No, I'm unfamiliar with the concept, and would like to find out what it's all about. I was looking for the Wikipedia page.
I have recently become interested in producing flying robots, and since I'm aware that sex has to do with birds and bees, I assume that it has to do with aerodynamics. This would be most useful for my robots.
Vote411 seemed like it would be good...but it's down. And honestly, it's a pretty sad state of affairs when the people in charge of the elections aren't forthcoming with information about them.
Actually, I'd chalk it up to "they changed the system" and "where do I find such and such?"
I'm consistently amazed at how difficult it is to find something as simple as my local polling place online. For instance, in Texas, the Secretary of State is supposed to manage the elections; their website tells you to check the newspaper, or they defer you over to the contact information for your county official.
And each state does it differently. It's a nightmare.
I don't know how good or bad Hawaii is about disseminating voter information. But if they're anything like Texas...I can find my way around the Web, but I doubt that I would have a damn clue WTF was going on with my county's polling system.
My concern would be the implications of Google not being able to sell ads for competitors for particular, trademarked names.
It's been shown to be fairly common to "brand" a particular type of product with a trademarked name. I want a DVR, but to me (well not me, but some people), they're all "TiVos." That's a pretty hefty branding problem for someone trying to make a competing product already; if they can't even advertise in the same space, or that their product is like a TiVo, but better...
Or an iPod(TM). Or a Rolodex(TM). Or a Coke(TM). (In certain parts of the country, meaning, any kind of soda. Don't ask me why.) Or, if you want to take this to the level of ridiculousness, a Linux vendor that also sells hardware couldn't advertise for "windows" (the transparent kind).
I am looking for a bookstore, I search Barnes and Noble, but it's helpful for me to know if there's a competing bookstore closer to me. (Assuming there are any competing bookstores left. Are there?) And so on, and so forth. Maybe trademark owners are pissed off about this, but as a consumer, I'm delighted.
Mobile devices threaten their desktop business in the long term. What's the one reason people (present company excluded) would ever switch away from Windows? Apps. And they've got the game market by the balls. What's are developers making for commercial phones? Apps. And games especially. See where this is going?
Most of the more odious Bush policies had nothing to do with puritanism.
That being said, yes, the Republicans alienate a large population that would otherwise support them by catering to the fundies. But a lot of those fundies might defect if they took out the religious element---it's only recently that the right started monopolizing "moral values." A lot of Republicans would be fairly receptive to Democratic public policy, except for those gosh-darned gays and abortions.
You shame your Clan, Yokoto. There is but one honorable solution left for you.
I shall expect to see you at dawn, the blood still warm on the white of your Macbook. We will give you a hero's burial, and the dignity of your family's domain name shall remain intact.
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No, I'm unfamiliar with the concept, and would like to find out what it's all about. I was looking for the Wikipedia page.
I have recently become interested in producing flying robots, and since I'm aware that sex has to do with birds and bees, I assume that it has to do with aerodynamics. This would be most useful for my robots.
Refrain from name-calling? What an idiot.
No, the textile lobbies have already formed a cartel and manipulated the government specifically so that you aren't baked. ;-)
So if I put Darwin on my HP, I have a Mac?
Vote411 seemed like it would be good...but it's down. And honestly, it's a pretty sad state of affairs when the people in charge of the elections aren't forthcoming with information about them.
Actually, I'd chalk it up to "they changed the system" and "where do I find such and such?"
I'm consistently amazed at how difficult it is to find something as simple as my local polling place online. For instance, in Texas, the Secretary of State is supposed to manage the elections; their website tells you to check the newspaper, or they defer you over to the contact information for your county official.
And each state does it differently. It's a nightmare.
I don't know how good or bad Hawaii is about disseminating voter information. But if they're anything like Texas...I can find my way around the Web, but I doubt that I would have a damn clue WTF was going on with my county's polling system.
I shall, in fact, read up on that. Thanks for the tip.
Japan, West Germany.
I'm mentioning that so as to point out that the situation in both of those countries was radically different from what we're looking at now.
Yeah---Microsoft blocks certain IPs from authoritarian countries, whereas the great crusaders like Yahoo! merely bend to their will.
Isn't there a middle ground?
You do realize that in the War on Terror it isn't necessary to charge people with crimes, don't you?
"I thought Houston was in Texas.. why weren't you packing? Defend yourself asshole."
AIRPORT.
He wasn't packing because he hadn't unpacked yet. You have to check those, you know.
Or maybe---since he had just flown in---he wasn't from around here. ;-)
Yeah, I have no freaking clue how that first post got modded up. Apparently the mods don't take the links either.
I kind of wish you had waited to RTFA, me.
Kind of wish you guys had waited for an article to be translated.
This is, after all, an English-language site. And submitters are not always the best judges of TFA.
That's exactly what I was thinking. If you're using porn for virtual reality, no one else can see what you're watching.
As long as you can convince then that you just happen to like watching Finding Nemo with your pants down.
Isn't Harry Potter evidence of prior art?
Heck, MS has more feet then that.
THEY'RE GIANT ****ING CENTIPEDES!!! FROM HELL!!! WITH LASER CANNONS!!!
(Look at that, I just shot myself in the foot with a laser cannon. And that's what I do to my friends!)
My concern would be the implications of Google not being able to sell ads for competitors for particular, trademarked names.
It's been shown to be fairly common to "brand" a particular type of product with a trademarked name. I want a DVR, but to me (well not me, but some people), they're all "TiVos." That's a pretty hefty branding problem for someone trying to make a competing product already; if they can't even advertise in the same space, or that their product is like a TiVo, but better...
Or an iPod(TM). Or a Rolodex(TM). Or a Coke(TM). (In certain parts of the country, meaning, any kind of soda. Don't ask me why.) Or, if you want to take this to the level of ridiculousness, a Linux vendor that also sells hardware couldn't advertise for "windows" (the transparent kind).
I am looking for a bookstore, I search Barnes and Noble, but it's helpful for me to know if there's a competing bookstore closer to me. (Assuming there are any competing bookstores left. Are there?) And so on, and so forth. Maybe trademark owners are pissed off about this, but as a consumer, I'm delighted.
The point of a free society is not that power is never abused, it's that there are effective mechanisms for opposing the abuse of power.
Which is what is happening.
If I had enough knowledge about a particular subject to write a textbook on it, I would want to write it because I'm pedantic by nature.
I don't know about you, but I buy all my college textbooks used.
That's what I'd put my ($4B) money on.
Mobile devices threaten their desktop business in the long term. What's the one reason people (present company excluded) would ever switch away from Windows? Apps. And they've got the game market by the balls. What's are developers making for commercial phones? Apps. And games especially. See where this is going?
GM.
Or, as we will know it, "Microsoft Cars."
Most of the more odious Bush policies had nothing to do with puritanism.
That being said, yes, the Republicans alienate a large population that would otherwise support them by catering to the fundies. But a lot of those fundies might defect if they took out the religious element---it's only recently that the right started monopolizing "moral values." A lot of Republicans would be fairly receptive to Democratic public policy, except for those gosh-darned gays and abortions.
You shame your Clan, Yokoto. There is but one honorable solution left for you.
I shall expect to see you at dawn, the blood still warm on the white of your Macbook. We will give you a hero's burial, and the dignity of your family's domain name shall remain intact.
We were brothers, once...