Tried TFA, so that I could warn my daughters and their insignificant-others. "Sorry", it said, "You must accept cookies". No way, I thought. But that's a bit late for the warnings, or I might have had sons not daughters. "Cookies" indeed.
So what's that all about? Is it ready for the desktop yet? Will it upgrade nicely for the cousins I have persuaded to use Ubuntu, and whose schoolchildren are still puzzled?
If I wanted to use covert drones to monitor enemies' installations, I think I'd test them out on my own first. And I probably wouldn't tell people first (or even afterwards).
'Populate the magstripe' - er, how's that done in accordance with international Standards for machine-readability of encoded digits on each track? And who cares, when the only half-good security nowadays is on a chip which is already there?
I have in front of me the Wardroom Diary of a British battleship in the Great War. There is a note that the Wardroom Committee has found that Osram bulbs are by far the most resistant to shellfire. Presumably it was legal to buy them then.
Now the Euro-Eco-Nazis are forcing incandescents off our shelves here, the best alternative that still meets Greenie-Gestapo rules is halogen-encased filaments in a secondary (traditionally sized) glass envelope. I've bought plenty, similar colour temperature, no fluoro-nonsense. Guess what, they all have 'GE' stamped on them. Made somewhere else, of course.
Every pdf security warning, I update and tell all friends to. Every time, I have to tell them what Adobe default options to untick, and what extra bloat can be instantly uninstalled. Please provide a way to patch just the affected bits. Or to respect current choices.
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Anchovies have been fermented since Roman times (check 'garum', it's all umami). But they collected the (human) piss for 'waulking' the wool, which the wimmin did with their feet. In fact, it was illegal to pour it away - even the old technologies had rules.
I think I'm gonna like it, but there's a tiny problem of orthography. Do I have to disinter my translation software, or can you give us a clue? PS: Moscow Metro had a super plastic-token system, but the locals insisted the green dayglo tokens were radioactive. Never did me any harm. harm. harm.
C'mon, it's only for fun, and costs bankrupt GPO very little. Could animate a Harry Potter picture? Plus, all stamp designs are approved by HM Queen, so they'll have to show her with an iPhone. Would you spoil that tableau?
"...immediate delivery (of TV?)"? I'd settle for getting the video and the audio to arrive at the same time, for some rough imitation of credible lip-synch. LCD TVs can't seem to handle that. OK, the fad for post-dubbing doesn't help either.
What's the beef with claret? Mentioned in Chaucer 1374 C.E. (as 'clarre'): a mixture of wine, clarified honey, and medicinal spices, Never, ever, been a regional name. OED has from 1300 the contrast between 'wine clarre and wine Greek' (would the latter be retsina?) Brussels, where the Nuts come from.
That sort of assemblage was fairly 'obvious' even then, but obviousness never seems to deter US patents. So which features of this process did Kodak patent? If they did, wouldn't that patent now be worth more than Kodak?
I use mostly pictures (including pictures of documents, diagrams) so that people have something relevant to look at if they're bored with looking at me. Simplified graphs, if they help make a point (please see Tufte). NO bullet-points, ever. So when organisers, or interpreters, say 'may we have slide-copies' before/after, the answer is 'No' (but I'll give interpreters a vocab-list). If they want stuff for the record, a 2-page handout is best, AFTER you can integrate the Q&As, and misunderstandings detected over coffee. Actually, OHP foils were always better than Powerpoint, because you could edit and switch if some earlier speaker had stolen your time.
Put a low-res video camera on a tripod and let it record sound, pointed at the pages, while you go through photograph albums together. Especially photos before you were married, including her childhood photos. Otherwise, your children and grandchildren (who may be more interested) will simply never know. Photos are a better prompt than home movies.
Simply not feasible, even at fully-marginal cost and with developing-world resource costs. Wake me when they've found a manufacturer who can actually deliver at these unit-prices, then does so in volume without other sweeteners.
After a bit, the brain compensates for the notch filter, and they say it's just as annoying. Best to scrub the crowd-track altogether, and dub a repertoire of standard crowd oohs and ahhs (just like the laughter track on too many shows). A dubber representing each side could make the instant selections quickly (like subtitling). Then add-back the commentary track. Result - atmosphere and information. (Pity I don't watch sport).
This is offered in the UK, but it's hard to visualise in the alien terms of 'litres' per hundred 'kilometers' so most of us still think MPG. 'Gallons per hundred miles' would be better understood, but that's not kosher nowadays.
Nice if a security system worked, but what matters also for deterrence is whether bad guys *think* it works. So, thanks a bundle for debunking stuff that might deter.
Can anyone who IS a lawyer remind us how the competition authorities (at least west of the Atlantic) might respond to a complaint about the effect on e-Book prices of this concerted agreement? For instance elsewhere it is being suggested that two airlines might have been wrong to coordinate their (supplementary) transatlantic pricing models informally, even though other airlines were not involved. What, in principle, is the difference?
They've misunderstood their own rules. No depictions of their Prophet (or anything much else) specifically to avoid idolatry. (Unlike gory crucifixions, painted icons, golden calves etc.) But if the depictions are merely for fun, and not for worship, surely the distress is less. Their point is precisely that their Prophet is *not* God, so where is the problem?
Could be good, if rather too close to 'politicians' for comfort. As an analytical 'economist' and accountant myself I'd be rather more impressed by mathematical 'Actuaries', but only if they were in 'what if?' modeling/simulation mode. Take a look at Ireland recently, who tried to do the right thing for the wrong reasons (or the wrong thing for the right reasons, according to taste!). 'Getting it right' is genuinely difficult (check OECD), and each country gets it wrong in its own way, but at last the US seems to have a means of moving forward. I used to advise red-star governments, who could never admit they might be wrong, to stop the grandstanding and get some small local tecchie institute to run some (fully-deniable) numbers. The results tended to inject alarming reality (and then get denied). Good on you if this is what you are doing, from an a-political perspective.
Congratulations, USians, you may eventually be able to enjoy the long-standing advantages of the rest of the free world (and even some of the un-free world). But take my tip from now on - for details, get the advice of qualified actuaries, not politicians. Even full-state-guaranteed systems fail if they are actuarially unsustainable. Yes, IAAL - at least in this field.
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Tried TFA, so that I could warn my daughters and their insignificant-others. "Sorry", it said, "You must accept cookies". No way, I thought. But that's a bit late for the warnings, or I might have had sons not daughters. "Cookies" indeed.
So what's that all about? Is it ready for the desktop yet? Will it upgrade nicely for the cousins I have persuaded to use Ubuntu, and whose schoolchildren are still puzzled?
If I wanted to use covert drones to monitor enemies' installations, I think I'd test them out on my own first. And I probably wouldn't tell people first (or even afterwards).
'Populate the magstripe' - er, how's that done in accordance with international Standards for machine-readability of encoded digits on each track? And who cares, when the only half-good security nowadays is on a chip which is already there?
I have in front of me the Wardroom Diary of a British battleship in the Great War. There is a note that the Wardroom Committee has found that Osram bulbs are by far the most resistant to shellfire. Presumably it was legal to buy them then.
A fair cop. Or do I mean Sicherheitsdienst? Try living in the EU sometime.
Now the Euro-Eco-Nazis are forcing incandescents off our shelves here, the best alternative that still meets Greenie-Gestapo rules is halogen-encased filaments in a secondary (traditionally sized) glass envelope. I've bought plenty, similar colour temperature, no fluoro-nonsense. Guess what, they all have 'GE' stamped on them. Made somewhere else, of course.
Every pdf security warning, I update and tell all friends to. Every time, I have to tell them what Adobe default options to untick, and what extra bloat can be instantly uninstalled. Please provide a way to patch just the affected bits. Or to respect current choices.
Anchovies have been fermented since Roman times (check 'garum', it's all umami). But they collected the (human) piss for 'waulking' the wool, which the wimmin did with their feet. In fact, it was illegal to pour it away - even the old technologies had rules.
I think I'm gonna like it, but there's a tiny problem of orthography. Do I have to disinter my translation software, or can you give us a clue? PS: Moscow Metro had a super plastic-token system, but the locals insisted the green dayglo tokens were radioactive. Never did me any harm. harm. harm.
C'mon, it's only for fun, and costs bankrupt GPO very little. Could animate a Harry Potter picture? Plus, all stamp designs are approved by HM Queen, so they'll have to show her with an iPhone. Would you spoil that tableau?
"...immediate delivery (of TV?)"? I'd settle for getting the video and the audio to arrive at the same time, for some rough imitation of credible lip-synch. LCD TVs can't seem to handle that. OK, the fad for post-dubbing doesn't help either.
What's the beef with claret? Mentioned in Chaucer 1374 C.E. (as 'clarre'): a mixture of wine, clarified honey, and medicinal spices, Never, ever, been a regional name. OED has from 1300 the contrast between 'wine clarre and wine Greek' (would the latter be retsina?) Brussels, where the Nuts come from.
That sort of assemblage was fairly 'obvious' even then, but obviousness never seems to deter US patents. So which features of this process did Kodak patent? If they did, wouldn't that patent now be worth more than Kodak?
I use mostly pictures (including pictures of documents, diagrams) so that people have something relevant to look at if they're bored with looking at me. Simplified graphs, if they help make a point (please see Tufte). NO bullet-points, ever. So when organisers, or interpreters, say 'may we have slide-copies' before/after, the answer is 'No' (but I'll give interpreters a vocab-list). If they want stuff for the record, a 2-page handout is best, AFTER you can integrate the Q&As, and misunderstandings detected over coffee. Actually, OHP foils were always better than Powerpoint, because you could edit and switch if some earlier speaker had stolen your time.
Put a low-res video camera on a tripod and let it record sound, pointed at the pages, while you go through photograph albums together. Especially photos before you were married, including her childhood photos. Otherwise, your children and grandchildren (who may be more interested) will simply never know. Photos are a better prompt than home movies.
Simply not feasible, even at fully-marginal cost and with developing-world resource costs. Wake me when they've found a manufacturer who can actually deliver at these unit-prices, then does so in volume without other sweeteners.
After a bit, the brain compensates for the notch filter, and they say it's just as annoying. Best to scrub the crowd-track altogether, and dub a repertoire of standard crowd oohs and ahhs (just like the laughter track on too many shows). A dubber representing each side could make the instant selections quickly (like subtitling). Then add-back the commentary track. Result - atmosphere and information. (Pity I don't watch sport).
This is offered in the UK, but it's hard to visualise in the alien terms of 'litres' per hundred 'kilometers' so most of us still think MPG. 'Gallons per hundred miles' would be better understood, but that's not kosher nowadays.
Nice if a security system worked, but what matters also for deterrence is whether bad guys *think* it works. So, thanks a bundle for debunking stuff that might deter.
Fair point! happenstance is not coordination. Can you see a way of bringing competition law to bear?
Can anyone who IS a lawyer remind us how the competition authorities (at least west of the Atlantic) might respond to a complaint about the effect on e-Book prices of this concerted agreement? For instance elsewhere it is being suggested that two airlines might have been wrong to coordinate their (supplementary) transatlantic pricing models informally, even though other airlines were not involved. What, in principle, is the difference?
They've misunderstood their own rules. No depictions of their Prophet (or anything much else) specifically to avoid idolatry. (Unlike gory crucifixions, painted icons, golden calves etc.) But if the depictions are merely for fun, and not for worship, surely the distress is less. Their point is precisely that their Prophet is *not* God, so where is the problem?
Could be good, if rather too close to 'politicians' for comfort. As an analytical 'economist' and accountant myself I'd be rather more impressed by mathematical 'Actuaries', but only if they were in 'what if?' modeling/simulation mode. Take a look at Ireland recently, who tried to do the right thing for the wrong reasons (or the wrong thing for the right reasons, according to taste!). 'Getting it right' is genuinely difficult (check OECD), and each country gets it wrong in its own way, but at last the US seems to have a means of moving forward. I used to advise red-star governments, who could never admit they might be wrong, to stop the grandstanding and get some small local tecchie institute to run some (fully-deniable) numbers. The results tended to inject alarming reality (and then get denied). Good on you if this is what you are doing, from an a-political perspective.
Congratulations, USians, you may eventually be able to enjoy the long-standing advantages of the rest of the free world (and even some of the un-free world). But take my tip from now on - for details, get the advice of qualified actuaries, not politicians. Even full-state-guaranteed systems fail if they are actuarially unsustainable. Yes, IAAL - at least in this field.