Maybe cell phones with cameras should have to have to have a lever that the user has to pull between each frame, and every 36 frames (or 37 if the user is really cleaver) they should have to open the battery door, take the battery out, and then put it back in.
In the USA, hospitals prepare for "Mass Casualty Events" with meetings and plans and drills and stuff. This wouldn't be necessary if "casualty" only meant "dead".
I guess the crux of it will be if it can be proven that it was actually a meteor. From TFA we just have two facts, a warehouse burned down, and a bunch of people said they saw a meteor that night. One person said he saw the meteor crash... somewhere... but he didn't directly observe it hitting the warehouse. I guess they might find chunks of it, but if they don't, it will be hard to claim that it wasn't just an ordinary fire.
Coincidentally, I saw a meteor last night, but that was in Burlington, VT which is on the other side of the planet;-)
What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt, and I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-titted mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit. Look at me, look at me, you sloppy bitch!
For what? Attempted murder? If that's all it takes, then people should be convicted off Google searches and nothing else.
Where do the words "Attempted murder" appear in my comment? I think I said "Arrested and convicted". I didn't say of what, but conspiracy sounds right to me. Walking into a gun store and saying that you will be using the gun you are buying to kill your wife is way beyond Googling "kill wife hitman".
And Nigeria is a special case. They aren't poor. They have lots of oil and could be a rich country like the middle east. However, it is precisely because of the corruption that they are causing their own troubles. They are not poor, and make no mistake that they are. Sure, a majority of the people there could be living in poverty, but that doesn't mean the nation itself is poor.
That seems to be exactly my point. You might want to try actually reading what I wrote.
You are engaging in some mental gymnastics here. I think you should check with a lawyer before going into the gun store and telling them that you are buying the gun to kill your wife, because I'm not so sure that that isn't enough to get you arrested and convicted. I certainly wouldn't want to be sitting before a jury of my peers with those facts presented to them. I think that not only are the victims of the scams here complicit of fraud, I think it is bordering on being a Crime Against Humanity to conspire to plunder money from a third world country where the people are living in abject poverty because of the well known corruption of the actual government officials, even if the person you are dealing with turns out not to be a genuine one of those corrupt officials.
Suppose that both a value and a unique transaction ID are stored on the card. Then, the system could count on a particular value/transaction ID pair only being used once. When the card is used, the system encodes the updated value with a new transaction ID and writes that to the card. If that is prevented, the card is left with the already used value/transaction ID pair, and the card is rejected if it is attempted to be used again. If the card is duplicated, only the first use would work. Of course, you would have to have a centralized database of used transaction IDs for this to work, so if you do that you can just store an ID on the card and keep the value in the centralized database. But you could securely store the value on the card.
The problem is not that 1080p is too small of an improvement, it is actually a vast improvement. The problem is that standard DVD has had more resolution than most people could see on their old sets. Specifically, when viewing a DVD that is "Enhanced for 16:9 Televisions" on a standard TV, the DVD player is discarding 25% of the resolution. It is surprising how much of a difference that makes. So what happens is that when people get their new HDTV set, the first thing they do is watch one of their existing DVDs and they see how much better it looks, and they are satisfied with that. That is enough of an improvement to wow them for the time being, especially since a Blu-Ray investment would cost them way more than the HDTV set did, considering that the player would be $400 and replacing a 20 movie library would be another $600. Blu-Ray players will have to get down to $100 and disks $15 before it will be a mainstream success.
The problem I see is that if you have a character who dedicates their philosophical life to anarchy, they are required to be categorized as either chaotic evil or unaligned. The former is just plain ontologically wrong most of the time, while the latter admits a failure of the system to provide a label for a particular philosophy, even if strongly held and espoused. In spite of its flaws, the two axis system from previous editions was at least broad enough to cover lots of possibilities, even it it was a little simplistic. Now what we have is four specific philosophies along one axis, and everything else is now called unaligned. This all raises the question, why have alignment at all?
I'm sure the new system plays perfectly, if your character concepts fit the ideals intended by the new alignment system. You might just say, well, just make everyone unaligned. but then what's the point of having it?
It is part of the system, though, not just fluff; look in the DMG pg 68 sacred circle, which is a divine circle dedicated to a specific deity. Characters sharing the same alignment as the deity gain a bonus while standing in the circle. Question: Does a sacred circle of Corellon give a bonus to an unaligned follower of Kord? Sounds to me like this just wasn't really well thought out. Since it is tied into the mechanics of the system, you can't just ignore it without modifying the rules. Using an axis of Chaotic Good, Good, Unaligned, Evil, Lawful Evil would be just as valid, but you would have to fiddle with everything. It's annoying.
Why not Good Chaotic, Chaotic, Unaligned, Lawful, and Evil Lawful? or Evil Chaotic, Chaotic, Unaligned, Lawful, and Good Lawful?
Would Chaotic Good, Lawful Good, Good, Chaotic, Unaligned, Lawful, Evil, Lawful Evil, and Chaotic Evil have been too complicated for kids to understand these days?
New alignment system: Lawful Good, Good, Unaligned, Evil, Chaotic Evil.
um, no.
I would have respected the choice to get rid of alignment, but this is a boneheaded move. The problem with alignment (with bad role players anyway) is that it reinforces trite stereotypes. This just gives you fewer trite stereotypes to choose from.
Create an account specifically for when you are at a public terminal, that has the following behavior: Whenever you log into the account, the password is automatically changed to a random temporary password right afterward. Then, at your convenience (when you are at a secure terminal) you log in as admin and reset it to something new. This is just off the top of my head so maybe there is some flaw, though.
According to the model of economics that is usually presented in intro economics courses, demand is a two dimensional curve where x is price and f(x) is quantity demanded. Therefore, one usually says that as price changes, quantity demanded changes. Other factors that effect demand, like availability of substitutes, or to be more on topic here perceived value, can be said to change demand. Similarly, in the economic model supply is a two dimensional curve where x is price and f(x) is quantity supplied.
My first act after being sworn in would be to bring all US troops home from Iraq.
My second act would be to issue a presidential pardon for all non-violent drug offenders.
My legislative priorities, assuming like-minded people have been also been elected to the House and Senate, would be: 1) The end of the War on Some Drugs. The money currently spent on that would go toward drug treatment, see item 3 below. 2) Repeal of the DMCA, and systematic reform of the copyright, trademark and patent laws. Copyright would be an initial term of five years, renewable for one additional term of five years, with an open format preservation requirement for the renewal. The scope of what is protected by trademark law would be substantially narrowed. Software patents would be kaput. 3) A single payer comprehensive national health care plan. Neither employers, nor university presidents would be permitted access to people's medical records. 4) The current tax code would be scrapped, and replaced by a simple progressive income tax with no loopholes. I am also open to using a national sales tax with a progressive, income sensitive prebate program. 5) Immigrants who want to come to the US for a better life would be welcome, without quotas or limits, even if they have darker skin than me or speak a different language. 6) New education standards, with a heavy emphasis on math and science. Schools receiving federal funds would be prohibited from having ID as part of the science curriculum, and would be required to have as much resources put into arts, music and such as are put into sports.
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Who are you going to email your legal arguments to once your internet is shut off?
Maybe cell phones with cameras should have to have to have a lever that the user has to pull between each frame, and every 36 frames (or 37 if the user is really cleaver) they should have to open the battery door, take the battery out, and then put it back in.
Anyone who hasn't tasted a genuine Vermont Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese hasn't tasted the best Cheddar cheese there is.
In the USA, hospitals prepare for "Mass Casualty Events" with meetings and plans and drills and stuff. This wouldn't be necessary if "casualty" only meant "dead".
Wow, I just realized that my sig is actually relevant to the discussion (of bailment) for once!
I guess the crux of it will be if it can be proven that it was actually a meteor. From TFA we just have two facts, a warehouse burned down, and a bunch of people said they saw a meteor that night. One person said he saw the meteor crash... somewhere... but he didn't directly observe it hitting the warehouse. I guess they might find chunks of it, but if they don't, it will be hard to claim that it wasn't just an ordinary fire.
Coincidentally, I saw a meteor last night, but that was in Burlington, VT which is on the other side of the planet ;-)
What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt, and I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-titted mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit. Look at me, look at me, you sloppy bitch!
Why not let it give the user the option of telling the web site some arbitrary location?
The September the finally ended.
For what? Attempted murder? If that's all it takes, then people should be convicted off Google searches and nothing else.
Where do the words "Attempted murder" appear in my comment? I think I said "Arrested and convicted". I didn't say of what, but conspiracy sounds right to me. Walking into a gun store and saying that you will be using the gun you are buying to kill your wife is way beyond Googling "kill wife hitman".
And Nigeria is a special case. They aren't poor. They have lots of oil and could be a rich country like the middle east. However, it is precisely because of the corruption that they are causing their own troubles. They are not poor, and make no mistake that they are. Sure, a majority of the people there could be living in poverty, but that doesn't mean the nation itself is poor.
That seems to be exactly my point. You might want to try actually reading what I wrote.
The most creative panhandler I have ever seen had a sign that went like this:
"Ninjas killed my family. Please give me money to go to karate school."
He gut busted by the police because it turned out that his family had not, actually, been killed by ninjas.
You are engaging in some mental gymnastics here. I think you should check with a lawyer before going into the gun store and telling them that you are buying the gun to kill your wife, because I'm not so sure that that isn't enough to get you arrested and convicted. I certainly wouldn't want to be sitting before a jury of my peers with those facts presented to them. I think that not only are the victims of the scams here complicit of fraud, I think it is bordering on being a Crime Against Humanity to conspire to plunder money from a third world country where the people are living in abject poverty because of the well known corruption of the actual government officials, even if the person you are dealing with turns out not to be a genuine one of those corrupt officials.
How about some Frank Zappa?
Suppose that both a value and a unique transaction ID are stored on the card. Then, the system could count on a particular value/transaction ID pair only being used once. When the card is used, the system encodes the updated value with a new transaction ID and writes that to the card. If that is prevented, the card is left with the already used value/transaction ID pair, and the card is rejected if it is attempted to be used again. If the card is duplicated, only the first use would work. Of course, you would have to have a centralized database of used transaction IDs for this to work, so if you do that you can just store an ID on the card and keep the value in the centralized database. But you could securely store the value on the card.
I believe that is exactly the point. Apple hardware is subsidizing the OS.
I wonder what's more dangerous, that book, or "The Golden Book of Wild Animal Pets" that's advertised on the back cover.
The problem is not that 1080p is too small of an improvement, it is actually a vast improvement. The problem is that standard DVD has had more resolution than most people could see on their old sets. Specifically, when viewing a DVD that is "Enhanced for 16:9 Televisions" on a standard TV, the DVD player is discarding 25% of the resolution. It is surprising how much of a difference that makes. So what happens is that when people get their new HDTV set, the first thing they do is watch one of their existing DVDs and they see how much better it looks, and they are satisfied with that. That is enough of an improvement to wow them for the time being, especially since a Blu-Ray investment would cost them way more than the HDTV set did, considering that the player would be $400 and replacing a 20 movie library would be another $600. Blu-Ray players will have to get down to $100 and disks $15 before it will be a mainstream success.
The problem I see is that if you have a character who dedicates their philosophical life to anarchy, they are required to be categorized as either chaotic evil or unaligned. The former is just plain ontologically wrong most of the time, while the latter admits a failure of the system to provide a label for a particular philosophy, even if strongly held and espoused. In spite of its flaws, the two axis system from previous editions was at least broad enough to cover lots of possibilities, even it it was a little simplistic. Now what we have is four specific philosophies along one axis, and everything else is now called unaligned. This all raises the question, why have alignment at all?
I'm sure the new system plays perfectly, if your character concepts fit the ideals intended by the new alignment system. You might just say, well, just make everyone unaligned. but then what's the point of having it?
It is part of the system, though, not just fluff; look in the DMG pg 68 sacred circle, which is a divine circle dedicated to a specific deity. Characters sharing the same alignment as the deity gain a bonus while standing in the circle. Question: Does a sacred circle of Corellon give a bonus to an unaligned follower of Kord? Sounds to me like this just wasn't really well thought out. Since it is tied into the mechanics of the system, you can't just ignore it without modifying the rules. Using an axis of Chaotic Good, Good, Unaligned, Evil, Lawful Evil would be just as valid, but you would have to fiddle with everything. It's annoying.
Why not Good Chaotic, Chaotic, Unaligned, Lawful, and Evil Lawful? or Evil Chaotic, Chaotic, Unaligned, Lawful, and Good Lawful?
Would Chaotic Good, Lawful Good, Good, Chaotic, Unaligned, Lawful, Evil, Lawful Evil, and Chaotic Evil have been too complicated for kids to understand these days?
New alignment system: Lawful Good, Good, Unaligned, Evil, Chaotic Evil.
um, no.
I would have respected the choice to get rid of alignment, but this is a boneheaded move. The problem with alignment (with bad role players anyway) is that it reinforces trite stereotypes. This just gives you fewer trite stereotypes to choose from.
In TFA, it says that the Court of Arbitration for Sport, after hearing from expert testimony, ruled unanimously that:
A) To exclude him the IAAF would have to prove that he had an undue advantage.
B) The IAAF failed to do so.
Obviously, they didn't have the benefit of your profound insight into this issue.
Create an account specifically for when you are at a public terminal, that has the following behavior: Whenever you log into the account, the password is automatically changed to a random temporary password right afterward. Then, at your convenience (when you are at a secure terminal) you log in as admin and reset it to something new. This is just off the top of my head so maybe there is some flaw, though.
Rickrolling is dead. Long live Fedrolling!
According to the model of economics that is usually presented in intro economics courses, demand is a two dimensional curve where x is price and f(x) is quantity demanded. Therefore, one usually says that as price changes, quantity demanded changes. Other factors that effect demand, like availability of substitutes, or to be more on topic here perceived value, can be said to change demand. Similarly, in the economic model supply is a two dimensional curve where x is price and f(x) is quantity supplied.
My first act after being sworn in would be to bring all US troops home from Iraq.
My second act would be to issue a presidential pardon for all non-violent drug offenders.
My legislative priorities, assuming like-minded people have been also been elected to the House and Senate, would be:
1) The end of the War on Some Drugs. The money currently spent on that would go toward drug treatment, see item 3 below.
2) Repeal of the DMCA, and systematic reform of the copyright, trademark and patent laws. Copyright would be an initial term of five years, renewable for one additional term of five years, with an open format preservation requirement for the renewal. The scope of what is protected by trademark law would be substantially narrowed. Software patents would be kaput.
3) A single payer comprehensive national health care plan. Neither employers, nor university presidents would be permitted access to people's medical records.
4) The current tax code would be scrapped, and replaced by a simple progressive income tax with no loopholes. I am also open to using a national sales tax with a progressive, income sensitive prebate program.
5) Immigrants who want to come to the US for a better life would be welcome, without quotas or limits, even if they have darker skin than me or speak a different language.
6) New education standards, with a heavy emphasis on math and science. Schools receiving federal funds would be prohibited from having ID as part of the science curriculum, and would be required to have as much resources put into arts, music and such as are put into sports.
Play more video games. Specifically old dos video games.
So run your old DOS games in an emulator and configure the emulator to interpret numbers from the number pad as the appropriate arrow key.
Oh, and not to completely change the subject or anything but... ANN COULTER IS ADVERTISING ON SLASHDOT NOW?!?!