I miss the outrage? I have flown dozens of times since 9/11. From major airports and minor. I have never been inconvenienced, I have never felt that what was being done was overdone. I have never felt the need to lash out at the security lines regardless of their need.
I hate to use the old standby, but do you people feel the urge to hide something? So a stranger gropes you... is your moral fiber that weak that it will affect you long term?
I just really miss the point of the angst. Either form a lobby group, get changes made or shut the fuck up. Pretty simple.
Really? Funny, but I can't remember a single example of a 4-year-old obviously American child traveling in the US with her grandmother who has ever blown anything up.
Funny but I can't remember a single example of someone taking over an aircraft with box cutters.
[I'm speaking from August 2001]
Funny but I can't remember a single example of someone trying to take over an aircraft with a shoe bomb.
Funny but I can't remember a single example of someone trying to take over an aircraft with their underwear full of explosives.
The family's suggestion was that since the attempts to pat down the child were distressing her, the agents have the child go through the metal detector again, or use a wand to check her for metal objects.
To catch all the metallic plastic explosives she had on her?
Wait, that's not right... plastic explosives AREN'T metallic.
Citation please? According to Wikipedia, the only terrorist group to employ this tactic is Hamas, even though Israeli security does screen women -- which rather invalidates the theory.
Yes, it is 'real' money. I can pay any debts with it, pretty much every business in the US accepts it, it is also accepted in places internationally, people price oil in terms of it, etc. Buttcoins have none of that and are useful for buying drugs, laundering money and other shady dealings.
You'd be amazed how much booze and hookers our (US) country's original paper money bought.
Well, not (you) per se, I'm sure you already knew that.
Wait. You're concerned with what a tax-preparer's desk will look like in relation to looking like they know what they're doing? I'd say sticking with CRTs until the need to be replaced is *exactly* the sort of sign that you'd be looking for. After all, they're not charging you so much of a premium that they can just go out and buy the latest and greatest whenever they want *and* they're not going to do something different just to look 'new'. Fiscal conservatism is *exactly* what you want to see from an accountant.
Until you know how to do my job, don't question how I'm doing it.
There is no easy way to fit two people that don't know each other at a desk and share information on a monitor that isn't easily pivotable left right.
The depth of the CRT's not only makes the swivel back and forth to accommodate mom, dad and the young uns into the process, a laborious task, as the connection points are at the far end which interferes with the snug travel down to the box snug so there aren't wires everywhere, which was a corporate sent directive.
But it also limits the amount of room I have to store forms, books and informational packets for my clients resulting in my having to get up for a central area of forms, sometimes waiting for others to get them, etc.
WASTING MY CLIENT'S TIME.
So, no... I don't want a "pretty new monitor" I want to work at the efficiency level I know I can work at, when I have all of my materials present.
I simply felt that geek cred, would have you knowing that answer.
A few different ways to devise a method to determine power consumption. Digital voltmeter, Kill-A-Watt, count the LEDs and multiply by their wattage.
If you had a (ridiculous) number of 1W LEDs, let's say 14, then it would be equiv to a standard "60W" CFL. Since you probably don't in that KB, using the keyboard in lieu of additional illumination would net a savings.
Sorry, I just assume my geek brethern take in-depth interest into their power usage. Maybe I'm the only kill-a-watt nerd here, but I know EXACTLY how much juice every pluggable thing in my house uses.
And boy, after I built my last production workstation... WOW, it's power usage gave me a heart attack. The Kill-A-Watt said $60/mo for elec, JUST for that computer!
I seriously UNDERCLOCKED that bitch after that, just to get it to idle @ 165-185W. Use the ASRock util, whenever I'm rendering or whathave.
Problem is... everyone is getting all butt hurt over stupid semantics. Virus and trojan cannot be compared, because one is payload, one is methodology.
Here is a really simple sentence that in summary, to anyone intelligent, would end all of this.
[Potentially] every computer/OS combo and variant is susceptible in some form or fashion to have code executed with or without specific intent and resulting in undesirable effects.
Right? I didn't say any of the "bad words". So, everyone agree? Good, let's end the bickering.
How you do figure, where's your data? Their data clearly shows that a CRT displaying all white uses 85W, and the same monitor displaying all black uses 63W, which sounds to me like it's using 25% less power to display the black screen.
True. But really, who's using a CRT these days? Especially with a mobile device or some other method where you're using a battery instead of running off the mains? The fact that the power draw of a CRT changes with the image is technically true, but it's also practically irrelevant since CRT is a dead technology.
Up until last year, the cheap asses @ H&R Block were all tube monitors.
I tried to tell some higher ups, "how are we supposed to look like we know what we are doing, if we have monitors that still take up 1/4 of our desk area?"
Like all greedy capitalistic US companies, this concept fell on deaf ears. I show all my friends how easy it is to do taxes online, from the comfort of their home. I don't think H&R is long for the world as its current incarnate.
Texas In 2005 Texas passed House Bill 94[31] which created an exception to a 1973 statute,[32] which required a person to retreat in the face of a criminal attack. In 2007 Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 378 which extends a person’s right to stand their ground beyond the home to vehicles and workplaces, allowing the reasonable use of deadly force when an intruder is: Committing certain violent crimes, such as murder or sexual assault, or is attempting to commit such crimes; Unlawfully trying to enter a protected place; or Unlawfully trying to remove a person from a protected place.[33] Senate Bill 378, made effective September 1, 2007, also "abolishes the duty to retreat if the defendant can show he: (1) had a right to be present at the location where deadly force was used; (2) did not provoke the person against whom deadly force was used; and (3) was not engaged in criminal activity at the time deadly force was used."[34]
IANAL and law is about interpretation... I do interpret that to extend further than you take it.
But I live in AZ, where it's not restricted, so I may be skewed.
With an average death rate compared with other states, the Castle Doctrine doesn't appear to be making much of difference.
Nice law though - invite someone into your home, and blow their head off. Claim they had broken in. Profit!
Texas has a stand-your-ground law, like the one involving the Trayvon case.
No need to invite anyone into your house. Just follow them around while talking to 911, then approach them, then realize you're getting your ass beat, then shoot them and claim it was self-defense.
-AI
Btw, I am NOT against Castle or Stand your ground... but I am against dumb asses causing so much politically charged news cause they couldn't mind their own damn business, or at least couldn't bring themselves to act as a proxy and eyes for law enforcement without taking physical actions.
As long as the signal is not altered, it should be retransmittable by anyone. The fact that this is currently not the case is a gross error in the current law.
Just because it's broadcast over the public airwaves does not make the broadcast public domain. It's still copyrighted, and by redistributing the signal, it seems to be clear copyright infringement to me.
You walk along and dump dollars on the ground.
The dollars have advertising on them.
You sue the people that pick up the dollars and don't spend them on the people advertising on them.
That is the key sentence, I believe. Back when TNN, I think it was them?, tried streaming their cable services to iPads there were comments from the industry that this was causing an up roar.
ATSC is a MPEG2 Transport stream. there is no "encode to video packets" as it's already video packets. there is ZERO computing power to take a OTA TV station and stream it onto the internet. IT's simply changing from wireless to wire the file stream stays the same.
It's why I can record 20 ATSC or QAM channels at the same time using a old Pentium III to a U SCSI hard drive. all I am doing is moving bits.
Zero, really? Lil bit expansion of truth for purpose of demonstration?
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I miss the outrage? I have flown dozens of times since 9/11.
From major airports and minor. I have never been inconvenienced,
I have never felt that what was being done was overdone. I have
never felt the need to lash out at the security lines regardless of
their need.
I hate to use the old standby, but do you people feel the urge
to hide something? So a stranger gropes you... is your moral
fiber that weak that it will affect you long term?
I just really miss the point of the angst. Either form a lobby group,
get changes made or shut the fuck up. Pretty simple.
-AI
Really? Funny, but I can't remember a single example of a 4-year-old obviously American child traveling in the US with her grandmother who has ever blown anything up.
Funny but I can't remember a single example of someone taking over an aircraft with box cutters.
[I'm speaking from August 2001]
Funny but I can't remember a single example of someone trying to take over an aircraft with a shoe bomb.
Funny but I can't remember a single example of someone trying to take over an aircraft with their underwear full of explosives.
Shall I continue?
-AI
The family's suggestion was that since the attempts to pat down the child were distressing her, the agents have the child go through the metal detector again, or use a wand to check her for metal objects.
To catch all the metallic plastic explosives she had on her?
Wait, that's not right... plastic explosives AREN'T metallic.
-AI
Citation please? According to Wikipedia, the only terrorist group to employ this tactic is Hamas, even though Israeli security does screen women -- which rather invalidates the theory.
You're fucking kidding right? Or a fucking kid?
Ever hear of Vietnam you idiot?
-AI
Yes, it is 'real' money. I can pay any debts with it, pretty much every business in the US accepts it, it is also accepted in places internationally, people price oil in terms of it, etc. Buttcoins have none of that and are useful for buying drugs, laundering money and other shady dealings.
You'd be amazed how much booze and hookers our (US) country's original paper money bought.
Well, not (you) per se, I'm sure you already knew that.
-AI
Wait. You're concerned with what a tax-preparer's desk will look like in relation to looking like they know what they're doing? I'd say sticking with CRTs until the need to be replaced is *exactly* the sort of sign that you'd be looking for. After all, they're not charging you so much of a premium that they can just go out and buy the latest and greatest whenever they want *and* they're not going to do something different just to look 'new'. Fiscal conservatism is *exactly* what you want to see from an accountant.
Until you know how to do my job, don't question how
I'm doing it.
There is no easy way to fit two people that don't know
each other at a desk and share information on a monitor
that isn't easily pivotable left right.
The depth of the CRT's not only makes the swivel back
and forth to accommodate mom, dad and the young uns
into the process, a laborious task, as the connection points
are at the far end which interferes with the snug travel
down to the box snug so there aren't wires everywhere,
which was a corporate sent directive.
But it also limits the amount of room I have to store forms,
books and informational packets for my clients resulting in
my having to get up for a central area of forms, sometimes
waiting for others to get them, etc.
WASTING MY CLIENT'S TIME.
So, no... I don't want a "pretty new monitor" I want to work
at the efficiency level I know I can work at, when I have all
of my materials present.
Thanks for playing.
-AI
I simply felt that geek cred, would have you knowing that answer.
A few different ways to devise a method to determine power consumption.
Digital voltmeter, Kill-A-Watt, count the LEDs and multiply by their wattage.
If you had a (ridiculous) number of 1W LEDs, let's say 14, then it would
be equiv to a standard "60W" CFL. Since you probably don't in that KB,
using the keyboard in lieu of additional illumination would net a savings.
Sorry, I just assume my geek brethern take in-depth interest into their
power usage. Maybe I'm the only kill-a-watt nerd here, but I know EXACTLY
how much juice every pluggable thing in my house uses.
And boy, after I built my last production workstation... WOW, it's power
usage gave me a heart attack. The Kill-A-Watt said $60/mo for elec, JUST
for that computer!
I seriously UNDERCLOCKED that bitch after that, just to get it to idle
@ 165-185W. Use the ASRock util, whenever I'm rendering or whathave.
-AI
He knows
-AI
Problem is... everyone is getting all butt hurt over stupid semantics. Virus and trojan cannot be compared, because one is payload, one is methodology.
Here is a really simple sentence that in summary, to anyone intelligent, would end all of this.
[Potentially] every computer/OS combo and variant is susceptible in some form or fashion to have code executed with or without specific intent and resulting in undesirable effects.
Right? I didn't say any of the "bad words". So, everyone agree? Good, let's end the bickering.
-AI
So is an illuminated keyboard an energy waste or an energy saving? How much power does it use versus a light bulb?
Dude... you've got a 6 digit ID and you asked this question??
-AI
True. But really, who's using a CRT these days? Especially with a mobile device or some other method where you're using a battery instead of running off the mains? The fact that the power draw of a CRT changes with the image is technically true, but it's also practically irrelevant since CRT is a dead technology.
Up until last year, the cheap asses @ H&R Block were all tube monitors.
I tried to tell some higher ups, "how are we supposed to look like we know
what we are doing, if we have monitors that still take up 1/4 of our desk area?"
Like all greedy capitalistic US companies, this concept fell on deaf ears.
I show all my friends how easy it is to do taxes online, from the comfort
of their home. I don't think H&R is long for the world as its current incarnate.
-AI
Ikea announces furniture with built in commodes.
Why the hell walk your hulking frame to the loo,
when you can have it right under your gravitationally
looming ass!
-AI
Good, that's what the economy needs... people that don't want
to work, so that those that do.. can get some needed money.
Keep turning that work down, you're making America stronger
in the process.
-AI
Cliche, but... Coders are a dime a dozen. The actual idea is what matters.
FTFY
If your way was correct, we'd have 100's of implementations of EVERY idea.
We don't, but we do have 1000's of coders for every idea.
Texas
In 2005 Texas passed House Bill 94[31] which created an exception to a 1973 statute,[32] which required a person to retreat in the face of a criminal attack.
In 2007 Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 378 which extends a person’s right to stand their ground beyond the home to vehicles and workplaces, allowing the reasonable use of deadly force when an intruder is:
Committing certain violent crimes, such as murder or sexual assault, or is attempting to commit such crimes;
Unlawfully trying to enter a protected place; or
Unlawfully trying to remove a person from a protected place.[33]
Senate Bill 378, made effective September 1, 2007, also "abolishes the duty to retreat if the defendant can show he: (1) had a right to be present at the location where deadly force was used; (2) did not provoke the person against whom deadly force was used; and (3) was not engaged in criminal activity at the time deadly force was used."[34]
IANAL and law is about interpretation... I do interpret that to
extend further than you take it.
But I live in AZ, where it's not restricted, so I may be skewed.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/html/SB00378F.HTM
-AI
Sure. I live in Texas.
Cool
I own several guns.
That was assumed from the previous statement.
In fact I thought it was mandatory.
They assign them at the border.
-AI
With an average death rate compared with other states, the Castle Doctrine doesn't appear to be making much of difference.
Nice law though - invite someone into your home, and blow their head off. Claim they had broken in. Profit!
Texas has a stand-your-ground law, like the one involving the Trayvon case.
No need to invite anyone into your house. Just follow them around while talking
to 911, then approach them, then realize you're getting your ass beat, then shoot
them and claim it was self-defense.
-AI
Btw, I am NOT against Castle or Stand your ground... but I am against dumb
asses causing so much politically charged news cause they couldn't mind their
own damn business, or at least couldn't bring themselves to act as a proxy and
eyes for law enforcement without taking physical actions.
She's a nutter, RTFA.
-AI
As long as the signal is not altered, it should be retransmittable by anyone. The fact that this is currently not the case is a gross error in the current law.
That's a very sage statement...
"as long as the signal is not altered."
-AI
Just because it's broadcast over the public airwaves does not make the broadcast public domain. It's still copyrighted, and by redistributing the signal, it seems to be clear copyright infringement to me.
You walk along and dump dollars on the ground.
The dollars have advertising on them.
You sue the people that pick up the dollars and
don't spend them on the people advertising on them.
I think this summarizes the OTA TV industry.
-AI
another dying industry trying to sue its way out of extinction. the revolution will not be televised because it is television.
Why only a score of 1?
He even had a witty saying at the end.
No caps, but still at least punctuation.
-AI
That is the key sentence, I believe. Back when TNN, I think it was them?, tried streaming their cable services to iPads there were comments from the industry that this was causing an up roar.
TNN ceased in 2003.
-AI
ATSC is a MPEG2 Transport stream. there is no "encode to video packets" as it's already video packets. there is ZERO computing power to take a OTA TV station and stream it onto the internet. IT's simply changing from wireless to wire the file stream stays the same.
It's why I can record 20 ATSC or QAM channels at the same time using a old Pentium III to a U SCSI hard drive. all I am doing is moving bits.
Zero, really? Lil bit expansion of truth for purpose of demonstration?
-AI
so that would mean that going to use the bathroom or the kitchen to get a snack is implicity illegal.
---
(posting AC because of mod points)
Don't lie, you're posting AC cause you don't want to go to jail for illegally taking a bathroom break.
YOU CRIMINAL!
-AI
You really think that would have worked? I think that's naive and impractical.
I think it would have worked... a million dollars back then? /s
It's worth at least $200,000 nowadays =)
-AI
Q. How do you make a small fortune?
A. Start with a large one.