there never was a cylon detector in the pilot. Baltar is almost always lying when talking about the cylon detector.
at least in the episodes that have aired in the states.
I did find it a little weird that people took his word that he needed more time to get one working after he supposedly had a test before... but frankly... whos going to question him. especially when they now know he was right the first time.
that they are only doing English movies. Where are the french movies damnit! we wont sit idly by while google continues to push it anglo-centric agenda on the world!
you should be aware that the nifty little utilities and config apps that apple produces are NOT there in the non server version.
thats not to say that you cant do all of the things the parent poster described... but the methods described in this book almost certainly rely on those nice little utilities.
the reason politicians in america speak english (mostly) is because they want to be understood (mostly) and have people relate to them... not because it is mandated.
heck... if you are paying attention you will notice many american politicians speaking spanish... we dont get it much in the north but in other parts of the country it is not uncommon.
your right... you didnt mention pot... but as I said, heroin is cheep to produce to... as are all the drugs you mentioned.
right now this stuff is more expensive than gold... if you had a gold addiction you might end up robbing people to feed it too... but if your addiction was to something cheep like cigarettes, you probably wouldnt have to.
Im not saying drugs are harmless either... they are not... and can easily be abused (both the legal and illegal ones) but you can count me among the number that would rather see us spending all this money on prevention and education rather than on prosecution and incarceration.
I'm not familiar with florida divorce law... but if he is contesting the divorce then she has to prove that he wronged her in some way in order to get a divorce.
at least that is how I understand things to work in most states. you cant just get a divorce without reason unless it is consensual.
you really need to think about how cheep drugs would be to produce if they were not illegal... the number of people put into poverty by their addiction to legal heroin would be just about the same as the number of people who cant pay the rent due to their addiction to cigarettes
you need to remember a simple truth about addiction.... an addict will always do enough work to get themselves their next fix.
youd be amazed.
If pot really made the people who used it as lazy as the government would like you to think it does, nobody would get out of their houses to buy more.
leave the firing to people who underperform for any reason at all and you will be just fine... with or without leagal drugs.
and remember... the cost of producing heroin is low... pot is actually dirt cheep (costs roughly what the soil it is grown in is worth)... if it wernt for the black market inflation these drugs would be quite affordable to those who choose to use them... even with insanely high tax rates.
dont forget that is is also the only way of regulating sale to minors!
people somehow think that they can manage that while drugs are illegal... like a dealer is going to check IDs before selling his crap.
out of interest (pure curiosity... not looking for an argument) why do you find the recreational use of drugs immoral... and where do you draw the line for "drugs". do you draw any line between use and abuse?
is this different from the anklets they put on people under house arrest to make sure they dont violate the conditions of their arrest?
this might give you more information... and be more flexable... as well as being useful for restraining orders, but it doesnt seem inherently different.
I believe you are misreading him... he said "without the concept of a soul being in the embryo"
I took this to mean that if you dont believe that the embryo has some kind of soul that you would have a hard time feeling bad for something that doesnt have the ability to cognate or feel... or even live on its own... what are you feeling bad for... its the functional equivalent of a group of skin cells.
now if you believe in a soul and that the embryo at that stage has a soul then you might feel bad about its destruction.
to be fair... at least you can set the phones to only allow location finding on calls to 911. it doesnt have to be a privacy issue.
the same is true for having GPS in the car... it could forgo recording the route and simply increment a mile counter for every mile driven within a given area (california)
but do you really think they would implement it that way? even if they didnt intend to use it for some more sinister purpose off the bat? why throw away data when you dont have to.
then there is the other question... who is going to pay for these gps units? and how will you mandate them on older cars?
actually I got nailed aproaching 495 going 11 miles over the speed limit.
I was SHOCKED because my previous experience was just like yours... only going 76... a cop is likely to blow by you at any time.
I think the guy was just in a bad mood... ive never had any trouble before or since.
And as another poster said, they only ticket you for speeding through the toll both... which I can understand since that is just asking for a fatal accident. they do not calculate your average speed in between toll booths.
It also tells me that there is probably a market for legitimate download and burning of movies... much like what iTunes has done with music.
of course I dont think end user bandwidth is quite there yet but who knows what people might be willing to put up with to get cheep Digital copies of movies.
that is true... and it may not happen right away if at all... 5 years down the road who can really say...
after all... didnt they stop making new versions of IE for the mac?
Im not expecting microsoft to pull out of the mac business but i would not count on them being there forever. Also... they could go the 90s route and just half ass all of the office products for the mac... the would still make a substantial amount of money but would be investing less in development.
my understanding was that the rest of the office suite was still in production... ie... there will be an excel competitor down the road.
i dont doubt that apple and microsoft could both produce office suites for the mac and both be profitable at it... but microsoft is no longer obliged to produce office on the mac and could very well stop producing it if they wanted to.
im not saying they will discontinue it, but I wouldn't totally surprise me if they did... or if they de-prioritized it considerably.
thing you mentioned that might compel them to continue making office for the mac should the face real competition there is the possible negative attention from the feds... and that would depend heavily on the political climate at the time.
In addition to your good points... Im not sure applescript can do as much damage as VB script even if apple did add this to safari.
i havent tried this, but doesnt applescript require an admin password to do any of the things that a user needs a password for? I mean, it could wipe out user data but not the system, at least without the user putting in the admin password?
I could be totally wrong here... like I said, I havnt tested it... but thats certainly the way it should work.
I guess... I never really had much trouble with web objects... or any of the rest of apples dev tools...
sure the Cocoa API docs are a little weak... but so is MSDN if you ask me.... and I think apples code samples are much more useful than anything else I have found.
not that apple is without sin... their docs could all be much better... but only applescript stands out for me as the worst of the bunch...
even worse is the fact that its really a tool for non programmers... you just cant expect a non programmer to get by on trial and error.
Applescript is one of the best things that apple ever produced... its power and simplicity is only undermined by the near total lack of documentation.
I have always found it to be quite a shame that for all the effort apple is willing to put into applescript... that they have kept it from being as powerful a tool as it could be by keeping the learning curve so high for such an english like scripting language.
Of course by the look of Tiger and the inclusion of Automator (which looks like it might just be an easy to use shell on top of applescript) this book might not be as necessary in a few months... look forward to Automator: The Missing Manual.
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there never was a cylon detector in the pilot. Baltar is almost always lying when talking about the cylon detector.
at least in the episodes that have aired in the states.
I did find it a little weird that people took his word that he needed more time to get one working after he supposedly had a test before... but frankly... whos going to question him. especially when they now know he was right the first time.
that they are only doing English movies. Where are the french movies damnit! we wont sit idly by while google continues to push it anglo-centric agenda on the world!
you should be aware that the nifty little utilities and config apps that apple produces are NOT there in the non server version.
thats not to say that you cant do all of the things the parent poster described... but the methods described in this book almost certainly rely on those nice little utilities.
half the time bush isn't speaking english.
the reason politicians in america speak english (mostly) is because they want to be understood (mostly) and have people relate to them... not because it is mandated.
heck... if you are paying attention you will notice many american politicians speaking spanish... we dont get it much in the north but in other parts of the country it is not uncommon.
do you have anything without so much spim in it?
DO NOT under any circumstances under estimate the draw of blinky the fish!
some clowns will do anything to see him swim around their screens
selling?
your right... you didnt mention pot... but as I said, heroin is cheep to produce to... as are all the drugs you mentioned.
right now this stuff is more expensive than gold... if you had a gold addiction you might end up robbing people to feed it too... but if your addiction was to something cheep like cigarettes, you probably wouldnt have to.
Im not saying drugs are harmless either... they are not... and can easily be abused (both the legal and illegal ones) but you can count me among the number that would rather see us spending all this money on prevention and education rather than on prosecution and incarceration.
smooching pictures are generally in public... if she had bugged the motel room where he was banging her that would probably be inadmissible as well.
I'm not familiar with florida divorce law... but if he is contesting the divorce then she has to prove that he wronged her in some way in order to get a divorce.
at least that is how I understand things to work in most states. you cant just get a divorce without reason unless it is consensual.
you really need to think about how cheep drugs would be to produce if they were not illegal... the number of people put into poverty by their addiction to legal heroin would be just about the same as the number of people who cant pay the rent due to their addiction to cigarettes
you need to remember a simple truth about addiction.... an addict will always do enough work to get themselves their next fix.
youd be amazed.
If pot really made the people who used it as lazy as the government would like you to think it does, nobody would get out of their houses to buy more.
leave the firing to people who underperform for any reason at all and you will be just fine... with or without leagal drugs.
and remember... the cost of producing heroin is low... pot is actually dirt cheep (costs roughly what the soil it is grown in is worth)... if it wernt for the black market inflation these drugs would be quite affordable to those who choose to use them... even with insanely high tax rates.
dont forget that is is also the only way of regulating sale to minors!
people somehow think that they can manage that while drugs are illegal... like a dealer is going to check IDs before selling his crap.
out of interest (pure curiosity... not looking for an argument) why do you find the recreational use of drugs immoral... and where do you draw the line for "drugs". do you draw any line between use and abuse?
is this different from the anklets they put on people under house arrest to make sure they dont violate the conditions of their arrest?
this might give you more information... and be more flexable... as well as being useful for restraining orders, but it doesnt seem inherently different.
I believe you are misreading him... he said "without the concept of a soul being in the embryo"
I took this to mean that if you dont believe that the embryo has some kind of soul that you would have a hard time feeling bad for something that doesnt have the ability to cognate or feel... or even live on its own... what are you feeling bad for... its the functional equivalent of a group of skin cells.
now if you believe in a soul and that the embryo at that stage has a soul then you might feel bad about its destruction.
to be fair... at least you can set the phones to only allow location finding on calls to 911. it doesnt have to be a privacy issue.
the same is true for having GPS in the car... it could forgo recording the route and simply increment a mile counter for every mile driven within a given area (california)
but do you really think they would implement it that way? even if they didnt intend to use it for some more sinister purpose off the bat? why throw away data when you dont have to.
then there is the other question... who is going to pay for these gps units? and how will you mandate them on older cars?
actually I got nailed aproaching 495 going 11 miles over the speed limit.
I was SHOCKED because my previous experience was just like yours... only going 76... a cop is likely to blow by you at any time.
I think the guy was just in a bad mood... ive never had any trouble before or since.
And as another poster said, they only ticket you for speeding through the toll both... which I can understand since that is just asking for a fatal accident. they do not calculate your average speed in between toll booths.
It also tells me that there is probably a market for legitimate download and burning of movies... much like what iTunes has done with music.
of course I dont think end user bandwidth is quite there yet but who knows what people might be willing to put up with to get cheep Digital copies of movies.
that is true... and it may not happen right away if at all... 5 years down the road who can really say...
after all... didnt they stop making new versions of IE for the mac?
Im not expecting microsoft to pull out of the mac business but i would not count on them being there forever. Also... they could go the 90s route and just half ass all of the office products for the mac... the would still make a substantial amount of money but would be investing less in development.
my understanding was that the rest of the office suite was still in production... ie... there will be an excel competitor down the road.
i dont doubt that apple and microsoft could both produce office suites for the mac and both be profitable at it... but microsoft is no longer obliged to produce office on the mac and could very well stop producing it if they wanted to.
im not saying they will discontinue it, but I wouldn't totally surprise me if they did... or if they de-prioritized it considerably.
thing you mentioned that might compel them to continue making office for the mac should the face real competition there is the possible negative attention from the feds... and that would depend heavily on the political climate at the time.
what makes you think they will continue to develop office for the mac? Apple is releasing its own office suite isnt it?
In addition to your good points... Im not sure applescript can do as much damage as VB script even if apple did add this to safari.
i havent tried this, but doesnt applescript require an admin password to do any of the things that a user needs a password for? I mean, it could wipe out user data but not the system, at least without the user putting in the admin password?
I could be totally wrong here... like I said, I havnt tested it... but thats certainly the way it should work.
I guess... I never really had much trouble with web objects... or any of the rest of apples dev tools...
sure the Cocoa API docs are a little weak... but so is MSDN if you ask me.... and I think apples code samples are much more useful than anything else I have found.
not that apple is without sin... their docs could all be much better... but only applescript stands out for me as the worst of the bunch...
even worse is the fact that its really a tool for non programmers... you just cant expect a non programmer to get by on trial and error.
I believe the original myst was a hypercard stack (or at least that was the proof of concept) decked out with nice graphics.
It is pretty unbelievable that something so successfull can come from something so simple... but thats why I have always liked applescript..
Applescript is one of the best things that apple ever produced... its power and simplicity is only undermined by the near total lack of documentation.
I have always found it to be quite a shame that for all the effort apple is willing to put into applescript... that they have kept it from being as powerful a tool as it could be by keeping the learning curve so high for such an english like scripting language.
Of course by the look of Tiger and the inclusion of Automator (which looks like it might just be an easy to use shell on top of applescript) this book might not be as necessary in a few months... look forward to Automator: The Missing Manual.