I did go out on Black Friday and did find a pair of beat around shoes for 70% off the normal price, but other than wine from a local vineyard, didn't find anything.
The same with almost every shopping trip, nothing to find. Since I'm not one of the herds of hippos roaming the country, stores refuse to carry clothes in my size. As I don't buy products made in China, that excludes just about every electronic device out there.
Even online the selections are meager. As a result, I have free cash flow and no debt because there's nothing to buy. Pretty soon I'll be relegated to wearing a toga and using chalk boards to communicate.
Obtain the software, launch the installer, click to actually start, oh wait, have to click acceptance of the license agreement, click to accept where it wants to install stuff, click once more once it's done. That's about the lowest number of steps I've seen.
So you're saying the end-user should have no say about where to install files? That they should rely on the package to install the files wherever it pleases based on the whim of the person who created the package? I'll pass.
There are enough issues with shitty software due to bad programming that taking away that last vestige of user control is a non-starter. I want my software to be installed where I want it, not where the prima dona programmer decides.
Considering how often the words "freedom to choose" is bandied about on here, it's amazing when people start talking about not giving the end-user the choice of what to do.
Nate can use his statistical prowess to document and irrefutably show the bias Big 10 refs have for and against certain teams based on the number of blown calls or calls which should have been called compared to the other conferences such as the SEC and PAC-12.
There is no Constitutional right to remove yourself for.
There also isn't a Constitutional prohibition about doing so. Just like the 9th Amendment, just because it's not written doesn't mean you can't.
As to the legality, Scalia replied to someone on this subject and, as usual, his "logic" shouldn't be taken seriously. Quote:
If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. (Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, âoeone Nation, indivisible.â)
HUH? WTF does the Pledge of Allegiance have to do with secession. It was written by a Baptist Minister as a way of bringing the nation together, not as something that one MUST do or has any bearing on governmental activities. Then the Christians went and forced the government to change the pledge, over the objections of the person who wrote it, because not it would have been criminal not to have their religion left out.
BTW, the pledge was written in 1892 and not adopted until 1942 so for Scalia to somehow claim the Pledge had anything to do with secession shows his complete lack of understanding of basic facts.
So, getting back to your original comment, there is noting in the Constitution which says a state can secede, nor is there is anything which says they cannot secede.
Please name one state where you are required to obtain a state-issued ID.
Pennsylvania. The recent law that was shoved through in the last 3 months to force people to get an ID to vote was, fortunately, put on hold for this election so no ID was necessary. However, for future elections, you must provide an acceptable form of ID which for many is either a driver's license (state issued) or a card similar to the license which is only good for voting (state issued).
Other forms would be a military ID (government issued) or similar ID. Oddly, if you are a state worker the ID badge you are given is NOT an acceptable form of ID. Not sure the who/what/why of this as the ID has your name, your picture and the agency you work for.
You need to double check how human the lethal injection process is.
Right, because the person that was bludgeoned to death with a hammer or repeatedly stabbed with an ice pick or was raped for hours or days then repeatedly suffocated to the point of death but not quite before having bleach shoved down their throat was killed quickly and humanely.
Exactly. Because if I ever get called to jury duty for a murder/homicide case, if the guilty party isn't going to get the death penalty, I'll do my part to nullify the jury and let them go because I believe the penalty isn't harsh enough.
There is no such thing as a hoodlum. What you're thinking of is someone who's mad at the man and takes out his anger on someone who has done nothing to him.
We're supposed to praise these people as they stick it to the man and the pigs who try to stop them. After all, wasn't that what was happening after Rodney King got the snot beat out of him? The folks in the neighborhood were just sticking it to the man.
On here, appropriating someone else's property without their permission, not compensating someone for their work or destroying property for the lulz isn't a crime. It's an act to be celebrated because what someone does has no effect on anyone else and they should be allowed to do what they want.
Ah yes, now we have it! Now we'll encrypt what our user's upload and for others to download because then we're not responsible for anything. Yeah, that's it.
Now our user's have no fear that their legitimate files will be seen. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
See, the issue isn't that we're trying to hide anything, because everything here is legal and above board, no, the real issue is that we're offering a service for people to store all their legitimate files safe from prying eyes. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
Honest, that's all we're doing. Just a place to store all your legitimate files. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
We could offer a no encryption service, but we need to protect the privacy of our user's and their legitimate needs. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
So again, just so everyone is clear on this, we're offering this service so people can store and trade their legitimate files without fear of anyone finding out what those legitimate files are. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
Apparently the EFF wants you to open your wifi to everyone and anyone because it will promote privacy (how, they never explain), but when a free operating system enables searching the internet by default, apparently that's a no no because it might leach personal information.
How is this any different than if a police officer goes on to your property, roots around in your garbage can and finds that you're dealing crack or leading an underage prostitution ring? The evidence in the above cases would be thrown out because courts have consistently said that while the police can go through your garbage IF the can is at the curb, they cannot walk on to your property to get to it.
This seems to be the same thing. They came on to private property to search for evidence with the only difference being they used a camera instead of their hands.
Exactly. Look at what the pharma industry did with smallpox, polio and rinderpest. They spent millions of dollars and decades of research to come up with something which would permanently take care of these issues and look at the money which is flowing into them now that they've done so.
Just think how much more they could have made had they come up with something that needs to be administered year after year. The amounts would be staggering.
These pharma folks must be idiots to come up with a vaccine that prevents something once and for all rather than just doling out temporary fixes.
People on here talk big about being able to do what they want with the system's they by, how it's no one else's business what they do once they own it and companies shouldn't try to lock things down.
Congratulations, now you're seeing why this attitude of, "I'll do what I want because it doesn't hurt anyone else" is false. Your modding your equipment has now caused others to be affected. Regardless of the fact that this is only a game, your actions are now rippling down to others (the only time trickle down works).
Getting hung by your own petard isn't much fun, is it?
Thanks for the quote. I will add it to my pile for use in a book I think I'm trying to write, with one of the chapters being Ignora-ance (i.e. ignoring something because you don't like it or the messenger).
sn't the case many times that the lawyers bare the cost of the lawsuit
No. Attorneys only take cases such as these when they know they will win. What would be the point of taking a case where they, the attorney, bore the expenses without being compensated?
This was a clear cut case so the attorneys took it knowing they could get bundles of money for themselves while making it seem like the plaintiffs won a victory.
An instructor for one of my legal classes made the following statement when dealing with trials: Never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer.
The same applies to cases such as this: Never take a case which you know you won't win.
If you have nothing to hide, surely you won't mind the police searching your house, car, body, phone, computer, etc. without a warrant or even probable cause.
This is exactly what Bush, Cheney, et al said, and I didn't hear you complaining about them saying it then going ahead and doing the very things you talk about. Apparently you wouldn't mind lynching Bush, Cheney, et al, right?
Since Canonical is following (or leads) Mozilla in releasing on a quick schedule, does this also mean Canonical will be pulling this release tomorrow due to a security flaw?
Because you are proposing abstinence, a religious concept that goes against human nature
Not necessarily. One could choose not to have sex for a variety of reasons, none of which the invocation of any religious idea. Maybe they saw something early in their life which traumatized them into not wanting to have sex, maybe their genetic structure is such that the desire to not have sex is greater than it is to have sex. There are many reasons one might abstain from sex which have nothing to do with religion.
Human nature comes from our genes and our experiences. If our genes "tell" us not to have sex, how can that be against human nature? It IS nature.
As a small aside to your experiences, I found that when using LibreOffice and I want to use the following as a separator: ______________ (that's holding down Shift to get the underline)
in LibreOffice, it creates an entire line across the page whereas in Word 2010, it creates the line exactly as shown. If I try to delete the extraneous lines, the entire line is deleted in LO.
I did do some looking, but did not find a way in LO to stop this "feature" from occurring.
This is why everything except the bare essentials should be turned off in such products. Then, create an easy-to-find menu system for the user to turn on what they want instead of the current way of turning everything on by default and having to turn them off just so one can get work done.
As a follow up to your input, would it be possible for a planet to have a figure 8 orbit around a binary star system? i.e. the planet has such a highly elliptical orbit that it goes part way around one star but is then sent off on a trajectory which allows it to be "captured" by the second star but is again flung out on a reverse trajectory to be "captured" by the first star?
Yeah, you go TPB. That just means more software for the taking without having to pay someone for it. It doesn't matter if it took you 2-3 years to make that new game, my first thought won't be, "How much is it?" but, "Where can I get the torrent?" And you'll help me find it.
To the guy who was asking how to get paid for free software, you want paid for something I can get for free? Hahahaha! Sucker. No one pays for software any more. We just take what we want because we don't care if you get paid or not.
Go TPB! Long live not having to pay someone for their efforts!
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I did go out on Black Friday and did find a pair of beat around shoes for 70% off the normal price, but other than wine from a local vineyard, didn't find anything.
The same with almost every shopping trip, nothing to find. Since I'm not one of the herds of hippos roaming the country, stores refuse to carry clothes in my size. As I don't buy products made in China, that excludes just about every electronic device out there.
Even online the selections are meager. As a result, I have free cash flow and no debt because there's nothing to buy. Pretty soon I'll be relegated to wearing a toga and using chalk boards to communicate.
Obtain the software, launch the installer, click to actually start, oh wait, have to click acceptance of the license agreement, click to accept where it wants to install stuff, click once more once it's done. That's about the lowest number of steps I've seen.
So you're saying the end-user should have no say about where to install files? That they should rely on the package to install the files wherever it pleases based on the whim of the person who created the package? I'll pass.
There are enough issues with shitty software due to bad programming that taking away that last vestige of user control is a non-starter. I want my software to be installed where I want it, not where the prima dona programmer decides.
Considering how often the words "freedom to choose" is bandied about on here, it's amazing when people start talking about not giving the end-user the choice of what to do.
Nate can use his statistical prowess to document and irrefutably show the bias Big 10 refs have for and against certain teams based on the number of blown calls or calls which should have been called compared to the other conferences such as the SEC and PAC-12.
There also isn't a Constitutional prohibition about doing so. Just like the 9th Amendment, just because it's not written doesn't mean you can't.
As to the legality, Scalia replied to someone on this subject and, as usual, his "logic" shouldn't be taken seriously. Quote:
HUH? WTF does the Pledge of Allegiance have to do with secession. It was written by a Baptist Minister as a way of bringing the nation together, not as something that one MUST do or has any bearing on governmental activities. Then the Christians went and forced the government to change the pledge, over the objections of the person who wrote it, because not it would have been criminal not to have their religion left out.
BTW, the pledge was written in 1892 and not adopted until 1942 so for Scalia to somehow claim the Pledge had anything to do with secession shows his complete lack of understanding of basic facts.
So, getting back to your original comment, there is noting in the Constitution which says a state can secede, nor is there is anything which says they cannot secede.
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So then you're agreeing with Barney Stinson when he said:
That's what corporate America wants: people who seem like bold risk takers, but never actually do anything. Actually doing things get you fired.
Please name one state where you are required to obtain a state-issued ID.
Pennsylvania. The recent law that was shoved through in the last 3 months to force people to get an ID to vote was, fortunately, put on hold for this election so no ID was necessary. However, for future elections, you must provide an acceptable form of ID which for many is either a driver's license (state issued) or a card similar to the license which is only good for voting (state issued).
Other forms would be a military ID (government issued) or similar ID. Oddly, if you are a state worker the ID badge you are given is NOT an acceptable form of ID. Not sure the who/what/why of this as the ID has your name, your picture and the agency you work for.
You need to double check how human the lethal injection process is.
Right, because the person that was bludgeoned to death with a hammer or repeatedly stabbed with an ice pick or was raped for hours or days then repeatedly suffocated to the point of death but not quite before having bleach shoved down their throat was killed quickly and humanely.
Exactly. Because if I ever get called to jury duty for a murder/homicide case, if the guilty party isn't going to get the death penalty, I'll do my part to nullify the jury and let them go because I believe the penalty isn't harsh enough.
Yup, jury nullification all the way.
Like say a hoodlum with a some gasoline.
There is no such thing as a hoodlum. What you're thinking of is someone who's mad at the man and takes out his anger on someone who has done nothing to him.
We're supposed to praise these people as they stick it to the man and the pigs who try to stop them. After all, wasn't that what was happening after Rodney King got the snot beat out of him? The folks in the neighborhood were just sticking it to the man.
On here, appropriating someone else's property without their permission, not compensating someone for their work or destroying property for the lulz isn't a crime. It's an act to be celebrated because what someone does has no effect on anyone else and they should be allowed to do what they want.
Ah yes, now we have it! Now we'll encrypt what our user's upload and for others to download because then we're not responsible for anything. Yeah, that's it.
Now our user's have no fear that their legitimate files will be seen. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
See, the issue isn't that we're trying to hide anything, because everything here is legal and above board, no, the real issue is that we're offering a service for people to store all their legitimate files safe from prying eyes. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
Honest, that's all we're doing. Just a place to store all your legitimate files. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
We could offer a no encryption service, but we need to protect the privacy of our user's and their legitimate needs. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
So again, just so everyone is clear on this, we're offering this service so people can store and trade their legitimate files without fear of anyone finding out what those legitimate files are. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
Apparently the EFF wants you to open your wifi to everyone and anyone because it will promote privacy (how, they never explain), but when a free operating system enables searching the internet by default, apparently that's a no no because it might leach personal information.
Way to be a hypocrite EFF.
How is this any different than if a police officer goes on to your property, roots around in your garbage can and finds that you're dealing crack or leading an underage prostitution ring? The evidence in the above cases would be thrown out because courts have consistently said that while the police can go through your garbage IF the can is at the curb, they cannot walk on to your property to get to it.
This seems to be the same thing. They came on to private property to search for evidence with the only difference being they used a camera instead of their hands.
Exactly. Look at what the pharma industry did with smallpox, polio and rinderpest. They spent millions of dollars and decades of research to come up with something which would permanently take care of these issues and look at the money which is flowing into them now that they've done so.
Just think how much more they could have made had they come up with something that needs to be administered year after year. The amounts would be staggering.
These pharma folks must be idiots to come up with a vaccine that prevents something once and for all rather than just doling out temporary fixes.
People on here talk big about being able to do what they want with the system's they by, how it's no one else's business what they do once they own it and companies shouldn't try to lock things down.
Congratulations, now you're seeing why this attitude of, "I'll do what I want because it doesn't hurt anyone else" is false. Your modding your equipment has now caused others to be affected. Regardless of the fact that this is only a game, your actions are now rippling down to others (the only time trickle down works).
Getting hung by your own petard isn't much fun, is it?
Thanks for the quote. I will add it to my pile for use in a book I think I'm trying to write, with one of the chapters being Ignora-ance (i.e. ignoring something because you don't like it or the messenger).
sn't the case many times that the lawyers bare the cost of the lawsuit
No. Attorneys only take cases such as these when they know they will win. What would be the point of taking a case where they, the attorney, bore the expenses without being compensated?
This was a clear cut case so the attorneys took it knowing they could get bundles of money for themselves while making it seem like the plaintiffs won a victory.
An instructor for one of my legal classes made the following statement when dealing with trials: Never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer.
The same applies to cases such as this: Never take a case which you know you won't win.
If you have nothing to hide, surely you won't mind the police searching your house, car, body, phone, computer, etc. without a warrant or even probable cause.
This is exactly what Bush, Cheney, et al said, and I didn't hear you complaining about them saying it then going ahead and doing the very things you talk about. Apparently you wouldn't mind lynching Bush, Cheney, et al, right?
Nice hypocrisy you have there.
then there shouldn't be a problem with letting people observe the process to make sure nothing funny is going on.
Right?
Speaking of Kickstarter, the danger of investing in the projects has has come to light.
Looks like there's only so much people are willing to put up with before they realize they're not getting paid for their work.
The OP was talking about businesses, not people.If you're a legitimate business, there is no reason to obfuscate your phone number.
Since Canonical is following (or leads) Mozilla in releasing on a quick schedule, does this also mean Canonical will be pulling this release tomorrow due to a security flaw?
Because you are proposing abstinence, a religious concept that goes against human nature
Not necessarily. One could choose not to have sex for a variety of reasons, none of which the invocation of any religious idea. Maybe they saw something early in their life which traumatized them into not wanting to have sex, maybe their genetic structure is such that the desire to not have sex is greater than it is to have sex. There are many reasons one might abstain from sex which have nothing to do with religion.
Human nature comes from our genes and our experiences. If our genes "tell" us not to have sex, how can that be against human nature? It IS nature.
As a small aside to your experiences, I found that when using LibreOffice and I want to use the following as a separator:
______________ (that's holding down Shift to get the underline)
in LibreOffice, it creates an entire line across the page whereas in Word 2010, it creates the line exactly as shown. If I try to delete the extraneous lines, the entire line is deleted in LO.
I did do some looking, but did not find a way in LO to stop this "feature" from occurring.
This is why everything except the bare essentials should be turned off in such products. Then, create an easy-to-find menu system for the user to turn on what they want instead of the current way of turning everything on by default and having to turn them off just so one can get work done.
Opt in rather than opt out. Sound familiar?
As a follow up to your input, would it be possible for a planet to have a figure 8 orbit around a binary star system? i.e. the planet has such a highly elliptical orbit that it goes part way around one star but is then sent off on a trajectory which allows it to be "captured" by the second star but is again flung out on a reverse trajectory to be "captured" by the first star?
Just a thought question.
Yeah, you go TPB. That just means more software for the taking without having to pay someone for it. It doesn't matter if it took you 2-3 years to make that new game, my first thought won't be, "How much is it?" but, "Where can I get the torrent?" And you'll help me find it.
To the guy who was asking how to get paid for free software, you want paid for something I can get for free? Hahahaha! Sucker. No one pays for software any more. We just take what we want because we don't care if you get paid or not.
Go TPB! Long live not having to pay someone for their efforts!