If there could actually have been a lawsuit in the works over the Wii's wrist strap, *which only failed if you used it contrary to instructions*.. there most certainly could be one over xbox360s breaking/overheating/not working due to normal use
Of course, you're right, but officially that's not what happened.
Officially, they had to vote against the bill because of Real ID.. not because americans don't want to essentially annex as much of the mexican population as can make their way across the border.
don't want to upset the hispanic population. they're the fastest growing minority!
He was no longer under warranty, but he called support anyway. They told him to send it back and they would replace it. He mentioned it was no longer covered.. they made it clear that he should just send it in and he'd get a new one.
Now, if there wasn't some sort of flaw.. why would they be replacing an xbox360 that was no longer covered under its warranty?
Honestly I think he might have LOST, except there's a lot of very retarded individuals who failed to vote properly in Florida.
It's not a complicated form. At all. It's very simple. You're supposed to review it after it's done to make sure things are correct. They not only couldn't get it right the first time, but forgot to review their vote.
That does not entitle them to have their vote counted to what they INTENDED to vote. Once it's done, it's done, and that's that -- blame them for Bush's victory.
Not that anyone will do that, because that means Bush won because the people opposed to him were stupid, stupid to the point of not being able to muster up the wherewithall to vote correctly and keep him out of office. In the Bush-detractor's world, it's the people who DID vote for Bush who are the idiots.. even though they, at least, were able to vote correctly.
In any case, any government seizure of property is something to be abhorred. You can count on never being fairly compensated for it, most definately now that they government can DIRECTLY profit from taking the land. They'll want to maximize their profit margins, you know.
Yes precisely. Redesign things so there is a seperate section where smokers can partake of their sin.. and all you poor non-smokers will be tied down, dragged in, and forced to stew in it!
Yes, we smokers are just that evil.
I flew in to Seattle back in January (third time in a year! nice city)
you can, in fact, smoke outside the airport.. there's areas they have marked you can't, and others you can. but, trust me, you can. I got stuck in chicago for a while and my flight wound up taking 13 hours all told, so that was the FIRST thing I did when I got there;)
Oh, and Charlotte you can smoke in the bars.. ditto Memphis. I think. Charlotte definately, and I'm pretty sure it was Memphis I had my other layover.
But after a good 5-6 years, there was nowhere to find a replacement battery.. and batteries do only last for so long before they won't hold a charge. It was down to about a 15-minute conversation per charge.
And yeah, I am buying cheap ones now. Why? Because the 'good' ones are ridiculously expensive and bloated, and from what I hear aren't much more durable anyway.
Oh for the days of those tiny backlit one-color LCD displays that hardly drained your battery, for analog signals that covered better than digital, for phones made out of hard colored plastics without crappy paints that rub off and leave bare spots!
I liked my old phone much better than my new phone. Battery life, signal coverage, and durability have only gone DOWNHILL since they began adding features and pretty shinies to phones.
So if we adopt a system of justice that is so costly that we are left without sufficient funds to pay for public services such as education, transportation, scientific research, and other such things that are generally considered important.. that's OK for you?
What about if the cost to keep criminals safe and well-fed and alive means that lawful, but destitute, citizens would be denied any sort of assistance? How about the elderly?
It's OK if the cost of your justice system means that innocents will die due to excessive allocation of funds to make sure criminals are coddled?
The tax money collected from gas may be USED for road upkeep and constuction. It may be INTENDED for that purpose. It may be EARMARKED..
but a tax on gas is not a tax on road use. It's a tax on gas. No matter what mileage you get, you pay the same tax per gallon -- the tax is on the GAS.
If you get 30mpg, do you pay 3 times the tax per gallon as someone who gets 10mpg? No. You pay the same per gallon, because the tax is a tax on gas. Not on road usage.
It's FOR road usage, but it's ON gas.
Basically, they have no leg to stand on here. There's no tax on homemade biodiesel. He's not evading paying any taxes. Is he not paying any tax to fuel his vehicle and use the roads? Sure isn't. Good thing using the road is free, and it's the gasoline and diesel at the pump that's taxed to pay for the roads.
Try more like 4-500, for a real nice place, in the majority of the country that isn't a large city.
Cities are terrible affairs. 30k in most areas will pay the bills and feed you comfortably, and put you in a nice 2 bedroom apartment. And, in some areas, though fewer by far, instead of an apartment will pay your mortage. In a city? 30k will be what you make flippin burgers. And you won't be doing well, you'll be scraping by. There's really no reason to move into most metropolitan areas -- the rent and housing costs are off the wall. Right now I'm living in BFE, but I could buy a nice house and have it payed off in 5 years. If I had any intention of staying at my current job, or this area, for that long.. which I don't, but that's irrelevant. Of course, not one of the *new* houses that cost 2.5-3x as much as the older houses. What do you get for all that extra cash? A smaller yard, thinner walls, and streets that AREN'T STRAIGHT god I hate developments, straight roads are one of the greatest developments of any civilizations ever and I dare you to try and find a suburban development that looks like a checkerboard.. no, they have to put all these ridiculous curves in to keep it from looking cookie-cutter, when in reality all it does is make it harder to find things, reduces the effective width of the roads, and makes sure you're always sliding on the edge of fucking disaster come wintertime when things ice up.
how did I wind up ranting about that? er. time for beer.
Aluminum smelting is INCREDIBLY power-intensive, and the plants practically never shut down. Ever.
The losses here for taking aluminum scrap -- which is *never* pure aluminum, it's going to be an aluminum alloy of some sort -- smelting it down and seperating out the other elements that were in it, adding the correct amount of gallium, dunking it in water, and then re-smelting it, removing the gallium, and turning it back into consumer products?
And even if you don't do that -- even if you were to simply take aluminum, mix the correct alloy, dunk it, and then later deoxidize it and reuse it.. that's a bunch of power being wasted there, too.
It would waste several libraries of congress worth of electricity! Terrible, terrible plan.
Neat that they've discovered this, because material science is always cool.. but useful? No. Not at all. Zero percent.
You deal with it. Just wait till one day when you fail to see, due to your obviously apparent recto-cranial insertion, that the tractor trailer you're tailgating has slowed down quickly. And bam, suddenly you're under the trailer.
Yeah, you die from that. Enjoy being the asshole that pisses everyone off, doesn't get anywhere any faster, and endangers their own life, all for the sake of being an asshole.
But hey, you keeps it real. TO THE EXTREME@!@!@!!!12
Waiting periods don't do anything to deter crime, firstly. And there is no gun show loophole. Virginia has a waiting period, which applies if you buy at a store or a show. My state does not, but we do have an instant background check. That applies whether you buy at a store or a show.
Essentially, 'limits' (gun control) do somewhere between very very little and nothing at all to deter and prevent crime, and are a massive inconvienience to legitimate gun buyers and collectors.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go to the range and shoot a few of my guns that are more expensive than some silly ps3:p
That's been done several times already, I don't recall it ever actually changing anything. Including the price of whatever it was determined they were price-fixing.
That's just it -- they don't need a reason to have some sort of grudge against you, personally.
They've demonstrated that they just don't care -- they want people to either settle for large sums of money, or go to court and lose so they get even more money. Who cares who it is? Obviously the IP would match your IP -- they can get that from your ISP. The question is -- was that your IP that they saw sharing files illegally, or did they manipulate that evidence to PLACE your IP there, and then later use that to approach your ISP to match the falsified IP to you personally?
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Unfortunately we would have scores of people wandering Iowa asking where they could find Mankrik's wife.
If there could actually have been a lawsuit in the works over the Wii's wrist strap, *which only failed if you used it contrary to instructions*.. there most certainly could be one over xbox360s breaking/overheating/not working due to normal use
Of course, you're right, but officially that's not what happened.
Officially, they had to vote against the bill because of Real ID.. not because americans don't want to essentially annex as much of the mexican population as can make their way across the border.
don't want to upset the hispanic population. they're the fastest growing minority!
They haven't had a problem.. *yet*.
My brother-in-law just had his break last week.
He was no longer under warranty, but he called support anyway. They told him to send it back and they would replace it. He mentioned it was no longer covered.. they made it clear that he should just send it in and he'd get a new one.
Now, if there wasn't some sort of flaw.. why would they be replacing an xbox360 that was no longer covered under its warranty?
He did actually win the election, anyway.
Honestly I think he might have LOST, except there's a lot of very retarded individuals who failed to vote properly in Florida.
It's not a complicated form. At all. It's very simple. You're supposed to review it after it's done to make sure things are correct. They not only couldn't get it right the first time, but forgot to review their vote.
That does not entitle them to have their vote counted to what they INTENDED to vote. Once it's done, it's done, and that's that -- blame them for Bush's victory.
Not that anyone will do that, because that means Bush won because the people opposed to him were stupid, stupid to the point of not being able to muster up the wherewithall to vote correctly and keep him out of office. In the Bush-detractor's world, it's the people who DID vote for Bush who are the idiots.. even though they, at least, were able to vote correctly.
In any case, any government seizure of property is something to be abhorred. You can count on never being fairly compensated for it, most definately now that they government can DIRECTLY profit from taking the land. They'll want to maximize their profit margins, you know.
Yes precisely. Redesign things so there is a seperate section where smokers can partake of their sin.. and all you poor non-smokers will be tied down, dragged in, and forced to stew in it! Yes, we smokers are just that evil.
I flew in to Seattle back in January (third time in a year! nice city)
;)
you can, in fact, smoke outside the airport.. there's areas they have marked you can't, and others you can. but, trust me, you can. I got stuck in chicago for a while and my flight wound up taking 13 hours all told, so that was the FIRST thing I did when I got there
Oh, and Charlotte you can smoke in the bars.. ditto Memphis. I think. Charlotte definately, and I'm pretty sure it was Memphis I had my other layover.
I don't think it was Freudian at all until you started bandying around words like "floppy" and "turgid". no, wait, I mean "rigid"!
It figures I don't have mod points today.
You, sir, win two intarnets. Enjoy!
You forgot to ask to have their size related to you in Library of Congresses
I didn't get rid of it. For a while.
But after a good 5-6 years, there was nowhere to find a replacement battery.. and batteries do only last for so long before they won't hold a charge. It was down to about a 15-minute conversation per charge.
And yeah, I am buying cheap ones now. Why? Because the 'good' ones are ridiculously expensive and bloated, and from what I hear aren't much more durable anyway.
Oh for the days of those tiny backlit one-color LCD displays that hardly drained your battery, for analog signals that covered better than digital, for phones made out of hard colored plastics without crappy paints that rub off and leave bare spots!
I liked my old phone much better than my new phone. Battery life, signal coverage, and durability have only gone DOWNHILL since they began adding features and pretty shinies to phones.
So if we adopt a system of justice that is so costly that we are left without sufficient funds to pay for public services such as education, transportation, scientific research, and other such things that are generally considered important.. that's OK for you?
What about if the cost to keep criminals safe and well-fed and alive means that lawful, but destitute, citizens would be denied any sort of assistance? How about the elderly?
It's OK if the cost of your justice system means that innocents will die due to excessive allocation of funds to make sure criminals are coddled?
The tax money collected from gas may be USED for road upkeep and constuction. It may be INTENDED for that purpose. It may be EARMARKED..
but a tax on gas is not a tax on road use. It's a tax on gas. No matter what mileage you get, you pay the same tax per gallon -- the tax is on the GAS.
If you get 30mpg, do you pay 3 times the tax per gallon as someone who gets 10mpg? No. You pay the same per gallon, because the tax is a tax on gas. Not on road usage.
It's FOR road usage, but it's ON gas.
Basically, they have no leg to stand on here. There's no tax on homemade biodiesel. He's not evading paying any taxes. Is he not paying any tax to fuel his vehicle and use the roads? Sure isn't. Good thing using the road is free, and it's the gasoline and diesel at the pump that's taxed to pay for the roads.
You obviously live in a major metropolitan area.
800 a month, minimum for rent?
Good lord.
Try more like 4-500, for a real nice place, in the majority of the country that isn't a large city.
Cities are terrible affairs. 30k in most areas will pay the bills and feed you comfortably, and put you in a nice 2 bedroom apartment. And, in some areas, though fewer by far, instead of an apartment will pay your mortage. In a city? 30k will be what you make flippin burgers. And you won't be doing well, you'll be scraping by.
There's really no reason to move into most metropolitan areas -- the rent and housing costs are off the wall. Right now I'm living in BFE, but I could buy a nice house and have it payed off in 5 years. If I had any intention of staying at my current job, or this area, for that long.. which I don't, but that's irrelevant.
Of course, not one of the *new* houses that cost 2.5-3x as much as the older houses. What do you get for all that extra cash? A smaller yard, thinner walls, and streets that AREN'T STRAIGHT god I hate developments, straight roads are one of the greatest developments of any civilizations ever and I dare you to try and find a suburban development that looks like a checkerboard.. no, they have to put all these ridiculous curves in to keep it from looking cookie-cutter, when in reality all it does is make it harder to find things, reduces the effective width of the roads, and makes sure you're always sliding on the edge of fucking disaster come wintertime when things ice up.
how did I wind up ranting about that? er. time for beer.
You mean I can get paid to sit around drinking beer and playing video games, while waking up at the crack of 3pm every day?
SWEET!
Not exactly.
Aluminum smelting is INCREDIBLY power-intensive, and the plants practically never shut down. Ever.
The losses here for taking aluminum scrap -- which is *never* pure aluminum, it's going to be an aluminum alloy of some sort -- smelting it down and seperating out the other elements that were in it, adding the correct amount of gallium, dunking it in water, and then re-smelting it, removing the gallium, and turning it back into consumer products?
And even if you don't do that -- even if you were to simply take aluminum, mix the correct alloy, dunk it, and then later deoxidize it and reuse it.. that's a bunch of power being wasted there, too.
It would waste several libraries of congress worth of electricity! Terrible, terrible plan.
Neat that they've discovered this, because material science is always cool.. but useful? No. Not at all. Zero percent.
That reminds me of a vacation I took once.. Mars truly is a beautiful planet
Culture can also mean they're growing bacteria colonies, mind you. Or some sort of fungus.
You deal with it. Just wait till one day when you fail to see, due to your obviously apparent recto-cranial insertion, that the tractor trailer you're tailgating has slowed down quickly. And bam, suddenly you're under the trailer.
Yeah, you die from that. Enjoy being the asshole that pisses everyone off, doesn't get anywhere any faster, and endangers their own life, all for the sake of being an asshole.
But hey, you keeps it real. TO THE EXTREME@!@!@!!!12
Waiting periods don't do anything to deter crime, firstly. And there is no gun show loophole. Virginia has a waiting period, which applies if you buy at a store or a show.
:p
My state does not, but we do have an instant background check. That applies whether you buy at a store or a show.
Essentially, 'limits' (gun control) do somewhere between very very little and nothing at all to deter and prevent crime, and are a massive inconvienience to legitimate gun buyers and collectors.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go to the range and shoot a few of my guns that are more expensive than some silly ps3
That's been done several times already, I don't recall it ever actually changing anything. Including the price of whatever it was determined they were price-fixing.
Good question.
Why ARE they taking innocent people to court?
'cause.. I believe there's a few high-profile cases right now that the judges haven't let them quietly drop.
Throw all that together, I don't know, if I was the one making the call I'd certainly not feel that there was a preponderance of evidence.
That's just it -- they don't need a reason to have some sort of grudge against you, personally.
They've demonstrated that they just don't care -- they want people to either settle for large sums of money, or go to court and lose so they get even more money. Who cares who it is? Obviously the IP would match your IP -- they can get that from your ISP. The question is -- was that your IP that they saw sharing files illegally, or did they manipulate that evidence to PLACE your IP there, and then later use that to approach your ISP to match the falsified IP to you personally?