You know, if you look a word up in the dictionary to see if it's real, slang, or newly coined you look a lot less stupid. Aborning is a real word, "cromulent" was invented in a cartoon making fun of making up words.
Definition of ABORNING : while being born or produced Origin of ABORNING 1a- + English dialect borning (birth) First Known Use: 1916 2aborningadjective Definition of ABORNING : being born or produced Examples of ABORNING
First Known Use of ABORNING 1943 Related to ABORNING Synonyms: nascent, budding, inceptive, inchoate, incipient Antonyms: adult, full-blown, full-fledged, mature, ripe, ripened
If bicycle theft is treated with the same diligence and seriousness as car theft, people will more likely use bikes. Imagine if you went to the grocery store in your car, found it gone and the police acted like it's no big deal.
You forget that you can buy a new bicycle for under $100, the cheapest new car you can buy costs over a hundred times that. A theft of $2500 (an old beater) is a lot worse than a theft of that brand new $300 bike. When you're talking about thefts of less than $500 the cops don't do a lot about it, unless there's guns, drugs, or violence involved. And I'd say rightly so.
How many use jscript? Does jscript still even exist? Why in the hell can't Microsoft follow conventions and standards? Why do Microsoft devs put up with MS's disain of standards and conventions?
We don't need a new javascript. Put this new "javascript" on your web site and only IE will be able to render your page. Why in the hell would you do that?
And why is the parent comment modded "troll"? It's 100% accurate. Whoever modded him should never get moderation priveleges.
Why not permanent residence? People would adapt, evolution would take hold.
Evolution isn't an automatic "hand of god" type of thing. It involves random mutations and many generations, and is heavily dependant on death. You don't automatically "evolve" to be able to live in Antarctica, we have to supply our own environment to live there. Likewise, it would likely be tens of thousands of years at least before anyone can live in low gravity and be healthy -- if ever.
Dude, what's wrong with you? Nobody was forced to vote for them.
When there is only one candidate running, how is any vote meaningful? That's often the case with congressmen. And what do you do when you have 5 candidates (not unusual) and no matter who wins, they raid SS?
There are ways to fix this, by starting social security later, or paying less back per month.
When my grandparents were young, only the rich paid taxes. Now the middle class pays a higher percentage of their income than the rich do. The answer is simple: get rid of the $75k income ceiling when taxing, keep a ceiling when paying back. Let those who can afford it pay for it. After all, their wealth comes from our labor.
We are borrowing money to put off dealing with entitlement reform. Spending money on pensions and healthcare for 80 year olds is pure consumption
I've been paying SS and Medicare taxes for 45 years. I fucking paid for it. Congress kept borrowing from the money we PAID. Yes, we ARE entitled to that SS amd medicare. Are you entitled to the food you bought and paid for? Are you entitled to the money you put in the bank? Yes, you are, and if you fuck with my retirement income, good luck getting reelected, kid.
BTW, fuck everyone who is against my getting what I PAID FOR. Goddamned thieves...
My point is that "business risk" doesn't hold a candle to personal risk. There's no reason why a stock market gambler should have a lower tax rate than me.
What's with slashdot today? An earlier story gave a bogus link and this gives none at all. I tried to find it by googling wifi sheriff site:JournalStar.com but the story didn't come up. Is this for real?
However, the ISP's TOS forbids it. Nobody's going to break into the computer unless it has no password. But as I've gotten free wifi from unsecured hotspots, I see no reason not to repay by doing the same.
I'm confused why Apple isn't being sued for the exact same kind of behaviour with their products and ecosystem.
Because Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop OSes, something like 90%. Apple has no monopoly in any space, for every iPhone sold, there are two Android phones sold. If MS did this with phones they'd be off the hook, because they have no monopoly in that market.
How many employers do you know with more than a dozen employees that don't engage in interstate commerce? Lawn care, a minority of restaraunts, barbershops and the like is pretty much it. Any manufacturing plant is going to do interstate commerce.
And some MS (I assume?) installs keep sneakily reverting me to fucking Bing.
Not just MS, but I'm sure the ones who are doing it are being paid for it by MS. I've seen it after installs from other devs. At least they're not as bad as Yahoo. Look for a Firefox downlod on Yahoo, and what you DL comes with the Bing Bar, the Yahoo bar, and with Bing as the default search.
Of course there are aliens on Mars. Three of them, although one has died. And all three have wheels. Plus, there are a couple of aliens in orbit around Mars.
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If you're a subscriber it means the story hasn't yet been posted, but you can read it and TFA. If you're not, then slashdot goofed and served you the advance page by accident.
No general principle of law exists that forbids fines to be adjusted to the means of the condemned.
In this case it does. The fine is expressed as a percentage of profits. Too bad speeding fines aren't like that, if those damned BMW and Escalade drivers got $10,000 tickets for blasting past me at 90 mph you'd see far fewer rich bastards flout the law like that.
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You know, if you look a word up in the dictionary to see if it's real, slang, or newly coined you look a lot less stupid. Aborning is a real word, "cromulent" was invented in a cartoon making fun of making up words.
Definition of ABORNING
: while being born or produced
Origin of ABORNING
1a- + English dialect borning (birth)
First Known Use: 1916
2aborningadjective
Definition of ABORNING
: being born or produced
Examples of ABORNING
First Known Use of ABORNING
1943
Related to ABORNING
Synonyms: nascent, budding, inceptive, inchoate, incipient
Antonyms: adult, full-blown, full-fledged, mature, ripe, ripened
If bicycle theft is treated with the same diligence and seriousness as car theft, people will more likely use bikes. Imagine if you went to the grocery store in your car, found it gone and the police acted like it's no big deal.
You forget that you can buy a new bicycle for under $100, the cheapest new car you can buy costs over a hundred times that. A theft of $2500 (an old beater) is a lot worse than a theft of that brand new $300 bike. When you're talking about thefts of less than $500 the cops don't do a lot about it, unless there's guns, drugs, or violence involved. And I'd say rightly so.
How many use jscript? Does jscript still even exist? Why in the hell can't Microsoft follow conventions and standards? Why do Microsoft devs put up with MS's disain of standards and conventions?
We don't need a new javascript. Put this new "javascript" on your web site and only IE will be able to render your page. Why in the hell would you do that?
And why is the parent comment modded "troll"? It's 100% accurate. Whoever modded him should never get moderation priveleges.
Why not permanent residence? People would adapt, evolution would take hold.
Evolution isn't an automatic "hand of god" type of thing. It involves random mutations and many generations, and is heavily dependant on death. You don't automatically "evolve" to be able to live in Antarctica, we have to supply our own environment to live there. Likewise, it would likely be tens of thousands of years at least before anyone can live in low gravity and be healthy -- if ever.
Great plan. I've been waiting 100 years for that to happen.
Wow, and I thought I was old!!!
Dude, what's wrong with you? Nobody was forced to vote for them.
When there is only one candidate running, how is any vote meaningful? That's often the case with congressmen. And what do you do when you have 5 candidates (not unusual) and no matter who wins, they raid SS?
There are ways to fix this, by starting social security later, or paying less back per month.
When my grandparents were young, only the rich paid taxes. Now the middle class pays a higher percentage of their income than the rich do. The answer is simple: get rid of the $75k income ceiling when taxing, keep a ceiling when paying back. Let those who can afford it pay for it. After all, their wealth comes from our labor.
It's not my SS I'm worried about, it's yours. We have SS because when my grandparents were young, old people starved.
It's noy my parents and children who are thieves, it's the politicians.
We are borrowing money to put off dealing with entitlement reform. Spending money on pensions and healthcare for 80 year olds is pure consumption
I've been paying SS and Medicare taxes for 45 years. I fucking paid for it. Congress kept borrowing from the money we PAID. Yes, we ARE entitled to that SS amd medicare. Are you entitled to the food you bought and paid for? Are you entitled to the money you put in the bank? Yes, you are, and if you fuck with my retirement income, good luck getting reelected, kid.
BTW, fuck everyone who is against my getting what I PAID FOR. Goddamned thieves...
My point is that "business risk" doesn't hold a candle to personal risk. There's no reason why a stock market gambler should have a lower tax rate than me.
I didn't, the computer's owner did. I uninstalled it and reinstalled from Mozilla's site.
If it is legal and not unreasonably dangerous for a business to use an open wifi connection, then why can't I?
You can. This sheriff isn't arresting people for having hotspots, he's simply mailing them FUD.
What's with slashdot today? An earlier story gave a bogus link and this gives none at all. I tried to find it by googling wifi sheriff site:JournalStar.com but the story didn't come up. Is this for real?
However, the ISP's TOS forbids it. Nobody's going to break into the computer unless it has no password. But as I've gotten free wifi from unsecured hotspots, I see no reason not to repay by doing the same.
If I were an employer, I'd ask for the password just to see what type of idiot's actually give them up.
If you were an employer I'd run like hell the fisrt time I saw an idiotic illiteracy like "see what type of idiot's actually give them up".
Calling people idiots while showing idiocy, man that's priceless!
I'm confused why Apple isn't being sued for the exact same kind of behaviour with their products and ecosystem.
Because Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop OSes, something like 90%. Apple has no monopoly in any space, for every iPhone sold, there are two Android phones sold. If MS did this with phones they'd be off the hook, because they have no monopoly in that market.
How many employers do you know with more than a dozen employees that don't engage in interstate commerce? Lawn care, a minority of restaraunts, barbershops and the like is pretty much it. Any manufacturing plant is going to do interstate commerce.
I see you've never seen Surrogates. Pretty good SF flick, you should check it out.
And some MS (I assume?) installs keep sneakily reverting me to fucking Bing.
Not just MS, but I'm sure the ones who are doing it are being paid for it by MS. I've seen it after installs from other devs. At least they're not as bad as Yahoo. Look for a Firefox downlod on Yahoo, and what you DL comes with the Bing Bar, the Yahoo bar, and with Bing as the default search.
The pilots ejected, but each damned plane is worth a lot more than $100k. Spending dimes to save pennies.
Of course there are aliens on Mars. Three of them, although one has died. And all three have wheels. Plus, there are a couple of aliens in orbit around Mars.
If you're a subscriber it means the story hasn't yet been posted, but you can read it and TFA. If you're not, then slashdot goofed and served you the advance page by accident.
There's lots of love for Curiosity... but it won't be found on Mars, it's all here millions of miles away.
No general principle of law exists that forbids fines to be adjusted to the means of the condemned.
In this case it does. The fine is expressed as a percentage of profits. Too bad speeding fines aren't like that, if those damned BMW and Escalade drivers got $10,000 tickets for blasting past me at 90 mph you'd see far fewer rich bastards flout the law like that.