They could pull an Apple and call it the "butthead director," or they could avoid beating around the bush and call it a "laser self-important ego deflator."
I've been planning to move to Canada in a few years for several reasons, one of which is America's rapidly dwindling "rights," and now they're planning on adopting some of our stupidity. Fabulous.
Looks like it's international waters for me. On the plus side, I can have my own weapons of mass destruction.
I say lets use this algorithm to predict the 2000 billionth decimal, and then get a few beowulf clusters working... if the two values match, then pi cannot be random
If you show that two values calculated in different ways are the same, that only proves that those two values are the same. You need to prove that *all* such values are the same. A more important question to me is: is Pi transcendental? We now have a way to generate a polynomial expression for it (take the sums from the equation and add them together, dividing for decimal place each time). I haven't run the equation through tests yet, but this is something that should be addressed.
At least Microsoft hasn't managed to convince NASA that they should not use Linux...
"Open the pod bay door, HAL."
"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave. Kernel32.dll has caused a conflict. Please close all running programs and reboot. If this problem persists, contact your program vendor."
This sounds a lot like part of the story in the anime movie Windaria.
Also known among my friends as the "keep the suicide hotline number handy before you watch it" movie. Those couple of minutes are the most brutally emotional scene I've ever watched in an animated flick.
JP3 was terrible. Spielberg apparently threw a bunch of semi-random shit together and called it a plot, put in some bad special effects (JP1 had more believable dinosaurs--at least they didn't look like poorly-done claymation), and released this stinker. Granted, the FF movie was a little slim on plot and stole many ideas from Aliens, but given a choice I'd see FF again over JP3 any day.
There's been a top-secret way of doing this for years, funded by the big 3-letter agencies (NSA, CIA, FBI). Their code name for it is "seebee." Disseminate the truth far and wide!
Make your plans now folks... if we each did what Mr. McVeigh did to hostile government and corporate elements we can be freed from this impending nightmare.
McVeigh killed loads of secretaries, kids, and low-level grunts, but as far as I know he failed to get even one policymaker. So if you want to rid America of secretaries, kids, and cleaning staff, by all means do what McVeigh did.
Personally, the fact that it was unanimous (I thought it was only the Senate that passed unanimously, actually) shows me that the people who voted for it are traitors. This is why we have the second amendment. When it gets bad enough that unjust and unconstitutional laws can be passed unanimously by a group of traitors, that group of traitors needs to be shot in order to prevent tyranny. Much more of this type of shit, and I think Americans will be ready to take their government back from the corporations, by force if necessary.
(Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek--shooting is only necessary against the armed forces in order to take the government back. Keep track of who voted the DMCA in and make sure you vote against them come re-election time.)
If someone comes to the US from Afghanistan, and kills their sister for being "indecent", do you justify their crime by stating that "it's legal in their country".
Nice analogy, but it's completely wrong. Replace "If someone comes to the US from Afghanistan, and kills their sister" with "If someone kills his sister in Afghanistan and comes to the US" and you'll be closer to what happened with Sklyarov.
What's funny (or tragic, depending on your point of view) is that "Fair Use" has been negated by the DMCA. It's been said before, but it bears repeating (loudly and often, preferably to large crowds). If I buy an eBook, I am not allowed to print it out to read on the bus. I'll be damned if I'm going to shell out money for an ebook reader--I already paid for the content itself.
Note to trolls: this isn't the same as saying "why should I buy a CD player--I already paid for the disk!"
Thanks for the DMCA, Sonny Bono. I hope you're roasting in hell with your skis on, you fuck.
Does this mean they are above the law, or do they merely get to change them at will?
It means they'll buy the cheapest whore they can find (Judge Blanche Manning of the 7th Circuit US Court of Appeals, for instance) to overturn Fair Use.
Unless you assemble the nukes in Canada (do you know of any Canadians who actually want to nuke the US?), you have to get it into Canada first.
If that's what you meant, that's what you should have said. As your original post stands, you're talking about bringing items from Canada into the US, not into Canada from anywhere else.
The sad fact is, our Northern friends have a much better record of policing their borders than we have of policing ours
Wait, wait, you're arguing *for* the case that smuggling nukes (or anything) into the US from Canada is relatively easy. If you're coming *from* Canada *to* the US (as I have, several times), you deal with the US border patrol, not the Canucks.
When pieces start falling off a particular model car for thousands of owners, the car company generally issues a recall to fix the problems immediately. They don't repair one minor thing, give the vehicle back, and then claim it's "110%" fixed while ignoring more thousands of owners who are caught in flaming wreckage due to problems the manufacturer overlooked the first time around.
I'm lucky I don't play MMORPGs, or I might have wasted money on this piece of shit (reminds me of the Black & White fiasco). Looks like warez from now on, at least until game developers get their shit together and stop treating their paying customers like mud.
I've done nothing. I vehemently oppose all forms of advertising on the web, and I'll be damned if I ever use them to make money off something I enjoy providing for free (actually, at my own expense). If you want to make money from your site, there are other ways to go about it than spreading your legs for the highest bidding advertiser.
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Looks like it's international waters for me. On the plus side, I can have my own weapons of mass destruction.
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If you show that two values calculated in different ways are the same, that only proves that those two values are the same. You need to prove that *all* such values are the same. A more important question to me is: is Pi transcendental? We now have a way to generate a polynomial expression for it (take the sums from the equation and add them together, dividing for decimal place each time). I haven't run the equation through tests yet, but this is something that should be addressed.
-Legion
"Open the pod bay door, HAL."
"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave. Kernel32.dll has caused a conflict. Please close all running programs and reboot. If this problem persists, contact your program vendor."
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Also known among my friends as the "keep the suicide hotline number handy before you watch it" movie. Those couple of minutes are the most brutally emotional scene I've ever watched in an animated flick.
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McVeigh killed loads of secretaries, kids, and low-level grunts, but as far as I know he failed to get even one policymaker. So if you want to rid America of secretaries, kids, and cleaning staff, by all means do what McVeigh did.
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Imposter! Real script kiddies don't say "you're" (unless they're saying "hey, is that you're bot?").
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(Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek--shooting is only necessary against the armed forces in order to take the government back. Keep track of who voted the DMCA in and make sure you vote against them come re-election time.)
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USB touchpad: $300
Pointy-Haired Boss authorizing the $300 because he likes the "USB" buzzword: Priceless.
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Nice analogy, but it's completely wrong. Replace "If someone comes to the US from Afghanistan, and kills their sister" with "If someone kills his sister in Afghanistan and comes to the US" and you'll be closer to what happened with Sklyarov.
-Legion
Note to trolls: this isn't the same as saying "why should I buy a CD player--I already paid for the disk!"
Thanks for the DMCA, Sonny Bono. I hope you're roasting in hell with your skis on, you fuck.
-Legion
It means they'll buy the cheapest whore they can find (Judge Blanche Manning of the 7th Circuit US Court of Appeals, for instance) to overturn Fair Use.
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If that's what you meant, that's what you should have said. As your original post stands, you're talking about bringing items from Canada into the US, not into Canada from anywhere else.
Maybe English isn't your first language...?
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Wait, wait, you're arguing *for* the case that smuggling nukes (or anything) into the US from Canada is relatively easy. If you're coming *from* Canada *to* the US (as I have, several times), you deal with the US border patrol, not the Canucks.
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Final Fantasy (the movie)
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Sorry, I didn't quite catch that. You sound a little muffled when you're bending over for game companies like that.
"I only spent $50! Why the hell should I get something that works as advertised for only $50?"
That's the reason game publishers are getting away with this sort of nonsense.
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That's what the Beta Test stage is for.
I'm lucky I don't play MMORPGs, or I might have wasted money on this piece of shit (reminds me of the Black & White fiasco). Looks like warez from now on, at least until game developers get their shit together and stop treating their paying customers like mud.
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Possibly, but the style of each of his posts is strikingly similar. Karma Whore? You betcha.
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I've done nothing. I vehemently oppose all forms of advertising on the web, and I'll be damned if I ever use them to make money off something I enjoy providing for free (actually, at my own expense). If you want to make money from your site, there are other ways to go about it than spreading your legs for the highest bidding advertiser.
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