Not that someone disgruntled couldn't try to make a case out of it...
Or some DA who wants to look "tough on crime" in anticipation of running for office. And while I don't want to sound insulting, Texas isn't known for the discretion of their prosecutors or integrity of their police / crime labs.
We require licenses of many different professions, doctors, medical professionals, accountants even.
I'm sorry, but that's a crap argument. In all of those cases, the licensing requirements are related to the actual job. In this case? Completely unrelated.
And Louisiana law is fairly different from Texas law. Louisiana is sort of the red haired bastard stepchild when it comes to the law because of the heavy French influence.
Problem is... all the domain auction sites are full of scumbags. Virtually all of the "buy a lapsed domain" sites use a "give us a number, we won't tell you if you've beat the other bidder - or even if there is another bidder, but we will let you increase your bid if you want" bidding method. Oh... and you have to pay to for the privilege of bidding. Fucking scumbags, pure and simple.
BTW... If you're considering Godaddy's "expiring domain" service, don't - because you might as well just take a $20 bill and burn it in a sacrifice to the domain gods.
Godaddy tells you that if you don't get the domain you want, you can try another. Of course, they virtually never win anything (as the big domain auction houses get most domains, something that GoDaddy is well aware of) and when you try to register another domain, "it doesn't qualify" or you will be told you have to try and find another domain (which, of course, you also won't get) and so on and so on. I'd be surprised if godaddy has even caught a single expiring domain (from another registrar) in their entire history.
And you're still running to the nanny state because of all the scary people with knives (and have proposed legislation that bans carrying a swiss army knife)
Come on, just come out and say it... Stefan Dion (liberal party leader) is a spineless bitch. He has let virtually everything go by him, without opposition since the formation of this minority government and one that has all but dissapeared from the public eye in recent months. It would be nice if "the leader of the opposition" actually did his fucking job.
I was hoping to see more about this - It's not clear from the article if they are blocking access to usenet, or if the ISP is turning off their usenet servers. If the latter, it's honestly no great loss. ISP hosted usenet has been effectively dead for at least a year, as retention and article completion has gone to shit in recent penny pinching. I'm sure the ISPs are thrilled to have a excuse to finally kill it. That said, welcome to the magical world of internet censorship in America. I wonder what's next on the kill lists.
There have been a number of malicious and frivolous prosecutions in the US that have given the police to arbitrarily arrest people for kiddie porn based on "baby photos". Granted, most of the charges were eventually thrown out, but only after costly legal battles and long term separation from their children because of CPS.
The problem is that if the law can be abused, inevitably, it will be. Police and prosecutors cannot be trusted to use discretion or even common sense. The police are often ignorant of the law or incompetent, and too many prosecutors are sociopaths who want another notch on their belt in their pursuit of higher office.
What people don't seem to understand is that they are granting the state the ability to use potentially deadly force to break up families and imprison people for extended periods of time. The burden of proof has to be higher.
What the fuck are you smoking? I've been on hold for at least half an hour every time I've called in. What could be better than pissing away half an hour in cell phone minutes, only to be told that your current hardware has a known issue and that you'll have to live with it or pay a couple hundred for new equipment.
The only department worth a half shit at vonage is cancellations / retention.
and 10 years from now will not be shown to cause cancer/depression/heart disease/...
I can't vouch for cancer or heart disease (although modafinil has been on the market since '86), but modafinil is being used off label to treat depression related fatigue. While anecdotal, it worked incredibly well for me when I was spending 20+ hours a day sleeping and didn't have any of the rather horrific side effects of most of the antidepressants out there. A little heartburn was the only side effect for me.
That said, working 20 hour days can't be good for your physical / mental health if it goes on for too long.
...being the only choice in PC sales, running on laptops and desktops that are woefully underpowered in an attempt to create a machine that sells under a certain price point.
Now, granted, there are exceptions, but most of the stuff out on retail shelves runs like shit because it is underpowered for vista, something compounded by the fact they are loaded with pre-installed crapware and norton antivirus 30 day trials. When your floor model takes 8 seconds to pop up the start menu, you've already lost the sale...
It doesn't help that PC "salespeople" act like scumbags and push high margin items with high pressure tactics. The general public, by this time, have probably already gotten screwed once by a previous purchase and they are wary of buying from someone who acts like the last douchebag who sold them a PC.
I'm not a mac fanboy, but I can clearly see the whole retail PC market is becoming a worse experience every year. I can also see the appeal for some to go to the apple store. I'm sure mall placement helps too - I think people tend to make stupid financial decisions in malls.
The thing is - you belittle them and consider them incompetent, unskilled assholes - but the fact of the matter is that they recognize the truth. They're just running the numbers and looking ahead several years with a rather twisted sense of morality. A few major companies can put sufficient pressure on a government to enact legislation to increase the number of foreign workers and create pressure on public education to push more students into certain programs. As students graduate, supply goes up, wages go down - or at least stay fixed. Foreign workers further destabilize wages - arguably more than any increase of native students - and you create a perfect situation for the employer.
Quality? Doesn't matter for the most part, as incompetence really isn't punished in American business and if this goes on for long enough, you have "The Sliding Window of Mediocrity" effect. It just takes a few years, but it works.
...views this as an attempt to lower the bar for foreign workers in an attempt to drive down salaries, because over here, we've heard this for a while.
When people throw out numbers like "already short half a million", the smell of bullshit tends to follow, along with greater foreign worker quotas and a larger number of students enrolling into the programs that "need employees".
Inevitably, 5-10 years out, you end up with a large number of poorly trained / poorly qualified students looking for jobs along with a number of foreigners who are willing to work for a lot less than a native.
Sure, it's easy to pay these people less, but quantity doesn't overcome a shortage of quality - especially in fields such as engineering.
At a certain point, you're going to run into a point where air turbulence, haze, lens quality, etc affect your image and nothing can avoid that. What should be done is to limit the zoom to that point (even if the image can technically zoom in further)
Take for example, this pic (it's big - and I sort of hate my webhost, so feel free) http://vehiclehitech.com/pictures/!%20Photography/2008-02-24-KelownaSkylinePanorama-attempt1.jpg I shot it with a $100 lens, so at 100% it doesn't look too great (the jpeg artifacts don't help either) But at around 35% (if you're able to easily scale it in your browser), it looks pretty decent, right?
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Not that someone disgruntled couldn't try to make a case out of it...
Or some DA who wants to look "tough on crime" in anticipation of running for office.
And while I don't want to sound insulting, Texas isn't known for the discretion of their prosecutors or integrity of their police / crime labs.
We require licenses of many different professions, doctors, medical professionals, accountants even.
I'm sorry, but that's a crap argument. In all of those cases, the licensing requirements are related to the actual job. In this case? Completely unrelated.
And Louisiana law is fairly different from Texas law. Louisiana is sort of the red haired bastard stepchild when it comes to the law because of the heavy French influence.
Problem is... all the domain auction sites are full of scumbags.
Virtually all of the "buy a lapsed domain" sites use a "give us a number, we won't tell you if you've beat the other bidder - or even if there is another bidder, but we will let you increase your bid if you want" bidding method. Oh... and you have to pay to for the privilege of bidding.
Fucking scumbags, pure and simple.
BTW... If you're considering Godaddy's "expiring domain" service, don't - because you might as well just take a $20 bill and burn it in a sacrifice to the domain gods.
Godaddy tells you that if you don't get the domain you want, you can try another. Of course, they virtually never win anything (as the big domain auction houses get most domains, something that GoDaddy is well aware of) and when you try to register another domain, "it doesn't qualify" or you will be told you have to try and find another domain (which, of course, you also won't get) and so on and so on. I'd be surprised if godaddy has even caught a single expiring domain (from another registrar) in their entire history.
Domain registrars are all scum.
Same system and yet... XP runs and boots much, much faster.
Compared to XP, it is a dog. No way to sugar coat it, sorry.
I wouldn't say "always" - Vista downgrade rights only apply to Business and Ultimate.
And there are 99 million users that are happy with Vista and would disagree...
Surely you're not that fucking stupid.
You really need to try the bottom shelf polish vodka.
Under the commies, only a few types (shapes) of bottles were made. This vodka was bottled in the "household cleaner" type of bottle.
I bought a liter for 8.5 zl a few years back ($1.25 USD at the time more or less). I was young, stupid.
Dear fucking christ, the hangover was so bad that everything since has paled in comparison.
And you're still running to the nanny state because of all the scary people with knives (and have proposed legislation that bans carrying a swiss army knife)
Just curious... why would you send this to Prentice? Do you think he cares?
Come on, just come out and say it... Stefan Dion (liberal party leader) is a spineless bitch. He has let virtually everything go by him, without opposition since the formation of this minority government and one that has all but dissapeared from the public eye in recent months.
It would be nice if "the leader of the opposition" actually did his fucking job.
"lack of subscriber interest"
Yea... big shock, with the standard 24 hour retention and 70% completion that your average ISP provides.
I was hoping to see more about this - It's not clear from the article if they are blocking access to usenet, or if the ISP is turning off their usenet servers.
If the latter, it's honestly no great loss. ISP hosted usenet has been effectively dead for at least a year, as retention and article completion has gone to shit in recent penny pinching.
I'm sure the ISPs are thrilled to have a excuse to finally kill it.
That said, welcome to the magical world of internet censorship in America. I wonder what's next on the kill lists.
With the global warming, that probably won't be a bad deal in a few years ;)
and baby photos won't be banned by this law
There have been a number of malicious and frivolous prosecutions in the US that have given the police to arbitrarily arrest people for kiddie porn based on "baby photos".
Granted, most of the charges were eventually thrown out, but only after costly legal battles and long term separation from their children because of CPS.
The problem is that if the law can be abused, inevitably, it will be. Police and prosecutors cannot be trusted to use discretion or even common sense. The police are often ignorant of the law or incompetent, and too many prosecutors are sociopaths who want another notch on their belt in their pursuit of higher office.
http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/31/kincaid/index.html has some examples, there are many others.
What people don't seem to understand is that they are granting the state the ability to use potentially deadly force to break up families and imprison people for extended periods of time. The burden of proof has to be higher.
Probably has to do with taxes / depreciation tables.
What the fuck are you smoking? I've been on hold for at least half an hour every time I've called in. What could be better than pissing away half an hour in cell phone minutes, only to be told that your current hardware has a known issue and that you'll have to live with it or pay a couple hundred for new equipment.
The only department worth a half shit at vonage is cancellations / retention.
Case in point... FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
;)
Then again, repetition may of have factored in there
I don't want to be the one to break this to you, but only gals can make money selling videos of "self entertainment" ;)
and 10 years from now will not be shown to cause cancer/depression/heart disease/...
I can't vouch for cancer or heart disease (although modafinil has been on the market since '86), but modafinil is being used off label to treat depression related fatigue. While anecdotal, it worked incredibly well for me when I was spending 20+ hours a day sleeping and didn't have any of the rather horrific side effects of most of the antidepressants out there. A little heartburn was the only side effect for me.
That said, working 20 hour days can't be good for your physical / mental health if it goes on for too long.
...being the only choice in PC sales, running on laptops and desktops that are woefully underpowered in an attempt to create a machine that sells under a certain price point.
Now, granted, there are exceptions, but most of the stuff out on retail shelves runs like shit because it is underpowered for vista, something compounded by the fact they are loaded with pre-installed crapware and norton antivirus 30 day trials. When your floor model takes 8 seconds to pop up the start menu, you've already lost the sale...
It doesn't help that PC "salespeople" act like scumbags and push high margin items with high pressure tactics. The general public, by this time, have probably already gotten screwed once by a previous purchase and they are wary of buying from someone who acts like the last douchebag who sold them a PC.
I'm not a mac fanboy, but I can clearly see the whole retail PC market is becoming a worse experience every year. I can also see the appeal for some to go to the apple store. I'm sure mall placement helps too - I think people tend to make stupid financial decisions in malls.
No audio though...
And $26 is a ripoff - go to monoprice.
The thing is - you belittle them and consider them incompetent, unskilled assholes - but the fact of the matter is that they recognize the truth. They're just running the numbers and looking ahead several years with a rather twisted sense of morality.
A few major companies can put sufficient pressure on a government to enact legislation to increase the number of foreign workers and create pressure on public education to push more students into certain programs.
As students graduate, supply goes up, wages go down - or at least stay fixed.
Foreign workers further destabilize wages - arguably more than any increase of native students - and you create a perfect situation for the employer.
Quality? Doesn't matter for the most part, as incompetence really isn't punished in American business and if this goes on for long enough, you have "The Sliding Window of Mediocrity" effect.
It just takes a few years, but it works.
...views this as an attempt to lower the bar for foreign workers in an attempt to drive down salaries, because over here, we've heard this for a while.
When people throw out numbers like "already short half a million", the smell of bullshit tends to follow, along with greater foreign worker quotas and a larger number of students enrolling into the programs that "need employees".
Inevitably, 5-10 years out, you end up with a large number of poorly trained / poorly qualified students looking for jobs along with a number of foreigners who are willing to work for a lot less than a native.
Sure, it's easy to pay these people less, but quantity doesn't overcome a shortage of quality - especially in fields such as engineering.
Or, instead of paying $700 for the latest version of photoshop, use Autostich
It's free and not half bad (ILM even uses it)
At a certain point, you're going to run into a point where air turbulence, haze, lens quality, etc affect your image and nothing can avoid that.
What should be done is to limit the zoom to that point (even if the image can technically zoom in further)
Take for example, this pic (it's big - and I sort of hate my webhost, so feel free)
http://vehiclehitech.com/pictures/!%20Photography/2008-02-24-KelownaSkylinePanorama-attempt1.jpg
I shot it with a $100 lens, so at 100% it doesn't look too great (the jpeg artifacts don't help either)
But at around 35% (if you're able to easily scale it in your browser), it looks pretty decent, right?