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Neutral with the accelerator slammed down will destroy the transmission. At 128 MPH, I bet there would be a high chance of fire or maybe even an explosion. Overrevving.

Turning the engine off usually locks the steering wheel up. This would have been fine assuming that he was on a very long, straight road.

Turning the engine to 'accessory' position (not "off") will cut the engine but leave the steering wheel unlocked in any car I've ever seen.
Putting it into neutral with the 'pedal to the floor' might trash the transmission, and perhaps given *time* cause fire, but "neutral, turn key to 'accessory' position" within a few seconds probably isn't going to cause fire/explosion - worst case it trashes the transmission a bit, but I'd rather be slowing down and alive with a trashed transmission than trying to drive an hour+ at 128mph... and *then* apparently trashing the car anyways. Maybe its just me, but given the choice between trashing the car and maybe safely stopping now, or spending the next hour+ 'white knuckling' the steering wheel at 128mph and then trashing the car and maybe stopping safely, I think I'd rather choose the first option.

Neutral with the accelerator slammed down will destroy the transmission. At 128 MPH, I bet there would be a high chance of fire or maybe even an explosion. Overrevving.
Turning the engine off usually locks the steering wheel up. This would have been fine assuming that he was on a very long, straight road.

But is the same temperature as a jacuzzi. TOTC.

I don't know the history of CompuServe so I take it from the fact that I am on slashdot that your reply is most likely ironic, so what went wrong with unwanted CompuServe messages?

This pulled up in a google search, but pretty sure not relevant.

http://www.ehow.com/how_8725713_block-someone-compuserve.html

but here goes: all energy goes into heat. 100%.

That goes without saying.

But if you read what I wrote, you will see that word waste in front of the word heat.
 
For example, let us look at this link: http://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/articles/automotive/using-waste-engine-heat-in-automobile-engines

Currently, up to 65% of the heat energy produced in internal combustion engines, whether gasoline or diesel, is wasted.

And this link: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5854602_heat-vs_-incandescent-light-bulbs.html

... about 30 percent of the energy powering a fluorescent light is wasted in heat

... and this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat#Power_generation

The electrical efficiency of thermal power plants is defined as the ratio between the input and output energy. It is typically only 30%

There are a lot more similar figures that you can obtained from the Net.

The U.S. now allows dual citizenship, a person can have two passports from two different countries.

It is possible, and likely, that Linus is also still a citizen of Finland, which also allows dual citizenship, but I don't see that in a quick Google search. I think it is very unlikely that Linus would voluntarily, with no reason, relinquish his citizenship of Finland.

IANAL but I don't think you are allowed to blackmail someone into signing a NDA. If they believed that a crime was committed, they are obliged to report it. By saying they will let you sign the agreement to get out of it, they are blackmailing you. If you discover that someone committed murder and state you will not report it if they do X - you have now committed a crime of your own.

Not the best source for legal advice, but http://www.ehow.com/info_8335199_legal-obligations-report-crime.html seems to cover this topic.

Wrong question. The proper question is "how often is it the primary caretaker who gets sole custody?" and the answer, as you'd expect, is probably close to 90% or higher. If a child is raised by a stay-at-home parent, the courts will almost always find that parent to be the best caretaker for the child, absent some unusual circumstances.

[citation needed].

There were three sentences there... Is there a specific one you'd like a citation for? I mean, I'm happy to help answer your question, but you have to be a little more definite with what the question is.

There were three sentences, but only one conclusion. You appeared to hypothesize that the discrepancy in custody awarding was due to the courts awarding custody to stay at home moms over dads who have left the parenting to their wives. Well, only 23% of married mothers of children under 15 were stay-at-home moms (link), but the wife got sole custody ~70% of the time (link and apologies for the slightly less trustworthy source. It was honestly the only thing I found that gave the ratio custodialFathers:custodialMothers:jointCustody.) Two things to note:
1. In my brief research, I encountered some evidence (although not enough to completely convince me) that this discrepancy was due to fathers asking for custody less. It appears both you and the poster you were replying to may be wrong.
2. I admit that the question of who is the primary caretaker is harder to determine. But, since I have shown that the father gets sole custody 10% of the time (30% when combined with joint custody), you must now show that this is reflected in the proportion of parenting duties carried out by mothers and fathers. Please note, I am not claiming I know why custody gets split the way it is, much less that it must be because of discrimination. I am simply saying that I don't accept that that your explanation is correct either.

How often it's the female who pays alimony/child support to the male? Next to never?

Exactly as often as the male is the primary caretaker and the female is the one with the career. Again, rare in the pre-feminism days, increasing now, thanks to feminism.

Well, it turns out that in 2006, 33.4% of wives earned more than their husbands (link. But only 3.6% of alimony recipients were male (link), so it looks like you're wrong in claiming that alimony payments are being distributed fairly.

Did you realize that you were changing the terms mid-question? I'm going to assume good faith on your part and that you just weren't thinking when you wrote the question.

First, this is a question about child support and primary caretakers [of the child] and your statistic is about... alimony. Unrelated. And, contrary to your assertion, I never said anything about "alimony payments being distributed fairly." But we'll come back to that in a second.

The person you were responding to asked about both child support and alimony. I assumed--apparently erroneously, my apologies--that you were trying to answer both questions, which is why I talked about alimony

Second, you mentioned that 33.4% of wives earned more than husbands, but you were responding to a question about primary caretaker vs. non-primary caretaker. Unless you're making the bold (and incorrect) assertion that wives are always the primary caretaker, then your statistic is unrelated to the point you're trying to make. Again, when husbands are primary caretakers,

For a low tech fitness solution, google "Office chair workouts". You'll see lots of useful stuff like this . It is mainly about resistance training (non-aerobic workout), so if you want to go full in on resistance training, you could just get some weights and even one of those hand grip devices and start pumping iron while you crunch numbers on the computer. But fitness aside, if you want a healthy career then you should be proactive with your time and do things that you are not asked to do.

Steel shot has generally been required for a decades.

http://www.ehow.com/list_6798681_steel-shot-regulations.html

The only site where I'm forced to use that piece of shit IE 8 is for the windows upgrade website.
Talk about an idiot decision tying the operating system upgrade mechanism to a specific browser.
Damn Microsoft.

Oh well, for everything else Opera and Firefox suffice.

That would be idiotic if it were true. But it's not. I remember when this was a mostly technical site.

For fraud it has to be malicious. For defamation it merely has to be false (incompetence counts).

Not so:

Negligence and Actual Malice
Like other state laws, Virginia law imposes a lower burden on private citizens than public figures. Private citizens usually only need to show that the defendant acted with negligence. That means the defendant made the false statement without taking care to confirm the veracity of the statement. However, if the damage to the person’s reputation is not readily apparent from the contexts of the false statement, the actual malice standard applies. Actual malice means that the defendant made the false statement with the intention of damaging the plaintiff’s reputation. The actual malice standard also applies to public figures, public officials and limited purpose public figures. Limited purpose public figures have put themselves in the public eye for a specific issue and the actual malice standard only applies to statements regarding that particular issue.

If it seems essential, millions of users are screaming "we need it" and third parties are writing extensions to put it back, it was essential.

Just like people were screaming for the classic start menu when the new one was introduced in Windows Vista, or people were screaming for the program manager when the start menu was initially introduced. People complaining they don't like change or new things is nothing new.

See the following for a brief internet history lesson:

http://www.uniquetipsonline.com/how-to-bring-back-the-old-windows-xp-style-to-windows-7-start-menu/
http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/738
http://allnurses-breakroom.com/technology-internet-software/bring-back-xp-787518.html
http://www.errorteck.com/good-to-know/windows-7-tips-and-tricks/how-to-bring-back-the-windows-xp-start-menu.html
http://www.killertechtips.com/2009/05/20/get-the-classic-start-menu-in-windows-7/
http://www.ehow.com/how_5887131_start-menu-back-xp.html


To be clear, all these links are about bringing back the "Classic" (for varying definitions of classic) start menu to either XP, Vista, or Windows 7. Yes, every Windows version has faced the same resistance. Windows 8 is probably facing more because A) it's a bigger change than ever and B) more people are using computers than ever.

Here is one of my favorite articles, which muses on the rampant criticism of Windows 95.

Where have all the critics gone? It's been only nine months since Windows 95 made its long-awaited debut amid much naysaying and predictions of doom, yet the endless carping appears to have ebbed. Did '95 just go away or buckle beneath the waves of criticism? No,in fact, Windows '95 has settled in quite nicely as the operating system of choice.

The human condition seems resistant to change by nature, especially when a learning curve is required during adulthood. We are creatures of habit, but the migration to Windows 95 has proven to be painless and even die hard DOS and Windows 3.x critics are slowly seeing the light and playing "one-up" as they share their favorite Win95 shortcuts or tricks.

In 9 months, I'm sure the daily march of Windows 8 hate across the Slashdot front page will come to an end in much the same way.

The start menu is a nicely organized hierarchical structure where it's easy to find applications I might not necessarily know the name of off the top of my head.

Then go to the all apps list. It's the same hierarchical structure derived from the same folder as the old start menu: %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs. You can even pin this folder as a toolbar on the taskbar and you have your start menu back.

Not to mention from what I've read and seen demonstrated the Metro interface could possibly be used as advertising platform by constantly updating tiles to display new sales, promotions, etc...

So you haven't actually personally used it then? Anyway, you *choose* the apps you want on your start screen. If some app is trying to advertise to you, then delete it. Alternatively, you can turn live tiles off on a per-app basis.

That's weird then. Maybe it's the System Restore thing: http://www.ehow.com/how_6944447_make-system-restore-automatic-checkpoints.html

Seems Windows makes system restore checkpoints every 24 hours (presumably so if something gets screwed up you can restore to the previous checkpoint). Try turning that off and see if it helps. There are valid reasons to have this feature, but I can see how in some cases it will cause a lot of disk activity.

As for the hate, I guess most people using windows haven't encountered your 10 minute disk churning problem (doesn't mean it exists). I'm fine with people preferring desktop linux. My suggestion does allow people to continue using Desktop Linux while playing games on Windows.

I personally prefer Windows XP/7 for desktop stuff and Linux for server stuff. KDE does have some promise - kioslaves etc, but Microsoft has to make Windows a lot worse for them to have a chance. I doubt they have made Windows 8 bad enough for a switch to happen.

In my experience, vmware trumps vbox in twos critical areas: backups and portability. you can take the directory with your vms and literally drop them into into another os with very little if any changes (the only changes may be to sound card name and shared folders paths).

You cant do that with vbox. If you change os, or try try to move vms without special and often long running and obscure seeming preparations and your vbox wont run ever again and often even if you succeed youll loose all the snapshots and still ahve to edit the vm before it's can be used.

  To me that ease of backup and portability is well worth the price of vmware if you can afford it. otherwise vbox is great but be prepared for an unreasonable amount of pain when you want to switch from windows to linux (and/or back), move the vms to another system / os and more pain on restoration then is reasonable.

see:
how it's really done in my experience : http://linuxfordummies.org/how-to-backup-and-move-virtualbox-machines/
How we all wish it would work but never seems to work for me: https://www.ehow.com/how_8110816_copy-move-virtualbox-machines.html

Google for wildly varying stories of vbox backup/restore pain.

The tangles and tangles make it almost impossible to move anything without spending twenty or thirty minutes under the desk.

So don't move stuff. Feng Shui and all that jazz.

I did some research looks like you only replaced the under hood pump. As i said Nearly every manufacturer uses an in tank main pump.

http://tankonempty.com/viewstory/71

http://www.ehow.com/how_7838847_install-intank-fuel-pump.html

But feel free to do your own research or just try to shoot me down again.

Or, if you're looking for a laugh, ehow says you should consider making a sculpture.

Please don't. I live in a 3rd world country where lots of us are still using C2D as primary/sole machines. And those with motherboards that can accept DDR3 would go gaga for these RAM.

RAM has a history of starting expensive for cutting-edge, getting dirt cheap as it becomes mainstream, then the old stuff gets expensive again when the market moves-on and it's in limited use. If an EBay search doesn't offer good value then most parts can be recycled these days, check with your local recycling center to see if they have a program to reclaim component materials.

Or, if you're looking for a laugh, ehow says you should consider making a sculpture. With the amount of RAM coming out of companies I bet you could do something person-sized :)

Car exhaust usually contains carbon dioxide, water, carbon monoxide, and various nitrogen or sulfur oxides.

Now, that nitrogen is from the atmosphere when running oil based gasoline. Is algal biofuel exactly the same? I DON'T FUCKING KNOW SINCE I'M NOT A CHEMIST.

And so I asked the question.

First, a question: why should foreign nationals working on behalf of an international organization have more access to proceedings than United States citizens - whether civilian, or state or federal authorities -- are currently allowed by law?

See AC sibling and: http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3207823&cid=41763269
Allowing observers ('watchers') is complete no-brainer for any voting station, as fraud would be way too easy otherwise. It's such a no-brainer that you can find info on it on ehow: http://www.ehow.com/list_6384122_duties-poll-watcher_.html
Is it _really_ that hard to fathom that it makes sense to extend this to international observers of an internationally controlled and vetted organization?
The OCSE observers aren't RPG-wielding Iranians that want to blow up voting stations, you know.

And they are. The extent permitted by Texas State law is "so long as you keep 100' away, just like everyone else doing exit polls, campaigning for specific candidates/propositions/constitutional ammendments, and and anyone else who might influence the election by mere proximity.

You mean do the things that are explicitly excluded from the international agreement?: "Such observers will undertake not to interfere in the electoral proceedings."

The United states is endeavoring to the extent they are able.

(1) That doesn't change that disallowing international observers is still a third world country-style anti-democratic dickish thing to do.

As a matter of Constitutional law, there' not much more they can do. Federal election laws do not provide for strong federal oversight of state elections.

I've seen comments saying otherwise, but I do not know enough about the technicalities of the legal relation between the US federation and the states themselves. Nor do I care. See (1).

The issue the OSCE complains of in the linked document amounts to saying, "the United States is not organized like other countries, and that's a nuisance for us from a regulatory perspective."

You lie or have misunderstood. Read it again (hell, try reading TFS). Hint: there are quite a number of people in the US with similar concerns regarding some of the recently instated voting regulations.

The OSCE could always try to sue in federal court if they feel the law is in error.

Yes, I'm sure that's a case that will be dealt with within three weeks. Thank you for suggesting this very effective and realistic option.

So far, they have not done so. So far, this comment from Abbot is little different from the AG pre-emptivly reminding any group to obey the law, and there will be no special treatment. No different that a protestor rally.

A 'protestor rally'? Really?? That's what you compare international observers to?
And 'pre-emptivly [sic] reminding'? Have you read his tweet (in TFA)?
"UN poll watchers can't interfere w/ Texas elections,” he tweeted. “I'll bring criminal charges if needed. Official letter posted soon. #comeandtakeit"

This guy is a fucking joke ( http://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX ):
"Even Belarus denied Visas to European Vote Monitors. Why should they be allowed here? http://www.rferl.org/content/belarus-denies-osce-monitors-visas/24713858.html"
Belarus is one of the most corrupt nations in Eurasia and considered a dictatorship by many - which kind of proves my fucking point - See (1).

Seriously, it never ceases to amaze me how stupid some of the highly placed officials in the US are. How the fuck does an asshole like this become an Attorney General?

What you want already exists and may even be available to you

FIrst off, SiliconDust has a couple very nice stand alone Cable TV tuners (I have the three tuner model), and yes, it requires a CableCARD, but my cable company hands them out for free (just like they hand out three free basic cable decoders for free, no monthly payment required - it's the law).

Second, remind me why these are called OTA channels? Isn't it becasue they are broadcast Over The Air? Buy a freakin antenna!

FIrst off, SiliconDust has a couple very nice stand alone Cable TV tuners (I have the three tuner model), and yes, it requires a CableCARD, but my cable company hands them out for free (just like they hand out three free basic cable decoders for free, no monthly payment required - it's the law).

Second, remind me why these are called OTA channels? Isn't it becasue they are broadcast Over The Air? Buy a freakin antenna!

A sign or two saying something like "PRIVATE PROPERTY NO DUMPING" might help, if you don't already have a sign like that which is being ignored.

This is Slashdot... logic of the "common sense" variety is forbidden on these threads!

Depending on the local laws and legal precedent, that may not be very logical or an example of common sense; for example, in certain particularly stupid areas of America, putting up a "No Trespassing" sign actually increases the property owner's liability, as they are acknowledging that people may trespass on their property and thus, take responsibility for said trespasser's safety (and yes, I am aware how boundlessly stupid that is).

Here's an article that does a much better job explaining the legal implications of posted "No Trespassing" signs than I ever could.

I'm not going to say that half of those companies fail, but if you think that a failure rate of nearly half is acceptable, I have no idea what planet you're from. Failure rate among Bain's acquisitions is vastly higher than it is among operating businesses in general.

Apparently Earth. 56% of US businesses fail in the first five years: http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5212542_many-businesses-fail-first-year_.html

You might point out that Bain doesn't buy startups. That's true. However, Bain also doesn't buy healthy companies. Healthy companies are expensive. Bain couldn't afford them. Bain buys companies that have a low market value relative to their potential revenue.

Oh, and every office supply chain is having problems. Staples is relatively healthy in that group.

The ATF can give you a licence for a light machine-gun for ships for a couple of hundred bucks.

http://www.ehow.com/how_8731203_class-three-stamp-through-atf.html

Also a military grade Distress radiobeacon, additional to a normal one, even if illegal illegal, it's better to go to jail a couple of years than being dead the rest of your life.

And autobahn is one of the safest highways as well:

Traffic zooms by on the German autobahn at 120 mph. The speed-limitless highway system stretches 6,800 miles and the Federal Ministry of Transport has declared the autobahn to be one of the safest road systems in the world despite the roaring, high speeds. US highways, on the other hand, rank as one of the most dangerous where speed limits range from 55 to 75 mph. Strict laws are believed to be the prominent reason the autobahn is safer than US highways.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6726960_autobahn-safety-vs_-interstate-safety.html

...why you don't have engineers do technician's work. For next time: http://www.ehow.com/how_6387657_remove-loctite-screws.html

It's a case of only having to outrun your neighbour and not the bear.

Bad idea. Once the bear has caught up with your neighbor, its chase instinct takes over, and then it runs after you.

The best course of action is not to run at all. (but to convince your neighbor to run and thus lure it away might be a good idea...).

It seems I cannot opt out of installing the search bar during installation. Too bad, I will never get to try it out.

Are you trying to tell me that the level of technical finesse possessed by the average slashdotter is insufficient to defeat a toolbar install? I'm going to download this into a vmware session right now to see what horribly intrusive and nasty malware this i--er... wait a second. Google just updated. Ah. It's just an ordinary toolbar, uninstallable in the traditional fashion provided by the operating system.

Deeeeeerp.

A virus that destroys centrifuges, OK. Now, a virus that destroys computers? There are certainly ways to do physical harm to an infected computer, but do these apply here?

For the "person" making the real threats, set their address to be one of your neighbors.

Hmmm, defamation of character and libel? Since you like experiments maybe a neighbor can use your address and mention you're a sex offender and see what happens! (For the record I don't advocate this.)

Since no real people (only your fake sock poppets) can see any of this stuff, if you see a SWAT team show up at your neighbors' house, then we can surmise that Facebook does indeed allow the government to monitor private communications there.

Facebook employees can. The phone company can (or whomever you get your internet through). Also you may note that all of these companies respond to subpenas... so yes "private" information may be monitored. Regarding Facebook specifically this is mentioned in the legal terms you wantonly clicked through when creating an account (See Safety 7, 10, 12 and how they relate to your experiment) I say wantonly since you obviously aren't sure about their Privacy Policy specifically the "Some other things you need to know" section addressing "Responding to legal requests and preventing harm". In a related note you may find the following interesting:

The fact is that Facebook members own the intellectual property (IP) that is uploaded to the social network, but depending on their privacy and applications settings, users grant the social network "a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License)."

Facebook adds, "[t]his IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

While the social network does not technically own its members content, it has the right to use anything that is not protected with Facebook's privacy and applications settings. For instance, photos, videos and status updates set to public are fair game. article

Considering information you broadcast private? It's the exact opposite.

So you are unclear on the difference between an hourly job and a salaried job? Here is some light reading: http://www.ehow.com/about_5045862_definition-salaried-worker.html

Companies often pay contractors a higher base pay in lieu of benefits, but Danny only made $10 an hour. Extrapolating this data, means the average salary for a full-time position is roughly a meager $20,800

http://www.ehow.com/info_7859795_yearly-salary-video-game-tester.html

Average Salary by Location
The average video game tester annual salary in the U.S. across all levels of experience was $37,905 according to the 2010 Game Developer Magazine salary survey. In comparison, testers in Canada averaged $37,375 (USD) per year and testers who worked in Europe reported earning $29,500 (USD) per year. There was a significant decrease from the reported salaries in the 2008 survey, particularly in the European job market, when the average salary across all levels of experience in the U.S. was $39,309, in Canada it was $37,500 and in Europe was $36,000 annually.

Average Salary by Years of Experience
The 2010 Game Career Guide reports that 40 percent of the testers working in the industry had less than three years of experience and averaged $30,714 annually and 47 percent had between three and six years of experience and earned an average annual salary of $36,667. Only 13 percent of testers had more than six years of experience and earned on average $67,500 per year.

I'm not saying you're full of shit but back that up with some proof. The wages of people at games companies in the area don't pay anywhere near the levels you claim and they're more in line with what I've found online. I find it *really* hard to believe MS is paying significantly more for the certification process. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if most of it's automated with one low paid grunt starting the game up to give a quick glance visually.

Also, think about utility corridors in large building where an electrical fire or something of the sorts are a danger. Using gasses or toxic chemicals might present a danger to humans still inside the building. Mount a few rails with speakers connected and send them to the hot spot as needed.

Or use something like this and line evacuation routes people would take in case of fire helping ensure an open escape path for longer periods of time.

Then they would be known as boom bots.

Also, think about utility corridors in large building where an electrical fire or something of the sorts are a danger. Using gasses or toxic chemicals might present a danger to humans still inside the building. Mount a few rails with speakers connected and send them to the hot spot as needed.

Or use something like this and line evacuation routes people would take in case of fire helping ensure an open escape path for longer periods of time.

Except they didn't. Even the simple firearms of the day were imported for many years.

Google the term "colonial gunsmith". In case you forgot, not only did the US produce guns, but it even invented some. Remember the Kentucky Longrifle? Wikipedia says (unreferenced) that the first gunsmith in the US was a german immigrant in 1620, which would put them right at the beginning of the British colonization. And even if the first ships didn't have a gunsmith, there's no reason they *couldn't* have. It only took one person to make guns, and the tools they used, any blacksmith could make.

Funny, that's exactly like early settlers colonizing the New World

That's simply not true. The early settlers relied on overseas supplies *where more convenient*, but had the capability to make (and did, to varying degrees) everything that they needed. They produced saltpeter, mined sulfur, and made charcoal for gunpowder. They mined and melted and cast lead for shot. They used charcoal to fire iron forges. All of this sort of stuff happened in amazingly short order. There were blacksmiths in the very first colonies.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5455382_make-own-cool-neck-wrap.html Soak these in water, and put them in either the fridge or freezer. Once they're cold, tie them around your neck. They REALLY help, and they're really cheap to make. If you don't want to make them yourself, you can buy them pre-made for around $5 on eBay

We had a time a few years back when the offices at work were getting close to 40 degrees C. These babies work quite well if it's not too humid. You can even put them in a fridge for an extra cooling effect. Turning on the fan helps the evaporation.

(not directed at you fahrbot-bot just all the people that think no taxes are a good thing)

Cool. Personally, I don't mind spending money (or paying taxes), I just don't like to waste money. In addition, I'm fairly liberal on what constitutes spending and not wasting as I'm not an expert on all things and try to keep an open mind. Unfortunately, that cannot be said for others, even in my own family.

For example, my mother - who used to be a liberal Democrat when she was young and struggling Nurse, but is now a retired narrow-minded conservative, Fox "News" watching (seriously, on all the time), Tea Party Republican (enjoying her Medicare) [sigh] - was bitching about someone wanting to "waste" tax dollars studying algae in the ocean even after I reminded her that algae provides 70-80% of the Earth's atmospheric oxygen for us to, you know, breathe.

Or that some of the taxes she no longer wants to pay go to police, firefighters, the paramedics that rescued her mother, and fixing our roads, etc... or helping those less fortunate, like she/we used to be, or people that want to, but cannot work - who are not "free loaders". The subject line describes what her feelings seem to be.

Fuck me. Sometimes, I can't believe I'm related to her any more.

I'm old enough to remember Ma Bell being broke up too, as well as remembering that prices where i lived (southern Oregon) rose soon afterwards.

However, regulation in general is better than de-regulation in protecting consumers: http://www.ehow.com/list_6300097_effects-phone-deregulation.html

If they get cut, I hope that the investors in Sierra Nevada (and apparently Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic fame is one of them) continue to press forward without NASA funding.

Sierra Nevada Corp is a privately owned company. It is wholly owned by the married couple Faith and Eren Ozmen who are originally from Turkey. http://www.ehow.com/about_5059106_sierra-nevada-corporation-history.html

In 1994, senior management, and husband and wife, Faith and Eren Ozmen purchased Sierra Nevada Corporation. The team developed the company from a small mid-level military contractor into a major air force supplier.

No one has any ownership of the company except the Ozman's. There is no employee stock ownership program.

Watch the first 10 minutes of this movie for free"

The rule of thumb is if you walk out within the first 15 minutes of the actual film or so you've got a pretty good case. Check this out. You'd be surprised what you can get done if you just ask.

http://www.ehow.com/info_8495494_tell-someone-hacking-iphone.html

Seems hijacked itunes accounts are more common.

well, email campaign tools are meant to send mass emails out to people who have subscribed to lists. they can be abused, or not. in essence, twitter itself is a spam tool. need a "mark as spam" solution for twitter? http://www.ehow.com/how_4557090_remove-followers-twitter.html engineering solution ftw

I dunno why, but I found this comment immensely funny. (Score:+1, non sequitur )

Windows XP has not been sold since June 30, 2008. On October 22, 2010, you will not be able to purchase new computers that already have Windows XP installed on them.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_6876358_buy-copy-windows-xp.html [ehow.com]

It is not a current build of Windows idiot. Everyone knows that except you, but then, you DO know that too, don't you? You're just being a trolling waste of life, otherwise you wouldn't do your ac stalking posts would you. Of course not. It is fun making you look stupid though.

APK

P.S.=> I must ask - how BADLY have I 'kicked your ass' here and on what particular technical topic that you insist on attempting to stalk & harass me by your ac stalkings of myself, hmmm? LOL! You're "geek angst" is showing, and I don't think you possess the intelligence to realize 1 simple fact: You will never have the intelligence to get the better of myself, ever... apk

Windows XP has not been sold since June 30, 2008. On October 22, 2010, you will not be able to purchase new computers that already have Windows XP installed on them.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_6876358_buy-copy-windows-xp.html

It is not a current build of Windows idiot. Everyone knows that except you, but then, you DO know that too, don't you? You're just being a trolling waste of life, otherwise you wouldn't do your ac stalking posts would you. Of course not. It is fun making you look stupid though.

APK

P.S.=> I must ask - how BADLY have I 'kicked your ass' here and on what particular technical topic that you insist on attempting to stalk & harass me by your ac stalkings of myself, hmmm? LOL! You're "geek angst" is showing, and I don't think you possess the intelligence to realize 1 simple fact: You will never have the intelligence to get the better of myself, ever... apk

Here's how. Follow these directions and you'll be fine.