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It's slow but the site loads. Don't think they were expecting this amount of traffic.
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That was a really dumb idea. Kill off thousand's of themes and anger millions of developers and end users, just for the sake of having cleaner, "purer" code? Better idea: fork Wordpress into something called TemplatePress, implement a temp
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No. It turns out the EU delegates were more worried about their own governments getting Wikileaked than they were about "payment neutrality," so the proposals were put on the backburner. People don't seem to understand that it's very easy
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The point was that it was not reasonable for the school to go beyond letting her use an ID badge (which based on prior reports was the previous means of tracking students). The purpose of the RFID system was to improve their student tracki
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This is what the institute said. It is not the logic the court used when tossing her case. Religious liberty has limits. The government is merely required to make reasonable accomodations for religion; it is not required to bend over f
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It is possible to install apps on Windows 8 computers separately from the app store, so the app attachment rate is meaningless. It is different for Windows 8 Phones and RT, the Windows 8 in the article includes all forms of Windows 8.
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You don't have to keep buying the HIPAA standard from them. It is freely available by FOIA request. What you are buying is an edited guide that includes the latest version of the standards compiled into a single document, rather than a col
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THe government is not using eminent domain, as it is not appopriating any private tangible property. Moreover, it is a simple matter to evade copyright by simply changing the language in whatever laws are adopted. Finally, if any organi
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No, public defenders are for those who cannot afford representation, period (though some jurisdictions do distinguish between misdemeanors and felonies for this purpose, as felony defense is significantly more expensive). Defendants never
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It means he makes too much income each year to qualify for a public defender. Most jurisdictions have an income cut-off for determining who gets the services of public defenders.
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The NY Times added the part about the captive audience and advertising potential. Ford's developer page and its press release concern themselves with apps of the type they already bundle with Sync (i.e., ad-free). Indeed, Ford's developer
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by rprasad 14y ago
Pardon my french, but the linked blog post is just a pile of santimonious bullplop. There are many, many people in the U.S. and outside of it for whom "I can't afford it" is not a choice. There are plenty of people who cannot afford to
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by rprasad 14y ago
Yep, you're right. I mixed up the libel action with the invasion of privacy action. Truth is a defense to the libel claim but not to invasion of privacy. For IOP, truth is an element in newsworthiness, which can be a defense to IOP. (See
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Considering that California is home to most of America's production and distribution media companies, and derives significant direct and indirect tax revenues from these companies, it is highly unlikely that a Silicon Valley-based "copyrig
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He is the product, so he only needs to make one sale to succeed. Quantity of sales is a poor metric for high-priced goods. For example, a Walmart needs to turnover the equivalent its entire inventory every week to be profitable; a Lambo
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by rprasad 14y ago
European Libel laws are much more...liberal than they are in the US. Frequently, truth is not a defense to libel as it is in the U.S. In much of Europe, the primary element is that the defendant suffer harm to his reputation. See, for
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by rprasad 14y ago
The statement was that litigation cannot exist with government. I certainly think the burden of proof is on the personal claiming that something "cannot exist." You are the one claiming that litigation can exist without government. Litiga
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> In fact, violence can be very profitable. It can be, sure, but it's extremely expensive and extremely risky. That was my point. Violence is only risky because government makes it risky to commit violence. Reality does not bear out
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It's not a market failure, it's a governmental failure And therein lies the rub: in America, it is frequently not clear that the government has the power to regulate such activity. The Clean Air Act and other similar regulatory acts were
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Plea bargains are voluntary . People enter into plea bargains most frequently because they are actually guilty. They're not looking to avoid jail or prison; they're merely hoping to minimize the time they do have to spend locked up. It
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by rprasad 14y ago
It depends on your POV. Arguably, playing pool for money is acceptable because it is a competition of skills, whereas poker is not acceptable because it is a competition of chance. As for poker addicts...yes, there are very many of them.
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According to your link, the tax credit is only available to the original installer of the solar facility, i.e., the solar plant in this case. In order to take advantage of the creditk, the solar plant company would have to file a consolida
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Where selling liquor to consumers is illegal. It's perfectly legal in Moore County to sell liquor to retailers and wholesalers.
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Basic misunderstanding of international law on your part. A "service", website, or software program is considered to take place where the user is located, not where the website is located. This standard was set decades ago (in relation t
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I think the original post was saying that he (the sportsbook) was the launder for illicit money obtained by his customers. In other words: they were using him (knowingly or unknowingly) to "clean" their money.
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Gambling is generally waging money on an outcome determined by (a) chance or (b) the actions of others. Chess, bowling, pool, and darts are games of skill; all events in the games proceed directly from the player's actions. Players can pla
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In no universe does a competent lawyer consider a plea bargain as a win, especially if that is not what his client wants. A win is a win is a win. Criminal defense lawyers are some of the most competitive, antagonistic people on the planet
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The point of using a standardized transaction object is that you can than track/manage all such transactions using roughly the same logic. Consider: crediting an account is merely a negative transaction, so there is no point in creating ext
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If I understand what benjamin is saying, these would be written as: account.process_transaction(new loyalty_bonus(bonus_amount)) or possibly account.process_transaction(new bonus(loyalty_bonus_amount)) depending on the business logic.
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Federal grand juries are stricter than grand juries at the state or local levels, but state and local grand juries will indight a ham sandwich (in many instances, grand juries have erroneously indicted the victim of the crime rather than th

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