In the US judges cannot award moneys if the defendant has no money. This is why no one ever sues bums or tent cities. If you can't pay, you don't have to.
I've been meaning to put up pictures and walk throughs on my site however since my wife just recently (last week) had a baby I'm a bit swamped. For suppliers try these two http://luxeon.com/ and http://theledlight.com/ . The first has the bulbs cheeper but the second link is a great source for drivers and dimmers. I recommend the "star" models. They come mounted to a little circuit board that makes mounting/retrofitting a snap and double as a heatsink. Sadly, most of mine are just DC driven with inline resisters at the moment.
I forgot to mention, as far as price and power goes the 5 watt models are very inexpensive (7 dollars) and put out as much light as an 80 watt tungsten bulb when drawing full power.
I recommend getting the LEDs from the first source (cheaper) and things like powersupplies and dimmers from the second (better selection). The units with the star base attached are extremely easy to retro fit into existing fixtures also.
All of my home lighting is LED using the luxeon 3 and 5 watt models. I use about 1/20th the energy that I used when I was using CFs.
Granted, I had to build nearly all the fixtures and powersupplies myself, but the 5 watt units only cost about 7 $US and put out light equal to an 80 watt tungsten.
They cost far less and use way less energy that CFs, I don't know why they haven't caught on.
Hunting accidents, even fatal ones are rarely prosicuted, because it is assumed that all parties understood the risk.
I still often wonder, what if Dick had been the one who was shoot instead of being the shooter. I bet that would have been one "hunting accident" that was very prosecuted.
It would have been called and attempted assassination, not a hunting accident.
I think you and I read the post a tad different. I think he was saying that the game industry failing is because the games are crappy and no one is buying them. Frankly, that's why I don't buy games anymore. The games suck. I don't pirate them or play them either. Because they suck.
I think that's what he was getting at, I know it's true for me. If these companys made games that were more interesting and had things like plots instead of just being "here's a gun/sword/magic shoot stuff till everything is dead" then maybe the sales would go back up.
Interesting point. I must say that I see where you're coming from.
Consider the following. You have an idea and you build up a company around it. In this scene you had the idea and you put your own elbow to the grindstone, did ALL of the hard work, built your own prototypes by hand, designed your own factory, got all the customers yourself. You hired a few support staff but all they do is push the buttons you tell them to push and answer the phone for you when you are busy on your factory floor. In this situation, if your salary is 10 to 20 times higher than anyone in your company, no problem, you do all the work.
Consider the following. You have an idea and you build up a company around it. In this scene your idea is just a vague framework and you have no real idea how to do it at all. So you hire a few engineers who scratch their heads in an attempt to understand what you want, hit the drawing board, show it to you, you scream at them, rinse, repeat. After months of 18 hour work days and hardly any pay (you're just starting afterall) they finally have figured out how to create what you dreamed up. You didn't actually know how to do it, they did. So you hire an overseas firm to start prototyping, and you head out to find customers. The customers don't want what your engineers have come up with (that you thought of) they want something else. So, even though you have no idea haow to build it, you promise you can deliver it. Now you are screaming at engineers again, and this time you have a deadline and an assload of money paid by customers who expect delivery. The engineers want more staff and you say no, not till results are put forth, etc, etc,. If after all of this, when your company succeeds, your salary is 10 to 20 times anyone elses, then you are an asshole.
Indeed, the first ones I truly hated were the imacs and ibooks that looked like childrens toys. You know the whole blue/white orange/white monoliths of a style that died ing the 70s. Now all apple's gear looks like the designers sit with their eyes wired open watching nothing but old Stanley Kubrik films while licking Ikea catalogs.
I can't fathom why computers are all plastic and chrome. It's just so trashy.
Wow, your little rant here is hilarious. Thanks. It's refreshing to see someone who still gets uptight about varible names used in humorous responses to un-serious discussion forum posts.
And why would they do that? What is Microsoft getting out of the deal?
Money, gigantic piles of money.
Tax shelters, endless government contracts, being able to laugh at convictions for monopolistic business practices, export law loopholes......did I mention tax shelters and endless contracts?
Some law maker probably made a decision that he passed to an aid that got typed up by an assistant and passed to another department where it was review and edited then typed up again and handed to another department where the boss hands it to a coordanator to find a field agent who doesn't want to bother so he hands it to the guy under him who has cool sunglasses and has seen waaay to many "James Bond" films who thinks he's doing something "covert". That guy goes to see the company flashes a badge and the receptionist dials up the project head who's in a meeting so he sends an engineer who can tell the G-man is a loser so he sends the G-man to the delevpoper's in the basement who have all seen "The Matrix" waaay to many times who suddenly thing they are being "covert" and "leet". So now much money has changed hands, the law maker thinks he know that something happened and the company thinks they did something for the law maker, but neither the law maker nor the heads of the company really understand what happened and doubtfull that anyone else does either. They'll just say things like "that favor we did for you" back and forth to each other while not having a clue what happened. Law maker thinks "his people" now have the tools they need dispite the fact that he probably can't remember who "his people" actually are, and CEO is laughing all the way to the bank knowing his product fills the government's need dispite having no idea what his product actually does.
I find extremely little value in anything on television. It's purely contrived crap. This kind of "demand" by big media players is insane. What kind of value does their programming have that I should be forced to watch the advertisments to pay for it? Frankly, most everything I've watched and enjoyed over the past two years have been podcasts. The music I listen to comes from places like opsound.org and creative commons. When I do, rarely, flip on the TV or radio it takes about five to ten minutes before I flip it back off again. There is nothing there worth seeing or hearing. At all.
Because of this, I doubt I'll even consider buying a DVR.
Who wouldn't? If murder was not illegal, people would be dropping like flies in America. Some of our biggest cultural heroes were mass murderers. At the people cheered them on.
I take it you aren't married, we who are know that this "tax shelter" is a total myth. My wife and I file separately so that we don't get soaked. Married people in this country pay higher taxes than single people.
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In the US judges cannot award moneys if the defendant has no money. This is why no one ever sues bums or tent cities. If you can't pay, you don't have to.
I've been meaning to put up pictures and walk throughs on my site however since my wife just recently (last week) had a baby I'm a bit swamped. For suppliers try these two http://luxeon.com/ and http://theledlight.com/ . The first has the bulbs cheeper but the second link is a great source for drivers and dimmers. I recommend the "star" models. They come mounted to a little circuit board that makes mounting/retrofitting a snap and double as a heatsink. Sadly, most of mine are just DC driven with inline resisters at the moment.
Whoops!
I forgot to mention, as far as price and power goes the 5 watt models are very inexpensive (7 dollars) and put out as much light as an 80 watt tungsten bulb when drawing full power.
Here's two more great sources:
http://luxeon.com/
http://theledlight.com/
I recommend getting the LEDs from the first source (cheaper) and things like powersupplies and dimmers from the second (better selection). The units with the star base attached are extremely easy to retro fit into existing fixtures also.
All of my home lighting is LED using the luxeon 3 and 5 watt models. I use about 1/20th the energy that I used when I was using CFs. Granted, I had to build nearly all the fixtures and powersupplies myself, but the 5 watt units only cost about 7 $US and put out light equal to an 80 watt tungsten. They cost far less and use way less energy that CFs, I don't know why they haven't caught on.
I mean, we've all seen the massive amount of increadibly popular independent music on P2P networks, right?
Actually, some five years after becoming an independant artist and distributing his own music via the internet, Prince won two Grammys.
Go figure.
Hunting accidents, even fatal ones are rarely prosicuted, because it is assumed that all parties understood the risk.
I still often wonder, what if Dick had been the one who was shoot instead of being the shooter. I bet that would have been one "hunting accident" that was very prosecuted.
It would have been called and attempted assassination, not a hunting accident.
I think you and I read the post a tad different. I think he was saying that the game industry failing is because the games are crappy and no one is buying them. Frankly, that's why I don't buy games anymore. The games suck. I don't pirate them or play them either. Because they suck.
I think that's what he was getting at, I know it's true for me. If these companys made games that were more interesting and had things like plots instead of just being "here's a gun/sword/magic shoot stuff till everything is dead" then maybe the sales would go back up.
No no no, let the silly Emac-fundamentalists preach the damnation and hell fire while thumping their lisp manuals.
VI users don't preach, they just get the job done.
Nope, the keys for my marina are RFID and I tested this very thing. The machine read the card as usual.
Actually, you are not entirely correct.
Alexander Graham Bell is a fantastic example of the first scenario in my post. So is Bill Gates. Also George Westinghouse. Just to name a few.
An example of my second scenario would be... wait... what was the name of the guy who founded World Com?
Get it?
Every other year is an election year.
And they are always trying to screw us.
What's your solution, should we just sit here and take it?
Interesting point. I must say that I see where you're coming from.
Consider the following. You have an idea and you build up a company around it. In this scene you had the idea and you put your own elbow to the grindstone, did ALL of the hard work, built your own prototypes by hand, designed your own factory, got all the customers yourself. You hired a few support staff but all they do is push the buttons you tell them to push and answer the phone for you when you are busy on your factory floor. In this situation, if your salary is 10 to 20 times higher than anyone in your company, no problem, you do all the work.
Consider the following. You have an idea and you build up a company around it. In this scene your idea is just a vague framework and you have no real idea how to do it at all. So you hire a few engineers who scratch their heads in an attempt to understand what you want, hit the drawing board, show it to you, you scream at them, rinse, repeat. After months of 18 hour work days and hardly any pay (you're just starting afterall) they finally have figured out how to create what you dreamed up. You didn't actually know how to do it, they did. So you hire an overseas firm to start prototyping, and you head out to find customers. The customers don't want what your engineers have come up with (that you thought of) they want something else. So, even though you have no idea haow to build it, you promise you can deliver it. Now you are screaming at engineers again, and this time you have a deadline and an assload of money paid by customers who expect delivery. The engineers want more staff and you say no, not till results are put forth, etc, etc,. If after all of this, when your company succeeds, your salary is 10 to 20 times anyone elses, then you are an asshole.
It's all in how you look at it though.
Indeed, the first ones I truly hated were the imacs and ibooks that looked like childrens toys. You know the whole blue/white orange/white monoliths of a style that died ing the 70s. Now all apple's gear looks like the designers sit with their eyes wired open watching nothing but old Stanley Kubrik films while licking Ikea catalogs.
I can't fathom why computers are all plastic and chrome. It's just so trashy.
Wow, your little rant here is hilarious. Thanks. It's refreshing to see someone who still gets uptight about varible names used in humorous responses to un-serious discussion forum posts.
Ok,
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Um, so? Pay a lot once and forget about it -or- pay a little at a time over th course of years and constantly worry if you'll be able to get enough.
Seems a simple choice to me.
Yeah, and it really ties the room together.
And why would they do that? What is Microsoft getting out of the deal?
...did I mention tax shelters and endless contracts?
Money, gigantic piles of money.
Tax shelters, endless government contracts, being able to laugh at convictions for monopolistic business practices, export law loopholes...
Some law maker probably made a decision that he passed to an aid that got typed up by an assistant and passed to another department where it was review and edited then typed up again and handed to another department where the boss hands it to a coordanator to find a field agent who doesn't want to bother so he hands it to the guy under him who has cool sunglasses and has seen waaay to many "James Bond" films who thinks he's doing something "covert". That guy goes to see the company flashes a badge and the receptionist dials up the project head who's in a meeting so he sends an engineer who can tell the G-man is a loser so he sends the G-man to the delevpoper's in the basement who have all seen "The Matrix" waaay to many times who suddenly thing they are being "covert" and "leet". So now much money has changed hands, the law maker thinks he know that something happened and the company thinks they did something for the law maker, but neither the law maker nor the heads of the company really understand what happened and doubtfull that anyone else does either. They'll just say things like "that favor we did for you" back and forth to each other while not having a clue what happened. Law maker thinks "his people" now have the tools they need dispite the fact that he probably can't remember who "his people" actually are, and CEO is laughing all the way to the bank knowing his product fills the government's need dispite having no idea what his product actually does.
Hell, who wouldn't do it?
In other words, yes this is exactly the same.
I find extremely little value in anything on television. It's purely contrived crap. This kind of "demand" by big media players is insane. What kind of value does their programming have that I should be forced to watch the advertisments to pay for it? Frankly, most everything I've watched and enjoyed over the past two years have been podcasts. The music I listen to comes from places like opsound.org and creative commons. When I do, rarely, flip on the TV or radio it takes about five to ten minutes before I flip it back off again. There is nothing there worth seeing or hearing. At all.
Because of this, I doubt I'll even consider buying a DVR.
Who wouldn't? If murder was not illegal, people would be dropping like flies in America. Some of our biggest cultural heroes were mass murderers. At the people cheered them on.
Exactly, you see, claiming gay people want to be married as a tax selter is bogus. No kids, no selter.
I take it you aren't married, we who are know that this "tax shelter" is a total myth. My wife and I file separately so that we don't get soaked. Married people in this country pay higher taxes than single people.
So what you are saying is, since MS makes the US a lot of money, MS should be immune to the laws of any nation they opperate in?
That's just stupid.