Nobody said anything about Darwin you fool! Go buy a powertool and look athe manual. Every one of those safety warnings is there because of a lawsuit by a moron that did it. This amounts to between 2/3 and 3/4 of a lawnmower manual.
Stupidest thing I've seen: Daytime running lights on a Chevy Suburbun, if you can't see a 5000 LB vehicle coming at you in broad daylight, you will get exactly what you deserve!
What makes anyone think that the thundering herd of dumbass in Washington will make it better? They will vote the way their largest contributors tell them (M$, Exxon, GE, Oracle, RIAA, MPAA...). Most of them can't even understand the problem and won't try to learn about it. They do so little themselves and are spoonfed knowledge by staffers. You don't even need to bribe the congresscritter anymore, just the staffer in charge of that area. They are much cheaper too!
If every manager had to pay an hour of overtime for every question he asked by blackberry, text, or cell, after office hours, there would be no problem! Most would figure out real quick what is really important and what can wait until tomarrow. I don't care if the answer takes 10 seconds, they have to pay an hour.
Since a shortage isn't likely to happen why don't we have fun with this fictional situation? Track down all spammers put a thermite grenade on each of their servers and soot the bastards. That will free up close to 30% of whats wasted today. Tomarrow go after all online advertising the same way.
I seriously wonder if the scare mongers who put this stuff out have ever heard of the boy who cried wolf?
Actually that would be "natural selection". Hey you, your to stupid to live, out of the gene pool!
This is nothing more than another anti stupidity bill. We have to protect all morons from their own actions. People wonder why test scores keep dropping.
This is based on a problem that some states started fighting at least 10 years ago. I has nothing to do with protecting your privacy, it's about money. This is just another "unfunded mandate" from Washington. Congresscritters pass a law requireing the states to do something but don't supply the funds to cover it. The states are supposed to come up with the money out of already tight budgets, sometimes when the legislature is not in session so there is no way to alter the budget until the next session. During the Clinton era many states passed their own bills stating that any law like this would be enforced only when Washington paid for it. In other words: Don't tell us how to waste our money, we are already very good at that and don't need your help!
If half the money taken in taxes was actually spent wisely, most people would quit complaining.
I live in NC. There are times when I read of more and more "sweet deals" to get a company here that I have to wonder if the average homeowner pays more taxes than... say Dell. The legislature and county commisions cut so many deals to these companies and then raise everyone elses taxes because they don't have enough money to waste. I'm sick of it.
Add the fact that saving email on a web based service is just begging for something like this. If it's important keep it in Thunderbird or another "in your possesion" email client. Lycos record for customer service is not very good and niether is their record of honouring contracts.
Order of the Phoenix will be out on July 13. Should make for an interesting 8 days. From everything I've picked up there will be at least one more. I can't believe that anyone would willingly turn off this money machine.
I think Turner, their ad agency, and the other people involved are in for big fight in court. I pieced the following together from a couple of news sites.
State Attorney General Martha Coakley said Peter Berdovsky, 29, of Arlington, was arrested on one felony charge of placing a hoax device, and one charge of disorderly conduct.
"We're not going to let this go without looking at the further roots of how this happened to cause the panic in this city," she said. "This investigation is ongoing as to whether other individuals and certainly other entities including the Turner Broadcasting Company and any public relations companies that were involved with the determination of this scheme and the execution of it should be charged," she said.
Coakley said those conducting the publicity campaign should have known the devices had the potential to cause panic because of their placement in sensitive areas. She and other officials said Turner did not notifiy them until around 5 p.m. about the publicity campaign.
"then the advertisers have already won." until you see the size of the bill that Boston and the state of Massachusetts send to the Cartoon Network. That or a civil suite to recover the costs involved in this farce.
When you try to explain this to the person in India and they don't understand, it becomes a big pain in the ass. I have been through it over a hundred times since I'm a tech at a whitebox store. We reactivate it so the customer doesn't have to go through the hassle. Normally the way around it is to demand to speak to a supervisor. It boils down to asserting your rights and never allow them to follow their script.
There was a case somewhere in the mid-west last year about the M$ EULA. The defense lawyer claimed it was unenforceable dur to the wording. In essence: since nobody has a lawyer looking over their shoulder to interpret the EULA everytime software is installed, the only way to make it enforceable is to write it in plain English instead of legaleze. I have never heard of how that case came out. But I childishly hope common sense prevailed.
There are many sights in the U.S. that are blurred. The Submarine Base at Groton, CT, White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico and several other sensitive sites. I noticed this a year and a half ago when I checked out WSMR and the sub base. I grew up in Las Cruces, NM which is 20 miles from WSMR and was stationed at Sub School for a while. Some military bases use a different method, a picture that never changes. Check out the Naval base at Norfolk, VA and zoom in on the piers, that picture has been exactly the same for 1.5 years. Yet when I check out my Mom's house in NM the pictures are different at least monthly, the angle and shadows change. I'm sure this can be bypassed in many ways but have no problem with the Govt. at least making someone work for it.
If it's an engineering company (TRW, Martin, Boeing...) then an engineer needs to be CEO. He is the one that knows the processes, product, and most important, the customers. In an IT company the same thing holds true, that same level of knowledge, that is the guy or gal that can grow the business. Making someone the CEO from an area that doesn't know those things has been proven a disaster in the past. Classic example: Ford making an accountant CEO. What did Robert MacNamara do for Ford? The Edsel! He was such a disaster there that Kennedy made him Secretary of Defense and he ran the Vietnam war, oh, another disaster!
The CEO of any company needs to be someone from the core business of that company (or one like it) that has a true understanding of the business and the customers. Look at what has happened to companies over the last 5 years, the ones that have been successful and the ones that got in trouble, where did the CEO's come from? The largest number of problems were the companies that brought someone in from a different industry.
M$ has made customers pay to be beta testers since at least Win95. Whats worse, except for Win2k sp4, they have never released a charlie of any software product!
It's not exactly free. In 1981 I was part of a project at New Mexico State U. that laid 4.5 miles of insulated concrete pipe from 2 wells to a heat exchanger and then to campus. That system still provides the hot water to the dorms and heats the swimming pools. One of the biggest problems was getting rid of the water after it passed through the heat exchanger. That stuff was the worst water you might have seen. When we tested the first well (950 feet deep, #2 was 975) into a pit 100' across and 6 feet deep it left an iron crust a quarter inch thick when it dried. We ended up putting it down an old water well at 150' so it would be filtered before getting back to the drinking water level of 400'+. The hot water on campus is stored in a 25,000 gallon tank under a parking lot near the stadium. The initial cost is high, very high, but long range it gets cheap. 26 years after instalation keeping the heat exchanger cleaned out is the biggest problem, so they put in a second one and switch them out.
I would suggest checking the walls and if there is no insulation use spray in foam. It has a better R value for the thickness and will also seal the wall to prevent air leaks. There are several types so find a contractor that you can trust and ask questions. Or do the research yourself and then find a contractor to do it the way you want.
The Washington spin machine will make a big deal out of this, they finally avoided negative numbers on effectivness. Of course if it wasn't for the wire fraud they would have lost this one too! The people in DC are paid off by the Direct Marketing Association, that's how this useless piece of crap got passed in the first place. Our Congresscritters had to throw them a bone for passing the Do Not Call bill, one of the few bills in the last 40 years that actually helped most people!
Think about it, how many bills passed in DC actually make anyones life more tolerable? Other than tax cuts and the Do Not Call bill I can't think of any.
Why is it that every time in the last 35 years the Democrats say they are going to raise the taxes on the "rich", my taxes go up? I have yet to gross $50,000/year in my life!
That most people are so disgusted with the press and their reporting that they lie to a pollster, just to make the press look dumber than normal? I started voting in 1976 and have been hit by reporters when exiting the polls 3 times. 1. How I voted is nobodys business but mine. 2. The questions were slanted to a certain viewpoint, not a simple who did you vote for. I lied every time. Yes they have the "right" to ask the question, but I have the "right" to answer it any way I want. Deal with it!
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Nobody said anything about Darwin you fool! Go buy a powertool and look athe manual. Every one of those safety warnings is there because of a lawsuit by a moron that did it. This amounts to between 2/3 and 3/4 of a lawnmower manual.
Stupidest thing I've seen: Daytime running lights on a Chevy Suburbun, if you can't see a 5000 LB vehicle coming at you in broad daylight, you will get exactly what you deserve!
Use the perverted "law" that they created to penalize them. Turn the dog on it's master, what a perfect idea!
What makes anyone think that the thundering herd of dumbass in Washington will make it better? They will vote the way their largest contributors tell them (M$, Exxon, GE, Oracle, RIAA, MPAA...). Most of them can't even understand the problem and won't try to learn about it. They do so little themselves and are spoonfed knowledge by staffers. You don't even need to bribe the congresscritter anymore, just the staffer in charge of that area. They are much cheaper too!
If every manager had to pay an hour of overtime for every question he asked by blackberry, text, or cell, after office hours, there would be no problem! Most would figure out real quick what is really important and what can wait until tomarrow. I don't care if the answer takes 10 seconds, they have to pay an hour.
Since a shortage isn't likely to happen why don't we have fun with this fictional situation? Track down all spammers put a thermite grenade on each of their servers and soot the bastards. That will free up close to 30% of whats wasted today. Tomarrow go after all online advertising the same way.
I seriously wonder if the scare mongers who put this stuff out have ever heard of the boy who cried wolf?
If the Canadiens have managed to piss off this group of self important twits, then my hats off to my cousins to the north!
Actually that would be "natural selection".
Hey you, your to stupid to live, out of the gene pool!
This is nothing more than another anti stupidity bill. We have to protect all morons from their own actions. People wonder why test scores keep dropping.
This is based on a problem that some states started fighting at least 10 years ago. I has nothing to do with protecting your privacy, it's about money. This is just another "unfunded mandate" from Washington. Congresscritters pass a law requireing the states to do something but don't supply the funds to cover it. The states are supposed to come up with the money out of already tight budgets, sometimes when the legislature is not in session so there is no way to alter the budget until the next session. During the Clinton era many states passed their own bills stating that any law like this would be enforced only when Washington paid for it. In other words: Don't tell us how to waste our money, we are already very good at that and don't need your help!
If half the money taken in taxes was actually spent wisely, most people would quit complaining.
I live in NC. There are times when I read of more and more "sweet deals" to get a company here that I have to wonder if the average homeowner pays more taxes than... say Dell. The legislature and county commisions cut so many deals to these companies and then raise everyone elses taxes because they don't have enough money to waste. I'm sick of it.
Nice to know I'm not alone. Change crooks every election, party doesn't matter, they are all crooks.
Add the fact that saving email on a web based service is just begging for something like this. If it's important keep it in Thunderbird or another "in your possesion" email client. Lycos record for customer service is not very good and niether is their record of honouring contracts.
Order of the Phoenix will be out on July 13. Should make for an interesting 8 days. From everything I've picked up there will be at least one more. I can't believe that anyone would willingly turn off this money machine.
There are times like this that beg the question: If all the brains at M$ were dynamite, could they generate enough force to blow one nose?
I think Turner, their ad agency, and the other people involved are in for big fight in court. I pieced the following together from a couple of news sites.
State Attorney General Martha Coakley said Peter Berdovsky, 29, of Arlington, was arrested on one felony charge of placing a hoax device, and one charge of disorderly conduct.
"We're not going to let this go without looking at the further roots of how this happened to cause the panic in this city," she said.
"This investigation is ongoing as to whether other individuals and certainly other entities including the Turner Broadcasting Company and any public relations companies that were involved with the determination of this scheme and the execution of it should be charged," she said.
Coakley said those conducting the publicity campaign should have known the devices had the potential to cause panic because of their placement in sensitive areas. She and other officials said Turner did not notifiy them until around 5 p.m. about the publicity campaign.
"then the advertisers have already won." until you see the size of the bill that Boston and the state of Massachusetts send to the Cartoon Network. That or a civil suite to recover the costs involved in this farce.
When you try to explain this to the person in India and they don't understand, it becomes a big pain in the ass. I have been through it over a hundred times since I'm a tech at a whitebox store. We reactivate it so the customer doesn't have to go through the hassle. Normally the way around it is to demand to speak to a supervisor. It boils down to asserting your rights and never allow them to follow their script.
There was a case somewhere in the mid-west last year about the M$ EULA. The defense lawyer claimed it was unenforceable dur to the wording. In essence: since nobody has a lawyer looking over their shoulder to interpret the EULA everytime software is installed, the only way to make it enforceable is to write it in plain English instead of legaleze.
I have never heard of how that case came out. But I childishly hope common sense prevailed.
There are many sights in the U.S. that are blurred. The Submarine Base at Groton, CT, White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico and several other sensitive sites. I noticed this a year and a half ago when I checked out WSMR and the sub base. I grew up in Las Cruces, NM which is 20 miles from WSMR and was stationed at Sub School for a while. Some military bases use a different method, a picture that never changes. Check out the Naval base at Norfolk, VA and zoom in on the piers, that picture has been exactly the same for 1.5 years. Yet when I check out my Mom's house in NM the pictures are different at least monthly, the angle and shadows change. I'm sure this can be bypassed in many ways but have no problem with the Govt. at least making someone work for it.
If it's an engineering company (TRW, Martin, Boeing...) then an engineer needs to be CEO. He is the one that knows the processes, product, and most important, the customers. In an IT company the same thing holds true, that same level of knowledge, that is the guy or gal that can grow the business. Making someone the CEO from an area that doesn't know those things has been proven a disaster in the past. Classic example: Ford making an accountant CEO. What did Robert MacNamara do for Ford? The Edsel! He was such a disaster there that Kennedy made him Secretary of Defense and he ran the Vietnam war, oh, another disaster!
The CEO of any company needs to be someone from the core business of that company (or one like it) that has a true understanding of the business and the customers. Look at what has happened to companies over the last 5 years, the ones that have been successful and the ones that got in trouble, where did the CEO's come from? The largest number of problems were the companies that brought someone in from a different industry.
M$ has made customers pay to be beta testers since at least Win95. Whats worse, except for Win2k sp4, they have never released a charlie of any software product!
It's not exactly free. In 1981 I was part of a project at New Mexico State U. that laid 4.5 miles of insulated concrete pipe from 2 wells to a heat exchanger and then to campus. That system still provides the hot water to the dorms and heats the swimming pools. One of the biggest problems was getting rid of the water after it passed through the heat exchanger. That stuff was the worst water you might have seen. When we tested the first well (950 feet deep, #2 was 975) into a pit 100' across and 6 feet deep it left an iron crust a quarter inch thick when it dried. We ended up putting it down an old water well at 150' so it would be filtered before getting back to the drinking water level of 400'+. The hot water on campus is stored in a 25,000 gallon tank under a parking lot near the stadium. The initial cost is high, very high, but long range it gets cheap. 26 years after instalation keeping the heat exchanger cleaned out is the biggest problem, so they put in a second one and switch them out.
I would suggest checking the walls and if there is no insulation use spray in foam. It has a better R value for the thickness and will also seal the wall to prevent air leaks. There are several types so find a contractor that you can trust and ask questions. Or do the research yourself and then find a contractor to do it the way you want.
The Washington spin machine will make a big deal out of this, they finally avoided negative numbers on effectivness. Of course if it wasn't for the wire fraud they would have lost this one too! The people in DC are paid off by the Direct Marketing Association, that's how this useless piece of crap got passed in the first place. Our Congresscritters had to throw them a bone for passing the Do Not Call bill, one of the few bills in the last 40 years that actually helped most people!
Think about it, how many bills passed in DC actually make anyones life more tolerable? Other than tax cuts and the Do Not Call bill I can't think of any.
Why is it that every time in the last 35 years the Democrats say they are going to raise the taxes on the "rich", my taxes go up? I have yet to gross $50,000/year in my life!
This is a classic example of the fact that the RIAA is not about "the artists" but is all about the record companies!
That most people are so disgusted with the press and their reporting that they lie to a pollster, just to make the press look dumber than normal? I started voting in 1976 and have been hit by reporters when exiting the polls 3 times. 1. How I voted is nobodys business but mine. 2. The questions were slanted to a certain viewpoint, not a simple who did you vote for. I lied every time. Yes they have the "right" to ask the question, but I have the "right" to answer it any way I want. Deal with it!