Another important thing is that few people actually know what freedom is. They confuse liberty with freedom quite frequently (more often then not it seems) and think the words are interchangeable. Age seems to matter but you have to look for the older people to really see the difference as it has been this way for a long time. I am NOT sure and don't really have anything other than a guess here but I suspect it has something to do with schools no longer teaching Civics and teaching Social Studies instead. Like freedom and liberty, the two are not the same.
Chain of custody... They decrypted a COPY of the data, cloning the HDD and working with that. Someone can repeat their work and see the same results. One of the first things they do is clone the drives which preserves the original for evidentiary reactions.
From reading another article I understood that they didn't find any porn at all but found evidence of searches and file names that were suggestive of them being child pornography. That seems to make more sense too when you look at the various motions, rulings, etc....
I am not sure but it looks like you're confusing what you do for what everybody else does. I really don't know but, well... I upgrade CPUs sometimes. It doesn't help that I have a number of fairly new PCs and am always tweaking and poking. But, yeah, I buy new CPUs, update RAM, upgrade GPUs, etc...
Hell, even the non-open formats are pretty easy to get to a readable level of functionality. They won't contain the markup necessarily and certain features won't be available but, frankly, if we're able to decode all the other ancient languages I'm pretty sure someone will be able to decode these as well.
Speaking of ancient... Err.. When did Vint go to Google? That's kind of cool that he has but that is, in itself, news to me. I must have missed the announcement as I'm sure there was one.
Do you read your links or not bother paying attention? Rolex pays plenty of taxes... Really, it's okay to be wrong. Hell, here's a quote from YOUR link:
Founded in London at the start of last century by a German watchmaker named Hans Wilsdorf, along with his English brother-in-law Alfred Davis, Rolex started with Swiss movements and English components. It moved to Switzerland during World War 1 to avoid British taxes. In 1944 Wilsdorf established the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, which is reported to be treated in Swiss law as a charitable foundation, and thus saves on Swiss taxes. It continues to hold the shares of the company; Wilsdorf himself died in 1960.
Emphasis mine.
Don't you think that if they paid ZERO taxes (I note you've now moved the goal posts to "corporate taxes" instead of "tax-free money" which is *all* money) that would be mentioned? Notice how it isn't? The Foundation owns the company, the foundation is a non-profit, the company is FOR profit though, the Foundation makes charitable donations (a great deal of them) as is required, and thus your amended statement that they pay no CORPORATE tax is correct BUT they still pay plenty of taxes. They just don't pay the corporate tax. You don't think that's the only tax do you?
Note your first statement:
Declare yourself a non-profit. Make a product. Sell it for a ton of money. Do what you want with your tax-free money.
Note your second statement:
Rolex does not pay corporate tax [businessinsider.com] as it is privately held by the registered charity Hans Wilsdorf Foundation.
Note the difference? The second one is quite correct. The first one is not. They still pay other taxes and still have to spend money via charities (instead of taxation) in order to keep the non-profit status. I'm not sure but I recall reading that they burden is actually HIGHER this way as they must make contributions greater than what their tax rate would have been. I'm not able to confirm that and no longer have the magazine that it was in so don't take that part as gospel. On top of that, they STILL must pay quite a variety of other taxes that vary depending on the country they're doing business in.
The first statement is that they pay no taxes. It is, according to their statement, tax-free money. That statement is incorrect.
The second statement is that they pay no CORPORATE TAXES which is very much correct but has no bearing on the conversation as that's not what was asserted.
I didn't claim it was wise nor advocate for it. I was simply telling them what the person was referring to above. However, the tracks are supposed to be suspended from telephone poles. (I don't know if they could actually handle that load but that is the claim.) So, anywhere that there are telephone poles you can go in one of these cars. Other solutions leave the last-mile issue unresolved and have tracks in more centralized locations with parking for vehicles that transport you to the railed system.
It's not a great idea but is isn't a bad one either. It has its flaws though it has its advocates as well. The proposal is actually pretty old, I recall seeing it back in a 1970s Popular Mechanic. I doubt that was the first proposal either as I seem to recall it in some pulp sci-fi from the late 50s and early 60s.
Anyhow, that is what, I believe, they're referencing. They're just individual pods suspended from rails on telephone poles. They're powered by electricity usually. The ubiquity of telephone poles makes them a "perfect" idea. Again, I am not a proponent, I'm more an agnostic who's been observing the proponents for a while now. I don't think they'll get very far with the idea in my lifetime however.
NO! It should default to bottom post so that OTHER people could read the question/comment before reading the response or so that the OP could be reminded of the content of their previous post. How had is it to scroll?;)
Actually, I'd not be all that surprised to see Gates brought back and then a resurgence in Microsoft's appeal to follow that change. I'd not be surprised at all really... I don't think Gates wants (or has any reason) to do that though. If the company is spiraling and he's still alive he may consider it though. But, no... I wouldn't be surprised by that. The rest of your post is nonsense so I'll not bother addressing it.
I love my MS mice and keyboards. They make some of the best keyboards I have ever owned - and I own a Model M. (I have to be honest here, I really don't prefer the noise. I use a "silent" keyboard by choice these days and what a blessing it is.) As for mice? I love the various models offered by Microsoft. I'm on a laptop and am too lazy to go look at the moment but one of my favorites has four buttons (five if you count the scroll wheel button) and horizontal and lateral scrolling. It's a perfect fit for my hand as well. I have fairly dainty hands and it's bulky but form fitting.
The ergonomics of the mouse are amazing, it's surprising how long I can use it without any wrist issues which, due to a lot of years of mouse use, I generally have trouble with. They have a variety of shaped keyboards which are all high quality and tend to last longer than I've ever expected them to, in other words - I don't recall any of them dieing but I have still replaced them with new ones over the years because they eventually get grimy no matter how well you attempt to keep them clean. They've really paid attention to ergonomics and quality. I've been a fan for a long time and have really enjoyed using their devices. I do wish that they'd make some more experimental stuff in that nature though, I'd like to see LED backed keys or re-mapping keys with the new letter/figure being shown on the key's top. I'd like to see some with programmable buttons like the fancier gamer keyboards that are out there.
Anyhow, I think that their hardware is high quality, reasonably priced, and shows great attention to user comfort and/or ergonomics. I highly recommend them if I'm ever asked and haven't had a problem with a single device which is quite a statement in itself as I've owned quite a few of their products.
My sister wrote a book on an Android phone. It's the Motorola Razr IIRC. It is some 280 pages long and all the research was done on the phone as well as as the editing. I got it printed on dead tree for her birthday, she was quite grateful and impressed. The service and quality from Lulu was good - so, as an aside, I recommend them if you're ever curious.
Inline is nice but after that day which shan't be mentioned there were a lot of simpler folk online who didn't really grasp the concept at the time. I was a frequent participant of the Microsoft owned NNTP servers and (that's where I spent a lot of time, I was an MVP for years back then) there were, shall we say, an even greater amount of slow people than there were out in the regular newsgroups. So, while I liked inline posting there was some issues with people following it. I found that increasing spacing helped. Sort of include their statement and reply in one "group" and then a few lines before the next one...
Wow, memories... I should meander back over that way sometime. I wonder if I'm the only one who has a sort of mental map of the internet in their head. There be dragons and whatnot... Ah well.
I still bottom post - everything. Why? I'm half convinced the retarded folks I'm responding to need all the help they can get recalling what they said or what the conversation was about in the first place. But, mostly I do it because I see myself as the last bastion against all that is evil in this world. God indeed... I'm more a crusader, maybe a Templar Knight. *nods*
Good point. I'd noticed that too but didn't think of it. Thanks. It also appears that both CPUs won't be running at the same time if the people posting later in the thread are correct.
After an approximate five year hiatus, I have returned to KoL recently. KingdomOfLoathing.com if you're curious. They've added a lot of stuff and seemingly have a larger fan base now. It is impressive to see all the things that have changed. The good news is that I'm now filthy rich in the game. A lot of my items are exceedingly rare and worth a small fortune in "meat." (Meat is the money in the kingdom.)
I guess my point is that there are others out there if you look. They're doing well enough. I don't know what the destruction of WoW would do to them but it would probably just bring their asshats over to our game and generally cause mayhem. We'd cope with it but... Well, we're not WoW and I don't doubt that the new players would be complaining about how much we're not WoW.
Well, if they fly at different altitudes it should be all good. It would take some logistics work, probably via a centralized computer system, but it could work though I expect we'll need to restrict the airspace over congested areas like cities. I am not a fan of, am actually a proponent of, flying cars though. I don't think the solution is adding more individual energy consuming devices to the planet.
No but you have to identify as *something* and that is enough to give its presence away which is, by the way, absolutely what they do not want to do. I think a simple solution may be to have that as a feature that can be enabled or disabled as required with it set to enabled by default. Or, you know, they could make two versions - one for civil use and one for military use with the latter being set with the device configured to default to off.
Did you ever witness the top-post vs. bottom-post Usenet battles? Those were fun. I'm a bottom poster though I snip. Well, no... I haven't engaged in Usenet activity in years.
I personally don't care but, with the changes in society and whatnot, I'm curious about the power usage as it seems plausible that both CPUs will be running concurrently.
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Another important thing is that few people actually know what freedom is. They confuse liberty with freedom quite frequently (more often then not it seems) and think the words are interchangeable. Age seems to matter but you have to look for the older people to really see the difference as it has been this way for a long time. I am NOT sure and don't really have anything other than a guess here but I suspect it has something to do with schools no longer teaching Civics and teaching Social Studies instead. Like freedom and liberty, the two are not the same.
Chain of custody... They decrypted a COPY of the data, cloning the HDD and working with that. Someone can repeat their work and see the same results. One of the first things they do is clone the drives which preserves the original for evidentiary reactions.
From reading another article I understood that they didn't find any porn at all but found evidence of searches and file names that were suggestive of them being child pornography. That seems to make more sense too when you look at the various motions, rulings, etc....
I am not sure but it looks like you're confusing what you do for what everybody else does. I really don't know but, well... I upgrade CPUs sometimes. It doesn't help that I have a number of fairly new PCs and am always tweaking and poking. But, yeah, I buy new CPUs, update RAM, upgrade GPUs, etc...
Hell, even the non-open formats are pretty easy to get to a readable level of functionality. They won't contain the markup necessarily and certain features won't be available but, frankly, if we're able to decode all the other ancient languages I'm pretty sure someone will be able to decode these as well.
Speaking of ancient... Err.. When did Vint go to Google? That's kind of cool that he has but that is, in itself, news to me. I must have missed the announcement as I'm sure there was one.
Do you read your links or not bother paying attention? Rolex pays plenty of taxes... Really, it's okay to be wrong. Hell, here's a quote from YOUR link:
Founded in London at the start of last century by a German watchmaker named Hans Wilsdorf, along with his English brother-in-law Alfred Davis, Rolex started with Swiss movements and English components. It moved to Switzerland during World War 1 to avoid British taxes. In 1944 Wilsdorf established the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, which is reported to be treated in Swiss law as a charitable foundation, and thus saves on Swiss taxes. It continues to hold the shares of the company; Wilsdorf himself died in 1960.
Emphasis mine.
Don't you think that if they paid ZERO taxes (I note you've now moved the goal posts to "corporate taxes" instead of "tax-free money" which is *all* money) that would be mentioned? Notice how it isn't? The Foundation owns the company, the foundation is a non-profit, the company is FOR profit though, the Foundation makes charitable donations (a great deal of them) as is required, and thus your amended statement that they pay no CORPORATE tax is correct BUT they still pay plenty of taxes. They just don't pay the corporate tax. You don't think that's the only tax do you?
Note your first statement:
Declare yourself a non-profit. Make a product. Sell it for a ton of money. Do what you want with your tax-free money.
Note your second statement:
Rolex does not pay corporate tax [businessinsider.com] as it is privately held by the registered charity Hans Wilsdorf Foundation.
Note the difference? The second one is quite correct. The first one is not. They still pay other taxes and still have to spend money via charities (instead of taxation) in order to keep the non-profit status. I'm not sure but I recall reading that they burden is actually HIGHER this way as they must make contributions greater than what their tax rate would have been. I'm not able to confirm that and no longer have the magazine that it was in so don't take that part as gospel. On top of that, they STILL must pay quite a variety of other taxes that vary depending on the country they're doing business in.
The first statement is that they pay no taxes. It is, according to their statement, tax-free money. That statement is incorrect.
The second statement is that they pay no CORPORATE TAXES which is very much correct but has no bearing on the conversation as that's not what was asserted.
I didn't claim it was wise nor advocate for it. I was simply telling them what the person was referring to above. However, the tracks are supposed to be suspended from telephone poles. (I don't know if they could actually handle that load but that is the claim.) So, anywhere that there are telephone poles you can go in one of these cars. Other solutions leave the last-mile issue unresolved and have tracks in more centralized locations with parking for vehicles that transport you to the railed system.
It's not a great idea but is isn't a bad one either. It has its flaws though it has its advocates as well. The proposal is actually pretty old, I recall seeing it back in a 1970s Popular Mechanic. I doubt that was the first proposal either as I seem to recall it in some pulp sci-fi from the late 50s and early 60s.
Anyhow, that is what, I believe, they're referencing. They're just individual pods suspended from rails on telephone poles. They're powered by electricity usually. The ubiquity of telephone poles makes them a "perfect" idea. Again, I am not a proponent, I'm more an agnostic who's been observing the proponents for a while now. I don't think they'll get very far with the idea in my lifetime however.
NO! It should default to bottom post so that OTHER people could read the question/comment before reading the response or so that the OP could be reminded of the content of their previous post. How had is it to scroll? ;)
Actually, I'd not be all that surprised to see Gates brought back and then a resurgence in Microsoft's appeal to follow that change. I'd not be surprised at all really... I don't think Gates wants (or has any reason) to do that though. If the company is spiraling and he's still alive he may consider it though. But, no... I wouldn't be surprised by that. The rest of your post is nonsense so I'll not bother addressing it.
I think it's seven per continent except on Antarctica.
I love my MS mice and keyboards. They make some of the best keyboards I have ever owned - and I own a Model M. (I have to be honest here, I really don't prefer the noise. I use a "silent" keyboard by choice these days and what a blessing it is.) As for mice? I love the various models offered by Microsoft. I'm on a laptop and am too lazy to go look at the moment but one of my favorites has four buttons (five if you count the scroll wheel button) and horizontal and lateral scrolling. It's a perfect fit for my hand as well. I have fairly dainty hands and it's bulky but form fitting.
The ergonomics of the mouse are amazing, it's surprising how long I can use it without any wrist issues which, due to a lot of years of mouse use, I generally have trouble with. They have a variety of shaped keyboards which are all high quality and tend to last longer than I've ever expected them to, in other words - I don't recall any of them dieing but I have still replaced them with new ones over the years because they eventually get grimy no matter how well you attempt to keep them clean. They've really paid attention to ergonomics and quality. I've been a fan for a long time and have really enjoyed using their devices. I do wish that they'd make some more experimental stuff in that nature though, I'd like to see LED backed keys or re-mapping keys with the new letter/figure being shown on the key's top. I'd like to see some with programmable buttons like the fancier gamer keyboards that are out there.
Anyhow, I think that their hardware is high quality, reasonably priced, and shows great attention to user comfort and/or ergonomics. I highly recommend them if I'm ever asked and haven't had a problem with a single device which is quite a statement in itself as I've owned quite a few of their products.
My sister wrote a book on an Android phone. It's the Motorola Razr IIRC. It is some 280 pages long and all the research was done on the phone as well as as the editing. I got it printed on dead tree for her birthday, she was quite grateful and impressed. The service and quality from Lulu was good - so, as an aside, I recommend them if you're ever curious.
Inline is nice but after that day which shan't be mentioned there were a lot of simpler folk online who didn't really grasp the concept at the time. I was a frequent participant of the Microsoft owned NNTP servers and (that's where I spent a lot of time, I was an MVP for years back then) there were, shall we say, an even greater amount of slow people than there were out in the regular newsgroups. So, while I liked inline posting there was some issues with people following it. I found that increasing spacing helped. Sort of include their statement and reply in one "group" and then a few lines before the next one...
Wow, memories... I should meander back over that way sometime. I wonder if I'm the only one who has a sort of mental map of the internet in their head. There be dragons and whatnot... Ah well.
I still bottom post - everything. Why? I'm half convinced the retarded folks I'm responding to need all the help they can get recalling what they said or what the conversation was about in the first place. But, mostly I do it because I see myself as the last bastion against all that is evil in this world. God indeed... I'm more a crusader, maybe a Templar Knight. *nods*
Good point. I'd noticed that too but didn't think of it. Thanks. It also appears that both CPUs won't be running at the same time if the people posting later in the thread are correct.
Things are forgotten in the heat of battle though I'm not sure how much pressure a drone op is under.
That makes more sense.
After an approximate five year hiatus, I have returned to KoL recently. KingdomOfLoathing.com if you're curious. They've added a lot of stuff and seemingly have a larger fan base now. It is impressive to see all the things that have changed. The good news is that I'm now filthy rich in the game. A lot of my items are exceedingly rare and worth a small fortune in "meat." (Meat is the money in the kingdom.)
I guess my point is that there are others out there if you look. They're doing well enough. I don't know what the destruction of WoW would do to them but it would probably just bring their asshats over to our game and generally cause mayhem. We'd cope with it but... Well, we're not WoW and I don't doubt that the new players would be complaining about how much we're not WoW.
Well, if they fly at different altitudes it should be all good. It would take some logistics work, probably via a centralized computer system, but it could work though I expect we'll need to restrict the airspace over congested areas like cities. I am not a fan of, am actually a proponent of, flying cars though. I don't think the solution is adding more individual energy consuming devices to the planet.
No but you have to identify as *something* and that is enough to give its presence away which is, by the way, absolutely what they do not want to do. I think a simple solution may be to have that as a feature that can be enabled or disabled as required with it set to enabled by default. Or, you know, they could make two versions - one for civil use and one for military use with the latter being set with the device configured to default to off.
Did you ever witness the top-post vs. bottom-post Usenet battles? Those were fun. I'm a bottom poster though I snip. Well, no... I haven't engaged in Usenet activity in years.
I personally don't care but, with the changes in society and whatnot, I'm curious about the power usage as it seems plausible that both CPUs will be running concurrently.
You want money to combat the influence of money? Hmm... I think not.
Yeah, I tried that with ShowMeYourPussy.com - it doesn't work.
That is not my experience. I experienced the exact opposite.