Setting the birth of Christ (arguably a historical event) as the delineation has always bothered me less than referring to the birth of Christ as kicking off the common era.

Punitive damages basically exist to punish this kind of behavior, and I'd say for good reason.

I'm olde and busy enough that I can't possibly spend enough on entertainment for it to be worth it.

That and subscription music services. My days of torrenting are basically past.

I'm pretty sure a policy that prohibits frank discussion is exactly what will open them up to punitive damages (which a judge needs to approve the pursuit of, and gets to reduce to what they deem appropriate if the jury sets them too high).

This policy will royally fuck them I suspect, not reduce the admission of guilt, any reasonable person can see it as a policy to avoid admitting that there are indeed problems, rather than fixing them (and in the US, a policy of finding and fixing problems goes a long way in a legal defense ).

As I read case 2, you would need 50 people to download from you within 180 days, if you keep your ratios 1:1, that's one download every 3 days, that seems pretty likely for casual use of torrent.

Funnily enough, I spent a week in Detroit (between the Westin and Greek Town), and was impressed by the lack of crackheads. The only drugs anyone tried to sell me were coke (well, it was ridderal...) and Weed, not crack or heroin like I'm used to at home.

The only solicitation I got was from a high-end madame, and not the dirty type of prostitutes I'm used to at home either.

Detroit downtown, vacant, but nicer than Wilmington, DE. So it's got that going for it i guess.

I actually thought the grandparent was satire about gun safety (similar system for a smart gun caused death threats recently).

You may or may not think it's funny, but I highly suspect the mods knew what was going on and thought it was funny, the poster I think clearly does not think like was posted.

I'm not particularly disturbed by the mod, anymore than Jonathan Swift proclaiming we need to eat the poor.

I really like the look of the default theme, and it doesn't look particularly old to me. I think they went smooth gray before Apple even (Apple having slowly been removing their original candy look with every release).

I generally add some spacer between the close and other buttons, and add an always on top button, but otherwise, I think it's great.

So four years of 2.5% of budget didn't do much, that's not shocking.

1) In the US, downloading illegally is essentially non-punishable (it's the uploader that's in trouble).
2) in the US, copies required to run software (such as memory) are fair use.

I'd say about 3 people I know in the 30-40 range have children 10+, so it's becoming an issue. We all are young enough to have ditched land lines and it is starting to become an issue.

Where I live there is no technical rule, but 12 gives you the presumption of not being a terrible parent if something does happen. When my girlfriend's daughter was 11 we decided it made more sense to let her read if we went to the store for a short trip (less than an hour) than to force her to tag along. We had a gut reaction of hell no, you don't need a phone when she asked for one for Christmas, but eventually, upon thinking about it, decided that it would be convenient for her to get in touch with us (for everyone involved) when she was somewhere else (be it home, or, at a friends, or even at after-care in school trying to arrange hanging out with a friend). Once that decision was made, we went with smart phone, because she could keep in touch with her international grandparents (via social media and email of photos of things in her life), and access to real information seemed like a good thing too, essentially, the same reasons adults use smart phones seemed to apply to children too.

Even if one is to use 12 as the cut-off for home alone, that's two years before credibly being able to afford a phone on one's own, I was honestly curious what somebody completely out of my social bubble's decision was, thanks.

PS, I don't know why I didn't think of no SIM 911 as an option, and at this point, something like skype (on wifi) on a no SIM card would do the trick for the at home situation, but that was less smoothe back then.

Doesn't Firefox RAM cache the history though?

I could easily see x number of tabs times y number of cached pages in history counting for something, and that going away when closed and reopened to the same place.

Do they have land lines?

Or do they leave the kids with no phone at the house?

Hmm, there was no AUX button on the stereo and the sales person didn't know about it, but that doesn't really mean much. We did look in center console, but not glove box. It felt very anachronistic, like what I'd expect from a mid-level car 5-10 years older.

Disc changer was being listed as a bonus, but honestly, I'd rather have a tape deck to make a cheesy aux in than a CD changer.

I know that the Hondas and Nissans I was looking at all had ad2p with the mid-level+ trim packages, as did my rental focus a few years ago.

I ended up buying an '06 Honda, because they are easy to clip attachments into the back of the stereo, and buying a Grom Audio kit.

Doesnt gpl3 also have effects on web services? I thought it folded in agpl.