Wow, you are pretty impatient if you need the movie to be there in 1 second!
Seeing as the movie is at least an hour long, why are you in such a rush? If movies could download in 1 minute, I'd be pretty satisfied. Thats only about 133 Gbps if I did my math correct for 1 GB of data.
But in reality, who needs it to be there in a minute anyway. As long as the system is decent enough to stream starting at any point in the movie you choose, you really only need to be able to download 1GB in 45 minutes (a little buffer time is always good). By my math thats about 3Mbps. HEY, I have one of those...
PS: lowercase b is bit, uppercase B is byte, your numbers would make more sense if you differentiated.
I think you meant lost sales, not lost profit. They lose sales but also don't incur other costs of support and other associated issues. Thus, one would assume that they predict that their profit would be maximized by not selling AMD and sticking only with Intel.
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By filing with Intuit you have already put your trust into a big corporation. Many Intuit employees have access to your personal information. ONE rogue employee from Intuit could compromise your SSN. Why would you be so trusting of Intuit but not Omniture?
My computer's hard drive crashed the other day and the IT guy bumbled about for hours on the thing. Meanwhile I spent the time drafting a patent for a "Method and Apparatus for Eliminating IT Jobs." Sheesh, IT people are the source of every evil in the world...
Assuming that you don't travel with your phone (just as you can't travel with your landline) there are no issues. The VOIP phone can announce your location to 911. If you do travel, you have to update the service to tell it where you are. Why do people have so much trouble with this versus cell phones? Am I giving people too much credit in their logic skills?
Black's Law Dictionary: Theft: 1. The felonious taking and removing of another's personal property with the intent of depriving the true owner of it
First, I'd argue that the property is taken. No one comes to your house and takes the money, but then you'll argue that the government will garnish your wages and such to get the taxes if you don't pay, so we'll stay away from that one.
Let's focus on felonious:
Of course the definition of felonious is "of or relating to a felony" so turning to Felony: 1. A serious crime usu. punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death. Examples include burglary, arson, rape, and murder.
So, while Black's law does not define the law, it is a very persuasive source when it comes to definition of terms. Because taxes are not against the "law" they cannot by definition be theft. Your whole argument begins with the definition Taxes ARE theft, yet you have provided no justification for that argument.
Please provide some type of justification as to your definition of taxes as theft.
PS: Sorry for calling you an idiot yesterday, I was in an especially defiant mood. No offense was intended.
So, because there is one person that you don't agree should be prohibitted than the whole policy is wrong?
As to the metal detector, you may not be legally required to submit the x-ray, but I'd love to be there when you refuse to send your stuff through. You are "effectively" required to submit to the x-ray. You are however not required to go through the medical detector, but you must submit to a more intrusive physical search by a TSA agent.
Back to the subject at hand, assuming that you don't fake your ID (big assumption) checking ID's has a lot to do with security. If we know that X has made plans to bring a bomb on an airplane, he should have a more difficult time getting onto the airplane. Of course, if you are against that, we could just subject every person to a strip search before boarding, but somehow I don't think that you'll find that reasonable either.
If you come to my club and I say you must pay me 10% of your earnings if you want to stay at my club, I'm not stealing 10% of your earnings. Even if you argue, well that 10% goes towards the swimming pool and the hot tub, and frankly, I can't swim so I won't be using those, therefore I won't pay that. I have the right to kick you out or have you arrested for trespassing if you refuse to pay. Same deal, you live in the US, you get benefit from the services, you pay the taxes. Frankly, I'm not even sure why I'm continuing this argument. Your little logic game is functionally illogical because you are starting your argument with a definition that is incorrect. Taxes are not theft.
I'm not sure that you are thinking clearly. Showing ID is just to prove that you are the person on the ticket. When you purchased the ticket you provided your name. This is what allowed you to be tracked. At the airport they don't record your driver's license number or even scan your ID. They just look at the name and the picture and say, "Welcome Mr. Smith." If you really want to find something to complain about, look to the fact that you have to provide your name when purchasing a ticket. But good luck finding a decent argument there as you probably bought your ticket with a credit card or at the very least a check. Point is, that you expose yourself publicly in many more ways than simply showing an ID at the airport. If someone really wants to track you, steal your identity, etc...they will, cause its not that hard. So, what are you really giving up by verifying your identity before boarding a plane?
Surely you aren't advocating annoymous flight with no metal detectors and luggage xrays? Frankly, I wouldn't consider flying if those things were not there.
Nice argument. I'll come back with, if Bush jumped off a bridge would you?
Distorting comments is distorting comments. Dachannien's comment wasn't suddenly correct because Bush distorted Kerry's comments at some point. If you don't like that...too bad!
I suppose the gas station steals from you, but generously provides you will gasoline. Have you ever driven on a city street? Have you ever gone to a park? Oh, nevermind, you probably haven't left that basement in twenty-five years.
Taxes are payments to cover services provided, learn to deal with it!
Go outside, break into your electric meter and turn the dial back, leave lots of evidence...you think the power supplier will hesitate to cut you off? You'll be lucky if they don't cut you off at the knees and put you in jail.
Depends on whether you find enjoyment in building computer's and assembling software. If not, you'll want to buy an off-the-shelf model. Those require the same opportunity cost as a TiVo box. Yes, it will work with DirecTV by using an IR blaster, just like a stand-alone TiVo does. No, it is not integrated into the directv set-top box...
If by video card you mean a card for renting movies and by "you guys" you mean US citizens, then I would say that we our pretty similar to you. Video stores generally take a driver's license number or credit card to keep on file, they don't require a social security number and I don't believe I've even been asked to provide one optionally.
Generally, social security numbers are used for things relating to schools, banking/investing/fincial activities, and government documents like tax returns.
There is a difference between lying and saying something that isn't true. Lying requires intention. I don't know if thats the case here, but it is possible. If the person that said that the precautions were in place honestly thought that they were in place he wasn't lying. However, if he knew that precauations were not in place, but said that they were regardless, he was lying.
Though his wording was not quite clear, I think he was saying that you aren't allowed to open.doc's created in OpenOffice in Word. Thus, someone creates a.DOC in OpenOffice and sends it to you. You choose to Open it in Word and you have agreed to Microsoft's license. But, like I said, I can't tell if thats what he meant.
I'm a little confused on the whole.DOC being a closed format issue. If OpenOffice can write documents in the proprietary.DOC format, why can't other programs? Am I missing the picture completely? Thanks for any explanation!
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Seeing as the movie is at least an hour long, why are you in such a rush? If movies could download in 1 minute, I'd be pretty satisfied. Thats only about 133 Gbps if I did my math correct for 1 GB of data.
But in reality, who needs it to be there in a minute anyway. As long as the system is decent enough to stream starting at any point in the movie you choose, you really only need to be able to download 1GB in 45 minutes (a little buffer time is always good). By my math thats about 3Mbps. HEY, I have one of those...
PS: lowercase b is bit, uppercase B is byte, your numbers would make more sense if you differentiated.
I think you meant lost sales, not lost profit. They lose sales but also don't incur other costs of support and other associated issues. Thus, one would assume that they predict that their profit would be maximized by not selling AMD and sticking only with Intel.
By filing with Intuit you have already put your trust into a big corporation. Many Intuit employees have access to your personal information. ONE rogue employee from Intuit could compromise your SSN. Why would you be so trusting of Intuit but not Omniture?
My computer's hard drive crashed the other day and the IT guy bumbled about for hours on the thing. Meanwhile I spent the time drafting a patent for a "Method and Apparatus for Eliminating IT Jobs." Sheesh, IT people are the source of every evil in the world...
Assuming that you don't travel with your phone (just as you can't travel with your landline) there are no issues. The VOIP phone can announce your location to 911. If you do travel, you have to update the service to tell it where you are. Why do people have so much trouble with this versus cell phones? Am I giving people too much credit in their logic skills?
Have you read the patent?
Black's Law Dictionary: Theft: 1. The felonious taking and removing of another's personal property with the intent of depriving the true owner of it
First, I'd argue that the property is taken. No one comes to your house and takes the money, but then you'll argue that the government will garnish your wages and such to get the taxes if you don't pay, so we'll stay away from that one.
Let's focus on felonious:
Of course the definition of felonious is "of or relating to a felony" so turning to Felony: 1. A serious crime usu. punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death. Examples include burglary, arson, rape, and murder.
So, while Black's law does not define the law, it is a very persuasive source when it comes to definition of terms. Because taxes are not against the "law" they cannot by definition be theft. Your whole argument begins with the definition Taxes ARE theft, yet you have provided no justification for that argument.
Please provide some type of justification as to your definition of taxes as theft.
PS: Sorry for calling you an idiot yesterday, I was in an especially defiant mood. No offense was intended.
I hope that you will enjoy your time in juvile hall if that happens.
As to the metal detector, you may not be legally required to submit the x-ray, but I'd love to be there when you refuse to send your stuff through. You are "effectively" required to submit to the x-ray. You are however not required to go through the medical detector, but you must submit to a more intrusive physical search by a TSA agent.
Back to the subject at hand, assuming that you don't fake your ID (big assumption) checking ID's has a lot to do with security. If we know that X has made plans to bring a bomb on an airplane, he should have a more difficult time getting onto the airplane. Of course, if you are against that, we could just subject every person to a strip search before boarding, but somehow I don't think that you'll find that reasonable either.
If you come to my club and I say you must pay me 10% of your earnings if you want to stay at my club, I'm not stealing 10% of your earnings. Even if you argue, well that 10% goes towards the swimming pool and the hot tub, and frankly, I can't swim so I won't be using those, therefore I won't pay that. I have the right to kick you out or have you arrested for trespassing if you refuse to pay. Same deal, you live in the US, you get benefit from the services, you pay the taxes. Frankly, I'm not even sure why I'm continuing this argument. Your little logic game is functionally illogical because you are starting your argument with a definition that is incorrect. Taxes are not theft.
Surely you aren't advocating annoymous flight with no metal detectors and luggage xrays? Frankly, I wouldn't consider flying if those things were not there.
Distorting comments is distorting comments. Dachannien's comment wasn't suddenly correct because Bush distorted Kerry's comments at some point. If you don't like that...too bad!
I suppose the gas station steals from you, but generously provides you will gasoline. Have you ever driven on a city street? Have you ever gone to a park? Oh, nevermind, you probably haven't left that basement in twenty-five years.
Taxes are payments to cover services provided, learn to deal with it!
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LOL, thats some good work there! I wish that I could mod you up.
Haven't we known about the benefits of FLOSSing for a long time? Man, talk about irrelavent studies...
Go outside, break into your electric meter and turn the dial back, leave lots of evidence...you think the power supplier will hesitate to cut you off? You'll be lucky if they don't cut you off at the knees and put you in jail.
Depends on whether you find enjoyment in building computer's and assembling software. If not, you'll want to buy an off-the-shelf model. Those require the same opportunity cost as a TiVo box. Yes, it will work with DirecTV by using an IR blaster, just like a stand-alone TiVo does. No, it is not integrated into the directv set-top box...
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Generally, social security numbers are used for things relating to schools, banking/investing/fincial activities, and government documents like tax returns.
There is a difference between lying and saying something that isn't true. Lying requires intention. I don't know if thats the case here, but it is possible. If the person that said that the precautions were in place honestly thought that they were in place he wasn't lying. However, if he knew that precauations were not in place, but said that they were regardless, he was lying.
Though his wording was not quite clear, I think he was saying that you aren't allowed to open .doc's created in OpenOffice in Word. Thus, someone creates a .DOC in OpenOffice and sends it to you. You choose to Open it in Word and you have agreed to Microsoft's license. But, like I said, I can't tell if thats what he meant.
I'm a little confused on the whole .DOC being a closed format issue. If OpenOffice can write documents in the proprietary .DOC format, why can't other programs? Am I missing the picture completely? Thanks for any explanation!
Thanks, I didn't feel like looking it up before!