I'm sorry I'm tired of this money is fungible BS. I pay taxes, I do NOT directly fund the library. When I give my money to the government as taxes, I trust that they as an entity will use the money for the benefit of the COMMUNITY not me. So I don't get to say where the money is or is not spent other than to elect my officials.

This is the exact same thing as the bank not being able to tell you that you can't go out and spend all your money on drugs because you still owe them $3000 on your loan. Once the money is no longer in your hands, it is no longer your choice where it gets spent.

The library's mandate is, more than likely, to provide a free, open, public source of knowledge and reading. The source of those materials is up to the library to decide to provide. That may be buying from a local bookseller, it could be from buying from Amazon, or it could be a lending system that is partnered with Amazon and therefore is subsidized by that advertising. The Library has NO, ZERO, ZILCH requirement to answer to every tax paying citizen as to its actions. This may be a democracy or whatever you technically want to call it, but one thing it does not have is a mandate for every government entity to answer to every tax paying citizen. If you have a problem with how tax money is being spent take it up with your representation given to you by the constitution, your elected officials.

Only to the "film-o-philes" just like the audiophiles love their analog. Does mean that it has any place in the mainstream market? No it doesn't I have never seen a resampled film that looks better than one created entirely in this generation of technology. You may be able to get more "res" from the film through additional sampling, but every nick, tick, defect, fade, and scratch is lost forever as well. So to say that digital can never get better, well it also means that you shouldn't ever have to buy a "digitally remastered" copy of your content either. When you have it you have it.

You never throw anything away? It never wears out and is no longer useful? Just because a piece of digital property might go away one day doesn't mean that it hasn't served its purpose and value.

Seriously...the end of the end.

I thought that too, but its nothing but a scare tactic.

I got one of those letters after I downloaded 900GB in a month. I've since exceeded the cap more often than not but usually not more than 350-400GB/month max and I've gotten no other indication from Comcast that they plan on taking further action against me.

Either there is no teeth behind Comcast's cap, or you have to be one of the worst offenders on their list to show up on their radar.

Except if there is any kind of monkey business like prior collusion and such can cause serious issues with the merger. I know that the major tech merger I was involved in had the two companies all but ignoring one another for almost a year until the merger was complete.

Personally if the company is as close-knit as you make it sound why not just ask for it?

I can't imagine that the stake-holders in the company would be so offended that you asked for stake in the company. Unless you're thinking about storming into the office and demanding it, there is no need to assume there is going to be any hostility until there is some.

I'm on Comcast in MN.

Works fine for me.

This is why the OtherOS option got removed in the first place. Tell where else you can spend as little as $800,000 or less to have a decryption engine that is probably capable of decrypting even the strongest of keys. Some say that it was a cluster like this that was used to decrypt the Military footage that Wikileaks released and that's why it got killed. The PS3 has a very powerful core when used in a raw unhindered state, especially for the price tag.

I've signed a non-compete at pretty much every job I've worked in the last 10 years. They just don't enforce them unless they have something to gain by doing it.

A vast majority of people are not worth the effort to block. MS must really be afraid of what this guy can do to try and enforce it or have a grudge

Because it worked the first time around?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

This won't work for anyone and its stupid. Besides if you are going to make a Happy Tree Friends video at needs to include blood and death or what's the point?

Although the money helps this isn't about money... It's about the fact that these "people" are doing actions of an individual under the name of a corporation. The difference in your example between your corporation vs commoner is that one is an individual. The government can certainly throw the book at a corporation, but what happens? It either gets a bad reputation and loses the market for a while or they just dissolve it and start something new under a new name. There is no personal responsibility for any of the actions of a corporation and therefore there is absolutely no accountability for their actions. As long as we continue to treat a corporation as the "person" responsible for its actions and not the actual people in charge will they be able to do whatever they want with little to no consequences. These people have just learn to shield their own malfeasance under the guise of a legal corporation. I'm by no means saying that all corporations are like this, but at some point it seems they stop caring about the work they are doing and start caring about the state of the company.

North Dakota isn't having problems because they are going through an oil boom. When the oil dries up they will be back to being a 2nd rate rural state with little no sway over anything in the country.

Except a lot of cases of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) aren't treated with medication. It's treated with close social therapy designed to help those diagnosed the extra attention they need to develop social skills. What you are seeing is a blurring of the lines between what is considered ADHD and ASD. The symptoms can be very similar in some kids. Also autism is no longer just restricted to the severe cases where the ticks and visual cues are obvious. There is a wide range of levels now and a lot of them don't require any kind of medication if treated properly. Also if you've seen a kid with just ASD on ADHD meds it makes the symptoms much much worse. They tend to become even more reclusive and focused on their ticks.

Everything you said in my opinion is a good thing. All the people you mentioned in your post are exactly the people I don't want to play with... People who are afraid of the world and the people in it. Children who have no reason to be unsupervised and unprotected People who use anonymity to be total asshats Bad things happen to good people all the time. The fact of the matter is if a person is so determined to track you down and punish you in real life, then they were probably going to do it by whatever means are necessary.