Nope. Maybe a different Catherine? The Sienna one would whip herself 3 times a day. She was a Dominican (as was St. Francis of Assisi), so perhaps that is where the confusion lies, but her body is in Rome.
Since when does muslims have a problem with dogs? Most "second generation" immigrants around here claiming to be muslims have dogs, usually attack dogs (with poor training).
Just do a search for "Islam dog" tons of results, all virtually identical. Some people think there was a bunch of rabid dogs when the hate against them started. Whatever the root cause, it's stayed fairly constant throughout the years. Sort of like the "pork is unclean, but a cow fed chicken shit, lamb brains and hormones w/BCE, why not? " thing.
The cool thing about Islam is that banned things become "ok" if there is a great need for them - so if the guy who runs your mosque is fairly easy going, it's probably fine to have a dog to "defend the house" if you're in a bad neighborhood. Of course all sorts of stuff gets in the way which tends to prevent proper training (i.e. the cleaning ritual after touching a dog)
When I was in early Catholic school (grade 2?), we were back to back with a public school full of "brown kids" and used to throw handfuls of rocks at them through the fence while yelling racial slurs. The rocks were conveniently supplied via a gravel pit that got refilled often. The other kids fought back of course, but they didn't really have a source of ammo nearby. This wasn't actively encouraged, but I don't recall anyone ever getting in trouble for it and I know we got some kids in the eye a few times. Very surreal memory.
Kind of depends on where you go... Then again, an elementary school named "St. Catherine of Siena" is a bit "wtf" to begin with. Oh well.
That said, other Catholic schools were fairly liberal in what they allowed, and public schools were generally inferior, as you say.
Except for the school who fired a teacher because he divorced and remarried.
You'd think, after a while and a number of patent cases in a single jurisdiction, the judges would actually learn a wee bit more about the patent system.
Then again, maybe they have and "good ol' boy" corruption has taken over. If you think about it, the number of judges is fairly small and a relatively minimal investment could... give your side an advantage.
Defendants need to stop sending "damn yankees" and send boys who know how business is done in the South.
This could even be made "legal" / "not optional" with a county income tax for businesses registered locally in that particular part of Texas. Register your business (and be forced to pay your annual percentage...) or lose.
Yes, I'm probably going to piss off all the Southerners, but it's not like sparsely populated areas down there have a corruption problem. Let's call a spade a spade, ok?
This suits me just fine. Every couple years or so, the industry gets fat with those who don't really deserve their position, due to a variety of factors (dumb, lucky, know the boss etc)
The first to go will be the fat on the bone, which, as the subject line suggests, suits me just fine.
Guess you haven't gone through many layoffs. Bosses friends and a fair amount of the dead weight are last to go.
Only in the short term. What's happening now (based on my anecdotal evidence, which is all one really needs here on/.) is that a lot of large companies are realizing this.
And hiring back US workers for half - if that - of what they were paying the IT (or whatever) dept when they laid them off 4 years ago.
Outsourcing only pays off for VERY well managed and VERY well organized 3rd party organizations that you can trust 100% and as a rule, they don't exist because they don't exist ANYWHERE. You need to have an onsite presence much like IBM and Microsoft has in order for offshoring to really payoff. Otherwise you are not saving anything and may even be paying more... regardless of what some pitchman may tell you.
Who cares, as long as the stock went up a bit on the announcement and executives made a few bucks on stock options?
Huge IT support staffs were a consequence of poor products, badly implemented systems, a glut of unnecessary purchases, etc.
Do you honestly see this changing? Mainstream software, drivers, etc are virtually all crap, with every new version worse than the one that came before it. Mediocrity in software is common and goes unpunished.
Hardware manufacturers are cutting corners - bulging caps, the xbox 360 fiasco, the nvidia 8400/8600 soon to be fiasco, etc, etc.
This penny pinching will only continue and the situation is only going to get worse. Marketing will become more aggressive too.
Users who had their IT support staffs minimized are going to love the next few years.
Having driven and taken a bus in the outskirts of London, I can easily point to 2 driving "modes" of Brits on highways (this means everyone, from truck drivers, to buses, to commuter cars)
1. 25-35 over the posted speed limit. 2. Oh shit! Known speed camera location, slam on the brakes so you don't get a ticket.
Not exactly safe, especially if tourists are on the road and don't know what is going on. You catch on, of course, but there is potential for disaster there, no question.
In Central London, the situation is obviously different. But 10 miles away, people speeding is not the odd dangerous exception, but the rule.
I wouldn't be surprised if he's not a loon, just incredibly bored. He's costing the legal system a fair bit of money and time, which is an admirable goal imho.
If you are shooting and uploading a wedding video every day, which implies that you probably do that for a living, then I would assume you can afford a professional connection
That's a crap argument, because none the options available to a single user / small company in the USA will allow for that sort of traffic. Cable and DSL providers will disconnect you for even half of that traffic. Ditto with T1s
You want to go higher? Great. A T3 is still at least $5,000 a month (actually closer to 7.5k, and this is the first tier that - if you're lucky - you'll see reasonable limits / no limits on transfer). An OC3 at 20-50k a month.
Let's not pretend data comm in the USA isn't shit service provided by greedy companies. Denial will get us nowhere.
Not to start a flame war, but... It's Japan, the prosecutors will get their way, one way or another.
The Japanese legal system can easily be abused by prosecutors who are pressured to never lose. So once someone is charged - correctly or not - they will eventually result in a guilty verdict, regardless of the actual facts of the case or if innocence is discovered during the proceedings.
Virtually indefinite imprisonment ("bail" is essentially never granted and they have a special name for it - "daiyo kangoku"). Even if you're found not guilty, the prosecutor just refiles the case, asks for "remand" and the process continues over and over again.
In virtually all trials, more time is spent during the sentencing phase than the actual trial, which seems to indicate that the guilt of the person is more or less irrelevant.
There are also numerous cases of forced confessions, abuse, days of interrogations, blank confession forms being signed in capital cases, etc, etc. Oh, sleeping judges (and since there is no jury...) and defense attorneys who don't want to wake them and quietly mumble their arguements.
It's a pretty fucked up system for a first world country. They're introducing reforms, but the reforms won't take effect until 2009.
Yes, but their definition of "knife crime" isn't stabbings or murders, but simple possession, which a bunch of teenagers and trade workers are getting busted for. You can be arrested for carrying a locking blade leatherman, which is just plain fucking dumb.
Concern about the mental capacity of 81 year olds isn't ageist bigotry, especially given the fact that research has found the mean age of onset of dementia symptoms is between 71.4 and 74.5 years.
I'm not saying, of course, that judges should be removed at a certain age, but this ruling makes you wonder what he was thinking and if he actually fully comprehends what he ordered google to do.
When it comes to the law, and especially rulings like this, the bar really should be set higher.
It's not really the value of the metal though. For your average condenser, you'll probably get $80-$100 at a recycler. The problem is fucking tweakers who are willing to do stupid shit like that for the "reward" of $80 more than the price of the raw materials.
Point #1 - Any firmware update has the potential to go wrong, especially when it's as large as the PS3 firmware is (130Mb) and can be downloaded over flaky links and installed from potentially faulty hard drives.
Point #2 - Wiping the drive shouldn't be an issue if people are running backups like they should be. Sony *do* provide a backup utility for this. Don't read this as an excuse for Sony - if the firmware is flawed, they should have done more testing, but EVERYBODY should be backing up their data if they care about it!
1. If you're saying Sony doesn't run an integrity check of the firmware before the upgrade process... That's just plain fucking retarded.
2. Given the fact that people aren't given a choice whether to upgrade or not - and really have no clue as to when the next firmware will be pushed, I'm guessing it will be difficult to plan backups before firmware upgrades. Unless, of course, you're suggesting a daily backup for a console, in which case... That's just plain fucking retarded.
Who crapped on Louisiana's legal system? I just said the law there is different and you really can't make assumptions. "red haired bastard stepchild" doesn't always mean bad.
College students are perpetually broke and legal counsel for the school is probably on the school's payroll. The lawyers will push it out of small claims and the case will end then and there.
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Nope. Maybe a different Catherine? The Sienna one would whip herself 3 times a day. She was a Dominican (as was St. Francis of Assisi), so perhaps that is where the confusion lies, but her body is in Rome.
Since when does muslims have a problem with dogs?
Most "second generation" immigrants around here claiming to be muslims have dogs, usually attack dogs (with poor training).
Just do a search for "Islam dog" tons of results, all virtually identical. Some people think there was a bunch of rabid dogs when the hate against them started. Whatever the root cause, it's stayed fairly constant throughout the years. Sort of like the "pork is unclean, but a cow fed chicken shit, lamb brains and hormones w/BCE, why not? " thing.
The cool thing about Islam is that banned things become "ok" if there is a great need for them - so if the guy who runs your mosque is fairly easy going, it's probably fine to have a dog to "defend the house" if you're in a bad neighborhood. Of course all sorts of stuff gets in the way which tends to prevent proper training (i.e. the cleaning ritual after touching a dog)
So there you have it...
When I was in early Catholic school (grade 2?), we were back to back with a public school full of "brown kids" and used to throw handfuls of rocks at them through the fence while yelling racial slurs. The rocks were conveniently supplied via a gravel pit that got refilled often. The other kids fought back of course, but they didn't really have a source of ammo nearby.
This wasn't actively encouraged, but I don't recall anyone ever getting in trouble for it and I know we got some kids in the eye a few times.
Very surreal memory.
Kind of depends on where you go... Then again, an elementary school named "St. Catherine of Siena" is a bit "wtf" to begin with. Oh well.
That said, other Catholic schools were fairly liberal in what they allowed, and public schools were generally inferior, as you say.
Except for the school who fired a teacher because he divorced and remarried.
Oh, and...
You'd think, after a while and a number of patent cases in a single jurisdiction, the judges would actually learn a wee bit more about the patent system.
Then again, maybe they have and "good ol' boy" corruption has taken over. If you think about it, the number of judges is fairly small and a relatively minimal investment could... give your side an advantage.
Defendants need to stop sending "damn yankees" and send boys who know how business is done in the South.
This could even be made "legal" / "not optional" with a county income tax for businesses registered locally in that particular part of Texas. Register your business (and be forced to pay your annual percentage...) or lose.
Yes, I'm probably going to piss off all the Southerners, but it's not like sparsely populated areas down there have a corruption problem. Let's call a spade a spade, ok?
The oppressed latex fetishists will finally have a home ;)
Would "assassination politics" work for patent trolls too? /waits for black helicopters.
This suits me just fine. Every couple years or so, the industry gets fat with those who don't really deserve their position, due to a variety of factors (dumb, lucky, know the boss etc)
The first to go will be the fat on the bone, which, as the subject line suggests, suits me just fine.
Guess you haven't gone through many layoffs. Bosses friends and a fair amount of the dead weight are last to go.
Only in the short term. What's happening now (based on my anecdotal evidence, which is all one really needs here on /.) is that a lot of large companies are realizing this.
And hiring back US workers for half - if that - of what they were paying the IT (or whatever) dept when they laid them off 4 years ago.
Outsourcing only pays off for VERY well managed and VERY well organized 3rd party organizations that you can trust 100% and as a rule, they don't exist because they don't exist ANYWHERE. You need to have an onsite presence much like IBM and Microsoft has in order for offshoring to really payoff. Otherwise you are not saving anything and may even be paying more... regardless of what some pitchman may tell you.
Who cares, as long as the stock went up a bit on the announcement and executives made a few bucks on stock options?
Huge IT support staffs were a consequence of poor products, badly implemented systems, a glut of unnecessary purchases, etc.
Do you honestly see this changing? Mainstream software, drivers, etc are virtually all crap, with every new version worse than the one that came before it. Mediocrity in software is common and goes unpunished.
Hardware manufacturers are cutting corners - bulging caps, the xbox 360 fiasco, the nvidia 8400/8600 soon to be fiasco, etc, etc.
This penny pinching will only continue and the situation is only going to get worse. Marketing will become more aggressive too.
Users who had their IT support staffs minimized are going to love the next few years.
Having driven and taken a bus in the outskirts of London, I can easily point to 2 driving "modes"
of Brits on highways (this means everyone, from truck drivers, to buses, to commuter cars)
1. 25-35 over the posted speed limit.
2. Oh shit! Known speed camera location, slam on the brakes so you don't get a ticket.
Not exactly safe, especially if tourists are on the road and don't know what is going on.
You catch on, of course, but there is potential for disaster there, no question.
In Central London, the situation is obviously different. But 10 miles away, people speeding is not the odd dangerous exception, but the rule.
I wouldn't be surprised if he's not a loon, just incredibly bored. He's costing the legal system a fair bit of money and time, which is an admirable goal imho.
If you are shooting and uploading a wedding video every day, which implies that you probably do that for a living, then I would assume you can afford a professional connection
That's a crap argument, because none the options available to a single user / small company in the USA will allow for that sort of traffic.
Cable and DSL providers will disconnect you for even half of that traffic. Ditto with T1s
You want to go higher? Great.
A T3 is still at least $5,000 a month (actually closer to 7.5k, and this is the first tier that - if you're lucky - you'll see reasonable limits / no limits on transfer). An OC3 at 20-50k a month.
Let's not pretend data comm in the USA isn't shit service provided by greedy companies.
Denial will get us nowhere.
2x population density still doesn't explain 20x inferior service at 5x the price.
if the prosecutors get their way
Not to start a flame war, but... It's Japan, the prosecutors will get their way, one way or another.
The Japanese legal system can easily be abused by prosecutors who are pressured to never lose. So once someone is charged - correctly or not - they will eventually result in a guilty verdict, regardless of the actual facts of the case or if innocence is discovered during the proceedings.
Virtually indefinite imprisonment ("bail" is essentially never granted and they have a special name for it - "daiyo kangoku"). Even if you're found not guilty, the prosecutor just refiles the case, asks for "remand" and the process continues over and over again.
In virtually all trials, more time is spent during the sentencing phase than the actual trial, which seems to indicate that the guilt of the person is more or less irrelevant.
There are also numerous cases of forced confessions, abuse, days of interrogations, blank confession forms being signed in capital cases, etc, etc. Oh, sleeping judges (and since there is no jury...) and defense attorneys who don't want to wake them and quietly mumble their arguements.
It's a pretty fucked up system for a first world country. They're introducing reforms, but the reforms won't take effect until 2009.
Yes, but their definition of "knife crime" isn't stabbings or murders, but simple possession, which a bunch of teenagers and trade workers are getting busted for.
You can be arrested for carrying a locking blade leatherman, which is just plain fucking dumb.
There are usually 2 different types of isopropyl - 70% and 99%
99% is great, since it evaporates cleanly (but maybe it's strong enough to eat the letters off your keys)
Concern about the mental capacity of 81 year olds isn't ageist bigotry, especially given the fact that research has found the mean age of onset of dementia symptoms is between 71.4 and 74.5 years.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/60646.php
I'm not saying, of course, that judges should be removed at a certain age, but this ruling makes you wonder what he was thinking and if he actually fully comprehends what he ordered google to do.
When it comes to the law, and especially rulings like this, the bar really should be set higher.
It's not really the value of the metal though. For your average condenser, you'll probably get $80-$100 at a recycler.
The problem is fucking tweakers who are willing to do stupid shit like that for the "reward" of $80 more than the price of the raw materials.
Or, more likely, a few companies will realize this and keep the supply down with a manufactured shortage.
2.5% - and that's generous - only the very outer shell is copper - if you put a penny under a torch, you'll melt the zinc out pretty quick
Point #1 - Any firmware update has the potential to go wrong, especially when it's as large as the PS3 firmware is (130Mb) and can be downloaded over flaky links and installed from potentially faulty hard drives.
Point #2 - Wiping the drive shouldn't be an issue if people are running backups like they should be. Sony *do* provide a backup utility for this. Don't read this as an excuse for Sony - if the firmware is flawed, they should have done more testing, but EVERYBODY should be backing up their data if they care about it!
1. If you're saying Sony doesn't run an integrity check of the firmware before the upgrade process... That's just plain fucking retarded.
2. Given the fact that people aren't given a choice whether to upgrade or not - and really have no clue as to when the next firmware will be pushed, I'm guessing it will be difficult to plan backups before firmware upgrades. Unless, of course, you're suggesting a daily backup for a console, in which case... That's just plain fucking retarded.
Dallas too. I wanted to be kinda subtle about it ;)
Who crapped on Louisiana's legal system? I just said the law there is different and you really can't make assumptions.
"red haired bastard stepchild" doesn't always mean bad.
It really doesn't matter if it's illegal or not.
College students are perpetually broke and legal counsel for the school is probably on the school's payroll.
The lawyers will push it out of small claims and the case will end then and there.