I'm surprised the Denver cops think a fairly normal looking toy is strange looking and suspicious. This kind of stupidity seems to usually be Boston cops. I'm betting it was just some guerrilla art, look for more small toys to be cemented around town. At 8" it wouldn't have had enough explosives from that positioning to do any real damage to that bridge support even if it was solid tritonal.
Can anyone out there identify that toy from the photo? I'm betting it's hollow plastic and at least partially articulated.
On a side note, I wonder if they're going to start profiling teddy bears next...
Actually it does, that's the whole point. You have a controlled explosion in that it goes off when you want it to, not the bomber. Additionally you have placed barricades and other protective structures to minimize the damage. If you think about it, how can exposing an explosive to an explosion be expected to not set it off? Just a side note, if you blow up a nuke, you don't get a nuclear explosion, you get a dirty explosion. The reason is simple, to go nuclear it has to be a carefully timed and controlled explosion so the nuclear material reaches critical mass, which is something that won't happen from a blast originating outside it's core. Yes, Hollywood got it wrong about a million times, no big surprise. You ever watch a movie and people are afraid to drop the plastic explosions? I've burned plastic explosives, thrown it around like a ball of putty, and watched someone shoot it with a rifle at close range. It needs another explosion to set it off, dropping it won't do anything except make it splat like putty. (On a side note, I've been in the vehicle, or within a 100' of around 40 or 50 car wrecks, and not even once has one of them caught fire or exploded. So yeah, Hollywood sucks on the realism score.)
Let's see: An incompetent governor that couldn't even complete one term in Alaska. Dumber that most rocks. Communication skills so poor she's incapable of handling even a 'soft' interview that only has one unscripted question. Comes across as even more fake than Tammy Faes face with full makeup. Seems to think competence is based on worn out sex appeal when your opponents are 60+ year old fat bald men in hundred year old dust covered suits. Can't even get a coherent simile more than 2/3 of the time.
I could go on and on, but why bother, every adult with any cognitive capability above that of a 4th grader already hates her, the rest are too stupid to understand why...
Anyone remember Prodigy? For some time they had a clause buried in their EULA that said they owned your computer and everything on it. The point isn't "OMG! Apple is doing something evil while everyone else is playing nice!", rather it's more of a "OMG! Look at how Apple tries to pretend it's so perfect and customer centered and yet they too are trying to screw you with a cactus!".
no, but they can't kick them out of the store for working at their competition. As to the store, it's just like seeing ads for shows on other networks on your TV. If someone has the only outlet (the iphone app store in this case), the exclusion of something that might promote the competition is both monopolistic and anti-competitive.
As to why, they aren't required to promote the competition, but as they are the sole channel, they can't exclude the competition. It boils down to a simple choice if they want to avoid being in violation of the anti-monopoly laws. Either allow the app store to sell damn near anything legal, even stuff from the competition for the phone, or allow people to get iphone apps from another store. Period.
The government is slow, and the old fogies in it (politicians and justice department types) tend to avoid technology that's not from before 1940, but they will eventually get around to crucifying Apple for this stuff. But Apple should be glad that so many people want them to clean up their act even before the government starts handing out pitchforks.
Not true, you can buy parts for your Ford from a non-Ford store made by someone other than Ford because of the anti-monopoly laws, and yes, the big 3 got slapped in the face for doing those exact anti-competitive things a long time ago. Your 'example' is so far off the mark, I wonder if you will use 'Standard Oil' as your next one...
No, nor does having 100% market share make it a monopoly either. Go read up on it. One of the points is the ability to exclude others from the market, and Apple doesn't have that for the Smartphone market, but rather for software on the iphone. Kind of like if you bought a Lister brand TV but could only watch shows on the Lister cable channel, which by the way wouldn't accept ads for other channels or TVs.
I know there's lots of people that will declare "it's Apples phone, they can do what they want". Problem is, that's wrong, it's Apples phone, and it's a software platform and media display device, there are rules and regulations about what they can and can't exclude.
So, when did your data become important to you? Before or After you lost it...
You wouldn't believe how many people don't properly backup critical data. If it's important, really important, here are a few tips: - Have current backups - Test the backups to ensure they work - Keep multiple backups - Keep the backups in separate locations, preferably separate sites if possible, and if really critical, separate cities (Disasters happen) - Keep backups in a fireproof safe or equivalent, it should be waterproof as well, and probably airtight - Even though you need to keep the backups secure, you need multiple people that can access it when necessary (Accidents happen, people die, people lose keys and forget combos)
Those steps are simple, and a business can easily do all of them. Individuals may have less capability to implement everything. If you choose to do less, you are balancing the value of your data against the probability of losing it. I dealt with many many people who didn't follow those rules and lost their data. It happens, a lot. Business records, bank statements, novels, doctoral thesis, family photos, source code, chat logs, porn, contact lists, and more. Too may people blow off the importance of preserving their data until after it's gone, and when that happens, there are only two things that you can do. First, hope that a data recover place can recover some of it (all is a really long shot) but they'll charge you through the nose. Or two, deal with the lose and suffer the consequences. There are no miracles or magic pixie dust in data recovery.
Tip for data recovery. If something happens and you need the data back, I wish you luck, but here's some things to do that may improve your odds. TURN OFF THAT MACHINE AND REMOVE THE DRIVE THAT THE LOST DATA WAS ON! Your computer is doing things even when you don't tell it to. If it writes to the drive, it may very well write over where your precious data was. If that happens, it's gone, period, for-ever. No data recovery place on the planet gets back data that's been written over. They may be willing to try, and charge you an outrageous fee even if they fail, but the will fail. Usually only part of the data is written over, so something can be recovered, but it may be useless. After all, half an exe is pretty useless, but half that novel might help you out. Sorry about ranting, but seen way too many bad ones, and I know you don't want to go through that.
I'd like jeans and shirt, and as long as we're at it, a long coat (duster) and a hat with this stuff. It'll drive them nuts.
What's wrong? Everyone knows that these flights expose you to increased levels of radiation, and my doctor says I need to avoid that, so I'm wearing environment appropriate clothing. I'm sorry your xray operator can't get his jollies off, but it doesn't say he's allowed to see anything. Besides that, you don't want me turning into the thing or human torch do you? (Mister Fantastic would be too much fun, and Invisible Woman would require a gender change as well.) Sorry, couldn't resist the comic book based radiation crack.:)
Yes, it's an interesting fantasy rpg. I think the first one sold decently, but I don't have any numbers on that, don't feel like looking them up. Although I agree that the statement they made is a little confusing. Maybe we're reading too much into this, or we are just too paranoid. Or maybe just me... : )
But I have a bit of asthma, and I don't think I could enjoy the city lugging around my own air supply. On the bright side, you could invent solid pneumatic tires by filling them with Beijing air.
But he used a creative method to "cheat" the limits of his current technology to make continuous scenes much longer than he could record. If you ever watch it, pay close attention to when the screen is blacked out for a moment by someone with a black jacket (or equivalent black object) is either panned across, or stands in front of the camera. It happens so smoothly it doesn't disturb the flow of the scene at all. In reality that was when they had to stop, change film, and start up again. The 'blackground' is actually a means to hide the jump. Since your view of the rest of the scene is momentarily interrupted, and then continues as if nothing happened, you assume that nothing did happen. Kind of like blinking, but on a larger scale. Considering his creativity and genius with the far more limited capabilities of his equipment, could you imagine what he'd do with modern gear & software? (Probably not, but I bet it would make Lucas and Spielburg wet themselves.)
Yes, I agree with you, I believe that activity is clearly against the Federal laws and regulations regarding debt collection. (ianal) As to your situation, it's not necessarily over, check the statute of limitation on debts in your state. Then tend to range from 5-8 years, and it's possible that the collector was already past that point and is still trying to collect. As to the (un-named) third party you contacted, for as far as I know, it could have been the collectors brother-in-law. Don't go by the statements of a third party the collector sends you to, contact an official state agency or a legal representative that deals with these types of issues.
Unfortunately there are a very large number of unscrupulous debt collectors out there that depend on your timidity and ignorance. Few people fight, and fewer people have any idea what their rights are, much less the restrictions the debt collectors are supposed to work under.
My brother is mental for Crazy Taxi. He wore out two controllers playing that on the Dreamcast, but from what I've heard of the remake, even he won't touch it. Guess we'll see.
Yes, and the word that he wanted it to be sexy only came out of their back offices years later. Everybody had a laugh at some fool wanting to call an interface sexy. The jokes about hookerbots were thicker than a Bender episode of Futurama. I have no idea why some people are trying to make a big deal out of it this late in the game. (Maybe they are looking for an epitaph?)
Had a situation in the military where the motorpool wanted to burn us for every problem with the vehicles. So we wrote up every tiny scratch, ding, and other issue, sent them all in for repairs, and rejected all attempts by the motorpool to waive off rather than fix the issues. After a little more than a week they called us up metaphorically waving the white flag.
So yes, all the Australian telcos should use that annoying process for absolutely everything can isn't excluded by the rules/laws/rulings to flood the receivers until they suspend or change the rules. If they tell the telcos to not inform them of something, but don't change the law/rules/rulings, keep telling them. Only stop when something is properly listed in the rule/law/ruling as an item excluded from being reported. It well be a living hell for the receivers of those reports, and to be honest, the telcos won't get much done since they'll be so busy writing the reports, but people will learn just how onerous such things can be. (Pricks that want something but don't have to do it themselves always underestimate or play down how much work it is for the other people.)
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How would that be a surprise?
I'm surprised the Denver cops think a fairly normal looking toy is strange looking and suspicious. This kind of stupidity seems to usually be Boston cops.
I'm betting it was just some guerrilla art, look for more small toys to be cemented around town.
At 8" it wouldn't have had enough explosives from that positioning to do any real damage to that bridge support even if it was solid tritonal.
Can anyone out there identify that toy from the photo? I'm betting it's hollow plastic and at least partially articulated.
On a side note, I wonder if they're going to start profiling teddy bears next...
Actually it does, that's the whole point. You have a controlled explosion in that it goes off when you want it to, not the bomber. Additionally you have placed barricades and other protective structures to minimize the damage.
If you think about it, how can exposing an explosive to an explosion be expected to not set it off? Just a side note, if you blow up a nuke, you don't get a nuclear explosion, you get a dirty explosion. The reason is simple, to go nuclear it has to be a carefully timed and controlled explosion so the nuclear material reaches critical mass, which is something that won't happen from a blast originating outside it's core. Yes, Hollywood got it wrong about a million times, no big surprise. You ever watch a movie and people are afraid to drop the plastic explosions? I've burned plastic explosives, thrown it around like a ball of putty, and watched someone shoot it with a rifle at close range. It needs another explosion to set it off, dropping it won't do anything except make it splat like putty.
(On a side note, I've been in the vehicle, or within a 100' of around 40 or 50 car wrecks, and not even once has one of them caught fire or exploded. So yeah, Hollywood sucks on the realism score.)
Let's see:
An incompetent governor that couldn't even complete one term in Alaska.
Dumber that most rocks.
Communication skills so poor she's incapable of handling even a 'soft' interview that only has one unscripted question.
Comes across as even more fake than Tammy Faes face with full makeup.
Seems to think competence is based on worn out sex appeal when your opponents are 60+ year old fat bald men in hundred year old dust covered suits.
Can't even get a coherent simile more than 2/3 of the time.
I could go on and on, but why bother, every adult with any cognitive capability above that of a 4th grader already hates her, the rest are too stupid to understand why...
Anyone remember Prodigy? For some time they had a clause buried in their EULA that said they owned your computer and everything on it. The point isn't "OMG! Apple is doing something evil while everyone else is playing nice!", rather it's more of a "OMG! Look at how Apple tries to pretend it's so perfect and customer centered and yet they too are trying to screw you with a cactus!".
Not only is your name not a unique identifier, but if you spell it wrong, you aren't even close when doing a data search.
no, but they can't kick them out of the store for working at their competition. As to the store, it's just like seeing ads for shows on other networks on your TV. If someone has the only outlet (the iphone app store in this case), the exclusion of something that might promote the competition is both monopolistic and anti-competitive.
As to why, they aren't required to promote the competition, but as they are the sole channel, they can't exclude the competition. It boils down to a simple choice if they want to avoid being in violation of the anti-monopoly laws. Either allow the app store to sell damn near anything legal, even stuff from the competition for the phone, or allow people to get iphone apps from another store. Period.
The government is slow, and the old fogies in it (politicians and justice department types) tend to avoid technology that's not from before 1940, but they will eventually get around to crucifying Apple for this stuff. But Apple should be glad that so many people want them to clean up their act even before the government starts handing out pitchforks.
Not true, you can buy parts for your Ford from a non-Ford store made by someone other than Ford because of the anti-monopoly laws, and yes, the big 3 got slapped in the face for doing those exact anti-competitive things a long time ago. Your 'example' is so far off the mark, I wonder if you will use 'Standard Oil' as your next one...
No, nor does having 100% market share make it a monopoly either. Go read up on it. One of the points is the ability to exclude others from the market, and Apple doesn't have that for the Smartphone market, but rather for software on the iphone. Kind of like if you bought a Lister brand TV but could only watch shows on the Lister cable channel, which by the way wouldn't accept ads for other channels or TVs.
I know there's lots of people that will declare "it's Apples phone, they can do what they want". Problem is, that's wrong, it's Apples phone, and it's a software platform and media display device, there are rules and regulations about what they can and can't exclude.
Use a Clue-by-four, it has more impact than the stick.
I've always wanted to get a cricket bat and engrave the word 'Clue' on it four times.
How about Face to Face video chat?
So, when did your data become important to you? Before or After you lost it...
You wouldn't believe how many people don't properly backup critical data. If it's important, really important, here are a few tips:
- Have current backups
- Test the backups to ensure they work
- Keep multiple backups
- Keep the backups in separate locations, preferably separate sites if possible, and if really critical, separate cities (Disasters happen)
- Keep backups in a fireproof safe or equivalent, it should be waterproof as well, and probably airtight
- Even though you need to keep the backups secure, you need multiple people that can access it when necessary (Accidents happen, people die, people lose keys and forget combos)
Those steps are simple, and a business can easily do all of them. Individuals may have less capability to implement everything. If you choose to do less, you are balancing the value of your data against the probability of losing it. I dealt with many many people who didn't follow those rules and lost their data. It happens, a lot. Business records, bank statements, novels, doctoral thesis, family photos, source code, chat logs, porn, contact lists, and more. Too may people blow off the importance of preserving their data until after it's gone, and when that happens, there are only two things that you can do. First, hope that a data recover place can recover some of it (all is a really long shot) but they'll charge you through the nose. Or two, deal with the lose and suffer the consequences. There are no miracles or magic pixie dust in data recovery.
Tip for data recovery. If something happens and you need the data back, I wish you luck, but here's some things to do that may improve your odds. TURN OFF THAT MACHINE AND REMOVE THE DRIVE THAT THE LOST DATA WAS ON! Your computer is doing things even when you don't tell it to. If it writes to the drive, it may very well write over where your precious data was. If that happens, it's gone, period, for-ever. No data recovery place on the planet gets back data that's been written over. They may be willing to try, and charge you an outrageous fee even if they fail, but the will fail. Usually only part of the data is written over, so something can be recovered, but it may be useless. After all, half an exe is pretty useless, but half that novel might help you out. Sorry about ranting, but seen way too many bad ones, and I know you don't want to go through that.
I'd like jeans and shirt, and as long as we're at it, a long coat (duster) and a hat with this stuff. It'll drive them nuts.
:)
What's wrong? Everyone knows that these flights expose you to increased levels of radiation, and my doctor says I need to avoid that, so I'm wearing environment appropriate clothing. I'm sorry your xray operator can't get his jollies off, but it doesn't say he's allowed to see anything. Besides that, you don't want me turning into the thing or human torch do you? (Mister Fantastic would be too much fun, and Invisible Woman would require a gender change as well.) Sorry, couldn't resist the comic book based radiation crack.
Yes, it's an interesting fantasy rpg. I think the first one sold decently, but I don't have any numbers on that, don't feel like looking them up. Although I agree that the statement they made is a little confusing. Maybe we're reading too much into this, or we are just too paranoid. Or maybe just me... : )
But I have a bit of asthma, and I don't think I could enjoy the city lugging around my own air supply.
On the bright side, you could invent solid pneumatic tires by filling them with Beijing air.
Exactly!
This is a good thing, just so long as we don't have to play another "war of the three kingdoms" game, I'm utterly sick of those.
If the original reporter has the recording of the interview, he could prove his point. Or use it to make an apology for mistranscribing something.
But he used a creative method to "cheat" the limits of his current technology to make continuous scenes much longer than he could record.
If you ever watch it, pay close attention to when the screen is blacked out for a moment by someone with a black jacket (or equivalent black object) is either panned across, or stands in front of the camera. It happens so smoothly it doesn't disturb the flow of the scene at all. In reality that was when they had to stop, change film, and start up again. The 'blackground' is actually a means to hide the jump. Since your view of the rest of the scene is momentarily interrupted, and then continues as if nothing happened, you assume that nothing did happen. Kind of like blinking, but on a larger scale.
Considering his creativity and genius with the far more limited capabilities of his equipment, could you imagine what he'd do with modern gear & software? (Probably not, but I bet it would make Lucas and Spielburg wet themselves.)
Yes, I agree with you, I believe that activity is clearly against the Federal laws and regulations regarding debt collection. (ianal) As to your situation, it's not necessarily over, check the statute of limitation on debts in your state. Then tend to range from 5-8 years, and it's possible that the collector was already past that point and is still trying to collect.
As to the (un-named) third party you contacted, for as far as I know, it could have been the collectors brother-in-law. Don't go by the statements of a third party the collector sends you to, contact an official state agency or a legal representative that deals with these types of issues.
Unfortunately there are a very large number of unscrupulous debt collectors out there that depend on your timidity and ignorance. Few people fight, and fewer people have any idea what their rights are, much less the restrictions the debt collectors are supposed to work under.
My brother is mental for Crazy Taxi. He wore out two controllers playing that on the Dreamcast, but from what I've heard of the remake, even he won't touch it.
Guess we'll see.
Yes, and the word that he wanted it to be sexy only came out of their back offices years later. Everybody had a laugh at some fool wanting to call an interface sexy. The jokes about hookerbots were thicker than a Bender episode of Futurama. I have no idea why some people are trying to make a big deal out of it this late in the game. (Maybe they are looking for an epitaph?)
wouldn't that be a .gov ?
You forgot step 6) After winning law suit can afford to attend a real college/university.
Had a situation in the military where the motorpool wanted to burn us for every problem with the vehicles. So we wrote up every tiny scratch, ding, and other issue, sent them all in for repairs, and rejected all attempts by the motorpool to waive off rather than fix the issues. After a little more than a week they called us up metaphorically waving the white flag.
So yes, all the Australian telcos should use that annoying process for absolutely everything can isn't excluded by the rules/laws/rulings to flood the receivers until they suspend or change the rules. If they tell the telcos to not inform them of something, but don't change the law/rules/rulings, keep telling them. Only stop when something is properly listed in the rule/law/ruling as an item excluded from being reported. It well be a living hell for the receivers of those reports, and to be honest, the telcos won't get much done since they'll be so busy writing the reports, but people will learn just how onerous such things can be. (Pricks that want something but don't have to do it themselves always underestimate or play down how much work it is for the other people.)