> Third, most of the fault here is Bitcoin's, as they should have registered the trademark themselves, or failing that, protected their trademark > without registration.
I was unaware that an abstract unit of measurement could trademark itself. The whole point o fbitcoin was to design a currency system with no central issuing authority. There is no single, cohesive organization that backs bitcoin. The closest thing to that would be the person generally recognized as the lead developer but, it is really more like being a reference implementation developer because if he makes changes that people don't like, people will just stop using his client and develop others.
I mean, your chance of death from crash is lower sure, but thats a pretty narrow definition of "danger".
What about the "Danger" of being detained and missing your flight? The "Danger" of irradiation from newfangled machines that the TSA lied to the public about wrt safety and safety testing? How about the danger of having property taken from you? Forgot that little credit card tool with the knife in your wallet? fuck you, gone.
The danger that you will run afoul of some new secret rule?
I suspect the danger of being a victim of the TSA tips the scales in favor of driving.
It is? I have never seen =/= before this very discussion, and had no clue what it meant until it was explained. It just didn't make sense how you would divide equality. I am quite skeptical of =/= being more widely understood.\
On the other hand, I have seen != in many discussions, though, still not very common. Most of the time its "not equals" or "is not"
Sure, and I understand why some people feel that way. I think its absolutely stupid, but they are welcome to think that.
My problem comes when they want to use their irrational beliefs formed mostly from reading too many fairy tales, as a basis for getting involved in the transactions of others.
Good, then they can police their own children and not foist that responsibility off on the rest of society to uphold their personal perversions of morality.
Just put it on craigslist and someone will come and take it for free.
Though.... a 21" crt? Those aren't too heavy. If lifting those is hard, then I suggest keeping it and lifting it every day until its not so heavy. Its cheaper than the gym.
Well really....its more like they don't understand how the whole thing works, they like how the "do not call" list works, and think that they want the same here... because they don't realize what the real technical differences that make it impossible to really work are.
I disrespectfully agree. TSA pieces of shit are worst than do-nothings. I would rather pay for every able bodied one of them to recieve welfare for the rest of their lives than to give them a paycheck for this BS privacy violating job.
Their machinesa re going to kill more people from cancer, and their ham handed policies are going to ruin more lives than all of the potential terrorists combined ever would have. They are an unmitigated drain on the ticket.
I ran into this problem a few times with firefox. I have never used opera but, does it have the ability (or an extension) that allows it to lie about its useragent? A few times I made my browser lie and claim to be IE, or a newer version of firefox,....and had it work like a charm on some apps.
As far as I can tell, there is mainly one reason that IE is better than Firefox for "business use"....
Companies like Microsoft products and Microsoft products don't work with Firefox.
How well does Sharepoint work with firefox? I can't even fill out my damned "project time sheet" every week without IE. Its just a glorified web form but, since they have no incentive whatsoever to make cross platform software, they....don't.
Actually, if there was an airine that let me get on, buy a ticket for cash with no id, and had no security checkpoint....I would choose to fly it every single time.
The real truth is, you can have all the screening you want, the terrorist chooses his target. Your BEST CASE SCENARIO is he moves on and attacks a school or subway instead. In truth, you probably have no chance in hell of actually stopping every terrorist who tries to get a plane.
Even if you could, he could just.... blow up the checkpoint....or the line in front of it. There is no win, there is no "security" Its all for show, 100%
And it got a Wikipedia page called the "Hindawi Affair". Hmm a few nights ago someone had a car crash, I wonder what the wikipedia page for that car crash is called..... oh right.... they only do that for events that are incredibly rare. So rare as to... not be worth talking about. Seriously, if this is what airport security is supposed to protect us from, then we can fire them all....totally unneeded.
Armed criminals often conceal weapons under clothing, precisely because their weapons would otherwise be obvious.
Clearly the only way we could ever feel safe enough to walk down the street is to outlaw all clothing. Makes sense to me. Do you see a flaw in this thinking?
I would also point out that there is the case of Laidlaw v Organ. Long story short, seller asked customer if there was any reason he knew that the tobacco should sell at a higher price. He said no, however, it turned out it was a lie, he had just been informed that the war (which had depressed the price) had JUST ended.
Seller finds out...takes his tobacco back, and calls the deal off.
Court ruled that since the negotiation was done in bad faith, the deal was, indeed, off.
Going back to your employment contract, so...if you signed the contract with the intent to spy on the company... thus negotiation in bad faith, would they be able to declare the employment void too and go after your pay?
Yup and on top of that... the "contracts are great" mindset is missing the real point.
Its not a problem with the idea of contracts, its a problem with how people are instituting them. A person shouldn't have to read every single word to understand the basic idea. If you tell me "once condition X is met, you are vested", then I understand that to mean something. Specifically, it means that its mine, even if I leave. Period. If it doesn't mean that.... then you are misrepresenting the contract when you presented it to me.
Nothing excuses negotiation in bad faith, which, is what it sounds to me like they did if they promised something that vested but didn't give it.
Well actually, now that you mention it... my username and password hash were recently in a data dump.
was that supposed to change my mind or something. I never said I thought Lulzsec were saints, but I do applaud a couple of targets...my enemies enemy and all. The CIA one made me laugh to beat the band, as did the AZ LE leak.
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> Third, most of the fault here is Bitcoin's, as they should have registered the trademark themselves, or failing that, protected their trademark
> without registration.
I was unaware that an abstract unit of measurement could trademark itself. The whole point o fbitcoin was to design a currency system with no central issuing authority. There is no single, cohesive organization that backs bitcoin. The closest thing to that would be the person generally recognized as the lead developer but, it is really more like being a reference implementation developer because if he makes changes that people don't like, people will just stop using his client and develop others.
I mean, your chance of death from crash is lower sure, but thats a pretty narrow definition of "danger".
What about the "Danger" of being detained and missing your flight? The "Danger" of irradiation from newfangled machines that the TSA lied to the public about wrt safety and safety testing? How about the danger of having property taken from you? Forgot that little credit card tool with the knife in your wallet? fuck you, gone.
The danger that you will run afoul of some new secret rule?
I suspect the danger of being a victim of the TSA tips the scales in favor of driving.
It is? I have never seen =/= before this very discussion, and had no clue what it meant until it was explained. It just didn't make sense how you would divide equality. I am quite skeptical of =/= being more widely understood.\
On the other hand, I have seen != in many discussions, though, still not very common. Most of the time its "not equals" or "is not"
Unless you are familiar with C, or any of its derivative languages, all of which chose !=
Meaning that != is already pretty widely understood, and uses one less char, making it 33% better!
Sure, and I understand why some people feel that way. I think its absolutely stupid, but they are welcome to think that.
My problem comes when they want to use their irrational beliefs formed mostly from reading too many fairy tales, as a basis for getting involved in the transactions of others.
Good, then they can police their own children and not foist that responsibility off on the rest of society to uphold their personal perversions of morality.
You do realize what they get paid for overtime right?
I really want diaspora but, when I looked at it recently, it was little more than promises. I would love to start running it.
Just put it on craigslist and someone will come and take it for free.
Though.... a 21" crt? Those aren't too heavy. If lifting those is hard, then I suggest keeping it and lifting it every day until its not so heavy. Its cheaper than the gym.
Well really....its more like they don't understand how the whole thing works, they like how the "do not call" list works, and think that they want the same here... because they don't realize what the real technical differences that make it impossible to really work are.
Bottom line though, they want to not be tracked.
I disrespectfully agree. TSA pieces of shit are worst than do-nothings. I would rather pay for every able bodied one of them to recieve welfare for the rest of their lives than to give them a paycheck for this BS privacy violating job.
Their machinesa re going to kill more people from cancer, and their ham handed policies are going to ruin more lives than all of the potential terrorists combined ever would have. They are an unmitigated drain on the ticket.
Then....once everyone is a TSA employee.... we can spend our days touching eachothers junk! w00t!
I ran into this problem a few times with firefox. I have never used opera but, does it have the ability (or an extension) that allows it to lie about its useragent? A few times I made my browser lie and claim to be IE, or a newer version of firefox,....and had it work like a charm on some apps.
As far as I can tell, there is mainly one reason that IE is better than Firefox for "business use"....
Companies like Microsoft products and Microsoft products don't work with Firefox.
How well does Sharepoint work with firefox? I can't even fill out my damned "project time sheet" every week without IE. Its just a glorified web form but, since they have no incentive whatsoever to make cross platform software, they....don't.
I actually asked on the TSA blog once if that was their plan.
They apparently didn't consider it a worthy question....that or they don't want to give away the plan.
Actually, if there was an airine that let me get on, buy a ticket for cash with no id, and had no security checkpoint....I would choose to fly it every single time.
The real truth is, you can have all the screening you want, the terrorist chooses his target. Your BEST CASE SCENARIO is he moves on and attacks a school or subway instead. In truth, you probably have no chance in hell of actually stopping every terrorist who tries to get a plane.
Even if you could, he could just.... blow up the checkpoint....or the line in front of it. There is no win, there is no "security" Its all for show, 100%
Well...it did have liquid in it!
I think the TSA agents should be required to personally inspect the contents of EVERY such bag!
And it got a Wikipedia page called the "Hindawi Affair". Hmm a few nights ago someone had a car crash, I wonder what the wikipedia page for that car crash is called..... oh right.... they only do that for events that are incredibly rare. So rare as to... not be worth talking about. Seriously, if this is what airport security is supposed to protect us from, then we can fire them all....totally unneeded.
Armed criminals often conceal weapons under clothing, precisely because their weapons would otherwise be obvious.
Clearly the only way we could ever feel safe enough to walk down the street is to outlaw all clothing. Makes sense to me. Do you see a flaw in this thinking?
Interesting and, about how I understood it to be.
I would also point out that there is the case of Laidlaw v Organ. Long story short, seller asked customer if there was any reason he knew that the tobacco should sell at a higher price. He said no, however, it turned out it was a lie, he had just been informed that the war (which had depressed the price) had JUST ended.
Seller finds out...takes his tobacco back, and calls the deal off.
Court ruled that since the negotiation was done in bad faith, the deal was, indeed, off.
Going back to your employment contract, so...if you signed the contract with the intent to spy on the company... thus negotiation in bad faith, would they be able to declare the employment void too and go after your pay?
Yup and on top of that... the "contracts are great" mindset is missing the real point.
Its not a problem with the idea of contracts, its a problem with how people are instituting them. A person shouldn't have to read every single word to understand the basic idea. If you tell me "once condition X is met, you are vested", then I understand that to mean something. Specifically, it means that its mine, even if I leave. Period. If it doesn't mean that.... then you are misrepresenting the contract when you presented it to me.
Nothing excuses negotiation in bad faith, which, is what it sounds to me like they did if they promised something that vested but didn't give it.
The revolutiion? For some definition of worked. Ask the blacks and the indians how well it "worked".
Hard to say even the poor white folk really even benefited so much from the revolution
And we are still taxed without any representation in sight.
Because, as we all know... being a punk kid who broke into a few machines means its absolutely ok, and even right that he be forcibly raped.
Yes... a paragon of civility you are.
to each their own I guess, some people cheer for sports teams, boggles me why anyone gives a shit....
Well actually, now that you mention it... my username and password hash were recently in a data dump.
was that supposed to change my mind or something. I never said I thought Lulzsec were saints, but I do applaud a couple of targets...my enemies enemy and all. The CIA one made me laugh to beat the band, as did the AZ LE leak.