* Help promote competition
* Powell's is independently owned (not a corporate behemoth)
* They've been in the book biz for a long, long time
* The staff is unionized
* For a time it was the largest bookstore in the world (not sure if it was in terms of square feet or number of books)
* Excellent web site
* The main store is only blocks away from my work in downtown Portland, OR (yes, I have hometown-bias).
I suppose the bottom-line reason for considering Powell's is that if you want to find a bargain from a large selection of used books - or just hard-to-find books - on the web you'd find no site better than Powells.com. It's a must-bookmark.
... but this is not a big deal. The example cited in the article should come as no surprise to anyone: a "business class" plasma TV without speakers or a tuner would naturally be cheaper than the "consumer" version which has these features.
The extra $330 dollars is the value to the consumer for not having to go and buy a separate tuner and sound system.
This is one of those "filler" stories you see on websites when there isn't enough real news for real journalism.
The Viking landers of the 70s identified the unique chemical compostion of Mars rocks. Likewise, the earth, moon and meteorites have their own unique characteristics.
The cool thing about Antarctica (no pun intended) is that if you see any rocks sitting on top of the ice they most likely came from outer space.
I've heard that you are most likely to find them near the bases of mountain ranges where the swirling winds scours away the ice and snow better, revealing alien rocks and pebbles that have been covered for millenia.
I'd guess there are tons of Martian rocks under the ice, perhaps some from Venus, lots of moon rocks... and many more run-of-the-mill meteorites.
I think the Motley Fool article is right. The drop in the stock price makes Red Hat a good buy right now.
The downside is the frivolous lawsuit. In the end RH should prevail, but it will spend a pretty penny defending itself. I'm all for class-action lawsuits when they are appropriate. This one against RH is not.
Tort reform is one of the few issues where I side with Republicans. Fair implementation is going to be the hard part.
The FCC has always been easier on news and informational-type programming than in drama, but in any case "fuck" has never been permitted, your memory notwithstanding.
My memory is fine. PBS has broadcast the word. Funny how you didn't comment on the nudity though.
This is not new, nor is it news - PBS and Dreyfuss are simply, cynically spinning this...
But it is news. Our government is continuously taking away Freedom from citizens and giving more Freedom to corporations, especially the one's with the largest campaign contributions.
What I don't understand -- and what nobody is talking about -- is why is there such an uproar over a few consonants and vowels strung together? Why is 'copulate' or 'intercourse' or 'doing-the-nasty' acceptable and 'fuck' isn't? Why can you say 'poop' or 'feces' or 'crap' but saying 'shit' makes you a bad person? What is so wrong with people that they get in a tizzy over simple words?
The era of Queen Victoria has a firm grip on American society and nobody seems to notice it.
Clearly, you have not watched PBS for a very long time -- if ever.
PBS programming has never been censored until now. Profanity and nudity were not uncommon in primetime. Frontline, POV and even NOVA would not censor the audio of interviewees. Now and then a BBC drama would have a nipple-peek. No longer.
How long before political dissent is pursued with the same zeal? If Bush-Cheney prevail in November I would guess the answer is sometime in 2005.
But what do you care? As long as you have your cable TV you're fat, dumb and happy, right?
Really? I'm pretty sure that I-405 is just the C-shaped loop that runs along the west side of downtown Portland. It's only a few miles long and so people just call it 405.
You are correct. My bad. The Banfield bridge connects so seamlessly with 405 when I go up Sunset that I just think of the Banfield as 405.
And to think I've lived in the Metro area all my life. Silly me.
For years I-5 was the only significant interstate in the Portland area. And everyone calls it I-5. As the population has grown we have built more interstates:
I-205 runs from Tualatin through E. Portland and into Vancouver, WA. People just call it 205.
I-405 runs from W.Portland to 205 in E. Portland. Most people call it The Banfield.
I-84 runs from the I-405/I-205 junction in Portland thru eastern Oregon into Idaho and beyond. And it's commonly called I-84.
So the old-timers have always prefixed the "I" onto the number because they were the only Interstates in town and it has stuck.
Now, take LA and SF. They have so many interstates running through town that when talking with others about traffic routes the natural tendency is to strip syllables and give them names instead of numbers... The Five.
It's Unix philosphy too, building useful things from small tools that do one thing well. The Mozilla people lost sight of that pure vision LONG ago, and reimplemented everything from scratch. Kinda missing the point of libraries altogether.
OTOH this is why Mozilla is able to run on multiple platforms and architectures.
Here in environmentally-concious Portland, Oregon we have freegeek, a volunteer organization that receives donated PCs and parts, rebuilding them and installing Linux. These PCs are given to indivduals and organizations that otherwise cannot afford a computer.
It would be nice to see other cities and communities (and indivduals) doing the same instead of sending "obsolete" computers and parts to the landfill.
So much energy is put into securing networks that ends up inconveniencing users while tons of exploits abound and social engineering completely bypasses it. Why bother?
The reason people obscure their email is
a) It's fast, easy and doesn't require external software.
b) Sometimes that's all the protection you can get when you post to some sites.
Nothing wrong here. Web utilization is still high. It's the spam that is the problem -- not the countermeasures.
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"The Apollo program cost $25 billion, equivalent to about $125 billion in today's dollars."
[Source: http://www.waltercunningham.com/op_ed_0204.htm%5D
"It's been a while since a film warranted spending the money to watch it in a room full of strangers."
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If dropping a ten-spot and spending 3hrs in a theater to see King Kong on the big screen doesn't appeal to you then you are beyond hope.
But I can understand your fear of seeing 'Brokeback Mountain' with others around. I mean with a name like CowboyKneel
Better? That's subjective isn't it?
Why you might consider Powell's:
* Help promote competition
* Powell's is independently owned (not a corporate behemoth)
* They've been in the book biz for a long, long time
* The staff is unionized
* For a time it was the largest bookstore in the world (not sure if it was in terms of square feet or number of books)
* Excellent web site
* The main store is only blocks away from my work in downtown Portland, OR (yes, I have hometown-bias).
I suppose the bottom-line reason for considering Powell's is that if you want to find a bargain from a large selection of used books - or just hard-to-find books - on the web you'd find no site better than Powells.com. It's a must-bookmark.
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Who needs Amazon or BN? Go Powell's ...
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-047
As always ... download it from a mirror
http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/
They'll collect every bit of info about you and your habits and connect the dots like not even the NSA could do.
... and they have been. For years now ... and years to come.
What do you mean "they will"?
They are
It's the datamine that Google's making money off of and the advertisers are paying top $$$ for it.
jeez. this guy gets score 2 by default and i get score 1.
what the hell did i do wrong?
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it. I suppose I'll go bakc to using KPDF or KGhostview.
It's too bad what has become of Adobe. Bloatware + Spyware. It used to be a cool company.
I believe he meant to say "Employment at will".
most games I had were just floppy disks with a name written on them.
Same here. And when I actually bought games the box, manual and marketing filler would get tossed after a week.
So what "best of/worst of" topics are left for these game sites? "Best Bar Code Number"?
... but this is not a big deal. The example cited in the article should come as no surprise to anyone: a "business class" plasma TV without speakers or a tuner would naturally be cheaper than the "consumer" version which has these features.
The extra $330 dollars is the value to the consumer for not having to go and buy a separate tuner and sound system.
This is one of those "filler" stories you see on websites when there isn't enough real news for real journalism.
A comet or large asteroid could pull Venus' ejectae and send it into a higher or irregular orbit that could eventually cross paths with earth.
The Viking landers of the 70s identified the unique chemical compostion of Mars rocks. Likewise, the earth, moon and meteorites have their own unique characteristics.
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The cool thing about Antarctica (no pun intended) is that if you see any rocks sitting on top of the ice they most likely came from outer space.
... and many more run-of-the-mill meteorites.
I've heard that you are most likely to find them near the bases of mountain ranges where the swirling winds scours away the ice and snow better, revealing alien rocks and pebbles that have been covered for millenia.
I'd guess there are tons of Martian rocks under the ice, perhaps some from Venus, lots of moon rocks
I think the Motley Fool article is right. The drop in the stock price makes Red Hat a good buy right now.
The downside is the frivolous lawsuit. In the end RH should prevail, but it will spend a pretty penny defending itself. I'm all for class-action lawsuits when they are appropriate. This one against RH is not.
Tort reform is one of the few issues where I side with Republicans. Fair implementation is going to be the hard part.
dynamic language == scripting language
perl, python, php, javascript, etc.
The FCC has always been easier on news and informational-type programming than in drama, but in any case "fuck" has never been permitted, your memory notwithstanding.
...
My memory is fine. PBS has broadcast the word. Funny how you didn't comment on the nudity though.
This is not new, nor is it news - PBS and Dreyfuss are simply, cynically spinning this
But it is news. Our government is continuously taking away Freedom from citizens and giving more Freedom to corporations, especially the one's with the largest campaign contributions.
What I don't understand -- and what nobody is talking about -- is why is there such an uproar over a few consonants and vowels strung together? Why is 'copulate' or 'intercourse' or 'doing-the-nasty' acceptable and 'fuck' isn't? Why can you say 'poop' or 'feces' or 'crap' but saying 'shit' makes you a bad person? What is so wrong with people that they get in a tizzy over simple words?
The era of Queen Victoria has a firm grip on American society and nobody seems to notice it.
Clearly, you have not watched PBS for a very long time -- if ever.
PBS programming has never been censored until now. Profanity and nudity were not uncommon in primetime. Frontline, POV and even NOVA would not censor the audio of interviewees. Now and then a BBC drama would have a nipple-peek. No longer.
How long before political dissent is pursued with the same zeal? If Bush-Cheney prevail in November I would guess the answer is sometime in 2005.
But what do you care? As long as you have your cable TV you're fat, dumb and happy, right?
You are correct. My bad. The Banfield bridge connects so seamlessly with 405 when I go up Sunset that I just think of the Banfield as 405.
And to think I've lived in the Metro area all my life. Silly me.Funny how local naming schemes evolve.
... The Five.
For years I-5 was the only significant interstate in the Portland area. And everyone calls it I-5. As the population has grown we have built more interstates:
I-205 runs from Tualatin through E. Portland and into Vancouver, WA. People just call it 205.
I-405 runs from W.Portland to 205 in E. Portland. Most people call it The Banfield.
I-84 runs from the I-405/I-205 junction in Portland thru eastern Oregon into Idaho and beyond. And it's commonly called I-84.
So the old-timers have always prefixed the "I" onto the number because they were the only Interstates in town and it has stuck.
Now, take LA and SF. They have so many interstates running through town that when talking with others about traffic routes the natural tendency is to strip syllables and give them names instead of numbers
Someone oughta write a book.
OTOH this is why Mozilla is able to run on multiple platforms and architectures.
It would be nice to see other cities and communities (and indivduals) doing the same instead of sending "obsolete" computers and parts to the landfill.
So much energy is put into securing networks that ends up inconveniencing users while tons of exploits abound and social engineering completely bypasses it. Why bother?
The reason people obscure their email is
a) It's fast, easy and doesn't require external software.
b) Sometimes that's all the protection you can get when you post to some sites.
Nothing wrong here. Web utilization is still high. It's the spam that is the problem -- not the countermeasures.
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var d = "example"
var t = "com"
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+2 Funny. A reference to "Princess Bride". Moderators: go rent the movie.