Bullshit. A little creative problem is needed. All these solutions have been provided by my brother, sister, and friends - all have kids.
> Get tipsy with friends. Baby sitter Pawn the child(ren) off on a friend who isn't going to a party Go out with friends on a night your kids are at a sleep over With your partner trade off nights of going out After your kids have gone to bed, invite your friends over to drink a little wine and talk
> Have lazy Sunday morning sex. Have it when you kids are at a sleep over Lock your bedroom door Wake up before your kids
> Enjoy your coffee. Wake up before your kids (that's what my parents did) Sit and enjoy your coffee while your kids are having breakfast, watching morning cartoons, or (heaven forbid) outside being loud
> Realize you don't have to be rich. Plenty of parents are rich or even wealthy and are enjoying life. You don't have to clothe your kids in whatever's hip.
It's all about taking your pleasure where you can get it.
Go barefoot. Get tipsy with friends. Have lazy Sunday morning sex. Enjoy your coffee. Endulge yourself every once in awhile. Realize you don't have to be rich. Read Barbara Holland's Endangered Pleasures.
Enjoy it. That's what you should do with your life.
The contractor knew what he was getting into when he signed the contract. The contract should've said $X for Y hours of work or something to that effect. If the contractor didn't like it, he didn't have to sign it.
If the contractor took the job because that was the only job offer and he has no qualifications to work in another field, then tough luck. Shit happens when the economy is bad - that doesn't give you carte blanche to do what you want and break contracts.
Really? My ticket to Fellowship and the Two Towers cost $7.50 a piece. That's the same price I'd pay to see an 90 or 120 minute movie at my local cineplex.
Perhaps it was true for Titantic, I didn't go see it, but I've never run into a pricing difference at any of theatres.
Most of the stats I found only had a breakdown of the opening weekend take, weekly takes, and number of screens.
I don't recall seeing any numbers on the number of showing. Looking at local times for theaters in a 45 miles radius, all theaters are showing during normal show hours.
I was just about to elaborate on my question. It's a skimpy on the reason why I was asking it.
I understand that salvage belongs to whomever brings it up. If I had the necessary equipment and personel to anchor in the Hudson and start bringing up salvage, would I need to go to the state or county/city and buy a permit before starting operations?
Considering that you often need a permit to stop traffic on roads or do major construction work on land, a permit to salvage would make sense. But then, naval law is much different.
A follow up question: Can a permit be refused for historical or environmental reasons?
I like you suggestion of making it into an underwater park. I believe some ship wreckage have been made into underwater parks or marine sanctuaries in order to control access and preserve the area. Unfortunately, on a good day in the Hundson you can only see an arm's length.
. . . are not being published since state officials are nervous about the prospect of so many shipwrecks suddenly being opened up to salvagers on one of the U.S.'s busiest rivers. 'We don't want to ring the dinner bell for people who have ulterior motives and don't behave responsibly,' says Mark L. Peckham . . .
Could someone with some knowledge of major salvage work give some words on wether or not a permit is required?
Thank You! That's exactly what went through my head when I read that line. At least in the US, the JFK was as adored as Princess Di.
Princess Di was really a celebrity who happened to be royalty. Like any well liked celeb who dies a tragic death, they're remembered - Elvis, Buddy Holly, Marilyn Monroe, etc. . . If Princess Di had kept to herself, been an out right bitch, or died at the ripe old age of 103, the reaction would've been been one or two magnitudes smaller.
Watching all the dicussion's been funny. No one knows who did it first, but they all know the Americans are jingoists because we too claim to be first in flight.
Italians claim they did it first. The French claim they did it first. Kiwis say "No we did it first!" Now, Brazilians are piping up.
It seems to me that every country is definining the first successful flight based on whatever small step their pioneer took.
What you guys need to do is get together, come up with a firm list of requirements for what makes a flight The First Flight, figure out who did it, then talk Rupert Murdock into producing a special for his TV stations. This definitely sounds like something Fox Television would show.
What is so sophisticated about a fake ID? College kids know where to get a decent fake ID. A criminal will, too.
Using your numbers, you criminal right now is making an easy $600 on a scammed laptop. Now you require a good fake ID, costs $100, now he's making $500 per scam. Of course that's assuming he goes to a fence or shady pawn shop. What's to stop him from turning around and selling it eBay for $3000?
Yah, if I were a criminal, I'd definitely stop scamming because I'd only be making $100 less.
You don't need a new ID for every crime, either. It takes one to two days for FedEx to return a the funds to the shipper. It takes another five to ten days for the fake funds to bounce back to the bank. You have a one to two week window. Make a ton of purchases to be delivered within those few safe days. Use the ID for those deliveries, then skip town a full business week before the fake funds bouce.
In the case of picking up a package at the station, you usually have to show ID. The only time I haven't is once I got to be a regular at the station and everyone knew my face.
When delivered to a physical address, what'd be the use of the ID? The person has access to the delivery address.
And at least in the US, a fake ID isn't that much of a barrier. Even college kids have fake ones.
Just found a copy of the aticle further down. If you're the one who wrote the article, you said:
At 10:21AM on November 21st, a man going by the name of Paul Smith signed for my two packages and gave the driver an official cashier's check from LaSalle Bank for $3052.78 in return. The check made it back to my doorstep the next morning. I went to the bank, deposited the check and withdrew enough to go ahead and pay my rent and pick up a couple of household items. I sent an email to Steve to make sure he got everything ok and to check that nothing had been damaged in shipping. No reply. As the old saying goes, no news is good news, right?
Like I said above, if the certified funds look real, what do you really expect the delivery person to do? How was he/she supposed to tell it was counterfeit when even your bank accepted it and credited your accout for almost a week? It looked real. It wasn't the hypothetical "Sertifyed Chek" written in crayon.
No, I'm not a lawyer, but if FedEx accepted a brown piece of paper with "Sertifyed Chek" written in crayon, then I'd speak to a lawyer and sue the devilery man and Fedex as surely as I'd sue my bank if they let someone close my accounts just because he was wearing a hand written name tag with my name on it.
Like I said, the article is slashdotted, I couldn'r read the specifics. I was replying to the guy with the hypothetical "Sertifyed Chek." Whatever you do, dont' take legal advice from Slashdot. Opinions expressed here are as valid as those at your corner bar - the bullshit factor is the same.
The article's slashdotted, so I'm replying under the assumption the fake certified funds looks legit on first glance.
First, it's a question of reasonably expectations. If the Fedex guy accepted your "Sertifyed Chek," you'd probably have a case of incompetance against the delivery man.
On the other hand, if it looks like certified check, what do you really expect Fedex to do? To verify that it was valid, you'd have to get the funds and then call the issuer before handing over the package. That's going to add several minutes per COD package. In the case of some businesses, Fedex would have to schedule 15 - 45 minutes for delivery.
I worked for a company that was burned by a fake cashier's check once. The check looked real. Our bank accepted the check without problems. It wasn't till several days later that the bank found out it was a fake. In our case, the receiver had called his Fedex station and asked them to hold the package at the station, and he picked it up there. The address he had given us was actually a vacant lot.
Essentially, the carrier acts as your agent when collecting the funds. It'd be the same as if someone walked up to the counter and passed you a bad cashier's check or counterfiet money.
And I'd love to see my cash strapped small town employ a free highspeed wireless service . . . but it won't happen.
Moving to x86 or even worse, maintaining a dual platform on PPCs and x86s, would require as great a mov on the part of developers as it would the move to OS X. Major vendors are just now getting in the groove of OS X. Some, such as Quark, haven't made the move yet.
Classic mode on x86 wouldn't exist. Programs would require more than a recompile. Emulation won't do. Apps, the OS, and Aqua have been optimized to take advantage of Altivec and other PPC specialties. Those portions would require rewriting.
Apple is a total computer company. They're product isn't just the OS, nor is it just a computer company. They owe much of their success to the "It just works" idea. It just works because they maintain control over hardware in their systems. As soon as you start supplying a combo deal, people will add inferior components trying to save money and the Apple name looses some credibility and value.
And OS X != Darwin. Darwin is an open source OS that runs well on PPC procs and is workable on x86. OS X is Darwin, Aqua, and a set of apps, most of which would have to be rewritten and recompiled for x86.
MS will not get blown out of the water by a "simple" move to Hammer. Apple isn't trying to kill MS. I think it was in Wired or an essay by Cringely - Jobs just wants to run a successful company, make plenty of money, and be a thorn in Gates' side. Hating/Competing/Crushing MS takes too much energy, and it isn't worth it. Jobs has the satisfaction of knowing that people love his product, and that annoys Gates.
I get mod points on a regular basis, on average every seven or eight days. My thinking on why you were modded redundant is because the contents of your post are often expressed and don't forward the discussion.
You wouldn't complain about someone modding an "I'll never use a Mac till they have two mouse buttons" or "I can't wait till they release OS X for x86" posts as redundant. They're commonly expressed and superfluous posts which don't forward any discussion, i.e. redundant.
Many people on Slashdot and Macslash find these notices useful, especially when a bug is found or when looking for details on what the update does. The same advice applies to you as to people complaining about sex on TV - if you don't like it, don't watch it.
propriate to say that every mac user *expects* great new hardware from a MacWorld. When the "next great thing" isn't delivered, everyone grumbles. Just look at posts to Macslash, Slashdot, and other Mac sites when we find out the only really new hardware is upgrading the Powermac line to dual processors or the new iMac *only* features a G4 w/ LCD across the board.
People have come to expect something amazing every time when in fact no company can produce that many truly innovative gee-whiz-bang new products several times a year, every year, for years on end while meeting development deadlines and maintaining the secrecy needed to keep expectations going till the moment of revelation. People have been expecting too much - a revamped Newton, a move to AMD procs, an iPhone, an iMac 2 that will clean the house, give you mind blowing sex, cure cancer, teach the kids, and fit you into a size 3.
And please tell me the OS X on Hammer line was a joke. That rumor has been completely discredited 20 times over. The most likely processor move is to the IBM proc because it offers much easier compatibility with existing software.
Speilberg probably met with the directors and laid out the look and feel that he wanted. He probably also hired directors he trusted to accurately do the style he wanted.
It's commonly done with large projects. The Lord of the Rings is still Peter Jackson's even though several directors worked on auxilary units.
Don't know about the other two major mail clients (Eudora and Entourage), but Mail wouldn't trick users into double clicking a hypothetical "Funny_Picture.png.sh."
Shell scripts by default are associated with TextEdit. Double clicking on an attached shell script would open it in the editor. No execution. No harm.
As long as the other two mail apps follow the system's file association, all's well.
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Bullshit. A little creative problem is needed. All these solutions have been provided by my brother, sister, and friends - all have kids.
> Get tipsy with friends.
Baby sitter
Pawn the child(ren) off on a friend who isn't going to a party
Go out with friends on a night your kids are at a sleep over
With your partner trade off nights of going out
After your kids have gone to bed, invite your friends over to drink a little wine and talk
> Have lazy Sunday morning sex.
Have it when you kids are at a sleep over
Lock your bedroom door
Wake up before your kids
> Enjoy your coffee.
Wake up before your kids (that's what my parents did)
Sit and enjoy your coffee while your kids are having breakfast, watching morning cartoons, or (heaven forbid) outside being loud
> Realize you don't have to be rich.
Plenty of parents are rich or even wealthy and are enjoying life. You don't have to clothe your kids in whatever's hip.
It's all about taking your pleasure where you can get it.
What should you do with your life?
.
Go barefoot.
Get tipsy with friends.
Have lazy Sunday morning sex.
Enjoy your coffee.
Endulge yourself every once in awhile.
Realize you don't have to be rich.
Read Barbara Holland's Endangered Pleasures
Enjoy it. That's what you should do with your life.
As a follow up to my own post, other dictionaries give both pronunciations of gigawatt.
They're both correct.
Dictionary.com and m-w.com both give pronunciations as "/ji'ga/" or "/gi'ga/."
Perhaps it's pronounced "ji'ga" is your dialiect's pronunciation, but that doesn't make it the only correct pronunciation.
Stop being so anal.
The contractor knew what he was getting into when he signed the contract. The contract should've said $X for Y hours of work or something to that effect. If the contractor didn't like it, he didn't have to sign it.
If the contractor took the job because that was the only job offer and he has no qualifications to work in another field, then tough luck. Shit happens when the economy is bad - that doesn't give you carte blanche to do what you want and break contracts.
Really? My ticket to Fellowship and the Two Towers cost $7.50 a piece. That's the same price I'd pay to see an 90 or 120 minute movie at my local cineplex.
Perhaps it was true for Titantic, I didn't go see it, but I've never run into a pricing difference at any of theatres.
Most of the stats I found only had a breakdown of the opening weekend take, weekly takes, and number of screens.
I don't recall seeing any numbers on the number of showing. Looking at local times for theaters in a 45 miles radius, all theaters are showing during normal show hours.
There's a good possibility it won't break $100M. Fellowship of the Ring only did $75M the first weekend.
Box office take is a misleading number. The movie is twice as long as most movies, therefore theaters can squeeze fewer showings into one day.
I was just about to elaborate on my question. It's a skimpy on the reason why I was asking it.
I understand that salvage belongs to whomever brings it up. If I had the necessary equipment and personel to anchor in the Hudson and start bringing up salvage, would I need to go to the state or county/city and buy a permit before starting operations?
Considering that you often need a permit to stop traffic on roads or do major construction work on land, a permit to salvage would make sense. But then, naval law is much different.
A follow up question: Can a permit be refused for historical or environmental reasons?
I like you suggestion of making it into an underwater park. I believe some ship wreckage have been made into underwater parks or marine sanctuaries in order to control access and preserve the area. Unfortunately, on a good day in the Hundson you can only see an arm's length.
. . . are not being published since state officials are nervous about the prospect of so many shipwrecks suddenly being opened up to salvagers on one of the U.S.'s busiest rivers. 'We don't want to ring the dinner bell for people who have ulterior motives and don't behave responsibly,' says Mark L. Peckham . . .
Could someone with some knowledge of major salvage work give some words on wether or not a permit is required?
Thank You! That's exactly what went through my head when I read that line. At least in the US, the JFK was as adored as Princess Di.
Princess Di was really a celebrity who happened to be royalty. Like any well liked celeb who dies a tragic death, they're remembered - Elvis, Buddy Holly, Marilyn Monroe, etc. . . If Princess Di had kept to herself, been an out right bitch, or died at the ripe old age of 103, the reaction would've been been one or two magnitudes smaller.
I'm an American.
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Watching all the dicussion's been funny. No one knows who did it first, but they all know the Americans are jingoists because we too claim to be first in flight
Italians claim they did it first.
The French claim they did it first.
Kiwis say "No we did it first!"
Now, Brazilians are piping up.
It seems to me that every country is definining the first successful flight based on whatever small step their pioneer took.
What you guys need to do is get together, come up with a firm list of requirements for what makes a flight The First Flight, figure out who did it, then talk Rupert Murdock into producing a special for his TV stations. This definitely sounds like something Fox Television would show.
What is so sophisticated about a fake ID? College kids know where to get a decent fake ID. A criminal will, too.
Using your numbers, you criminal right now is making an easy $600 on a scammed laptop. Now you require a good fake ID, costs $100, now he's making $500 per scam. Of course that's assuming he goes to a fence or shady pawn shop. What's to stop him from turning around and selling it eBay for $3000?
Yah, if I were a criminal, I'd definitely stop scamming because I'd only be making $100 less.
You don't need a new ID for every crime, either. It takes one to two days for FedEx to return a the funds to the shipper. It takes another five to ten days for the fake funds to bounce back to the bank. You have a one to two week window. Make a ton of purchases to be delivered within those few safe days. Use the ID for those deliveries, then skip town a full business week before the fake funds bouce.
Read Stephen Hunter's review in the Washington Post.
He has some good things to say about the movies directed by Nimoy. He also likes Stewart's acting. Other than that, it's a long entertaining rant.
In the case of picking up a package at the station, you usually have to show ID. The only time I haven't is once I got to be a regular at the station and everyone knew my face.
When delivered to a physical address, what'd be the use of the ID? The person has access to the delivery address.
And at least in the US, a fake ID isn't that much of a barrier. Even college kids have fake ones.
Like I said above, if the certified funds look real, what do you really expect the delivery person to do? How was he/she supposed to tell it was counterfeit when even your bank accepted it and credited your accout for almost a week? It looked real. It wasn't the hypothetical "Sertifyed Chek" written in crayon.
No, I'm not a lawyer, but if FedEx accepted a brown piece of paper with "Sertifyed Chek" written in crayon, then I'd speak to a lawyer and sue the devilery man and Fedex as surely as I'd sue my bank if they let someone close my accounts just because he was wearing a hand written name tag with my name on it.
Like I said, the article is slashdotted, I couldn'r read the specifics. I was replying to the guy with the hypothetical "Sertifyed Chek." Whatever you do, dont' take legal advice from Slashdot. Opinions expressed here are as valid as those at your corner bar - the bullshit factor is the same.
The article's slashdotted, so I'm replying under the assumption the fake certified funds looks legit on first glance.
First, it's a question of reasonably expectations. If the Fedex guy accepted your "Sertifyed Chek," you'd probably have a case of incompetance against the delivery man.
On the other hand, if it looks like certified check, what do you really expect Fedex to do? To verify that it was valid, you'd have to get the funds and then call the issuer before handing over the package. That's going to add several minutes per COD package. In the case of some businesses, Fedex would have to schedule 15 - 45 minutes for delivery.
I worked for a company that was burned by a fake cashier's check once. The check looked real. Our bank accepted the check without problems. It wasn't till several days later that the bank found out it was a fake. In our case, the receiver had called his Fedex station and asked them to hold the package at the station, and he picked it up there. The address he had given us was actually a vacant lot.
Essentially, the carrier acts as your agent when collecting the funds. It'd be the same as if someone walked up to the counter and passed you a bad cashier's check or counterfiet money.
And I'd love to see my cash strapped small town employ a free highspeed wireless service . . . but it won't happen.
Moving to x86 or even worse, maintaining a dual platform on PPCs and x86s, would require as great a mov on the part of developers as it would the move to OS X. Major vendors are just now getting in the groove of OS X. Some, such as Quark, haven't made the move yet.
Classic mode on x86 wouldn't exist. Programs would require more than a recompile. Emulation won't do. Apps, the OS, and Aqua have been optimized to take advantage of Altivec and other PPC specialties. Those portions would require rewriting.
Apple is a total computer company. They're product isn't just the OS, nor is it just a computer company. They owe much of their success to the "It just works" idea. It just works because they maintain control over hardware in their systems. As soon as you start supplying a combo deal, people will add inferior components trying to save money and the Apple name looses some credibility and value.
And OS X != Darwin. Darwin is an open source OS that runs well on PPC procs and is workable on x86. OS X is Darwin, Aqua, and a set of apps, most of which would have to be rewritten and recompiled for x86.
MS will not get blown out of the water by a "simple" move to Hammer. Apple isn't trying to kill MS. I think it was in Wired or an essay by Cringely - Jobs just wants to run a successful company, make plenty of money, and be a thorn in Gates' side. Hating/Competing/Crushing MS takes too much energy, and it isn't worth it. Jobs has the satisfaction of knowing that people love his product, and that annoys Gates.
I get mod points on a regular basis, on average every seven or eight days. My thinking on why you were modded redundant is because the contents of your post are often expressed and don't forward the discussion.
You wouldn't complain about someone modding an "I'll never use a Mac till they have two mouse buttons" or "I can't wait till they release OS X for x86" posts as redundant. They're commonly expressed and superfluous posts which don't forward any discussion, i.e. redundant.
Many people on Slashdot and Macslash find these notices useful, especially when a bug is found or when looking for details on what the update does. The same advice applies to you as to people complaining about sex on TV - if you don't like it, don't watch it.
First sentence should read:
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propriate to say that every mac user *expects* great new hardware from a MacWorld. When the "next great thing" isn't delivered, everyone grumbles. Just look at posts to Macslash, Slashdot, and other Mac sites when we find out the only really new hardware is upgrading the Powermac line to dual processors or the new iMac *only* features a G4 w/ LCD across the board.
People have come to expect something amazing every time when in fact no company can produce that many truly innovative gee-whiz-bang new products several times a year, every year, for years on end while meeting development deadlines and maintaining the secrecy needed to keep expectations going till the moment of revelation. People have been expecting too much - a revamped Newton, a move to AMD procs, an iPhone, an iMac 2 that will clean the house, give you mind blowing sex, cure cancer, teach the kids, and fit you into a size 3.
And please tell me the OS X on Hammer line was a joke. That rumor has been completely discredited 20 times over. The most likely processor move is to the IBM proc because it offers much easier compatibility with existing software.
Speilberg probably met with the directors and laid out the look and feel that he wanted. He probably also hired directors he trusted to accurately do the style he wanted.
It's commonly done with large projects. The Lord of the Rings is still Peter Jackson's even though several directors worked on auxilary units.
Something I read today said 10 episodes.
Don't know about the other two major mail clients (Eudora and Entourage), but Mail wouldn't trick users into double clicking a hypothetical "Funny_Picture.png.sh."
Shell scripts by default are associated with TextEdit. Double clicking on an attached shell script would open it in the editor. No execution. No harm.
As long as the other two mail apps follow the system's file association, all's well.