the initiative process was approved of by the state legislature, which is good enough.
That, I think, is what would end up in court.
The first question would be where the authority to make constitutional changes originated. If it was in the original constitution (not written by the legislature of the state) and the legislature doesn't have to be involved, then it may be a moot point - the Federal Constitution overrides the state one.
The second question would be whether, if it has done so, the state legislature is allowed to delegate authority in that way as far as the electoral college is concerned - it's not clear, and I guarantee it'd be argued all the way to the Supreme Court.
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Expect this to be challenged in court and to make it to the Supreme Court if it turns out that Colorado's electoral votes are going to be key in this election. The problem is "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct" - does a state constitution that allows voter initiatives effectively make every voter in the state a member of the state's legislature? If not, then it could convincingly be argued that there's no authority for a voter initiative to change the electoral vote distribution directly.
Re:Selling would be a problem, but running her own
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Even so, expressing a willingness to sell if she could get a good enough price might still work against her - particularly considering that most cases probably *are* squatting cases, so the folks deciding may have an immediate reaction.
Basically while offering to sell *shouldn't* hurt any case she's involved in that doesn't mean that it *won't* hurt her.
Selling would be a problem, but running her own?
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I've gotten the impression that selling, attempting to sell, or even expressing anything other than "The domain is not for sale" in response to an offer would have the potential to seriously hurt any legal case or WIPO case she might be involved in.
On the other hand, if she wanted to she *might* be able to get away with running her own porn site at that address - as long as she owned it, she'd probably be fine. Of course her lawyer might have a different take on it, she might have no interest in or be opposed to running a porn site, and the fact that she's in the UK might have an effect (what are UK porn laws like?).
She says in her response that it's out of her control and that it's not posted on her web site, my only question is "Why not?"
If she doesn't agree with what Penguin's lawyers (or her own) are doing on her behalf but doesn't have the power to stop them she at least should have the power to make her view of the situation clear.
In a lot of cases there's old software that performs mission-critical functions, but for which the source code was lost long ago. There's a lot less of it now since quite a bit was replaced during all the Y2K buildup, but there's still some out there. I suspect that there's also a disturbing amount of it that now has pre- and post-processing of data to massage dates.
Screen scrapers have also been around for quite a while just providing a GUI on top of a terminal-based software that it's not worth replacing yet.
Odds are good that the field is actually using bit flags of 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, etc. The above combination of preload options (application, boot, both) would fit that, and your setting would fit there being another option at 4 so that your 5 is actually application and something else (not documented, at least not on Slashdot).
I actually don't mind their policy - it's a little annoying at first, but that goes away quickly.
By default, they block all outbound SMTP - it's just not available. It's easy to get it unblocked for your account - there's no charge, just get in touch with their tech support folks and it's a simple matter. There's only one catch - you can only get it opened up after you've been a customer for a month.
First, as others have noted you appear to have not read the post. I'm not at home so I can't verify that it's *not* blocked for everyone, but I doubt that it is.
Second, unless you're running your own server and connecting directly to remote systems why use straight SMTP? If you're connecting to a SMTP server at a hosting company, see if they do (or will) support SSL encoded SMTP on port 465 - if you're using a hosting company's server you're probably authenticating as well, so this is also a way to avoid doing so over a clear channel. On the other hand, if you are running your own server and going direct you're probably having a fair percentage of your messages dropped as an increasing number of sites refuse to accept messages sent via direct connections from dialup or broadband ISP client addresses.
For myself no. I tone up pretty quickly when I work out but I would not like to get too bulky, it used to be a real pain getting pants to fit my waist and thighs properly when I was bigger.
First, there very few muscles around your waist other than the lower ab muscles. It's unlikely that you built your ab muscles enough to affect your pant size.
True, but there's plenty of muscle in your thighs. I seem to recall something mentioned during one of the Winter Olympics some years back about one of the speed skaters having thighs that were ~36 inches around (at the time, my waist was that size as well). I have a strong suspicion that the guy in question had a waist that was no more than 38 inches, and quite possibly less.
In other words, he probably even had to have custom-made sweatpants, much less jeans or slacks. While very few people will be to that extreme, thick thighs can make pants troublesome even if your waist size is larger.
From another link in this thread (about some bodybuilder, look for BALCO), it looks like there are multiple mutations that affect the genes in question (or multiple genes that affect muscular development). If the woman in question is a bodybuilder or any of those male relatives are, it's not at all unlikely that she's involved with another bodybuilder that she either met herself or met through a relative.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that folks with mutations that cause them to develop extra muscular tissue tend to gravitate to the social environments where that sort of thing is valued. In other words, while 0.1% of the bodybuilder population out there might have this mutation, I'd be surprised if more than 0.001% of the slashdot-reading population does. Welcome to the joy of choice in who you socialize with.
For the calendar, DateBk5 is almost indispensable - while the built-in Calendar in OS5 (at least on the T3) was a big improvement over the previous versions, DateBk5 adds a lot of additional nice features like floating appointments (a kind of To-Do), appointment categories with icons (OS5 add categories and colors, but no icons), "advance" notice of appointments and a range of other things. Agendus (suggested elsewhere) may do similar things, and does have the advantage of an available desktop component as well.
For the To-Do list, you might check out Bonsai. It's actually an outliner, but you can set outline items as to-dos and have it create those and maintain the links (caveat: I haven't used that feature). The OS5 Tasks (replaces To-Do) application is also an improvement over previous versions, but nothing revolutionary.
As far as addresses go, the OS5 Contacts application does allow multiple addresses - if you're using a T3 at least, when you're editing a contact you'll see a (+) button at the bottom of the screen - tapping that lets you add additional address areas up to a total of 3. The main thing I'd like to see added is a way to have both "public" (will be beamed/sent) and "private" (won't be beamed/sent) notes on contacts - that way I could keep my personal notes on clients (e.g. "X's wife used to work with mom. X's M-I-L is in poor health (6/2004)." and still be able to beam that contact to other folks without sending that information along as well.
A lot of credit unions have started to get together in networks, with the effect that you can go to other credit unions in the same network and do almost everything that your credit union provides, with some limitations. The two credit unions I have accounts at are both members of CUSwirl/CU Service Centers, and it's quite convenient.
In my case one CU is an account I've had since I was in my teens but their offices are about 15 miles away, and the other is from my former employer and is two states away. I drop in at the local one sometimes since it's about a mile from my girlfriend's office, but if I'm not headed up that direction I can go to the local credit union about a mile and a half from my house.
If he's taking home 70% of $30k a year, his takehome is ~$1,750. You divided by 0.7 instead of multiplying by 0.7.
That puts his rent somewhere around $750-800/month which I believe will get you a reasonable 1-bedroom or a not-so-nice 2-bedroom in the Chicago area, adjust accordingly for cost of living elsewhere.
Getting (and staying) a month ahead on your rent seems to me like a perfectly reasonable way to provide yourself with a buffer that you won't normally touch.
Automatic Number Identification is the system used to send information on calling numbers to people with 800 numbers. It's not automatic - if you have an 800 number just forwarded to a regular phone number you may not have it - but it's available particularly to folks who have inbound trunk lines instead of just a set of POTS lines. Some people probably don't get a list of numbers because they're not that interested, some people get them with their bills, and high-volume sites can get them in realtime along with the other call signaling information. Sites that decide to go with that last option often do it because they're pulling information from a database indexed by the calling number, then passing that information along to the terminal/PC in front of the person who answers your call.
One thing worth noting is that ANI *is not* the same thing as Caller ID - it's been around longer, it operates differently, and it's not blocked by *67 or whatever is used in your area.
Plenty more technical information is available if you're really curious, just search for it.
Is a good choice for this. They changed the rule settings in the current version so you now have to go a little deeper to define access to specific ports for applications, but it's a very nice package.
My standard configuration has everything allowed to talk locally, Mozilla allowed to connect outward through my local proxy server (Privoxy) but not via 80, Pegasus allowed to connect out on POP3 and SMTP, Popfile allowed out on POP3, SecureCRT on 22, etc. A few applications (Privoxy, Media Player Classic, Sam Spade) are trusted to make any outbound connections they want, but most are defined with only specific ports allowed.
If I was setting it up for my father or someone I knew was prone to opening possibly-infected email, I'd set it up similarly but have it set to silently block outbound connections from any other applications.
There's even a stat sheet for them
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Me, I know I never want to encounter something with a "10d10+15 cornhole" attack.
Redneck trees don't look at their "conflicts" with those they encounter as combat so much as "goin' a courtin'." They usually attack with their claws in an attempt to hold down their victims and "convince" them to have unnatural premarital relations. Screams, bleeding and death are often seen as the victim's way of consenting. The claw attacks are almost always followed by the armor-piercing cornhole attack.
Redneck trees usually prefer male Elves because they "look like girlie boys,"
I've posted something about it on the OpenOffice.org forums; hopefully that'll spark some action if it actually is dead/abandoned.
It's quite possible that it's actually registered in some other jurisdiction and that the US and that other jurisdiction recognize each other's trademarks, but I'm completely and utterly unversed in trademark law and this may not even be possible - if that's the case then I don't know what the scoop is.
7. Why should we say "OpenOffice.org" instead of simply "OpenOffice"?
The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this open source project and its software.
What kind of idiot legislature...
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Passes that kind of a law banning any kind of blade in any public place? It's the kind of law that can almost only be there to provide an excuse to throw more charges at someone - "He jaywalked, and he had scissors! Because this is his second offense, we'll be seeking the maximum of 12 months in prison."
"knife" includes:
(a) a knife blade, or
(b) a razor blade, or
(c) any other blade,
My message to one of the NASA folks back in November of 2002 (with names removed):
I'm afraid it's not a topic that I follow regularly (so this may duplicate existing ideas), but after reading through the recent New York Times article that discussed the merits of pushing an asteroid off-course instead of attempting to blow it up, here's a suggestion:
Smaller self-contained engines that could be scattered across the surface of a (possibly not-very-solid) asteroid.
These would need:
Low-speed insertion targeted to locations,
Initial (automatic) anchoring on impact,
Automatic reorientation and permanent anchoring after initial anchoring,
Simple mining (for material to project) with enough reach (depth) to get adequate material,
Initial power by battery or small reactor,
Ongoing power to drive the engine itself from battery/reactor supplemented (or supplementing) solar panels,
Some form of mass driver to propel whatever material was mined,
Aimable thrust orientation that could be pointed toward (at its simplest) a radio source maintained some distance away from the surface of the asteroid.
Advantages:
Cheaper to make & transport than fewer larger engines
Individually less important
Overall more power (attached solar covering a larger area of the asteroid; less need to transport power sources)
Usable on less-solid asteroids because they're scattered instead of anchored in one spot
Easier to anchor because individually none of them produce nearly as much thrust
If that sort of mini-machine approach isn't something that folks were already looking at based on past SF about mining machines, etc. it might be
worth adding to the list of concepts.
And his response:
Thanks for your note and your interest in this problem. Unfortunately, we do not have the technology to build the sort of autonomous space systems that you are suggesting -- too bad though.
For more information see the webpage .
And if you want a copy of your data on your PC, you can look at one of the Logitech io Digital Pens, which basically track what you write on paper with a special pre-printed background pattern.
They range in price from $160-200, and apparently are good for 25-40 pages before they need to be recharged (depending on battery and memory). I believe Logitech just came out with a slightly updated model, so you might want to look into their forums and find out what to be looking for before plunking down your money.
Notebooks, post-it notes and the like are available for them and while I'm sure they're more expensive than standard notebooks even if they're twice the price they're still probably less than any drink at Starbucks. One drawback of the notebooks as far as I'm concerned: every page is numbered, but every notebook has the same numbering - you tap an area on the inside of the front cover to indicate that you're starting a new notebook, but unless someone's started selling notebook identifier labels with specific background patterns there's no good way to specify that you're in the notebook for Quantum Physics vs. the notebook for Molecular Biology.
There are some other types of lights as well; both Targus and Belkin sell USB lights that clip onto the top of the screen instead. The Kensington light works OK, but I suspect that the clipon versions like this Targus one are actually nicer to have when you need to use one.
I've never had a job where the people above me wanted to hear the truth. Telling the truth has been a career-limiting move for me in several different jobs.
That may actually be one of those cases where the Despair Dysfunction poster would be appropriate - is it that they didn't want to hear the truth, or that they didn't want to hear the truth the way you presented it? Two things that are sure to hurt your reception when you describe problems are a "you fucked up and I'm here to tell you about it" attitude and complaining about a problem without being interested in finding a way to fix it. Do either of those fit your past experience?
I suspect most places assign a normal IP via DHCP, but until that IP (and MAC) are registered the transparent firewall won't let any traffic through. Any HTTP requests on port 80 get a temporary redirect response that sends them to the sign-in page instead, and once the user signs in the corresponding information is added to the firewall.
I suspect that if anyone decides to fight the patent they won't have too much difficulty unless the patent was filed for quite a long while ago.
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The first question would be where the authority to make constitutional changes originated. If it was in the original constitution (not written by the legislature of the state) and the legislature doesn't have to be involved, then it may be a moot point - the Federal Constitution overrides the state one.
The second question would be whether, if it has done so, the state legislature is allowed to delegate authority in that way as far as the electoral college is concerned - it's not clear, and I guarantee it'd be argued all the way to the Supreme Court.
Even so, expressing a willingness to sell if she could get a good enough price might still work against her - particularly considering that most cases probably *are* squatting cases, so the folks deciding may have an immediate reaction.
Basically while offering to sell *shouldn't* hurt any case she's involved in that doesn't mean that it *won't* hurt her.
I've gotten the impression that selling, attempting to sell, or even expressing anything other than "The domain is not for sale" in response to an offer would have the potential to seriously hurt any legal case or WIPO case she might be involved in.
On the other hand, if she wanted to she *might* be able to get away with running her own porn site at that address - as long as she owned it, she'd probably be fine. Of course her lawyer might have a different take on it, she might have no interest in or be opposed to running a porn site, and the fact that she's in the UK might have an effect (what are UK porn laws like?).
She says in her response that it's out of her control and that it's not posted on her web site, my only question is "Why not?"
If she doesn't agree with what Penguin's lawyers (or her own) are doing on her behalf but doesn't have the power to stop them she at least should have the power to make her view of the situation clear.
In a lot of cases there's old software that performs mission-critical functions, but for which the source code was lost long ago. There's a lot less of it now since quite a bit was replaced during all the Y2K buildup, but there's still some out there. I suspect that there's also a disturbing amount of it that now has pre- and post-processing of data to massage dates.
Screen scrapers have also been around for quite a while just providing a GUI on top of a terminal-based software that it's not worth replacing yet.
Odds are good that the field is actually using bit flags of 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, etc. The above combination of preload options (application, boot, both) would fit that, and your setting would fit there being another option at 4 so that your 5 is actually application and something else (not documented, at least not on Slashdot).
I actually don't mind their policy - it's a little annoying at first, but that goes away quickly.
By default, they block all outbound SMTP - it's just not available. It's easy to get it unblocked for your account - there's no charge, just get in touch with their tech support folks and it's a simple matter. There's only one catch - you can only get it opened up after you've been a customer for a month.
First, as others have noted you appear to have not read the post. I'm not at home so I can't verify that it's *not* blocked for everyone, but I doubt that it is.
Second, unless you're running your own server and connecting directly to remote systems why use straight SMTP? If you're connecting to a SMTP server at a hosting company, see if they do (or will) support SSL encoded SMTP on port 465 - if you're using a hosting company's server you're probably authenticating as well, so this is also a way to avoid doing so over a clear channel. On the other hand, if you are running your own server and going direct you're probably having a fair percentage of your messages dropped as an increasing number of sites refuse to accept messages sent via direct connections from dialup or broadband ISP client addresses.
First, there very few muscles around your waist other than the lower ab muscles. It's unlikely that you built your ab muscles enough to affect your pant size.
True, but there's plenty of muscle in your thighs. I seem to recall something mentioned during one of the Winter Olympics some years back about one of the speed skaters having thighs that were ~36 inches around (at the time, my waist was that size as well). I have a strong suspicion that the guy in question had a waist that was no more than 38 inches, and quite possibly less.
In other words, he probably even had to have custom-made sweatpants, much less jeans or slacks. While very few people will be to that extreme, thick thighs can make pants troublesome even if your waist size is larger.
From another link in this thread (about some bodybuilder, look for BALCO), it looks like there are multiple mutations that affect the genes in question (or multiple genes that affect muscular development). If the woman in question is a bodybuilder or any of those male relatives are, it's not at all unlikely that she's involved with another bodybuilder that she either met herself or met through a relative.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that folks with mutations that cause them to develop extra muscular tissue tend to gravitate to the social environments where that sort of thing is valued. In other words, while 0.1% of the bodybuilder population out there might have this mutation, I'd be surprised if more than 0.001% of the slashdot-reading population does. Welcome to the joy of choice in who you socialize with.
For the To-Do list, you might check out Bonsai. It's actually an outliner, but you can set outline items as to-dos and have it create those and maintain the links (caveat: I haven't used that feature). The OS5 Tasks (replaces To-Do) application is also an improvement over previous versions, but nothing revolutionary.
As far as addresses go, the OS5 Contacts application does allow multiple addresses - if you're using a T3 at least, when you're editing a contact you'll see a (+) button at the bottom of the screen - tapping that lets you add additional address areas up to a total of 3. The main thing I'd like to see added is a way to have both "public" (will be beamed/sent) and "private" (won't be beamed/sent) notes on contacts - that way I could keep my personal notes on clients (e.g. "X's wife used to work with mom. X's M-I-L is in poor health (6/2004)." and still be able to beam that contact to other folks without sending that information along as well.
In my case one CU is an account I've had since I was in my teens but their offices are about 15 miles away, and the other is from my former employer and is two states away. I drop in at the local one sometimes since it's about a mile from my girlfriend's office, but if I'm not headed up that direction I can go to the local credit union about a mile and a half from my house.
That puts his rent somewhere around $750-800/month which I believe will get you a reasonable 1-bedroom or a not-so-nice 2-bedroom in the Chicago area, adjust accordingly for cost of living elsewhere.
Getting (and staying) a month ahead on your rent seems to me like a perfectly reasonable way to provide yourself with a buffer that you won't normally touch.
One thing worth noting is that ANI *is not* the same thing as Caller ID - it's been around longer, it operates differently, and it's not blocked by *67 or whatever is used in your area.
Plenty more technical information is available if you're really curious, just search for it.
My standard configuration has everything allowed to talk locally, Mozilla allowed to connect outward through my local proxy server (Privoxy) but not via 80, Pegasus allowed to connect out on POP3 and SMTP, Popfile allowed out on POP3, SecureCRT on 22, etc. A few applications (Privoxy, Media Player Classic, Sam Spade) are trusted to make any outbound connections they want, but most are defined with only specific ports allowed.
If I was setting it up for my father or someone I knew was prone to opening possibly-infected email, I'd set it up similarly but have it set to silently block outbound connections from any other applications.
Me, I know I never want to encounter something with a "10d10+15 cornhole" attack.
It's quite possible that it's actually registered in some other jurisdiction and that the US and that other jurisdiction recognize each other's trademarks, but I'm completely and utterly unversed in trademark law and this may not even be possible - if that's the case then I don't know what the scoop is.
Passes that kind of a law banning any kind of blade in any public place? It's the kind of law that can almost only be there to provide an excuse to throw more charges at someone - "He jaywalked, and he had scissors! Because this is his second offense, we'll be seeking the maximum of 12 months in prison."
And if you want a copy of your data on your PC, you can look at one of the Logitech io Digital Pens, which basically track what you write on paper with a special pre-printed background pattern.
They range in price from $160-200, and apparently are good for 25-40 pages before they need to be recharged (depending on battery and memory). I believe Logitech just came out with a slightly updated model, so you might want to look into their forums and find out what to be looking for before plunking down your money.
Notebooks, post-it notes and the like are available for them and while I'm sure they're more expensive than standard notebooks even if they're twice the price they're still probably less than any drink at Starbucks. One drawback of the notebooks as far as I'm concerned: every page is numbered, but every notebook has the same numbering - you tap an area on the inside of the front cover to indicate that you're starting a new notebook, but unless someone's started selling notebook identifier labels with specific background patterns there's no good way to specify that you're in the notebook for Quantum Physics vs. the notebook for Molecular Biology.
There are some other types of lights as well; both Targus and Belkin sell USB lights that clip onto the top of the screen instead. The Kensington light works OK, but I suspect that the clipon versions like this Targus one are actually nicer to have when you need to use one.
I've never had a job where the people above me wanted to hear the truth. Telling the truth has been a career-limiting move for me in several different jobs.
That may actually be one of those cases where the Despair Dysfunction poster would be appropriate - is it that they didn't want to hear the truth, or that they didn't want to hear the truth the way you presented it? Two things that are sure to hurt your reception when you describe problems are a "you fucked up and I'm here to tell you about it" attitude and complaining about a problem without being interested in finding a way to fix it. Do either of those fit your past experience?
I suspect that if anyone decides to fight the patent they won't have too much difficulty unless the patent was filed for quite a long while ago.