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You can keep the bagpipes. I want a good Viking funeral ala Thirteenth Warrior. Put me on a wooden boat a send out a flaming arrow.
Lo there do I see my father.
Lo there do I see my mother.
Lo there do I see my brothers and my sisters.
Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning.
Lo they do call to me
They bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla,
where the brave may live forever.
The man who sent the first human into space, Sergey Korolyov, was from Ukraine. The mathematician who helped him to calculate this flight, Ginsburg, was also from Ukraine.
Maybe Ukraine should write the next version of Windows. Instead of Chicago or Memphis, we could have Chernobyl...
2. Falcon takes off - Troopers shoot at AND HIT a vehicle moving at high speed away from them
I seem to remember Han Solo standing on the loading ramp of the Falcon taking pot shots at the storm troopers while they shoot wildly around him. They do manage to hit the Falcon at take off and a few times ship to ship before he escapes. This is very similar to the scene where Leia and Chewbacca escapes from Cloud City in ESB.
Face it. They couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.
Only a utterly complete fool would think that most standalone GPS units are used for what you just outlined. Most of them are sat just inside a car windscreen giving turn-by-turn directions, for which, a smartphone is totally ideal -- it's not like you can use your phone while driving anyway.
In order to add the unlimited data plan to use my "smart" phone for GPS, I would have to add $20 per month to my bill. I can buy a NEW TomTom every eight months for less money. I am still using my TomTom from 2 years ago with no problems. I still have one free map upgrade which I have not yet used. My TomTom is easier to read than my phone in a moving car and works very well.
Only a utterly complete fool signs up to spend money every month when a fixed cost device works as well or better.
Okay Mr. Devil's Advocate. Some things to consider.
Statutory damages are not punitive damages.
There is limited bandwidth for uploads.
It is unreasonable to assume 100% upload bandwidth would be used for file sharing. The defendant would have shut down the program for disrupting other usage.
The time frame for uploads must be limited.
If L is calculable, why are they seeking statutory damages?
Gaining benefit from the artists' work while not paying anything in return is robbery of artists by "society". Or put another way, according to you, society's menial, mundane jobs deserve to get paid, while artists' work is so worthless they don't even deserve to get paid minimum wage.
Your statement is asinine. If I get enjoyment looking at the Eiffel Tower or the sculpture in my town, I am getting benefit of the artist's work. Am I a thief? Last time I checked, they didn't charge admission.
I would argue that current copyright law robs the public domain. Copyright is intended to be a limited loan of artistic works from the public domain. You can't own an idea. The law as it stands only contributes to the problem. Now we have utter contempt for the law and no RIAA lawsuit or public re-education campaign will change that.
I really don't get it. Some crazed American anarchist bombs a building and people react normally to it (there's grief, there's anger, that's all normal.
That's not exactly how I remember it. I seem to remember a panic about weekend "militias", FBI infiltration of these militia groups, and Morris Dees' face plastered all over the news for a while denouncing these new "hate" groups. That's when we also got all those new metal detectors and perimeter barriers around federal buildings and we closed off Pennsylvania Ave.
A new boogeyman just hasn't yet been named to take the place of our terrorist enablers. Rest assured it will happen in time and we can erode some more of our rights. Maybe in the meantime, we can just recycle some from the past. How about the Soviets? Putin's been on a roll lately.
It's been at least ten years since I've been inside a Blockbuster. I used to rent movies from BB every weekend. It was a 20 minute drive to the store for me. One night I was returning a movie and hit the store at 12:05. The clerk was still inside and I knocked on the window and showed my movie. He motioned to the drop box. The bastards charged me a $3.00 late fee. I spent 40 minutes on the road to return the damn move that night, when I could have driven right past it the next morning on the way to work.
I mailed a letter to the manager along with the check telling them that I had been a good customer, and that I thought the fee was unfair as they got the movie back that night before the clerk left the store. I also let them know that the late fee would be the last penny Blockbuster would ever get from me if the cashed it.
They cashed it and alienated a good customer. I've mostly used Netflix, the library, or Family Video ever since. I will never give BB another cent. I almost found it humorous when they "abolished" late fees. I have spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars renting videos and games in the past 10 years and I used to occasionally buy used tapes from BB. BB decided their $3.00 nuisance fee was more important. I have never since had a similar experience or dealt with unreasonable or arbitrary rules with any of the rental stores I have used since.
My favourite idiotic SI is the one passed a few years ago, under which it is now illegal for, say, a professor of electrical engineering to rewire his or her own kitchen or bathroom, while the same job can be done by an unqualified trainee who merely works for a registered electrical contractor.
Sounds like you need to call on Harry Tuttle to do the work for you. That is assuming Information Retrieval doesn't realize/realise you have bypassed the paperwork at Central Services.
I bought my last CDs in 2001. I bought 2 CDs for my ex-wife because she wanted one song off of each CD. One of the CDs was so bad that she asked me to rip the single and make a new CD so she wouldn't have to listed to the rest of the sh*t. I paid $17.99 plus tax per CD to Best Buy. It cost me almost $40 for two friggin' songs. I hope they invested it well, because it was the last dime they'll get from me.
Uncoordinated lights cause all kinds of problems: traffic congestion, excessive idling, jackrabbit starts.
I usually avoid the most direct road to work because it has 12 uncoordinated lights in a single 1.5 mile stretch. Well, the bastards closed my normal road for a month so now I have to go the other way.
Last week, I left for work after the normal morning rush and sat at one particular light for three and a half minutes. I timed it. During that time, I counted ten cars coming the other way. The light was already red when I pulled up so God knows how long it actually stayed red in total. My normal longer commute takes me 12 minutes. I am now lucky to make it in 20.
The campaign against Prop 8 was quite ambitious, with many impassioned supporters whose lives were changed by its passing, which unfortunately wasn't enough.
From out here in the midwest, it looks like a simple pissing contest. When the big push came for gay marriage, the complaint was that privacy requirements, adoption laws and probate laws were the reason gay marriage were necessary. Now the rules have suddenly changed. Civil unions granting all the supposed benefits of marriage without the name are just an insult. Both sides are in a pissing contest over the "respectability" of gay marriage; nothing else.
A method of filling an order for a sandwich comprising: toasting a bread component for the sandwich for less than about 1 minute in response to the order in a first heating device; and initiating and completing the heating of a sandwich filling for the sandwich from about 4OF or less to about 120F or more in a second heating device, while the bread component is heating, in response to the order.
This also sound remarkably like Burger King's unpatented method for making a Whopper. Maybe they intend to sue their competition out of business, or force them to serve cold Whoppers?
Well that's not true of all PhD's. But it aptly describes this one.
Unquestionably. And he was definitely screwing with you on the whole public/private IP address thing. He had to be intentionally misleading you or else be a total idiot. He knew damn good and well what you were asking. I myself have multiple computers NATed behind a router. One of my buddies has a fully open wireless zone firewalled off from the rest of his LAN. All NATed behind one public IP, of course.
That deposition is too funny... I read about halfway through before I just had to grep it for "squeal like a pig." It just goes to show you what I have always said: PhD stands for poor helpless dummy.
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You can keep the bagpipes. I want a good Viking funeral ala Thirteenth Warrior. Put me on a wooden boat a send out a flaming arrow.
Lo there do I see my father.
Lo there do I see my mother.
Lo there do I see my brothers and my sisters.
Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning.
Lo they do call to me
They bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever.
Is it class M?
It might have Roddenberries.
Maybe Ukraine should write the next version of Windows. Instead of Chicago or Memphis, we could have Chernobyl...
I seem to remember Han Solo standing on the loading ramp of the Falcon taking pot shots at the storm troopers while they shoot wildly around him. They do manage to hit the Falcon at take off and a few times ship to ship before he escapes. This is very similar to the scene where Leia and Chewbacca escapes from Cloud City in ESB.
Face it. They couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.
I'm not your buddy, guy...
In order to add the unlimited data plan to use my "smart" phone for GPS, I would have to add $20 per month to my bill. I can buy a NEW TomTom every eight months for less money. I am still using my TomTom from 2 years ago with no problems. I still have one free map upgrade which I have not yet used. My TomTom is easier to read than my phone in a moving car and works very well.
Only a utterly complete fool signs up to spend money every month when a fixed cost device works as well or better.
And another thing...
It doesn't even pass the laugh test. $2 million for 24 songs?????
Your statement is asinine. If I get enjoyment looking at the Eiffel Tower or the sculpture in my town, I am getting benefit of the artist's work. Am I a thief? Last time I checked, they didn't charge admission.
I would argue that current copyright law robs the public domain. Copyright is intended to be a limited loan of artistic works from the public domain. You can't own an idea. The law as it stands only contributes to the problem. Now we have utter contempt for the law and no RIAA lawsuit or public re-education campaign will change that.
That's not exactly how I remember it. I seem to remember a panic about weekend "militias", FBI infiltration of these militia groups, and Morris Dees' face plastered all over the news for a while denouncing these new "hate" groups. That's when we also got all those new metal detectors and perimeter barriers around federal buildings and we closed off Pennsylvania Ave.
A new boogeyman just hasn't yet been named to take the place of our terrorist enablers. Rest assured it will happen in time and we can erode some more of our rights. Maybe in the meantime, we can just recycle some from the past. How about the Soviets? Putin's been on a roll lately.
That shit IS delicious. It's the bomb. I'll bring a bag on my next trip up. You friend, An Overfed American
Then how did Best Buy survive? Nobody has worse customer service. I always got screwed more at Best Buy than Circuit City.
It's been at least ten years since I've been inside a Blockbuster. I used to rent movies from BB every weekend. It was a 20 minute drive to the store for me. One night I was returning a movie and hit the store at 12:05. The clerk was still inside and I knocked on the window and showed my movie. He motioned to the drop box. The bastards charged me a $3.00 late fee. I spent 40 minutes on the road to return the damn move that night, when I could have driven right past it the next morning on the way to work.
I mailed a letter to the manager along with the check telling them that I had been a good customer, and that I thought the fee was unfair as they got the movie back that night before the clerk left the store. I also let them know that the late fee would be the last penny Blockbuster would ever get from me if the cashed it.
They cashed it and alienated a good customer. I've mostly used Netflix, the library, or Family Video ever since. I will never give BB another cent. I almost found it humorous when they "abolished" late fees. I have spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars renting videos and games in the past 10 years and I used to occasionally buy used tapes from BB. BB decided their $3.00 nuisance fee was more important. I have never since had a similar experience or dealt with unreasonable or arbitrary rules with any of the rental stores I have used since.
Astronomers renamed Uranus to Urectum.
Which keys do I delete with regedit?
Sounds like you need to call on Harry Tuttle to do the work for you. That is assuming Information Retrieval doesn't realize/realise you have bypassed the paperwork at Central Services.
I bought my last CDs in 2001. I bought 2 CDs for my ex-wife because she wanted one song off of each CD. One of the CDs was so bad that she asked me to rip the single and make a new CD so she wouldn't have to listed to the rest of the sh*t. I paid $17.99 plus tax per CD to Best Buy. It cost me almost $40 for two friggin' songs. I hope they invested it well, because it was the last dime they'll get from me.
Uncoordinated lights cause all kinds of problems: traffic congestion, excessive idling, jackrabbit starts.
I usually avoid the most direct road to work because it has 12 uncoordinated lights in a single 1.5 mile stretch. Well, the bastards closed my normal road for a month so now I have to go the other way.
Last week, I left for work after the normal morning rush and sat at one particular light for three and a half minutes. I timed it. During that time, I counted ten cars coming the other way. The light was already red when I pulled up so God knows how long it actually stayed red in total. My normal longer commute takes me 12 minutes. I am now lucky to make it in 20.
From out here in the midwest, it looks like a simple pissing contest. When the big push came for gay marriage, the complaint was that privacy requirements, adoption laws and probate laws were the reason gay marriage were necessary. Now the rules have suddenly changed. Civil unions granting all the supposed benefits of marriage without the name are just an insult. Both sides are in a pissing contest over the "respectability" of gay marriage; nothing else.
At least they are safe from the evil of Doug Piranha. If we could just get Dinsdale to stop nailing their heads to the floor, we'd be set.
I've seen horrendously ugly people reproduce. Well... Not personally, but you get the picture.
This also sound remarkably like Burger King's unpatented method for making a Whopper. Maybe they intend to sue their competition out of business, or force them to serve cold Whoppers?
Dude, I'm surprised anything works. I can't get Ubuntu to load with 64Megs. I'd bet that machine is thrashing like mad!
Unquestionably. And he was definitely screwing with you on the whole public/private IP address thing. He had to be intentionally misleading you or else be a total idiot. He knew damn good and well what you were asking. I myself have multiple computers NATed behind a router. One of my buddies has a fully open wireless zone firewalled off from the rest of his LAN. All NATed behind one public IP, of course.
That deposition is too funny... I read about halfway through before I just had to grep it for "squeal like a pig." It just goes to show you what I have always said: PhD stands for poor helpless dummy.