So he is released with a handshake and apology from the warden, only to be told "oh, by the way, about that room and 3 squares a day we gave you for the last few years... Here's a bill for your stay. Will that be Visa, Mastercard or Discover?"
I'm sure the wrongful conviction lawsuit will cover that, with a few million left over.
I gag at the thought of an endless stream of Prius drivers tooling along in their special "green" lane while the rest of us languish in stop and go watching our gas mileage go even further into the crapper.
Good news. I can think of a solution to your dilemma, but somehow I doubt you're going to want to hear it.
I also used to receive postal mail from these guys, but haven't seen anything recently
On a somewhat related note, I have noticed that the fake lottery scammers and 419'ers seem to have migrated from email to actual physical postal mail. It's not a lot (over the last year I've received maybe 4-5 of them) but it makes me wonder whether these scams are actually lucrative enough to cover the cost of postage (often from overseas). The other possibility is that these scammers have figured out a way to hack the postage metering system so they're sending their mail for free (minus the cost of paper).
Another possibility: you don't know anything at all about the personalities and motivations of the thousands upon thousands of individual hybrid drivers out there, and you're just making things up because it's intellectually convenient for you to do so.
Relax folks, this is all just promotional groundwork for Discovery Channel's next big reality TV show, in which a few thousand lawyers will be released onto a remote, arctic island with no survival gear beyond an iPhone, some designer shoes, and a briefcase full of legal documents and moist towelettes.
The project has tentatively been titled "If you live, you get to sue our asses for putting you there."
people who you probably don't have all that much in common with anymore.
And for the vast majority of those people, all you ever had in common with them was that you were forced to occupy the same physical structure for 7 hours every day.
I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.
I'm trying really hard not to be cynical here, but how does somebody spend $70K on personal growth? I've had the occasional habit throughout my life of being a bit of a rube, and spending money on "experts." My observations so far have been:
People who claim to be able to help other people are generally very good at helping themselves, and not really very good at helping others
Unless you are committed to change, there are no people, systems, books, or retreats that are going to do a damned thing no matter how expensive they may be
Numerous people in my life who care about me would have had me stripped naked and publicly flogged - for my own good of course - before I got anywhere close to spending $70K on "personal development"
The space race was sped up by the arms race between the USA and the USSR. Both just wanted to prove they were better.
But this isn't really "war" in the conventional sense is it? And it was the period during which the fastest and most impressive aerospace advances came. So it would seem that a good dickwaving competition is at least as good as an actual war.
But is it okay for a member of the military to contract out for "reading services" from a civilian? For example, if a completely hypothetical slashdot poster were to offer - again, completely hypothetical - services in which pages of material are read out over the telephone at a hypothetical rate of $10/page, would that still technically be a breach of the order not to "read" the material? That's just a telephone conversation right? It's not like a person can really control what the other person is saying during a conversation.
An intriguing question, no? And one that I'd be more than happy to discuss in further detail via email at secret_document_proofreading@gmail.com
Well, there's classified information that very few people have seen, and then there's classified information that several billion people have (potentially) seen, and that your battlefield enemies have very likely studied in some detail.
If, knowing you didn't have a facebook profile, one of your friends tagged photos of you with your name without asking your permission first, I'd say you need new friends.
Who says it has to be a friend that posts/tags the picture? It could be virtually anyone who happens to know your name, and who thinks a picture they snapped from across the room is teh funz0rz.
Slashdot Mirror
You are confusing mathematics with programming syntax.
No need to get all uptight. Que sera sera.
missing people do not have a powerful lobby
If they could find their lobby, they'd practically be home.
What? No TrueCrypt?
How about running a LiveCD distro and then physically rebooting the machine after each browsing session?
So he is released with a handshake and apology from the warden, only to be told "oh, by the way, about that room and 3 squares a day we gave you for the last few years... Here's a bill for your stay. Will that be Visa, Mastercard or Discover?"
I'm sure the wrongful conviction lawsuit will cover that, with a few million left over.
I gag at the thought of an endless stream of Prius drivers tooling along in their special "green" lane while the rest of us languish in stop and go watching our gas mileage go even further into the crapper.
Good news. I can think of a solution to your dilemma, but somehow I doubt you're going to want to hear it.
Refresh my memory. How is debtor's prison different from pound-me-in-the-ass prison?
I also used to receive postal mail from these guys, but haven't seen anything recently
On a somewhat related note, I have noticed that the fake lottery scammers and 419'ers seem to have migrated from email to actual physical postal mail. It's not a lot (over the last year I've received maybe 4-5 of them) but it makes me wonder whether these scams are actually lucrative enough to cover the cost of postage (often from overseas). The other possibility is that these scammers have figured out a way to hack the postage metering system so they're sending their mail for free (minus the cost of paper).
Another possibility: you don't know anything at all about the personalities and motivations of the thousands upon thousands of individual hybrid drivers out there, and you're just making things up because it's intellectually convenient for you to do so.
Guess who failed?
SCO? Oh wait, wrong thread ...
Relax folks, this is all just promotional groundwork for Discovery Channel's next big reality TV show, in which a few thousand lawyers will be released onto a remote, arctic island with no survival gear beyond an iPhone, some designer shoes, and a briefcase full of legal documents and moist towelettes.
The project has tentatively been titled "If you live, you get to sue our asses for putting you there."
... or discover oil there.
people who you probably don't have all that much in common with anymore.
And for the vast majority of those people, all you ever had in common with them was that you were forced to occupy the same physical structure for 7 hours every day.
High school reunions are notorious for their ability to "undo" decades worth of personal growth and maturity.
I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.
I'm trying really hard not to be cynical here, but how does somebody spend $70K on personal growth? I've had the occasional habit throughout my life of being a bit of a rube, and spending money on "experts." My observations so far have been:
The space race was sped up by the arms race between the USA and the USSR. Both just wanted to prove they were better.
But this isn't really "war" in the conventional sense is it? And it was the period during which the fastest and most impressive aerospace advances came. So it would seem that a good dickwaving competition is at least as good as an actual war.
Poor air quality can usually be described as "there are way too many balloons up there."
But is it okay for a member of the military to contract out for "reading services" from a civilian? For example, if a completely hypothetical slashdot poster were to offer - again, completely hypothetical - services in which pages of material are read out over the telephone at a hypothetical rate of $10/page, would that still technically be a breach of the order not to "read" the material? That's just a telephone conversation right? It's not like a person can really control what the other person is saying during a conversation.
An intriguing question, no? And one that I'd be more than happy to discuss in further detail via email at secret_document_proofreading@gmail.com
Well, there's classified information that very few people have seen, and then there's classified information that several billion people have (potentially) seen, and that your battlefield enemies have very likely studied in some detail.
Esp since the amount of CO2 in the air is so small that it is called a trace gas
We're working on it! Venus wasn't built in a day you know.
If, knowing you didn't have a facebook profile, one of your friends tagged photos of you with your name without asking your permission first, I'd say you need new friends.
Who says it has to be a friend that posts/tags the picture? It could be virtually anyone who happens to know your name, and who thinks a picture they snapped from across the room is teh funz0rz.
Well, when you're scrambling to type something fast and get that elusive first post, you can't be too worried about the quality of the material.
... and just look at how their popularity has been destroyed by all these privacy concerns.
oh, wait.