They have good energy density and can deliver considerable voltage for their size, and we've been using them for a very long time. It seems to me that perhaps someone should try researching different formulas for the acid and the chemistry of the plates.
Sure, they're heavy and there's always the danger of a rupture but they are good at doing what batteries are supposed to do, storing and releasing electricity.
No one ever gets blown *just* because of their automobile, it's the kind of thing that makes you stand out from the other 200 guys who are trying to get laid.
I'm not supporting the RIAA but this seems wrong to me. If the person they are sueing has access and may have used the PC for copyright infringement should the PC not be investigated?
She "may have" had access to your computer. That doesn't mean that she did. Even if she did, that doesn't mean that she used it to commit the alleged offense.
It sounds to me like you just don't get it.
If your mother is accused of a crime, why in the hell should they be able to search your property, at a different house, without probable cause?
If the police can't do it for a murder case, why should the RIAA be able to do it for a civil suit?
I know that most people view it as "just a job" but the people who think about making a future and working their way up to management are the ones who really drive retail businesses. People who think about the sales metrics that are being tracked are the ones who upsell customers to items with higher profit margins.
If people now think that performing too well will lead to raises and eventual dismissal, they won't try as hard to sell. They'll come in to work and coast through each day. They will do just enough to not get fired. Sure, CC will now have lower payroll to pay but they'll also have lower revenue to meet that lower payroll.
In most states, yes. You can fire a person for almost any reason or for no reason at all. You just can't fire someone for being black/white/asian/latino/male/female/too old.
Just a few years ago, I decided to return to college to finish the degree that I abandoned when I was 18. I started off at the local Community College and have since earned two AS degrees there. Those degrees were enough to land me a good job programming and will help me to finance the time I'll spend at a regular college getting the B.S. degree.
If AT&T or any other provider purposely degraded a competitors product, Id be at the front of the advocating they be stomped in to a mudhole. To my knowledge though, this is not happening and is not being considered by the major carriers.
It's not happening yet, but it's certainly being considered.
Why do you think that the government is fit to rule how Internet providers charge for their services?
Because the government built the infrastructure upon which these companies have built their businesses.
We are having quite fine Internet outside of USA. It's cheaper and faster. But then we don't have morons elected for their good looks who are trying to poke around and disturb the Internet.
Perhaps, for now. Money is more addictive than any narcotic. When the entire world population is hooked on easy access to the internet, the only thing that will stop the providers from squeezing every last nickel(Or Shilling, or Rupee or Ruble or Dinar) out of them will be fair regulations. The free market is an ideal, not a universal fact.
If your ISP is not offering good access to all the sites you want, then get a better one!
And tough shit for all of those people who only have one alternative for broadband? No thank you.
Too many returns will eventually cause retailers to stop carrying them on the shelves.
As soon as that happens, Microsoft will find a reason to end support for XP early. As soon as any major retailer cuts back on Vista orders, the EOL for XP will be pushed up.
That isn't the reason the parents do it. These services are done in shopping malls and grade schools and they are promoted as ways to keep your child safe. Not identify your child after they've been raped, murdered and then chopped up.
Because you can't have a sign up that say that. Reasonably intelligent people know that this won't keep their kids safe. Reasonably intelligent people know that it's a way to identify the remains. I concede that it's quite debatable, how many people out there are stupid, but it's a euphemism. No one would visit a booth marked "Identify your child's dead body with our help!"
This sounds a lot like those idiots who get their children fingerprinted and swabbed for DNA at the mall or their child's school, with some sort of warped idea that if their child is kidnapped, having their fingerprints on record will somehow magically return them.
People do that so in a worst case scenario, they can identify their child's remains.
Most people have never thought about it, most likely because it is a horrible thing to think about, but not knowing that the body that the police just found is your child can be worse than knowing.
Seriously though, you should know that there is *always* someone smarter than you out there. The trick I've found is to find as many of them as you can and surround yourself with them
in a very warped way geeks are punks in many ways, we tend to over lap and have a usually left wing mentality
On this point I strongly disagree. I'd perhaps say that geeks tend to be more polarized than the average person, but I've known so many on both the left and the right that I couldn't possibly think that geekiness is in any way a determining factor in your politics.
In the past 14 years we've had a right wing president who wanted to read all of our email and a left wing president who was pimping for the clipper chip.
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Lead Acid batteries?
They have good energy density and can deliver considerable voltage for their size, and we've been using them for a very long time. It seems to me that perhaps someone should try researching different formulas for the acid and the chemistry of the plates.
Sure, they're heavy and there's always the danger of a rupture but they are good at doing what batteries are supposed to do, storing and releasing electricity.
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And I do not know how many of you here remember michael, and the whole moderation abuse that happened.
You wouldn't be referring to the bitchslap.pl woud you?
LK
This is just so wrong that it's funny.
LK
If Bush wants to kill the terrorists, he should jump off a cliff.
How is he supposed to know which cliff he can jump off of to land on one?
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we can be reasonably sure that a virtual teacher won't virtually molest their wards.
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Brilliant.
This would really prove that they can't get enough qualified applicants from within the country.
As we all know, H1Bs are only about depressing wages.
LK
Your [sister/mom] (delete as applicable) doesn't count :)
True, but yours do.
LK
No one ever gets blown *just* because of their automobile, it's the kind of thing that makes you stand out from the other 200 guys who are trying to get laid.
LK
People really need to see cars as transport. Perhaps then they will start to think in terms of efficiency etc.
You sir, have obviously never gotten your dick sucked because you were driving a nice automobile.
LK
I'm not supporting the RIAA but this seems wrong to me. If the person they are sueing has access and may have used the PC for copyright infringement should the PC not be investigated?
She "may have" had access to your computer. That doesn't mean that she did. Even if she did, that doesn't mean that she used it to commit the alleged offense.
It sounds to me like you just don't get it.
If your mother is accused of a crime, why in the hell should they be able to search your property, at a different house, without probable cause?
If the police can't do it for a murder case, why should the RIAA be able to do it for a civil suit?
LK
I have to use Windows on my desktop and when I need to use Linux or Unix, I open a VNC session. It's not perfect but it gets the job done.
LK
How about the morale of the rest of the company?
I know that most people view it as "just a job" but the people who think about making a future and working their way up to management are the ones who really drive retail businesses. People who think about the sales metrics that are being tracked are the ones who upsell customers to items with higher profit margins.
If people now think that performing too well will lead to raises and eventual dismissal, they won't try as hard to sell. They'll come in to work and coast through each day. They will do just enough to not get fired. Sure, CC will now have lower payroll to pay but they'll also have lower revenue to meet that lower payroll.
LK
Is it even legal to fire someone without reason?
In most states, yes. You can fire a person for almost any reason or for no reason at all. You just can't fire someone for being black/white/asian/latino/male/female/too old.
LK
I second that motion.
Just a few years ago, I decided to return to college to finish the degree that I abandoned when I was 18. I started off at the local Community College and have since earned two AS degrees there. Those degrees were enough to land me a good job programming and will help me to finance the time I'll spend at a regular college getting the B.S. degree.
LK
If AT&T or any other provider purposely degraded a competitors product, Id be at the front of the advocating they be stomped in to a mudhole. To my knowledge though, this is not happening and is not being considered by the major carriers.
It's not happening yet, but it's certainly being considered.
LK
Why do you think that the government is fit to rule how Internet providers charge for their services?
Because the government built the infrastructure upon which these companies have built their businesses.
We are having quite fine Internet outside of USA. It's cheaper and faster. But then we don't have morons elected for their good looks who are trying to poke around and disturb the Internet.
Perhaps, for now. Money is more addictive than any narcotic. When the entire world population is hooked on easy access to the internet, the only thing that will stop the providers from squeezing every last nickel(Or Shilling, or Rupee or Ruble or Dinar) out of them will be fair regulations. The free market is an ideal, not a universal fact.
If your ISP is not offering good access to all the sites you want, then get a better one!
And tough shit for all of those people who only have one alternative for broadband? No thank you.
LK
it might make some customers look into other vendors than Microsoft for their computing needs.
The devil in these details is "some", the fact is that many customers will have no other choice.
LK
Too many returns will eventually cause retailers to stop carrying them on the shelves.
As soon as that happens, Microsoft will find a reason to end support for XP early. As soon as any major retailer cuts back on Vista orders, the EOL for XP will be pushed up.
LK
That isn't the reason the parents do it. These services are done in shopping malls and grade schools and they are promoted as ways to keep your child safe. Not identify your child after they've been raped, murdered and then chopped up.
Because you can't have a sign up that say that. Reasonably intelligent people know that this won't keep their kids safe. Reasonably intelligent people know that it's a way to identify the remains. I concede that it's quite debatable, how many people out there are stupid, but it's a euphemism. No one would visit a booth marked "Identify your child's dead body with our help!"
LK
This sounds a lot like those idiots who get their children fingerprinted and swabbed for DNA at the mall or their child's school, with some sort of warped idea that if their child is kidnapped, having their fingerprints on record will somehow magically return them.
People do that so in a worst case scenario, they can identify their child's remains.
Most people have never thought about it, most likely because it is a horrible thing to think about, but not knowing that the body that the police just found is your child can be worse than knowing.
LK
What would permanent residents and H1-B types have on their "enhanced" papers in lieu of proof of American citizenship?
I imagine that they'd already have passports and/or other papers to show their legal status.
LK
I meant, "stupid little hats".
LK
French bashing was so 2002/2003.
We've been bashing the French for at least 70 years. Come on now, those stupid little hates deserver to be made fun of.
LK
Seriously though, you should know that there is *always* someone smarter than you out there. The trick I've found is to find as many of them as you can and surround yourself with them
Then what in the fuck are you doing here ?
LK
in a very warped way geeks are punks in many ways, we tend to over lap and have a usually left wing mentality
On this point I strongly disagree. I'd perhaps say that geeks tend to be more polarized than the average person, but I've known so many on both the left and the right that I couldn't possibly think that geekiness is in any way a determining factor in your politics.
In the past 14 years we've had a right wing president who wanted to read all of our email and a left wing president who was pimping for the clipper chip.
LK