Actually, excusing bad behavior as "honesty" is something I'm rather tired of.
Which makes her less stupid how?
I have friends that're dumb, and are the first to tell you "Ah ain't up on all that-thar book-larnin'..." I don't think any less of them for it, and they're some solid friends. Y'know, the kind you could trust at your back when the going gets nasty. Another fave anecdotal moment:
My dad retired to a rural area. A young couple {friends of the family} was getting married, and dad decided to give 'em a book on managing your budget. However, the young wife, barely 18, refused the gift. Dad asked why, and she explained that her husband, Reed wouldn't use it. Her exact words:
"Y'see, Reed don't read."
-blink-
Note, that wasn't "Reed can't read", or "Reed doesn't read much"... Now, you can call me ill-mannered for saying that Reed is probably not the brightest bulb in the marquee, but I'm telling you, some people are just plain dumb, whether it's politically correct to say so or not. That's the problem with the whole PC movement; you can polish a turd all you want, but it's still a turd. BTW, I'm not moderately hearing-impaired, I'm mostly deaf... and have no problems saying so.
There would need to be some enforcement to make sure that 'perks' were properly treated as personal income, but most people who work to create wealth end up wanting to do something with it, not tie it up in a legal entity.
Actually, the advice I've heard says to do just that with your wealth. Trust funds, anyone?
It basically keeps the assets of the rich from being yanked out from under them in court.
The ones I have a low opinion of are the parents that insist "My child is really smart and beautiful! It's the school/teacher/environment to blame for my child's inability to multiply single-digit numbers without a calculator!"
Mayhaps if more parents took a realistic view of their crotch-fruit, we wouldn't have the self-absorbed, narcissistic bozos who feel entitled to do whatever they want.
I've got my doubts about what this will accomplish.
As a point-of-sale vendor, we ran across this recently. Some bozo was slinging stolen cards at some of our clients, and we TRIED to report it. No calls back, no interest from the local PD, the FBI, the FTC, or even the Secret Service. It just wasn't big enough to make their radar and assign manpower to it.... even after 2 grand in fake charges.
I'd like to see them do more when people with all the evidence they would want call them, rather than implement a new program that will drain even more manpower from enforcement.
While Linden Labs would like us to believe that, it's just more crap to sort through to get the information I want. You say the "virtual objects" link to a traditional website? Why wouldn't I just head right to the website and skip the middleman?
Also, SL objects can give people information in more interesting ways than 2d websites and allow more engaging interaction and collaborations.
I'd love an example of how information is somehow "enhanced" by presenting it in a 3D format. Do you believe that applies to music? Even Duran Duran tried to get a concert going on SL and gave up. Works of art? Will seeing the Mona Lisa in a 3D representation somehow make it more informative or entertaining?
I'm not telling people they shouldn't enjoy SL. I'm just not buying the Linden Labs spiel that it's the "wave of the future". It sure sounds good to the investors, though...
2. Media Sentry not holding state investigative licenses is irrelevant because the information they gathered was publicly available.
In Texas, at least, it doesn't matter if it's public info or not. You have to have a license for your company if it:
:(2) engages in the business of securing, or accepts employment to secure, evidence for use before a court, board, officer, or investigating committee;
Check Texas Penal code 1702.104 here if you don't believe me.
The RIAA has an oddball view of what should be our rights
and they think they're superheroes all with capes and nifty tights.
The Fair Act wasn't fair they say, in fact they think it bites.
Their scam is plodding on....
The RIAA will send a subpoena,
In court, they act like total weiners.
I'd like to kick 'em all
in their tiny, shrunken balls,
so hard it hurts their dog...
At our shop, many of our clients want cabling jobs in old buildings. We're talking feeding these things through holes barely big enough to allow the cable, let alone the jack, and drilling isn't an option in many building for various reasons.
if your dumb enough to do drugs, then your dumb enough to drive too.
Says you. It's the line between responsible USE and abuse. Don't try to paint all drinkers and potheads with the same brush. I used to work for a band, and if I was over the limit, no matter HOW much you pleaded, I wouldn't drive. I made it a point to drill into my head that no matter WHAT, driving impaired could kill someone... and regardless of how snonkered I was, I never forgot.
One of the biggest problems I see with America is that personal responsibility has never been stressed, and so we have a generation {or two} of people that will always try to justify why it wasn't their fault.
Dying, no. Long term problems with short-term memory and concentration, yes. Loss of initiative and drive, yes. Psychosis, family break-down, incarceration in a psychiatric facility, panic disorder, depression, suicide attempts, broken relationships, unemployment. Yes. Actually that pretty well sums up the largish circle of people I used to smoke marijuana with and as far as I can tell, they were all pretty average, normal people before they started on dope. Ten years after I quit I still have serious problems with my memory.
Then I might venture that you're one of those that shouldn't indulge. The effects you describe, while common, are NOT set in stone. A friend of mine has smoked it for over 20 years, and has a loving wife, steady job, is stable, and only partakes after work. He can tell you every phone number he's had since he was 4, and has worked in the IT field since the early 90's.
Just because SOME people react that way to the green stuff does not mean that EVERYONE does. Just like alcohol, or any other inebriant, there are some people that just can't keep it together while abusing it and shouldn't have it anywhere near them.
We've all seen the classic beer commercial. Some guy is bored and alone. Then he cracks open a beer and suddenly this amazing party materializes out of nowhere and bunch of adoring super-models surround the guy like he's the hottest guy on the planet.
Spookily enough, this is how they sold the doctors on the meds to begin with.
I worked as IT guy at a medical office for a number of years, and noticed that I'd never seen an ugly pharmaceutical rep. The reps sent to the doc's office were all pretty enough to drive most guys googoo, and I noticed even Doc was hanging on her every word. Later, I asked the office manager if that was common and actually WORKED. "Every time I'VE seen," she replied...
Since then, I've always wondered how many drugs were prescribed solely because of hooters.
Actually, it's much tougher with Vista than any Linux distro I've run into.
Actually, there are a number of Linux-based recovery disks that can null or change a Vista password easily within 3-5 minutes.... but as pointed out, with physical access, all bets are off.
Terrorist acts need not generate terror.
Part of the definition is that the acts can be designed to intimidate or cause fear.
Actions that don't fit your 9/11 definition of terrorism are still considered terrorism.
That's odd... the Merriam-Webster dictionary lists "terrorism" as "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion"... M'self, I'd be more likely to call this "hooliganism".
...and while we're on the subject, what would YOU consider to be the difference between "fear" and "terror"?
That said, central communication infrastructure will NEVER have the redundancies necessary to provide 100 percent proof against terror-by-backhoe. To expect such is folly.
Good point. Someone ought to design a nationwide network that can route around failures... the extreme case being a nuclear war. Ye gads, why doesn't the government fund such an idea?!?
A lot of new podcast/screencast packages make subtitling or attaching transcripts really easy.
That's what's so annoying about this. So easy a caveman could do it, but no one bothers...
Correction: most don't. I have to give Oortkuiper over at Youtube a lot of credit. His video wasn't originally sub'd, and he was nice enough to do it on request.
Most commercial/education entities, however, count subbing/CC as a frill, and instead put a lady down in the corner of the screen waving her hands.
Interesting idea, but leaves the deaf folks out in the cold.
I should know. Went to a class Saturday where the videos weren't subtitled. Fairly useless to me, but I muddled through.
WITH subtitling, it might have some niche applications in distance education but I just can't see the brick and mortars going for this for all their students.
My guess is that it'd just nix public performances; private poots would still be allowed... The only mainstream artist I know that uses flatulence is "Weird Al", you might want to check to see if your rump-riff is already copyrighted.
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Actually, excusing bad behavior as "honesty" is something I'm rather tired of.
Which makes her less stupid how?
I have friends that're dumb, and are the first to tell you "Ah ain't up on all that-thar book-larnin'..." I don't think any less of them for it, and they're some solid friends. Y'know, the kind you could trust at your back when the going gets nasty. Another fave anecdotal moment:
My dad retired to a rural area. A young couple {friends of the family} was getting married, and dad decided to give 'em a book on managing your budget. However, the young wife, barely 18, refused the gift. Dad asked why, and she explained that her husband, Reed wouldn't use it. Her exact words:
"Y'see, Reed don't read."
-blink-
Note, that wasn't "Reed can't read", or "Reed doesn't read much"... Now, you can call me ill-mannered for saying that Reed is probably not the brightest bulb in the marquee, but I'm telling you, some people are just plain dumb, whether it's politically correct to say so or not. That's the problem with the whole PC movement; you can polish a turd all you want, but it's still a turd. BTW, I'm not moderately hearing-impaired, I'm mostly deaf... and have no problems saying so.
There would need to be some enforcement to make sure that 'perks' were properly treated as personal income, but most people who work to create wealth end up wanting to do something with it, not tie it up in a legal entity.
Actually, the advice I've heard says to do just that with your wealth. Trust funds, anyone?
It basically keeps the assets of the rich from being yanked out from under them in court.
Actually, I find the honesty refreshing.
The ones I have a low opinion of are the parents that insist "My child is really smart and beautiful! It's the school/teacher/environment to blame for my child's inability to multiply single-digit numbers without a calculator!"
Mayhaps if more parents took a realistic view of their crotch-fruit, we wouldn't have the self-absorbed, narcissistic bozos who feel entitled to do whatever they want.
...and before anyone asks, yes, I *am* a parent.
Am I the only person who reads that extension aloud as "Ex-Lax"?
Actually, the first two times I read it, it parsed as "Excel sucks."
I've got my doubts about what this will accomplish.
As a point-of-sale vendor, we ran across this recently. Some bozo was slinging stolen cards at some of our clients, and we TRIED to report it. No calls back, no interest from the local PD, the FBI, the FTC, or even the Secret Service. It just wasn't big enough to make their radar and assign manpower to it.... even after 2 grand in fake charges.
I'd like to see them do more when people with all the evidence they would want call them, rather than implement a new program that will drain even more manpower from enforcement.
SL is not a "game", it is a virtual world.
While Linden Labs would like us to believe that, it's just more crap to sort through to get the information I want. You say the "virtual objects" link to a traditional website? Why wouldn't I just head right to the website and skip the middleman?
Also, SL objects can give people information in more interesting ways than 2d websites and allow more engaging interaction and collaborations.
I'd love an example of how information is somehow "enhanced" by presenting it in a 3D format. Do you believe that applies to music? Even Duran Duran tried to get a concert going on SL and gave up. Works of art? Will seeing the Mona Lisa in a 3D representation somehow make it more informative or entertaining?
I'm not telling people they shouldn't enjoy SL. I'm just not buying the Linden Labs spiel that it's the "wave of the future". It sure sounds good to the investors, though...
2. Media Sentry not holding state investigative licenses is irrelevant because the information they gathered was publicly available.
In Texas, at least, it doesn't matter if it's public info or not. You have to have a license for your company if it:
:(2) engages in the business of securing, or accepts employment to secure, evidence for use before a court, board, officer, or investigating committee;
Check Texas Penal code 1702.104 here if you don't believe me.
Thanks for the inspiration on a slow day:
{To the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic}
The RIAA has an oddball view of what should be our rights
and they think they're superheroes all with capes and nifty tights.
The Fair Act wasn't fair they say, in fact they think it bites.
Their scam is plodding on....
The RIAA will send a subpoena,
In court, they act like total weiners.
I'd like to kick 'em all
in their tiny, shrunken balls,
so hard it hurts their dog...
At our shop, many of our clients want cabling jobs in old buildings. We're talking feeding these things through holes barely big enough to allow the cable, let alone the jack, and drilling isn't an option in many building for various reasons.
if your dumb enough to do drugs, then your dumb enough to drive too.
Says you. It's the line between responsible USE and abuse. Don't try to paint all drinkers and potheads with the same brush. I used to work for a band, and if I was over the limit, no matter HOW much you pleaded, I wouldn't drive. I made it a point to drill into my head that no matter WHAT, driving impaired could kill someone... and regardless of how snonkered I was, I never forgot.
One of the biggest problems I see with America is that personal responsibility has never been stressed, and so we have a generation {or two} of people that will always try to justify why it wasn't their fault.
Dying, no. Long term problems with short-term memory and concentration, yes. Loss of initiative and drive, yes. Psychosis, family break-down, incarceration in a psychiatric facility, panic disorder, depression, suicide attempts, broken relationships, unemployment. Yes. Actually that pretty well sums up the largish circle of people I used to smoke marijuana with and as far as I can tell, they were all pretty average, normal people before they started on dope. Ten years after I quit I still have serious problems with my memory.
Then I might venture that you're one of those that shouldn't indulge. The effects you describe, while common, are NOT set in stone. A friend of mine has smoked it for over 20 years, and has a loving wife, steady job, is stable, and only partakes after work. He can tell you every phone number he's had since he was 4, and has worked in the IT field since the early 90's.
Just because SOME people react that way to the green stuff does not mean that EVERYONE does. Just like alcohol, or any other inebriant, there are some people that just can't keep it together while abusing it and shouldn't have it anywhere near them.
If you were vomiting, it probably was NOT the flu.
According to the CDC, nausea is not unheard of in swine flu.
Believe it? I caught it.
San Antonio area was one of the first hit, and for all the cases diagnosed, I guarantee ya there are dozens more that couldn't afford to see a doctor.
Didn't feel TOO much worse than the normal version of flu. Little less achy, but a LOT more power-hurling.
We've all seen the classic beer commercial. Some guy is bored and alone. Then he cracks open a beer and suddenly this amazing party materializes out of nowhere and bunch of adoring super-models surround the guy like he's the hottest guy on the planet.
Spookily enough, this is how they sold the doctors on the meds to begin with.
I worked as IT guy at a medical office for a number of years, and noticed that I'd never seen an ugly pharmaceutical rep. The reps sent to the doc's office were all pretty enough to drive most guys googoo, and I noticed even Doc was hanging on her every word. Later, I asked the office manager if that was common and actually WORKED. "Every time I'VE seen," she replied...
Since then, I've always wondered how many drugs were prescribed solely because of hooters.
Actually, it's much tougher with Vista than any Linux distro I've run into.
Actually, there are a number of Linux-based recovery disks that can null or change a Vista password easily within 3-5 minutes.... but as pointed out, with physical access, all bets are off.
You really think so? Let me introduce you to my Buddy, Bonzi....
Terrorist acts need not generate terror.
Part of the definition is that the acts can be designed to intimidate or cause fear.
Actions that don't fit your 9/11 definition of terrorism are still considered terrorism.
That's odd... the Merriam-Webster dictionary lists "terrorism" as "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion"... M'self, I'd be more likely to call this "hooliganism".
...and while we're on the subject, what would YOU consider to be the difference between "fear" and "terror"?
That said, central communication infrastructure will NEVER have the redundancies necessary to provide 100 percent proof against terror-by-backhoe. To expect such is folly.
Good point. Someone ought to design a nationwide network that can route around failures... the extreme case being a nuclear war. Ye gads, why doesn't the government fund such an idea?!?
A lot of new podcast/screencast packages make subtitling or attaching transcripts really easy.
That's what's so annoying about this. So easy a caveman could do it, but no one bothers...
Correction: most don't. I have to give Oortkuiper over at Youtube a lot of credit. His video wasn't originally sub'd, and he was nice enough to do it on request.
Most commercial/education entities, however, count subbing/CC as a frill, and instead put a lady down in the corner of the screen waving her hands.
Interesting idea, but leaves the deaf folks out in the cold.
I should know. Went to a class Saturday where the videos weren't subtitled. Fairly useless to me, but I muddled through.
WITH subtitling, it might have some niche applications in distance education but I just can't see the brick and mortars going for this for all their students.
My guess is that it'd just nix public performances; private poots would still be allowed... The only mainstream artist I know that uses flatulence is "Weird Al", you might want to check to see if your rump-riff is already copyrighted.
What's your patching strategy without directly updating from Windows/Microsoft Update?
How many times can you use the word "micro" in one article?
If you're THIS guy, then the answer would resolve to "a metric buttload", or approximately .5 LibrariesOfCongress for those about to ask. ;)
That's what you get for being part of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
A double dumbass on you!
Is there some reason that temporarily disabling scaling in your BIOS settings wouldn't have worked?
Jus' curious...