Absolutely correct. Christ, a terrorist could kill more people walking into a busy airport and blowing themselves up in the long security lines than they could by downing a plane.
As a non-American (I don't even live in the USA) what options are there for tourists to the US? I see a lot of arguments about this whole issue involving 4th Ammendment Rights, etc. So as a visitor to your country can I refuse the backscatter scan? Are there any rights that protect me? Some argue that air travel is voluntary well yes and no. Sure I voluntarily entered the US as a visitor but in order to leave I need to fly out...especially if I live on the other side of the world. Driving obviously isn't an option. So where do non-Americans fit into this? Should we just keep our heads down our mouths shut and submit to the gate rape?
If you have to strip naked when you go to the doctor, there's something wrong and you should get another doctor.
No, there is something wrong with your doctor if they are not screening you properly for skin cancer or checking your prostate or giving you a mammogram or screening you for cervical cancer.
Last time I went to my doctor was to get my blood pressure checked and get a prescription renewal. Why in God's name would I strip naked and have my prostate checked? Is that how they check blood pressure where you live? If so, there IS something wrong with your doctor.
"how many people do you think would be walking around as hypertensive diabetics with advanced atherosclerosis until they keeled over from a massive coronary at age 55? "
About as many as were walking around before home blood pressure and blood sugar testing apparatus were available. Or what, you think hypertension is a new disease?
I am not assuming condoms make you invincible. I am aware of their flaws. However thinking that a device like this is going to stop the spread of STDs is an indicator of immature thinking. If the young people they are targeting are not mature enough to attempt to use condoms, and are not mature enough to seek medical attention when they think they have an STD (read the article is says this right out) then this device will do absolutely nothing.
Public health experts are concerned that, although most STIs occur among that age group, many are too embarrassed to visit a GP or a genito-urinary medicine clinic to get tested and therefore continue to suffer and potentially pass the disease on.
So their iPhone tells them they got the clap. Big deal. If they are too embarrassed to go see a doctor to get tested they'll be too embarrassed by the test results to go see a doctor to get treatment. And you can bet they'll be too embarrassed to tell the person they just finished having unprotected sex with that their iPhone detected the STD two weeks ago.
Canadian ISPs are not about facilitating access for consumers. They are all about how much money they can bleed out of their customers with data usage caps. And I know Rogers (maybe Bell too) does not allow home users to run servers across their internet connection.
Don't get me started on their iron fist strangle hold on our cellular networks.
Christie's said Wednesday that the costume is thought to have been made for "The Empire Strikes Back," the second film in George Lucas's sci-fi series, released in 1980.
In other words, they don't know the lineage of this suit. So it could be something made by a collector and not have actually been used in any of the movies.
Pick a cheap calculator that will do everything necessary for the course. Then make it a requirement for them to buy it. It is the only electronic device allowed for exams, no other devices allowed at all....no exceptions. Your students will learn to survive (isn't that what college is all about anyways?) and if they can't pass your exam because of ESL issues then they shouldn't be taking your course or attending your college in the first place. That's their failing not yours.
Came to say just this. Right now I'm using an older iMac with video and sound out to my large screen. But the idea is the same. I'll eventually move to a mac mini but there's no point in spending the money right now while the iMac is running just fine.
You're right they are largely the same. But he went and fiddled with something that didn't need to be fiddled with. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's a good motto. One George should have pounded into his head.
Having Greedo shoot first lessens the "scallywag swashbuckler" that is Han. But worse than that. Absolutely worse than that was the scene George added of Han meeting Jabba near the Falcon on Tatooine. Originally filmed with a fat guy in a fur coat as Jabba, the scene was cut because it didn't represent what George was going for visually. The technology didn't exist at the time to do what he wanted. When the technology became available we got the Jabba that George envisioned. So now he goes and adds the scene back in. But the fat guy in the fur coat is replaced with a CGI Jabba. Ok, not so bad we (the fans) get an extra scene that was cut from the original release. But Han walks behind Jabba. No problem for the fat guy in the fur coat. Big problem for the CGI Jabba since CGI Jabba has a tail. And this is where I throw up in my mouth every time I see the scene. We get a jiggling, stilted shot of Han walking up and over Jabba's tail. Watch the scene. Then watch it again. It is HORRIBLE. How the hell could something that craptastic come out of ILM? Who gave that scene the OK? And were they fired for it later? No? Why not? A five year old with their dad's home computer and a video camera could produce a better scene.
You know what the sad part is? Instead of that crappy stilted shot of Han walking over Jabba's tail all George had to do was leave it alone. Have Han walk behind Jabba and forget about the tail. No one would have been any the wiser. And if someone did complain it is easily explained by saying Jabba had his tail curled around him or Han stepped over it or it was a younger Jabba (obviously it was since it was thinner and smaller than the Jabba we already knew) so the tail was shorter. Anything could have been said to explain it away. But the scene we got shows that George doesn't care. It is all marketing and money to him and fans be damned.
Type how you want. If you are writing something to be published and you use two spaces between sentences it is simplistically easy to do a "replace all" in your document and replace all instances of two spaces with one space.
Not an issue if you know how to use the tools you are given.
First line in the linked article (and it is even in bold):
Apple could be creating an operating system supported by advertisements, allowing users to obtain the software at a reduced price, or for free, in exchange for being required to view ads.
Subby's summary:
Forced iAds Coming To OS X?
Sure, forced ads for those that bought the subsidized copy of the OS. You get what you pay for.
Not when it comes to tickets to events like concerts or sporting events. The resellers / scalpers buy up whole blocks of tickets before the consumers even get a chance. If the "Grandma Problem" is such a big deal then ticket agents should change their rules so that the same person (or same credit card number) cannot buy more than 10 (or 20) tickets to one event. That will at least give those of us actually attending the event (and not scalping) a fighting chance to get seats.
... with more and more people being forced to use their real names on the Internet, you'll see a lot less flaming, trolling, and defacing. People I believe will be less quick to turn a discussion into an argument and more interested in understanding one another.
Really? Because the John Smith that flamed you is any less anonymous than WolfTrapper?
A name with no picture of the person and no other personal information is as anonymous as a handle.
The cultish lock-in is a result of Apple being first to the market place with devices that work. When there are more devices from more manufacturers (include Microsoft) consumers will be able to choose. As it stands today though if you want a handheld pad / slate / tablet device the iPad is the only one in the game right now. Note I wrote "handheld". I don't consider 15 inch and 17 inch tablet-laptops as handheld.
Excatly this. If the cop brass didn't hire him explicitly to test their security measures then as far as the cops are concerned his self-proclaimed tests were suspicious behaviour at best and illegal at worst. The guy is an idiot for even attempting to do so. What exactly did he think was going to happen?
The iPad fails as a student device as well. Apple could have cornered the student market by adding handwriting recognition to the iPad and offering a one stop device for reading books and taking notes. Instead there are rumours about adding a camera to the next gen iPad. What the hell is with the current trend of sticking a crappy camera in every freaking device?
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All that is said is that the Force is created by life and binds us together.
How is that vastly different from saying the "light" is within every living thing?
Both are ubiquitous life energies. If you're suggesting one was not adequately explained, your suggesting neither was adequately explained.
I was suggesting nothing other than that the Force is more than adequately explained in A New Hope.
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yes, it was unnecessarily hard to buy stuff from Sun due to their crap sales process
It was?
1) Look at sun.com and browse their servers
2) Call Sun Rep. and ask for quote on chosen server and configuration
3) Pass quote to purchasing department and say 'Order 2 of these'
4) Open the boxes that arrived a week later and remove the new servers
Absolutely correct. Christ, a terrorist could kill more people walking into a busy airport and blowing themselves up in the long security lines than they could by downing a plane.
As a non-American (I don't even live in the USA) what options are there for tourists to the US? I see a lot of arguments about this whole issue involving 4th Ammendment Rights, etc. So as a visitor to your country can I refuse the backscatter scan? Are there any rights that protect me? Some argue that air travel is voluntary well yes and no. Sure I voluntarily entered the US as a visitor but in order to leave I need to fly out...especially if I live on the other side of the world. Driving obviously isn't an option. So where do non-Americans fit into this? Should we just keep our heads down our mouths shut and submit to the gate rape?
If you have to strip naked when you go to the doctor, there's something wrong and you should get another doctor.
No, there is something wrong with your doctor if they are not screening you properly for skin cancer or checking your prostate or giving you a mammogram or screening you for cervical cancer.
Last time I went to my doctor was to get my blood pressure checked and get a prescription renewal. Why in God's name would I strip naked and have my prostate checked? Is that how they check blood pressure where you live? If so, there IS something wrong with your doctor.
"how many people do you think would be walking around as hypertensive diabetics with advanced atherosclerosis until they keeled over from a massive coronary at age 55? "
About as many as were walking around before home blood pressure and blood sugar testing apparatus were available. Or what, you think hypertension is a new disease?
I am not assuming condoms make you invincible. I am aware of their flaws. However thinking that a device like this is going to stop the spread of STDs is an indicator of immature thinking. If the young people they are targeting are not mature enough to attempt to use condoms, and are not mature enough to seek medical attention when they think they have an STD (read the article is says this right out) then this device will do absolutely nothing.
Public health experts are concerned that, although most STIs occur among that age group, many are too embarrassed to visit a GP or a genito-urinary medicine clinic to get tested and therefore continue to suffer and potentially pass the disease on.
So their iPhone tells them they got the clap. Big deal. If they are too embarrassed to go see a doctor to get tested they'll be too embarrassed by the test results to go see a doctor to get treatment. And you can bet they'll be too embarrassed to tell the person they just finished having unprotected sex with that their iPhone detected the STD two weeks ago.
Then they are adult enough to buy and use condoms in the first place.
Fuck that shit. I'm not letting a bunch of college drop outs take me anywhere out of the sight of the rest of the public.
Canadian ISPs are not about facilitating access for consumers. They are all about how much money they can bleed out of their customers with data usage caps. And I know Rogers (maybe Bell too) does not allow home users to run servers across their internet connection.
Don't get me started on their iron fist strangle hold on our cellular networks.
Christie's said Wednesday that the costume is thought to have been made for "The Empire Strikes Back," the second film in George Lucas's sci-fi series, released in 1980.
In other words, they don't know the lineage of this suit. So it could be something made by a collector and not have actually been used in any of the movies.
Pick a cheap calculator that will do everything necessary for the course. Then make it a requirement for them to buy it. It is the only electronic device allowed for exams, no other devices allowed at all....no exceptions. Your students will learn to survive (isn't that what college is all about anyways?) and if they can't pass your exam because of ESL issues then they shouldn't be taking your course or attending your college in the first place. That's their failing not yours.
Came to say just this. Right now I'm using an older iMac with video and sound out to my large screen. But the idea is the same. I'll eventually move to a mac mini but there's no point in spending the money right now while the iMac is running just fine.
If I added up all the things I do that make me more likely to die, I should already be dead. Guess I'm beating the odds! Time to play the lottery.
You're right they are largely the same. But he went and fiddled with something that didn't need to be fiddled with. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's a good motto. One George should have pounded into his head.
Having Greedo shoot first lessens the "scallywag swashbuckler" that is Han. But worse than that. Absolutely worse than that was the scene George added of Han meeting Jabba near the Falcon on Tatooine. Originally filmed with a fat guy in a fur coat as Jabba, the scene was cut because it didn't represent what George was going for visually. The technology didn't exist at the time to do what he wanted. When the technology became available we got the Jabba that George envisioned. So now he goes and adds the scene back in. But the fat guy in the fur coat is replaced with a CGI Jabba. Ok, not so bad we (the fans) get an extra scene that was cut from the original release. But Han walks behind Jabba. No problem for the fat guy in the fur coat. Big problem for the CGI Jabba since CGI Jabba has a tail. And this is where I throw up in my mouth every time I see the scene. We get a jiggling, stilted shot of Han walking up and over Jabba's tail. Watch the scene. Then watch it again. It is HORRIBLE. How the hell could something that craptastic come out of ILM? Who gave that scene the OK? And were they fired for it later? No? Why not? A five year old with their dad's home computer and a video camera could produce a better scene.
You know what the sad part is? Instead of that crappy stilted shot of Han walking over Jabba's tail all George had to do was leave it alone. Have Han walk behind Jabba and forget about the tail. No one would have been any the wiser. And if someone did complain it is easily explained by saying Jabba had his tail curled around him or Han stepped over it or it was a younger Jabba (obviously it was since it was thinner and smaller than the Jabba we already knew) so the tail was shorter. Anything could have been said to explain it away. But the scene we got shows that George doesn't care. It is all marketing and money to him and fans be damned.
Marketing bs.
Type how you want. If you are writing something to be published and you use two spaces between sentences it is simplistically easy to do a "replace all" in your document and replace all instances of two spaces with one space.
Not an issue if you know how to use the tools you are given.
First line in the linked article (and it is even in bold):
Apple could be creating an operating system supported by advertisements, allowing users to obtain the software at a reduced price, or for free, in exchange for being required to view ads.
Subby's summary:
Forced iAds Coming To OS X?
Sure, forced ads for those that bought the subsidized copy of the OS. You get what you pay for.
'An open market is really best for consumers.'"
Not when it comes to tickets to events like concerts or sporting events. The resellers / scalpers buy up whole blocks of tickets before the consumers even get a chance. If the "Grandma Problem" is such a big deal then ticket agents should change their rules so that the same person (or same credit card number) cannot buy more than 10 (or 20) tickets to one event. That will at least give those of us actually attending the event (and not scalping) a fighting chance to get seats.
... with more and more people being forced to use their real names on the Internet, you'll see a lot less flaming, trolling, and defacing. People I believe will be less quick to turn a discussion into an argument and more interested in understanding one another.
Really? Because the John Smith that flamed you is any less anonymous than WolfTrapper?
A name with no picture of the person and no other personal information is as anonymous as a handle.
Well the cash always seems to be there for the US to go to war.
Probably a lot less than the data rate on my cell plan.
The cultish lock-in is a result of Apple being first to the market place with devices that work. When there are more devices from more manufacturers (include Microsoft) consumers will be able to choose. As it stands today though if you want a handheld pad / slate / tablet device the iPad is the only one in the game right now. Note I wrote "handheld". I don't consider 15 inch and 17 inch tablet-laptops as handheld.
Excatly this. If the cop brass didn't hire him explicitly to test their security measures then as far as the cops are concerned his self-proclaimed tests were suspicious behaviour at best and illegal at worst. The guy is an idiot for even attempting to do so. What exactly did he think was going to happen?
The iPad fails as a student device as well. Apple could have cornered the student market by adding handwriting recognition to the iPad and offering a one stop device for reading books and taking notes. Instead there are rumours about adding a camera to the next gen iPad. What the hell is with the current trend of sticking a crappy camera in every freaking device?
All that is said is that the Force is created by life and binds us together.
How is that vastly different from saying the "light" is within every living thing?
Both are ubiquitous life energies. If you're suggesting one was not adequately explained, your suggesting neither was adequately explained.
I was suggesting nothing other than that the Force is more than adequately explained in A New Hope.