishment, Apple needs a likewise CEO.
How the fuck did this get modded insightful? The same schmuck who bemoans electricity is *using* electricity to squirt his intellectual jizz?
If you sell that grill at the flea market, or on eBay, it damn sure is taxable, though. You're making money from the sale of an item -- by engaging in the sale, you are making a profit -- it is esentially self-employment even if it is not your main source of income.
Erm, no. You would only be taxed if you realised a capital gain -- i.e., if you sold it for more than you paid for it. With used items, you almost never sell it for more than you paid -- unless it's a collector's item that regularly appreciates in value.
I agree. In fact, I wish the provision of email services would become divorced from that of connectivity. If my ISP would allow me to opt out of their email service in return for paying several dollars less a month, I would gladly pay $5 or so per month to use Gmail. Requiring everybody to pay a nominal fee would open up a useful means of verifying identity upon signup. I know many of you will say, 'Spammers will just sign up using stolen credit card information!' but hopefully Suzy Feltersnatch's bank will notice $500 in charges to Gmail and pop up a fraud flag.
And vote for Boor^H^H^H^HBarr? No thanks....
People forget that pretty much either way Obama could've voted, he would've been fucked. Had he voted Nay, he would've looked weak on foreign affairs and national security, a point that McCain would surely beat to a puree. Furthermore, had the Senate bill been voted down, we would have months more of wrangling over a successor bill. Now that he's voted Yea, he's angered a lot of civil libertarians. I don't envy the guy at all. The bill is not perfect -- but let's remember that the best shouldn't be made the enemy of the good. And perhaps when we have a more enlightened president and more enlightened representatives and senators, a superior bill will repair the damage.
I'm pretty sure Nixon was the one who got us out.
No. Gerald Ford was the one who got us out. Nixon resigned in August of 1974; we pulled out in 1975, on Ford's watch.
Adium pushed out an update and I have no problem connecting to ICQ. Not an issue here....
(can't think of any enzyme-deficient diseases off the top of my head, but there must be some)
How about phenylketonuria, for one?
Well, then we'll just steal Druidia's atmosphere....
Sadly I don't see this happening with Windows anytime soon. Microsoft has never had a knack for making those internal transparent emulators like classic and rosetta.
I respectfully disagree. Surely they can take VirtualPC and/or Hyper-V and make something out of it that could run legacy Win32 apps. Methinks the future is the Singularity kernel with some form of .NET on top. And at the risk of sounding like a fanboi, I will say that the NT Executive was never a problem. In fact, it's a piece of software engineering beauty. What makes Windows utterly awful is the shite Win32 userspace on top of that gorgeous kernel.
we'd get way too many people involved who would just see running for office as a free paycheck.
Erm...and we don't have this situation now? How many people do you think actually run for office in order to serve the public -- as opposed to seeking money, recognition, and power? Not bloody many....
Dubya: Now, now boys. Relax.
Oily: But Dubya, our profits are gonna get socked if these damn solar doohickeys keep springing up ever'whar!
Coal: Yeah, and our strip-minin' will go to hell!
Cheney (laughs): I've got the answer. We'll steal from the environmentalist wacko playbook. Let's say we want to do an environmental impact study of solar panels!
Dubya: Well gollee, Dick! That's smart thinkin'! OK boys, go back to makin' yer billions. Just don't forget to cut Dicky and me in on the stash.
(Meeting ends.)
The problem is with Safari -- I have huge problems not only with MS sites, but Yahoo ones as well. Safari's cookie code is seriously fux0red...
AWESOME post, man. I wish more people were as objective and clueful.
Unless that movie/album/application is: a) in the public domain or b) appropriately licensed through CopyLeft, ShareAlike, &c., then downloading such without properly compensating the copyright owners is theft. Like it or not, intellectual property is still someone's property, whether it belongs to the public-at-large or a finite number of private entities. So converting the original implication into its logical inverse doesn't make the latter true.
Agreed. Theft is theft.
Wonderful points. I would also add that if laws/regs forced the onus of losses on the financial institutions themselves (rather than allowing them to write losses off as a cost of business), said firms would rapidly implement better security mechanisms. As it stands, banks have little incentive to prevent these crimes, because the victims have the burden of proof and responsibility for cleaning up the resulting mess.