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Human Ownership is still legal.

Here's the Act showing how to do it in Canada: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-20/FullText.html

Here's the act showing how to use the form: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-85-846/FullTex...

If this was true, then why could you stick a game genie into your system, not press down, and still get the game to work, even on a broken NES with bent or non-connecting contacts?

The contacts were never the issue. the CIC lockout chip is the culprit everyone's ignoring.

you didn't need to push down on the game genie, because the "push down" was to enable the CIC lockout chip. Galoob spent a considerable amount of time (and legal fees) bypassing the CIC chip. this allowed all games to run without problems on most NES systems.

They were addressing whether or not blowing in a cartridge fixed a problem. The same problem the CIC lockout chip was responsible for.

Therefore, they were addressing whether or not ignoring the CIC lockout chip fixed or alleviated a problem. clearly, it does not.

Perhaps you can explain how ignoring the cause of the entire problem, blaming the cartridge slot, and then working from a false presumption mean that they're not wrong?

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go there now.

Holy crap, everyone is wrong. I didn't think I'd see this day on HN.

The reason people resorted to blowing in the cartridges is because of the CIC chip. The so-called "Lock-Out" chip on the NES is responsible for the Blinking power button and games not working.

"Sometimes," I hear some of you say, "You'd take the game out, put it back in, and it'd sometimes work. Why?" Well, imaginary question-asker, because the a faulty CIC will work sporadically. if the code passes the CIC check, it continues without issue. if the CIC fails halfway through your game, your game doesn't stop working. If you power cycled the system, then you'd notice the CIC failure. Blowing on the cartridge worked for the same reason doing 200 pushups will make water boil.

Nesdev.org has a decent amount of information about this chip on their wiki, if anyone's interested.

TL;DR - clip two pins on the CIC chip, never blow in a NES cartridge again.

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both out of Iceland. Both accept Prepaid Visa. Both register .com, .net, and .org. Orange accepts Bitcoin as well. Neither ask for much in the way of user information when registering the domain.

install kubuntu. add the Window Menubar to your Plasma panel. set the panel to the top edge of the monitor. Add the AppMenu QML plasma widget. Adjust your fonts to the corrrect sizes on your system. Install eclipse, realize that things no longer suck.

Congratulations, you now have a nicer desktop than MacOS X Mountain Lion.

HN's been in the trash heap for the better part of six months now. Been looking for a replacement.

According to ESR, most FOSS developers are Libertarian-minded. Not the Ron Paul types, either; The ones that do vote overwhelmingly lean big L. While HN leans towards Socialist Liberalism overall (California, Saskatchewan), that also means that you're likely to find few people sympathetic to the aims of D.A.R.E. on this site.

All in all, a fantastic troll. Good work, sir.

On a semi-related note, I'd like to make the bold statement that half of the programs on your computer are the direct result of Cocaine, Amphetamines, and Cannabis. If you're a Linux user, this number is probably much higher. Most software developers, especially those working more-than-40-hour work weeks, are using some sort of amphetamine, usually Adderall, to keep focused and productive. The Californians here probably know at least one software developer with a Cannabis License. Drug use at EA and Adobe is legendary amongst former employees.

Am I wrong in my thinking?

This website is important. Even in it's current stage, this is one of the long-term solutions to the main problems of FOSS.

Kudos to the owner for dogfooding it.

I try to stay away from terrorists, especially "Freeman" types. "Lawful Excuse" does not mean what they think it means, and overall, the movement has been co-opted to promote vexatious litigation.

Once your lien is established, You file a complaint in court (whether County, or CQB if .uk/.au/.nz/.ca), issue a seizure order for the judge to rubber-stamp, and direct the Sheriff to go seize property for you. I've personally witnessed it working in 3 canadian provinces (BC, AB, SK), and 2 states (California and Arizona). I'm hesitant to name names, though; if you're curious, and you can find a public court registry (most canadian provinces have them online), start looking up the names of the current or former chiefs of police, wardens (Maricopa County, AZ is great for this). you'll see lots of proper process and liens.

This is outside of registering your lien with Equifax/Experian/TransUnion (which is also very effective), should you want to affect their overall credit history.

Personally, as I enjoy banking/finance waaay too much, I like to sell my liens to foreign banks. One law enforcement officer I encountered had all his assets seized (including his house/credit cards), but it only satisfied approximately half the debt owed. Once a wage garnishment order was in place, the rest of the debt was sold to a fairly large corporate bank in New Delhi. Now the officer (who currently has a desk job) pays all but $200/month of his wages to this bank until the lien is paid.

TL;DR: don't worry whether or not they'll be honorable. Get the courts to force them to pay.

I especially liked the "Disclaimer: I don't work for the Windows Team" line. Nowhere does he say anything about Microsoft proper, just the Windows Team.

Just wait, in 6 months, we'll see that Mr. Hanselman was paid for this pro-Metro blog post. By then, the positive spin will have made us all forget the past two months of anti-Metro postings.

What is with HN lately? All the redditors joined, and Eternal September happened. Did all the actual programmers go somewhere else?

^ non union lawyer.

This dumbass just took his proper private process they've just acquiesced to (silence == acceptance), and made it public in such a way that obliterates his remedy. I would have just slapped a $50k pricetag on my private correspondence, gotten their agreement (with another step for due process on their part) that they owed that money to me, then filed a lien with the US Secretary of State's office. once the lien is perfected, you file a lien against the CFO of McDonald's, and you can use the county sheriffs to seize assets on your behalf. This will work even if you're in France, and you're dealing with an American Corporation (UNCITRAL Convention is your guideline).

If you can script a mod for Neverwinter Nights, you can learn Contract Law. It astounds me how many people refuse to learn it, but allow their lives to be ruined by their ignorance in the subject.

a) City of London is the underwriter for the International Monetary Fund. City of London manages the finances of the Vatican Bank. City of London is where the Virginia Company was registered, which eventually became the United States of America.

b) Read up on the Schiff, Warburg, Oppenheimer, and Rothschild families.

c) there is no proposal on how to restrict them. patches welcome.

To consider lying on a resume a cheat is to acknowledge that that there is a game being played in the first place, and that the game can be cheated.

Perhaps we should discuss the fact that we have made a game (really, a LARP) out of human survival.

Non-Union Lawyer here.

Contracts are never set in stone; all you need to do is make a new offer to this employer. Do this by sending them (CEO/CFO/Manager) a Notice. Call it "Notice of Private International Remedy Demand." (this is patio11's step 0.) Tell him that they owe you $NUM for services rendered (triple damages are not uncommon), and that they have 10 days from receipt of the notice to pay you, or swear in an affidavit (under penalty of perjury) that they don't owe you that money. Tell them that if they don't respond, a default judgement will be rendered, and a commercial lien may be filed with the Secretary of State's office (in whatever state they're registered).

if they don't respond in 10 days. send a second notice, keep everything but the date and the title (NOTICE OF FAULT IN DISHONOR - OPPORTUNITY TO CURE).

if they don't respond again in 10 days, file a UCC-1 Financing Statement, listing the CFO/CEO/Manager as lien debtors, and a copy of all paperwork you sent to them, with the Secretary of State's office. This lien is now considered an Asset.

Then contact a bank in your area, and let them know that you have a lien filed against these parties, and would like to sell the lien to their bank, so they can collect on it for you.

Hope this helps.

my grandmother drank 3 pots of coffee a day for over 50 years. it did nothing to help her alzheimer's. I haven't seen any causality in this study.

This is what a market debasement looks like, ladies and gentlemen. If you can pay someone to keep Bitcoin performing poorly, you can mitigate the loss from your own failing currencies.

Perhaps I'm the only one that feels this way (I almost hope I am), but this news is making me want to put all of my money in bitcoin. it's a good time to get in on the action.

Interesting bit of counter-astroturfing here. If you can't make yourself look better, use pseudonymous sockpuppets to drag them down with you.

I'll keep an eye out for use of this tactic in the future. Bookmarking for future reference.

If one does a cursory glance of the history of money, one will see many different currencies having a debasement period similar to this. While others will take the bait and parrot someone else's opinion that bitcoin is not a safe place to put money, I'll be investing even more in the currency. Always buy to the sound of cannons/scandal.

And this is why raganwald's flamebait is indeed flamebait; gyardley decided to run with someone else's opinion/third-hand information without researching whether or not it was true, or even in context.

Which is pretty much what raganwald wanted to happen: fear, uncertainty, and doubt have been successfully seeded.

I've had job offers that had similar language. I edited the contracts to make them true, initialed the changes, and got the other party to sign next to my endorsement. Once submitted, and not disputed within 72 hours, it's valid.

RMS has Eben Moglen advising him. I trust he can handle his contracts.

I think I'm going to apply this to my day-to-day life. I bet I'll give out less money overall, but more money to those that need it.

PG once stated that he wouldn't fund a first-time startup founder over the age of 35. I remember reading that at 28, and saying "oh crap. I have 7 years."

5 years later, I know how to make my own money. I'm no longer worried about meeting PG at 36.

You're absolutely right. forgive me.

She's looking to fund a very niche market. To go after GLBT* is targeting a potentially disruptive market; to target the subset of only Transgendered people is to ignore the blue ocean the entire GLBT* community represents. Is there any real indicators of Transgendered people experiencing a problem with getting funding?

This business incubator positively reeks of sour grapes for not being chosen for YC. The thought of transgender discrimination so close to San Francisco makes me even more doubtful that it actually happened the way that's inferred. PG doesn't strike me as the homophobic type, either. I occasionally say "It's because I'm black/gay/asian/a woman, isn't it?" in irony, when something doesn't go my way, because I am none of those things. we are now witnessing "I wasn't chosen for YC because I'm transgendered", which I can't help but find hillarious.

In the post/announcement, There isn't an "I can do it better" mentality being discussed; if anything, all I can see is someone bitterly asking "How Hard Can It Be?". She'll learn soon enough.

Further down in her post, she states that she already has companies lined up before she has money to give them. Bad sign.

Given the timeline since rejection, I doubt she's had ample time to sit down with these potential investees and truly figure out if they're worth an investment. Makes it seem a bit like a jilted ex-lover texting "fine. leave. I have 10 men lined up for dates!".

all of the above was in-mind when I stated why it gave me a good laugh. I feel that nobody is going to take this seriously, and any support in-thread is mere pandering at best, so we aren't accused of being non-inclusive to someone that seems to be using the threat of non-inclusion as a weapon. I respect her determination and zeal, similarly to how I respect a kitten's determination and zeal when chasing it's own tail, and I wish her the best.

I really do hope she proves me wrong, however; judging from the original post, I'll be tracked down and passively-aggressively rewarded for being wrong. I love it when people send me free stuff to prove they're rich and I'm wrong. I get free stuff. I once had a corporate sociopath hand me a half pound of weed as an "up yours" present after he got me fired from a $10/hour job I hated. I can't wait to see what a reasonably-attractive tg could offer. I'll totally give my mailing address in a PM.

* GLBT* as in wildcard, not as a footnote. please ignore the recursion.

One of the funniest things I've read all day. Thanks. Good luck with your incubator.