The first mistake is that they are still talking in inches instead of metric units.
This was my thought exactly. If we continue to build new standards around obsolete measurement systems we are just pandering to the Luddites. It is time to move America forward into the 19th century. If we can't engineer for the 21st century, we should turn the creation of standards over to people can.
Of all the idiotic things I have heard of police departments doing, this has got to be very close to the top. This is right up there with the Eugene cop who tazed a Chinese U of O student because the student didn't speak English!
Isn't this just another step closer to the world of Blade Runner? Soon Make! will have articles on home gene splicing and growing organs with your Arduino controlled Tissue Growth Chamber.
They should simply not show his face or say his name on the air or on their web site for 1 week. Every time he would come up, just lump him with "Other" as in Polls (58% support Other), discussions of candidate statements ("In addition to Ron Paul, other candidates have commented on Gingrich marital problems, one stating 'abcdefg hijkl' ") and so forth. Maybe a couple of pictures of the back of his head at debate would be good.
Well, I guess I have to move a half dozen domains to a new registrar now. Along with hosting for 4 of them. What a pain in the a##, but it must be done. I cannot support a company that supports SOPA in its current form.
I apologize to anyone I may have frightened by my use of the "c" word in my post. Please mentally replace the "c" word with Acco Clip.
Again, I apologize profoundly. It was thoughtless on my part.
I have a handful of virtual papers I need to staple and someone stole my virtual stapler. Well, I better check the virtual drawer for a virtual paper clip.
They decided not to post it after the victim's (I mean subject's) face melted during the filming. That was considered a little extreme even for YouTube.
Governments have been increasingly "progressive" for centuries, what with democracy, liberalism, and so on. All the time, progressive policies are being implemented. And yet instead of getting better, the world just seems to get more and more chaotic, more and more unpleasant.
So, what you are saying (or at least implying) is that the world needs a few good despots. Anyone got a copy of "The Prince" handy?
I was of course being sarcastic. I would like to point out that, as I heard in a physics class some place about 30 years ago, that while a pound is a unit of weight, a kilogram is a unit of mass and thus only have this relationship in earth gravity.
In the US we still don't do metric, either we are too good for it or too stupid to figure it out. Who can say? That said, what right do we have to join in this debate?
The citizens are the government and they have elected not to provide this service as a taxpayer funded service. The citizens of this county have CHOSEN to have this service only by subscription. This person was not in danger, nor were any members of his family, so this was not a public safety issue and the government is not under any obligation to protect a persons property from damage the person chooses to inflict on it. If the citizens of the county were to enact a tax to cover the expense of providing county wide fire protection, then they would not have to subscribe to a service. It's quite simple really.
I just can't understand how people can assume the government has unlimited resources. Tax and spend only works when you implement the tax side of the equation. Spend and spend is not viable long term.
It seems that there was a suit in process (or at least threatened) but HTC and MSFT came to a licensing agreement for the technology in question. The diagram seems to have been updated to reflect the current state.
I'm not surprised that Nokia is number one, but I never would have figured Kodak for number two. I never would have considered Kodak in this space at all.
Typically, life-or-death services (e.g. police/fire) fall under the latter, but I guess rural Tennessee is different.
Funny you should mention that, I was watching "House Hunters" on HGTV not too long ago, and they were searching for a home in Tennessee. They looked at homes both inside and outside the small city where they wanted to live and the agent pointed out that the taxes are much lower in the county than in the city. There are consequences for choices like that. This is a common practice in rural parts of the US. Having lived most of my life in Montana, I was actually surprised when I moved to Western Washington to see publicly owned fire houses in rural areas. Every couple years, the people in the counties opt to renew funding for rural fire protection through taxation.
When I was a kid (more than a few decades ago) in Montana, my family moved outside the city to get a bigger space (land and house). When we did, the only services the county provided were the county Sheriff and county road maintenance. I think they had a little equipment for fighting grass fires, but nothing to deal with structures (the costs for equipment and staffing are very different for the two). The county taxes were quite a bit lower than the city taxes and this was the result. For a lot of people who lived in the county lower taxes was a big part of their decision and they got what they paid for. My parents subscribed to a fire fighting service that served most of our county. (They also subscribed to a trash service because the city provided that only to tax payers as well.) We had stickers on every phone, and I think one on the window by the front door, with the number of the fire service, you called them directly back then. There were people in the county who decided they didn't want the protection and decided not to subscribe, but that was their choice and some of them lost their houses every year. Those that lost their homes one year had the reminder of those who lost their homes the year before, but they still chose not to subscribe.
Oh, and we had a burn barrel for burnable trash as well. The trash service charged by the number of cans you had and with 6 children, we produced a lot of trash. What would burn went into a 55 gal drum with no top on it and we threw in a couple of matches.
He made a choice to let his house burn if it caught fire when he decided not to subscribe to the service. The home owner made the call before any of this happened. It was a conscious decision on his part to not pay for the subscription because he had something else he wanted to spend the $75 on. Because he failed to pay the fee, it was too expensive to fully insure his house, so now he whines about that too. It's that simple. They were not mean, or thoughtless or any of those things. They simply followed the rules that everyone who lives in a rural area knows.
Let me say it again, the HOMEOWNER CHOSE TO LET HIS HOUSE BURN when HE FAILED TO SUBSCRIBE. Who are we to deny him his right to choose after all?
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Thanks, the combination of spell check, auto complete and me not paying attention got me again.
I'm looking forward to a chance to play with one of these. Put my name on the list months ago, but haven't peculated up to the top yet. Soon I hope.
The first mistake is that they are still talking in inches instead of metric units.
This was my thought exactly. If we continue to build new standards around obsolete measurement systems we are just pandering to the Luddites. It is time to move America forward into the 19th century. If we can't engineer for the 21st century, we should turn the creation of standards over to people can.
There are a number of slideout and rotatable rack systems out there. I found this one in a couple of minutes. http://www.cableorganizer.com/home-theater-system/SRSR-rotating-sliding-rail-system.htm
Of all the idiotic things I have heard of police departments doing, this has got to be very close to the top. This is right up there with the Eugene cop who tazed a Chinese U of O student because the student didn't speak English!
Isn't this just another step closer to the world of Blade Runner? Soon Make! will have articles on home gene splicing and growing organs with your Arduino controlled Tissue Growth Chamber.
They should simply not show his face or say his name on the air or on their web site for 1 week. Every time he would come up, just lump him with "Other" as in Polls (58% support Other), discussions of candidate statements ("In addition to Ron Paul, other candidates have commented on Gingrich marital problems, one stating 'abcdefg hijkl' ") and so forth. Maybe a couple of pictures of the back of his head at debate would be good.
Well, I guess I have to move a half dozen domains to a new registrar now. Along with hosting for 4 of them. What a pain in the a##, but it must be done. I cannot support a company that supports SOPA in its current form.
Don't you think? It's Mario after all, not some game with "Conflict" in its title.
This is my favorite
I apologize to anyone I may have frightened by my use of the "c" word in my post. Please mentally replace the "c" word with Acco Clip. Again, I apologize profoundly. It was thoughtless on my part.
I have a handful of virtual papers I need to staple and someone stole my virtual stapler. Well, I better check the virtual drawer for a virtual paper clip.
Thanks for speaking out.
They decided not to post it after the victim's (I mean subject's) face melted during the filming. That was considered a little extreme even for YouTube.
When does it cease being food and instead get classified as a chemical weapon or simply toxic waste?
Governments have been increasingly "progressive" for centuries, what with democracy, liberalism, and so on. All the time, progressive policies are being implemented. And yet instead of getting better, the world just seems to get more and more chaotic, more and more unpleasant.
So, what you are saying (or at least implying) is that the world needs a few good despots. Anyone got a copy of "The Prince" handy?
And can you imagine the kill floor? All those people with fly swatters running around trying to catch the critters. It would be pandemonium!
intelligence was rewarded. In fact, if anyone has too much education, they are labeled an elitist.
I was of course being sarcastic. I would like to point out that, as I heard in a physics class some place about 30 years ago, that while a pound is a unit of weight, a kilogram is a unit of mass and thus only have this relationship in earth gravity.
In the US we still don't do metric, either we are too good for it or too stupid to figure it out. Who can say? That said, what right do we have to join in this debate?
The citizens are the government and they have elected not to provide this service as a taxpayer funded service. The citizens of this county have CHOSEN to have this service only by subscription. This person was not in danger, nor were any members of his family, so this was not a public safety issue and the government is not under any obligation to protect a persons property from damage the person chooses to inflict on it. If the citizens of the county were to enact a tax to cover the expense of providing county wide fire protection, then they would not have to subscribe to a service. It's quite simple really.
I just can't understand how people can assume the government has unlimited resources. Tax and spend only works when you implement the tax side of the equation. Spend and spend is not viable long term.
It seems that there was a suit in process (or at least threatened) but HTC and MSFT came to a licensing agreement for the technology in question. The diagram seems to have been updated to reflect the current state.
I'm not surprised that Nokia is number one, but I never would have figured Kodak for number two. I never would have considered Kodak in this space at all.
Typically, life-or-death services (e.g. police/fire) fall under the latter, but I guess rural Tennessee is different.
Funny you should mention that, I was watching "House Hunters" on HGTV not too long ago, and they were searching for a home in Tennessee. They looked at homes both inside and outside the small city where they wanted to live and the agent pointed out that the taxes are much lower in the county than in the city. There are consequences for choices like that. This is a common practice in rural parts of the US. Having lived most of my life in Montana, I was actually surprised when I moved to Western Washington to see publicly owned fire houses in rural areas. Every couple years, the people in the counties opt to renew funding for rural fire protection through taxation.
When I was a kid (more than a few decades ago) in Montana, my family moved outside the city to get a bigger space (land and house). When we did, the only services the county provided were the county Sheriff and county road maintenance. I think they had a little equipment for fighting grass fires, but nothing to deal with structures (the costs for equipment and staffing are very different for the two). The county taxes were quite a bit lower than the city taxes and this was the result. For a lot of people who lived in the county lower taxes was a big part of their decision and they got what they paid for. My parents subscribed to a fire fighting service that served most of our county. (They also subscribed to a trash service because the city provided that only to tax payers as well.) We had stickers on every phone, and I think one on the window by the front door, with the number of the fire service, you called them directly back then. There were people in the county who decided they didn't want the protection and decided not to subscribe, but that was their choice and some of them lost their houses every year. Those that lost their homes one year had the reminder of those who lost their homes the year before, but they still chose not to subscribe.
Oh, and we had a burn barrel for burnable trash as well. The trash service charged by the number of cans you had and with 6 children, we produced a lot of trash. What would burn went into a 55 gal drum with no top on it and we threw in a couple of matches.
He made a choice to let his house burn if it caught fire when he decided not to subscribe to the service. The home owner made the call before any of this happened. It was a conscious decision on his part to not pay for the subscription because he had something else he wanted to spend the $75 on. Because he failed to pay the fee, it was too expensive to fully insure his house, so now he whines about that too. It's that simple. They were not mean, or thoughtless or any of those things. They simply followed the rules that everyone who lives in a rural area knows.
Let me say it again, the HOMEOWNER CHOSE TO LET HIS HOUSE BURN when HE FAILED TO SUBSCRIBE. Who are we to deny him his right to choose after all?