Comment Re: About time (Score 2) 302
If they were merely discussing politics then Iâ(TM)d agree with you. But they spread misinformation and promote violence. And foreign powers weaponize the movement to destabilize US democracy.
Comment This barn door has been open for decades (Score 1) 138
Comment Re:"Legal tender" (Score 1) 362
If you have a choice as to whether to accept something as payment for a debt, that is by definition no longer legal tender.
AIUI generaly cash transactions in a store do not involve a debt to the store and therefore legal tender is not directly relevant.
Yes, exactly. You must take possession, or consume, a good or service before paying to incur a debt, and only then does the distinction of legal tender come into play.
Say you are buying a sandwich at some place like Subway. You don't take possession of the goods until after you have handed over your money (even though you might be holding it in your hands), so there is never any debt, so they are free to refuse $100 bills (which a lot of shops did before the 100 was updated to the 2001 "Canadian Journey" series).
Now in a restaurant where you sit down and eat before paying, there a debt is incurred, and they cannot refuse legal tender without absolving you of your debt. Note however that the law does not obligate them to make change!
Comment Re:"Legal tender" (Score 1) 362
Pennies are only legal tender in amounts no greater than 25 cents. So a restaurant can refuse to accept 2025 pennies in payment for a $20.25 meal without absolving you of your debt. But if you give them a twenty and 25 pennies they can't hold out for a twenty and a quarter.
Comment Actually we stopped making them in 2012 (Score 5, Informative) 362
The Mint stopped making new pennies last May (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/05/04/mb-canada-last-penny-mint.html). But they are still in circulation. What happens on February 4th is the Mint stops putting pennies it gets back into circulation. What is unclear is when exactly stores will be required to stop giving pennies out.
Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 108
Right on. I have this argument with friends occasionally. If you don't like the price or some other aspect of the product (eg. having to use Origin for EA games), do the principled thing and don't consume it at all. It is too easy to say prices are too high or DRM is too onerous when you are getting it for free anyways. Real principles aren't easy.
Comment Re:And the downside? (Score 3, Interesting) 307
Problem with these cameras of course, bad officers will soon learn to strike out of camera view with fist and truncheon to escalate violence, whilst their partner 'looks' the other way and then deny it with 'proof' of video. Much like DNA evidence, better not get too wrapped into what the camera 'sees' unless they go with a fish eye lens and high resolution so they can extract the scene they are after.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Photos and video are incredibly powerful and persuasive. Even without doctoring them, they can be tremendously misleading. Present a video in court and a jury will believe that if something is not in the video IT DID NOT HAPPEN. If someone doesn't believe that they can be misled with unaltered photos and video, they are a fool. It happens every day in the news we read and watch.
Comment Re:Coming to a disaster near you. (Score 1) 452
7200.10. I just RMAed 2 of them recently. Died on arrival with the "chirp of death" (sounds like a little metal bird inside the HD). Only reason I got them was because I had good experience with the .7s and .8s. Lesson learned: in the HD market, past experience with a different model is irrelevant.
Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 531
I heard Preparation G made flames come out of your ass.
Comment Re:no (Score 2, Informative) 531
If you were going to buy GTA IV, and on this news now won't, please post. I mean they've lost my $50.
Mine too. Was looking forward to it, but there are plenty of other games I can spend my time and money on.
Rockstar: see this $50? Not for you anymore.
Comment Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap (Score 1) 1730
You have to be careful with an argument like this. Basically you are saying that, as a whole, Muslims are more likely to commit violent crime then non-muslims. I've heard similar arguments from white supremacists, they say that on average a black person is more likely to commit crime then a white person, and they have stats to back up their argument. Don't label groups like this, even if you have stats to backup your point.
Feed Engadget Chinese gets its hands on Asus' Eee PC 701 (engadget.com)
Filed under: Laptops
Those as intrigued as we were with Asus' newly-announced Eee PC 701 ultralight will likely want to take the short hop over to Engadget Chinese, which has managed to gets its hands on the device and dig up a few more details on it. Perhaps most interestingly, Asus' product manger told them that while Windows XP has been successfully tested with the device, the final product will likely come with only Linux pre-installed, with XP driver support thrown in for good measure. What's more, Asus also said that the mini-laptop could eventually pack as much as 32GB of SSD storage, and even hinted at the possibility of either an optional built-in 3G module or a separate dongle. Asus also reiterated that seemingly too good to be true $200 starting price, adding that a version for "English speaking countries" could be available "as early as August this year."
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