According to link about, he got a total of $1.6 milliion for his entire collection, including a mere $86,000 for Action Comics #1. True that was 7 years ago but geez, what a markup. Consider all the stories about his financial woes, I bet he wishes he'd held on to his collection.
Don't be naive. India is using this as an excuse to avoid having to commit to targets that they know wouild be difficult to reach without sacrficing their growth. Also, while they are a democracy, it's a very partisan, fractured society that would be unlikely to reach a consensus on meaningful change until the wolves were at the door.
One of the serious downsides was the length of time they kept the 16-bit subsystem alive. This was shown to be exploitable for privilege escalation as recently as last year.
The question is - how do we know that this wasn't discovered by someone with nefarious intentions years ago. After all, the Windows 2000 source code has been floating around for years. I can't fathom why they wouldn't have killed this off with XP was released. At the latest, it should have been removed or disabled when XP SP2 was released.
"For 25 years, we deliberately chose to ignore the bitter lessons that were learned by the big vendors, to take shortcuts to ship shit software first and fix it later and to build up massive layers of cruft in the name of backward compatibility. Now we are caught in a nice pickle as we've spent years trying fill the leaks in our crap - some of which is so insecure that, 8 years after the launch, we still have record numbers of bugs in Windows XP almost every fucking Patch Tuesday -and restructure it into something rock solid. However, until we can get this done, we need to play smoke and mirrors, convince you to toss Win XP - and your old PC, most likely, buy our latest and greatest and spit out evermore FUD about how nobody else can get stuff done except us.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the M$ business plan and I'm pleased to say that it's working as well as ever and thank you all"
After the previous post, I looked it up on Wikipedia and it seems that the President can exercise a line-item veto. Of course that means that someone has to scan the bill to point out the offending riders, which, I imagine, is the job of Congress. What isn't clear is if the Presidential veto is exercised after the bill is approved. If it's exercised beforehand, can the submitters attach further riders to a bill that's under review?
Also, I'd heard that the Bush administration had bills where provisions were attached in backroom deals AFTER the bills were passed. What kind of fucked-up process is that?
Here's something that must be killed off in every democracy - embedded clauses that have nothing to do with the main bill or its stated purpose. I've heard that the Credit Card bill that Obama passed contained a clause permitting carrying loaded weapons in national parks. How does shit like this get justified? Can you even do this with a straight face without being a psychopath?
Several years ago, an attempt was made in the EU to pass legislation that would curb or prohibit the sale of natural health products. It didn't get through thanks to the veto of the Polish representative - he struck it down because he felt such a provision had no place in a bill on FISHERIES!!
His is an example that all politicians should follow and those that try the above-mentioned practice should be made a felony with a mandatory minimum sentence of at least a year with no good behavior or other time credits - you do the full year, no exceptions. If you're sick, too bad - I fully support you get the necessary healthcare but no matter what, you MUST do 365 days in jail.
If the author of said provision can't be identified, then 5 members of the party that tables the bill will be chosen by straw ballot to do a full year each.
It's well past time to stop the pigs at the trough from fucking with the system.
Sometimes a change is as good as a bargain. I would rather sweat blood than go back to being a Bell or Rogers customer ever again but my current provider ( a Bell reseller ) doesn't have the clout to force Bell to upgrade the crappy copper in the neighbourhood and we all have to swallow their traffic shaping.
Give me a third party with their own infrastructure, better support, and fewer restrictions and I'm willing to pay more for just to give them the finger.
Don't be so sure - I bet the various monarchies or those who thought they ruled by the mandate of heaven would have been shocked at the concept of a democracy.
I'm not saying that it'll be easy but I never thought to see a Black president in my lifetime either.
However, I do see that Ames passed a couple of polygraph tests; that said, the dramatic changes in his spending and lifestyle should have warranted further investigation
That's why I said that interviews of this sort should be done annually - or on some other ongoing basis. I've heard that a lot of employers run credit checks on prospective employees - in the case of Ames, that would have raised some warning flags.
You want the keys to the kingdom? Prove you can be trusted
1.) All police officers, all employees of all police forces that may have any kind access to confidential data and any contractors or consultants
must submit to annual interviews including polygraphs regarding their activities, private and professional, past and present.
The Canadian Mounties have a process like this for applicants but I don't think it's done once you become a constable.
2.) No question is off-limits; all questions must be answered.
3.) Failure to submit or answer a question will result in dismissal.
4.) All interviews are to be observed by a panel of witnesses of which several are private citizens
5.) All (unedited) interviews will be available to the public upon request.
If those conditions are met, then I'll gladly comply with your requests for private data.
1. Hmmm, will look into that - I'm using Ultimate on that machine. 2. This is a notebook, with spare battery. Only space for 1 disk. 3. Once I'm sure an update didn't break something, I delete the backup folders. 4. I'd done that when I tried the Win7/SSD combo on a desktop,which was ok. But, I really wanted this for the laptops. 5. Yah, I learned years ago about System Restore invisibly consuming space. I usually turn it off or reduce it to 1 or 2%.
Good suggestions overall but my real wish was/is to have my laptops running SSDs. Unfortunately, the JMicron bug bit me hard and the various tweaks, such as EasyCO MFT / Flashfire, etc either don't work consistently or have considerable liabilities. And, I'm hoping for another significant price drop before the summer.
Thanks but I've done all of these before as these were all things tried to alleviate the stuttering problem with the notorious JMicron controllers - among other things.
My point was that, regardless of SSD speed, there are times when hibernation is very useful. In the course of a browsing weekend, I may have up to 100 tabs/windows open as well as other programs. True, I can easily save the session and/or restart the programs but with trying to reload so many tabs and restoring the state of a half-dozen or more other programs manually is tedious - especially since my Internet connection is relatively slow and is throttled upstream by my ISP's ISP.
It would help if Windows would allow you to put the hiberfil.sys file on a different drive but you can't even move it to a different partition on the same drive.
Apologies if anyone finds this term offensive - I'm using it for historical significance.
So, after all the decades of US posturing on the evil communists, including using Roland Reagan to warn the US public that "socialized medicine" would cause the downfall of the great capitalist nation, THIS is what it has become? The Western World, essentially the defendants of personal freedom are now so craven that they kowtow to China - a country that has largely become a dominant force through enslavement of its people, unfair valuation of its currency and extensive industrial espionage?
We are well and truly living in the Decline of the American Empire.
What SSDs are you running? I've a Patriot Warp v2 32GB, an OCZ Solid 60GB and a Kingston V-series 128GB - all run very cool. If anyone using one of those in a notebook feel that is too hot, they must be from the planet Hoth.
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You can eat and drink it fine but you can't digest it. It'll (eventually) pass right through your system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Food_and_drink
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=1536
According to link about, he got a total of $1.6 milliion for his entire collection, including a mere $86,000 for
Action Comics #1.
True that was 7 years ago but geez, what a markup. Consider all the stories about his financial woes, I bet
he wishes he'd held on to his collection.
Work in academia; apply for a federal grant
Don't be naive. India is using this as an excuse to avoid having to commit to targets that they know
wouild be difficult to reach without sacrficing their growth.
Also, while they are a democracy, it's a very partisan, fractured society that would be unlikely
to reach a consensus on meaningful change until the wolves were at the door.
Don't quote me on this but I vaguely recall that it had been used by Bill Clinton.
One of the serious downsides was the length of time they kept the 16-bit subsystem alive. This was shown to be exploitable for privilege escalation as recently as last year.
http://www.osnews.com/story/22767/Windows_NT_VDM_Vulnerability_Detected_After_17_Years
The question is - how do we know that this wasn't discovered by someone with nefarious intentions years ago. After all, the Windows 2000 source code has been floating around for years.
I can't fathom why they wouldn't have killed this off with XP was released. At the latest, it should have been removed or disabled when XP SP2 was released.
Let me rephrase this for him -
"For 25 years, we deliberately chose to ignore the bitter lessons that were learned by the big vendors, to take shortcuts
to ship shit software first and fix it later and to build up massive layers of cruft in the name of backward compatibility. Now we are caught in a nice pickle
as we've spent years trying fill the leaks in our crap - some of which is so insecure that, 8 years after the launch, we still have record numbers of bugs in
Windows XP almost every fucking Patch Tuesday -and restructure it into something rock solid.
However, until we can get this done, we need to play smoke and mirrors, convince you to toss Win XP - and your old PC, most likely, buy our latest
and greatest and spit out evermore FUD about how nobody else can get stuff done except us.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the M$ business plan and I'm pleased to say that it's working as well as ever and thank you all"
After the previous post, I looked it up on Wikipedia and it seems that the President can exercise a line-item veto.
Of course that means that someone has to scan the bill to point out the offending riders, which, I imagine, is the job of Congress.
What isn't clear is if the Presidential veto is exercised after the bill is approved.
If it's exercised beforehand, can the submitters attach further riders to a bill that's under review?
Also, I'd heard that the Bush administration had bills where provisions were attached in backroom deals AFTER the bills were passed.
What kind of fucked-up process is that?
Appreciate the info. What protection exists at the federal level?
Here's something that must be killed off in every democracy - embedded clauses that have nothing to do with the main bill or its stated purpose.
I've heard that the Credit Card bill that Obama passed contained a clause permitting carrying loaded weapons in national parks.
How does shit like this get justified? Can you even do this with a straight face without being a psychopath?
Several years ago, an attempt was made in the EU to pass legislation that would curb or prohibit the sale of natural health products.
It didn't get through thanks to the veto of the Polish representative - he struck it down because he felt such a provision had no place
in a bill on FISHERIES!!
His is an example that all politicians should follow and those that try the above-mentioned practice should be made a felony with a mandatory
minimum sentence of at least a year with no good behavior or other time credits - you do the full year, no exceptions. If you're sick, too bad - I fully support
you get the necessary healthcare but no matter what, you MUST do 365 days in jail.
If the author of said provision can't be identified, then 5 members of the party that tables the bill will be chosen by straw ballot to do a full year each.
It's well past time to stop the pigs at the trough from fucking with the system.
Could you tell me how long your arms are? Because I'm curious as to how far in you had to reach to pull
that bullshit out of your ass.
Go to http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=windows&ver=10.50b1&local=y
to download as navigating from the info page on the features in 10.50 Beta returned an error
Looking forward to seeing how this performs as i've been using Opera for 10 years but FF have been my go-to browser
for the last 3.
Sometimes a change is as good as a bargain. I would rather sweat blood than go back to being a Bell or Rogers customer
ever again but my current provider ( a Bell reseller ) doesn't have the clout to force Bell to upgrade the crappy copper in
the neighbourhood and we all have to swallow their traffic shaping.
Give me a third party with their own infrastructure, better support, and fewer restrictions and I'm willing to pay more for just to give them the finger.
It sounds to me like the current residents of the Middle East should re-learn their own history beyond the bits pertaining to religious nutjobs
Because you never know when the next flight might be threatened by lithium-powered underwear
Don't be so sure - I bet the various monarchies or those who thought they ruled by the mandate of heaven would have been shocked at the concept of a democracy.
I'm not saying that it'll be easy but I never thought to see a Black president in my lifetime either.
However, I do see that Ames passed a couple of polygraph tests; that said, the dramatic changes in his spending and lifestyle should have warranted further investigation
That's why I said that interviews of this sort should be done annually - or on some other ongoing basis.
I've heard that a lot of employers run credit checks
on prospective employees - in the case of Ames, that would have raised some warning flags.
You want the keys to the kingdom? Prove you can be trusted
1.) All police officers, all employees of all police forces that may have any kind access to confidential data and any contractors or consultants
must submit to annual interviews including polygraphs regarding their activities, private and professional, past and present.
The Canadian Mounties have a process like this for applicants but I don't think it's done once you become a constable.
2.) No question is off-limits; all questions must be answered.
3.) Failure to submit or answer a question will result in dismissal.
4.) All interviews are to be observed by a panel of witnesses of which several are private citizens
5.) All (unedited) interviews will be available to the public upon request.
If those conditions are met, then I'll gladly comply with your requests for private data.
He fell first so someone shot him but according to this theory, he must have drawn or shot first.
1. Hmmm, will look into that - I'm using Ultimate on that machine.
2. This is a notebook, with spare battery. Only space for 1 disk.
3. Once I'm sure an update didn't break something, I delete the backup folders.
4. I'd done that when I tried the Win7/SSD combo on a desktop,which was ok. But, I really wanted this for the laptops.
5. Yah, I learned years ago about System Restore invisibly consuming space. I usually turn it off or reduce it to 1 or 2%.
Good suggestions overall but my real wish was/is to have my laptops running SSDs. Unfortunately, the JMicron bug bit me hard and the various tweaks, such as EasyCO MFT / Flashfire, etc either don't work consistently or have considerable liabilities.
And, I'm hoping for another significant price drop before the summer.
Thanks but I've done all of these before as these were all things tried to alleviate the stuttering problem with the notorious JMicron controllers - among other things.
My point was that, regardless of SSD speed, there are times when hibernation is very useful.
In the course of a browsing weekend, I may have up to 100 tabs/windows open as well as other programs.
True, I can easily save the session and/or restart the programs but with trying to reload so many tabs and restoring the state of a half-dozen or more other programs manually is tedious - especially since my Internet connection is relatively slow and is throttled upstream by my ISP's ISP.
It would help if Windows would allow you to put the hiberfil.sys file on a different drive but you can't even move it to a different partition on the same drive.
Apologies if anyone finds this term offensive - I'm using it for historical significance.
So, after all the decades of US posturing on the evil communists, including using Roland Reagan to warn the US public that "socialized medicine"
would cause the downfall of the great capitalist nation, THIS is what it has become? The Western World, essentially the defendants of personal
freedom are now so craven that they kowtow to China - a country that has largely become a dominant force through enslavement of its people,
unfair valuation of its currency and extensive industrial espionage?
We are well and truly living in the Decline of the American Empire.
What SSDs are you running? I've a Patriot Warp v2 32GB, an OCZ Solid 60GB and a Kingston V-series 128GB - all run very cool.
If anyone using one of those in a notebook feel that is too hot, they must be from the planet Hoth.