Don't get me wrong it is a sad thing that happened and much may have been lost due to this, but the info in the story does leave something wanting. Most of the time you hear prodigy and that they have done a few things that are amazing. In this case all we have is that someone passed a test. Is there anything out there about what she did after she passed? All I can find is that one fact and that she received many awards for it.
I'm shocked so many people are defending this. I don't see how anyone could say its ok to go up to someone and go "We are going to sue you about something...But we arn't going to tell you what or why until you sign this paper and agree not to tell anyone else.".
No pet I have ever had would stand for this without someone holding them down. Even my cat that will let you do anything you want to it would get up an run like hell if that robot started walking towards him.
The reason it would never happen is every idiot that wasn't smart enough to tell that their computer wasn't on would still press that button going "I know what I'm doing". Its the same reason why so many large call centers make you go through the call tree for every service even if you just have internet, because if they gave you a number that was just for internet support everyone would use it as a shortcut even when their issue has nothing to do with internet.
I do upper level internet support and while I do get people that know what they are talking about I also get probably 9 out of 10 that don't know what you talk about when you say computer. "Oh the big screen on my desk? The green light is flashing on it."
How can you tell? I'm pretty sure when I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R last I was in there. I'm just shocked that I know its not going to be spotless but the place looks like a dump from the photos taken.
I was wondering if someone would point this out. All the banks will do is chargeback the money. Then the charities will get nothing but trouble and fees for the chargebacks.
Hey do they know that in Rift you get an achievement for killing and collecting 20 squirrel tears in the starting area? I've attempted this at home and I can't seem to get any blue gem like tears to drop from them. I'm convinced I just cant find their backpacks yet. But give me time I'll find it before I run out of squirrels (hopefully).
Yeah I'm sorry but your just plain wrong. I talk to people every day that call their computer their modem. And forbid you tell them to type in a website because the first thing they do is put what you gave them in the search field. Heck I still have to tell people that have no pic on their computer to turn the monitor on.
I can recycle my crap and eat it, but after its been eaten once could I recycle it again? Not saying I could ever bring myself to eat this if I knew what it was.
I guess when my contract is up on my smart phone I will be getting another cheap normal phone. I got it for the use it anywhere side of it but if I'm going to be limited on it then I don't even want it.
Remember tho these are the same people that sued to keep people from having DVRs as well. They are just as backwards as the newspapers. Heck most of the chnls out there almost put their own stuff online at least the major stations that are going to be pitching a fit right now.
I don't get why everyone seems to be assuming that you would need an instant charge when you pulled home. Maybe its just me but if I could stop at a gas station and in a few mins charge a charge a car that I could do a few hundred miles on I would be ok with that. When I got home I would be fine with a charge that took a few hours. Right now I would love the cost savings but I want something I can take a 600 mile trip in and not need to stay overnight to charge until I get to my destination. Until I can do something like that I will keep burning my fossil fuels.
I don't think there has been a show on there that I could bring myself to watch. Its sad I used to watch it all the time but when when I go there now I find nothing that even remotely interests me anymore. I would say the last time I even checked what was on was when they started putting WWE SmackDown on it... Other than it being fiction I'm not sure what other part of it belongs on that chnl.
Just in case someone is interested VBS.tv did a video about North Korea. Its a pretty good watch. http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3 What you said was pretty accurate. The people there are happy but its because they don't know anything else and they believe that their government would never lie to them. Personally I keep looking at this and can't figure out how all the countries in the world keep putting up with NK. It seems now is the time for everyone to tell them to sit down and shut up. I mean how would the world respond to any other country telling another country "Don't do those drills or we will start shooting at you". Think about it say Canada did drills off the cost near Maine in the northern US. How would the world act if the US went "If you do those drills we are going to bomb Vancouver!"? The rest of the world would have a fit. But with NK you have people like Russia that "asked South Korea to cancel the drills after North Korea vowed to strike back if they proceed."
All the more reason to ban both of them then. We ban the Motorcycles to protect themselves and we bad SUVs to protect everyone else. I'm shocked people even get upset at this crap now. The US is heading towards being just like the move Demolition man. Whether you like it or hate it as a movie it paints a pretty depressing picture of what the future could be like.
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I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".
Yeah because its not like having hundreds of cars around you on the highway all jamming cellphones is going to cause any interference. That and the fact that how long would it take you to fine some way around it? I can tell you now I use my car in my phone every day but only on hands free through my radio. The issue isn't talking on your phone its idiots that can't walk and chew gum that try to talk on the phone and drive at the same time.
But look at the bright side for those 80k jobs our exports to India
currently support tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the U.S
. I just can't get over crap like this. Call your ISP and you will find at some point for the major ISP companies you will be sent to India. W/ Earthlink I don't think I ever get someone in America the few times I have called for some weird issue. W/ Time Warner forbid I need anything other than their level 1 support because their level 2 goes straight to India. The bottom line is the only people benefiting from anything that is sent over seas are the corporations. Thankfully my Job hasn't been sent there yet but I see the writing on the walls. I started and we had no offshore group. Now we have some of our calls sent to Costa Rica. I'm just hoping that before my job is eliminated that I find something else. I don't want to be one of the people that needs to train my overseas replacement or that needs to take apart my equipment and box it up so it can be shipped to my replacement.
At some point in the race, they struck an 87-year-old woman named Claire Menagh, who was walking in front of the building and, according to the complaint, was "seriously and severely injured," suffering a hip fracture that required surgery. She died three months later of unrelated causes.
No need to pardon. Its stuff like this that makes it no wonder that a large portion of the world goes "WTF is wrong with America?!". Ok they are suing her what are they going to get from her? Money? Do you want her bike? Hell at 4-5 even if you really explain what happened its not something a child will really understand. That if they ever remember the incident.
Heck no. It will probably cost close to if not more than 100k. I will believe in it when I can charge it to full in 10 mins and buy one for the same cost as a normal car. Everything released so far is more than I want to pay for a car that I drive to and from work in.
think that she might just be a crazy lady holding a small hair brush and talking to herself? I mean we have plenty of people downtown by me that do stuff like that all the time.
Thats the issue with so much gun control. They want to ban guns to just law enforcment in the US or do something similarly drastic, but the issue is that a criminal isn't going into your local gun shop to have a background check done. The only thing putting heavy restrictions on the gun purchasing will do is make it take longer for me to buy a new gun.
Seriously folks-- does the sound of someone beaming down terajoules from the sky make you just a little bit nervous? Imagine a solar sun spot causing a sudden atmospheric defraction that sends the beam to say, Tucson by mistake?
There is a good book out about that. Sunstroke by David Kagan.
You also have to figure in that most people wouldn't be working for 24 hours a day. Most would only work 8-12 hours a day. So they are still going to make the money faster than someone to just has a $9.00 an hr job at 8hrs a day with 2 days a week off.
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Don't get me wrong it is a sad thing that happened and much may have been lost due to this, but the info in the story does leave something wanting. Most of the time you hear prodigy and that they have done a few things that are amazing. In this case all we have is that someone passed a test. Is there anything out there about what she did after she passed? All I can find is that one fact and that she received many awards for it.
I'm shocked so many people are defending this. I don't see how anyone could say its ok to go up to someone and go "We are going to sue you about something...But we arn't going to tell you what or why until you sign this paper and agree not to tell anyone else.".
No pet I have ever had would stand for this without someone holding them down. Even my cat that will let you do anything you want to it would get up an run like hell if that robot started walking towards him.
The reason it would never happen is every idiot that wasn't smart enough to tell that their computer wasn't on would still press that button going "I know what I'm doing". Its the same reason why so many large call centers make you go through the call tree for every service even if you just have internet, because if they gave you a number that was just for internet support everyone would use it as a shortcut even when their issue has nothing to do with internet. I do upper level internet support and while I do get people that know what they are talking about I also get probably 9 out of 10 that don't know what you talk about when you say computer. "Oh the big screen on my desk? The green light is flashing on it."
How can you tell? I'm pretty sure when I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R last I was in there. I'm just shocked that I know its not going to be spotless but the place looks like a dump from the photos taken.
I was wondering if someone would point this out. All the banks will do is chargeback the money. Then the charities will get nothing but trouble and fees for the chargebacks.
Hey do they know that in Rift you get an achievement for killing and collecting 20 squirrel tears in the starting area? I've attempted this at home and I can't seem to get any blue gem like tears to drop from them. I'm convinced I just cant find their backpacks yet. But give me time I'll find it before I run out of squirrels (hopefully).
Yeah I'm sorry but your just plain wrong. I talk to people every day that call their computer their modem. And forbid you tell them to type in a website because the first thing they do is put what you gave them in the search field. Heck I still have to tell people that have no pic on their computer to turn the monitor on.
I can recycle my crap and eat it, but after its been eaten once could I recycle it again? Not saying I could ever bring myself to eat this if I knew what it was.
I guess when my contract is up on my smart phone I will be getting another cheap normal phone. I got it for the use it anywhere side of it but if I'm going to be limited on it then I don't even want it.
Remember tho these are the same people that sued to keep people from having DVRs as well. They are just as backwards as the newspapers. Heck most of the chnls out there almost put their own stuff online at least the major stations that are going to be pitching a fit right now.
I don't get why everyone seems to be assuming that you would need an instant charge when you pulled home. Maybe its just me but if I could stop at a gas station and in a few mins charge a charge a car that I could do a few hundred miles on I would be ok with that. When I got home I would be fine with a charge that took a few hours. Right now I would love the cost savings but I want something I can take a 600 mile trip in and not need to stay overnight to charge until I get to my destination. Until I can do something like that I will keep burning my fossil fuels.
I'm waiting to see how it is. If its good I will donate but if I dislike it will find something else to donate to.
I don't think there has been a show on there that I could bring myself to watch. Its sad I used to watch it all the time but when when I go there now I find nothing that even remotely interests me anymore. I would say the last time I even checked what was on was when they started putting WWE SmackDown on it... Other than it being fiction I'm not sure what other part of it belongs on that chnl.
Just in case someone is interested VBS.tv did a video about North Korea. Its a pretty good watch. http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3
What you said was pretty accurate. The people there are happy but its because they don't know anything else and they believe that their government would never lie to them. Personally I keep looking at this and can't figure out how all the countries in the world keep putting up with NK. It seems now is the time for everyone to tell them to sit down and shut up. I mean how would the world respond to any other country telling another country "Don't do those drills or we will start shooting at you". Think about it say Canada did drills off the cost near Maine in the northern US. How would the world act if the US went "If you do those drills we are going to bomb Vancouver!"? The rest of the world would have a fit. But with NK you have people like Russia that "asked South Korea to cancel the drills after North Korea vowed to strike back if they proceed."
All the more reason to ban both of them then. We ban the Motorcycles to protect themselves and we bad SUVs to protect everyone else. I'm shocked people even get upset at this crap now. The US is heading towards being just like the move Demolition man. Whether you like it or hate it as a movie it paints a pretty depressing picture of what the future could be like.
Edgar Friendly
I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".
Yeah because its not like having hundreds of cars around you on the highway all jamming cellphones is going to cause any interference. That and the fact that how long would it take you to fine some way around it? I can tell you now I use my car in my phone every day but only on hands free through my radio. The issue isn't talking on your phone its idiots that can't walk and chew gum that try to talk on the phone and drive at the same time.
But look at the bright side for those 80k jobs our exports to India
currently support tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the U.S
. I just can't get over crap like this. Call your ISP and you will find at some point for the major ISP companies you will be sent to India. W/ Earthlink I don't think I ever get someone in America the few times I have called for some weird issue. W/ Time Warner forbid I need anything other than their level 1 support because their level 2 goes straight to India. The bottom line is the only people benefiting from anything that is sent over seas are the corporations. Thankfully my Job hasn't been sent there yet but I see the writing on the walls. I started and we had no offshore group. Now we have some of our calls sent to Costa Rica. I'm just hoping that before my job is eliminated that I find something else. I don't want to be one of the people that needs to train my overseas replacement or that needs to take apart my equipment and box it up so it can be shipped to my replacement.
At some point in the race, they struck an 87-year-old woman named Claire Menagh, who was walking in front of the building and, according to the complaint, was "seriously and severely injured," suffering a hip fracture that required surgery. She died three months later of unrelated causes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/nyregion/29young.html?_r=1
No need to pardon. Its stuff like this that makes it no wonder that a large portion of the world goes "WTF is wrong with America?!". Ok they are suing her what are they going to get from her? Money? Do you want her bike? Hell at 4-5 even if you really explain what happened its not something a child will really understand. That if they ever remember the incident.
Heck no. It will probably cost close to if not more than 100k. I will believe in it when I can charge it to full in 10 mins and buy one for the same cost as a normal car. Everything released so far is more than I want to pay for a car that I drive to and from work in.
think that she might just be a crazy lady holding a small hair brush and talking to herself? I mean we have plenty of people downtown by me that do stuff like that all the time.
Thats the issue with so much gun control. They want to ban guns to just law enforcment in the US or do something similarly drastic, but the issue is that a criminal isn't going into your local gun shop to have a background check done. The only thing putting heavy restrictions on the gun purchasing will do is make it take longer for me to buy a new gun.
Seriously folks-- does the sound of someone beaming down terajoules from the sky make you just a little bit nervous? Imagine a solar sun spot causing a sudden atmospheric defraction that sends the beam to say, Tucson by mistake?
There is a good book out about that. Sunstroke by David Kagan.
You also have to figure in that most people wouldn't be working for 24 hours a day. Most would only work 8-12 hours a day. So they are still going to make the money faster than someone to just has a $9.00 an hr job at 8hrs a day with 2 days a week off.