I'm sorry, Joe. Marines do not, in fact, get to battle dragons.
I mean, it's possible that dragons will be genetically designed sometime in the future, escape their masters, and run rampant overseas, requiring Marine intervention...
Just because the governor's office (i.e. someone other than the photographer and copyright owner) uses it in a particular manner doesn't mean the copyright owner relinquishes copyright...
He didn't say that the photo did relinquish the rights, only that he should.
...and I'm not sure why it should mean that.
Because now prospective clients will know what an asshat he is within a few seconds of their Google search, and not hire him in the future. Whereas he could have used the fact that he has a celebrity clientele to drum up more legitimate business, if he weren't too busy being an asshat.
A restaurant has both a moral and a legal responsibility to regulate the temperature of their food. In that case, McDonald's served coffee that was hotter than the legal limit. It doesn't matter that it was spilled - that simply changed the location of the inevitable burns that would follow.
In the same way, if nachos are served at a burning temperature, then whoever tries it is going to be burned. In that case, it was a little boy, but if Mom and Dad had taste-tested it, they would have been burned. For all practical purposes, it's the same.
The food was too hot. Someone was burned. End of story.
It seems that this mentality of not confronting the armed gunman, was the same mentality that people had before terrorists crashed three planes into buildings. Now, a lot of people think we should resist rather than sit there hoping for the best.
No, this isn't a 'mentality', these policies pre-date 9/11, and you're an idiot.
Policies like this are about risk assessment. If you're in a plane, and someone is trying to hijack it, you should fight back. Your risk of death is high enough to warrant getting out of your seat and maybe being shot by the hijackers.
If you're in a convenient store and some punk comes in to steal beer and cigarettes, you shouldn't fight back. You're in almost no danger there in the aisle (only slightly more behind the counter), so why risk yourself over beer and cigarettes?
Again, the key words here are risk assessment. Human lives are more important than cash from a bank, jewelry from a store, or beer and cigarettes.
...this policy makes sense. If you don't engage the robbers, you're much more likely to leave the store alive. This isn't just a policy from one scared mega corporation - this is the policy in thousands of tiny jewelry stores, millions of banks, and so on across America, and for the same reason.
However, for every twenty stories where the employees didn't engage the robber and left the store alive, I can show you one where the circumstances were just different enough to warrant fighting back and risking your life. This story - where a gunman charged the employees in a small room - happens to be one of them.
So far as I know, there are no policies about charging gunmen, so Wal-Mart should cut them some slack.
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Everything about PayPal raises serious questions about their trustworthiness.
The answer to those questions? No. PayPal is not trustworthy.
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Which show, exactly, is more biased than Fox? Between the Lions, Zooboomafu, the Nightly Business Report, or Nova?
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I'm pretty sure that Between the Lions, Arthur, and the like are apolitical as well.
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I mean, it's possible that dragons will be genetically designed sometime in the future, escape their masters, and run rampant overseas, requiring Marine intervention...
...but it's not likely. :P
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He didn't say that the photo did relinquish the rights, only that he should.
...and I'm not sure why it should mean that.
Because now prospective clients will know what an asshat he is within a few seconds of their Google search, and not hire him in the future. Whereas he could have used the fact that he has a celebrity clientele to drum up more legitimate business, if he weren't too busy being an asshat.
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I'd totally take that bet, if there were a reliable place to view the demographics.
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Says the daughter of Air Force parents, relative of Army and Navy family, wife to a veteran Marine, living in a military town.
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Historically, the availability of cable programs for children has never impacted the segment of the population that watches PBS.
In other words, they're poor, dumbass. They can't afford Sprout.
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After all, Jesus was the original pirate.
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The Jonestown folks didn't drink Kool-Aid. They drank Flavor-Aid, dammit!
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In the same way, if nachos are served at a burning temperature, then whoever tries it is going to be burned. In that case, it was a little boy, but if Mom and Dad had taste-tested it, they would have been burned. For all practical purposes, it's the same.
The food was too hot. Someone was burned. End of story.
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Yes, that's what I said. :)
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Defend them or stfu, asshat.
Also, I like how you're now ignoring the entire part of the conversation where I was totes right and you were an asshat.
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No, this isn't a 'mentality', these policies pre-date 9/11, and you're an idiot.
Policies like this are about risk assessment. If you're in a plane, and someone is trying to hijack it, you should fight back. Your risk of death is high enough to warrant getting out of your seat and maybe being shot by the hijackers.
If you're in a convenient store and some punk comes in to steal beer and cigarettes, you shouldn't fight back. You're in almost no danger there in the aisle (only slightly more behind the counter), so why risk yourself over beer and cigarettes?
Again, the key words here are risk assessment. Human lives are more important than cash from a bank, jewelry from a store, or beer and cigarettes.
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Under most circumstances...
However, for every twenty stories where the employees didn't engage the robber and left the store alive, I can show you one where the circumstances were just different enough to warrant fighting back and risking your life. This story - where a gunman charged the employees in a small room - happens to be one of them.
So far as I know, there are no policies about charging gunmen, so Wal-Mart should cut them some slack.
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