Most theaters I go to have signs that say "turn off cell phones". If someone does not, they get thrown out. It is simple.
Wow, what theaters do you go to? I'd love to find a theater that paid any attention to what was going on inside. Most of the time they don't even notice if the film is focused. Cell phone users and other talkers are the main reasons I wait until movies come out on DVD these days.
Inmates are already prohibited from having a cellphone while locked up and while it might be possible to smuggle one in, it's damn near impossible to keep it hidden for an extended period of time. Why would prison authorities be concerned about phones?
For the same reason they're worried about drugs, and weapons, prohibiting them doesn't stop them from coming in on a regular basis. And a cell phone wouldn't be harder to hide than the stash of drugs you're planning on selling. And like the drugs, when the phone gets found, have more brought in.
Many hospitals already use "telemetry" units, which are just radio transmitters with the old fashioned ekg, pulse, etc leads attached. No recording, just real-time transmission to the nurses' station. The idea is to alert the nurse immediately if a high-risk (cardiac, etc.) patient has a serious problem. This eliminates the uncomfortable leads and adds recording, but the box sounds like a similar size.
The key is to USE it properly. My father-in-law was a patient on an all-telemetry ward a couple of years ago. A fellow patient got fed up with his treatment, took all of the leads and the unit off and WENT HOME. Guess how many hours it took the staff to notice they were getting no vitals at all from this patient?
Actually, "squeeze" is the increased pressure of the surrounding water pressing your mask against your face (or suit against your body, if you're in a drysuit). You alleviate it by blowing more air into your mask, WITHOUT pinching your nose. If you pinch your nose, how is the air supposed to get into the mask? Pinching your nose while blowing into it is one technique used to "equalize" the pressure in your eustachian (sp?) tubes with that of the surrounding water. In other words, "equalizing" the pressure on both sides of your eardrums, which keeps them from bursting. "Squeeze" and equalizing are two different issues.
We've certainly got more important things to focus on now than sex.
Oh yeah? I'm perfectly happy focusing on sex, and I think this country would be much better off if we all focused on sex much more. However, I think Ashcroft's approach to "focusing on sex" is completely the reverse of what I have in mind.;-)
The study will conclude that there is a strong, even universal, correlation between "talking chimp" in the workplace and unemployment. In day-to-day personal interactions, there is an equally universal correlation between "talking chimp" and severe beatings.
Wanna bet? A vital duty of the President is appointing officials to the Executive Branch, as well as judges to the Judicial. Candidates campaign on that very issue. If you do not take likely appointments into consideration when you vote, you are an idiot and need to go back to Civics 101. You voted for Bush, you get credit for the baggage he brings with him.
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All true, of course, but as caffiene is a diuretic, it is a very effective antidote for DHMO.
(Note: this applies to DHMO in liquid form only, when taken internally. Superheated, DHMO vapors have quite different effects, many of which can be fatal as well. This is true for the solid forms of DHMO as well.)
Coffee (preferably espresso) is vital to my health. Of course, I'm thinking more along the lines of preventing a subdural hematoma caused by my forehead slamming onto my desk. Coffee is a great preventative for that.
Banks, hospitals, the military, etc. are putting information up in the electronic equivalent of the storefront window, and that's ok. But when people drive by and look in the window, everyone freaks out?
Damn, sign ME up for that mission to Mars. It's getting scary down here.
While I applaud the sentiment, and I'm sure they have the noblest of intentions (beyond the desire for publicity/hype/sales), I see the possibility that this could lead to something bad.
Ok, they've given the consumer two "official" blanks. If this becomes an accepted practice and considered a de facto license to make two copies of the album the blanks were distributed with, does that mean that NOT bundling "official" blanks is considered a prohibition against making ANY copies? "If we want you to make copies, we'll give you the blanks to do it with." Could this be twisted into a back-door attack on fair-use copying/archiving in general?
Oh right, and those
closed source flying cylinders of death are a real bouqet of roses, too.
Well, who would you rather have developing the cruise missles pointed at you? Redhat (for example) or Microsoft?;-) If I saw a "Windows Certified" sticker on a Tomahawk, I'd figure the target is the safest place to be.
I love how the pictures just have to include one of these plans shooting a missle. You'd think the atomic bomb would've taught us all a lesson.
That lesson being not to make sweeping judgements and generalizations based on publicity-driven artist's conceptions? Funny, I thought that (one of) the lesson(s) of the atomic bomb was that overwhelming force (when not guided by an idiot, not that I'm referring to a sitting politician or anything) can be used to end wars started by others.
By the times it come out, one of the favorite arguments against it was really a computer virus was "there is no way to automatically being infected with a computer virus simply reading a mail".
Damn, forgot about that one. I got so sick of saying that I saved a text file to send out every time the fear messages made the rounds at work. Ah well, nothing good lasts, especially when you buy Microsoft products.
Just about any prediction about the impending death/doom of anything I take as more or less ridiculous.
For example, the death of: floppies IPv4 PCs mainframes CDs recordi ng industry (too bad, though) paper in the office
Not that computing has the market cornered on "the end/death of x", look at the military: dogfighting guns in aircraft pilots infantry (aircraft and mechanized units will supplant) bayonets damage control (Navy, remember the Forrestal?) guns on ships (can't hit a speedboat with a cruise missle)
And so far incorrect, my parent's repeated error in predicting that I would be the death of them.;-)
So if you see someone with an iPod, you care more about the music they listen to than someone with a different player? If I'm sitting at the airport gate listening to my "old" Rio Volt, you're not interested in sharing?
I guess I'm just being cynical when I think that astro-turfing has hit a new low.
Am I the only one who saw "pound sand" in quotes and was disappointed not to see it in the letter it linked to? I think that's about the only response this deserves anyway.
I suppose this means all the government really would have to do to keep the lid on the subject is keep the highest level officials in line and make sure that no physical evidence leaks which is more doable than trying to keep all eye witness accounts from leaking. This plus disinformation and ridicule would do the job nicely.
Absolutely. It's always been far easier to discredit than to disprove. We see it all the time in civil and criminal trials (on both sides), in our advertising, in our politics. The more desensitized we are to it, the easier it becomes.
But what seems to be the rule in UFO stories is not the eyewitnesses, although the occasional sighting/abduction/fathering of a child story does come up, but those who compile huge amounts of "evidence", a la The Lone Gunmen. These folks seem to think that if they shout loud enough or repeat rumor and innuendo enough it becomes true. But enough people with first-hand accounts that can corroborate each others stories, with even a shred of physical evidence, that would be a different story. Hell, enough people got busted for picking up pieces of the Space Shuttle disaster, surely the thousands of sightings would have yielded SOMETHING by now.
As far as keeping the highest level officials in line, that would be the easiest part. I've found that the professionals who have stuck it out long enough to rise to the top, are the ones who can be trusted. It's the guys driving the trucks, sweeping the floors, etc. that have the least invested and are more likley to confide in family, friends, drinking buddies. Of course, anyone politically appointed out of nowhere, along with most elected officials, should be kept as far away from the real secrets as possible.
For the record, I do believe there is life out there. Just going on sheer probability, out of the vast numbers of stars, there must be something out there. But deep down, some part of me hopes they're smart enough to steer clear of this place.
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For the same reason they're worried about drugs, and weapons, prohibiting them doesn't stop them from coming in on a regular basis. And a cell phone wouldn't be harder to hide than the stash of drugs you're planning on selling. And like the drugs, when the phone gets found, have more brought in.
Many hospitals already use "telemetry" units, which are just radio transmitters with the old fashioned ekg, pulse, etc leads attached. No recording, just real-time transmission to the nurses' station. The idea is to alert the nurse immediately if a high-risk (cardiac, etc.) patient has a serious problem. This eliminates the uncomfortable leads and adds recording, but the box sounds like a similar size.
The key is to USE it properly. My father-in-law was a patient on an all-telemetry ward a couple of years ago. A fellow patient got fed up with his treatment, took all of the leads and the unit off and WENT HOME. Guess how many hours it took the staff to notice they were getting no vitals at all from this patient?
Actually, "squeeze" is the increased pressure of the surrounding water pressing your mask against your face (or suit against your body, if you're in a drysuit). You alleviate it by blowing more air into your mask, WITHOUT pinching your nose. If you pinch your nose, how is the air supposed to get into the mask? Pinching your nose while blowing into it is one technique used to "equalize" the pressure in your eustachian (sp?) tubes with that of the surrounding water. In other words, "equalizing" the pressure on both sides of your eardrums, which keeps them from bursting. "Squeeze" and equalizing are two different issues.
Oh yeah? I'm perfectly happy focusing on sex, and I think this country would be much better off if we all focused on sex much more. However, I think Ashcroft's approach to "focusing on sex" is completely the reverse of what I have in mind.
The study will conclude that there is a strong, even universal, correlation between "talking chimp" in the workplace and unemployment. In day-to-day personal interactions, there is an equally universal correlation between "talking chimp" and severe beatings.
Wanna bet? A vital duty of the President is appointing officials to the Executive Branch, as well as judges to the Judicial. Candidates campaign on that very issue. If you do not take likely appointments into consideration when you vote, you are an idiot and need to go back to Civics 101. You voted for Bush, you get credit for the baggage he brings with him.
All true, of course, but as caffiene is a diuretic, it is a very effective antidote for DHMO.
(Note: this applies to DHMO in liquid form only, when taken internally. Superheated, DHMO vapors have quite different effects, many of which can be fatal as well. This is true for the solid forms of DHMO as well.)
Wow, where can I get the "uncrippled" version of XP? This must be a new release, all I can find is XP Home or XP Pro.
Coffee (preferably espresso) is vital to my health. Of course, I'm thinking more along the lines of preventing a subdural hematoma caused by my forehead slamming onto my desk. Coffee is a great preventative for that.
Banks, hospitals, the military, etc. are putting information up in the electronic equivalent of the storefront window, and that's ok. But when people drive by and look in the window, everyone freaks out?
Damn, sign ME up for that mission to Mars. It's getting scary down here.
Actually, I did get a 404 the first few times I tried the link. Haven't bothered to try since.
While I applaud the sentiment, and I'm sure they have the noblest of intentions (beyond the desire for publicity/hype/sales), I see the possibility that this could lead to something bad.
Ok, they've given the consumer two "official" blanks. If this becomes an accepted practice and considered a de facto license to make two copies of the album the blanks were distributed with, does that mean that NOT bundling "official" blanks is considered a prohibition against making ANY copies? "If we want you to make copies, we'll give you the blanks to do it with." Could this be twisted into a back-door attack on fair-use copying/archiving in general?
Thank you, no. I've already bookmarked a 404.
Tell Cheney they've discovered oil where spammers are located. Watch the bombs start falling.
Just about any prediction about the impending death/doom of anything I take as more or less ridiculous.
i ng industry (too bad, though)
;-)
For example, the death of:
floppies
IPv4
PCs
mainframes
CDs
record
paper in the office
Not that computing has the market cornered on "the end/death of x", look at the military:
dogfighting
guns in aircraft
pilots
infantry (aircraft and mechanized units will supplant)
bayonets
damage control (Navy, remember the Forrestal?)
guns on ships (can't hit a speedboat with a cruise missle)
And so far incorrect, my parent's repeated error in predicting that I would be the death of them.
Now that "chairman" must be "chairperson", "fireman" must be "fireperson", what's a manhole? A personhole? Would a mailman now be a personperson?
So if you see someone with an iPod, you care more about the music they listen to than someone with a different player? If I'm sitting at the airport gate listening to my "old" Rio Volt, you're not interested in sharing?
I guess I'm just being cynical when I think that astro-turfing has hit a new low.
Am I the only one who saw "pound sand" in quotes and was disappointed not to see it in the letter it linked to? I think that's about the only response this deserves anyway.
...that tinfoil lining will come in handy.
As far as keeping the highest level officials in line, that would be the easiest part. I've found that the professionals who have stuck it out long enough to rise to the top, are the ones who can be trusted. It's the guys driving the trucks, sweeping the floors, etc. that have the least invested and are more likley to confide in family, friends, drinking buddies. Of course, anyone politically appointed out of nowhere, along with most elected officials, should be kept as far away from the real secrets as possible.
For the record, I do believe there is life out there. Just going on sheer probability, out of the vast numbers of stars, there must be something out there. But deep down, some part of me hopes they're smart enough to steer clear of this place.