We wouldn't be sneaking in if you didn't charge $50/head. Put a donation jar up front. Guaranteed, I'll give you some money. I'll bet a few others will, too. Furthermore, many will be sneaking in because they can.
Most infringement occurs because many people don't see inherent value in a non-physical object. I don't have a time justifying purchases of new hardware, but I do have trouble justifying purchases of software. If hardware could be reproduced as easily as software, I probably wouldn't buy any hardware either.
Traditional Muslim teaching is that all peoples "of the book" (Jews and Christians) are given a protected status since they believe in the same god. IIRC, those people are guaranteed civil rights and other such protections in a Muslim state. I cannot recall the whole status as it has been a few years since my Middle East gen ed.
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies--civilians and military--is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.
It sounds like he's pissed that the US has a military presence in Saudi Arabia. I also suggest you read the entire fatwa. Nowhere does he suggest converting people to Islam or killing non-muslims, nor does he speak of western attitudes toward women.
Why we shouldn't leave? It's like bribery.
Speaking of logical fallacies, you've successfully begged the question. Read again. "We need to stay there because we are there."
If we roll over and do as they say because of a bomb, then they'll see that as a working avenue
That type of thinking also precludes rational judgement of demands. If civil rights leaders in the 60s would have used these tactics, their arguments would have still been valid. The way someone goes about change does not invalidiate their ideas. That is, just because bin Laden believes that the US should get out of Saudi Arabia, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't.
It depends on who you think cast the first stone. Based on bin Laden's fatwa, I'd say that his greviances are genuine and meritable, but the action taken was not in proportion to the damage done.
The problem is that you'd have to go back to the days of Babylon in order to find out "who started it". I'd say its the fault of all parties involved for letting this situation go on for as long as it has. The West needs to quit using vassal states to do its bidding and the Middle East needs to get away from blowing up innocent people in order to achieve their political goals.
People were starting to empathise with them, starting to move forward from Sept 11 and requesting removing troops from the middle east. Now they go around killing people all over again.
Actually, that is probably why they attacked. It is much harder to recruit impressionable teens into your organization when there is no polarizing force (read: military occupation) in place. Terrorist groups rely on continued escalation by US/UK as a selling point for joining their organization. The terrorists thrive on this scenario:
1) Attack civilians 2) Wait for retaliation 3) Use collateral damage as a rallying point to increase membership 4) GOTO 1
I truly believe that if we left Iraq tomorrow, the insurgency would collapse in a short time because they'd have no real reason to exist. The true terrorists would have no freedom fighter status in which to cloak themselves, and the nationalist insurgents would likely turn against the terrorists.
Jokes after tragedy are in order on/.. The joke itself doesn't matter, but the intent of that joke. I'd say most here are simply trying to make a few people laugh in light of such serious events. In fact, many may be mourning in this way (not everyone wears black and gets depressed for a week).
So far, the mods have done a good job modding down anything over the top and kept the good humored jokes up.
It's not in DVD-A format (which, in case you didn't know, is a high resolution format, much higher than CD.)
Many newer sound cards can record 24bits at a rate of 96KHz, which, if I'm not mistaken, is what many DVD-A discs are. Of course, it would be tedious ripping everything you have in real-time.
Putting aside the politics of Social Security, you'd have a hell of a time getting anything done w/o an SSN. I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't have an SSN until you start paying in, but that is a different discussion for a different day.
If thieves can't steal your identity when you don't have an SSN, then you might have a hard time using your identity.
Identity "theft" is not the fault of the offended party, so why should they have to spend their resources fixing it?
The best idea yet is that unless the creditor can prove that you authorized any purchases made on your account, then they have to eat it. It is the creditor's job to make sure they know who to whom they are giving credit. It is then ultimately their responsibility to track down identity thieves. If their internal policies are so lax, that they don't know their customers from a hole in the ground, then they need to shape up. I think that this policy is the only way to get them to fix these problems, by hurting their bottom line.
I just checked... their last legal threat was a pdf file, so they sent back this, only as an uncompressed bitmap. The threat details that they have a copyrighted work, which as usual, they don't. They only have a torrent file.
First, to you, !conservative != liberal. Also liberal != more government. Actually the party in control of the government is for more government and the minority usually takes up states' rights.
To the rest of people, you're intent on thinking that Republican == conservative, when it doesn't. Furthermore, on the supreme court, "liberal" and "conservative" mean different things than we're all used to.
Regarding the court, the Kelo v. New London was a "liberal" decision in that it tended to give a loose constructionist interpretation of the constitution. It was by no means in line with liberal political views. No one liked that decision except for statists and corporatists.
If my company (Toxico) falls over and kills 4000 people, I am not liable, due to, IMHO, government fiction. This is wrong. If a bad company is bankrupted by civil action, the shareholders should be liable for damages.
+1, Insightful
Detractors would say that limited-liability corporations must exist or that old grandmas' would be liable for the actions of the corporation. I say its damn right they should! Stockholders need to play a more active role in their companies. Most people just collect dividends -- they don't care how or why they're getting a good return, they just want a bigger return. If your money goes to a criminal enterprise, you are liable. End of story.
RSS abuse has gone on far too long. It may seem unthinkable to some people who long for an RSS of their own (but have had to adopt), but some people do abuse RSS.
If you see your RSS feed has some broken links or other irregularities, report it immediately to your sys admin -- even if the RSS explains it away as random line noise or CRC errors. Protecting one's abuser is a sign of continued abuse.
You are hereby referred. Reading the full of the Wikipedia article will also help answer your question. It is a good article, but I don't agree with everything it says.
Also, I'll be changing by sig because most of the replies I get are about it and not my posts.
I've always wondered why the BIOS can't simply skip over a floppy in the boot process when it isn't bootable.
I'm sure everyone here has left a floppy in the drive and had it tell you to remove it and then hit any key to continue. Why can't it just realize that there isn't anything bootable there and go on to the next boot device? It will skip over non-bootable CDs and DVDs fine, but for some reason, the BIOS can't do that with floppies.
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We wouldn't be sneaking in if you didn't charge $50/head. Put a donation jar up front. Guaranteed, I'll give you some money. I'll bet a few others will, too. Furthermore, many will be sneaking in because they can.
Most infringement occurs because many people don't see inherent value in a non-physical object. I don't have a time justifying purchases of new hardware, but I do have trouble justifying purchases of software. If hardware could be reproduced as easily as software, I probably wouldn't buy any hardware either.
Which is why it wasn't too bad of a troll.
Traditional Muslim teaching is that all peoples "of the book" (Jews and Christians) are given a protected status since they believe in the same god. IIRC, those people are guaranteed civil rights and other such protections in a Muslim state. I cannot recall the whole status as it has been a few years since my Middle East gen ed.
I should have probably added that, but since I was making an argument from analogy, I didn't think it was necessary.
Thanks for letting everyone know, though.
bin Laden's fatwa, to wit:
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies--civilians and military--is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.
It sounds like he's pissed that the US has a military presence in Saudi Arabia. I also suggest you read the entire fatwa. Nowhere does he suggest converting people to Islam or killing non-muslims, nor does he speak of western attitudes toward women.
Why we shouldn't leave? It's like bribery.
Speaking of logical fallacies, you've successfully begged the question. Read again. "We need to stay there because we are there."
If we roll over and do as they say because of a bomb, then they'll see that as a working avenue
That type of thinking also precludes rational judgement of demands. If civil rights leaders in the 60s would have used these tactics, their arguments would have still been valid. The way someone goes about change does not invalidiate their ideas. That is, just because bin Laden believes that the US should get out of Saudi Arabia, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't.
It depends on who you think cast the first stone. Based on bin Laden's fatwa, I'd say that his greviances are genuine and meritable, but the action taken was not in proportion to the damage done.
The problem is that you'd have to go back to the days of Babylon in order to find out "who started it". I'd say its the fault of all parties involved for letting this situation go on for as long as it has. The West needs to quit using vassal states to do its bidding and the Middle East needs to get away from blowing up innocent people in order to achieve their political goals.
Anyone listed as a friend of mine would have to be joking about that.
I'd like to see independent evidence before jumping to conclusions. Anyone want to install Gator and test it themselves? :-)
People were starting to empathise with them, starting to move forward from Sept 11 and requesting removing troops from the middle east. Now they go around killing people all over again.
Actually, that is probably why they attacked. It is much harder to recruit impressionable teens into your organization when there is no polarizing force (read: military occupation) in place. Terrorist groups rely on continued escalation by US/UK as a selling point for joining their organization. The terrorists thrive on this scenario:
1) Attack civilians
2) Wait for retaliation
3) Use collateral damage as a rallying point to increase membership
4) GOTO 1
I truly believe that if we left Iraq tomorrow, the insurgency would collapse in a short time because they'd have no real reason to exist. The true terrorists would have no freedom fighter status in which to cloak themselves, and the nationalist insurgents would likely turn against the terrorists.
Jokes after tragedy are in order on /.. The joke itself doesn't matter, but the intent of that joke. I'd say most here are simply trying to make a few people laugh in light of such serious events. In fact, many may be mourning in this way (not everyone wears black and gets depressed for a week).
So far, the mods have done a good job modding down anything over the top and kept the good humored jokes up.
The GP's comment was obviously tongue-in-cheek. Notice his .sig as well as his comment history.
It's not in DVD-A format (which, in case you didn't know, is a high resolution format, much higher than CD.)
Many newer sound cards can record 24bits at a rate of 96KHz, which, if I'm not mistaken, is what many DVD-A discs are. Of course, it would be tedious ripping everything you have in real-time.
Haha! Every good liberal has a copy of the Communist Manifesto, just as every good conservative has a copy of Mein Kampf.
Go troll somewhere else.
Putting aside the politics of Social Security, you'd have a hell of a time getting anything done w/o an SSN. I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't have an SSN until you start paying in, but that is a different discussion for a different day.
If thieves can't steal your identity when you don't have an SSN, then you might have a hard time using your identity.
Identity "theft" is not the fault of the offended party, so why should they have to spend their resources fixing it?
The best idea yet is that unless the creditor can prove that you authorized any purchases made on your account, then they have to eat it. It is the creditor's job to make sure they know who to whom they are giving credit. It is then ultimately their responsibility to track down identity thieves. If their internal policies are so lax, that they don't know their customers from a hole in the ground, then they need to shape up. I think that this policy is the only way to get them to fix these problems, by hurting their bottom line.
I just checked ... their last legal threat was a pdf file, so they sent back this, only as an uncompressed bitmap. The threat details that they have a copyrighted work, which as usual, they don't. They only have a torrent file.
I think they'll be just fine.
This entire thread has been killed by semantics.
First, to you, !conservative != liberal. Also liberal != more government. Actually the party in control of the government is for more government and the minority usually takes up states' rights.
To the rest of people, you're intent on thinking that Republican == conservative, when it doesn't. Furthermore, on the supreme court, "liberal" and "conservative" mean different things than we're all used to.
Regarding the court, the Kelo v. New London was a "liberal" decision in that it tended to give a loose constructionist interpretation of the constitution. It was by no means in line with liberal political views. No one liked that decision except for statists and corporatists.
far-right wing Internet news website
/.ers runs from militant communist through "Hitler was misundersood" fascism all the way down to anarcho-capitalist.
Far right?
I'd say the spectrum of
As far as a consensus, I'd say that we are left-libertarian.
If my company (Toxico) falls over and kills 4000 people, I am not liable, due to, IMHO, government fiction. This is wrong. If a bad company is bankrupted by civil action, the shareholders should be liable for damages.
+1, Insightful
Detractors would say that limited-liability corporations must exist or that old grandmas' would be liable for the actions of the corporation. I say its damn right they should! Stockholders need to play a more active role in their companies. Most people just collect dividends -- they don't care how or why they're getting a good return, they just want a bigger return. If your money goes to a criminal enterprise, you are liable. End of story.
RSS abuse has gone on far too long. It may seem unthinkable to some people who long for an RSS of their own (but have had to adopt), but some people do abuse RSS.
If you see your RSS feed has some broken links or other irregularities, report it immediately to your sys admin -- even if the RSS explains it away as random line noise or CRC errors. Protecting one's abuser is a sign of continued abuse.
Only YOU can help stop RSS abuse!
Correct!
The engineers ran out of pins and accepted a 24-bit address bus as an acceptable limitation. I mean, who would ever need more than 16MB of RAM?
Fine trolling, sir! You've been honing your skills at trolltalk, haven't you?
You are hereby referred. Reading the full of the Wikipedia article will also help answer your question. It is a good article, but I don't agree with everything it says.
Also, I'll be changing by sig because most of the replies I get are about it and not my posts.
I've always wondered why the BIOS can't simply skip over a floppy in the boot process when it isn't bootable.
I'm sure everyone here has left a floppy in the drive and had it tell you to remove it and then hit any key to continue. Why can't it just realize that there isn't anything bootable there and go on to the next boot device? It will skip over non-bootable CDs and DVDs fine, but for some reason, the BIOS can't do that with floppies.
Does anyone have a clue as to why this is?
Please show me in the constitution or amendments where my right to a subsidized tv is?
There is no right. I just think they should do it.