" It is often said that the legislative process is like making sausage - - it is a messy compromise"
The actual quotation is "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made" and it's attributed to Otto Von Bismarc. So the MPAA dpesn't us watching the legislation they push through Congress. That way we're completely ignorant of the destruction of our online rights in regard to information sharing. Cute.
Perhaps this event will help set a new model for nuclear power plants. While nuclear power plants should not and probably could not be fully automated, deployment of similar robots could make nuclear power safer. Human contact with high levels of radiation could be reduced and the robots might be able to perform maintenance functions that humans could not.
There aren't provisions in the Constitution for a lot of things the government. It's called the elasticity clause. However in the case of the Patriot Act, the government stretched things so far as to break them.
I know this is slightly off-topic so bear with me. When you say patents do you mean registering copyrights as well? I did some digging the other day and found that once you create a work you automatically own the copyright. However to register the copyright, and obtain the legal benefits that come with it, costs about $30. This is one case where I think lowering copyright registration fees would be beneficul to the the mid-size and little guy.
Ah jeez. Listen people, God doesn't play politics. Frankly, He's got better things to do. I wish people would quit trying to claim God is on the side of their party. If you people would bother to actually read what Christ taught you might understand this. [generalization]Republicans are sorely lacking the social justice of Christianity and Democrats are sorely lacking the moral judgements of Christianity[/generalization]. Republicans don't care about Christ any more than the Democrats do and vice versa. Quit using religion as a political tool.
Honestly I think America in general has lost its forward thinking ability. It's a reoccuring pattern. Each time America percieves a technological superiority, she becomes fat and lazy and it takes a big scare to get her to do anything.
I don't condone bad English, but it's interesting to look at how online communications like IM and e-mail have developed so rapidly. LOL, BRB, ROFL, RTFA, WTF, all acronyms and expressions not commonly used before the advent of online communications and not widely used outside of it either. I'm generalizing here, but often times email and IM messages between friends are full of bad English, nearly non-sensical phrases and other linguistic nightmares. And amazingly enough we understand what's being communicated to us. So we face the question of whether what we see is bad English or simply a rapid evolution of the English language.
"...this is why we have a constitution, so that laws cannot screw up for basic rights without a major fight." Agreed! Our founding fathers fought so that we could someday play GTA:Vice City without interference!
How is purchasing a video game a right? It's a luxury item, not neccesary for survival, by any stretch of the imagination.
Secondly, how is this law unconsitutional? From what I gathered the prosecutors (is that the correct term in a civil case?) argued the ban somehow violated free speech. How does this ban violate free speech, or even freedom of expression for that matter? No one is preventing the minors from speaking their mind, only from purchasing a product meant for adults. We have the same limitation on the sales of alcohol, tobacco, and porn. Are those limitations unconstitutional too?
Never confuse rights and conviences. You'll waste all your resources fighting the loss of convience and be too wiped to fight for your rights when the time comes.
...Biodiesel is a fuel produced from vegetable oil... The Journal of Light Construction ran a short article a few months back on this. A contractor went around town to the restauraunts and collected all their used vegetable oil from them. The oil had been used to fry foods like french fries or hushpuppies. He would then run the collected oil/grease through the small processing tank in his garage. He had all his construction trucks converted to run on biodiesel and provided all the fuel for them. After start-up costs all the man pays for is the electricty needed to run the processing plant, since it has to heat up to an insane temperature to processes the food grease.
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Is it just me or does this remind anyone of the Soviet-Nazi non-agression pact?
Meat's too stringy. Besides turkey's cheaper. :)
" It is often said that the legislative process is like making sausage - - it is a messy compromise"
The actual quotation is "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made" and it's attributed to Otto Von Bismarc.
So the MPAA dpesn't us watching the legislation they push through Congress. That way we're completely ignorant of the destruction of our online rights in regard to information sharing. Cute.
"the [thing} you can see but you can't touch?"
Girls?
They wear stripes.
No, that happens when Steve Balmer leaves Microsoft to join Google. And apologizes for throwing the chair.
Have a contextually-appropriate celebration of the particular winter event your religious group, if any, should happen to endorse.
There I think that covers just about everything.
Bill Gates, Peron of the Year
Let the flamewars begin!
Perhaps this event will help set a new model for nuclear power plants. While nuclear power plants should not and probably could not be fully automated, deployment of similar robots could make nuclear power safer. Human contact with high levels of radiation could be reduced and the robots might be able to perform maintenance functions that humans could not.
There aren't provisions in the Constitution for a lot of things the government. It's called the elasticity clause. However in the case of the Patriot Act, the government stretched things so far as to break them.
This winter's gotten so cold I saw a poor lawyer that had to put his hand in his own pockets.
I know this is slightly off-topic so bear with me. When you say patents do you mean registering copyrights as well? I did some digging the other day and found that once you create a work you automatically own the copyright. However to register the copyright, and obtain the legal benefits that come with it, costs about $30. This is one case where I think lowering copyright registration fees would be beneficul to the the mid-size and little guy.
Ah jeez. Listen people, God doesn't play politics. Frankly, He's got better things to do. I wish people would quit trying to claim God is on the side of their party. If you people would bother to actually read what Christ taught you might understand this. [generalization]Republicans are sorely lacking the social justice of Christianity and Democrats are sorely lacking the moral judgements of Christianity[/generalization]. Republicans don't care about Christ any more than the Democrats do and vice versa. Quit using religion as a political tool.
Honestly I think America in general has lost its forward thinking ability. It's a reoccuring pattern. Each time America percieves a technological superiority, she becomes fat and lazy and it takes a big scare to get her to do anything.
Pinesol has waaaaay more cleaning power
Translation: We're trying to figure out how not to get caught next time.
As evidence by Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or The Kingsmen's" Louie Louie".
'Cause DRM keeps going the way it does, it'll probably be the only action the Slashdot computer crowd gets
Microsoft is already hard at work on the live-action version of this.
I don't condone bad English, but it's interesting to look at how online communications like IM and e-mail have developed so rapidly. LOL, BRB, ROFL, RTFA, WTF, all acronyms and expressions not commonly used before the advent of online communications and not widely used outside of it either. I'm generalizing here, but often times email and IM messages between friends are full of bad English, nearly non-sensical phrases and other linguistic nightmares. And amazingly enough we understand what's being communicated to us. So we face the question of whether what we see is bad English or simply a rapid evolution of the English language.
Excerpt from the famous Linux hearings:
"It is my opinion Mr Senator, confirmed by evidence, that Linux is not addictive..."
"...this is why we have a constitution, so that laws cannot screw up for basic rights without a major fight."
Agreed! Our founding fathers fought so that we could someday play GTA:Vice City without interference!
How is purchasing a video game a right? It's a luxury item, not neccesary for survival, by any stretch of the imagination.
Secondly, how is this law unconsitutional? From what I gathered the prosecutors (is that the correct term in a civil case?) argued the ban somehow violated free speech. How does this ban violate free speech, or even freedom of expression for that matter? No one is preventing the minors from speaking their mind, only from purchasing a product meant for adults. We have the same limitation on the sales of alcohol, tobacco, and porn. Are those limitations unconstitutional too?
Never confuse rights and conviences. You'll waste all your resources fighting the loss of convience and be too wiped to fight for your rights when the time comes.
Hey you're at the wrong article. Head back the way you came and turn the other direction this time.
...what will be the complications when our complex implants' OS gives us the equivalent of the BSOD?
It's insurance against Gates' cyborg army. The rest of us will be on Open Source.
...Biodiesel is a fuel produced from vegetable oil...
The Journal of Light Construction ran a short article a few months back on this. A contractor went around town to the restauraunts and collected all their used vegetable oil from them. The oil had been used to fry foods like french fries or hushpuppies. He would then run the collected oil/grease through the small processing tank in his garage. He had all his construction trucks converted to run on biodiesel and provided all the fuel for them. After start-up costs all the man pays for is the electricty needed to run the processing plant, since it has to heat up to an insane temperature to processes the food grease.