For example, you might find yourself unable to eat at any restaurant in the entire world because you are not a good tipper.
Why would MANAGEMENT (the restaurant owners) refuse to accept your money because you are not very nice to the WORKERS (serving staff)? If you get drunk and tear up THEIR silk plants, or vomit on THEIR rug, or make a scene and drive away THEIR other customers, they'd care. But not if you don't tip their poorly-paid peons.
OK, I know it was just an off-the-cuff example, but I thought I'd point it out because I'm inherently pedantic.
When I click "This is spam" in Yahoo mail it sends me to a page asking if I want to submit the message for analysis (presumably filter tuning), or block the sender(s). Does it bypass that for over 10 messages or something?
Actually it's wattle-and-daub, I bought it in Kenya when I was visiting Africa with Teenage Vision for Christ in Hot Countries. There was this old man at the side of the road selling calabash gourds, and PC cases made of mud and straw. I bargained him down to only $30 US, a steal even without a power supply.
Sure, they do a lot of good stuff. The Canadarm program alone makes them the shizzle bombizzle. But ultimately, our "manned space program" is a courtesy given to us by NASA, and our satellite launches are limited.
I think Canada should have our OWN launch capability, even if it's only one pad, and we have to buy boosters from Russia or the EU to do it. But realistically, I know that's a rather romantic notion which probably isn't cost-effective...
I at least hope we are willing, when the time comes, to invest heavily in a PRACTICAL manned Mars program (as opposed to a pork-driven one which lands three people on Mars for 20 days, and costs $700bn).
Hey, I bet us Canadians could get a nice space program going for half the $/kilo-to-orbit that you all are paying to send stuff up in those Orbiters. Alas we seem to think that casting our lot in with NASA is the way to go, and doing so will ensure our continued status as poor hangers-on.
OK, the gov't is not our mommy. I agree that people need to speak with their pocketbooks* (the only language that amoral corporations listen to) but I do think that there are very good reasons for legally-mandated banking security - namely that the consequences of banking security breaches are potentially huge to the "little guys", i.e. you and I with our pathetic little savings accounts.
* and people need to do it more - there's a lot of griping about sucky companies, by people who seem to think they have to buy those products/services anyway. It's a (weak but effective) illusion of no-choice which corporations have carefully fostered for years.
a) When the bank loses money, it's YOU, the customer, who pays for that. Don't expect the shareholders to take a hit just because the company's ATM's are spewing extraneous $100 bills all over the street.
b) When the bank screws up, it's usually YOU, the customer, who finds that there's no money in your account all of a sudden, just when you need to buy groceries. And they take their sweet time to admit there's a problem, let alone fix it.
c) One of the reasons we have governments is to keep businesses from willy-nilly taking short-term gain/long-term pain actions which harm society.
I tried to format c:\ on a keyboardless demo computer at Radio Shack once, using letters copied and pasted from web pages, and "Run". I failed to get it to work, though whether for technical reasons or merely an approaching nosy employee I cannot remember. Highly amusing for a few minutes though... This too was before a movie, oddly enough.
The thought of extracting eight organs from a recently dead [but goulishly kept living] infant is disgusting and barbaric...
Thanks to the fact that people would rather/ban/ medical research, and instead fund sports programs.
I find your argument contradictory. All organ harvesting is "ghoulish" by old-fashioned (and religiously-influenced) standards. But it is beneficial to both the individuals involved, and to society at large, and inspires a lot of medical research... which you seem to support as a general societal good. Bodies are nothing but meat once the living person has died (whether or not you believe in heaven), why shouldn't the living be helped by them? I happily signed my organ donor card - "any organs needed" because I sure won't need them anymore at that point.
Besides, a new baby could be made for a lot less effort and cost.
I assume this is somewhat satirical in intent. It's true of course, like all good satire. Mmm, making babies.
Hence the chance that on the street in Tokyo you might see a 12 year old girl wearing a t-shirt with "Free Vagina" on it. Of course, she's the spiritual cousin of all the white North Americans who have Asian-language tattoos, which could translate as "Stupid Honky" for all they know...
That's a relief, at 4x (CD) it would take all night to burn a full-length DVD... Gawd, those bad memories of needing a whole HOUR to pirate Quake 2 are resurfacing...
So BL5 is really a legal creation, not a property of the agents being worked on. By your definition, BL5 doesn't exist outside the USA, whereas even Chad could (in theory) build a BL4 lab. Also, I suspect that only very small parts of the facility are rated BL5, probably wholly contained withing BL3 or 4 areas.
... before I caved and got DSL. The combination of dial-up and frequently run and updated antivirus gave me quite a sense of security. Of course I just traded it all for the ability to game and dl pr0n at lightning speed...
As the other reply says, Verne wrote in French. But writers back then were probably less inclined to coin new words, as doing so was not readily accepted with the sort of laissez-faire attitude we have towards neologisms today. Using made-up words (not counting fictious nations and nationalities like "Erehwon" or "Yahoos") might leave one open to critical dismissal as a semi-illiterate.
Well, their coffee is bad (the frou-frou lattes etc. sell well b/c the sugar and foam hide the taste). The fact that they open a zillion stores in a threee block radius helps contribute to the homogenization of urban culture and hurts small local businesses trying to compete with them. And their tie-in CD's etc are obnoxious cross-marketing of the worst sort.
I find it gets repetitive after a few hours - why store a whole month of it? I mean, you can only see a commercial for "The Tongue" so many times before you want to rip out your actual tongue...
Well, since the cartridge that comes with the printer only has half the ink of a cartridge that you buy separately, it's only "worth" $25... The other $15 is for their crappy printer, it all works out, in a demented, costly, HP sort of way.
Erm...novice user...should not have access to anything other than their own files, so should not cause irreversible damage. If they do have root, well, that's kind of the same as letting newbies have administrator access on Windows machines...a very bad idea.
So if a new user buys a computer, they shouldn't have admin access to it? Who's going to be their admin? What if they want to install software, should they have to pay somebody else to do that? Your attitude would be justifiable if people didn't own personal computers, but um... yeah.
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For example, you might find yourself unable to eat at any restaurant in the entire world because you are not a good tipper.
Why would MANAGEMENT (the restaurant owners) refuse to accept your money because you are not very nice to the WORKERS (serving staff)? If you get drunk and tear up THEIR silk plants, or vomit on THEIR rug, or make a scene and drive away THEIR other customers, they'd care. But not if you don't tip their poorly-paid peons.
OK, I know it was just an off-the-cuff example, but I thought I'd point it out because I'm inherently pedantic.
When I click "This is spam" in Yahoo mail it sends me to a page asking if I want to submit the message for analysis (presumably filter tuning), or block the sender(s). Does it bypass that for over 10 messages or something?
I have seen the graphs of results going beyond 2600 and it looked prettly bad.
Coincidence? I think not.
Your current PC case is (presumably) metal...
Actually it's wattle-and-daub, I bought it in Kenya when I was visiting Africa with Teenage Vision for Christ in Hot Countries. There was this old man at the side of the road selling calabash gourds, and PC cases made of mud and straw. I bargained him down to only $30 US, a steal even without a power supply.
After all, who can really make a molded metal case without a full forge or the ability to heat metal to molten temperatures
Maybe auto-body filler or epoxy? A cast metal case would be beaucoup heavy anyway (except maybe aluminum)
Sure, they do a lot of good stuff. The Canadarm program alone makes them the shizzle bombizzle. But ultimately, our "manned space program" is a courtesy given to us by NASA, and our satellite launches are limited.
I think Canada should have our OWN launch capability, even if it's only one pad, and we have to buy boosters from Russia or the EU to do it. But realistically, I know that's a rather romantic notion which probably isn't cost-effective...
I at least hope we are willing, when the time comes, to invest heavily in a PRACTICAL manned Mars program (as opposed to a pork-driven one which lands three people on Mars for 20 days, and costs $700bn).
Hey, I bet us Canadians could get a nice space program going for half the $/kilo-to-orbit that you all are paying to send stuff up in those Orbiters. Alas we seem to think that casting our lot in with NASA is the way to go, and doing so will ensure our continued status as poor hangers-on.
OK, the gov't is not our mommy. I agree that people need to speak with their pocketbooks* (the only language that amoral corporations listen to) but I do think that there are very good reasons for legally-mandated banking security - namely that the consequences of banking security breaches are potentially huge to the "little guys", i.e. you and I with our pathetic little savings accounts.
* and people need to do it more - there's a lot of griping about sucky companies, by people who seem to think they have to buy those products/services anyway. It's a (weak but effective) illusion of no-choice which corporations have carefully fostered for years.
a) When the bank loses money, it's YOU, the customer, who pays for that. Don't expect the shareholders to take a hit just because the company's ATM's are spewing extraneous $100 bills all over the street.
b) When the bank screws up, it's usually YOU, the customer, who finds that there's no money in your account all of a sudden, just when you need to buy groceries. And they take their sweet time to admit there's a problem, let alone fix it.
c) One of the reasons we have governments is to keep businesses from willy-nilly taking short-term gain/long-term pain actions which harm society.
I tried to format c:\ on a keyboardless demo computer at Radio Shack once, using letters copied and pasted from web pages, and "Run". I failed to get it to work, though whether for technical reasons or merely an approaching nosy employee I cannot remember. Highly amusing for a few minutes though... This too was before a movie, oddly enough.
The thought of extracting eight organs from a recently dead [but goulishly kept living] infant is disgusting and barbaric...
/ban/ medical research, and instead fund sports programs.
Thanks to the fact that people would rather
I find your argument contradictory. All organ harvesting is "ghoulish" by old-fashioned (and religiously-influenced) standards. But it is beneficial to both the individuals involved, and to society at large, and inspires a lot of medical research... which you seem to support as a general societal good. Bodies are nothing but meat once the living person has died (whether or not you believe in heaven), why shouldn't the living be helped by them? I happily signed my organ donor card - "any organs needed" because I sure won't need them anymore at that point.
Besides, a new baby could be made for a lot less effort and cost.
I assume this is somewhat satirical in intent. It's true of course, like all good satire. Mmm, making babies.
I'm actually imagining the "nose" scene from Sleeper...
Hence the chance that on the street in Tokyo you might see a 12 year old girl wearing a t-shirt with "Free Vagina" on it. Of course, she's the spiritual cousin of all the white North Americans who have Asian-language tattoos, which could translate as "Stupid Honky" for all they know...
He himself admitted it was an error, but a cool-sounding one. I wouldn't call it a "prediction" :-)
1x DVD speed is a lot higher than 1x CD speed
That's a relief, at 4x (CD) it would take all night to burn a full-length DVD... Gawd, those bad memories of needing a whole HOUR to pirate Quake 2 are resurfacing...
So BL5 is really a legal creation, not a property of the agents being worked on. By your definition, BL5 doesn't exist outside the USA, whereas even Chad could (in theory) build a BL4 lab. Also, I suspect that only very small parts of the facility are rated BL5, probably wholly contained withing BL3 or 4 areas.
Clearly, you've never tried to catch even a TAME cat that didn't want to be caught ;-)
... before I caved and got DSL. The combination of dial-up and frequently run and updated antivirus gave me quite a sense of security. Of course I just traded it all for the ability to game and dl pr0n at lightning speed...
As the other reply says, Verne wrote in French. But writers back then were probably less inclined to coin new words, as doing so was not readily accepted with the sort of laissez-faire attitude we have towards neologisms today. Using made-up words (not counting fictious nations and nationalities like "Erehwon" or "Yahoos") might leave one open to critical dismissal as a semi-illiterate.
Well, their coffee is bad (the frou-frou lattes etc. sell well b/c the sugar and foam hide the taste). The fact that they open a zillion stores in a threee block radius helps contribute to the homogenization of urban culture and hurts small local businesses trying to compete with them. And their tie-in CD's etc are obnoxious cross-marketing of the worst sort.
I find it gets repetitive after a few hours - why store a whole month of it? I mean, you can only see a commercial for "The Tongue" so many times before you want to rip out your actual tongue...
Well, since the cartridge that comes with the printer only has half the ink of a cartridge that you buy separately, it's only "worth" $25... The other $15 is for their crappy printer, it all works out, in a demented, costly, HP sort of way.
Erm...novice user...should not have access to anything other than their own files, so should not cause irreversible damage. If they do have root, well, that's kind of the same as letting newbies have administrator access on Windows machines...a very bad idea.
So if a new user buys a computer, they shouldn't have admin access to it? Who's going to be their admin? What if they want to install software, should they have to pay somebody else to do that? Your attitude would be justifiable if people didn't own personal computers, but um... yeah.
God, that sounds like crap.
I got the diagnosis of cancer from that test, and they were able to save my life because of it. Was the trade of limping worth my life?
;-)
Well, you could have your life AND a million dollars, and only a limp in exchange