you cant just walk away from a student loan like you can a house.
You have to declare bankrupcy & be able to show 'undue hardship'.
This of course turns the students into indentured servants to the banks or government, but let's not worry about the young. After all, we all know it is the baby boomers who really matter
Err... bankruptcy does not eliminates one's student loan debts. You can't bankrupt your way out of it, even if you prove 'undue hardship' (as it is typically understood). The only way to get out is if - God forbids - you get permanently disabled or some other horrific event of that magnitude.
"There's a mythology that private student loans can't be discharged. But sometimes they can and should," says Kantrowitz.
To get your student loans discharged, you must file an undue hardship petition. To qualify, you have to satisfy three conditions: First, you must not be able to repay your student loan and also maintain a minimal standard of living based on your income and your expenses. Second, your situation must likely persist for a significant portion of the repayment period of the loan. Finally, you must have made good faith efforts to repay the loans.
The good being stolen here are not the lines of code, you are correct.
However, what copyright grants is the exclusivity to distribute. This is effectively stolen since whenever someone copies the stuff without your consent, you do not have the exclusivity anymore.
So, no, the lines of code were not stolen. But the excusivity to distribute was.
Misusing legal terms fro emotional appeal is the sort of thing Iran does, where it describes people who convert to Christianity as rapists, etc. just to feel good about punishing them. In free western countries we don't want "it is effectively theft", or "converting from slam is effectively rape", we want set crimes and laws that are defined in law books.
I think at that point we were well past the point of the leaders of countries rolling into battle along side the foot soldiers. I think everyone realized the stupidity of that tactic way before ww2...
Or maybe when it comes to deciding whether to go to war or not "forgotten the intelligence of that tactic".
Never mind that, here's some statistics!
a) Most of the computers in the world are not involved in distribution of indecent images of minors.
b) Most of the incidents of sexual indecency with a minor are by members of the family, or close family friends.
Shhhhh. This guy will want a black box in every house if you tell him that
And those safety systems are well known to backfire and produce unexpected results exactly when you need them.
More accurately the very few incidents when they go wrong are widely reported. You don't hear the many hundreds of thousands of "Man saved from skid by ABS", or "Electronic Stability Control keeps car on road during snow" that you would get if the successes were reported. -- ~~~~
>>.. more redundancy is always better. This is probably some of my tax money that has been spent the best
GPS is great, sure, but IIRC Galileo isn't compatible without devices being modified to also accept Galileo signals. So this project is going to cost quite a bit of money in re-engineering and replacement costs for devices to use the new system in addition to GPS.
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible, given that the US is, you know, part of NATO and whatnot. And if the EU does turn hostile to the US in some sort of bizarro-world, the US possesses capabilities to shoot them down. So it doesn't make a lot of sense along those lines.
The improved technical features of Galileo over GPS, though, are quite nice.
It will be very useful to the Muslims when they take over Europe, however.
ROFL! This is written by Steve Yegge you fucking moron, he's far, far smarter than you, and he doesn't have to worry about minding what he says nearly as much as someone like you.
Really, I'm not currently in danger of losing my job. He most certainly is.
Neither is our mail delivery boy.That doesn't mean I'd take lessons on corporate direction from him though.
A major military exercise... and they do not close those waters for the week or two these drills last?
You don't know how good at whining and moaning the porridge-wogs are do you? You know the whole of the UK is in a timezone that causes an increase in accidents, is bad for business with Europe, and means it gets dark early because half-a-dozen porridge-wogs in the Western Isles like to see the sun come up after they milk the cows and haven't got the brains to change the time on their alarm clocks!
So basically AMD is good because you're a stinking peasant so impoverished or fully greedy that you cant even be bothered to invest in a 2500 which is faster than your antiquated junk? Oh but now that we have the trash of the century let's not forget 16GB of RAM because 8GB isn't good enough for the lowest form of peasant such as myself. Seriously, how do you live with yourself?
So, do you drive a Ferrari, always fly first class, and have a home IMAX? If not, is driving an affordable car being a stinking peasent?
Seriously - if the patented it who would use it? How many web masters would implement non-standard css extensions that could never become part of the standard (well not for 25 years) and would only be likely to be supported by Opera browsers? The best bet for any web innovation is to make it free then push for inclusion in the W3C standards.
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you cant just walk away from a student loan like you can a house.
You have to declare bankrupcy & be able to show 'undue hardship'.
This of course turns the students into indentured servants to the banks or government, but let's not worry about the young. After all, we all know it is the baby boomers who really matter
Err... bankruptcy does not eliminates one's student loan debts. You can't bankrupt your way out of it, even if you prove 'undue hardship' (as it is typically understood). The only way to get out is if - God forbids - you get permanently disabled or some other horrific event of that magnitude.
Not according to CNN
"There's a mythology that private student loans can't be discharged. But sometimes they can and should," says Kantrowitz.
To get your student loans discharged, you must file an undue hardship petition. To qualify, you have to satisfy three conditions: First, you must not be able to repay your student loan and also maintain a minimal standard of living based on your income and your expenses. Second, your situation must likely persist for a significant portion of the repayment period of the loan. Finally, you must have made good faith efforts to repay the loans.
If you've got a good degree move abroad and start afresh.
Good luck finding a virgin with college debt...
If you count male virgins just try the "comp sci" or engineering faculties.
The good being stolen here are not the lines of code, you are correct.
However, what copyright grants is the exclusivity to distribute. This is effectively stolen since whenever someone copies the stuff without your consent, you do not have the exclusivity anymore.
So, no, the lines of code were not stolen. But the excusivity to distribute was.
Misusing legal terms fro emotional appeal is the sort of thing Iran does, where it describes people who convert to Christianity as rapists, etc. just to feel good about punishing them. In free western countries we don't want "it is effectively theft", or "converting from slam is effectively rape", we want set crimes and laws that are defined in law books.
I think at that point we were well past the point of the leaders of countries rolling into battle along side the foot soldiers. I think everyone realized the stupidity of that tactic way before ww2...
Or maybe when it comes to deciding whether to go to war or not "forgotten the intelligence of that tactic".
Mr. Motti official email address at the European Parliament: tiziano.motti@europarl.europa.eu Mr. Motti homepage: www.motti.eu
Now don't post him anything nasty. He could get in trouble if his black box shows he's opening up illegal images.
Like Members of Congress in the USA, EU MEPs come in all shapes, sizes, and states of sanity.
You mean that there are some normal sane ones??!!
Never mind that, here's some statistics! a) Most of the computers in the world are not involved in distribution of indecent images of minors. b) Most of the incidents of sexual indecency with a minor are by members of the family, or close family friends.
Shhhhh. This guy will want a black box in every house if you tell him that
Such a contradiction in terms. Christianity is not democratic. When was the last time God ran for election?
Is that you Lucifer?
And those safety systems are well known to backfire and produce unexpected results exactly when you need them.
More accurately the very few incidents when they go wrong are widely reported. You don't hear the many hundreds of thousands of "Man saved from skid by ABS", or "Electronic Stability Control keeps car on road during snow" that you would get if the successes were reported. -- ~~~~
>>.. more redundancy is always better. This is probably some of my tax money that has been spent the best
GPS is great, sure, but IIRC Galileo isn't compatible without devices being modified to also accept Galileo signals. So this project is going to cost quite a bit of money in re-engineering and replacement costs for devices to use the new system in addition to GPS.
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible, given that the US is, you know, part of NATO and whatnot. And if the EU does turn hostile to the US in some sort of bizarro-world, the US possesses capabilities to shoot them down. So it doesn't make a lot of sense along those lines.
The improved technical features of Galileo over GPS, though, are quite nice.
It will be very useful to the Muslims when they take over Europe, however.
Sorry Dad. But you know how Mike is. He'll never get laid if I don't help him. Plus he doesn't give me a choice, so there's that too.
I'll keep it for me then. Thanks for caring.
At leat try and keep it on topic and ask him to do it in the back of a robot-controlled car.
It comes down to apple paying bigger bribes. And the worry that the judge will have had a gay encounter with an apple fanboi
Well we have an easy solution to global warming then. Just depopulate America again.
I know there are moral issues here, but I think these could be resolved by Harry Hill. I can just picture him now saying
I like Americans. I also like trees. Now which is best ....
Well we have an easy solution to global warming then. Just depopulate America again.
You know, the majority of all people ever born has not yet died. Therefore the evidence that everyone eventually dies is not very good. :-)
Rubbish
I think you stretch the analogy too far
Also, he thinks G+, a privacy nightmare ....
Accidentally making this memo public sort of proves the point!
ROFL! This is written by Steve Yegge you fucking moron, he's far, far smarter than you, and he doesn't have to worry about minding what he says nearly as much as someone like you.
Really, I'm not currently in danger of losing my job. He most certainly is.
Neither is our mail delivery boy.That doesn't mean I'd take lessons on corporate direction from him though.
Map, compass, sextant? Likely as dead as map and compass land nav skills...
In other words still practiced by old fogies like me and boy-scouts wanting a navigation badge.
A major military exercise... and they do not close those waters for the week or two these drills last?
You don't know how good at whining and moaning the porridge-wogs are do you? You know the whole of the UK is in a timezone that causes an increase in accidents, is bad for business with Europe, and means it gets dark early because half-a-dozen porridge-wogs in the Western Isles like to see the sun come up after they milk the cows and haven't got the brains to change the time on their alarm clocks!
Sod super heroes. I want a super-vilain.
So basically AMD is good because you're a stinking peasant so impoverished or fully greedy that you cant even be bothered to invest in a 2500 which is faster than your antiquated junk? Oh but now that we have the trash of the century let's not forget 16GB of RAM because 8GB isn't good enough for the lowest form of peasant such as myself. Seriously, how do you live with yourself?
So, do you drive a Ferrari, always fly first class, and have a home IMAX? If not, is driving an affordable car being a stinking peasent?
Conversion efficiency is low (an engineer can only eat so much pizza)
Where is CowboyNeal when we need him
Seriously - if the patented it who would use it? How many web masters would implement non-standard css extensions that could never become part of the standard (well not for 25 years) and would only be likely to be supported by Opera browsers? The best bet for any web innovation is to make it free then push for inclusion in the W3C standards.