Hands-free systems You're right on with the other two, but hands-free systems are just as dangerous as normal cell phones. It might be legal, but that is because of poorly-written laws, not due to any extra safety from using hands-free.
-Ted
All the reports I've seen have either failed to make any distinction over whether a call is hands-free or not, or have shown that hands-free calls are a lot safer (though not as safe as not taking a call at all). At least one study I read counted an accident in which the driver was distracted by the phone ringing as an accident due to his taking a call, even though the driver didn't answer it. Do you have anything to back up the claim of hand-free calls being as dangerous as hands-on calls?
Say you are photographed by google with a finger up your nose, unaware of what's going on. Would you be comfortable with a company using that picture of you, publishing it on a very popular web service, so that anyone in the world can without any mistake identify you as the finger-up-his-nose guy? Well, it would make a better ice-breaker with women than any I've got at the moment...
In fairness, the report calls for guidelines on the implementation of existing laws, not for new laws or the removal of laws, which sounds ok to me (we have similar issues with our privacy laws here in the UK). Lazy administrators do hide behind privacy law to cover up their inaction, and clear guidelines make that harder. Sure, the power hungry will jump on anything to further their ends, so do keep an eye on 'em, but based on the article the report hardly seems to be pandering to them.
"But officer, the light looked green!" "Then I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you a ticket for exceeding a hundred-million miles per hour in a built-up area."
Bombers didn't help us much on 9/11 but it is likely that a secure ID would have made it much more difficult for the terrorists and may have prevented the attacks altogether. How. exactly? I understood that all the terrorists were in the USA legally and were correctly identified. Maybe your government keeps telling you that ID cards would have helped -- ours here in the UK certainly does. Maybe your government tells you how it would have helped. Ours here in the UK certainly doesn't.
Wait I have it...make him road test every penis enlargement product/procedure/pill that he has advertised./unreasonable_revenge Hardly. None of them do anything anyway. Er...so I'm told...
Doesn't defeat the bots, because they use humans. I understand one way of defeating captchas is to present it for admission to a porn site. A few moments later, along will come a human and give the answer, which the bot can use on the original site.
That area of the country, for the time period of the games, will be treated differently. It'll look great. You'll be able to sit in your hotel room and view all the stuff you want. (pro-Tibetian Falon Gong porn, whatever...) I wouldn't bank on it. Falun Gong weren't allowed near the Chinese New Year celebrations even here in London, so I bet they'll be well out of sight in Beijing.
Instead of brainwashing them how you want? When there's a difference of belief, talk of "brainwashing" is just "my beliefs are better than yours" cock-waving.
Average Russian wage is more like $200-300 a month. Ah well, so much for the web search I did. The sites were probably all quoting each other! My figures seem to have been about right for agriculture, education and healthcare in 2001 (http://english.people.com.cn/200112/27/eng2001122 7_87556.shtml), though, so that's a lot of people for whom a $50 radio would be a month's wages. What's the average wage for a teacher in the USA?
Also, blocking radio news is difficult since these days, almost anyone can buy a shortwave radio for under $50. A shortwave radio enables you to listen to Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, etc. [snip]
The above observations lead to the interesting conclusion that most Russian citizens can still access fair and balanced news by (1) accessing Western web sites like CNN and Fox News and (2) tuning into Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. Statistics indicate that about 20% of Russians have regular access to the Internet. The other 80% could easily buy a shortwave radio. I recommend a Panasonic one. I think you'll find that Russian shortwave radios are easier to get and more affordable in Russia than Japanese ones. And I also think you greatly overestimate the disposable income of the average Russian. US$50 is about the average monthly wage, so that radio that the majority could "easily buy" costs the equivalent of over US$3000 (a lot over, actually, because the average Russian's disposable income is a far smaller proportion of the total than it is for most of us here on/.). "Sorry, Tatanya, we're being evicted because we can't pay the rent, and the children have no food, but I just had to hear Ted Lamphair's "Only in America"!"
We need to work on the America's word association skills. Right wing radio has done a pretty good job of making "liberal" a pejorative. I want to see the same thing done with a couple of other words. Well, for most of the world, "America" now seems to mean "INCOMING!"
I was torn between calling it as situational irony and irony of fate. I think your call might be better because it's due to human agency rather than "the gods".
I don't think that word means what you think it means. I think they might know the meaning better than you -- looks like "irony of fate" to me. You are aware that "Irony" has multiple meanings, aren't you? (Yes, including "Like iron", before anybody makes that joke. Yes, really.)
Good. The sooner, the better. I can't wait to see the consumer-whores freak out over not being able to dodge sales tax at the expense of their local communities! Bring back local businesses. Make Net businesses compete on the same level as their brick-and-mortar counterparts.
Thank you, my luddite friend. The big advantage of local stores is that I don't have to deal with the delivery companies. I and my family have been verbally abused and threatened by one local driver when we were able to prove he hadn't made the delivery he claimed he had. And the trouble is, when he said "Remember, I know where you live" he meant it (yes, we did take the matter to the police). Until the technology comes up with a way to get people like him out of the loop, the technology just doesn't cut it as far as I'm concerned. That's not a resistance to technology, it's an aversion to violent and abusive thugs.
An important issue might be whether that clause is also in the EULA for the other editions. Although I have VS2003 pro, I can't work out which of the many EULAs I have applies to it (which is worrying!)
Terrorism can only be diminished by not having people who hate you. Which requires complex diplomacy and well thinking one's foreign policy.
People with a fundamentalist religious belief that all non-believers must be converted, subjugated or killed will stop hating you if you have complex diplomacy and a well thought out foreign policy? Good luck with that. People who are pissed off at interference in their own countries might be influenced by diplomacy, which could dramatically reduce the number of footsoldiers available to those fundamentalists.
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-Ted
All the reports I've seen have either failed to make any distinction over whether a call is hands-free or not, or have shown that hands-free calls are a lot safer (though not as safe as not taking a call at all). At least one study I read counted an accident in which the driver was distracted by the phone ringing as an accident due to his taking a call, even though the driver didn't answer it. Do you have anything to back up the claim of hand-free calls being as dangerous as hands-on calls?In fairness, the report calls for guidelines on the implementation of existing laws, not for new laws or the removal of laws, which sounds ok to me (we have similar issues with our privacy laws here in the UK). Lazy administrators do hide behind privacy law to cover up their inaction, and clear guidelines make that harder. Sure, the power hungry will jump on anything to further their ends, so do keep an eye on 'em, but based on the article the report hardly seems to be pandering to them.
"Then I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you a ticket for exceeding a hundred-million miles per hour in a built-up area."
Doesn't defeat the bots, because they use humans. I understand one way of defeating captchas is to present it for admission to a porn site. A few moments later, along will come a human and give the answer, which the bot can use on the original site.
Instead of brainwashing them how you want? When there's a difference of belief, talk of "brainwashing" is just "my beliefs are better than yours" cock-waving.
I was torn between calling it as situational irony and irony of fate. I think your call might be better because it's due to human agency rather than "the gods".
Thank you, my luddite friend.
The big advantage of local stores is that I don't have to deal with the delivery companies. I and my family have been verbally abused and threatened by one local driver when we were able to prove he hadn't made the delivery he claimed he had. And the trouble is, when he said "Remember, I know where you live" he meant it (yes, we did take the matter to the police). Until the technology comes up with a way to get people like him out of the loop, the technology just doesn't cut it as far as I'm concerned. That's not a resistance to technology, it's an aversion to violent and abusive thugs.
Wouldn't ROT6 be more appropriate to music? And wouldn't any ROT just transpose it?
Instead of ringing a bell, the bell-push could IM you...
An important issue might be whether that clause is also in the EULA for the other editions. Although I have VS2003 pro, I can't work out which of the many EULAs I have applies to it (which is worrying!)
Oy! Now none of my makefiles work properly!
People with a fundamentalist religious belief that all non-believers must be converted, subjugated or killed will stop hating you if you have complex diplomacy and a well thought out foreign policy? Good luck with that. People who are pissed off at interference in their own countries might be influenced by diplomacy, which could dramatically reduce the number of footsoldiers available to those fundamentalists.