As I recall from my...err, never mind when that was...LSD is a relatively heavy molecule to be floating around. To have even a picogram detectable would imply a lot being manufactured.
But how will you know if a firm passed you over because of something you said online? It'd be impossible to enforce.
Unfortunately, that's not true. It seems to make sense that there is no way that one could know why an employer did something. But certain legislators don't think that way. For a number of classes of people ( genders, ethnic groups, etc ) the mere act of not having the right number of people of a certain class can be construed as proof that there was discrimination. So, someday, after you have posted a picture of yourself butt-naked sharing a twelve-pack with your buddies outside the local convent, and you remain unemployed, you will be able to sue. All you will have to show is that X percent of the population does such things, and if a particular employer has significantly less than X percent of such people among their employees, they are therefore guilty of discrimination.
Not trying to troll here, but why not just shoot them? Some crocs appear to love to be around humans, some not. Kill the ones who do, and let the ones who prefer to stay away from people have the chance to breed. In a few decades, we'll have a race of human-adverse crocs.
Allow me to introduce my new site: googleeverywhere.com. The main server is in Russia someplace. It runs a botnet. The bots, of course, are running on the systems of clueless windows users. You want google from anywhere in the world? Go to googleeverywhere, it passes the request on to a bot, which queries google, then passes the answer back. Google can try to shut it down by sending a request to googleeverywhere and seeing where the request comes in, and then cutting of that IP address. But in doing that, google thereby shuts down access for users who have paid for the service through their IP.
My business requires that I travel. On a slow week I use two different ISPs. In a busy week, a dozen. And we're not even talking about vacations yet. If your site isn't available everywhere, I'll find something else. Nobody's content is that valuable.
Although, if I'm wrong and this business model does take off, the back side is even uglier: there will be ISPs that offer their services based on what you can't get. It will cater to employers, libraries, schools and other places that don't want people accessing certain sites.
The bad news: about 30% of people who get bone marrow transplants don't survive the procedure,
But the people who currently get bone marrow transplants are already in very bad shape to survive surgery - far worse than a person who has aids. Most bone marrow transplants are done to cure leukemia or some similar disease that damages blood cells. These blood cells includes platelets which are necessary for coagulating blood. If your blood does not coagulate well, you don't have a good chance of surviving surgery.
So the very disease that makes bone marrow transplants necessary often prevents the patient from surviving the surgery to cure it. With AIDS patients, this would not be a problem, so one could expect a better survival rate.
That's a little silly. These allocations were made in the 70s and 80s, before the Internet really existed outside of the US. At the time, the recipients of the addresses were those who were most likely to use them. No hoarding is going on.
Really? There are potential buyers - people who would pay for the IPs. But the owners are not selling - at any price. That is hoarding.
I say let's talk about Taxes and Taxing virtual sundries, this is where this is all heading anyway.
On a server in which country?
I'd agree that some government will want to tax it. But if your commands to the game server are encrypted, and the server is in another country, how are they going to even know that your virtual property is yours? How are they even going to know that it exists?
Actually, where this is headed is the other way: the creation of virtual worlds that are totally out of the control of any government, which generate items of real-world value, in markets that no government can tax.
Right now, in most internet commerce such as ebay and Amazon,where a person can sell a single object or two with modest overhead, the real-world id of the seller can be acquired with a subpoena. But when the server exists in a country that does not need to respond to subpoenas, a person can create wealth, sell it, and never be taxed.
The one park of the equation that does not exist right now is the conversion of that money into tangible assets like food clothing and shelter without leaving traces.
Ok, I'll believe that there are regions of space that are more dense than others. I'll even believe that we are in one of them. ( This is no harder than believing in dark matter and dark energy, and it's before breakfast ) But what I find hard to believe is that we are in the exact center of such a region. So therefore, the universe should appear to have different properties in different directions. Has anybody seen that?
Capturing data in this way is a killer app that justifies the whole expense of the device to me -- even if the device had no other features at all. Cordless barcode scanners are pretty spendy units.
So yeah the freedom is great...
How free is this? Am I free to use non-google searches? Can I input the barcode info only into a Google searchfield? Or can I use it with other websites, like maybe Amazon?
I believe with all the problems they're having, the actual date when the high-energy collisions begin will be December 2012.
That actually is appropriate, though probably not in the sense that P means. The Mesoamerican calandar that 'ends' in 2012 is just the end of a chunk of a calendar, to be followed by another chunk, and another, etc. It is like New Year's Eve for us; the end of a cycle and an excuse to party. 2012 is just an excuse to party, Mayan style, ripping the hearts out of human sacrifices or however they celebrate it. When the first collisions happen, that will be grounds for partying also.
When my wife and I were in another state, we were using her car, I was driving, and I got photographed running a red light. They sent a citation to my wife, complete with a copy of the photo clearly showing me driving. They demanded that she either pay or give the name and address of the person who was driving. My wife - who is a lawyer - told them that that her husband was driving, and then refused to give name or address. She informed them that is is a protected relationship, that is, you cannot be compelled to testify against your spouse. They gave up on it.
So register your car under your wife's name, and hers under your name. Don't have a wife? Pay your attourney to register it for you. Attourney/client relationship is privleged also.
First country to establish a permanent lunar base?
First country to establish a permanent martian colony?
I know where my money is riding.
I'd cover that bet. It is a borders issue.
China has a long political tradition of keeping it's borders contiguous. They tend to expand primarily into neighboring areas. Compared to other countries that form colonies thousands of miles away, the Chinese are very conservative. ( Look at the Spanish, English, French colonies - all over the planet. But China goes for Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong )
This habit is, IMHO, related to the Chinese traditions on the distribution of estates. The preferred method is to split possesions/territory equally between the sons. ( Compare to western traditions where the first son was to inherit all real estate, the second was to become a priest, etc ) This, over the centuries, has led to continually subdivided territories, as exemplified in the period of the warring states. So now, the Chinese are wary of having geographically distinct territories. They won't be comfortable creating territory that is far away. I'd place my money on the Japanese or Indians.
Perhaps we should note the difference between compensatory and punative damages. Compensatory damages are to compensate the plantif for damage done to her. In this case, GP is probably correct in assuming that she did not suffer 250K in damages.
But in the question of the government stepping on a citizen's 1st amendment rights, as P mentions, 250K is not excessive, as it is not big enough to make most municipalities pay attention. In this case, it should be a huge ammount, and it should be under punitive damages.
Why is parent modded 'troll'? His post is on-topic, and makes a important distinction in the last line. Ok, maybe the 'OMG' line is a tad sarcastic, but he is making a point. Someone please mod him back up.
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As I recall from my...err, never mind when that was...LSD is a relatively heavy molecule to be floating around. To have even a picogram detectable would imply a lot being manufactured.
"The goal was always to create a cool gathering place for employees..." Where? The state unemployment office?
Some of these people "...left other jobs to work in the pub" That was a really sleazy move by MS.
But how will you know if a firm passed you over because of something you said online? It'd be impossible to enforce.
Unfortunately, that's not true. It seems to make sense that there is no way that one could know why an employer did something. But certain legislators don't think that way.
For a number of classes of people ( genders, ethnic groups, etc ) the mere act of not having the right number of people of a certain class can be construed as proof that there was discrimination.
So, someday, after you have posted a picture of yourself butt-naked sharing a twelve-pack with your buddies outside the local convent, and you remain unemployed, you will be able to sue. All you will have to show is that X percent of the population does such things, and if a particular employer has significantly less than X percent of such people among their employees, they are therefore guilty of discrimination.
Not trying to troll here, but why not just shoot them? Some crocs appear to love to be around humans, some not. Kill the ones who do, and let the ones who prefer to stay away from people have the chance to breed. In a few decades, we'll have a race of human-adverse crocs.
Nobody's content is that valuable.
Allow me to introduce my new site: googleeverywhere.com. The main server is in Russia someplace. It runs a botnet. The bots, of course, are running on the systems of clueless windows users.
You want google from anywhere in the world? Go to googleeverywhere, it passes the request on to a bot, which queries google, then passes the answer back.
Google can try to shut it down by sending a request to googleeverywhere and seeing where the request comes in, and then cutting of that IP address. But in doing that, google thereby shuts down access for users who have paid for the service through their IP.
My business requires that I travel. On a slow week I use two different ISPs. In a busy week, a dozen. And we're not even talking about vacations yet.
If your site isn't available everywhere, I'll find something else. Nobody's content is that valuable.
Although, if I'm wrong and this business model does take off, the back side is even uglier: there will be ISPs that offer their services based on what you can't get. It will cater to employers, libraries, schools and other places that don't want people accessing certain sites.
So? Lots of people post on this forum without knowing English...
The bad news: about 30% of people who get bone marrow transplants don't survive the procedure,
But the people who currently get bone marrow transplants are already in very bad shape to survive surgery - far worse than a person who has aids. Most bone marrow transplants are done to cure leukemia or some similar disease that damages blood cells. These blood cells includes platelets which are necessary for coagulating blood. If your blood does not coagulate well, you don't have a good chance of surviving surgery.
So the very disease that makes bone marrow transplants necessary often prevents the patient from surviving the surgery to cure it. With AIDS patients, this would not be a problem, so one could expect a better survival rate.
I'm in. When you get the other 999,998 people, please let me know.
The problem is all you youngsters who don't realize how much we know that you don't.
I hope you're not serious. It would be far easier and quicker to use robots or human suicide-bombers or just about anything else, really.
Yeah, but watching monkeys blow themselves up would be way more fun.
That's a little silly. These allocations were made in the 70s and 80s, before the Internet really existed outside of the US. At the time, the recipients of the addresses were those who were most likely to use them. No hoarding is going on.
Really? There are potential buyers - people who would pay for the IPs. But the owners are not selling - at any price. That is hoarding.
This is curiously similar to the current credit crunch. When a fix is not guaranteed to happen soon, people start hoarding.
I say let's talk about Taxes and Taxing virtual sundries, this is where this is all heading anyway.
On a server in which country?
I'd agree that some government will want to tax it. But if your commands to the game server are encrypted, and the server is in another country, how are they going to even know that your virtual property is yours? How are they even going to know that it exists?
Actually, where this is headed is the other way: the creation of virtual worlds that are totally out of the control of any government, which generate items of real-world value, in markets that no government can tax.
Right now, in most internet commerce such as ebay and Amazon,where a person can sell a single object or two with modest overhead, the real-world id of the seller can be acquired with a subpoena. But when the server exists in a country that does not need to respond to subpoenas, a person can create wealth, sell it, and never be taxed.
The one park of the equation that does not exist right now is the conversion of that money into tangible assets like food clothing and shelter without leaving traces.
...or, well, it would have been first if I wasn't on a thin client waiting 15 ^%*^&# seconds for a keystroke echo.
The diagram is outdated. I believe the British own Iceland now.
What else would someone use a laptop for, period?
Laptops get in the way...
Ok, I'll believe that there are regions of space that are more dense than others. I'll even believe that we are in one of them. ( This is no harder than believing in dark matter and dark energy, and it's before breakfast )
But what I find hard to believe is that we are in the exact center of such a region. So therefore, the universe should appear to have different properties in different directions. Has anybody seen that?
Capturing data in this way is a killer app that justifies the whole expense of the device to me -- even if the device had no other features at all. Cordless barcode scanners are pretty spendy units.
So yeah the freedom is great...
How free is this? Am I free to use non-google searches? Can I input the barcode info only into a Google searchfield? Or can I use it with other websites, like maybe Amazon?
I believe with all the problems they're having, the actual date when the high-energy collisions begin will be December 2012.
That actually is appropriate, though probably not in the sense that P means. The Mesoamerican calandar that 'ends' in 2012 is just the end of a chunk of a calendar, to be followed by another chunk, and another, etc. It is like New Year's Eve for us; the end of a cycle and an excuse to party. 2012 is just an excuse to party, Mayan style, ripping the hearts out of human sacrifices or however they celebrate it.
When the first collisions happen, that will be grounds for partying also.
When my wife and I were in another state, we were using her car, I was driving, and I got photographed running a red light. They sent a citation to my wife, complete with a copy of the photo clearly showing me driving. They demanded that she either pay or give the name and address of the person who was driving. My wife - who is a lawyer - told them that that her husband was driving, and then refused to give name or address. She informed them that is is a protected relationship, that is, you cannot be compelled to testify against your spouse. They gave up on it.
So register your car under your wife's name, and hers under your name. Don't have a wife? Pay your attourney to register it for you. Attourney/client relationship is privleged also.
I think that you misunderstood my point. I was writing about local territory vs distant territory.
Please get back to me when the mainland Chinese government claims your local Chinese restaurant as its territory.
First country to establish a permanent lunar base?
First country to establish a permanent martian colony?
I know where my money is riding.
I'd cover that bet. It is a borders issue.
China has a long political tradition of keeping it's borders contiguous. They tend to expand primarily into neighboring areas.
Compared to other countries that form colonies thousands of miles away, the Chinese are very conservative. ( Look at the Spanish, English, French colonies - all over the planet. But China goes for Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong )
This habit is, IMHO, related to the Chinese traditions on the distribution of estates. The preferred method is to split possesions/territory equally between the sons. ( Compare to western traditions where the first son was to inherit all real estate, the second was to become a priest, etc ) This, over the centuries, has led to continually subdivided territories, as exemplified in the period of the warring states.
So now, the Chinese are wary of having geographically distinct territories. They won't be comfortable creating territory that is far away.
I'd place my money on the Japanese or Indians.
Perhaps we should note the difference between compensatory and punative damages. Compensatory damages are to compensate the plantif for damage done to her. In this case, GP is probably correct in assuming that she did not suffer 250K in damages.
But in the question of the government stepping on a citizen's 1st amendment rights, as P mentions, 250K is not excessive, as it is not big enough to make most municipalities pay attention. In this case, it should be a huge ammount, and it should be under punitive damages.
Why is parent modded 'troll'? His post is on-topic, and makes a important distinction in the last line. Ok, maybe the 'OMG' line is a tad sarcastic, but he is making a point.
Someone please mod him back up.