The worst example of this is the law enacted in Michigan a couple years ago. Called the Driver Responsibility Fee, if you get any ticket that adds points to your license, on top of paying the fines, you also have to pay the State an additional fine, ranging from $125 to $1000 a year over two years. If you miss your payment, they suspend your license. Once your license is suspended, if you get a suspended license ticket, you have to pay $500 a year for two years plus $125 to get your license back. If you are poor and cannot afford to pay this, you continue driving on a suspended license. Get another ticket and all of a sudden you owe the State $3000 and they threaten to garnish your wages and bank accounts. For someone who is making a decent living, these fees are manageable. For someone already living paycheck to paycheck, these fees can become impossible to pay. I know a single young mother working two shitty hourly jobs to which there is no bus she can take who is trying to pay down $2500 in fines. She was making her monthly payments and was able to keep her license until she missed a payment one month at which point they suspended her license and are forcing her to pay the entire set of fines before she can legally drive again. The only way for her to pay these fines and take care of her baby is to keep driving to drive. Luckily she has been careful and hasn't been pulled over, but the ONLY thing this law does is keep people who are already struggling struggling more.
I got my first "real" hourly semi-daily job a week after I turned 14. In Michigan, there are some subsets of jobs such as working as a caddy that you can start at 11 or 12 I believe, but it's 14 for a regular job. You have to get a card signed by your school but I never knew anyone who wasn't able to get one. There were some limitations on the total amount of hours a week, but I was working 3 or 4 5-8 hour shifts a day starting at age 14.
In 1 Kings 7:23: 'And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.'
Now of course you have to assume the bible is giving accurate measurements, which is doubtful, so this argument is fairly bunk (even to an atheist such as myself).
Doesn't help if you don't know how to get to the equator from where you're starting. The way this proof works, you have foolproof directions from any location that are the same as from any other location and require no knowledge of where you're starting or going, just the ability to follow the road "colors" or whatnot.
It seems like the article mentions the space station at first but then focuses on the space shuttle in the "facts" section. Maybe this is where some of the discrepancies come from?
I think you're looking at the correlation wrong in this example. I don't think the causal effect is between the rise in p2p downloads and CD sales. I think overall, p2p downloads lower the amount of CD sales; however, the release of a new popular CD will cause BOTH p2p downloads and CD sales to increase. Both will increase, but as a result of the release of the CD, not because of a causal relationship between the two of them. At least that's what makes sense to me in this example.
Google has had their book scanning office open here in Ann Arbor for over a year now at 1100 Eisenhower Ave. They have strict security and hide behind a fake corporation name, but anyone in the food industry that delivers there can tell you what it is. I'm not sure why Michigan is included in this list of new members because the fact that this was happening has been public news since it started. The location isn't public but easily found information when talking to the right people.
March 9, 2006 - The New York Police Department's 25th Precinct, assisted by the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a storage unit acting as a distribution location on Park Avenue in New York City. Seized as a result were 4,000 counterfeit CD-Rs, 4,800 piratical CD-Rs and 2,800 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs.
March 8, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the Brooklyn District Attorneys Squad in the execution of a search warrant at a burner lab on Patchen Avenue. The warrant resulted in one arrest and the seizure of 80 CD- R burners, 5,850 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs, one rimage printer, 5,000 insert labels and 1,980 counterfeit movie DVDs.
Can someone explain the difference between counterfeit CD-Rs, piratical CD-Rs, and counterfeit AND piratical CD-Rs to me? I'm genuinely confused about the distinction. Thanks in advance!
I lived in a house with ten guys in Ann Arbor that had a huge fan blowing in the ceiling between the stairway and the attic with vents that would open when it was turned on. This fan and the air it circulated cooled the house way more than the two central air units the house had.
Where are you located that you get this service? I'm hoping here in Michigan that Comcast will man up now that ATT is allowed to give them competition.
Cable video-on-demand is great if you have any channels such as HBO, Starz, etc. I get 12 channels of HBO, plus TONS of interesting HBO content on-demand for free.
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what?
Commies as in Comcast?
You're thinking of Comcast.
The worst example of this is the law enacted in Michigan a couple years ago. Called the Driver Responsibility Fee, if you get any ticket that adds points to your license, on top of paying the fines, you also have to pay the State an additional fine, ranging from $125 to $1000 a year over two years. If you miss your payment, they suspend your license. Once your license is suspended, if you get a suspended license ticket, you have to pay $500 a year for two years plus $125 to get your license back. If you are poor and cannot afford to pay this, you continue driving on a suspended license. Get another ticket and all of a sudden you owe the State $3000 and they threaten to garnish your wages and bank accounts. For someone who is making a decent living, these fees are manageable. For someone already living paycheck to paycheck, these fees can become impossible to pay. I know a single young mother working two shitty hourly jobs to which there is no bus she can take who is trying to pay down $2500 in fines. She was making her monthly payments and was able to keep her license until she missed a payment one month at which point they suspended her license and are forcing her to pay the entire set of fines before she can legally drive again. The only way for her to pay these fines and take care of her baby is to keep driving to drive. Luckily she has been careful and hasn't been pulled over, but the ONLY thing this law does is keep people who are already struggling struggling more.
Seems that Google has theirs up already... Google Custom Time (in your gmail). I can't access the link yet though.
I got my first "real" hourly semi-daily job a week after I turned 14. In Michigan, there are some subsets of jobs such as working as a caddy that you can start at 11 or 12 I believe, but it's 14 for a regular job. You have to get a card signed by your school but I never knew anyone who wasn't able to get one. There were some limitations on the total amount of hours a week, but I was working 3 or 4 5-8 hour shifts a day starting at age 14.
In 1 Kings 7:23: 'And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.'
Now of course you have to assume the bible is giving accurate measurements, which is doubtful, so this argument is fairly bunk (even to an atheist such as myself).
Yeah I did, which I caught mere seconds after hitting submit (though I preview like 4 times to make sure the URLs were right lol).
Actually it is not case sensitive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_coloring_conjecture works just as well as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Coloring_Conjecture
However, leading slashes break the link, so both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_coloring_conjecture/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Coloring_Conjecture/ do not work.
Doesn't help if you don't know how to get to the equator from where you're starting. The way this proof works, you have foolproof directions from any location that are the same as from any other location and require no knowledge of where you're starting or going, just the ability to follow the road "colors" or whatnot.
It seems like the article mentions the space station at first but then focuses on the space shuttle in the "facts" section. Maybe this is where some of the discrepancies come from?
Hah I read that as cold personality and was like FUCK YEAH we do need a cure for that.
I think you're looking at the correlation wrong in this example. I don't think the causal effect is between the rise in p2p downloads and CD sales. I think overall, p2p downloads lower the amount of CD sales; however, the release of a new popular CD will cause BOTH p2p downloads and CD sales to increase. Both will increase, but as a result of the release of the CD, not because of a causal relationship between the two of them. At least that's what makes sense to me in this example.
iTunes is set as your default app for playing mp3s. Fault's on your end, not theirs.
Google has had their book scanning office open here in Ann Arbor for over a year now at 1100 Eisenhower Ave. They have strict security and hide behind a fake corporation name, but anyone in the food industry that delivers there can tell you what it is. I'm not sure why Michigan is included in this list of new members because the fact that this was happening has been public news since it started. The location isn't public but easily found information when talking to the right people.
I had to search for "Neck Face" specifically to find it, as the suggested search terms brought up 700+ photos, not the 99 claimed.
The Face Neck tag can be found here.
The copies of XP Pro I got from the University computer store for $10 were most certainly full versions and not demos.
Hear hear!
I lived in a house with ten guys in Ann Arbor that had a huge fan blowing in the ceiling between the stairway and the attic with vents that would open when it was turned on. This fan and the air it circulated cooled the house way more than the two central air units the house had.
It says to only fill in your email if you answer "Yes"... why would you fill in an email otherwise? It accepts the poll without it.
Where are you located that you get this service? I'm hoping here in Michigan that Comcast will man up now that ATT is allowed to give them competition.
Cable video-on-demand is great if you have any channels such as HBO, Starz, etc. I get 12 channels of HBO, plus TONS of interesting HBO content on-demand for free.
A la carte is a horrible idea. All the best channels will fold; thanks for your brilliant idea.