What if it's swearing that makes someone uncomfortable? What if their idea of swearing and yours differ significantly? I received detention in school for using the words "pissed off" and "damn it" on seperate occasions both in a humorous context, but apparently my teachers were offended. The solution you imply is not workable because everyone has different opinions and thresholds of what is acceptable behaviour. The best we can really hope for is to enact and enforce laws that the majority can accept, and then allowing individuals to live in whichever society they prefer. Of course this results in some countries requiring the practical subjugation of half their population, and not allowing freedom of movement, and some groups actually want to force their views on others.
I don't think the laws were actually limited to guns. I can't find an easy cite at the moment but I seem to remember that peasants were forbidden from possessing any purpose built weapons. And that many martial arts weapons were improvised from farming tools or other items that weren't necessarily weapons.
I thought about that too. That said maybe someone should put together a mechanical device to accomplish all of this. You could probably do it very effectively with a large cargo van with part of the floor cut out.
I believe the Defense actually showed that did not actually happen. The logs which are in evidence from the server show that the supposed CAPTCHA leak never happened. The CAPTCHA story was apparently an atempt at parallel construction that failed. So now the defense team is working to get all the evidence gathered as a result thrown out. The prosecution is stuck either revealing their potentially illegal methods or hoping that the Judge just really likes them.
I've worn out one very cheap generic keyboard in the last twelve years, and replaced it with an almost equally cheap board that I replaced recently just because I could. The first functioned just fine until some specific keys started to not respond reliably, the spacebare even had a nice indent from where my left thumb always rested. I think that first keyboard cost $6 and lasted about as many years. The second was around $20 and I only just replaced after seven years of use because I just wanted something nicer. Now I use a Microsoft Sidewinder or something like that, the big features that I wanted out of it was anti ghosting and being spill proof so my toddler can't ruin it as readily.
I guess Embassy Suites fits in the middle somewhere. The last time I stayed at one the parking and made to order breakfast was free. The internet access though was expensive and only available via wifi, there was no wired access at all.
I don't even think it'd require all that many steps if you designed a weapon meant to be built and assembled by amateurs. During WW2 some clever people actually designed what became known as the STEN, which could be easily produced in significant numbers by resistance fighters and used the ammunition stolen or looted from the Germans. Sure if you want to replicate something as complicated as an M-4 you are looking at a lot of work, but something like a STEN could be done much more easily.
How do you have a story that doesn't have a plot. You could have a one sentence story and it would still have a plot. Not every story has a complicated plot, but a plot is pretty much just a simpler explanation of events.
And as the Anon's have already said, Breaking Bad had a well done ending. I would add that the ending for Dexter was good also.
I've never really understood the use of having multiple desktops under the same user. To me it has always struck me as a way of making work harder because now you have things seperated even further. I like having two monitors because I want more desktop space, using virtual desktops doesn't give you more space because you still end up tabbing back and forth between them.
Because giving you a $200 per diem likely doesn't cost them $200. For instance if that money has to be spent at specific vendors that they have worked out a deal with. This is one of the things that the US and organizations like The Gates Foundation get criticized for. It's like company script in place of being given cash, you can only spend that script at the company store, where the company is happy to sell you a $10 shovel that only cost them $5 to obtain and stock. The US frequently gives foreign aid with the stipulation that it be spent on US goods and services, the gates foundation likes to drive business to partnered for profit businesses.
I picked out my current TV based on a number of other variables and eneded up with a barely smart TV with 3D. The Netflix 3D selection is pretty sad, but Youtube has more stuff, and the kids/cousins love watching stuff in 3D. And since I have young children who don't like baby sitters I occassionally treat the wife and myself to a 3D blu-ray of something we would have liked to see in the theatres, and as exepensive as movie tickets are these days it's just as cost effective to own the blu-ray DvD combo pack.
This was probably in the firehose long before it showed on the frontpage. I wouldn't expect any limited number offer like that to survive more than 60 seconds once it made it to Slashdot in any fashion. We're lucky that the kickstarter servers didn't just crash and burn under the load that a posting here can bring.
This is of interest for me exactly because it isn't locked to using Chrome. I've only ever used Chrome when I was trying to establish if a website's functionality was just broke or if it was a Firefox problem.
That is a cool feature I was previously unaware of. However I still won't pin stuff because I hate the way it takes up taskbar space, and when you have a number of applications open, they then aren't displayed in the order that you opened them on the taskbar.
Most everybody loves food, regardless of what culture they come form. And just because someone is genetically linked to one culture doesn't mean that they are predisposed to favor that cultures foods over another. I can't tell you how many times I've met people who were the first generation of their family raised in the US, and when asked about their favorite foods it was all generic American stuff. Whatever their Mother cooked for them growing up, no matter how amazing to someone else, was just the norm for them and by default boring.
It may be my imagination or something, but I've noticed that a number of foods that I like have a better taste when they are also spicy hot. Is it possible that capsicacin oil acts in a similiar way to salt in enhancing flavors? For example I order pad thai mild for my children and hot for myself. On occasion I'll eat their leftovers for lunch and it always seems that the flavor isn't nearly as strong as mine was.
I actually upset a co-worker, who must not have been very far into the TV series when she was discussing the series with some others. I quiped that "They all die." She took it as a literal spoiler or something somehow. The Author has as much as said that anytime a character becomes a critically important character to keep alive for the story to progress, that he starts figuring out how to kill them and keep the story going.
Personally I'd like Jon, Arya, Bran and Tyrion to survive at least until the climax of the series. But I doubt that even half of them will make it that far. I'd be surprised if half of them made it into the last book.
I've wanted to buy into some Tesla stock for a long while, but I didn't have the liquid funds when they had their IPO. Since then I haven't thought of it when their stock price has had a sane P/E ratio, or more accurately a valuation that was anywhere near in line with the actual value of their assets. Stock values of businesses that are popular in the media and making lots of headlines rarely have any connection to the actual worth of the company, Facebook stock being a great example.
If they were smart enough to figure that out then they would probably just make their coffee flavored milkshakes at home and put it in a thermos. Or get one of those single cup coffee machines.
Journalists and aid workers in a war zone are about as far as you can get from a bunch of federal employees working for the CIA at the pentagon. Those people that ISIS has beheaded on video weren't picked because of what they were doing, they were just easy to find, capture, and killing them gets a rise out of the civilized world.
If anyone at the pentagon thinks they work there secretly they are fools. All you'd have to do to determine who works there is set up a series of hidden cameras to capture plate numbers of vehicles entering the facility. Then feed those numbers through a batch of people who have access to the national plate registry system, cops do this for practically every traffic stop. It would be a joke for a nation state to obtain that kind of information and it is definitely inside the realm of possibility for groups like ISIS or AQ. Some of the vehicles will be essentially government limo service, which makes tracking the identity of the person being given such privilege a little more difficult but it also tells you a lot about their value as a target.
The Oklahoma thing was only tangentially related to ISIS. It was a work place violence issue and the method he chose on the spur of the moment aligned with his sympathies. This is really only an issue at the Pentagon so far as regular work place violence is.
Operational Security is a real thing but it doesn't really come into play when talking about an eating establishment labeling you with a name inside a secured facility.
The disadvantage of using ticket numbers is that they are usually sequential and only differ from the next or previous order by one or two characters at the most. With names the likelyhood of having identical first and last name is pretty tiny, and even when it does happen it would probably standout to the worker because it is an unusual circumstance. For keeping things easily and clearly seperate, names, even if they are fake, make much more sense.
I can see why people would want a very reliable brand and a strong warranty. Even if a major repair is covered by warranty that doesn't mean you won't be without a car for the time required to fix it, or at least a significant fraction of that time. My Wife was involved in an accident with an uninsured motorist and the car needed extensive repairs, which our insurance covered. They even paid for a few days of using a rental car, but it took nearly two weeks to get our car back. Whether the risk of such an event is worth the extra money is anyones guess.
The car I drive now is 10 years old this year, and based on past experience I expect to get another 10 years from it before worrying about major repairs. And if I'm lucky and don't abuse it too much I might get twenty, though I hope by then to be driving a Tesla of some sort.
The funny thing to me about complaints of unreliable cars is that I've owned some real clunkers that were in bad shape mechanically. But even then I never seriously worried about getting stranded somewhere, or it breaking down at the wrong time. There was actually a period in my life where I owned two clunkers and rested safe in the knowledge that if one did breakdown in a bad way I could just drive the other, and because I wasn't a horrendous driver it was pretty economical.
Not all of these lenders or "banks" operate like traditional banks. They are businesses whose sole purpose is to make loans to people who couldn't get financing through a more traditional institution. It is very much like the payday loan and title pawn places. I watched an interesting news piece on such businesses a few years back and one of the very interesting bits was that many of them were actually owned by a larger bank which was operated out of an indian reservation. They relied on the quagmire of laws and treaties between the Fed and whatever tribe to operate a bank outside of the pervue of normal federal and state laws regarding banking.
I think a big part of the problem is people buying a much more expensive house than they need or can properly afford. My home's value is about twice my yearly net income. If I was earning less I would have shopped for a cheaper house, and homes in the same area can be had for up to half that price. If I was severly worse off I could move a few miles further out and buy houses that are going for $30k and less, I kid you not. At that kind of price there really aren't many people that couldn't afford to buy a home. For that price you obviously don't get a half acre lot, with a 2 story home, wrap around porches, white picket fences, and surrounding flower gardens. But you do get a piece of property you actually own, can live on, and improve.
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What if it's swearing that makes someone uncomfortable? What if their idea of swearing and yours differ significantly? I received detention in school for using the words "pissed off" and "damn it" on seperate occasions both in a humorous context, but apparently my teachers were offended. The solution you imply is not workable because everyone has different opinions and thresholds of what is acceptable behaviour. The best we can really hope for is to enact and enforce laws that the majority can accept, and then allowing individuals to live in whichever society they prefer. Of course this results in some countries requiring the practical subjugation of half their population, and not allowing freedom of movement, and some groups actually want to force their views on others.
I don't think the laws were actually limited to guns. I can't find an easy cite at the moment but I seem to remember that peasants were forbidden from possessing any purpose built weapons. And that many martial arts weapons were improvised from farming tools or other items that weren't necessarily weapons.
I thought about that too. That said maybe someone should put together a mechanical device to accomplish all of this. You could probably do it very effectively with a large cargo van with part of the floor cut out.
I believe the Defense actually showed that did not actually happen. The logs which are in evidence from the server show that the supposed CAPTCHA leak never happened. The CAPTCHA story was apparently an atempt at parallel construction that failed. So now the defense team is working to get all the evidence gathered as a result thrown out. The prosecution is stuck either revealing their potentially illegal methods or hoping that the Judge just really likes them.
I've worn out one very cheap generic keyboard in the last twelve years, and replaced it with an almost equally cheap board that I replaced recently just because I could. The first functioned just fine until some specific keys started to not respond reliably, the spacebare even had a nice indent from where my left thumb always rested. I think that first keyboard cost $6 and lasted about as many years. The second was around $20 and I only just replaced after seven years of use because I just wanted something nicer. Now I use a Microsoft Sidewinder or something like that, the big features that I wanted out of it was anti ghosting and being spill proof so my toddler can't ruin it as readily.
Possible grounds for lawsuit, Slander or Libel?
I guess Embassy Suites fits in the middle somewhere. The last time I stayed at one the parking and made to order breakfast was free. The internet access though was expensive and only available via wifi, there was no wired access at all.
I don't even think it'd require all that many steps if you designed a weapon meant to be built and assembled by amateurs. During WW2 some clever people actually designed what became known as the STEN, which could be easily produced in significant numbers by resistance fighters and used the ammunition stolen or looted from the Germans. Sure if you want to replicate something as complicated as an M-4 you are looking at a lot of work, but something like a STEN could be done much more easily.
How do you have a story that doesn't have a plot. You could have a one sentence story and it would still have a plot. Not every story has a complicated plot, but a plot is pretty much just a simpler explanation of events.
And as the Anon's have already said, Breaking Bad had a well done ending. I would add that the ending for Dexter was good also.
I've never really understood the use of having multiple desktops under the same user. To me it has always struck me as a way of making work harder because now you have things seperated even further. I like having two monitors because I want more desktop space, using virtual desktops doesn't give you more space because you still end up tabbing back and forth between them.
Because giving you a $200 per diem likely doesn't cost them $200. For instance if that money has to be spent at specific vendors that they have worked out a deal with. This is one of the things that the US and organizations like The Gates Foundation get criticized for. It's like company script in place of being given cash, you can only spend that script at the company store, where the company is happy to sell you a $10 shovel that only cost them $5 to obtain and stock. The US frequently gives foreign aid with the stipulation that it be spent on US goods and services, the gates foundation likes to drive business to partnered for profit businesses.
I picked out my current TV based on a number of other variables and eneded up with a barely smart TV with 3D. The Netflix 3D selection is pretty sad, but Youtube has more stuff, and the kids/cousins love watching stuff in 3D. And since I have young children who don't like baby sitters I occassionally treat the wife and myself to a 3D blu-ray of something we would have liked to see in the theatres, and as exepensive as movie tickets are these days it's just as cost effective to own the blu-ray DvD combo pack.
This was probably in the firehose long before it showed on the frontpage. I wouldn't expect any limited number offer like that to survive more than 60 seconds once it made it to Slashdot in any fashion. We're lucky that the kickstarter servers didn't just crash and burn under the load that a posting here can bring.
This is of interest for me exactly because it isn't locked to using Chrome. I've only ever used Chrome when I was trying to establish if a website's functionality was just broke or if it was a Firefox problem.
That is a cool feature I was previously unaware of. However I still won't pin stuff because I hate the way it takes up taskbar space, and when you have a number of applications open, they then aren't displayed in the order that you opened them on the taskbar.
Most everybody loves food, regardless of what culture they come form. And just because someone is genetically linked to one culture doesn't mean that they are predisposed to favor that cultures foods over another. I can't tell you how many times I've met people who were the first generation of their family raised in the US, and when asked about their favorite foods it was all generic American stuff. Whatever their Mother cooked for them growing up, no matter how amazing to someone else, was just the norm for them and by default boring.
It may be my imagination or something, but I've noticed that a number of foods that I like have a better taste when they are also spicy hot. Is it possible that capsicacin oil acts in a similiar way to salt in enhancing flavors? For example I order pad thai mild for my children and hot for myself. On occasion I'll eat their leftovers for lunch and it always seems that the flavor isn't nearly as strong as mine was.
I actually upset a co-worker, who must not have been very far into the TV series when she was discussing the series with some others. I quiped that "They all die." She took it as a literal spoiler or something somehow. The Author has as much as said that anytime a character becomes a critically important character to keep alive for the story to progress, that he starts figuring out how to kill them and keep the story going.
Personally I'd like Jon, Arya, Bran and Tyrion to survive at least until the climax of the series. But I doubt that even half of them will make it that far. I'd be surprised if half of them made it into the last book.
I've wanted to buy into some Tesla stock for a long while, but I didn't have the liquid funds when they had their IPO. Since then I haven't thought of it when their stock price has had a sane P/E ratio, or more accurately a valuation that was anywhere near in line with the actual value of their assets. Stock values of businesses that are popular in the media and making lots of headlines rarely have any connection to the actual worth of the company, Facebook stock being a great example.
If they were smart enough to figure that out then they would probably just make their coffee flavored milkshakes at home and put it in a thermos. Or get one of those single cup coffee machines.
Journalists and aid workers in a war zone are about as far as you can get from a bunch of federal employees working for the CIA at the pentagon. Those people that ISIS has beheaded on video weren't picked because of what they were doing, they were just easy to find, capture, and killing them gets a rise out of the civilized world.
If anyone at the pentagon thinks they work there secretly they are fools. All you'd have to do to determine who works there is set up a series of hidden cameras to capture plate numbers of vehicles entering the facility. Then feed those numbers through a batch of people who have access to the national plate registry system, cops do this for practically every traffic stop. It would be a joke for a nation state to obtain that kind of information and it is definitely inside the realm of possibility for groups like ISIS or AQ. Some of the vehicles will be essentially government limo service, which makes tracking the identity of the person being given such privilege a little more difficult but it also tells you a lot about their value as a target.
The Oklahoma thing was only tangentially related to ISIS. It was a work place violence issue and the method he chose on the spur of the moment aligned with his sympathies. This is really only an issue at the Pentagon so far as regular work place violence is.
Operational Security is a real thing but it doesn't really come into play when talking about an eating establishment labeling you with a name inside a secured facility.
The disadvantage of using ticket numbers is that they are usually sequential and only differ from the next or previous order by one or two characters at the most. With names the likelyhood of having identical first and last name is pretty tiny, and even when it does happen it would probably standout to the worker because it is an unusual circumstance. For keeping things easily and clearly seperate, names, even if they are fake, make much more sense.
I can see why people would want a very reliable brand and a strong warranty. Even if a major repair is covered by warranty that doesn't mean you won't be without a car for the time required to fix it, or at least a significant fraction of that time. My Wife was involved in an accident with an uninsured motorist and the car needed extensive repairs, which our insurance covered. They even paid for a few days of using a rental car, but it took nearly two weeks to get our car back. Whether the risk of such an event is worth the extra money is anyones guess.
The car I drive now is 10 years old this year, and based on past experience I expect to get another 10 years from it before worrying about major repairs. And if I'm lucky and don't abuse it too much I might get twenty, though I hope by then to be driving a Tesla of some sort.
The funny thing to me about complaints of unreliable cars is that I've owned some real clunkers that were in bad shape mechanically. But even then I never seriously worried about getting stranded somewhere, or it breaking down at the wrong time. There was actually a period in my life where I owned two clunkers and rested safe in the knowledge that if one did breakdown in a bad way I could just drive the other, and because I wasn't a horrendous driver it was pretty economical.
Not all of these lenders or "banks" operate like traditional banks. They are businesses whose sole purpose is to make loans to people who couldn't get financing through a more traditional institution. It is very much like the payday loan and title pawn places. I watched an interesting news piece on such businesses a few years back and one of the very interesting bits was that many of them were actually owned by a larger bank which was operated out of an indian reservation. They relied on the quagmire of laws and treaties between the Fed and whatever tribe to operate a bank outside of the pervue of normal federal and state laws regarding banking.
I think a big part of the problem is people buying a much more expensive house than they need or can properly afford. My home's value is about twice my yearly net income. If I was earning less I would have shopped for a cheaper house, and homes in the same area can be had for up to half that price. If I was severly worse off I could move a few miles further out and buy houses that are going for $30k and less, I kid you not. At that kind of price there really aren't many people that couldn't afford to buy a home. For that price you obviously don't get a half acre lot, with a 2 story home, wrap around porches, white picket fences, and surrounding flower gardens. But you do get a piece of property you actually own, can live on, and improve.