Two consenting adults can go together so long as there's no money changing hands.
You're not allowed to just go with a stranger and pay them for their trouble.
However, officials will often not watch too closely if you're discreet about it.
The bus is like a strip club. Everyone gets together for legally sanctioned transportation, but none of the customers get to drive, and it's not as much fun as a real car ride.
The sad thing is how surprising it is to see classmates.com being taken to task. I've reached the point where I hear of an organization sending unsolicited lies to people in order to trick them and flood them with advertising, and I think nothing of it. It's the way he world works - but maybe it doesn't have to be the way the world works.
The key difference here is that the mind control community somehow believe that they are being unduly influenced by the people around them. People in the religious community merely believe that they are being influenced by an invisible superbeing from outside of spacetime.
One only needs to apply common sense to determine which group is the crazy one.
A flood of discounted merchandise from liquidating Circuit City stores could hurt Best Buy during this holiday shopping season
I hardly think a company that sells a cable for $129.99 when a functionally equivalent cable is available for $5.43 is concerned about the availability of discounted merchandise.
It doesn't really bother me that most voters don't know those things. It infuriates me that some voters actually prefer a candidate who shares in their ignorance.
So let me get this straight: Windows 7 is only faster than Vista. It doesn't manage to also make third party programs written for Vista magically faster as well.
Fair use is not very useful when media companies do not respect it before making takedown requests and legal accusations. The average person can't afford the legal process to defend their use of 15 seconds of a Beatles tune in their home movie.
All of these discussions seem to boil down to this question: What happens if we begin to relax copyright protections? An orgy of creative sharing and new ideas, or a nightmare of starving artists and no new content? I tend to think it's closer to the former. I think that there will always be plenty of people wanting to create, and there will be plenty of creative ways to market and profit off of those creations regardless of copyright law. But nobody knows for sure.
I could say your post was just a "the world is changing, now we need copyright to be defended or culture will suffocate" diatribe, of the sort that also shows up in every Slashdot discussion.
What it's become is an easy way to make money. Why make a new Megaman and sell it for $10, rather than emulating a bunch of older, tried and true games? Why doesn't Sony create a way for volunteers to develop retro/homebrew games for the PS3, and then distribute them freely/cheaply over the PSN? It's all about money.
With digital purchasing made easy on the consoles, the potential for an endless profit stream is huge. Realize this, and you'll start seeing that it drives everything the console makers do, especially Sony. I saw them selling a bonus character for Soul Caliber IV (a Mortal Kombat style game) for $5. Paying $60 for the game wasn't enough? Add-on content, online movie rentals, downloadable small games that cost little to develop, all these things are easy money.
Now, I really like my PS3. It can even do some things that don't make money back for Sony, such as web surfing, watching videos (if they're encoded in a certain way), and even running Linux in a sandbox environment. (I don't list playing Blu-Rays because Sony is making money on those discs.) But I'll be watching out to see just how greedy they become.
It remains to be seen how much he can change in terms of laws and policy. Hopefully he will be effective.
What he can change right away is to speak to Americans honestly, to improve our relationships with foreign countries, and to not make me cringe when I see the president speak on TV. That's a good start.
Without knowing what you're trying to accomplish, it's hard to give any real advice. Automated spy van? Unmanned laser plane? Knight Rider style service truck? Continually running train with nuke launcher? There are only so many things you can do with an intelligent roving unmanned platform.
My concern with encrypting an entire disk would be fault tolerance. If a sector goes bad on a non-encrypted drive, you might lose a file. If it goes bad on an encrypted drive, do you risk losing more data or even the entire drive?
Of course, one could say that's why you make backups. But presumably the backups would also be using encryption. Therefore, they would be susceptible to the same effect. If there is a greater chance of total data loss on each device, the chance of multiple device failures leading to unrecoverable data also increases.
Actually, bad news for pirates. Much of the motivation for those who crack games is the challenge of defeating copy protection, and the kudos they get for supplying the game to others. Defeating DRM is a game in itself. Where's the challenge now?
Furthermore, it's easy to justify pirating a game when it is sold for a high price with intrusive, annoying copy protection schemes. You can make the case that it could be damaging your computer, or that you hate being forced to play off of the CD, or that the game is too expensive. Whether or not these arguments are valid, they make for great excuses.
But now when the games cost 6 bucks and have no protection, pirating will just make a person feel like a real cheapskate.
Let me use the wifi for free phone calls, text messages, and web use when I am at home or otherwise have wifi access.
Charge me a reasonable by-the-minute rate for cellular-based calls, texts, and data usage. If I don't use the cellular aspect, don't charge me anything.
I would understand a $5 - $10 monthly fee to pay for my wifi based phone calls. (I pay about $70/year for unlimited Skype calls currently.)
This would be similar to other T-Mobile pay-as-you-go plans. It would allow them to offer a much, much lower total cost of ownership over two years of use. I can't see any reason they couldn't make a modest profit under a plan like this. However, they won't offer this because they want to make a huge profit instead.
I don't care about tests either, I only care about anecdotal evidence in random/. posts. If Kaspersky worked for this one guy, it's good enough for me.
(Actually my only anti-virus protection is not using IE, and not running things that shouldn't be run. I've had no problems.)
It's not so much we're addicted to misery. However, we've already developed our entire infrastructure around the car. Having done that, it is extremely difficult to make the switch to walking. Perhaps this happened because our cities aren't as old, or because we had so much open land to use. Or perhaps we're just lazy.
Older US towns usually have nice downtown areas to walk around. However, most people don't live nearby, and so they need to drive to get downtown. Newer suburbs are just hideous networks of parking lots, unfortunately. I don't know why we keep building them that way.
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Actually, I think their digital photography was quite good!
Apparently driving is like sex in Canada.
The bus is like a strip club. Everyone gets together for legally sanctioned transportation, but none of the customers get to drive, and it's not as much fun as a real car ride.
The sad thing is how surprising it is to see classmates.com being taken to task. I've reached the point where I hear of an organization sending unsolicited lies to people in order to trick them and flood them with advertising, and I think nothing of it. It's the way he world works - but maybe it doesn't have to be the way the world works.
If I may wax patriotic for a moment, I believe that in this area you are seriously underestimating the strengths of the American populace.
The key difference here is that the mind control community somehow believe that they are being unduly influenced by the people around them. People in the religious community merely believe that they are being influenced by an invisible superbeing from outside of spacetime.
One only needs to apply common sense to determine which group is the crazy one.
I hardly think a company that sells a cable for $129.99 when a functionally equivalent cable is available for $5.43 is concerned about the availability of discounted merchandise.
It doesn't really bother me that most voters don't know those things. It infuriates me that some voters actually prefer a candidate who shares in their ignorance.
So let me get this straight: Windows 7 is only faster than Vista. It doesn't manage to also make third party programs written for Vista magically faster as well.
Fair use is not very useful when media companies do not respect it before making takedown requests and legal accusations. The average person can't afford the legal process to defend their use of 15 seconds of a Beatles tune in their home movie.
All of these discussions seem to boil down to this question: What happens if we begin to relax copyright protections? An orgy of creative sharing and new ideas, or a nightmare of starving artists and no new content? I tend to think it's closer to the former. I think that there will always be plenty of people wanting to create, and there will be plenty of creative ways to market and profit off of those creations regardless of copyright law. But nobody knows for sure.
I could say your post was just a "the world is changing, now we need copyright to be defended or culture will suffocate" diatribe, of the sort that also shows up in every Slashdot discussion.
Should we take up a collection?
Perhaps, but it's not yet common to see the topic covered with such clarity and thoughtfulness.
What it's become is an easy way to make money. Why make a new Megaman and sell it for $10, rather than emulating a bunch of older, tried and true games? Why doesn't Sony create a way for volunteers to develop retro/homebrew games for the PS3, and then distribute them freely/cheaply over the PSN? It's all about money.
With digital purchasing made easy on the consoles, the potential for an endless profit stream is huge. Realize this, and you'll start seeing that it drives everything the console makers do, especially Sony. I saw them selling a bonus character for Soul Caliber IV (a Mortal Kombat style game) for $5. Paying $60 for the game wasn't enough? Add-on content, online movie rentals, downloadable small games that cost little to develop, all these things are easy money.
Now, I really like my PS3. It can even do some things that don't make money back for Sony, such as web surfing, watching videos (if they're encoded in a certain way), and even running Linux in a sandbox environment. (I don't list playing Blu-Rays because Sony is making money on those discs.) But I'll be watching out to see just how greedy they become.
To really make this handy, they need to tie the phones into people's radar detectors and report that data as well.
It remains to be seen how much he can change in terms of laws and policy. Hopefully he will be effective.
What he can change right away is to speak to Americans honestly, to improve our relationships with foreign countries, and to not make me cringe when I see the president speak on TV. That's a good start.
Without knowing what you're trying to accomplish, it's hard to give any real advice. Automated spy van? Unmanned laser plane? Knight Rider style service truck? Continually running train with nuke launcher? There are only so many things you can do with an intelligent roving unmanned platform.
This is much less efficient, but lots more fun.
Thank you! Your answer was very helpful.
My concern with encrypting an entire disk would be fault tolerance. If a sector goes bad on a non-encrypted drive, you might lose a file. If it goes bad on an encrypted drive, do you risk losing more data or even the entire drive?
Of course, one could say that's why you make backups. But presumably the backups would also be using encryption. Therefore, they would be susceptible to the same effect. If there is a greater chance of total data loss on each device, the chance of multiple device failures leading to unrecoverable data also increases.
Actually, bad news for pirates. Much of the motivation for those who crack games is the challenge of defeating copy protection, and the kudos they get for supplying the game to others. Defeating DRM is a game in itself. Where's the challenge now?
Furthermore, it's easy to justify pirating a game when it is sold for a high price with intrusive, annoying copy protection schemes. You can make the case that it could be damaging your computer, or that you hate being forced to play off of the CD, or that the game is too expensive. Whether or not these arguments are valid, they make for great excuses.
But now when the games cost 6 bucks and have no protection, pirating will just make a person feel like a real cheapskate.
Integrating video games into the work day: A great idea!
Funny that the states which elected Schwarzenegger and Ventura as governors fall outside of Dumbfuckistan.
The force of the rocket may be constant, but as speed increases the forces of wind resistance and friction become dominant.
I would buy a G1 if they offered the following:
This would be similar to other T-Mobile pay-as-you-go plans. It would allow them to offer a much, much lower total cost of ownership over two years of use. I can't see any reason they couldn't make a modest profit under a plan like this. However, they won't offer this because they want to make a huge profit instead.
I don't care about tests either, I only care about anecdotal evidence in random /. posts. If Kaspersky worked for this one guy, it's good enough for me.
(Actually my only anti-virus protection is not using IE, and not running things that shouldn't be run. I've had no problems.)
It's not so much we're addicted to misery. However, we've already developed our entire infrastructure around the car. Having done that, it is extremely difficult to make the switch to walking. Perhaps this happened because our cities aren't as old, or because we had so much open land to use. Or perhaps we're just lazy.
Older US towns usually have nice downtown areas to walk around. However, most people don't live nearby, and so they need to drive to get downtown. Newer suburbs are just hideous networks of parking lots, unfortunately. I don't know why we keep building them that way.