You only have to burn enough to annihilate half of the numbers or so.
Make sure that it's the correct half, though. The first couple of quads are just bank ID numbers, so if you just destroy those, a smart theif can look them up.
It really annoys me that my whole cc number is printed on the majority of reciepts. Why the hell does that need to happen?
I have a Gerber multi-plier. The jaws slide out of the handles so you can open it with one hand. All of the tools lock. I got a custom one, but apparently they don't do that anymore. Mine is going strong after 3 years of abuse.
I also got a little adapter that slides over the phillips screwdriver which allows you to use any standard screwdriver bit.
pre existing laws covered this. if you asked a company to put you on their DNC list, they had to. if you ask them and they still call you, it's considered harassment.
Sure, but there are many ways around this. Most companies contract with telemarketing companies who then do the actual calling. The telemarketing contractors would keep separate DNC lists for each client. They say "I'm calling on behalf of Frobarrific, Inc." and not "I'm from X telemarketing company. Would you like some frobnozzles from Frobarrific, Inc.?" It's also much harder to keep track. All I need now is the confirmation from the donotcall.gov site.
Anyway, you'd have to recieve at least one call from _each_ company. I don't want _any_. Ever. This way, no matter who is doing the calling, they have to check and make sure that my number isn't on the list. Since it is, they aren't supposed to call me at all. Not even once.
All the Federal DNC list is doing is giving those of us who loathe telemarketing a way to tell all telemarketers that we don't want calls. The Feds aren't legislating telemarketers out of business. If so many of us sign up, and the profits are gone, then I submit that they were surviving by bullying gullibile people into buying shit that they didn't need. If that's the case, I don't care at all that they're out of business.
Are you sure that the AP Calc exam _requires_ a graphing calculator? When I took it in 1997, we were allowed to have one, but they wrote all of the questions in such a way that it was useless--you'd have an image of a graph, and they'd ask conceptual questions about it.
Because it lets people self-censor, rather than a giant company doing it for all of us. This lets people who don't mind (or even enjoy) violence and sex to see more of it, and those who do mind can watch the same stuff, sans sex and violence. Anything to increase the granularity of censorship is great in my book.
I cross my 7s and my Zs, so that they're distinct from the similar, but curvy 2s and s's. I find that it adds quite a bit to the legibility of my hand lettering.
That F is just wrong. I've never seen anything like that before. Do you deal with non-native English writers?
They've changed from the original widget, which was a plastic piece that was stuck in the bottom of the can, with a void space for the N2 to sit. The new widget is the plastic sphere you're talking about. It has N2 inside as well, but it's free floating so that when the pressure drops, the N2 comes out and the widget is propelled around the can, mixing the beer and N2.
I believe that there is also CO2 in the can (you can still get non-widget bottles) but they add the N2 for texture or something. I'm pretty sure that taps at pubs also use CO2/N2 combination.
I tried dvorak for a while, and found it very comfortable to use for normal english. Linux commands, on the other hand, were very hard for me. L and S, for example, are pressed with the same finger, which means that it takes forever to type ls. I think / is somewhere awkward, too.
Not to mention that I type on users' machines all the time, and you really can't be switching back and forth...
In the US, the department of the treasury will replace a banknote if you can produce 51% or more of the note. I remember reading about them having crack teams who are able to recover burned notes for some old guy who stuffed his mattress with cash and then smoked in bed.
I almost got fucked by officemax and sprint. Officemax had a shitty deal on my phone at the same time that Sprint was offering $100 off. The officemax people didn't supply me with the info for the Sprint rebate, just the officemax one. I had to call Sprint and get all of the info, which took a couple of calls. Interestingly, when the Sprint rep called the Officemax store, they were rude to her!
It all ended okay, though. I got 2 $100 cheques in about 2 months.
Companies that give rebates definately know that most people won't send the forms in. I bet that the interest that they make in the 8-16 weeks that they hold your money makes up for most of the "loss" anyway.
It's getting pretty stupid now, with the quarter-vga palmtop displays. I'm not sure why they don't just use the pixel resolution.
Anyway, here is the breakdown: VGA 640x480 SVGA 800x600 XGA 1024x768 SXGA 1280x1024 UXGA 1600x1200
The physical dimensions of the screen allow a higher resolution to be usable. I'm using UXGA on a ~20" CRT. I also have some Dell 2000FP's, which are 20" LCDs whose native resolution is also UXGA. the LCDs are much nicer because they have much more visible screen area. They also don't flicker at all. They cost about a grand, though.
Are you joking? If you're not, you're pretty badly misguided. As far as I know, this is still the method of choice:
Find the tumor
Figure out how much radiation is required to kill the cancer cells
Create a series of beams that go through the body at different points but that all intersect at the site of the tumor
this way, you can use a radiation level much lower than would otherwise be needed. The normal tissue gets a negligable radiation dose, but the tumor site gets the sum of all of the doses, and dies.
A car that you drive during the winter (I assume that he lives somewhere where snow is common) so that your nice (low-slung? sports car?) does not get damaged. The beater's purpose is mundane transportation. One does not care if it is damaged or develops body rot.
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heh.. I remember playing privateer. I don't know how I managed, it, but in one game, I ended up with almost everybody liking me. The Kilrathi, the Pirates, and the Cops (not the hypocritical luddites, though). It was hilarious--You'd jump into a sector and everybody's killing everybody else, but not you! Got to plunder a lot of stuff that way.
10-digit dialling lets you know when you're making a long-distance call, since you have to prepend the '1'. I do agree with you that 11-digit dialling is strange. Why do they need that?
I lived in Maryland when they switched to area code overlay/10-digit dialling. It's not bad. You get used to it. People look at me funny when I give them the area code in Florida, though.
What I don't understand is how he could make more money with this. Here's what I understand from the discussion:
To use put options you have to own stock.
If you're worried that the stock will fall, you can buy a put option to prevent excessive loss.
So if he already had the stock, what good is the put option if he sells the stock at higher than current market value after a big crash in the stock price? Wouldn't that still be lower than its non-logic bombed price?
At what age are kids being required to type papers? I can't imagine that schools are requiring this as they can't assume that every family owns a computer.
I don't know, but I _do_ know that my receptionist's daughter is required to be able to print colour documents. I was pretty surprised at that.
You don't breathe pure oxygen at normal pressure because it screws with your blood chemistry, and the chemical triggers that tell you it's time for another lungful tend to not fire... meaning you end up forgetting to breathe.
Actually, the breathing trigger is CO2. There are sensors on the carotid arteries right before the brain. This is why you hyperventilate to hold your breath longer. You supersaturate your system with oxygen _and_ blow off CO2 and other volitile acids. That gives more time for CO2 to collect before the sensors want you to breathe.
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You only have to burn enough to annihilate half of the numbers or so.
Make sure that it's the correct half, though. The first couple of quads are just bank ID numbers, so if you just destroy those, a smart theif can look them up.
It really annoys me that my whole cc number is printed on the majority of reciepts. Why the hell does that need to happen?
I have a Gerber multi-plier. The jaws slide out of the handles so you can open it with one hand. All of the tools lock. I got a custom one, but apparently they don't do that anymore. Mine is going strong after 3 years of abuse.
I also got a little adapter that slides over the phillips screwdriver which allows you to use any standard screwdriver bit.
pre existing laws covered this. if you asked a company to put you on their DNC list, they had to. if you ask them and they still call you, it's considered harassment.
Sure, but there are many ways around this. Most companies contract with telemarketing companies who then do the actual calling. The telemarketing contractors would keep separate DNC lists for each client. They say "I'm calling on behalf of Frobarrific, Inc." and not "I'm from X telemarketing company. Would you like some frobnozzles from Frobarrific, Inc.?" It's also much harder to keep track. All I need now is the confirmation from the donotcall.gov site.
Anyway, you'd have to recieve at least one call from _each_ company. I don't want _any_. Ever. This way, no matter who is doing the calling, they have to check and make sure that my number isn't on the list. Since it is, they aren't supposed to call me at all. Not even once.
All the Federal DNC list is doing is giving those of us who loathe telemarketing a way to tell all telemarketers that we don't want calls. The Feds aren't legislating telemarketers out of business. If so many of us sign up, and the profits are gone, then I submit that they were surviving by bullying gullibile people into buying shit that they didn't need. If that's the case, I don't care at all that they're out of business.
You guys are pretty talented. I know this because you let me download samples of your music. I'll think about buying your cd because of it.
You'd think that this wouldn't be a hard thing for the RIAA to grasp, but there you go...
Are you sure that the AP Calc exam _requires_ a graphing calculator? When I took it in 1997, we were allowed to have one, but they wrote all of the questions in such a way that it was useless--you'd have an image of a graph, and they'd ask conceptual questions about it.
Because it lets people self-censor, rather than a giant company doing it for all of us. This lets people who don't mind (or even enjoy) violence and sex to see more of it, and those who do mind can watch the same stuff, sans sex and violence. Anything to increase the granularity of censorship is great in my book.
I cross my 7s and my Zs, so that they're distinct from the similar, but curvy 2s and s's.
I find that it adds quite a bit to the legibility of my hand lettering.
That F is just wrong. I've never seen anything like that before. Do you deal with non-native English writers?
Unless the Arecibo radio telescope was so carefully planned that it was built juuust the right distance from the equator
Nope. They found a convienient dish-shaped hole in the topography and built it there.
They've changed from the original widget, which was a plastic piece that was stuck in the bottom of the can, with a void space for the N2 to sit. The new widget is the plastic sphere you're talking about. It has N2 inside as well, but it's free floating so that when the pressure drops, the N2 comes out and the widget is propelled around the can, mixing the beer and N2.
I believe that there is also CO2 in the can (you can still get non-widget bottles) but they add the N2 for texture or something. I'm pretty sure that taps at pubs also use CO2/N2 combination.
I tried dvorak for a while, and found it very comfortable to use for normal english. Linux commands, on the other hand, were very hard for me. L and S, for example, are pressed with the same finger, which means that it takes forever to type ls. I think / is somewhere awkward, too.
Not to mention that I type on users' machines all the time, and you really can't be switching back and forth...
oh well..
In the US, the department of the treasury will replace a banknote if you can produce 51% or more of the note. I remember reading about them having crack teams who are able to recover burned notes for some old guy who stuffed his mattress with cash and then smoked in bed.
I almost got fucked by officemax and sprint. Officemax had a shitty deal on my phone at the same time that Sprint was offering $100 off. The officemax people didn't supply me with the info for the Sprint rebate, just the officemax one. I had to call Sprint and get all of the info, which took a couple of calls. Interestingly, when the Sprint rep called the Officemax store, they were rude to her!
It all ended okay, though. I got 2 $100 cheques in about 2 months.
Companies that give rebates definately know that most people won't send the forms in. I bet that the interest that they make in the 8-16 weeks that they hold your money makes up for most of the "loss" anyway.
It's getting pretty stupid now, with the quarter-vga palmtop displays. I'm not sure why they don't just use the pixel resolution.
Anyway, here is the breakdown:
VGA 640x480
SVGA 800x600
XGA 1024x768
SXGA 1280x1024
UXGA 1600x1200
The physical dimensions of the screen allow a higher resolution to be usable. I'm using UXGA on a ~20" CRT. I also have some Dell 2000FP's, which are 20" LCDs whose native resolution is also UXGA. the LCDs are much nicer because they have much more visible screen area. They also don't flicker at all. They cost about a grand, though.
this way, you can use a radiation level much lower than would otherwise be needed. The normal tissue gets a negligable radiation dose, but the tumor site gets the sum of all of the doses, and dies.
<*cough*>Carnivore</*cough*>
HEY! Everybody seems all concerned that I'm looking at their stuff. I resent that! I'm not a bad guy, really. Why me?
Do you _honestly_ think that I care where you go on the web, dmayle? Well, I don't. Hmph.
A less hard-core alternative would be mineral oil. Cheap, easy to get in smallish quantities, and I've seen it used in this way (on slashdot, even.)
It doesn't have the same properties as transfomer oils, but they may not be obtainable.
winter beater
A car that you drive during the winter (I assume that he lives somewhere where snow is common) so that your nice (low-slung? sports car?) does not get damaged. The beater's purpose is mundane transportation. One does not care if it is damaged or develops body rot.
heh.. I remember playing privateer. I don't know how I managed, it, but in one game, I ended up with almost everybody liking me. The Kilrathi, the Pirates, and the Cops (not the hypocritical luddites, though). It was hilarious--You'd jump into a sector and everybody's killing everybody else, but not you! Got to plunder a lot of stuff that way.
I am fairly sure that the Feds' plan says something to the effect of:
"Buisness dealings within the past 18 months"
So it's not as bad as it looks.
While that makes sense, it's not the case in a lot of places. My building master, for example, has by far the smallest rise of all of my keys.
I don't know why they didn't make it so that the master is the tallest, but there you go.
10-digit dialling lets you know when you're making a long-distance call, since you have to prepend the '1'. I do agree with you that 11-digit dialling is strange. Why do they need that?
I lived in Maryland when they switched to area code overlay/10-digit dialling. It's not bad. You get used to it. People look at me funny when I give them the area code in Florida, though.
Thanks. I understand now.
So if he already had the stock, what good is the put option if he sells the stock at higher than current market value after a big crash in the stock price? Wouldn't that still be lower than its non-logic bombed price?
At what age are kids being required to type papers? I can't imagine that schools are requiring this as they can't assume that every family owns a computer.
I don't know, but I _do_ know that my receptionist's daughter is required to be able to print colour documents. I was pretty surprised at that.
You don't breathe pure oxygen at normal pressure because it screws with your blood chemistry, and the chemical triggers that tell you it's time for another lungful tend to not fire... meaning you end up forgetting to breathe.
Actually, the breathing trigger is CO2. There are sensors on the carotid arteries right before the brain. This is why you hyperventilate to hold your breath longer. You supersaturate your system with oxygen _and_ blow off CO2 and other volitile acids. That gives more time for CO2 to collect before the sensors want you to breathe.