No, more likely the primary reason for TSA's existence (at least at the upper levels) IS the TSA's existence.
Consider also the likelihood that the top management at TSA was likely appointed during Bush's reign, the same era of wonderfulness that got us 'heck of a job, Brownie!, a horse association lawyer, appointed to run an agency he had no qualifications other than political connections, for.
Presumably, the nsecticidal protein Cry1Ab being so persistent in the environment long after harvest will accelerate the rate at which the insects it is supposed to protect against become immune to it.
Why should telecoms care if DNS gets broken? They have, effectively, either a monopoly or duopoly. Worse, if the internet breaks, it won't effect their primary cash cow, their OWN video services. From their viewpoint, breaking the internet might actually BE the objective.
Having thought about this a bit, I concluded that judges should be randomly selected from the lawyer pool just as jurors are selected from the voter pool. Higher level ones could be picked from those judged by their peers to have done a reasonable job at being a low level judge.
Turning this patent around a bit, it sounds like just profiling someone, and predicting purchases based on that profile. Isn't this pretty much what all the "you might also be interested in..." pop-ups do, to some extent or other?
If you don't have a thick bundle of cables weighing several pounds, those rolls of light-duty velcro for tying plants to stakes work great for cables.
A few bucks per several yards instead of several bucks for a few feet.
... Oblivion heavily penalized you for improving any non-combat skills,...
Only if you didn't pay attention to your skill ups. If you were careful to have a full 10 skill ups among all 3 related skills, you could easily max out all of your stats to 100. Granted, having to keep careful track of each skill up was a hassle.
No, the democrats had a large number of republicrats (AKA "blue dogs") who tried to woo the republican base in the red states that elected them.
This, plus mistakenly believing that republicans would not filibuster any more than the democrats did in their position, basically screwed them.
Had they known how dishonorable the republicans would be, they could have changed the filibuster rules at the start of congress (the only time you CAN change the rules with just a majority vote).
Not a law, a resolution - basically, congress saying "this would be nice" without actually going to the extra effort of passing a law.
If there is a way to get a permalink to a bill there, I can't find it; all queries time out and become invalid searches.
So:
thomas.loc.gov
advanced search --> 111 congress
pull-down "word/phrase" to "Bill number"
search: h.con.res.298
Gimp's crop tool only has width, height, or size as crop aspect ratio choices. GThumb, in contrast, offers choices such as square, image, screen (your own current screen), book or DVD, postcard, and a few others. If I'm cropping a WoW screenshot for use as a screen backdrop, that makes the job that much quicker & easier.
That county had a resolution to have their own fire department; it would have cost a few bucks more property taxes per person. The Republicans controlling the county decided it was much better to keep it privatized, and make everyone pay for firefighting services directly, one way or the other.
Reagan build up the military tremendously; in particular, he reversed Carter's decision to cancel the B-1 bomber. At the time, Carter told us that he was canceling the B-1 because it would be obsoleted by stealth technology in development. Note how no B-1 missions have been flown except when the US had absolute control of the air -- hardly a vote of confidence as to how they might have performed the original design mission of bombing the Soviet Union.
Actually, just wait a few years. Twenty foot pythons are breeding in Florida and slowly working their way north as the climate warms. All they need is 40 degrees - for example in the sewers of New York.
The goal of society & government is to benefit the people, not large mega telecommunications companies.
The great populist lie. Who do you think runs the "large mega telecommunications companies"? I'm pretty sure they're run by people, not autonomous robots or computer programs.
Mega-corps ARE run by bots, in the sense that they are only free to do that which increases their profits, for the most part. No CEO or board of directors would ever choose public good over corporate profit beyond a token showing for PR purposes. Only the threat of monetary costs exceeding profits to be made by screwing the public over affect the behavior of these entities.
Its the bean-counters' fault.
Revenue losses from service blocks and credits are really easy to measure.
Profits from customers made happy by good customer service are really hard to measure.
So, as is frequently the case when organizations become hyper-focused on metrics,
decisions get made that maximize metrics but don't make good business sense.
While I was at a struggling cell phone carrier, they were constantly whining about the cost of "churn" -
the constant loss of customers who then needed to be replaced by running expensive advertising.
If they really cared, it would be easy to pick a test market, set a serious "customer first" service policy,
and see if the cost of "churn" dropped more than the revenues lost by not screwing the customers.
I still like to play Oblivion, because you CAN snipe from HUGE distances. You can also stack multiple self-created acrobatics boost spells on yourself, and thusly jump up to sniping positions otherwise unreachable. Unlike WoW, Oblivion does not care if your target cannot reach you - if it is in range, you can shoot it. After all, that is the POINT of terrain advantage. The only weakness is that humanoids SHOULD look for cover or run out of range once it is clear they cannot attack you. Sneaking is also well done -- stealth drops off substantially as lighting goes up.
I... I've sometimes considered creating an "aggressivedrivers.com" website or something that just shows video of some of the stupid shit I see people doing out on the road. But what would be the point? It's not like anything short of dying will stop those drivers.
Sending the videos, showing the license tags, to all major car insurance companies might stop them.
In Oblivion, (at least, on PS3), ALL bodies are subject to "stuffing". Humans hover with arms outstretched, animals just stand there. Crabs are special, though -- their segments separate.
A better bug involves the Ayleid statues. If you steal one back from Umbacano, and set it down somewhere, it will move its own length, in the direction of the flat base, each time the room it is in reloads. Depending on how it is positioned, it will sink into the floor, rise towards the roof, or move across the room. This only happens with STOLEN statues.
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No, more likely the primary reason for TSA's existence (at least at the upper levels) IS the TSA's existence. Consider also the likelihood that the top management at TSA was likely appointed during Bush's reign, the same era of wonderfulness that got us 'heck of a job, Brownie!, a horse association lawyer, appointed to run an agency he had no qualifications other than political connections, for.
Presumably, the nsecticidal protein Cry1Ab being so persistent in the environment long after harvest will accelerate the rate at which the insects it is supposed to protect against become immune to it.
Why should telecoms care if DNS gets broken? They have, effectively, either a monopoly or duopoly. Worse, if the internet breaks, it won't effect their primary cash cow, their OWN video services. From their viewpoint, breaking the internet might actually BE the objective.
How about explicitly defining 'reasonable amount' as being 1% of the current median income for a single person?
Nah, what's cool is being able to sync with an old modem by using vocal pops.
Having thought about this a bit, I concluded that judges should be randomly selected from the lawyer pool just as jurors are selected from the voter pool. Higher level ones could be picked from those judged by their peers to have done a reasonable job at being a low level judge.
Turning this patent around a bit, it sounds like just profiling someone, and predicting purchases based on that profile. Isn't this pretty much what all the "you might also be interested in..." pop-ups do, to some extent or other?
i don't think it has even begun. in 10 years we'll see personalized ads within the walls of commercial facilities.
In 11 years men's room stalls will have vending machines that offer to sell you condoms that fit you EXACTLY.
If you don't have a thick bundle of cables weighing several pounds, those rolls of light-duty velcro for tying plants to stakes work great for cables. A few bucks per several yards instead of several bucks for a few feet.
We'll never know who the worst president was, with apparently unprovable, but circumstantially supported, stuff like this: http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-12-05/news/17131315_1_lbj-library-nixon-s-associates-peace-talks
... Oblivion heavily penalized you for improving any non-combat skills, ...
Only if you didn't pay attention to your skill ups. If you were careful to have a full 10 skill ups among all 3 related skills, you could easily max out all of your stats to 100. Granted, having to keep careful track of each skill up was a hassle.
Might not a better understanding of how a culture uses metaphors make it easier to create NEW metaphors to push a particular idea?
No, the democrats had a large number of republicrats (AKA "blue dogs") who tried to woo the republican base in the red states that elected them. This, plus mistakenly believing that republicans would not filibuster any more than the democrats did in their position, basically screwed them. Had they known how dishonorable the republicans would be, they could have changed the filibuster rules at the start of congress (the only time you CAN change the rules with just a majority vote).
Not a law, a resolution - basically, congress saying "this would be nice" without actually going to the extra effort of passing a law.
If there is a way to get a permalink to a bill there, I can't find it; all queries time out and become invalid searches.
So:
thomas.loc.gov
advanced search --> 111 congress
pull-down "word/phrase" to "Bill number"
search: h.con.res.298
Gimp's crop tool only has width, height, or size as crop aspect ratio choices. GThumb, in contrast, offers choices such as square, image, screen (your own current screen), book or DVD, postcard, and a few others. If I'm cropping a WoW screenshot for use as a screen backdrop, that makes the job that much quicker & easier.
That county had a resolution to have their own fire department; it would have cost a few bucks more property taxes per person. The Republicans controlling the county decided it was much better to keep it privatized, and make everyone pay for firefighting services directly, one way or the other.
Reagan build up the military tremendously; in particular, he reversed Carter's decision to cancel the B-1 bomber. At the time, Carter told us that he was canceling the B-1 because it would be obsoleted by stealth technology in development. Note how no B-1 missions have been flown except when the US had absolute control of the air -- hardly a vote of confidence as to how they might have performed the original design mission of bombing the Soviet Union.
Actually, just wait a few years. Twenty foot pythons are breeding in Florida and slowly working their way north as the climate warms. All they need is 40 degrees - for example in the sewers of New York.
The goal of society & government is to benefit the people, not large mega telecommunications companies.
The great populist lie. Who do you think runs the "large mega telecommunications companies"? I'm pretty sure they're run by people, not autonomous robots or computer programs.
Mega-corps ARE run by bots, in the sense that they are only free to do that which increases their profits, for the most part. No CEO or board of directors would ever choose public good over corporate profit beyond a token showing for PR purposes. Only the threat of monetary costs exceeding profits to be made by screwing the public over affect the behavior of these entities.
Its the bean-counters' fault. Revenue losses from service blocks and credits are really easy to measure. Profits from customers made happy by good customer service are really hard to measure. So, as is frequently the case when organizations become hyper-focused on metrics, decisions get made that maximize metrics but don't make good business sense.
While I was at a struggling cell phone carrier, they were constantly whining about the cost of "churn" - the constant loss of customers who then needed to be replaced by running expensive advertising. If they really cared, it would be easy to pick a test market, set a serious "customer first" service policy, and see if the cost of "churn" dropped more than the revenues lost by not screwing the customers.
http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/analogy.htm
I still like to play Oblivion, because you CAN snipe from HUGE distances.
You can also stack multiple self-created acrobatics boost spells on yourself, and thusly jump up to sniping positions otherwise unreachable.
Unlike WoW, Oblivion does not care if your target cannot reach you - if it is in range, you can shoot it. After all, that is the POINT of terrain advantage. The only weakness is that humanoids SHOULD look for cover or run out of range once it is clear they cannot attack you.
Sneaking is also well done -- stealth drops off substantially as lighting goes up.
$ units 'fps' 'mph'
* 0.68181818
/ 1.4666667
adrn@duck:~$ echo '2040 / 30 / 1.46667' |bc
46
Standard web refs give the 0-60 perf of cars, not 0-45,
which are probably not as simple as just taking 0.75 of the 0-60 time.
I... I've sometimes considered creating an "aggressivedrivers.com" website or something that just shows video of some of the stupid shit I see people doing out on the road. But what would be the point? It's not like anything short of dying will stop those drivers.
Sending the videos, showing the license tags, to all major car insurance companies might stop them.
In Oblivion, (at least, on PS3), ALL bodies are subject to "stuffing". Humans hover with arms outstretched, animals just stand there. Crabs are special, though -- their segments separate.
A better bug involves the Ayleid statues. If you steal one back from Umbacano, and set it down somewhere, it will move its own length, in the direction of the flat base, each time the room it is in reloads. Depending on how it is positioned, it will sink into the floor, rise towards the roof, or move across the room. This only happens with STOLEN statues.