One of those "you had to be there" stories: some 15 years ago, an uber-geek friend of mine plugged multiple processors into his TRS80 mptherboard - and suffered a meltdown that scorched his kitchen table. I still chuckle at the mental picture:)
I dunno. Seems to me if a checkbox were available for NASA funding, other special interests would be sure to follow. Why not a checkbox to disallow the funding of nuclear weapons research and development from you taxes?
Or one to go to specialized social programs?
The point is our tax system is already complicated enough as is and the 1040 I file every year is already 4 pages long. Do we really want to clutter up the tax code more?
True story: years back, a friend of still in high school was working at Subway when he got into a conversation with some lady. She claimed to be a landlord and offered to sell him some deliquent renter's Mac II for $150 (incl. CPU, 19" monitor, and 9,600 modem). He took her up on the offer and bought it. When the hard drive wouldn't boot up, he asked me to look at it.
Never having dealt with a Mac before, I did some research and managed to reset the BIOS. Boom, there's the hard drive with some small local publishing company's (think brochures & pamphlets) data on it.
I called him over and he flipped when he saw the contents. As it so happens, he worked a second job at this same publishing company!
Next day, he goes in tells his boss he's got their computer. She tells him they reported it stolen and got a new one with the insurance compensation - and here's some money to keep it hush-hush.
To this day, I don't know if the Mac was stolen from the company or not but definitely a weird situation.
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Someone's confused. The sun shines continually during the spring and summer months. Otherwise, our heroes would be trudging around in 6-foot high snow in heavy overcoats and there would be no such thing as the Midnight Sun Baseball Classic in June.
And this is why I quit playing Star Fleet Battles. While the concepts contained in the expansion packs were great (e.g. new races, ship classes, the addition of carriers and fighters), the continual "clarification" of the rules led too much into a meeting of lawyers than players.
If Peter Coffee is masquerading as "cosmosis" then there's no need to read this; otherwise...
I whole-heartedly agree with your intent and plan on sending a message to my Congressional Representatives & Senators. But I will not plagiarize someone else's writing to do so as you have.
Paragraphs 3, 4, 8-13 are taken directly word for word from Peter Coffee's opinion
column with no acknowledgment whatsoever.
Many a discussion has been had on whether copyrights are needed and you, dear sir/madam, aptly demonstrate the necessity. Phffft! You disgust me.
-- This opinion Copyright (C) 2000 Whitefox; fair use is explicitly allowed.
I live in the shadows of the Olympic Mountains on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington State and the first ISP I signed up with was appropriately named Olympic.net. That made for the coolest e-mail address (eanders@olympic.net) -- until the '96 Olympics rolled around.
They changed their name to SilverLink.net after the IOC sent a threatening letter. And I've since moved on...
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This is not really a rail against ThinkGeek.com (part of the Andover.Net family of web sites) but the shipping is expensive!
It's not just limited to Hollywood. We had to read Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" when I was in jr. high and the book we read from had two endings: the publisher's "happy" ending and Dickens' ending.
Not that it helps your situation but one of the first ones things I ever did when I got my CD writer was to hook up my old 5¼" floppy and put 'em all - the ones without copy protection that is - onto a CD.
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One of those "you had to be there" stories: some 15 years ago, an uber-geek friend of mine plugged multiple processors into his TRS80 mptherboard - and suffered a meltdown that scorched his kitchen table. I still chuckle at the mental picture :)
I'm glad your mom was okay but what about the laptop?
The point is our tax system is already complicated enough as is and the 1040 I file every year is already 4 pages long. Do we really want to clutter up the tax code more?
Never having dealt with a Mac before, I did some research and managed to reset the BIOS. Boom, there's the hard drive with some small local publishing company's (think brochures & pamphlets) data on it.
I called him over and he flipped when he saw the contents. As it so happens, he worked a second job at this same publishing company!
Next day, he goes in tells his boss he's got their computer. She tells him they reported it stolen and got a new one with the insurance compensation - and here's some money to keep it hush-hush.
To this day, I don't know if the Mac was stolen from the company or not but definitely a weird situation.
Someone's confused. The sun shines continually during the spring and summer months. Otherwise, our heroes would be trudging around in 6-foot high snow in heavy overcoats and there would be no such thing as the Midnight Sun Baseball Classic in June.
And this is why I quit playing Star Fleet Battles. While the concepts contained in the expansion packs were great (e.g. new races, ship classes, the addition of carriers and fighters), the continual "clarification" of the rules led too much into a meeting of lawyers than players.
... using lengths of wire
I haven't seen that in years/decades...
I whole-heartedly agree with your intent and plan on sending a message to my Congressional Representatives & Senators. But I will not plagiarize someone else's writing to do so as you have.
Paragraphs 3, 4, 8-13 are taken directly word for word from Peter Coffee's opinion column with no acknowledgment whatsoever.
Many a discussion has been had on whether copyrights are needed and you, dear sir/madam, aptly demonstrate the necessity. Phffft! You disgust me.
-- This opinion Copyright (C) 2000 Whitefox; fair use is explicitly allowed.
They changed their name to SilverLink.net after the IOC sent a threatening letter. And I've since moved on...
Somehow, I feel we're missing one of those VISA priceless moments...
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Do some comparison shopping first at Best Book Buys before you decide.
BTW, the ISBN listed at ThinkGeek is incorrect. As the /. article states, it should be 07357-0921-1.
It's not just limited to Hollywood. We had to read Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" when I was in jr. high and the book we read from had two endings: the publisher's "happy" ending and Dickens' ending.
Not that it helps your situation but one of the first ones things I ever did when I got my CD writer was to hook up my old 5¼" floppy and put 'em all - the ones without copy protection that is - onto a CD.