Your doubts are warranted. It can't.

You're wrong.

I cite the entirety of Supreme Court decisions, where "conservative" judges and "liberal" judges are deemed to be different and rule differently (and consistently), despite the fact they are hearing the same case and applying the same law. If they were, in fact, applying the law, then there wouldn't be the massive divide there is. Instead, they apply their personal beliefs and nothing else. They then do all they can to apply the law. Only if they can't find any possible way to twist the law to fit their beliefs do they vote against their beliefs. That's the way it's been done for hundreds of years.

Yes legal opinions are "facts", but prosecutors do not issue factual statements saying that they will not prosecute a crime. They state that they decline prosecution at this time, however the acts make be entirely illegal.

You aren't addressing what I said. If the prosecutor says "I've reviewed the law, and not only will I not prosecute this one case, but I have found that the actions taken are not in violation of any law." then that is a fact and does, in fact, evoke estoppel. The only successful application I know of it is in relation to speed limits where one prosecutor carelessly said something to the effect of there existing a grace speed, and someone going to court used that statement to get off. But then, that was in TX when tickets were crimes. They've recently demoted them to the infractions they are in most places, so legal protections no longer exist.

Do you really want to learn anything about law in this discussion or do you just want to remain an ignorant about this shit?

You are chiding me rather than informing me. You are whining "citation needed" when you cite nothing. You are being a bitch about it, then whine that I'm not properly listening to your superior knowledge? You don't even keep your comments on topic. "legal opinions are facts" is what I said, then you said they are, but it doesn't matter because no prosecutor will ever give a legal opinion. I know of one case where that's not the case (and no, I can't cite it), so I know you are 100% wrong. Why should I bow to you when I know you to be giving incorrect information? Why should I bow to you when you demand cites and cite nothing yourself? Why should I bow to you when you complain about me not listening when you don't listen to me?

Apparently, despite your comments otherwise, you are more interested in "winning" an argument that to actually have a discussion about the topic at hand.

It is not illegal to train a 12 year old to drive, when it is illegal for that 12 year old to drive. So why is it illegal to "train" a 12 year old in safe sex when sex is illegal? And by the logic of teaching someone safety causes the act, they should stop giving fire safety classes and make fire alarms illegal because that encourages playing with matches. After all, if you give them a condom, the fuck, so if you give someone a fire alarm, they'll start fires. You seem to be flipping back and forth between whether you think it's justified, whether you think he's justified, whether you think he's right and such. To me, it seems dishonest to pick multiple independent perspectives and switch between them depending on which makes your stronger case. If that's not what you are doing, then please identify the one and only one perspective you've been representing, as it isn't clear to me.

Yes, I understand it needed to be connected to the internet. However UBISOFT has failed in their promise to provide the necessary connectivity to execute the game.

Reminds me of a Dilbert- where Dogbert sells tickets on his 'Dogbert Air', but there are no planes.

Much respect, but those training items are really smoke screen passed on to the individual workers (as if they had any economic power to bribe a foreign official).

I personally know people who have illegally bribed foreign officials. It's really easy. The example I know was in Azerbaijan, not Russia, but still former USSR. There was an elevator in a building without usable stairs. When you show up to get to the room you have rented for corporate equipment, handling communications equipment, the security guard, employed by the government (and thus, a government official, but US standards) requires a cash payment or he'll leave the elevator locked and you can take the stairs (which are always locked). You have two choices, abandon all operations in Azerbaijan, or pay government officials. From the people I know that worked there, there wasn't any way to conduct business that didn't result in breaking US law. You just hid it best you could so that the parent company could deny it.

And places like China, bribery is much less prevalent than those in the US think, but then non-bribes which the US may consider bribes are required by customs. You take lots of gifts with you and hand them out liberally. While not high-cost, they are still gifts given for favor.

Of course since the game has been opened, it can't be returned. It would be interesting to go the Credit Card approach that the item was not substantially as promised and provide the attempts at resolution that have been made.

Execute a chargeback, and then when you're in the clear destroy your copy of the disk.

(Personally then go outside and get some fresh air, but not everyone can do that)

I was diagnosed with stage 5 cancer at age 17. I'm still alive at age 33.

There's not a day that goes by when I don't look at my disfigured face and wonder what thing would have been like if I'd caught it sooner- according to one doc, I'd have been dead because my body wouldn't have fought it off. Who knows.

But anything that gets a genetic component and allows them to focus better on killing off the cells that have tormented me for over a dozen years I'll be more than grateful. There isn't a trip to the doctor that doesn't send shiver of fear down my spine, whether or not I'll be able to continue to provide for my family- whether or not that cough that started was due to pollen or something else... whether or not that pain in the side is a kidney stone or something more sinister.

Cancer is a killer. Even the survivors die a little every day.

It works great, or so I'm told. They're able to get cops to where the shooter fired within minutes- and in plenty of time to round up witnesses who swear they "saw nuttin".

There's been at least one drive by in my 'work' neighborhood, and about a dozen+ deaths within a mile. Two bullets in our building. One in the front door within 5 minutes of me entering it (now THAT will freak you out- come into work, forget something, go back to the car and the door has been shot).

When I read the article I came up with over a dozen questions, none of which were adequately explained. Thus:

Other sources of carbon in the batch- You've got oak, the toasting process, blending of different types of oak/wines, reuse of barrels, different toasted barrels, different types of oak in the barrel, the possibility of a really old oak barrel (neutral) used for fermentation and combination of items such as StaVin's Oak Cubes or Oak Staves, (two different sources of carbon)...

Oak is aged anywhere from 2-3 years before toasting. Toasted oak could be years different than what the year of the vintage is. Oak Trees are significant sources of variability. (Toasting oak releases sugars and flavours into the wine).

Chaptalization is another source- sometimes wines are started with diluted or various mixes of sugar and water to strengthen the yeast growth. You have a grape must that is a little low in sugar- so add more sugar. Where did it come from? Who knows. Probably not beet sugar, if you know what I mean.

Say you have a stuck fermentation- you take some wine out, dilute it, add more sugar, wine, repeat- eventually bringing up the level until the yeast are strong enough to take back over.

Finally, you have blends. To the best of my knowledge a blended wine doesn't have to state the year or can state the year of the major component - depending on the laws of the region.

All in all... not the best article.

Actually, my wife and I make our own wine. We compare with other neighbors that do- and sometimes the 'vintages' are expressed in single digits- representing the number of WEEKS it's aged.

(And not all homemade wine is crap. I follow the same processes the big wineries do- even down to a sub-micron filter for clarification and stabilization. I use the same chemicals, same oaks, etc. My wines tend to be very good)...

Well, actually, it's around 3.5 HD, but it's the thought that counts.

This baby is awesome. I get to look at tons of displays for work and this one still takes the cake- it's made by Barco, is incredibly bright, has a built in calibration puck, comes with some decent software (ie, easily 'configured' for our purposes), and all around blows the socks off of everything on the market.

Don't mind the $16K price tag.

The diffuser used is so clean you could eat off it- none of that nasty subsurface artifacting that looks like dust on your screen (speckle). Just pure, rich, saturated colors that are accurately represented with no TFT structure to worry about.

Now, IBM had the T221 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors) which had a native resolution of 3840x2200- at 200ppi- so that your eyes could never make out the substructure of the pixels. Best of all the monitor had hardware interpolation- it could be used at 1/2x to basically present the user a clean screen with nothing to distract your eyes from. IBM did this back in 2000!

I'm pretty sure the fire marshal would want to talk to you. Your bedroom is probably limited to 15 individuals or less, you kinky bastard.

Exactly.

How you stitch together a book doesn't matter if it's for your own personal use.

Now, if you want to go commercial you've got quite a few things to figure out.

Regardless, what you're wanting to do is basically orthorectification. There is an open source package out there that does that. Figuring out how to do so would be left to you, but I'd recommend using some sort of yellow projection grid (or red from a red laser) to map the distortion and correct it by treating it as a DEM.

Poor man method- so long as you only want bw scans :)

When I was much much younger I was purchasing a violin. While at this shop the owner had a 'cheap' Stradivarius. After I had selected the instrument I wanted (this had been going on for weeks of trying them) the owner let me hold, and play, his 'cheap' Stradivarius.

The sound that effused out of that instrument can not be put into words to hear and feel... it made the one I selected sound as if it were a cheap knockoff made of plastic. The tones could not even be compared in the same room- one was transmitted through steel cups and a string, the other was singing in front of you.

To this day that is one of the more emotional feelings of music I have ever felt.

To have that sacred sound reproduced for everyone to have access to- I don't know. It is such a beautiful instrument that, currently, only the elite can have and play (most instruments are endowed to players- on 'loan'). Should everyone have access... would it be the same?