I certainly didn't say that. I hate Wally World as much as the next guy, but just because you think the 800 lb. gorilla in the room is a dickhead is no reason to pretend he isn't there and then step on his toes!
I would be leery of trying this tactic if I were the studios. At least with WalMart. WalMart has enough leverage in the retail business to destroy anyone who messes with them. WalMart could simply threaten to no longer carry the studios DVDs if they don't play ball and the studio would have to buckle, unless they wanted to lose 30-40% of their DVD sales.
... I wouldn't touch it. I just don't do business with Wal-Mart for a number of reasons. Of course, I'm just one person among hundreds of millions who just don't care where they spend their money.
Haha, the hundreds of millions who shop there do so precisely because they care where their money goes.
Not exactly. They don't care where it goes, they just care how much of it is going.
"I initially read "attack" as a verb, not as an adjective."
That's just as well, because in this instance, "attack" is a NOUN, you moron...
It's a noun being used as an adjective. Also, calling someone a moron isn't a good way to start off if you want to influence their opinion.
As for the rest of your post, one could make arguments for religion in general being a contributing factor to a large portion of the worlds problems, but singling out Muslims does nothing but make you appear bigoted.
(I know, I know, I shouldn't feed the trolls. I just really have nothing better to do right now.)
"Palestinians" are not a single entity with a single mind. Just like most people in most places, the majority of them simply want to get on with their lives without worrying about their house getting bulldozed. It's not two hands of the same person, it's two groups of people who live in the same area.
Contrast that with the idea that it was always illegal to sign someone else's name, even with their permission and consent. You simply aren't allow to sign someone else's signature, under any circumstance, for any reason whatsoever
That depends on what you mean by their signature. You can't simply sign their name, but you can put both your and their names in lieu of their signature if you have their consent.
Say Alice gives Bob authority to act on her behalf. Bob can sign "Alice by Bob" or "Bob as agent for Alice." I see it done fairly often on real estate documents (I work as a closing coordinator) and I'm fairly sure it happens elsewhere as well.
Do you mean "the law" as in "the child porn law" or "the law" as in "any laws"? Because I can guarantee you that practically everybody in America breaks SOME law. There are so many things illegal that it's practically impossible to live as an entirely law abiding citizen.
there's a fairly unified team of police, prosecutors, press and judge all working to ensure a conviction, [...] Pretty sketchy stuff.
I live in Wake County and can tell you from personal experience, as well as seeing several friends and family members go through the process, that the police, prosecutors and judges present a unified front to push for convictions on just about every criminal case that comes before them.
When I was 14 some friends and I filled a plastic coke bottle with gas and set it on fire in the middle of the road. I was charged with "Possession of a weapon of mass destruction" and "maliciously assaulting the asphalt". My lawyer argued that the statute defines a weapon of mass destruction as a molotov coctail (and up from there) which was a GLASS container meant to shatter on impact filled with a flammable substance and a wick, and that I had no malice towards the asphalt. The judges said "you're right, but he's a juvenile so it doesn't matter I'm finding him guilty anyways" I was put in the first offender program and had to do 225 hours of community service with the marines.
This is just one example of how the law operates here. In the intervening years I have seen numerous examples of incorrect, trumped up and sometimes completely false charges stand through to a conviction.
The only time I've heard the words "Not Guilty" come out of a judges mouth in this county was when I was charged with possessing an open container in a vehicle. The cops only bothered to ask me if it was mine and didn't believe me when I said no. I had the guy who's beer it actually was (who was sitting next to me in the car, the cops separated me from everyone else to question me and write the ticket so he didn't have an opportunity to claim it at the scene) come to court and testify that it was his. Even then, the judge looked at me and said "I' don't think mister Draven understands what possession means, but I'm going to find him not guilty and have the officer charge mister Cooley."
If you want to be pedantic, the tactic has been in use for nearly all of human history, and the acronym was coined by Gene Amdahl (but yes, he was talking about IBM).
The android app VLingo has a mode you can turn on for use in the car or other situations where you can't use your hands. It tends to eat battery so you definitely want to have the phone plugged in when you use it.
Even better, give them brutally honest advice and history lessons. Tell them about the rootkits, the disabling of features on customers devices, the lawsuits, and anything else screwed up that Sony has done to their customers. It would be nice to have some pamphlets made up with all the sordid details (or at least an overview and a URL to find the details) to hand out.
Plate tectonics is not gambling or flipping pennies. The plates are trying to move, and when they don't tension builds up. Eventually this tension is released as an earthquake. I don't know enough about the faults on the west coast to say that the GP's 'overdue' statement is true, I'm just saying that if the conditions are right, it could be.
I wouldn't be able to resist the chance to do something that causes lots of (harmless) smoke while they were filming and start shouting "Oh my god! It's out of control! RUN! RUNNNN!"
I'd like to see the FBI remotely take the battery and put it inside the phone. Plus I'm not so sure about the whole remotely turning the phone on thing anyways. I can see the possibility of turning on the microphone, but if the whole phone is off and not talking to a tower, how the hell do they get it to turn on?
I don't think he was suggesting "we need less men" I think he was trying to say we need to expand those social programs to cover anybody without a job.
As for the speakers, don't even get me started. I cannot believe the junk most people use. They'll spend $1500 on monitors (3 Dell U2410s are popular for triple gaming setups) and another $600 on video cards all in the name of a "more immersive" gaming experience and then buy $30 crap speakers to play on. I don't know what it is. Same thing as people who drop $3000 on a premium high end bigscreen LED/LCD-TV, $400 on a high class Blu-ray player, $100 on useless Monster HDMI cables, then listen on the cheap included speakers.
This may make sense for the bread proofing box. But as for the animal tanks and lava lamps, well, those need light AND heat. So in the end we would end up needing to use 2 items where in the past 1 has served well, all in the name of "saving resources." -sigh-
You can legally get a prescription for THC in the US, the trade name is Marinol and assuming that the doctor is willing to go along with it, you can get it without any trouble. Which sort of discards the view that it's about big pharma.
You're using a drug that was first legally allowed to be sold in 1986 as an example refuting the GPs reasoning behind a law passed in 1937?
This is pretty much exactly what I said when it happened. If you want to quell a popular uprising (without just killing enough people that they give up) you need to start handing out food or money or drugs or something (I think THC gas would probably work better than tear gas). Shutting off entertainment so that all the people on the fence have nothing better to do but get outside and check out the protests is probably the worst possible move.
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I certainly didn't say that. I hate Wally World as much as the next guy, but just because you think the 800 lb. gorilla in the room is a dickhead is no reason to pretend he isn't there and then step on his toes!
Canticle's a great book. One of the few novels I've actually read multiple times.
I would be leery of trying this tactic if I were the studios. At least with WalMart. WalMart has enough leverage in the retail business to destroy anyone who messes with them. WalMart could simply threaten to no longer carry the studios DVDs if they don't play ball and the studio would have to buckle, unless they wanted to lose 30-40% of their DVD sales.
... I wouldn't touch it. I just don't do business with Wal-Mart for a number of reasons. Of course, I'm just one person among hundreds of millions who just don't care where they spend their money.
Haha, the hundreds of millions who shop there do so precisely because they care where their money goes.
Not exactly. They don't care where it goes, they just care how much of it is going.
"I initially read "attack" as a verb, not as an adjective."
That's just as well, because in this instance, "attack" is a NOUN, you moron...
It's a noun being used as an adjective. Also, calling someone a moron isn't a good way to start off if you want to influence their opinion.
As for the rest of your post, one could make arguments for religion in general being a contributing factor to a large portion of the worlds problems, but singling out Muslims does nothing but make you appear bigoted.
(I know, I know, I shouldn't feed the trolls. I just really have nothing better to do right now.)
"Palestinians" are not a single entity with a single mind. Just like most people in most places, the majority of them simply want to get on with their lives without worrying about their house getting bulldozed. It's not two hands of the same person, it's two groups of people who live in the same area.
Contrast that with the idea that it was always illegal to sign someone else's name, even with their permission and consent. You simply aren't allow to sign someone else's signature, under any circumstance, for any reason whatsoever
That depends on what you mean by their signature. You can't simply sign their name, but you can put both your and their names in lieu of their signature if you have their consent.
Say Alice gives Bob authority to act on her behalf. Bob can sign "Alice by Bob" or "Bob as agent for Alice." I see it done fairly often on real estate documents (I work as a closing coordinator) and I'm fairly sure it happens elsewhere as well.
I realized right after posting it that what I just said doesn't fit so well into the context of this thread. Oh well...
One where people should be as free to put whatever they want into their bodies as they should be free to have whatever words they want come out of it.
Some of the scariest, craziest people I've ever met have been incredibly nice.
Do you mean "the law" as in "the child porn law" or "the law" as in "any laws"? Because I can guarantee you that practically everybody in America breaks SOME law. There are so many things illegal that it's practically impossible to live as an entirely law abiding citizen.
Here's the first relevant link I came across:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842.html
there's a fairly unified team of police, prosecutors, press and judge all working to ensure a conviction, [...] Pretty sketchy stuff.
I live in Wake County and can tell you from personal experience, as well as seeing several friends and family members go through the process, that the police, prosecutors and judges present a unified front to push for convictions on just about every criminal case that comes before them.
When I was 14 some friends and I filled a plastic coke bottle with gas and set it on fire in the middle of the road. I was charged with "Possession of a weapon of mass destruction" and "maliciously assaulting the asphalt". My lawyer argued that the statute defines a weapon of mass destruction as a molotov coctail (and up from there) which was a GLASS container meant to shatter on impact filled with a flammable substance and a wick, and that I had no malice towards the asphalt. The judges said "you're right, but he's a juvenile so it doesn't matter I'm finding him guilty anyways" I was put in the first offender program and had to do 225 hours of community service with the marines.
This is just one example of how the law operates here. In the intervening years I have seen numerous examples of incorrect, trumped up and sometimes completely false charges stand through to a conviction.
The only time I've heard the words "Not Guilty" come out of a judges mouth in this county was when I was charged with possessing an open container in a vehicle. The cops only bothered to ask me if it was mine and didn't believe me when I said no. I had the guy who's beer it actually was (who was sitting next to me in the car, the cops separated me from everyone else to question me and write the ticket so he didn't have an opportunity to claim it at the scene) come to court and testify that it was his. Even then, the judge looked at me and said "I' don't think mister Draven understands what possession means, but I'm going to find him not guilty and have the officer charge mister Cooley."
If you want to be pedantic, the tactic has been in use for nearly all of human history, and the acronym was coined by Gene Amdahl (but yes, he was talking about IBM).
The android app VLingo has a mode you can turn on for use in the car or other situations where you can't use your hands. It tends to eat battery so you definitely want to have the phone plugged in when you use it.
Alternatively come in the same colour as the shop assistants. If asked give misleading advice, especially to go to the store round the corner.
Even better, give them brutally honest advice and history lessons. Tell them about the rootkits, the disabling of features on customers devices, the lawsuits, and anything else screwed up that Sony has done to their customers. It would be nice to have some pamphlets made up with all the sordid details (or at least an overview and a URL to find the details) to hand out.
Plate tectonics is not gambling or flipping pennies. The plates are trying to move, and when they don't tension builds up. Eventually this tension is released as an earthquake. I don't know enough about the faults on the west coast to say that the GP's 'overdue' statement is true, I'm just saying that if the conditions are right, it could be.
I wouldn't be able to resist the chance to do something that causes lots of (harmless) smoke while they were filming and start shouting "Oh my god! It's out of control! RUN! RUNNNN!"
I'd like to see the FBI remotely take the battery and put it inside the phone. Plus I'm not so sure about the whole remotely turning the phone on thing anyways. I can see the possibility of turning on the microphone, but if the whole phone is off and not talking to a tower, how the hell do they get it to turn on?
This was not an ID10T error.
Sure it was!
It's just that the ID10T in this case was the interface designer and not the user (for once..).
I don't think he was suggesting "we need less men" I think he was trying to say we need to expand those social programs to cover anybody without a job.
That is exactly what I was thinking. "Well, the republicans refuse to allow us to put these detainees on trial... so they're all going free!"
As for the speakers, don't even get me started. I cannot believe the junk most people use. They'll spend $1500 on monitors (3 Dell U2410s are popular for triple gaming setups) and another $600 on video cards all in the name of a "more immersive" gaming experience and then buy $30 crap speakers to play on. I don't know what it is. Same thing as people who drop $3000 on a premium high end bigscreen LED/LCD-TV, $400 on a high class Blu-ray player, $100 on useless Monster HDMI cables, then listen on the cheap included speakers.
I won't try to claim that they're the best but as far as I know I have the loudest computer speakers in my town.
This may make sense for the bread proofing box. But as for the animal tanks and lava lamps, well, those need light AND heat. So in the end we would end up needing to use 2 items where in the past 1 has served well, all in the name of "saving resources." -sigh-
You can legally get a prescription for THC in the US, the trade name is Marinol and assuming that the doctor is willing to go along with it, you can get it without any trouble. Which sort of discards the view that it's about big pharma.
You're using a drug that was first legally allowed to be sold in 1986 as an example refuting the GPs reasoning behind a law passed in 1937?
Who's smoking what now..
This is pretty much exactly what I said when it happened. If you want to quell a popular uprising (without just killing enough people that they give up) you need to start handing out food or money or drugs or something (I think THC gas would probably work better than tear gas). Shutting off entertainment so that all the people on the fence have nothing better to do but get outside and check out the protests is probably the worst possible move.