You left out the biggest one: seized assets of drug dealers. When someone gets convicted, federal laws allow all their drug-related assets (cars, bank accounts, houses, bling, etc.) to go to the state. This is a huge revenue stream for local law enforcement agencies and is probably the single largest unspoken reason why you won't see legalization anytime soon.
Our company is headquartered in Burlington, VT. It's a pretty big town, but there are lots of rural areas in easy driving distance. The pattern here seems to be for people to work in here in Boston until they get married and then move to VT to breed.
A gay person has every right I have, right now. It is just as illegal to punch me in the face as it is to punch him in the face.
Yeah, but that is samll consolation if it happens all the time anyway. The guy that beats you up this week isn't going to care that some stranger that did it last week got punished. It's not gonna help if the homophobic cops don't take you case seriously.
That's why we have all these marches and activism. The marches aren't for the bigots, they're not even necessarily for the friendly straight people. They're a chance for everyone to get together and say "Hey, it's tough, but we're all still here and we're all still ok." For some people it's the only day out of the year they can express their sexuality in public without fear.
The laws are necessary because it's a matter of health and public safety. Do you think most school districts would cover queer issues in health class or sex ed if there weren't a state law requireing them to? The point is to raise awareness, expose people to different ways of living, and hopefully the next generation will grow up a little more tollerant than this one. Hopefully there'll be a few less teen suicides. Hopefully, a few less kids will get dragged behind trucks or tied to trees.
They want to have those special rights like hospital visits
That's not a right any more than drawing a paycheck is. I have the privilege of going to certain hospitals in particular because I pay for medical insurance. I also have the privilege of opting out of my employer-provided insurance and getting insurance that covers domestic partners.
We're not talking medical coverage, we're talking visiting rights. If your spouse is in a car accident and you want to get in to visit them, you say "I'm their husband/wife" and you're in, they don't ask you to produce a marriage certificate. If I want to get in to see my partner, I better have a power of attorney contract and possibly a lawyer handy.
There are hundreds of other cases where federal or state law says you have to be capital-M Married to receive a benefit. These are all laws that exisit to help people build and maintain families, and that's all the quuer community want to do--build and maintain families.
Most (all?) PCs do not have hot pluggable PS/2 ports. In fact, there is a small but nonzero chance you will fry the mobo if you yank out a PS/2 device while the machine is powered on.
In any case, I imagine that most places with publicly accessable computers take a dim view of users mucking around behind the machine.
It seems to me that the nicest packaging would be a USB mouse with this adapter built into it. That way if you were using a public terminal and happens to have a user-accessable USB port, you could just plug in and go.
I think it depends on the individual. Not everyone's nerves and muscles are layed out exactly the same.
For example, I am fine with typing, but mousing is somewhat agrravating. I could play video games for hours on the old style (S)NES gamepads, but the newer analog ones are painful after a couple of hours, especially if a game uses the shoulder buttons a lot. Knitting is somewhere between mousing and video games.
I've taken to using a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse. It seems a lot easier on the finger muscles, although you have to be careful not to lean on your wrist.
"It's more cost efficient to ship with one cable rather than two, and USB is more broadly supported on both platforms."
Except this is crap. When I bought my 40GB 3G iPod, it came with only a Firewire cable. At the time, I had a PC with only USB, so I went to the Apple store and bought a cable that has both USB and Firewire connectors. For $20! You could even plug the USB part into the PC and the Firewire into the AC adaptor and you could sync and charge at the same time.
Why doesn't Apple just ship all iPods with this cable and make everyone happy?
This is more competition. Most municipal governments are smaller than any of these big cable or telecom companies and actually have less bureaucracy. The people running the service are vested in the community. If something fucks up with the mucicipal service, at least you can go to town meeting or your council member and air your complaints. Try doing that with the Verizon board.
Not necessarily true. For example if 25% of the voting population voted for Bush because they are anti-abortion, but don't care about the war, and another 26% voted for him because they support the war but don't care about abortion, that would give him 51% without creating a mandate on either issue. That is, if you can call 51% of anything a mandate.
Obviously, that is a very simple example, but it does show that it's not safe to assume that just because a candidate got elected on a certain platform that the majority agrees with every point in the platform. I'm usually forced to vote for who I think will do the least harm, because above the local level, I think the election process prevents good people from getting elected. Basically the candidate with the best marketing wins.
Paper documents have inherent security features, like the paper and ink they are printed with, the typeface, the minute flaws in the printing machinery, etc.
I can send a Word document to the laser printer in the mail room set in Times New Roman 12pt just as easily as my boss can. If I put "Boss" instead of "Peon" into the letterhead, I don't see how you would tell the fake memo from the real one.
I think it's really a trade off between performance and portability. Sending a message to the DB to transform some data is faster than pulling it out, operating on it and doing an update. You save a netowrk trip and marshaling and unmarshaling your data into objects.
Have you looked at your gas bill recently? Could you imagine what electricity would cost if we were using natural gas to create it? Sorry but nuclear (especially if meltdown "proof") would be the way to go.
Well, my oil heating bill is ~$300-$350/month durring the Winter in Boston. This is almost exactly the same as what I paid when I lived in a gas-heated apartment comparable in size to my current condo. Both units are single-floor flats in early 1900's three family buildings.
Also in MA, we get a decent percentage of our electricity from natural gas (27% from dual-fired plants and 18% from gas-only). My two person household spends between $65-$80/mo on electricity.
Whatever happened to the virtues of simplicity, like a file containing a header record detailing the field names, and rows containing the data in either fixed-length or delimited form?
Because things don't stay that simple. Have you ever looked at, say, an X12 spec? Looping, conditional sub elements, destination-specific mandated fields... After writing 3 or 4 validating X12 parsers, you really start to pine for XML: Here's the data, here's the DTD, give me the parse tree.
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You left out the biggest one: seized assets of drug dealers. When someone gets convicted, federal laws allow all their drug-related assets (cars, bank accounts, houses, bling, etc.) to go to the state. This is a huge revenue stream for local law enforcement agencies and is probably the single largest unspoken reason why you won't see legalization anytime soon.
Our company is headquartered in Burlington, VT. It's a pretty big town, but there are lots of rural areas in easy driving distance. The pattern here seems to be for people to work in here in Boston until they get married and then move to VT to breed.
A gay person has every right I have, right now. It is just as illegal to punch me in the face as it is to punch him in the face.
Yeah, but that is samll consolation if it happens all the time anyway. The guy that beats you up this week isn't going to care that some stranger that did it last week got punished. It's not gonna help if the homophobic cops don't take you case seriously.
That's why we have all these marches and activism. The marches aren't for the bigots, they're not even necessarily for the friendly straight people. They're a chance for everyone to get together and say "Hey, it's tough, but we're all still here and we're all still ok." For some people it's the only day out of the year they can express their sexuality in public without fear.
The laws are necessary because it's a matter of health and public safety. Do you think most school districts would cover queer issues in health class or sex ed if there weren't a state law requireing them to? The point is to raise awareness, expose people to different ways of living, and hopefully the next generation will grow up a little more tollerant than this one. Hopefully there'll be a few less teen suicides. Hopefully, a few less kids will get dragged behind trucks or tied to trees.
They want to have those special rights like hospital visits
That's not a right any more than drawing a paycheck is. I have the privilege of going to certain hospitals in particular because I pay for medical insurance. I also have the privilege of opting out of my employer-provided insurance and getting insurance that covers domestic partners.
We're not talking medical coverage, we're talking visiting rights. If your spouse is in a car accident and you want to get in to visit them, you say "I'm their husband/wife" and you're in, they don't ask you to produce a marriage certificate. If I want to get in to see my partner, I better have a power of attorney contract and possibly a lawyer handy.
There are hundreds of other cases where federal or state law says you have to be capital-M Married to receive a benefit. These are all laws that exisit to help people build and maintain families, and that's all the quuer community want to do--build and maintain families.
Me neither -- weed and acid were much easier to get.
Kind of a sad state of affairs when it's easier for a minor to get illegal substances than legal, regulated ones.
Gasoline needs to be aerosolized and a spark introduced to explode. A copressed air tank just needs to be wacked hard enough...
I'm a VIC user, you insensitive clod!
That's POKE 36879 to you!
Copyrights must be defended. Failing to do so means you lose your copyright.
That applies only to trademarks. You can be as capricious as you want about enforcing your copyrights and never loose any claim to them.
Also known as paragoric, which until relatively recently was available over the counter to treat colic.
There was a DVD out called Mindcandy that was mostly just recordings of demos, but it did include a short documentary.
Smokers pay higher life insuirance premiums. Plus cancer is a pretty stiff penalty.
Most (all?) PCs do not have hot pluggable PS/2 ports. In fact, there is a small but nonzero chance you will fry the mobo if you yank out a PS/2 device while the machine is powered on.
In any case, I imagine that most places with publicly accessable computers take a dim view of users mucking around behind the machine.
It seems to me that the nicest packaging would be a USB mouse with this adapter built into it. That way if you were using a public terminal and happens to have a user-accessable USB port, you could just plug in and go.
I think it depends on the individual. Not everyone's nerves and muscles are layed out exactly the same.
For example, I am fine with typing, but mousing is somewhat agrravating. I could play video games for hours on the old style (S)NES gamepads, but the newer analog ones are painful after a couple of hours, especially if a game uses the shoulder buttons a lot. Knitting is somewhere between mousing and video games.
I've taken to using a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse. It seems a lot easier on the finger muscles, although you have to be careful not to lean on your wrist.
Mock not the Lord thy Gord, for He is uppon you.
"It's more cost efficient to ship with one cable rather than two, and USB is more broadly supported on both platforms."
Except this is crap. When I bought my 40GB 3G iPod, it came with only a Firewire cable. At the time, I had a PC with only USB, so I went to the Apple store and bought a cable that has both USB and Firewire connectors. For $20! You could even plug the USB part into the PC and the Firewire into the AC adaptor and you could sync and charge at the same time.
Why doesn't Apple just ship all iPods with this cable and make everyone happy?
This is more competition. Most municipal governments are smaller than any of these big cable or telecom companies and actually have less bureaucracy. The people running the service are vested in the community. If something fucks up with the mucicipal service, at least you can go to town meeting or your council member and air your complaints. Try doing that with the Verizon board.
Not necessarily true. For example if 25% of the voting population voted for Bush because they are anti-abortion, but don't care about the war, and another 26% voted for him because they support the war but don't care about abortion, that would give him 51% without creating a mandate on either issue. That is, if you can call 51% of anything a mandate.
Obviously, that is a very simple example, but it does show that it's not safe to assume that just because a candidate got elected on a certain platform that the majority agrees with every point in the platform. I'm usually forced to vote for who I think will do the least harm, because above the local level, I think the election process prevents good people from getting elected. Basically the candidate with the best marketing wins.
Major Shake was the Master Shake clone.
Paper documents have inherent security features, like the paper and ink they are printed with, the typeface, the minute flaws in the printing machinery, etc.
I can send a Word document to the laser printer in the mail room set in Times New Roman 12pt just as easily as my boss can. If I put "Boss" instead of "Peon" into the letterhead, I don't see how you would tell the fake memo from the real one.
I think it's really a trade off between performance and portability. Sending a message to the DB to transform some data is faster than pulling it out, operating on it and doing an update. You save a netowrk trip and marshaling and unmarshaling your data into objects.
Our last upgrade was from MS-SQL 7 to 2000. It took about 2 months and cost around $100k.
We are currently migrating to Oracle 10g. It's going to take at least 18 months and is going to cost us millions.
Have you looked at your gas bill recently? Could you imagine what electricity would cost if we were using natural gas to create it? Sorry but nuclear (especially if meltdown "proof") would be the way to go.
Well, my oil heating bill is ~$300-$350/month durring the Winter in Boston. This is almost exactly the same as what I paid when I lived in a gas-heated apartment comparable in size to my current condo. Both units are single-floor flats in early 1900's three family buildings.
Also in MA, we get a decent percentage of our electricity from natural gas (27% from dual-fired plants and 18% from gas-only). My two person household spends between $65-$80/mo on electricity.
He's saying having an iPod has changed from being a sufficient condition to being a necessary one.
Whatever happened to the virtues of simplicity, like a file containing a header record detailing the field names, and rows containing the data in either fixed-length or delimited form?
Because things don't stay that simple. Have you ever looked at, say, an X12 spec? Looping, conditional sub elements, destination-specific mandated fields... After writing 3 or 4 validating X12 parsers, you really start to pine for XML: Here's the data, here's the DTD, give me the parse tree.