EliRivers

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by EliRivers 14y ago
The article uses "great power" as a synonym for 'buys lots of weapons' or more charitably "has a strong army". By these definitions, North Korea is a "great power". Not true. You've mistaken "huge army" for "strong army". The DPRK militar
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by EliRivers 14y ago
No. Whilst I am guessing which legal system you come under, if it's the one I suspect, the owner of the property has the responsibility to ensure reasonable levels of safety. Walmart does not have a responsibility to maintain the sidewalk o
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Although if you ever paid for English lessons, somebody owe s you a refund :)
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Presumably the same thing that happens now when a stranger knocks on your door and you murder them. You get arrested for murder and go to jail.
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by EliRivers 14y ago
They were rebranded as Hermes Europe and they still operate. Amazon uses them today.
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Casual courier companies already exist. Employees are paid daily, piecework. They drive their own cars and pay their own fuel. They just pick up parcels at the start of the day and deliver them as best they can. This already exists, so what
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by EliRivers 14y ago
There are already courier companies employing essentially casual employees. No uniform or anything like that; these people use their own cars and simply pick up a stack of parcels in the morning and deliver them as best they can over the da
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Unless the US executive decides to continue the assassination of US citizens without trial. No court - no need to present evidence.
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by EliRivers 14y ago
"and some of "us" don't think how you dress has anything at all to do with being a "grownup". " Are those people autistic, or just idiots? How you dress has nothing to do with being a "grownup"? Sure it doesn't. I see people come into work
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Well then it's nice to see so much of that US money being spent overseas where a great many of the inventions /discoveries /cracks take place.
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by EliRivers 14y ago
"There is no reason whatsoever why the same person should both create new knowledge and also teach calculus/cs 101/etc" How about that the person using the tool every day in the course of their work is probably going to be the person best p
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by EliRivers 14y ago
If I was with Kickstarter, I'd simply tell you the official position and none of these threads would have happened. I certainly wouldn't be engaged in this kind of back and forth when we'd have a company policy on it and probably someone wh
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by EliRivers 14y ago
You can't copy someone's logo. Otherwise, copy whatever design you like.
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Am I really going to have to be an online dictionary? That's fraud.
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Perhaps you don't know what theft is. Theft is taking something that belongs to someone else (without permission) with the intent of keeping it. She is not taking anything. People are choosing to give her money. She's not (obviously) defra
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Is it still theft if you tell them in advance what you want it for and they choose to give it to you? Our judicial system says no, but your opinion is considered valid too!
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Is it still fraud if you announce it in big letters on the front page? If there is no deception involved? "My problem is rich people soliciting donations for their selves (under the sneaky implication they are somebody who needs this)." Are
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by EliRivers 14y ago
As I read the front page, it looks like a small amount (deposit?) has been paid and 1098 dollars are left to pay. I'm going purely on information on the front page; the rest of it is comments and people's private investigations and all sort
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by EliRivers 14y ago
So is your problem that the money is going towards a training course, or is your problem that she could have raised the money some other way? Where is the fraud, by the way? What is she lying about? Are the people who are choosing to give t
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Conversation already running here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427771 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5425235 and probably elsewhere as well.
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by EliRivers 14y ago
Some technology can be crippling to the art of thinking. When an answer you seek is moments away at the end of an internet connection, for how long can you resist its siren song before succumbing, surrendering your own cognitive processes f
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by EliRivers 14y ago
I disagree on the same grounds as before. What's the product? What piece or Art, or Lit, or Technology are they building, that can then be churned out or reprinted or duplicated etc? Send me to college to learn things? There's no product, s
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by EliRivers 14y ago
When you give your talks with humour injected, do people in the audience come to you afterwards and suggest that your remarks were unhelpful to some people in the audience, as someone did in this case? In essence, do people politely complai
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by EliRivers 14y ago
"Did Steve Jobs receive a letter once his net worth passed a certain threshold inviting him to join the various "protect the rich" conspiracies?" That's a simplistic way of putting it, but as a metaphor, yes. It's not an organised conspirac
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by EliRivers 14y ago
It's always been possible to stalk people and gather lots of information about them in order to increase ones chances of striking up a romantic relationship with them. it's always been possible to do this with many people at once. It's alwa
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by EliRivers 14y ago
You cannot fund literally anything. Check the rules. "We allow creative projects in the worlds of Art, Comics, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film, Food, Games, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology, and Theater. Everything on Kickstarter mus
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by EliRivers 14y ago
No, you're not buying a product. You're funding the creation of a product. If the kickstarter in question chooses to give people that product, that's lovely, but it's not what you're paying for. " this is exactly like "pay my Full Sail tuit
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by EliRivers 14y ago
In this case, one could argue that she's getting money for tuition, which is against the rules, but it's part of the disallowed "fund my life", which implies that it's things that are already part of her life. Without the kickstarter, she's
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by EliRivers 14y ago
No, you've missed the point completely. In English, "vacation" and "training course" do not have the same meaning; don't be fooled by the fact that they both involve living away from home. The Kickstarter policies are clearly listed on thei
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by EliRivers 14y ago
On the plus side, you could take one to touch in at work for him.

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