Shoving inconsiderately placed carts out of the way is *definately* using powers for good. I'm a mere 6'2", but that's still taller than most old women and I can kinda manage that "intimidating because I might be deranged" look if I frown real hard.;)
Last time I was in WalMart, I stood in front of a woman with my arms out on both sides of me, preventing her from passing. She was probably annoyed, but this shoud be expected since just minutes earlier she put her cart sideways in the aisle, making me move the thing to get past while she selected only the finest loaf of bread Wally World has to offer. I had to use my arms to return the favor since I had no cart.:(
That reminds me - why do people always leave their cart in front of / next to my car, instead of in the "cart corral" that's 10 feet away? It's somewhat likely that the cart will roll into their car while they're backing away. So they want dents? *I* don't want dents...
In the US children are raised by TV, though the internet is slowly replacing that parent. "Parenting" is suing whoever you can blame for corrupting your children./Glad that I was raised in an area with poor TV reception;)
They would've been blank "music" CDs, though, and the schools would have had to pay a tax based on the assumption that they'd pirate copyrighted audio on those disks.:)
"Boo Hoo, my spam filter doesn't perform well in short simulations because it takes time into consideration. This guy tested incorrectly." Whatever. I use SpamAssasin company-wide, with 0 false positives and about 5-1 messages out of several thousand gettting through each day. Maybe this whiner's software's even better, but all I got from his article was that he's someone who I don't want to depend on for software support.
I'd like one giant muscle leg and one regular leg. Then I'd fit right in with the other people at Wal Mart, instead of bing stared at for being "normal" and wearing clothes bought "outside of Wal Mart"...:)
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I guess that clicking the link and noting that you don't have to register is also gay?
That's the first thing I thought of. Unless your arm weighs 50 pounds and you never lift it, how tough is it to hold 6 pounds at arm's length? That's only 3/4 gallon of water. It's impressive that a 4 year old can do it, sure, but what a nation of pansies. I sit my lazy butt in front of a computer all day and don't *ever* work out on purpose (sometimes I have to lift a monitor, but still). I'm thin. I don't have much muscle definition. I can hold several times that weight at arm's length, though...
I guess that's why the Atkins thing's caught on - we're a nation of stupid lazy people who think that an unhelathy diet is the best way to lose weight, and that being able to hold 1/30 of their body weight is some impossible feat of strength.:)
As someone who laughed at jokes about Biology majors being somewhere between Basketweaving and MBA/PolySci, I disagree.:)
There are 3 major types of muscles, basically. The stuff in your arms that you can control voluntarily, things like your diaphram and esophagus that work without you thinking about it, and your heart. I took a biology course in high school once, and would note that those muscles don't usually develop in the same ways as your triceps. People who eat a lot don't generally develop a super-powerful esophagus, while people that lift heavy stuff for no reason sometimes get larger arms. Therefore, I'm betting that, while this kid may have well defined legs, his diagphram probably won't be able to crush aluminum cans anytime soon (largely because it'd be difficult to get aluminum cans into his chest cavity).
Slackware was my first Linux experience, back in the early 90's. Prior, I had only used DOS and Windows, though I had recently started college and had an account on the HPUX 'n Solaris (SunOS? I forget) machines. I've still got the monsterous pile of floppy disks that I had to download to get it installed... Anyway, it forced me to learn how things worked in order to get *anything* done. Later, I built an early beta of KDE, which allowed me to move full-time to Linux (away from Win NT) until I learned the rest of how to do things.
Slack's a great starter platform if you're serious, though not so good if you wanna go straight to a[nother] system that you don't need to know anything about... I still run Slack on my routers and several boxes, but I uses SuSE on most everything else just because that makes it easier to keep up-to-date on just about everything I'd want/need to run.:)
I never said that I agree with any of those laws - I do, in fact, actively vote against anyone who tries to reduce my privacy. Even if they hide the privacy invasions behind names like "Patriot Act" or "Ronald Regan Memorial Social Bill", etc. I also strive to provide as much privacy as possible for my userbase, both at work and at home. Unfortunately, that doesn't change what the current laws say.:(
BTW, I wish one of the presidential cantidates was actually against the Patriot act... Damn it.
The phone company comparison doesn't work, as voice communications are governed by completely different laws than data communications. Note, BTW, that VOIP is considered data and not voice.
I did quite a bit of research on this a few months ago when involved in a bit of a flamewar - that's when most of my in-depth research happens:) - and google is currently completely within their rights to voluntarily disclose information (including your full messages) to any public or private entity that they choose. This is because they're a private service provider as it stands right now.
Using me specifically as an example also wouldn't work, as I'm not only a user but also a private service provider whose service includes remote storage. So, if you send me a message, I can disclose it to anyone I want when I'm wearing my ISP hat, and you can't stop me unless I cause you "significant financial damages", which is something unlikely to come from everyone knowing about your love of butt sex.:) Someone else, however, may not be a service provider, and may not have the privledge. You might get somemoney out of them - though sending a message with "this is confidential" doesn't constitute a "meeting of minds" and therefore isn't really a binding contract. The recipient may disagree but still get the message.
There's not much legal expectation of privacy with email, basically. Then again, CA is sort of their own little country with their own inane legal system, so they can probably do whatever they want - including making stupid laws that infringe on my ability to have a nifty free gmail account.:(
I don't believe in changing definitions to fit the times. Therefore, I'm just gonna insist that you're wrong. All of you. Anyone reading this is wrong.;)
I like being deceived, especially by a company that makes producs that I have absolutely no use for (like someone who makes software that'll make my computer do things that are *way* cheaper and faster on a console game system).
Can I get breaded fiber at Long John Silvers now, or that breading only available at select locations? I wonder what kind of batter they'd use...
Sorry to not answer the question (it's designing the cable *fibers* themselves - hence "design of optical fibers" in the article description and the linked article all about optical fibers) - but the incorrectly spelled "breeding" makes me laugh. It's even more amusing when you *read the article* and see the word "breeding" used in the caption under the large photo.
How do you get a carpet-bagger from Florida? CarpetBaggers were the Northern Republicans who headed down South after the Civil war to help with the reconstruction but were pretty universally unwelcomed. The dude might be unwelcome and a Republican, but you don't get much farther South than Florida...;)
Related to gmail itself and not the users so much (though who's actually held accountable for their own actions anymore?):
Federal law, and I'm paraphrasing, permits private ISPs to read users' email for performance monitoring reasons, etc. Right now, gMail is a private ISP, as it's open on the basis of invitation only, and they're granted much more freedom by federal laws. When/if they become a public service provider - which doesn't mean free - they fall under more stringent rules. In both cases, though, the eMail isn't exclusive property of the sender, but shared by the recipient *and* the sender. If someone sends me email, and I read it to my coworkers, it doesn't matter that the sender is damaged. Once I've read the message and left it on the server, it's also contained on a "remote storage device". While I may personally be liable for leaking the information, Google has no liability for treating my message (whether someone in CA sent it to me or not) just like any other message that they can legally monitor for performance reasons, etc.
Anyway, all the laws in the world mean jack squat when you sign the form that says "I grant Google et. al. rights to read my email. In exchange I'll use their email service." People can sign away their "rights" if they want to.
Actually, if you all get on one of the providers that do free mobile-to-mobile (I'm partial to Sprint), that'd require little work and probably not cost any more money than whatever phone service you've all got now. I have no land-line, which helps a lot.
Or, just go with a standard-ish protocol that has clients on each platform, like SIP or H.323, and don't worry about getting the same program for all...
I take it you haven't seen the new Coke C2, targeted at all of those dumbasses who are on those low carb diets that kill your kidneys, induce depression, and don't work nearly as well as just getting off of your fat ass, walking around a little, and not eating 2 McLardass burgers for every meal?
New coke, this time targeted at the totally nutritionally incompetent fad crowd.../Rant from someone blessed with a fast metabolism;)
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Shoving inconsiderately placed carts out of the way is *definately* using powers for good. I'm a mere 6'2", but that's still taller than most old women and I can kinda manage that "intimidating because I might be deranged" look if I frown real hard. ;)
Last time I was in WalMart, I stood in front of a woman with my arms out on both sides of me, preventing her from passing. She was probably annoyed, but this shoud be expected since just minutes earlier she put her cart sideways in the aisle, making me move the thing to get past while she selected only the finest loaf of bread Wally World has to offer. I had to use my arms to return the favor since I had no cart. :(
That reminds me - why do people always leave their cart in front of / next to my car, instead of in the "cart corral" that's 10 feet away? It's somewhat likely that the cart will roll into their car while they're backing away. So they want dents? *I* don't want dents...
In the US children are raised by TV, though the internet is slowly replacing that parent. "Parenting" is suing whoever you can blame for corrupting your children. /Glad that I was raised in an area with poor TV reception ;)
WTF is a "tidbid"?
They would've been blank "music" CDs, though, and the schools would have had to pay a tax based on the assumption that they'd pirate copyrighted audio on those disks. :)
"Boo Hoo, my spam filter doesn't perform well in short simulations because it takes time into consideration. This guy tested incorrectly." Whatever. I use SpamAssasin company-wide, with 0 false positives and about 5-1 messages out of several thousand gettting through each day. Maybe this whiner's software's even better, but all I got from his article was that he's someone who I don't want to depend on for software support.
I'd like one giant muscle leg and one regular leg. Then I'd fit right in with the other people at Wal Mart, instead of bing stared at for being "normal" and wearing clothes bought "outside of Wal Mart"... :)
I guess that clicking the link and noting that you don't have to register is also gay?
The google search comes up with this as the third link, and has a sponsored link on the right.
Holy Crap! That is one bad-ass bull...
Pictures of Flex Wheeler - http://www.bodybuilders.com/flex.htm, who, to me, looks like any other bodybuilder...
That's the first thing I thought of. Unless your arm weighs 50 pounds and you never lift it, how tough is it to hold 6 pounds at arm's length? That's only 3/4 gallon of water. It's impressive that a 4 year old can do it, sure, but what a nation of pansies. I sit my lazy butt in front of a computer all day and don't *ever* work out on purpose (sometimes I have to lift a monitor, but still). I'm thin. I don't have much muscle definition. I can hold several times that weight at arm's length, though...
:)
I guess that's why the Atkins thing's caught on - we're a nation of stupid lazy people who think that an unhelathy diet is the best way to lose weight, and that being able to hold 1/30 of their body weight is some impossible feat of strength.
As someone who laughed at jokes about Biology majors being somewhere between Basketweaving and MBA/PolySci, I disagree. :)
There are 3 major types of muscles, basically. The stuff in your arms that you can control voluntarily, things like your diaphram and esophagus that work without you thinking about it, and your heart. I took a biology course in high school once, and would note that those muscles don't usually develop in the same ways as your triceps. People who eat a lot don't generally develop a super-powerful esophagus, while people that lift heavy stuff for no reason sometimes get larger arms. Therefore, I'm betting that, while this kid may have well defined legs, his diagphram probably won't be able to crush aluminum cans anytime soon (largely because it'd be difficult to get aluminum cans into his chest cavity).
Slackware was my first Linux experience, back in the early 90's. Prior, I had only used DOS and Windows, though I had recently started college and had an account on the HPUX 'n Solaris (SunOS? I forget) machines. I've still got the monsterous pile of floppy disks that I had to download to get it installed... Anyway, it forced me to learn how things worked in order to get *anything* done. Later, I built an early beta of KDE, which allowed me to move full-time to Linux (away from Win NT) until I learned the rest of how to do things.
:)
Slack's a great starter platform if you're serious, though not so good if you wanna go straight to a[nother] system that you don't need to know anything about... I still run Slack on my routers and several boxes, but I uses SuSE on most everything else just because that makes it easier to keep up-to-date on just about everything I'd want/need to run.
The Spanish *did* hold out for a pretty long time down (up?) there before giving up and drifting out to the nearby islands... :)
I never said that I agree with any of those laws - I do, in fact, actively vote against anyone who tries to reduce my privacy. Even if they hide the privacy invasions behind names like "Patriot Act" or "Ronald Regan Memorial Social Bill", etc. I also strive to provide as much privacy as possible for my userbase, both at work and at home. Unfortunately, that doesn't change what the current laws say. :(
BTW, I wish one of the presidential cantidates was actually against the Patriot act... Damn it.
The phone company comparison doesn't work, as voice communications are governed by completely different laws than data communications. Note, BTW, that VOIP is considered data and not voice.
:) - and google is currently completely within their rights to voluntarily disclose information (including your full messages) to any public or private entity that they choose. This is because they're a private service provider as it stands right now.
:) Someone else, however, may not be a service provider, and may not have the privledge. You might get somemoney out of them - though sending a message with "this is confidential" doesn't constitute a "meeting of minds" and therefore isn't really a binding contract. The recipient may disagree but still get the message.
:(
I did quite a bit of research on this a few months ago when involved in a bit of a flamewar - that's when most of my in-depth research happens
Using me specifically as an example also wouldn't work, as I'm not only a user but also a private service provider whose service includes remote storage. So, if you send me a message, I can disclose it to anyone I want when I'm wearing my ISP hat, and you can't stop me unless I cause you "significant financial damages", which is something unlikely to come from everyone knowing about your love of butt sex.
There's not much legal expectation of privacy with email, basically. Then again, CA is sort of their own little country with their own inane legal system, so they can probably do whatever they want - including making stupid laws that infringe on my ability to have a nifty free gmail account.
I don't believe in changing definitions to fit the times. Therefore, I'm just gonna insist that you're wrong. All of you. Anyone reading this is wrong. ;)
I like being deceived, especially by a company that makes producs that I have absolutely no use for (like someone who makes software that'll make my computer do things that are *way* cheaper and faster on a console game system).
Can I get breaded fiber at Long John Silvers now, or that breading only available at select locations? I wonder what kind of batter they'd use...
Sorry to not answer the question (it's designing the cable *fibers* themselves - hence "design of optical fibers" in the article description and the linked article all about optical fibers) - but the incorrectly spelled "breeding" makes me laugh. It's even more amusing when you *read the article* and see the word "breeding" used in the caption under the large photo.
How do you get a carpet-bagger from Florida? CarpetBaggers were the Northern Republicans who headed down South after the Civil war to help with the reconstruction but were pretty universally unwelcomed. The dude might be unwelcome and a Republican, but you don't get much farther South than Florida... ;)
Related to gmail itself and not the users so much (though who's actually held accountable for their own actions anymore?):
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Federal law, and I'm paraphrasing, permits private ISPs to read users' email for performance monitoring reasons, etc. Right now, gMail is a private ISP, as it's open on the basis of invitation only, and they're granted much more freedom by federal laws. When/if they become a public service provider - which doesn't mean free - they fall under more stringent rules. In both cases, though, the eMail isn't exclusive property of the sender, but shared by the recipient *and* the sender. If someone sends me email, and I read it to my coworkers, it doesn't matter that the sender is damaged. Once I've read the message and left it on the server, it's also contained on a "remote storage device". While I may personally be liable for leaking the information, Google has no liability for treating my message (whether someone in CA sent it to me or not) just like any other message that they can legally monitor for performance reasons, etc.
Anyway, all the laws in the world mean jack squat when you sign the form that says "I grant Google et. al. rights to read my email. In exchange I'll use their email service." People can sign away their "rights" if they want to.
Good reading on this topic:
http://www.cybercrime.gov/s&smanual2002.htm#_I II_
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/1030_ana
Actually, if you all get on one of the providers that do free mobile-to-mobile (I'm partial to Sprint), that'd require little work and probably not cost any more money than whatever phone service you've all got now. I have no land-line, which helps a lot.
Or, just go with a standard-ish protocol that has clients on each platform, like SIP or H.323, and don't worry about getting the same program for all...
I take it you haven't seen the new Coke C2, targeted at all of those dumbasses who are on those low carb diets that kill your kidneys, induce depression, and don't work nearly as well as just getting off of your fat ass, walking around a little, and not eating 2 McLardass burgers for every meal?
/Rant from someone blessed with a fast metabolism ;)
New coke, this time targeted at the totally nutritionally incompetent fad crowd...
The Bulk Mail filters *surely* don't read the content of any messages and aggregate the results for later analysis, right? ;)