I'm uncommonly skilled at ignoring such things:) I don't even see two-page spreads in newspapers, leaving past them without notice, or finding the 10 column inches of news on a page while having no idea what the ads on the rest of the page are . . . blinking, however . . .
This won't do much good if you use a proxy such as junkbuster that identifies itself as IE. Now that I think of it, can't firefox change its user agent?
I've never blocked *anything* for being an ad. I have,however, blocked for cookies, and most particularly for blinking/animation. And for slowing down page loads, now that I think of it. And for creating popups, like intellitxt (or whatever that is).
There's not a lot of difference between the UK typical US legal system (though ours vary from state to state). The US differs from most common law jurisdictions primarily in allowing contingency fees, not having a "loser pays" rule for fees in most cases (but it does for court costs), and having abolished debtors' prisons far earlier. Additionally, we don't have the formal solicitor/barrister split (though I think that we're far from unusual in that). Oh, and outside the military system, a lawyer cannot simultaneously prosecute and defend criminal issues.
Most states have some type of small claims division in their lower court, whether designated justice, municipal, or district (the latter is also used in some jurisdictions, such as this one [Nevada]), for the court of general jurisdiction [handling felonies and larger civil cases]).
I've seen small claims limits ranging from $2,500 to $15,000. They are typically lower than regular limit of the lwower court, but often not by much. Often the cases are heard by lawyers acting as a part time judge (perhaps designated as "commissioner," "judge pro tem", or "referee"). Appeal is generally to a judge in the lower court, who hears the case "de novo" (from the beginning), who can often be appealed to the higher court--but typically not to the regular appellate courts.
--*any* car with a cell phone --A significant subset of truckers ("Golly-gee, I don't want to climb this grade at 35. I'll pull out and manage to pass this guy at 36!" and so forth) --cab drivers --bus drivers --smokers (I've noticed over the years that they seem "pacified" and less likely to react ot, well, just about anything) --anything with Arizona plates
and last, but by no means least: Winnebagos (*shudder*)
If you look at the terms of a margin account (which allows you to pledge your shares as security to borrow, likely to purcahse more stock), you'll find that you have consented to the brokerage lending your shares for short sales. Sometimes (usually?), you consent to *any* shares that you leave in your brokerage account being lent for short sales.
It wasn't even the unremovability. They put time and effort into destroying netscape (resources offered to make sites not work with netscape), java, and so forth. They were *not* sued for including IE, and the difficulty removing it wasn't a major issue. It was the actual use and abuse of monopoly power.
There was a major release of emacs (19? something in the mid 90's) in which "linux" had been replaced with "lignux" in the shipped version. leading to the big commotion.
Interesting, but that explanation by one tech just doesn't sound plausible.
That $2M would be Osborne's margin on something like 3,000 machines (certainly less than 4,000 with the margins in the industry at the time). Osborne had sales in excess of $1M/month, and in excess of 10k units/months. A single $2M error would have hurt, badly, but nothing compared to a 25% sales drop for a a period of months . . .
Exactly. "Troll" and "Flamebait" actually mean, "Fails to grant all glory and honor to the One True Licesnse" (err, now that GPL V3 is here, which one *is* the One True License???:)
>There are speed up lanes most people I see go slow in the speed up lane, then stop at the end of it. Then they try to merge. This is not in rush hour!
I pay $286 a month for insurance on an individual policy--after being rated up 10% (15%?) for pre-existing conditions. It's about to increase by 5.8%. I'll be paying $10 for generics, and $30 or $60 for brand names, and pay $50 on a hospital visit. OTOH, I have a $5,000/person, $10,000 family deductible--so I just got hit for $1800 on an ER visit (that turned out to be an insidious false alarm).
I put $560/month into the HSA (deductible above the line on the 1040), and can pay from that. When the balance is above $2k, I can put it into vanguard funds within the HSA until it is needed. I have a mastercard debit card to access the checking balance, and can also reimburse myself from the account (oddly, I can even do this at an ATM, though there is a service charge).
What I really wanted from the plan was catastrophic coverage (one of the pre-existing conditions was a partial epilepsy, which had a 70% chance of going away--but if it didn't . ..) and the negotiated rates (the uninsured are in a bad way in Vegas!), which this plan does.
Gee, that's tempting. I just need to remember that I haven't used it in years:) But if I get back to writing either of those novels, it could be a perfect distraction-free solution . . .
another solution to hard drives on 8 bits was done with a 5 meg corvus drive for the apple. It appeared to the apple dos as 35 floppy drives on the same controller . . . I believe the price tag was $5k . . .
Oh, they existed all right. I had one to develop on--with an Osborne. The processor was removed, a plug put in its socket, and the processor into that. A ribbon cable extended from the case, with (iirc) an edge connector.
The catch was that CP/M (including the first couple of renditions of CP/M-86 had no notion of directories. It did, however, have 16 (?) numbered "users", which could mask the available files. ISTR that default was user 0 which could see everything, and that the other users were accessed by a command ("User n"?). I want to say that there was one other special user, but it's been almost 25 years . . .
The first version of CP/M to use MS-DOS executables (2.0?) could not, however, enter MS-DOS directories. Not even CCP/M--though it could multitask MS-DOS commands (on an 8086!).
Slashdot Mirror
I'm uncommonly skilled at ignoring such things :) I don't even see two-page spreads in newspapers, leaving past them without notice, or finding the 10 column inches of news on a page while having no idea what the ads on the rest of the page are . . . blinking, however . . .
hawk
This won't do much good if you use a proxy such as junkbuster that identifies itself as IE. Now that I think of it, can't firefox change its user agent?
I've never blocked *anything* for being an ad. I have,however, blocked for cookies, and most particularly for blinking/animation. And for slowing down page loads, now that I think of it. And for creating popups, like intellitxt (or whatever that is).
hawk
That should be GNU/IBM/Solaris, thank you. :)
hawk, whistling innocently
>You can't file to hold the other litigants in CoC.
You *can* file a motion for order to show cause on contempt, however.
hawk, esq.
There's not a lot of difference between the UK typical US legal system (though ours vary from state to state). The US differs from most common law jurisdictions primarily in allowing contingency fees, not having a "loser pays" rule for fees in most cases (but it does for court costs), and having abolished debtors' prisons far earlier. Additionally, we don't have the formal solicitor/barrister split (though I think that we're far from unusual in that). Oh, and outside the military system, a lawyer cannot simultaneously prosecute and defend criminal issues.
Most states have some type of small claims division in their lower court, whether designated justice, municipal, or district (the latter is also used in some jurisdictions, such as this one [Nevada]), for the court of general jurisdiction [handling felonies and larger civil cases]).
I've seen small claims limits ranging from $2,500 to $15,000. They are typically lower than regular limit of the lwower court, but often not by much. Often the cases are heard by lawyers acting as a part time judge (perhaps designated as "commissioner," "judge pro tem", or "referee"). Appeal is generally to a judge in the lower court, who hears the case "de novo" (from the beginning), who can often be appealed to the higher court--but typically not to the regular appellate courts.
hawk, esq.
SUV drivers aren't even close . . .
--*any* car with a cell phone
--A significant subset of truckers ("Golly-gee, I don't want to climb this grade at 35. I'll pull out and manage to pass this guy at 36!" and so forth)
--cab drivers
--bus drivers
--smokers (I've noticed over the years that they seem "pacified" and less likely to react ot, well, just about anything)
--anything with Arizona plates
and last, but by no means least: Winnebagos (*shudder*)
hawk
If you look at the terms of a margin account (which allows you to pledge your shares as security to borrow, likely to purcahse more stock), you'll find that you have consented to the brokerage lending your shares for short sales. Sometimes (usually?), you consent to *any* shares that you leave in your brokerage account being lent for short sales.
hawk, esq.
Yeah, he's got like 20 million options at a mere $2/share . . . :)
hawk
>Too bad that's too long for a sig, that's absolutely hilarious
Huh? 4 lines, 79 characters (counting on one somebody's terminal will do with the 80th character is always dangerous), that's plenty of room.
Oh, you mean a *slashdot* sig . . .
hawk
It wasn't even the unremovability. They put time and effort into destroying netscape (resources offered to make sites not work with netscape), java, and so forth. They were *not* sued for including IE, and the difficulty removing it wasn't a major issue. It was the actual use and abuse of monopoly power.
hawk
There was a major release of emacs (19? something in the mid 90's) in which "linux" had been replaced with "lignux" in the shipped version. leading to the big commotion.
hawk
But if you lose $10m from one thing, and $2M from another, it's hard to call the $10M a "myth" . . .
hawk
Interesting, but that explanation by one tech just doesn't sound plausible.
That $2M would be Osborne's margin on something like 3,000 machines (certainly less than 4,000 with the margins in the industry at the time). Osborne had sales in excess of $1M/month, and in excess of 10k units/months. A single $2M error would have hurt, badly, but nothing compared to a 25% sales drop for a a period of months . . .
hawk
Exactly. "Troll" and "Flamebait" actually mean, "Fails to grant all glory and honor to the One True Licesnse" (err, now that GPL V3 is here, which one *is* the One True License??? :)
hawk
Can anyone say, "Osborne Computer"?
hawk
No t-shirt :)
hawk
now if it had been *Bill* that had invented the internet . . . :)
hawk, ducking again
>There are speed up lanes most people I see go slow in the speed up lane, then stop at the end of it. Then they try to merge. This is not in rush hour!
:)
Ahh, so you live in Arizona
hawk, familiar with 'zonie drivers
His use of "can" (the indicative) instead of "could" (the subjunctive) is unusual.
However, he indeed could care less--he cared enough to post it.
Try putting emphasis on the word could: "I *could* care less." -- It's a theoretical possibility to care less, although not very likely.
Whether could or couldn't should be used, however, is irrelevant--either way, it's an idiom with well understood meaning.
hawk
I pay $286 a month for insurance on an individual policy--after being rated up 10% (15%?) for pre-existing conditions. It's about to increase by 5.8%. I'll be paying $10 for generics, and $30 or $60 for brand names, and pay $50 on a hospital visit. OTOH, I have a $5,000/person, $10,000 family deductible--so I just got hit for $1800 on an ER visit (that turned out to be an insidious false alarm).
.) and the negotiated rates (the uninsured are in a bad way in Vegas!), which this plan does.
I put $560/month into the HSA (deductible above the line on the 1040), and can pay from that. When the balance is above $2k, I can put it into vanguard funds within the HSA until it is needed. I have a mastercard debit card to access the checking balance, and can also reimburse myself from the account (oddly, I can even do this at an ATM, though there is a service charge).
What I really wanted from the plan was catastrophic coverage (one of the pre-existing conditions was a partial epilepsy, which had a 70% chance of going away--but if it didn't . .
hawk
>The claim is for a keyboard that comes back in the same place every time.
:)
Oh, like on a video poker machine . . .
hawk
Gee, that's tempting. I just need to remember that I haven't used it in years :) But if I get back to writing either of those novels, it could be a perfect distraction-free solution . . .
hawk
I read those, but my beard is still dark.
OK, I pick up some light hairs my wife leaves on the pillow, but . . . really, they're not mine . . .
hawk
another solution to hard drives on 8 bits was done with a 5 meg corvus drive for the apple. It appeared to the apple dos as 35 floppy drives on the same controller . . . I believe the price tag was $5k . . .
hawk
Oh, they existed all right. I had one to develop on--with an Osborne. The processor was removed, a plug put in its socket, and the processor into that. A ribbon cable extended from the case, with (iirc) an edge connector.
The catch was that CP/M (including the first couple of renditions of CP/M-86 had no notion of directories. It did, however, have 16 (?) numbered "users", which could mask the available files. ISTR that default was user 0 which could see everything, and that the other users were accessed by a command ("User n"?). I want to say that there was one other special user, but it's been almost 25 years . . .
The first version of CP/M to use MS-DOS executables (2.0?) could not, however, enter MS-DOS directories. Not even CCP/M--though it could multitask MS-DOS commands (on an 8086!).
hawk