I've always heard, "lotteries are taxes on those with poor math skills..."
I guess you should add to that, "...and not worth the effort of those with good math skills"
Maybe he should be out pending an appeal like Tom Delay. I guess he can now claim he was convicted in "one of the most conservative districts in the country..."
I thought the guy's dad was connected. I'm surprised he's serving time at all.
For me, the problem is exactly what you've mentioned at the end of your reply... there's no trustworthy way to opt out often. There's a business opportunity waiting to happen for an org that could become the BB of online solicitation.... you register with them before sending out messages and when the message arrives it says "Do you want to remain on this list Yes/No" all "No" would be forwarded back to sender, failure to remove would ban them from using the service.
I really don't mind getting ONE email from a company that may have something to offer that I like... I do a lot of cycling. If a new company selling parts contacts me ONCE saying, "we have these deals" I view it the same as I do a person handing our fliers when I walk to work. If I say, "no thanks", no harm done. If they follow me down the street and stick it in my face... different story.
I know the analogy isn't exactly the same b/c of bandwidth, yada yada yada. The reality is I any of us got one or two of these once in a while we wouldn't even react to it. It's the sheer volume of complete bullshit that's made this an issue IMO.
Actually for us it's a business concern. We were evaluating whether or not to allow Android device to connect to our corporate intranet and decided against it for that very reason. Not due to development related fragmentation issues, but rather OS fragmentation that makes security updates and vulnerabilities much more difficult to track and to resolve via updates. With vendors still pushing out 1.5, our corporate security was hesitant to endorse an OS with known vulnerabilities and no timely updates from the handset vendors.
With the iPhone, we can force users to upgrade to the latest OS version, and give them a time window to comply. With Android, it's not that easy. Blindly cutting off a specific version of the OS due to some vulnerability could potentially flood our help desk with calls regarding connection failures. Not feasible.
I'm not trying to argumentative here at all, but I'm curious if this is just OS related, or hardware as well. If you're able to mandate users use an iPhone, would you have the same abilities if you standardized on one model of android to support? Knowing the updates available for this singular device would give you one path to manage as well I believe.
Politics aside of trying to tell users which phone to buy... I'm just wondering if this would work.
...A man goes to see his Dr. and the Dr. says, "sir you're going to have to stop masturbating". The man says, "Why" and the doctor says, "Because I'm trying to examine you"
Like I said, "I won't protest". I'm not going to speak for the US govt.
It appears you're correct on the legality of doing so though:
"this is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code, which says that “whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.” The law is enforced by the Secret Service."
Not really the same. I have no emotional attachment to a $100 bill. If it's yours, burn it and I won't protest. I can take that $100 to a store and exchange it for lots of things that may mean more to me, or may feed my children. If I take a load of (insert your preferred religious text here) to Target, I'm not going to be able to exchange it for pampers.
Also, you burn a pile of money that you earned, that's your business. If I burn a copy of MY (insert your preferred religious text here), it tends to become the problem of groups that feel that the text, regardless of the cheap manufacturing that went into it, has some sacred significance to it as the word of god(s) (TM). I think a closer analogy would be burning a flag... it's just fabric after all...
Read "Get in the Van". Black Flag criss crossed the country, eating when they could. Playing as much as possible, in many ways becoming the "Johnny Appleseeds" of punk rock. The problem is Avril Laveign (I don't care enough to look up the spelling) and like want to wear the punk uniform, but if she had to stay in a Marriott she'd flip out b/c of the thread count on the sheets.
That's why "artists" often need these large start up funds. I've played on and off with bands since college... never enough for any real touring, and it's been fun. I'm happy to get free drinks and go home with gas money. People I know that are able to do it full time aren't looking for much more. The RIAA an their ilk in the music industry are going to go the way of travel agents (do we still have those) as more and more people build practice studios in their basement and release their music online.
Until someone has a basement that can compete with Tickmaster though, I'm afraid that's one channel that can't be avoided...
I was pulling my BB out of it's holster and it slipped out of my hand and over the railing of the Chicago El Quincy stop railing. It landed on Wells street below. I ran down quickly to grab it before a car ran it over and a guy on the ground handed it to me. It must have landed flat on the back side and bounced. It still works to this day, but the screen has a blurry spot.
What would be revolutionary would be a drink which kept the imbibers drunk for a lengthy but known amount of time but after that time, the imbiber would sober up quickly without hangover...
Or even better... something you take at the end of the night to absorb the alcohol and remove it from your system. Like a pizza.
I think the issue was he had amounts that would be nearly humanly impossible to produce.
He was ahead, but totally fell apart, "losing any chance of victory" according to the announcers, then the next day he blew everyone away by such a margin he re-gained the lead. It was awesome to watch and heartbreaking to learn it may have been tainted. The part I've never understood is why steroids? I'm a cyclist and have issues with my tailbone. I'm going this Friday to get a steroid injection between two of the bones, and was told, "there will be little effect for at least 2 days".
So... if it's not an immediate benefit, why would Landis use THAT drug to cheat. I would think EPO or other performance drugs would have been a better choice. That's the argument I'm surprised no one else picked up on. I'm sure steroids would be of benefit for building muscle or recovery, but I'd think they'd have been used earlier in the race or before and would have turned up then. These were some of the last stages of the tour, after they'd ridden about 2000 miles and had maybe 3 days left to race. Doesn't seem like the optimal time to use.
I'm no doctor though, so maybe I missed something in the biology/physiology involved.
I tend to agree. At the risk of losing all of the credibility that I do not have, I'm someone who fell into the IT world after college, first using a Mac to do data entry, then learning basic HTML, then scripting languages like ColdFusion/PHP and PL/SQL. Now 15 years later I am fairly comfortable using SSH to get in and change permissions or move files, etc. but I still find there's an initial hump I can't seem to get over to get to the point where man pages really make sense and help. I have an old copy of "Unix in a Nutshell" that I use first, then Google for real world examples or tutorials.
I think one of the main issues for me, and I suspect many other users is the lack of confidence with some of concepts. Even if you THINK you know something, gods(tm) forbid you ask a question in the wrong place for fear of having the whole *nix community come down on you.
That's my take on it things anyhow.
What about "Dr. J". By your logic he has to be an MD to be called this. I agree he shouldn't be performing surgery and a "Software Engineer" shouldn't be designing bridges, but if they are "engineering" something, it's a fair title IMO.
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You forgot to mention that so long as it's available in your dashboard, you're comfortable with it.
I've always heard, "lotteries are taxes on those with poor math skills..." I guess you should add to that, "...and not worth the effort of those with good math skills"
We'll start asking about the conditions the workers were in while growing it in the lab... "were they forced to sit in cubicles?"
Maybe he should be out pending an appeal like Tom Delay. I guess he can now claim he was convicted in "one of the most conservative districts in the country..." I thought the guy's dad was connected. I'm surprised he's serving time at all.
BP is not a majority US owned company. In fact, large numbers of UK pensions have been invested in the company. Whether it's too big to fail or not is another issue... http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9010453&contentId=7019612
For me, the problem is exactly what you've mentioned at the end of your reply... there's no trustworthy way to opt out often. There's a business opportunity waiting to happen for an org that could become the BB of online solicitation.... you register with them before sending out messages and when the message arrives it says "Do you want to remain on this list Yes/No" all "No" would be forwarded back to sender, failure to remove would ban them from using the service. I really don't mind getting ONE email from a company that may have something to offer that I like... I do a lot of cycling. If a new company selling parts contacts me ONCE saying, "we have these deals" I view it the same as I do a person handing our fliers when I walk to work. If I say, "no thanks", no harm done. If they follow me down the street and stick it in my face... different story. I know the analogy isn't exactly the same b/c of bandwidth, yada yada yada. The reality is I any of us got one or two of these once in a while we wouldn't even react to it. It's the sheer volume of complete bullshit that's made this an issue IMO.
Don't be ridiculous, an outsourced software group in Russia will be hired to review the specs to make sure everything's legit...
Actually for us it's a business concern. We were evaluating whether or not to allow Android device to connect to our corporate intranet and decided against it for that very reason. Not due to development related fragmentation issues, but rather OS fragmentation that makes security updates and vulnerabilities much more difficult to track and to resolve via updates. With vendors still pushing out 1.5, our corporate security was hesitant to endorse an OS with known vulnerabilities and no timely updates from the handset vendors.
With the iPhone, we can force users to upgrade to the latest OS version, and give them a time window to comply. With Android, it's not that easy. Blindly cutting off a specific version of the OS due to some vulnerability could potentially flood our help desk with calls regarding connection failures. Not feasible.
I'm not trying to argumentative here at all, but I'm curious if this is just OS related, or hardware as well. If you're able to mandate users use an iPhone, would you have the same abilities if you standardized on one model of android to support? Knowing the updates available for this singular device would give you one path to manage as well I believe. Politics aside of trying to tell users which phone to buy... I'm just wondering if this would work.
I've got a great idea for a recipe. It's got some stuff in it and tastes really good! I need a chef!
Well in the case of "death" I would say one point confirming life WOULD invalidate the the statement.
I wish someone would have told me this before I quit using my Mac and XP desktops at home. What should I do now, look for a copy of BeOS?
...A man goes to see his Dr. and the Dr. says, "sir you're going to have to stop masturbating". The man says, "Why" and the doctor says, "Because I'm trying to examine you"
Like I said, "I won't protest". I'm not going to speak for the US govt.
It appears you're correct on the legality of doing so though:
"this is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code, which says that “whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.” The law is enforced by the Secret Service."
http://www.freelawanswer.com/law/3175-3-law-4.html
Not really the same. I have no emotional attachment to a $100 bill. If it's yours, burn it and I won't protest. I can take that $100 to a store and exchange it for lots of things that may mean more to me, or may feed my children. If I take a load of (insert your preferred religious text here) to Target, I'm not going to be able to exchange it for pampers. Also, you burn a pile of money that you earned, that's your business. If I burn a copy of MY (insert your preferred religious text here), it tends to become the problem of groups that feel that the text, regardless of the cheap manufacturing that went into it, has some sacred significance to it as the word of god(s) (TM). I think a closer analogy would be burning a flag... it's just fabric after all...
As someone procrastinating reading /. instead of writing a script, I can assure you it's not enjoyable.
Read "Get in the Van". Black Flag criss crossed the country, eating when they could. Playing as much as possible, in many ways becoming the "Johnny Appleseeds" of punk rock. The problem is Avril Laveign (I don't care enough to look up the spelling) and like want to wear the punk uniform, but if she had to stay in a Marriott she'd flip out b/c of the thread count on the sheets. That's why "artists" often need these large start up funds. I've played on and off with bands since college... never enough for any real touring, and it's been fun. I'm happy to get free drinks and go home with gas money. People I know that are able to do it full time aren't looking for much more. The RIAA an their ilk in the music industry are going to go the way of travel agents (do we still have those) as more and more people build practice studios in their basement and release their music online. Until someone has a basement that can compete with Tickmaster though, I'm afraid that's one channel that can't be avoided...
I was pulling my BB out of it's holster and it slipped out of my hand and over the railing of the Chicago El Quincy stop railing. It landed on Wells street below. I ran down quickly to grab it before a car ran it over and a guy on the ground handed it to me. It must have landed flat on the back side and bounced. It still works to this day, but the screen has a blurry spot.
What would be revolutionary would be a drink which kept the imbibers drunk for a lengthy but known amount of time but after that time, the imbiber would sober up quickly without hangover...
Or even better... something you take at the end of the night to absorb the alcohol and remove it from your system. Like a pizza.
I think the issue was he had amounts that would be nearly humanly impossible to produce. He was ahead, but totally fell apart, "losing any chance of victory" according to the announcers, then the next day he blew everyone away by such a margin he re-gained the lead. It was awesome to watch and heartbreaking to learn it may have been tainted. The part I've never understood is why steroids? I'm a cyclist and have issues with my tailbone. I'm going this Friday to get a steroid injection between two of the bones, and was told, "there will be little effect for at least 2 days". So... if it's not an immediate benefit, why would Landis use THAT drug to cheat. I would think EPO or other performance drugs would have been a better choice. That's the argument I'm surprised no one else picked up on. I'm sure steroids would be of benefit for building muscle or recovery, but I'd think they'd have been used earlier in the race or before and would have turned up then. These were some of the last stages of the tour, after they'd ridden about 2000 miles and had maybe 3 days left to race. Doesn't seem like the optimal time to use. I'm no doctor though, so maybe I missed something in the biology/physiology involved.
...They don't do it because they aren't criminals...
I wouldn't be too confident in that statement. I'm pretty sure I'm stealing from my employer right now reading /. instead of working...
I tend to agree. At the risk of losing all of the credibility that I do not have, I'm someone who fell into the IT world after college, first using a Mac to do data entry, then learning basic HTML, then scripting languages like ColdFusion/PHP and PL/SQL. Now 15 years later I am fairly comfortable using SSH to get in and change permissions or move files, etc. but I still find there's an initial hump I can't seem to get over to get to the point where man pages really make sense and help. I have an old copy of "Unix in a Nutshell" that I use first, then Google for real world examples or tutorials. I think one of the main issues for me, and I suspect many other users is the lack of confidence with some of concepts. Even if you THINK you know something, gods(tm) forbid you ask a question in the wrong place for fear of having the whole *nix community come down on you. That's my take on it things anyhow.
nobody will give a damn about our data anyway.
I bet those lists of credit card numbers will be really cheap by then!
What about "Dr. J". By your logic he has to be an MD to be called this. I agree he shouldn't be performing surgery and a "Software Engineer" shouldn't be designing bridges, but if they are "engineering" something, it's a fair title IMO.
And there isn't much to smile about, so this shouldn't be an issue.