It sounds like his dish is out of alignment. I used to have problems like this alot until I figured out that my mount point was slowly sagging, taking the dish with it. Since I readjusted (about 9 months ago), I haven't lost signal yet (with Dish Network).
I love DishNetwork. The only thing I might switch to would be DirecTV to get DirecTivo, but the DishNetwork Dishplay 501 (really old now), is goot for recording, pasuing skiping etc.). It just doesn't have 2 tuners for recording 2 channels, though you can record a channel while watching a taped show. Also Dish Network has a deal so that I get a crapload of "SuperStations." I get the WB Denver and UPN Los Angeles (I live in NY) in addition to the local stations.
I will never switch back to cable. I get the "Everything pack" which is all their channels (less pr0n) for about $100.
I am a step ahead of you, as I am already in Law School. And it may be an anomally, but about 65% of the students indicate that they want to be patent lawyers. Lots of tech/science refugees seem to be going to law school.
The general rule is that an advertisement does not constitute an offer. (See Restatment (Second) of Contracts. Though it is possible to make a definite offer, it is not customary and the presumption is the other way. Advertisements and order forms are notices and solicitation for offers which create no power of acceptance in the receipient.
Its good business to accept these offers as normally you want to foster good will, but absent a statute in whatever state Dell is in, they are not required to sell at that price.
This isn't at all unprecedented. Theodore Roosevelt was the Assitant Secretary of the Navy (and basically was the Acting Secretary of the NavY) with no naval experience. Dean Acheson was a Washington lawyer with no diplomatic experience before becoming Under Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. After resigning from the Air Force as just a Lieutenant Colonel, Robert McNamara became CEO of GM, before becoming Secretary of Defense. Alexander Hamilton had no finance experience (he was a lawyer) before founding one of the few and efficient government agencies, the Treasury Department.
And for more recent examples, Clinton's Secretary of Agriculture was a lawyer (who had little agricultural experience), Secretary of Defense (Cohen) had no military experience. There were others in his cabinet with little experience, but I'm bored.
This isn't a new phenomenon, or even a bad one. Roosevelt, Acheson, and Hamilton were excellent. McNamara, well, thats another story.
Unbiased????
The Bios of the peoplw who run a site called iraqbodycount.org:
JOHN SLOBODA: He is a founder member of the Network of Activist Scholars of Politics and International Relations (Naspir), and a local delegate to the Stop the War Coalition.
TORBEN FRANCK (Webmaster) is a musician and peace activist.
MARC HEROLD (Research consultant) is an Associate Professor of... Women's Studies. In December 2001 he released a widely cited study of the human costs of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan
JOHN BUCCHERI (Assistant researcher) is co-founder of MOW (Musicians Opposing War) at the School of Music...and believes during these bad times, a PERSISTENT STRONG VOICE OF OPPOSITION must be heard.
ERIC CLARKE was an active member of Camden CND in the 1980s, and is a member of Amnesty International.
JORDANA LIPSCOMB... is a... [s]upporting member and event coordinator of Musicians Opposing War (MOW).
SCOTT LIPSCOMB... is a co-founder of Musicians Opposing War, who advocate seeking non-violent solutions to the world's problems through a consensus of peace-minded nations.
I could go on, but its pretty off-topic. But this is why conservatives laugh when liberals say there is no left-wing bias. This is who counts as "unbiased" for ceritan people.
For the record, I am pro-this-war. Not because I think Hussein is a threat to the US (Hhe isn't), or WMD (little evidence), but because it is the moral thing to do. As the state with the biggest and best military, I feel we have a responsibility to oppresed people. While I didn't like Clinton, (and I don't like GWB), I supported Kosovo and Somalia. I think we should have gone into Rwanda and even now (after the latest massacre in Uganda) it wouldn't be a bad idea to go. We should have supported Checkoslovakia in '68 and Hungary in '56.
Will civilians be killed? Yes, but so far, even if you use your "unbiased" numbers, that's still a quarter of what Hussein killed in Halabja in one attack on the Kurds (in '88). Oh, and I sure the dead Kurds appreciate you "excluding the Kurds, of course." Kind of like how Hitler didn't kill his own people. Except for the Jews. And Gypsies. And Homosexuals.
Again, you'd think if the media was so "liberal" they would show civillian casualty numbers which (once again) it appears will end up in the multiple thousands. I haven't heard even ONE PEEP on American television about civillian casualties... Except for when they hit a busload of civiliians with a missile, we heard about THAT "accident." But after the bombing of a residential area where potentially hundreds of civilians could have been affected... nothing. Not one peep.
According to the Iraqis, who have been known to inflate the number of civilian casualties reported, nearly 600 civilians have been killed, with 4,000 wounded. And while the networks haven't shown many pictures, civilian casualties have been reported.
And as for the Syrian Bus we hit, I wouldn't be too surprised if it was full of Arab fighters and less of an accident than a targeted strike. I mean, while there have been tons of reports of fighting in northern and southern Iraq, very little fighting seems to have occured (unless not reported) near the Syrian border.
The 600 dead is truly a tragedy, but ask an Iraqi if we hadn't done anything for the next 2 years, if more than 600 would have been killed by Husein.
The commercials neglect a much better way of financing terrorists. Own a car?
If you do, then you are giving more money to "terrorists and the countries that harbor them" than by smoking the occasional joint. I wonder what Ford or GM would think of that commercial?
"I helped kill a Jew! - I drove my SUV to work today and didn't carpool."
These are currently running between 14th and 23rd on the PATH line into Manhattan. Its not too bad. The Target one was ok because no one had ever seen them before. The Discovery Cahannel one is pretty cool. A shark swims outside the cars and seems to be about half the size of the car. Its no worse than staring at a black wall.
But I can see a lot of boring ads in the future getting this technology. I can't wait until the RIAA buys ad space and tells me how I shouldn't down load MP3s on my walk to work.
There is also a (real) DVD floating around. Not that I have it and already watched it 4 times in the past 2 weeks. DVD-R burners are great. And just so no one freaks out, yes I am planning on buying it (the SE version, of course) when it comes out.
At least Foxnews won't not deny that they have a conservative slant, unlike CNN, NY Times, CBS, NBC etc. which claim to be unbiased.
The fact that Dan Rather can sincerely beleive that The New York Times is "middle-of-the-road" speaks volumes about the inherent bias of media outlets. Its not malicious or deliberate, its just narrow-mindedness (at least according to Bernie Goldberg in "Bias").
Rome was never a democracy. It was a republic. The US is a democratic republic. The main idea of democracy is 1 person, 1 vote. In a republic, its voting for representatives who will then vote in your best interest. Either way, its not what we have now.
Incorrect, sort of. The executive branch, (President) and related (FBI, ATF, DOJ) are tasked to do whatever the Legislative branch tells tham to do, without question. It is up to the Judicial branch to interpret the laws that Congress (or states) pass. Checks and balances - a branch does one thing and one thing only. These actions check and balance the power of the other branches implicitly.
Ashcroft is anti-everything. But he is constitutionally bound to enforce abortion provider protection laws etc. because that is his job. He can not interpret the laws as he sees fit, or if he does, the Courts can say he was wrong. Hopefully, the system, will work (in an expediant manner) in this case.
The DMCA is so vague that the FBI was doing what the law said. Hopefully, the Courts will release Mr. Skylarov because the law can't be applied to "crimes" commited outside the realm of the US. Then the DMCA could be struck down after a series of legal battles, or at the very least, the FBI would be more hesitant to act on type of case again.
Car dealerships do something like this all the time. I've seen very few cars that don't have a dealership sticker under the model name and/or around the license plate when its driven off the lot. I didn't consent to that, but you don't see me getting my panties in a bunch over it. Why? Because they can be removed (though it is a bit harder to do than simply delete an icon). Whose consent does AOL need?
Statements like this make me laugh. You think the 2nd amendment does squat to protect you from the government imposing a corporate police state, either suddenly or incrementally? Yeah right. If it comes to that, the arms your allowed to bear because of the 2nd amendment wouldn't do squat for you. Look at the KLA in Kosovo versus the Yugoslav army. You think a.45, or even an M-16 is going to do squat against a tank, much less an army equipped with tanks, planes, and heavily armed troops? HAHAHA.
Not that I support a violent revolution (there are other ways to accomplish this - a constitutional convention, for instance), but you fail to realize that US troops would have trouble firing on US civilians (not that they wouldn't). But I'd guess that if it ever came to a full-out revolution, there's be a good amount of troops who'd "defect" to the side of anti-government forces, along with their tanks, planes, etc. And I don't recall the Irish having anything more than a few rifles when they drove the better-equiped british out of the south.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
Well you'd think they'd get their act together. I work about 4 blocks from this protest, and I heard nothing about it until this posting (I knew that "protests were being planned" but didn't know where/when etc. You'd think some fliers around the city (or even having a few signs near the Port Authority, just 3 blocks away) would generate some attention. A day doesn't go by when I don't see some Mumia crap around, and he's already been forgotten by most people/media.
Not to mention, it seems really half-assed - Black marker, bad grammar, and messy handwriting does not a protest make. Torn out sheets of loose leaf paper?! Come on! With all the university students just dying to protest anything (see NYU, Columbia) and a good amount of Tech Schools in the area (Stevens, NYIT) and even art schools (Pratt, FIT, SVA) a more concentrated effort (with a little planning) might have been a bit more impressive.
Plus, no mention on the NYNMA web site, which would have meant out-of-work dotcommers might have seen it. Plus there must be some companies in NYC who are anti-DMCA and might have come out to help. The whole effort seems pretty weak.
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It sounds like his dish is out of alignment. I used to have problems like this alot until I figured out that my mount point was slowly sagging, taking the dish with it. Since I readjusted (about 9 months ago), I haven't lost signal yet (with Dish Network). I love DishNetwork. The only thing I might switch to would be DirecTV to get DirecTivo, but the DishNetwork Dishplay 501 (really old now), is goot for recording, pasuing skiping etc.). It just doesn't have 2 tuners for recording 2 channels, though you can record a channel while watching a taped show. Also Dish Network has a deal so that I get a crapload of "SuperStations." I get the WB Denver and UPN Los Angeles (I live in NY) in addition to the local stations. I will never switch back to cable. I get the "Everything pack" which is all their channels (less pr0n) for about $100.
I am a step ahead of you, as I am already in Law School. And it may be an anomally, but about 65% of the students indicate that they want to be patent lawyers. Lots of tech/science refugees seem to be going to law school.
Um, no.
The general rule is that an advertisement does not constitute an offer. (See Restatment (Second) of Contracts. Though it is possible to make a definite offer, it is not customary and the presumption is the other way. Advertisements and order forms are notices and solicitation for offers which create no power of acceptance in the receipient.
Its good business to accept these offers as normally you want to foster good will, but absent a statute in whatever state Dell is in, they are not required to sell at that price.
Bill Haverchuck
I wouldn't mind seeing a SeXbox
And for more info, you can read more on this at Snopes.
This isn't at all unprecedented. Theodore Roosevelt was the Assitant Secretary of the Navy (and basically was the Acting Secretary of the NavY) with no naval experience. Dean Acheson was a Washington lawyer with no diplomatic experience before becoming Under Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. After resigning from the Air Force as just a Lieutenant Colonel, Robert McNamara became CEO of GM, before becoming Secretary of Defense. Alexander Hamilton had no finance experience (he was a lawyer) before founding one of the few and efficient government agencies, the Treasury Department.
And for more recent examples, Clinton's Secretary of Agriculture was a lawyer (who had little agricultural experience), Secretary of Defense (Cohen) had no military experience. There were others in his cabinet with little experience, but I'm bored.
This isn't a new phenomenon, or even a bad one. Roosevelt, Acheson, and Hamilton were excellent. McNamara, well, thats another story.
My former company built Yucky.com. Kids seem to like it and it is quite educational on the mechanincs of things like boogers and farts.
$199 for the Xbox. $59 for a mod chip. $10 for some Cat5. And the open source Xbox Media Player.
Though you won't get Tivo-like functionality with it. But at that price you could afford to buy a Tivo if you really wanted it.
Unbiased???? The Bios of the peoplw who run a site called iraqbodycount.org:
... Women's Studies. In December 2001 he released a widely cited study of the human costs of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan
... is a... [s]upporting member and event coordinator of Musicians Opposing War (MOW).
... is a co-founder of Musicians Opposing War, who advocate seeking non-violent solutions to the world's problems through a consensus of peace-minded nations.
JOHN SLOBODA: He is a founder member of the Network of Activist Scholars of Politics and International Relations (Naspir), and a local delegate to the Stop the War Coalition.
TORBEN FRANCK (Webmaster) is a musician and peace activist.
MARC HEROLD (Research consultant) is an Associate Professor of
JOHN BUCCHERI (Assistant researcher) is co-founder of MOW (Musicians Opposing War) at the School of Music...and believes during these bad times, a PERSISTENT STRONG VOICE OF OPPOSITION must be heard.
ERIC CLARKE was an active member of Camden CND in the 1980s, and is a member of Amnesty International.
JORDANA LIPSCOMB
SCOTT LIPSCOMB
I could go on, but its pretty off-topic. But this is why conservatives laugh when liberals say there is no left-wing bias. This is who counts as "unbiased" for ceritan people.
For the record, I am pro-this-war. Not because I think Hussein is a threat to the US (Hhe isn't), or WMD (little evidence), but because it is the moral thing to do. As the state with the biggest and best military, I feel we have a responsibility to oppresed people. While I didn't like Clinton, (and I don't like GWB), I supported Kosovo and Somalia. I think we should have gone into Rwanda and even now (after the latest massacre in Uganda) it wouldn't be a bad idea to go. We should have supported Checkoslovakia in '68 and Hungary in '56.
Will civilians be killed? Yes, but so far, even if you use your "unbiased" numbers, that's still a quarter of what Hussein killed in Halabja in one attack on the Kurds (in '88). Oh, and I sure the dead Kurds appreciate you "excluding the Kurds, of course." Kind of like how Hitler didn't kill his own people. Except for the Jews. And Gypsies. And Homosexuals.
Again, you'd think if the media was so "liberal" they would show civillian casualty numbers which (once again) it appears will end up in the multiple thousands. I haven't heard even ONE PEEP on American television about civillian casualties... Except for when they hit a busload of civiliians with a missile, we heard about THAT "accident." But after the bombing of a residential area where potentially hundreds of civilians could have been affected... nothing. Not one peep.
According to the Iraqis, who have been known to inflate the number of civilian casualties reported, nearly 600 civilians have been killed, with 4,000 wounded. And while the networks haven't shown many pictures, civilian casualties have been reported. And as for the Syrian Bus we hit, I wouldn't be too surprised if it was full of Arab fighters and less of an accident than a targeted strike. I mean, while there have been tons of reports of fighting in northern and southern Iraq, very little fighting seems to have occured (unless not reported) near the Syrian border. The 600 dead is truly a tragedy, but ask an Iraqi if we hadn't done anything for the next 2 years, if more than 600 would have been killed by Husein.
Somehow I doubt any employer would be allowed to request a DNA sample before offering you a job or benefits.
Once the secret army of ashcroft deploys all the black helicopters in an effort to infiltrate the new world...oh wait, wrong site.
Too bad we can't say the same for xBox. I would really love it if I could also use my xBox as a MAME console.
Why can't you? Although Microsoft made this guy take down the binaries, they can still be found.
The commercials neglect a much better way of financing terrorists. Own a car? If you do, then you are giving more money to "terrorists and the countries that harbor them" than by smoking the occasional joint. I wonder what Ford or GM would think of that commercial?
"I helped kill a Jew! - I drove my SUV to work today and didn't carpool."
Yes, because dreamweaver created standards-compliant, cross-browser uber-code.
Do any real site bulders use Dreamweaver? When we get a resume that mention dreamweaver, it goes straight into the trash.
Unless you're not editing on computer.
These are currently running between 14th and 23rd on the PATH line into Manhattan. Its not too bad. The Target one was ok because no one had ever seen them before. The Discovery Cahannel one is pretty cool. A shark swims outside the cars and seems to be about half the size of the car. Its no worse than staring at a black wall.
But I can see a lot of boring ads in the future getting this technology. I can't wait until the RIAA buys ad space and tells me how I shouldn't down load MP3s on my walk to work.
Because someone already made Tetris... ;)
Just kidding of course, but there are a few. The Bust-a-Move series is unbeleivably addicting. Also, Mr. Driller is an excellent puzzle-type game.
Both available for Dreamcast. In fact, those 2 and Soul Calibur were the only games my wife ever played, and she was nearly as addicted as I was.
There is also a (real) DVD floating around. Not that I have it and already watched it 4 times in the past 2 weeks. DVD-R burners are great. And just so no one freaks out, yes I am planning on buying it (the SE version, of course) when it comes out.
At least Foxnews won't not deny that they have a conservative slant, unlike CNN, NY Times, CBS, NBC etc. which claim to be unbiased.
The fact that Dan Rather can sincerely beleive that The New York Times is "middle-of-the-road" speaks volumes about the inherent bias of media outlets. Its not malicious or deliberate, its just narrow-mindedness (at least according to Bernie Goldberg in "Bias").
Rome was never a democracy. It was a republic. The US is a democratic republic. The main idea of democracy is 1 person, 1 vote. In a republic, its voting for representatives who will then vote in your best interest. Either way, its not what we have now.
Incorrect, sort of. The executive branch, (President) and related (FBI, ATF, DOJ) are tasked to do whatever the Legislative branch tells tham to do, without question. It is up to the Judicial branch to interpret the laws that Congress (or states) pass. Checks and balances - a branch does one thing and one thing only. These actions check and balance the power of the other branches implicitly.
Ashcroft is anti-everything. But he is constitutionally bound to enforce abortion provider protection laws etc. because that is his job. He can not interpret the laws as he sees fit, or if he does, the Courts can say he was wrong. Hopefully, the system, will work (in an expediant manner) in this case.
The DMCA is so vague that the FBI was doing what the law said. Hopefully, the Courts will release Mr. Skylarov because the law can't be applied to "crimes" commited outside the realm of the US. Then the DMCA could be struck down after a series of legal battles, or at the very least, the FBI would be more hesitant to act on type of case again.
Car dealerships do something like this all the time. I've seen very few cars that don't have a dealership sticker under the model name and/or around the license plate when its driven off the lot. I didn't consent to that, but you don't see me getting my panties in a bunch over it. Why? Because they can be removed (though it is a bit harder to do than simply delete an icon). Whose consent does AOL need?
Statements like this make me laugh. You think the 2nd amendment does squat to protect you from the government imposing a corporate police state, either suddenly or incrementally? Yeah right. If it comes to that, the arms your allowed to bear because of the 2nd amendment wouldn't do squat for you. Look at the KLA in Kosovo versus the Yugoslav army. You think a .45, or even an M-16 is going to do squat against a tank, much less an army equipped with tanks, planes, and heavily armed troops? HAHAHA.
Not that I support a violent revolution (there are other ways to accomplish this - a constitutional convention, for instance), but you fail to realize that US troops would have trouble firing on US civilians (not that they wouldn't). But I'd guess that if it ever came to a full-out revolution, there's be a good amount of troops who'd "defect" to the side of anti-government forces, along with their tanks, planes, etc. And I don't recall the Irish having anything more than a few rifles when they drove the better-equiped british out of the south.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson
Well you'd think they'd get their act together. I work about 4 blocks from this protest, and I heard nothing about it until this posting (I knew that "protests were being planned" but didn't know where/when etc. You'd think some fliers around the city (or even having a few signs near the Port Authority, just 3 blocks away) would generate some attention. A day doesn't go by when I don't see some Mumia crap around, and he's already been forgotten by most people/media.
Not to mention, it seems really half-assed - Black marker, bad grammar, and messy handwriting does not a protest make. Torn out sheets of loose leaf paper?! Come on! With all the university students just dying to protest anything (see NYU, Columbia) and a good amount of Tech Schools in the area (Stevens, NYIT) and even art schools (Pratt, FIT, SVA) a more concentrated effort (with a little planning) might have been a bit more impressive.
Plus, no mention on the NYNMA web site, which would have meant out-of-work dotcommers might have seen it. Plus there must be some companies in NYC who are anti-DMCA and might have come out to help. The whole effort seems pretty weak.