I'm a Brit, and have no idea how Obama has arranged this scheme, but I quite like that I pay a little tax over my life, and in exchange have access to medical services as needed.
Your system of "No insurance? GTFO and die on the curb." scares the shit out of me, and is utterly inhumane IMHO.
People in the field would have a device provided by the company, because the employee would be billing back all related expenditure (data and voice) to the company anyway. That device would be locked down by the IT dept; Both Android and iPhone support device policies and central management now, and BlackBerry was designed for this use.
Personal laptops where the user has keys to the kingdom? Yes, those are banned. Laptops I have locked down and set to our our policies, provided by the company? No, they are allowed. The same applies to smartphones. Any further questions?
WoW isn't turn-based. Latency is just as important in WoW as it is in CoD or any other FPS game. If your latency is too high, you'll miss your GCD (activating an ability usually caused other abilities to be blocked for a brief time, typically between 1 and 1.5 seconds. They call it a Global CoolDown). It's the MMO equivalent of missing a sniper shot, or failing to lead a moving target properly. You'll also miss timed events which can often be unforgiving (Missing the roll timings on Spine of Deathwing, for instance). It basically makes all but casual play pointless.
I perhaps could have been clearer. " If there was recently slow or heavy rain, the roads could be very icy." By this I mean that, regardless of whether I can see snow, ice, or melt water, I will treat the road as icy. Having ridden over wet manhole covers on a scooter in my youth, and been involved in a rear-end collision due to "black ice" on the road, I have much respect for slippery road conditions and am well aware of how invisible a hazard it can be.
I have a great ice indicator at home; They're called eyes. If I have to defrost my car in the morning, the roads could be icy. If there was recently slow or heavy rain, the roads could be very icy. In both conditions, I will drive slower and in a higher gear than normal, will use the brakes very sparingly and start decelerating earlier, and will leave a much longer gap between my car and the car in front.
Queue cries of "The ice indicator didn't show that there was ice on the road, so I did 60MPH around that blind bend. I'm not liable!" and a hefty hike in insurance premiums.
250ml, 500ml, 1l, 2l and 4l are typical sales units for dairy products in the UK.
No they're not. Milk is sold in multiples of pints. Alcoholic beverages on tap (lager, ale, cider etc) are sold in half pints or pints, less commonly 1/3 or 2/3. These are the official UK servings under the Weights and Measures Act; You cannot sell these items in other measures; You may display their alternative metric equivalent if you wish (568ml per pint).
I would go so far as to say that it is absolutely your human right to die homeless if you are unwilling to work to support yourself. Welfare is great for those who are faced with a bad situation and need help to get out of it, but it's not meant to be a lifestyle choice.
It's nice to have a system where the least fortunate can afford basic living most of the time, but I wouldn't have a problem if it became much harder to claim benefits in the UK.
** Before a key can be erased from RAM, the corresponding TrueCrypt volume must be dismounted. For non-system volumes, this does not cause any problems. However, as Microsoft currently does not provide any appropriate API for handling the final phase of the system shutdown process, paging files located on encrypted system volumes that are dismounted during the system shutdown process may still contain valid swapped-out memory pages (including portions of Windows system files). This could cause 'blue screen' errors. Therefore, to prevent 'blue screen' errors, TrueCrypt does not dismount encrypted system volumes and consequently cannot clear the master keys of the system volumes when the system is shut down or restarted.
Keys for non-system volumes are securely wiped from memory on dismount, which is automatic as part of the restart / shutdown procedure.
Heh, needlessly modded to oblivion. You must have touched a Groupthink nerve.
Your writing reads like you're having a conversation with the reader. Unless you're doing technical writing, I don't think it's much of an issue; Your point comes across clearly enough. It's just odd to write sentences starting with "And" or "Because" despite doing exactly that, in response to another person's question or statement, in day-to-day conversation.
I remember this old story on the news that a 3 year old picked up a gun, not knowing what it was, and shot his(?) mother when she tried to take it back.
This would prevent stories like that.
So would locking guns in a gun cabinet when not in use, as you're obligated to do.
I know NOTHING about guns, being a Brit, but just from watching FPSRussia on YouTube I can tell you that you don't point a loaded gun at people EVER, you keep the safety catch on at all times except just before you fire, and after firing you check the chamber (receiver?) for a round before you do anything else, just in case you miscounted how many shots you fired. I'm sure there are plenty of other guidelines that morons don't follow, but these are obvious from watching a redneck shoot cans in his back yard.
Unless you have a seizure, or someone else does something moronic (running in front of you, trying to wrestle the gun from you) I can't see any other reason for accidental deaths / injuries involving guns than user error. Please, do give me other examples if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
Uhh, I think you mean someone watched License to Kill and liked the idea. No doubt the idea has been in fiction since long before 1989, but that's the oldest reference I know of (I was six at the time).
One sentence paragraphs, starting sentences with conjunction, and splitting a subject between paragraphs are all signs of an imperfect grasp of English grammar, just as you are suggesting. By any chance are you a member of MENSA? ~
You are compensated for your work in that you are able to use Instagram and Facebook without making any monetary payment.
I agree that this is utterly shitty, but it's more than likely totally legal in both the US and the UK. You use their hosting space for free, they use your pictures in their marketing. If you don't like it set up your own website, on your own dime, and post copyright notices for all of the images. You have the choice to not use Facebook, Instagram, Google, or any other service for which you disagree with the Terms of Use. Yes, there are protections (Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulations, for example) but I doubt any court will see that as applicable here.
Re: Steam. VPN to the US for $5 per month and buy at their rates. First purchase you make saves more than enough compared to the AUS price.
Obviously this is against the ToS, but it's better than 2x game price. Further, only buy sale items, and check the price of sale items against other retailers. I've seen items for £14.99 on Steam which were under £10.00 on Amazon / Play. It's not always the cheapest, but it is often the most convenient.
Absolutely true. However, Big Medis so intent on creating hysteria and moral panic regarding violent robberies / burglaries that the average middle-class home owner thinks that the 14 year old who has, spur of the moment, decided they want your Vauxhall Corsa to drive around for an hour is actually a 30 year old serial rapist who decapitates their victims and puts the head on a pike in his basement. So, they go buy a gun / keep a knife under the bed, and people get killed over a TV or a PS3.
Heh, your memory is a little faulty. In DOS, what you actually did was browse the directory structure before launching an application, unless the application was located in the default path. You might remember having to type "cd [child directory]" several times, or typing out the whole path before launching any application.
Tell me how this is any faster than pressing the Windows Key and entering "wri[Return]" to bring up Libre Office Writer. Before you try, it's not. You're wrong, and Windows 8 does this better.
I've found that I use the mouse less for launching apps when using Windows 8 which I didn't in Windows 7, despite the functionality being the same. Press the Windows key, start typing an app / file name, and hit Return to launch. While the Start Menu existed, I was using the mouse, because we navigate WIMP UIs with a mouse. The Start Screen took that away; It was a full-screen interface all of its own, without menus, and that broke the psychological boundary between me pointing-and-clicking and moving over fully to the keyboard for launching apps.
So, now I've learned that behaviour instead, I've swapped back to Windows 7 with its sensible desktop UI:) Thanks again, Microsoft!
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I'm a Brit, and have no idea how Obama has arranged this scheme, but I quite like that I pay a little tax over my life, and in exchange have access to medical services as needed.
Your system of "No insurance? GTFO and die on the curb." scares the shit out of me, and is utterly inhumane IMHO.
Set to the tune of Call Me Maybe, this could be a hit.
You know why we call this "plumbing"? Because it was done with plumbum, the latin word for lead.
Why didn't they use the Roman word? Must have been too much lead in the water, and they forgot.
In that case THE UNIVERSE is turn based with a tickrate of 10^-43.
Pedant.
People in the field would have a device provided by the company, because the employee would be billing back all related expenditure (data and voice) to the company anyway. That device would be locked down by the IT dept; Both Android and iPhone support device policies and central management now, and BlackBerry was designed for this use.
Personal laptops where the user has keys to the kingdom? Yes, those are banned. Laptops I have locked down and set to our our policies, provided by the company? No, they are allowed. The same applies to smartphones. Any further questions?
WoW isn't turn-based. Latency is just as important in WoW as it is in CoD or any other FPS game. If your latency is too high, you'll miss your GCD (activating an ability usually caused other abilities to be blocked for a brief time, typically between 1 and 1.5 seconds. They call it a Global CoolDown). It's the MMO equivalent of missing a sniper shot, or failing to lead a moving target properly. You'll also miss timed events which can often be unforgiving (Missing the roll timings on Spine of Deathwing, for instance). It basically makes all but casual play pointless.
I perhaps could have been clearer. " If there was recently slow or heavy rain, the roads could be very icy." By this I mean that, regardless of whether I can see snow, ice, or melt water, I will treat the road as icy. Having ridden over wet manhole covers on a scooter in my youth, and been involved in a rear-end collision due to "black ice" on the road, I have much respect for slippery road conditions and am well aware of how invisible a hazard it can be.
I have a great ice indicator at home; They're called eyes. If I have to defrost my car in the morning, the roads could be icy. If there was recently slow or heavy rain, the roads could be very icy. In both conditions, I will drive slower and in a higher gear than normal, will use the brakes very sparingly and start decelerating earlier, and will leave a much longer gap between my car and the car in front.
Queue cries of "The ice indicator didn't show that there was ice on the road, so I did 60MPH around that blind bend. I'm not liable!" and a hefty hike in insurance premiums.
250ml, 500ml, 1l, 2l and 4l are typical sales units for dairy products in the UK.
No they're not. Milk is sold in multiples of pints. Alcoholic beverages on tap (lager, ale, cider etc) are sold in half pints or pints, less commonly 1/3 or 2/3. These are the official UK servings under the Weights and Measures Act; You cannot sell these items in other measures; You may display their alternative metric equivalent if you wish (568ml per pint).
I would go so far as to say that it is absolutely your human right to die homeless if you are unwilling to work to support yourself. Welfare is great for those who are faced with a bad situation and need help to get out of it, but it's not meant to be a lifestyle choice.
It's nice to have a system where the least fortunate can afford basic living most of the time, but I wouldn't have a problem if it became much harder to claim benefits in the UK.
** Before a key can be erased from RAM, the corresponding TrueCrypt volume must be dismounted. For non-system volumes, this does not cause any problems. However, as Microsoft currently does not provide any appropriate API for handling the final phase of the system shutdown process, paging files located on encrypted system volumes that are dismounted during the system shutdown process may still contain valid swapped-out memory pages (including portions of Windows system files). This could cause 'blue screen' errors. Therefore, to prevent 'blue screen' errors, TrueCrypt does not dismount encrypted system volumes and consequently cannot clear the master keys of the system volumes when the system is shut down or restarted.
Keys for non-system volumes are securely wiped from memory on dismount, which is automatic as part of the restart / shutdown procedure.
Heh, needlessly modded to oblivion. You must have touched a Groupthink nerve.
Your writing reads like you're having a conversation with the reader. Unless you're doing technical writing, I don't think it's much of an issue; Your point comes across clearly enough. It's just odd to write sentences starting with "And" or "Because" despite doing exactly that, in response to another person's question or statement, in day-to-day conversation.
I remember this old story on the news that a 3 year old picked up a gun, not knowing what it was, and shot his(?) mother when she tried to take it back. This would prevent stories like that.
So would locking guns in a gun cabinet when not in use, as you're obligated to do.
I know NOTHING about guns, being a Brit, but just from watching FPSRussia on YouTube I can tell you that you don't point a loaded gun at people EVER, you keep the safety catch on at all times except just before you fire, and after firing you check the chamber (receiver?) for a round before you do anything else, just in case you miscounted how many shots you fired. I'm sure there are plenty of other guidelines that morons don't follow, but these are obvious from watching a redneck shoot cans in his back yard.
Unless you have a seizure, or someone else does something moronic (running in front of you, trying to wrestle the gun from you) I can't see any other reason for accidental deaths / injuries involving guns than user error. Please, do give me other examples if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
Uhh, I think you mean someone watched License to Kill and liked the idea. No doubt the idea has been in fiction since long before 1989, but that's the oldest reference I know of (I was six at the time).
Read up on Ambivalent Attachment Disorder. It's not on the Autistic spectrum, but it is developmental, and it's scary as hell.
One sentence paragraphs, starting sentences with conjunction, and splitting a subject between paragraphs are all signs of an imperfect grasp of English grammar, just as you are suggesting. By any chance are you a member of MENSA? ~
You are compensated for your work in that you are able to use Instagram and Facebook without making any monetary payment.
I agree that this is utterly shitty, but it's more than likely totally legal in both the US and the UK. You use their hosting space for free, they use your pictures in their marketing. If you don't like it set up your own website, on your own dime, and post copyright notices for all of the images. You have the choice to not use Facebook, Instagram, Google, or any other service for which you disagree with the Terms of Use. Yes, there are protections (Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulations, for example) but I doubt any court will see that as applicable here.
Re: Steam.
VPN to the US for $5 per month and buy at their rates. First purchase you make saves more than enough compared to the AUS price.
Obviously this is against the ToS, but it's better than 2x game price. Further, only buy sale items, and check the price of sale items against other retailers. I've seen items for £14.99 on Steam which were under £10.00 on Amazon / Play. It's not always the cheapest, but it is often the most convenient.
Andrews and Arnold in the UK. http://aaisp.net/.
Absolutely true. However, Big Medis so intent on creating hysteria and moral panic regarding violent robberies / burglaries that the average middle-class home owner thinks that the 14 year old who has, spur of the moment, decided they want your Vauxhall Corsa to drive around for an hour is actually a 30 year old serial rapist who decapitates their victims and puts the head on a pike in his basement. So, they go buy a gun / keep a knife under the bed, and people get killed over a TV or a PS3.
Blame the news corps.
Heh, your memory is a little faulty. In DOS, what you actually did was browse the directory structure before launching an application, unless the application was located in the default path. You might remember having to type "cd [child directory]" several times, or typing out the whole path before launching any application.
Tell me how this is any faster than pressing the Windows Key and entering "wri[Return]" to bring up Libre Office Writer. Before you try, it's not. You're wrong, and Windows 8 does this better.
I've found that I use the mouse less for launching apps when using Windows 8 which I didn't in Windows 7, despite the functionality being the same. Press the Windows key, start typing an app / file name, and hit Return to launch. While the Start Menu existed, I was using the mouse, because we navigate WIMP UIs with a mouse. The Start Screen took that away; It was a full-screen interface all of its own, without menus, and that broke the psychological boundary between me pointing-and-clicking and moving over fully to the keyboard for launching apps.
:) Thanks again, Microsoft!
So, now I've learned that behaviour instead, I've swapped back to Windows 7 with its sensible desktop UI
Vexatious litigation?
I smell a Kickstarter / Indigogo project.