fatdog789

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by fatdog789 17y ago
After having tried it, edmodo sucks balls. Huge, bloody, salty, donkey balls. I guess being first mover/original isn't the best thing. Stop spamming your lame little startup every time a superior competitor pops up.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
It's not just you. Firefox has the Netscape syndrome: it gets crappier with every release. And that's without any damn addons.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
I believe that Apple's real contribution to the MP3 field was the massive amounts of money it spent on advertising. Apple spends more per year on advertising than every other electronics company in the world...combined...$500 million+. App
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by fatdog789 17y ago
B/c music covers are explicitly covered by licensing laws. Videogame covers are just unimaginative copies (which may also violate copyright laws covering derivative works). If you want to make a game, make it like the game you are copying,
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by fatdog789 17y ago
A contract signed by a minor is voidable (can be cancelled without penalty) by the minor, but is not void (legally inoperable as if it never existed). HOWEVER, if a contract is cancelled, both sides must return anything they received the
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Not entirely true. He could void the contract, but then he'd have to turn over any profits made to the guy he bought the code from (unjust enrichment/quasi-contract). Just because there isn't a remedy under the contract doesn't mean there
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by fatdog789 17y ago
It only costs a few hundred thousand dollars to launch a few satellites. Deep space telescopes do cost less than a luxury airliner. (The Dreamliner and Airbus Monsterplane both cost in excess of $250M/per -- and that doesn't include custom
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by fatdog789 17y ago
People who actually want to learn have been doing it in the library, study hall, or in their own dorm room. You can't learn most of the hard sciences, or even the humanities, from online. You have to do it in a lab, or read the hard copy/
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by fatdog789 17y ago
A netbook is not a tablet pc; it's a mini-laptop. Nowhere does the author refer to a tablet pc. Indeed, he specifically mentions the Dell Mini 9 netbook, which has been on sale for the past year.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
I don't think you understand quite how the donor-charity relationship works. The donors are the customers. The charity earns money by pleasing the donors. The venue for pleasing the donors is by performing charitable acts. If a donor is
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by fatdog789 17y ago
The difference between a well-run non-profit and a well-run business: the non-profit puts 100% of profits back into its operations, while the business may re-invest the profit or distribute it to its owners. Most states already require non-
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Homeboys Industries, in Los Angeles, which has been very successful in transforming ex-gangbangers and low-income youth into productive members of society. Legal Aid (anywhere) assists asylum-seekers, wrongfully evicted tenants, and indigen
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by fatdog789 17y ago
How do you measure the "results" of a non-profit, when most of them work in non-quantifiable fields? You end up with the quantity versus quality argument, favoring large, superficial efforts over narrowly tailored, substantive efforts.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Sales do mean that the technology they make is better suited to the actual needs of their clients, especially with re-sales to the same client. It's sort of why the iCrap consistently dominates the mp3 market, despite the overwhelming lack
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Actually, all patent trolls can point to some implementation; namely, those who they license the patent to. More importantly, "some manifestation" still does not address the "use" definitional problem: it a computer simulation sufficient? I
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Always buy rustproofing, if you bought a car crappy enough that the paint job doesn't include anti-rust elements, especially if you live in a location with lots of water-based weather or near the coast. Why are you adding money to the lowes
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Who gets to define what "use" means, or what acceptable "use" is? If a company wants to use its patent, but can't arrange financing for manufacturing goods based on the patent, or can't find anyone to manufacture the goods for it, does the
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by fatdog789 17y ago
With a proper diet, you wouldn't be eating the burger to begin with... Atkins is a diet for people who insist on eating the wrong foods. It attempts to minimize the harm of eating crap without actually encouraging the dieter to eat healthy
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by fatdog789 17y ago
A calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Because a calorie is a measurement of the potential energy of a quantity of food. The type of food is what makes a difference. Fatty foods are worse than the same caloric-quantity of fibrous foods (i.e.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
The article briefly mentions interval training as one possible way of increasing mitochondrial mass.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
In some fields, the unpaid internship is valuable experience. For example, the legal profession. Legal services organizations, such as your local public defender's office or legal aid society provide more experience in 4 months than a $16
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Not all of us are software engineers. I work in the legal field. My office is 60% women. SoCal women.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Fair use would protect your ability to use the software, and to make backup archival copies of the physical CD for use in case the original breaks. It would not extend to making copies of the software or CD for your friends or coworkers to
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Copyright law doesn't care whether something is an original -- derivative works are also protected. Copyright protects creative works, however original, where creativity is defined by some semblance of originality (in content, arrangemen
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Cross-border ownership rights are enormously complex; international copyright laws make tax laws look simple, and that doesn't even take into account the differences in copyright laws between countries. You hear about the conflict over the
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by fatdog789 17y ago
It's called traffic. It can make a 10 minute commute turn into a 3-hour commute. I lived on the East Coast for 5 years, and people there were flakier than their West Coast counterparts -- even though traffic on the East Coast is more predi
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by fatdog789 17y ago
It could also fail miserably if not executed properly, which is the more likely result. If your idea really is as good as you say it is, then revealing it won't ruin your launch. In the end, it will get copied if and only if it's worth it.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Actual, both bestiality and child pornography are illegal in the US, so your photoshopped image(s) would be illegal, and probably would require you to register as a sex offender for life.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Poverty is only natural when the local human population exceeds the local resources available to sustain it. For most of human history, poverty was not the natural state of human existence; indeed, given the frequency and scale of wars (pr
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by fatdog789 17y ago
This is both inaccurate and out-dated.

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