Please, tell me about how flu shots are for mind control and that a 757 really didn't crash into the Pentagon. Can't wait.
Flu shots contain nanobots which enter your brain and reroute your neural pathways. They are powered by radio waves, so if you are infested you can cut their power supply by wearing a tin foil hat. The flu shot shortage is actually due to a delay in fabricating the next batch of nanobots - implementing some of the new features has run into some unexpected hurdles.
As for the Pentagon, it was blown up from the inside. There was no plane.
No, I'm not crazy, I'm just having fun seeing how quickly I can come up with a conspiracy theory for both of your items. I did this in less than 5 minutes. Perhaps I should run a conspiracy website.:)
Speaking of light rail, that is a solution which is hear now, it is proven and it works. And it need not be too expensive if you control costs. Same with monorail, the situation in Las Vegas notwithstanding (ugh, don't get me started on that mess).
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has a nice light rail system which is run well. I rode the whole system back in September/October 2001 (they have since added to it) and found it a very pleasant way to travel.
2 miles is the right "worst" case estimate. (0.5 north/south and east/west at source and destination).
Also, many people can't comfortably (due to health or carrying packages, or weather) and/or safely (due to health or crime) walk 2 miles or can't do so quickly enough (it takes me 40 minutes at 3 mph, which is faster than many people walk - 40 minutes of driving is almost always more than enough to get anywhere in the area I want to).
Some of us want to still buy things the old fashioned way, even if it is just to look around and what other things we want to buy, to get out of the house and away from the PC (imagine THAT!), and to not have even more store clerks get laid off.
Now it appears a company is hurting people who buy its product in that way.
Maybe it is true, what is at first optional always becomes mandatory. That is a valid criticism of technology.
1. Not everyone has a DVD drive. Making it a requirement locks people out. Heck, a lot of people are boycotting DVD here because of the DMCA/CSS laws and court judgements.
2. DVDs are FAR, FAR, FAR less durable than CDs. Remember, even if a box is marked fragile, it is very liekly to get severe abuse. CDs are more likely to survive.
Buy with a credit card (or a bank card with a Visa/MasterCard logo, etc - but MAKE SURE IT IS RUN AS A CREDIT CARD AND NOT A DEBIT CARD - DON'T ENTER A PIN NUMBER) and try to return it. If they refuse to take it back, get the person's name, and the name and location of the store. Document all of that, what time it happened, the serial number off the box and what credit card you use. (You can have it notarized if you are really paranoid). Keep a copy of the receipt obviously.
Then initiate a charge back via your credit card company for defective goods. If you can't play a game you purchased because of the fault of the game maker - it is defective - the copy protection is mandatory - so the non-responding servers can be considered as part of the non-working product. If they want to play hard ball - so can you.
If you need documentation to give to the credit card company, see the first paragraph.
You'll very likely get your money back, since it is far less work for you to do this than for a company to fight the charge backs of everyone that does this. They may even want to go after the manufacturer.
Visa and Mastercard both don't look kindly upon merchants with high charge back rates. There are substantial penalties for it.
I don't know about other cards, but almost everyone here as at least one or more Visa or Mastercard cards or bank cards with their logo. You can look up the other card companies policies on the net if you wish - I just looked up the big 2.
Fair use rights are encoded in law. Still courts rule against defendants even when the fair use sections of copyright law apply to the defendant's actions.
Protections of law mean nothing if they are ignored.
Police harrassing people because they are Black violates numerous police department policies, state and Federal laws, and court orders. But it happens all the time - and all those orders and laws are unfortunately very often ineffective in stopping it.
Could a criminal increase the range by using a 10kW transmitter? One could easily get the power from a car engine. Drive by, send out a monstrously strong signal and read back all the responses.
Agreed about AC and DC, but here is one thing to keep in mind.
If you run an incandesent bulb off DC it will work just fine, and probably last a VERY long time compared to how long it "should" last.
I thought the UK ran at 240 volts, not 250. I thought South Africa was the only country that ran 250. I though most of Europe was 220 and Europe and the UK were going to unify their standards at 230. Anyone care to comment? BTW, Japan runs at 100 (the lowest, 250 is the highest) and I think Trinidad runs 110 (the USA does NOT, see below).
Of course the USA used to be 110 volts, but is now 120 volts, but so many Americans still don't know that. It actually causes problems with old tube radios.
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Please, tell me about how flu shots are for mind control and that a 757 really didn't crash into the Pentagon. Can't wait.
Flu shots contain nanobots which enter your brain and reroute your neural pathways. They are powered by radio waves, so if you are infested you can cut their power supply by wearing a tin foil hat. The flu shot shortage is actually due to a delay in fabricating the next batch of nanobots - implementing some of the new features has run into some unexpected hurdles.
As for the Pentagon, it was blown up from the inside. There was no plane.
No, I'm not crazy, I'm just having fun seeing how quickly I can come up with a conspiracy theory for both of your items. I did this in less than 5 minutes. Perhaps I should run a conspiracy website. :)
We could tell you, but we'd have to kill you.
:)
Expect a visit from Homeland Security later today.
And as long as you aren't actually doing anything (e.g. email reading, web browsing) that might actually work.
Bad DVDs won't kill you.
As for water damage what about if it rains?
Speaking of light rail, that is a solution which is hear now, it is proven and it works. And it need not be too expensive if you control costs. Same with monorail, the situation in Las Vegas notwithstanding (ugh, don't get me started on that mess).
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has a nice light rail system which is run well. I rode the whole system back in September/October 2001 (they have since added to it) and found it a very pleasant way to travel.
PRT cars would have to stop if there was a car in from of them loading/unloading at a station.
You can walk diagonally?
:)
I am unable to do that.
My problem?
There are things called "buildings" in my way.
2 miles is the right "worst" case estimate. (0.5 north/south and east/west at source and destination).
Also, many people can't comfortably (due to health or carrying packages, or weather) and/or safely (due to health or crime) walk 2 miles or can't do so quickly enough (it takes me 40 minutes at 3 mph, which is faster than many people walk - 40 minutes of driving is almost always more than enough to get anywhere in the area I want to).
Some of us want to still buy things the old fashioned way, even if it is just to look around and what other things we want to buy, to get out of the house and away from the PC (imagine THAT!), and to not have even more store clerks get laid off.
Now it appears a company is hurting people who buy its product in that way.
Maybe it is true, what is at first optional always becomes mandatory. That is a valid criticism of technology.
Slashdotters: Walking the Walk and Mumbling the Talk since 1997.
You meant "Talking the talk and fumbling the walk since 1997." :/
1. Not everyone has a DVD drive. Making it a requirement locks people out. Heck, a lot of people are boycotting DVD here because of the DMCA/CSS laws and court judgements.
2. DVDs are FAR, FAR, FAR less durable than CDs. Remember, even if a box is marked fragile, it is very liekly to get severe abuse. CDs are more likely to survive.
Buy with a credit card (or a bank card with a Visa/MasterCard logo, etc - but MAKE SURE IT IS RUN AS A CREDIT CARD AND NOT A DEBIT CARD - DON'T ENTER A PIN NUMBER) and try to return it. If they refuse to take it back, get the person's name, and the name and location of the store. Document all of that, what time it happened, the serial number off the box and what credit card you use. (You can have it notarized if you are really paranoid). Keep a copy of the receipt obviously.
Then initiate a charge back via your credit card company for defective goods. If you can't play a game you purchased because of the fault of the game maker - it is defective - the copy protection is mandatory - so the non-responding servers can be considered as part of the non-working product. If they want to play hard ball - so can you.
If you need documentation to give to the credit card company, see the first paragraph.
You'll very likely get your money back, since it is far less work for you to do this than for a company to fight the charge backs of everyone that does this. They may even want to go after the manufacturer.
Visa and Mastercard both don't look kindly upon merchants with high charge back rates. There are substantial penalties for it.
I don't know about other cards, but almost everyone here as at least one or more Visa or Mastercard cards or bank cards with their logo. You can look up the other card companies policies on the net if you wish - I just looked up the big 2.
Use your rights, or lose them.
Yeah, the fact that there are security holes to begin with.
Even Apache has too many holes.
Jocks will offer to not beat up nerds if they'll hack the system to allow them to cut school.
:)
Popular girls will offer to date nerds for the same reason.
Tbis could really help the nerds.
Don't worry, John Asscroft will use Homeland Security as an excuse to subpeona Slashdot for your identity. They'll find you.
Fair use rights are encoded in law. Still courts rule against defendants even when the fair use sections of copyright law apply to the defendant's actions.
Protections of law mean nothing if they are ignored.
Police harrassing people because they are Black violates numerous police department policies, state and Federal laws, and court orders. But it happens all the time - and all those orders and laws are unfortunately very often ineffective in stopping it.
Could a criminal increase the range by using a 10kW transmitter? One could easily get the power from a car engine. Drive by, send out a monstrously strong signal and read back all the responses.
Take the money out before the chargebacks occur and just abandon the Pay Pal account.
Of course, you'll need a Pay Pal account you are willing to lose.
There might be some risks to this method.
Dell supports Linux because that's what it's customer wants.
It's "its", not "it's". "it's" means "it is", "its" is the possessive.
Agreed about AC and DC, but here is one thing to keep in mind.
If you run an incandesent bulb off DC it will work just fine, and probably last a VERY long time compared to how long it "should" last.
I thought the UK ran at 240 volts, not 250. I thought South Africa was the only country that ran 250. I though most of Europe was 220 and Europe and the UK were going to unify their standards at 230. Anyone care to comment? BTW, Japan runs at 100 (the lowest, 250 is the highest) and I think Trinidad runs 110 (the USA does NOT, see below).
Of course the USA used to be 110 volts, but is now 120 volts, but so many Americans still don't know that. It actually causes problems with old tube radios.
At 77F the monitoring equipment got too warm and said 100% as a result. ;)
With disk space getting cheaper and cheaper, perhaps all the lossy formats will lose popularity and FLAC (lossless) will gain market share.
I remember when disk was $1/meg, now you can sometimes get it for less than $1/gigabyte, a 1024X improvement.
mp3's are only 5X smaller than FLAC.
It's similar to walking into a pub and demanding that everyone stop smoking because you are a non-smoker.
No, you just get the legislature to do that for you.
It can't patch holes in Windows.
There are devices to do that too.
You can probably get one off E-bay.