Don't you know you need to buy new hardware every time you upgrade, even if what you have is still perfectly functional/sarcasm.
I have a film scanner I bought well over 10 years ago and initially used it on a Win 98 box when that was still supported. It will scan in 35mm and medium format film at 19,200 vertical dpi X 19,200 horizontal dpi with a color depth of 16 bits per channel all in hardware but is USB 1.1 (I don't believe it is USB 2.0 but I could be wrong). I doubt that hardware is supported in Win 10 and if it isn't I would need to spends a substantial amount of money to replace it with one that is. It is slow but it works and also is a better device for what I use it for than a regular flatbed scanners as it was designed and calibrated to scan film.
So we have some secrete text in a bill that may be come law that supposedly allows my government to avoid going to a secrete court to get a secrete warrant to spy on me and instead just secretly spy on me. At this point it seems that it should be a perfect acceptable defense to state that one is ignorant of the law as there is so much effort being put into keeping the law from the governed. Hammurabi's code was put up in public so that people would know what the law was, now it is secretes the whole way down.
Well this year at the top of the ticket there are other choices than Clinton or Trump. Given how much both are disliked I am surprised that the Green Party and Libertarian Party aren't getting more attention. Those are just the 2 largest alternative parties and they will likely be on the ballots in all 50 states, unlike most other 3rd party candidates, but sadly most people won't even consider voting for either of them because of something to do with lizards.
That is why when I saw the picture I would have thought he BMI would have been much higher. I guess a lot of that comes from the BMI point of reference of myself so people who are very fat I just kind of assume have some huge BMI because if I were shaped like that I would have a huge BMI.
But in Israel they have their shit together, have real airport security, and don't hire people who would otherwise be unemployable. I have experienced it a number of times and would gladly take that over the rampant incompetence of the TSA. Granted I never got the big interview but a substantially shortened one (about 1 minute) but then I was a guest of the government and had additional paperwork and documentation that was previously verified through multiple other channels. The only hangup I ever had was one time the x-ray screener questioned my camera that was packed in the middle of my suite case as he couldn't identify it. I got to take my bag over to a separate area where there were other screeners. I was then first asked what the metal item was in the middle of my bag to which I told them it was my film camera. I was then instructed to open my bag and produce the camera which I did. They then asked me several questions in quick succession about it in attempt to see if I would panic, be tripped up, or show signs of being a terrorist. After that brief hangup I was allowed to proceed on my way.
Too narrow. I would expand the question be:
How many terrorists has the TSA caught?
Unfortunately that answer is the same as the one to your question so it really doesn't matter if it is asked.
I wouldn't, as I actually understand that it is impossible for the government to stop all terrorism. However night now if a terrorist were to bomb the huge security lines that the TSA is creating and a loved one were to die in that I would consider suing the government. The reason here is that the actions that the TSA is undertaking currently are making us less safe by providing a large mass of people in a single spot so the government is actively making us less safe. I have written my useless congress critters (Kline, Klobuchar, and Franken) on this issue stating that the TSA's actions are making us less safe but they don't care. What they need are more checkpoints for people to enter the "secure" area of airports instead of fewer but that is not how things are going.
That reminds me I need to patent my anti terrorist rock. basically a rock with a hole drilled through it so you can put it on a chain/rope/string and attach it to your luggage. The key part is it has to have written on it "Anti-Terrorist Rock" on one side and on the other it has written "More effective than the TSA"
I could, then again as you said one would have to be built and have well above average strength. This is said as someone who works out a 455lbs on bench press, 715 on squats, and cleans and jerks 355lbs. Carrying that much around would be a different story as you would have one hell of a lean.
I have told friends of mine who were fat that were afraid of going to the gym because of people like the ones you mention that they shouldn't care. There are only about 3 types of people who go to the gym. First you have the people who use it as a social event. These are the ones who spend more time talking while sitting or standing next to the equipment than using it. They may make snide comments about a fat person but they often are too absorbed in their discussion so don't worry about them. Then you have the people who are the look at me types. These are the people who bang the weights around, grunt loudly, strut around. These people are about as likely to comment about fat people being there as the ones who use it as a social club but often are too absorbed in themselves. The last group is the ones who are there for their own benefit. This group shows up starts their workout, does it and leaves and only badmouths someone if they are hogging a piece of equipment by having a social discussion or being annoying by banging equipment and making a shit ton of noise.
Having helped a number of my friends who were fat lose the weight I have had to put some people in their place for making snide comments while at the gym. What I have told my friends is that you are there for you benefit, not someone else's so fuck them. You are there to get into shape and be health and everyone has to start somewhere. I help them learn how to use the equipment right, learn how to work out right, learn a proper warmup and cool down routine, and how to push themselves (this is probably the hardest). The other thing everyone has a hard time learning is to not expect fast results as building proper strength, endurance, losing fat, etc takes a long time to do it right and when done right you don't risk injury and have a better chance of the results sticking. Shows like the biggest loser make this worse as they basically show miraculous results so everyone expects that.
Having seen the picture I would have thought the BMI would be much higher as I have a BMI of about 38 but then I do a lot of power lifting and strength training. My work out weights for some lifts are bench press 455lbs, squat 715lbs, clean and jerk 355lbs, curl 205lbs so even though I have a very high BMI it isn't like I am by any definition fat, 32" waist 54" chest 22" neck and sink in pools. That said I don't have that body builder look as that requires a very different style of workout where you build muscle mass, tone, and definition, I go for raw strength as I find it beneficial. Also I make it a point to do a fair amount of cardio (I run or bike for 1.5 hours three times a week instead of lifting) since if one doesn't it can lead to heart problems.
That is the thing a lot of people neglect to consider. I have looked at them an the payback right now for me would be about 9 years. The next time my AC or furnace craps out I will go and replace both with a ground source heat pump. As an added benefit because the water table isn't down that far I can get the coil filed install vertically so that the bulk of it is below the water table which from what I gather dramatically increases the efficiency due to the greater heat transfer ability.
Your situation sounds none too different from mine. A few years back an Ethiopian family moved in on the corner across the street and I was over helping a neighbor cut up a fallen tree. His comment was that he wasn't quite sure about the "black family" that moved in. I look over to their house and see the mother and daughter planting some flowers in the garden and the father and son with a soccer net setup and playing soccer. My response to the neighbor was I wasn't worried about them as they don't seem like the type of people who will throw wild partied with a bunch of underage teenagers drinking who when the cops show up flee in the cars and run over my mail box leaving empty beer cans and bottles in my lawn. Which was what had happened a couple times that summer from the house that was next to his that was a rental and currently occupied by some 19 year olds. That rental house thankfully is no longer a rental and the current occupants are pleasant family of Mexican origin. The parents go to work every day and and is a car guy who is restoring a 67 mustang and has asked if I would help him as I have a wire feed welder so I have welded in a number of patch panels for him. I much prefer judging someone based off of their actions.
You are correct on remoteness and desirability. I bought some recreational property up in norther Minnesota not far from one of the major lakes. The multi acre wooded lot with over 200 feet of shore line was under $40,000 yet if it had been on the major lake instead of 5 miles away it would have instead cost about $200,000 because it is just a more desirable lake. Personally I will stick to being on a small 50 acre lake that only has 7 properties the border it, no public water access, and 0 fishing pressure instead of the zoo on the major lake. Add in that there is just over a square mile of public land open to hunting, snowmobiles, and ATVs just 600 feed down at the end of the road that is only accessible from this road it is a hidden gem.
Well those are cuter than the American opossums but that is an awfully low bar. That said I am not a fan of invasive species and will in general shoot them when I see them out in the wild. As opossums aren't native to Minnesota, not protected, and have no closed season you can kill as many of them as you want and I regularly pop a few with with my air rifle. Here in Minnesota a few years ago there was some group pushing for the legalization of shooting feral cats and in a rather strange case the MN DNR stayed silent on the issue instead of weighing in. I think the reason was that it would have offended a lot of people to find out it is perfectly legal to shoot a feral cat, or a dog that has gone wild for you dog lovers, as the way the law is written any critter that is not protected or has a closed season can be freely hunted. Specifically see PDF page 26 (in the booklet is is page 24) of the most recent MN hunting regulations in the "WHAT ARE UNPROTECTED ANIMALS?" section.
I don't see the issue with a digital camera. I let my oldest (7 years old) use the first digital camera my wife and I had that is pretty obsolete as it has the form factor of the old point and shoot film cameras and an 8MP sensor with reasonable glass in front of it. It is a good way for him to learn about photography as he does have an interest in it and is a lot cheaper than learning with a film camera as god knows how much film I wasted when I learned. Then again he doesn't get to keep the camera and is supervised when using it.
While I agree with you the fact is that they will never believe that us the plebs deserve that level of protection and that by simply having it available means that you are a terrorist, pedo, commie, etc.
It is double plus good to have our information vulnerable and theirs secure. Their biggest take away from the Snowden mess isn't that they shouldn't have been doing illegal shit but that they need to better secure their illegal shit.
my computers all run Linux and are about as secure as you can reasonably expect
Some what serious question but are they really? Likely there are additional measures that can be taken as I found out a long time ago. The base level of security expected in the industry I work in is that specified in the Center for Internet Security benchmarks for what ever OS and large applications benchmarks are applicable. Anyone can go and view/download the benchmarks. These go well beyond patching, AV, firewall, and other simple standard protections that most are aware of. Even the windows protections will do a lot to stop standard attacks by at least forcing the user to jump through some hoops to really F up their system.
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Don't you know you need to buy new hardware every time you upgrade, even if what you have is still perfectly functional /sarcasm.
I have a film scanner I bought well over 10 years ago and initially used it on a Win 98 box when that was still supported. It will scan in 35mm and medium format film at 19,200 vertical dpi X 19,200 horizontal dpi with a color depth of 16 bits per channel all in hardware but is USB 1.1 (I don't believe it is USB 2.0 but I could be wrong). I doubt that hardware is supported in Win 10 and if it isn't I would need to spends a substantial amount of money to replace it with one that is. It is slow but it works and also is a better device for what I use it for than a regular flatbed scanners as it was designed and calibrated to scan film.
Yertle does not approve.
First guess sounds like something George Carlin would have said, and yes I do remember hearing some comedian say that back in the 90s as well.
So we have some secrete text in a bill that may be come law that supposedly allows my government to avoid going to a secrete court to get a secrete warrant to spy on me and instead just secretly spy on me. At this point it seems that it should be a perfect acceptable defense to state that one is ignorant of the law as there is so much effort being put into keeping the law from the governed. Hammurabi's code was put up in public so that people would know what the law was, now it is secretes the whole way down.
Like I said something to do with lizards, or possibly titanium taxes.
Well this year at the top of the ticket there are other choices than Clinton or Trump. Given how much both are disliked I am surprised that the Green Party and Libertarian Party aren't getting more attention. Those are just the 2 largest alternative parties and they will likely be on the ballots in all 50 states, unlike most other 3rd party candidates, but sadly most people won't even consider voting for either of them because of something to do with lizards.
That is why when I saw the picture I would have thought he BMI would have been much higher. I guess a lot of that comes from the BMI point of reference of myself so people who are very fat I just kind of assume have some huge BMI because if I were shaped like that I would have a huge BMI.
But in Israel they have their shit together, have real airport security, and don't hire people who would otherwise be unemployable. I have experienced it a number of times and would gladly take that over the rampant incompetence of the TSA. Granted I never got the big interview but a substantially shortened one (about 1 minute) but then I was a guest of the government and had additional paperwork and documentation that was previously verified through multiple other channels. The only hangup I ever had was one time the x-ray screener questioned my camera that was packed in the middle of my suite case as he couldn't identify it. I got to take my bag over to a separate area where there were other screeners. I was then first asked what the metal item was in the middle of my bag to which I told them it was my film camera. I was then instructed to open my bag and produce the camera which I did. They then asked me several questions in quick succession about it in attempt to see if I would panic, be tripped up, or show signs of being a terrorist. After that brief hangup I was allowed to proceed on my way.
I just use insightful for those cases. It seems to be the most fitting.
"You can't professionalize unless you federalize," Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
Why is it when I read that the only thing that pops into my mind is the Pulp Fiction quote:
ENGLISH MOTHER FUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT!
Too narrow. I would expand the question be:
How many terrorists has the TSA caught?
Unfortunately that answer is the same as the one to your question so it really doesn't matter if it is asked.
I wouldn't, as I actually understand that it is impossible for the government to stop all terrorism. However night now if a terrorist were to bomb the huge security lines that the TSA is creating and a loved one were to die in that I would consider suing the government. The reason here is that the actions that the TSA is undertaking currently are making us less safe by providing a large mass of people in a single spot so the government is actively making us less safe. I have written my useless congress critters (Kline, Klobuchar, and Franken) on this issue stating that the TSA's actions are making us less safe but they don't care. What they need are more checkpoints for people to enter the "secure" area of airports instead of fewer but that is not how things are going.
That reminds me I need to patent my anti terrorist rock. basically a rock with a hole drilled through it so you can put it on a chain/rope/string and attach it to your luggage. The key part is it has to have written on it "Anti-Terrorist Rock" on one side and on the other it has written "More effective than the TSA"
I could, then again as you said one would have to be built and have well above average strength. This is said as someone who works out a 455lbs on bench press, 715 on squats, and cleans and jerks 355lbs. Carrying that much around would be a different story as you would have one hell of a lean.
I have told friends of mine who were fat that were afraid of going to the gym because of people like the ones you mention that they shouldn't care. There are only about 3 types of people who go to the gym. First you have the people who use it as a social event. These are the ones who spend more time talking while sitting or standing next to the equipment than using it. They may make snide comments about a fat person but they often are too absorbed in their discussion so don't worry about them. Then you have the people who are the look at me types. These are the people who bang the weights around, grunt loudly, strut around. These people are about as likely to comment about fat people being there as the ones who use it as a social club but often are too absorbed in themselves. The last group is the ones who are there for their own benefit. This group shows up starts their workout, does it and leaves and only badmouths someone if they are hogging a piece of equipment by having a social discussion or being annoying by banging equipment and making a shit ton of noise.
Having helped a number of my friends who were fat lose the weight I have had to put some people in their place for making snide comments while at the gym. What I have told my friends is that you are there for you benefit, not someone else's so fuck them. You are there to get into shape and be health and everyone has to start somewhere. I help them learn how to use the equipment right, learn how to work out right, learn a proper warmup and cool down routine, and how to push themselves (this is probably the hardest). The other thing everyone has a hard time learning is to not expect fast results as building proper strength, endurance, losing fat, etc takes a long time to do it right and when done right you don't risk injury and have a better chance of the results sticking. Shows like the biggest loser make this worse as they basically show miraculous results so everyone expects that.
Having seen the picture I would have thought the BMI would be much higher as I have a BMI of about 38 but then I do a lot of power lifting and strength training. My work out weights for some lifts are bench press 455lbs, squat 715lbs, clean and jerk 355lbs, curl 205lbs so even though I have a very high BMI it isn't like I am by any definition fat, 32" waist 54" chest 22" neck and sink in pools. That said I don't have that body builder look as that requires a very different style of workout where you build muscle mass, tone, and definition, I go for raw strength as I find it beneficial. Also I make it a point to do a fair amount of cardio (I run or bike for 1.5 hours three times a week instead of lifting) since if one doesn't it can lead to heart problems.
Don't know about AT&T but with Charter and before them Frontier with me it hasn't been a problem.
But did Netcraft confirm it?
But I want that in American units not those damn funny German units. So lets see
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That comes out about 7 1968 Cadillac Fleetwoods.
That is the thing a lot of people neglect to consider. I have looked at them an the payback right now for me would be about 9 years. The next time my AC or furnace craps out I will go and replace both with a ground source heat pump. As an added benefit because the water table isn't down that far I can get the coil filed install vertically so that the bulk of it is below the water table which from what I gather dramatically increases the efficiency due to the greater heat transfer ability.
Your situation sounds none too different from mine. A few years back an Ethiopian family moved in on the corner across the street and I was over helping a neighbor cut up a fallen tree. His comment was that he wasn't quite sure about the "black family" that moved in. I look over to their house and see the mother and daughter planting some flowers in the garden and the father and son with a soccer net setup and playing soccer. My response to the neighbor was I wasn't worried about them as they don't seem like the type of people who will throw wild partied with a bunch of underage teenagers drinking who when the cops show up flee in the cars and run over my mail box leaving empty beer cans and bottles in my lawn. Which was what had happened a couple times that summer from the house that was next to his that was a rental and currently occupied by some 19 year olds. That rental house thankfully is no longer a rental and the current occupants are pleasant family of Mexican origin. The parents go to work every day and and is a car guy who is restoring a 67 mustang and has asked if I would help him as I have a wire feed welder so I have welded in a number of patch panels for him. I much prefer judging someone based off of their actions.
You are correct on remoteness and desirability. I bought some recreational property up in norther Minnesota not far from one of the major lakes. The multi acre wooded lot with over 200 feet of shore line was under $40,000 yet if it had been on the major lake instead of 5 miles away it would have instead cost about $200,000 because it is just a more desirable lake. Personally I will stick to being on a small 50 acre lake that only has 7 properties the border it, no public water access, and 0 fishing pressure instead of the zoo on the major lake. Add in that there is just over a square mile of public land open to hunting, snowmobiles, and ATVs just 600 feed down at the end of the road that is only accessible from this road it is a hidden gem.
Well those are cuter than the American opossums but that is an awfully low bar. That said I am not a fan of invasive species and will in general shoot them when I see them out in the wild. As opossums aren't native to Minnesota, not protected, and have no closed season you can kill as many of them as you want and I regularly pop a few with with my air rifle. Here in Minnesota a few years ago there was some group pushing for the legalization of shooting feral cats and in a rather strange case the MN DNR stayed silent on the issue instead of weighing in. I think the reason was that it would have offended a lot of people to find out it is perfectly legal to shoot a feral cat, or a dog that has gone wild for you dog lovers, as the way the law is written any critter that is not protected or has a closed season can be freely hunted. Specifically see PDF page 26 (in the booklet is is page 24) of the most recent MN hunting regulations in the "WHAT ARE UNPROTECTED ANIMALS?" section.
I don't see the issue with a digital camera. I let my oldest (7 years old) use the first digital camera my wife and I had that is pretty obsolete as it has the form factor of the old point and shoot film cameras and an 8MP sensor with reasonable glass in front of it. It is a good way for him to learn about photography as he does have an interest in it and is a lot cheaper than learning with a film camera as god knows how much film I wasted when I learned. Then again he doesn't get to keep the camera and is supervised when using it.
While I agree with you the fact is that they will never believe that us the plebs deserve that level of protection and that by simply having it available means that you are a terrorist, pedo, commie, etc.
It is double plus good to have our information vulnerable and theirs secure. Their biggest take away from the Snowden mess isn't that they shouldn't have been doing illegal shit but that they need to better secure their illegal shit.
my computers all run Linux and are about as secure as you can reasonably expect
Some what serious question but are they really? Likely there are additional measures that can be taken as I found out a long time ago. The base level of security expected in the industry I work in is that specified in the Center for Internet Security benchmarks for what ever OS and large applications benchmarks are applicable. Anyone can go and view/download the benchmarks. These go well beyond patching, AV, firewall, and other simple standard protections that most are aware of. Even the windows protections will do a lot to stop standard attacks by at least forcing the user to jump through some hoops to really F up their system.