I would agree with you except for a couple of details: Horse & Dog racing.
Intra-state gambling is permissible by wire - regardless of where the bank is located - if the 'casino' and the buyer are in the same state, it's legal - oddly enough even if the hosted server is in another state.
Inter-state gambling is prohibited for the most part - excepting Horse & Dog racing - there is an explicit exception for those 2 gambling types in the law.
Also note that this is about B&M vs online services, you can't be accredited by the US gaming commissions unless you have a B&M that allows onsite gambling. No accredidation => unlicensed => jail time no matter how good your books.
This only applies to Non-US online gambling institutions and US non B&M ones. It's perfectly legal to transfer money while:
in Nevada & using the websites for the Casino's in Las Vegas & do online financial transactions wherever your bank/residence is.
anywhere & use online financial transactions to support OTB for Horse & Dog races wherever your bank/residence is.
within a state & use it's online system to do lottery transactions wherever your bank/residence is.
It is however illegal to transfer money:
in another state & using the Las Vegas casino sites to do anything other than Horse & Dog Racing even if your bank/residence is in Nevada.
in one state and using another state's online system to do lottery transactions even if your bank/residence is in the lottery state.
Weee, aren't those great laws they put into place? These money sites not only need to know where you are, where your bank is, where the site is, and what you are doing in order to determine if it's legal.
You can only sue the US govt if it allows you to. If they don't want to be sued over this, you have to initiate a lawsuit up to SCOTUS in order to get the permission to sue. Then, you can begin your actual lawsuit.
Found innocent of what, money laundering? Hmm, they took money and transfered it to accounts A, B, and C. That's what they do. If the US govt declares that C is a front for a criminal organization, that's it - it's money laundering, and like a 'terrorist affiliated' group, you don't get to challenge the legal standing. If the law doesn't work the way the Shrub thinks it should he just goes ahead anyway. I'm thinking 3 years to clear this up, you want to sit in jail for 3 years because you're a flight risk?
You do not enjoy the benefits of regulation when playing at one of these off-shore accounts. So if they get caught cheating in some way, they close down the site and open up a brand new one in a matter of days. Online casinos wont be safe until some one can figure out how to regulate them globally.
Antigua regulates them very strictly. It's ~30% of their GDP right now so they have a vested interest in ensuring that they are well behaved companies. So are they all safe, no more so than the back room poker game at Bobs. But the larger reputable ones are.
It doesn't matter where the casino is based. It matters that the casino was being marketed to customers in the U.S. It matters that the casino was accepting payments from U.S. accounts.
It very much does matter. If the casino is a B&M based in the US, it can offer online gambling, and the banks can transfer money. IE. it is legal for you to sit in your Hotel room anywhere in Nevada & use the Circus Circus website to gamble 24/7 AND have Nettell transfer your money from your account to theirs. It is perfectly legal for you to use the OTB (Off Track Betting) website from anywhere in the world to bet on the Kentucky Derby. Hell if the US citizens were in Antigua & wanted to transfer money from their US accounts to an Antiguan casino, it would have been legal for Nettell to handle the transaction. It's just that the magical tubes in the Internet were used to do it from inside the US to outside the US.
This is entirely about right wing gambling-is-bad protectionism aligned with big money B & M casinos to block international gambling sites. It's not about morality, money laundering, terrorism or anything except pandering to wingnuts in a way that also gives big money casinos a woody.
Your analogy is just wrong on so many levels. The company is a financial service - it trades money from one bank account to another - converting funds from one currency to another and handling all that wonderful red tape. It's legal - everywhere. Yes even here in the US.
Crime cartel killing thousands of Americans. Gun running? illegal in Cuba. Drug running? even worse in Cuba than the US. Smuggling bobble-head Hula dolls that make people just shoot themselves? Tax evasion is serious hard labor time in Cuba not Club Fed.
Also, for your information, the US doesn't want these types of financial services to stop trading with all gambling sites, just the ones they want them to. US Horse racing, US dog racing, US based sports betting, US based state lottery sites are all good. But international poker sites are bad. Antigua has already petitioned the WTO against the US because of this protectionist trade behavior, and the WTO found against the US. In November a final report was due out, and it didn't look all that good for the US. In essence the US is claiming that they can block foreign gambling sites because of 'Societal Moral Constraints' the same as Saudi Arabia can block Importing Alcahol. However, when there is an estimated $12 billion gambling industry in the US - with up to 85% (Horse & dog racing) of some portions of it being done online - it becomes an impossible stance for anyone but Bush or SCO.
So, what are these men guilty of? Oh, they transfered money from US citizens to Antiguan gambling sites. Had they transfered money from US citizens to US gambling sites, it would have been OK. For the record, Antiguan gambling companies are run under as strict or even stricter guidelines than US companies. This whole thing is crap with the Shrub masturbating with WTO treaties to satisfy some right wing nutjobs.
Actually, the judge didn't ignore it, they just waited until it hurt SCO the most & dropped 2/3 of their evidence in the trashcan. The problem with opening that can of legal whoopass is that it can open up appeals. Watching SCO/IBM you can see that when this walks out of court BSF is going to be laughed out of every appeals court in the country.
The viable reasons for appeal:
Bias: check - the judge was highly biased in your favor for all of these rulings during discovery.
Violation of precedent: If you actually read the whole rulings that you were quoting from you wouldn't be an ass.
Gross Error: Yep, you should never have brought this case in the first place.
and not a valid reason outside SCO's alternate universe:
That was the goal, if the sabot is the rail, there's no issue with rail erosion. The outer shell is your electrical contact to the power system. Residing inside that are the 2 rails. Aligned with the rail, is the projectile with a small primer charge. Pop the primer, projectile moves into the rail path*, completes the circuit, and accelerates. After firing, eject the outer shell. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Essentially, the Sabot is an expendable firing chamber.
However, I re-read the article & the whole barrel appears to be the rail, not a firing chamber & barrel setup. I don't see a lot of call for shells that long.
* From an earlier article, the projectile usually welds itself to the rails if you apply current to the rails with the projectile already in contact or moving very slowly.
A sabot round? The projectile being the actual round with the rails being the Sabot - ejected by the force of the plasma? Use an asymetrical round to ensure orientation, use 1/2 the surface as one pole & the other half as the other, all focusing on the rails themselves. Might be able to buy you enough surface area to avoid welding the sabot to the chamber.
Hmm, the greeks knew the diameter of the earth to within 10% - calculated with nothing more than a couple of protractors, wells, & plumbobs. Hmm, 2500 - 3K years is not too long ago in geological terms.
FWIW, mostly it was the Catholic church that insisted the earth was flat - the Chinese, Arabs, and IIRC Myans all knew differently.
As for coming to your own conclusion, that's fine. But use actual facts - recorded temperatures, leafpore counts, snowfall records, weather reposts (The British Royal Navy has excellent daily weather records dating back to almost the beginning of the Navy), and glacial migration/formation.
There is very little scientific debate on the specific question of "Is the Earth in a warming trend?" The answer is yes. There is a substantial debate reguarding the causes of that & the influence that humanity is having on the trend, but not on the existance of the trend.
Most politicians being vocal against GW take the debate of cause & declare that there is a dispute about the trend. There isn't. There is a distinct trend towards a higher mean temperature on the earth. Now, go ahead and debate the cause of the trend, but don't claim there isn't a trend.
Rochester NY in the 89-92 timespan had the same issue. 7 women got arrested on a weekly basis for topless sunbathing in one of the parks -- NY Appeals court ruled in their favor.
I have a friend who is the president of a photography club in CT. He's been arrested twice for refusing to turn over his rolls of film - with pictures of local WPA bridges & Buildings.
The knight quote is from a display at one of the meuseums in MA (Worcester Armory IIRC)- durring one of it's displays of medieval armor. I cannot quote their source, and it may have been related only to the province to which the armor was tied.
Carrying 10# of metal doesn't make you in great shape - being able to swing it accurately for an extended period of time does. I will however stand corrected on the weight issue - research instead of relying on my decafinated brain does indicate weights substantially lower than I had recalled.
MS would love to have a format (FairPlay) that Apple doesn't want to release. Then the only "Approved" DRM is theirs. Life is good move along. Yes it's another bit of assinine kowtowing to the media by the government - it precludes fair use by definition, but that's not an issue that Congress sees because there's no money in it.
I'm sure you know these things better than I do, so please don't take it as a lecture. All I'm trying to say is why I find the hammers in video games to be, well, unrealistic.
Hell yes they are unrealistic - who want's the realism of a warhammer looking like a 2# ball peen hammer? It's my avatar - and by gods it's going to have something that looks like it belongs in the hand of a god, not Bubba the bodyshop cog.
As for trying to swing a 5# smith hammer - the weight is wrong - a metal shaft with pommel will drop the CM back closer to your hand & give you more control - or you use it more like an axe & keep the head moving in circles & figure 8's - using momentum for force & just redirecting it --- check out 'Conquest' - I think it's from Discovery channel - they cover a lot of the medieval weapons --- or check out the SCA for some links to dissertations on the weaponry.
Also, some of the criteria for Knighthood were insane - at one point French Knights were required to Scale 2 walls arms length appart in full armor. Add to that that the Broadsword frequently weighed in at 5-10#, a Welsh longbow has 100#+ pull weight, and knights did frequently walk to the battlefield so that their horse was fresh for the battle - and you get that these grunts were in truely awesome physical condition.
and so could warhammers (think a thin sharp spike perpendicular to the handle, much like a pickaxe, not the massive hammers portrayed in video games),
That would be a military pick. The massive hammers you see in videogames are a seperate weapon - often based on the Norse descriptions of Moljinar (appologies if that's misspelled) Thor's hammer. Military hammers have a different purpose, crushing skulls inside the armor instead of piercing them is the main one.
That said, yes it's very common for weapons to have multiple surfaces - hammer 1 side, pick the other. Pole arm designs are a nightmare to catalog simply due to the wide variety of combinations people put together. Axe, Hammer, Spear, Hook, and Blade were all designs used in creating the business end of polearms - often 3 at a time. (Blade being a slightly curved heavy slashing blade as opposed to the chopping axe blade).
I agree that most companies could easily convert to Linux/BSD/FOSS with OO/Firefox/Evolution. Here I could switch the entire training & call center systems to Open source. If I took the time to skin it right, I doubt they would even notice the difference.
My problems are custom software - we have 1 program that's on all of the systems related to account provisioning/repair/etc. It's a piece of systems integration to tie between us & our supplier - and it's not available on Linux. The other issue is a suppliers interface which is a Java applet that only works with 1 specific version of Windows Java implimentation - down to the point where you need a specific patch number from MS or it won't work.
That's it 2 chunks of software - both 3rd party interfaces that keep us from going to Linux. Heck, our entire backend - except for the server for 1 of them - is already Linux/BSD.
I should of course add that I'm European and have a tad bit of different opinions on sex.:-P
Actually you're probably not that far off from the majority of US opinion either. The majority of the vocal people is of course against porn, but my wife & I agree we would rather have our son (15) watching porn than stickdeath.com's kill the towlhead series.
are public enemy #1. The FBI said so to quote: Radical, Militant, Librarians
The site is for buttons supporting the American Librarian Association. The quote is from an FBI report on the NJ incident where a librarian refused to break state law for the police. [As an asside the librarian in question was suspended by the board --- for 'questionable judgment' when the law explicitly states that the following the police request would have been a felony.]
Actually, it's absolutely NOT the IT peoples job to install AVG, Adaware, and Firefox. A lot of school districts have very strict structures on what is "Permissable" software to go onto the systems. If the district says :
Browser: IE
Anti-Virus: Norton Anti-virus
Filtering Software: Net Nanny
and an IT tech puts on Firefox, they can be fired on the spot. Ditto with replacing an out of date/license version of Norton with AVG.
Per the article, she told 4 other teachers & the principle it was happening & nothing was done to correct the problem. So let's be a bit realistic here & say "hmm, the schoolboard didn't do it's job. The principle didn't do theirs. IT may or may not have done theirs - given the assinine constraints some of them work under" perhaps this wasn't the teachers fault. - But it's easier to blame 1 person than look at a system collapse & say "we have to fix this".
Sony can justify it based on the number of times groups have boycotted products/companies associated with porn/sex/cooties.
You don't have to be right, you just have to have a rational. The only time a group of shareholders can go after the Board is if they deliberately ignore an issue, and IIRC only after the shareholders have brought it up in the anual meetings. So long as the issue is raised & concidered, the resolution - right or wrong - shields the board.
So they absolutely should have only used 2 white women - one dressed in white & the other in black - because using mixed races is offensive. Oh, and having 2 black women there would have been racists as portraying black women as violent.
Yep, only white women will do for an add about competing products. Ohh, or Asian...
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I would agree with you except for a couple of details: Horse & Dog racing.
Intra-state gambling is permissible by wire - regardless of where the bank is located - if the 'casino' and the buyer are in the same state, it's legal - oddly enough even if the hosted server is in another state.
Inter-state gambling is prohibited for the most part - excepting Horse & Dog racing - there is an explicit exception for those 2 gambling types in the law.
Also note that this is about B&M vs online services, you can't be accredited by the US gaming commissions unless you have a B&M that allows onsite gambling. No accredidation => unlicensed => jail time no matter how good your books.
- in Nevada & using the websites for the Casino's in Las Vegas & do online financial transactions wherever your bank/residence is.
- anywhere & use online financial transactions to support OTB for Horse & Dog races wherever your bank/residence is.
- within a state & use it's online system to do lottery transactions wherever your bank/residence is.
It is however illegal to transfer money:- in another state & using the Las Vegas casino sites to do anything other than Horse & Dog Racing even if your bank/residence is in Nevada.
- in one state and using another state's online system to do lottery transactions even if your bank/residence is in the lottery state.
Weee, aren't those great laws they put into place? These money sites not only need to know where you are, where your bank is, where the site is, and what you are doing in order to determine if it's legal.It very much does matter. If the casino is a B&M based in the US, it can offer online gambling, and the banks can transfer money. IE. it is legal for you to sit in your Hotel room anywhere in Nevada & use the Circus Circus website to gamble 24/7 AND have Nettell transfer your money from your account to theirs. It is perfectly legal for you to use the OTB (Off Track Betting) website from anywhere in the world to bet on the Kentucky Derby. Hell if the US citizens were in Antigua & wanted to transfer money from their US accounts to an Antiguan casino, it would have been legal for Nettell to handle the transaction. It's just that the magical tubes in the Internet were used to do it from inside the US to outside the US.
This is entirely about right wing gambling-is-bad protectionism aligned with big money B & M casinos to block international gambling sites. It's not about morality, money laundering, terrorism or anything except pandering to wingnuts in a way that also gives big money casinos a woody.
Your analogy is just wrong on so many levels. The company is a financial service - it trades money from one bank account to another - converting funds from one currency to another and handling all that wonderful red tape. It's legal - everywhere. Yes even here in the US.
Crime cartel killing thousands of Americans. Gun running? illegal in Cuba. Drug running? even worse in Cuba than the US. Smuggling bobble-head Hula dolls that make people just shoot themselves? Tax evasion is serious hard labor time in Cuba not Club Fed.
Also, for your information, the US doesn't want these types of financial services to stop trading with all gambling sites, just the ones they want them to. US Horse racing, US dog racing, US based sports betting, US based state lottery sites are all good. But international poker sites are bad. Antigua has already petitioned the WTO against the US because of this protectionist trade behavior, and the WTO found against the US. In November a final report was due out, and it didn't look all that good for the US. In essence the US is claiming that they can block foreign gambling sites because of 'Societal Moral Constraints' the same as Saudi Arabia can block Importing Alcahol. However, when there is an estimated $12 billion gambling industry in the US - with up to 85% (Horse & dog racing) of some portions of it being done online - it becomes an impossible stance for anyone but Bush or SCO.
So, what are these men guilty of? Oh, they transfered money from US citizens to Antiguan gambling sites. Had they transfered money from US citizens to US gambling sites, it would have been OK. For the record, Antiguan gambling companies are run under as strict or even stricter guidelines than US companies. This whole thing is crap with the Shrub masturbating with WTO treaties to satisfy some right wing nutjobs.
The viable reasons for appeal:
- Bias: check - the judge was highly biased in your favor for all of these rulings during discovery.
- Violation of precedent: If you actually read the whole rulings that you were quoting from you wouldn't be an ass.
- Gross Error: Yep, you should never have brought this case in the first place.
and not a valid reason outside SCO's alternate universe:That was the goal, if the sabot is the rail, there's no issue with rail erosion. The outer shell is your electrical contact to the power system. Residing inside that are the 2 rails. Aligned with the rail, is the projectile with a small primer charge. Pop the primer, projectile moves into the rail path*, completes the circuit, and accelerates. After firing, eject the outer shell. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Essentially, the Sabot is an expendable firing chamber.
However, I re-read the article & the whole barrel appears to be the rail, not a firing chamber & barrel setup. I don't see a lot of call for shells that long.
* From an earlier article, the projectile usually welds itself to the rails if you apply current to the rails with the projectile already in contact or moving very slowly.
A sabot round? The projectile being the actual round with the rails being the Sabot - ejected by the force of the plasma? Use an asymetrical round to ensure orientation, use 1/2 the surface as one pole & the other half as the other, all focusing on the rails themselves. Might be able to buy you enough surface area to avoid welding the sabot to the chamber.
Hmm, the greeks knew the diameter of the earth to within 10% - calculated with nothing more than a couple of protractors, wells, & plumbobs. Hmm, 2500 - 3K years is not too long ago in geological terms.
FWIW, mostly it was the Catholic church that insisted the earth was flat - the Chinese, Arabs, and IIRC Myans all knew differently.
As for coming to your own conclusion, that's fine. But use actual facts - recorded temperatures, leafpore counts, snowfall records, weather reposts (The British Royal Navy has excellent daily weather records dating back to almost the beginning of the Navy), and glacial migration/formation.
There is very little scientific debate on the specific question of "Is the Earth in a warming trend?" The answer is yes. There is a substantial debate reguarding the causes of that & the influence that humanity is having on the trend, but not on the existance of the trend.
Most politicians being vocal against GW take the debate of cause & declare that there is a dispute about the trend. There isn't. There is a distinct trend towards a higher mean temperature on the earth. Now, go ahead and debate the cause of the trend, but don't claim there isn't a trend.
Because they were trying to sucker people into immigrating to it.
Rochester NY in the 89-92 timespan had the same issue. 7 women got arrested on a weekly basis for topless sunbathing in one of the parks -- NY Appeals court ruled in their favor.
I have a friend who is the president of a photography club in CT. He's been arrested twice for refusing to turn over his rolls of film - with pictures of local WPA bridges & Buildings.
The knight quote is from a display at one of the meuseums in MA (Worcester Armory IIRC)- durring one of it's displays of medieval armor. I cannot quote their source, and it may have been related only to the province to which the armor was tied.
Carrying 10# of metal doesn't make you in great shape - being able to swing it accurately for an extended period of time does. I will however stand corrected on the weight issue - research instead of relying on my decafinated brain does indicate weights substantially lower than I had recalled.
MS would love to have a format (FairPlay) that Apple doesn't want to release. Then the only "Approved" DRM is theirs. Life is good move along. Yes it's another bit of assinine kowtowing to the media by the government - it precludes fair use by definition, but that's not an issue that Congress sees because there's no money in it.
As for trying to swing a 5# smith hammer - the weight is wrong - a metal shaft with pommel will drop the CM back closer to your hand & give you more control - or you use it more like an axe & keep the head moving in circles & figure 8's - using momentum for force & just redirecting it --- check out 'Conquest' - I think it's from Discovery channel - they cover a lot of the medieval weapons --- or check out the SCA for some links to dissertations on the weaponry.
Also, some of the criteria for Knighthood were insane - at one point French Knights were required to Scale 2 walls arms length appart in full armor. Add to that that the Broadsword frequently weighed in at 5-10#, a Welsh longbow has 100#+ pull weight, and knights did frequently walk to the battlefield so that their horse was fresh for the battle - and you get that these grunts were in truely awesome physical condition.
That said, yes it's very common for weapons to have multiple surfaces - hammer 1 side, pick the other. Pole arm designs are a nightmare to catalog simply due to the wide variety of combinations people put together. Axe, Hammer, Spear, Hook, and Blade were all designs used in creating the business end of polearms - often 3 at a time. (Blade being a slightly curved heavy slashing blade as opposed to the chopping axe blade).
I agree that most companies could easily convert to Linux/BSD/FOSS with OO/Firefox/Evolution. Here I could switch the entire training & call center systems to Open source. If I took the time to skin it right, I doubt they would even notice the difference. My problems are custom software - we have 1 program that's on all of the systems related to account provisioning/repair/etc. It's a piece of systems integration to tie between us & our supplier - and it's not available on Linux. The other issue is a suppliers interface which is a Java applet that only works with 1 specific version of Windows Java implimentation - down to the point where you need a specific patch number from MS or it won't work. That's it 2 chunks of software - both 3rd party interfaces that keep us from going to Linux. Heck, our entire backend - except for the server for 1 of them - is already Linux/BSD.
are public enemy #1. The FBI said so to quote: Radical, Militant, Librarians
The site is for buttons supporting the American Librarian Association. The quote is from an FBI report on the NJ incident where a librarian refused to break state law for the police. [As an asside the librarian in question was suspended by the board --- for 'questionable judgment' when the law explicitly states that the following the police request would have been a felony.]
- Browser: IE
- Anti-Virus: Norton Anti-virus
- Filtering Software: Net Nanny
and an IT tech puts on Firefox, they can be fired on the spot. Ditto with replacing an out of date/license version of Norton with AVG.Per the article, she told 4 other teachers & the principle it was happening & nothing was done to correct the problem. So let's be a bit realistic here & say "hmm, the schoolboard didn't do it's job. The principle didn't do theirs. IT may or may not have done theirs - given the assinine constraints some of them work under" perhaps this wasn't the teachers fault. - But it's easier to blame 1 person than look at a system collapse & say "we have to fix this".
Sony can justify it based on the number of times groups have boycotted products/companies associated with porn/sex/cooties.
You don't have to be right, you just have to have a rational. The only time a group of shareholders can go after the Board is if they deliberately ignore an issue, and IIRC only after the shareholders have brought it up in the anual meetings. So long as the issue is raised & concidered, the resolution - right or wrong - shields the board.
So they absolutely should have only used 2 white women - one dressed in white & the other in black - because using mixed races is offensive. Oh, and having 2 black women there would have been racists as portraying black women as violent. ...
Yep, only white women will do for an add about competing products. Ohh, or Asian
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