The flight attendent told us that the pilot could not see the airport, being a plane full of locals who had flown in and out several times (including at least one pilot) we looked out the window and said, "no. Their it is."
She left, and came back and said "the tower won't let us land"...we all were silent. How could we land if the tower wasn't going to let us. She played the trump card...except we all knew that Jackson has no tower. Someone asked her to repeat herself. Someone else asked her to verify with the piolot. She went forward and came back, confirming that the tower would not let us land. We went nuts. It started out polite enough, but once she added that we would not be comped a room because the delay was weather related, she had a real revolt on board. She refused to to admit that she lied.
Eventually she went forward and we never saw her again. I think she hid in the cockpit while we disembarked. We did not land in Jackson, we flew to SLC Utah and were comped a room. I understand that the young guy on the plane who was still going bonkers when we landed got comped an additional flight voucher.
But the fact is it happens all the time. People lie. Being on an airplane does not stop that, it just means their is no place for you to run.
Twenty minutes befor us and fourty minutes after us a competing airline landed their jets.
The concept of free music having a say in all this can be minimized now, because there are no big names doing the free thing. We need to quickly either turn a big star, or promote from within to show that success can happen without copywrite, otherwise we wont ge a say in the debate.
Although it is taxation without representation, I live in PA and work in Wilmington DE. I can use almost every service in Wilmington. I have a library card and use it often. The roads, cops and firemen do not ask which state I live in when I utilize their services. The only real bummer is that there are no autoshops near work that will inspect my car. As a result I will have to take a day off in order to get my car inspected.
In the U.S. during the growth west, the railroads did something similar ( I don't know if anyone objected ), they would when taking your ticket, punch holes in it based on your appearances. That way when the train was robbed, they did not have to worry about eye witnesses to describe the robbers, height, eye color, and weight had already been recorded for each and every passenger. In order to figure out what the person who robbed the train looked like you just gave everyone their ticket back and...
Checking for ID is not to prevent the determined attacker. It is so we can identify them after the fact. What are the chances we would have found out who all of the hijackers were if anon travel was ok?
Bah! More like $150,000/year. There is no patented medicine that you can get a year's supply for $1000. Consider that their market will be everyone, not just those that suffer from some existing condition and the price will be higher than any other.
Yea,I don't know where you are, but in Delaware there are no more pay phones. High Schools and some malls, but that is it.
I got lost going to an interview in DE and when I looked for a pay phone, I was told to try the High School, and that all of the pay phones were removed like five years ago.
I must repeat what everyone else is saying about degrees. They show more than just an aptitude to code, which is what certs show, they show an ability to deal with large organizations.
However, for those that already have a degree and are otherwise in the same boat, try what I did. I was out of work for 8 months. I started with the temp agencies as soon as I lost my job and there were some responses, but no offers. Then I figured I should be doing something better with my time, so I started volunteering my computer services to my daughter's school. During a fire alarm I started talking to an admin who's brother does headhunting and next thing I know I am back at work.
Further because I had a former co-worker that worked for the same VERY LARGE client, who was able to give me a great recommendation, I bested out all the other candidates. (second lesson, NEVER burn bridges)
Prior to putting one of these in service I would expect a voting board, to set up two polling places a real one, using current technology and a test one. The test one would have to be inaccessible to the public, until after you vote at the real one. Then as people leave, ask them if they would help test new technology in voting. Explain that the ballot will not count, and that the names they see on the inside are factious. Then when they go in, ask them to mark down what names they vote for on a piece of paper and audit the results.
You would be even advised to video their interaction with the machine, for full auditing purposes.
mraymer (516227) wrote: >Doesn't the US government realize that positive >reinforcement (i.e. Tell us what we want and you >can have a nice meal, anything you want... ) is >far more effective than "Tell us what we want or >we're going to beat the shit out of you."
Why doesn't this work in reverse. I thought GPL says that you can not include it in priopietary software. If they take functionality from GPL code and include it in their software isn't that a violation using the same logic?
Lots of professions have malpractice insurance, without costs spiraling out of control. (The problem with medical malpractice has more to do with otherwise intelligent people getting out of jury duty leaving only the gullible ones to award millions without challenge)
If the user does not want to pay for the insured software with signed off, then it could still be used. Just don't let my heart failure go unnoticed because of a general protection fault.
It would not end free software, but for critical installations it would insure that someone who is qualified has insured that it will work with in the current guidelines.
I would feel much safer know that my heart monitor is run using open source software than proprietary software. At least with open source I can have ANY independent person look over the program. With proprietary software everyone that looks over the code has to sign his or her soul over.
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George Carlin does a great job on words and how they have changed in his 1998 album "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics"
Silly lawsuits would be brought less often, if laywers thought that they would get reasonable people on a jury. But because their exists a culture where only those with really unimportant jobs serve on jury duty, only those that can be put into really unimportant jobs serve on jury duty.
If more reasonable people served on juries then you would see a lot less silly lawsuits.
When asked to serve, then serve. Otherwise you are the cause of 2 million dollar cups of coffee, and warnings on everything.
I was arguing pro union and the guy in the next cube was anti-union. His argument went like this:
Him: My wife has to pay something like $50/month to the union out of her own pay, and in return she gets nothing!
Me: What job does she do?
Him: She teaches in Upper Darby. (He then went on to rant about how it's worse in Philadelphia)
Me cutting him off: Why doesn't she work for one of the private schools. She would have a better working environment and would not have to deal with unions.
Him: But she has to work for the public schools. The private schools don't pay squat.
At this point, I figured he made my point. But he did not get it. The union, not the public school got her more pay.
Also the union, not the employer has bosses that the members vote on. If you don't like the way the union is going, then run to become a leader.
It should also be noted that in many companies where union workers are. The best of the workers quickly become management. Their pay is not tied to the union wage.
Even if you don't become management there are very few unions that dictate a maximum pay. So if you can argue that you are worth more, argue it and get it.
There are three aspects to every task. 1) How much do you like doing this task? 2) How good are you at this task compared to others. 3) What do you receive in exchange for doing this task?
There are lots of minor rule definitions I have added to this, (like rule 2 is in comparison to everyone else, e.g.: being an ok brain surgen is better than being great at sweeping floors)
As soon as I discovered this it seemed obvious which of the tasks I undertake should get more time. For example I play much less computer games and watch much less mindless t.v. I also volunteer more, I coach H.S. sports and recently signed up as a volunteer fireman.
Come up with your own method of scoring each point. Please let me know if you want to suggest another. btw: how long the task takes and how much it costs you are take care of in 3. Thus I no longer ski as much. Its just too expensive and too far from where I live.
No wind. No view. No having you and 8 friends all riding at once. Regardless of risk, it would not seem as scary, just jaring. Here, get in this box, and I will pick it up and shake it.
in considering closed systems you should demand that they have been around for 10 years.
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I was amazed when my father was in the hospital, on a resparator and unable to talk, that they had no implementation of a device like this! Does anyone know of an application that uses a wireless mouse to help someone on a resparater. These are people who often find themselves in a hospital bed, with a tube down their throat, unable to talk, and often with their hands tied to the beds. (I was told this is because of all the drugs the patient has often results in halutinations).
I am not much for tinkering, but I would guess that you could set something like this up pretty easy.
If you know of such a device, please reply. I now have a cousin who fell down a flight of stairs over the weekend, and is on a resparator.
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I was on a plane from Denver to Jackson WY.
The flight attendent told us that the pilot could not see the airport, being a plane full of locals who had flown in and out several times (including at least one pilot) we looked out the window and said, "no. Their it is."
She left, and came back and said "the tower won't let us land"...we all were silent. How could we land if the tower wasn't going to let us. She played the trump card...except we all knew that Jackson has no tower. Someone asked her to repeat herself. Someone else asked her to verify with the piolot. She went forward and came back, confirming that the tower would not let us land. We went nuts. It started out polite enough, but once she added that we would not be comped a room because the delay was weather related, she had a real revolt on board. She refused to to admit that she lied.
Eventually she went forward and we never saw her again. I think she hid in the cockpit while we disembarked. We did not land in Jackson, we flew to SLC Utah and were comped a room. I understand that the young guy on the plane who was still going bonkers when we landed got comped an additional flight voucher.
But the fact is it happens all the time. People lie. Being on an airplane does not stop that, it just means their is no place for you to run.
Twenty minutes befor us and fourty minutes after us a competing airline landed their jets.
The concept of free music having a say in all this
can be minimized now, because there are no big names
doing the free thing. We need to quickly either
turn a big star, or promote from within to show
that success can happen without copywrite, otherwise
we wont ge a say in the debate.
my two cents.
Although it is taxation without representation, I live in PA and work in Wilmington DE. I can use almost every service in Wilmington. I have a library card and use it often. The roads, cops and firemen do not ask which state I live in when I utilize their services. The only real bummer is that there are no autoshops near work that will inspect my car. As a result I will have to take a day off in order to get my car inspected.
In the U.S. during the growth west, the railroads did something similar ( I don't know if anyone objected ), they would when taking your ticket, punch holes in it based on your appearances. That way when the train was robbed, they did not have to worry about eye witnesses to describe the robbers, height, eye color, and weight had already been recorded for each and every passenger. In order to figure out what the person who robbed the train looked like you just gave everyone their ticket back and ...
Checking for ID is not to prevent the determined attacker. It is so we can identify them after the fact. What are the chances we would have found out who all of the hijackers were if anon travel was ok?
Bah! More like $150,000/year.
There is no patented medicine that you can get a year's supply for $1000. Consider that their market will be everyone, not just those that suffer from some existing condition and the price will be higher than any other.
Yea,I don't know where you are, but in Delaware there are no more pay phones. High Schools and some malls, but that is it.
I got lost going to an interview in DE and when I looked for a pay phone, I was told to try the High School, and that all of the pay phones were removed like five years ago.
I must repeat what everyone else is saying about degrees. They show more than just an aptitude to code, which is what certs show, they show an ability to deal with large organizations.
However, for those that already have a degree and are otherwise in the same boat, try what I did. I was out of work for 8 months. I started with the temp agencies as soon as I lost my job and there were some responses, but no offers. Then I figured I should be doing something better with my time, so I started volunteering my computer services to my daughter's school. During a fire alarm I started talking to an admin who's brother does headhunting and next thing I know I am back at work.
Further because I had a former co-worker that worked for the same VERY LARGE client, who was able to give me a great recommendation, I bested out all the other candidates. (second lesson, NEVER burn bridges)
That's my story and I am sticking to it.
Prior to putting one of these in service I would expect a voting board, to set up two polling places a real one, using current technology and a test one. The test one would have to be inaccessible to the public, until after you vote at the real one. Then as people leave, ask them if they would help test new technology in voting. Explain that the ballot will not count, and that the names they see on the inside are factious. Then when they go in, ask them to mark down what names they vote for on a piece of paper and audit the results.
You would be even advised to video their interaction with the machine, for full auditing purposes.
Saeed al-Sahaf (665390) wrote:
> voting officials still have no clue or interest
So go and get yourself elected as a votinig offical.
Stop complaining and do somthing.
mraymer (516227) wrote:
>Doesn't the US government realize that positive
>reinforcement (i.e. Tell us what we want and you
>can have a nice meal, anything you want... ) is
>far more effective than "Tell us what we want or
>we're going to beat the shit out of you."
What is your source for this?
Why doesn't this work in reverse.
I thought GPL says that you can not include it in priopietary software. If they take functionality from GPL code and include it in their software isn't that a violation using the same logic?
Look behind and infront of the knees of the gunman
Then who is this?
Charles Childs
8002 Bellcreek Ln
Dayton, OH
(937) 837-6997
phone.people.yahoo.com
Lots of professions have malpractice insurance, without costs spiraling out of control. (The problem with medical malpractice has more to do with otherwise intelligent people getting out of jury duty leaving only the gullible ones to award millions without challenge)
If the user does not want to pay for the insured software with signed off, then it could still be used. Just don't let my heart failure go unnoticed because of a general protection fault.
It would not end free software, but for critical installations it would insure that someone who is qualified has insured that it will work with in the current guidelines.
I would feel much safer know that my heart monitor is run using open source software than proprietary software. At least with open source I can have ANY independent person look over the program. With proprietary software everyone that looks over the code has to sign his or her soul over.
George Carlin does a great job on words and how they have changed in his 1998 album "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics"
Shell Shocked became Post Tramatic Stress Syndrom
Fired became Reducing Redundencies
Killing became Population Adjustment
Deaf became hearing impared
Stupid became Has a Learning Disorder
Old became Senior Citenzen
Silly lawsuits would be brought less often, if laywers thought that they would get reasonable people on a jury. But because their exists a culture where only those with really unimportant jobs serve on jury duty, only those that can be put into really unimportant jobs serve on jury duty.
If more reasonable people served on juries then you would see a lot less silly lawsuits.
When asked to serve, then serve. Otherwise you are the cause of 2 million dollar cups of coffee, and warnings on everything.
Mark
I was arguing pro union and the guy in the next cube was anti-union. His argument went like this:
Him: My wife has to pay something like $50/month to the union out of her own pay, and in return she gets nothing!
Me: What job does she do?
Him: She teaches in Upper Darby. (He then went on to rant about how it's worse in Philadelphia)
Me cutting him off: Why doesn't she work for one of the private schools. She would have a better working environment and would not have to deal with unions.
Him: But she has to work for the public schools. The private schools don't pay squat.
At this point, I figured he made my point. But he did not get it. The union, not the public school got her more pay.
Also the union, not the employer has bosses that the members vote on. If you don't like the way the union is going, then run to become a leader.
It should also be noted that in many companies where union workers are. The best of the workers quickly become management. Their pay is not tied to the union wage.
Even if you don't become management there are very few unions that dictate a maximum pay. So if you can argue that you are worth more, argue it and get it.
The employee can be more powerfull than the emmployer if s/he belongs to a union.
There are three aspects to every task.
1) How much do you like doing this task?
2) How good are you at this task compared to others.
3) What do you receive in exchange for doing this task?
There are lots of minor rule definitions I have added to this, (like rule 2 is in comparison to everyone else, e.g.: being an ok brain surgen is better than being great at sweeping floors)
As soon as I discovered this it seemed obvious which of the tasks I undertake should get more time. For example I play much less computer games and watch much less mindless t.v. I also volunteer more, I coach H.S. sports and recently signed up as a volunteer fireman.
Come up with your own method of scoring each point. Please let me know if you want to suggest another. btw: how long the task takes and how much it costs you are take care of in 3. Thus I no longer ski as much. Its just too expensive and too far from where I live.
Mark
No wind. No view. No having you and 8 friends all riding at once. Regardless of risk, it would not seem as scary, just jaring.
Here, get in this box, and I will pick it up and shake it.
No sig.
in considering closed systems you should demand that they have been around for 10 years.
I was amazed when my father was in the hospital, on a resparator and unable to talk, that they had no implementation of a device like this! Does anyone know of an application that uses a wireless mouse to help someone on a resparater. These are people who often find themselves in a hospital bed, with a tube down their throat, unable to talk, and often with their hands tied to the beds. (I was told this is because of all the drugs the patient has often results in halutinations).
I am not much for tinkering, but I would guess that you could set something like this up pretty easy.
If you know of such a device, please reply. I now have a cousin who fell down a flight of stairs over the weekend, and is on a resparator.
Mark
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/ubb/Forum146/HTML/000 001.html
maybe this version will work.
Are you implying that Pampers is going to go out of buisness soon?
Even if they are just for novices, there will always be novices.