They do put copy machines in Libraries which then can be used by individuals to photo copy entire books, which is copyright infringement. Of course I don't know why anyone would copy an entire book, but it is a similar concept.
Wait, didn't NASA just freak out a couple of missions ago because someone dropped a screw? If I remember correctly, they were quite worried that this tiny object would hit the shuttle and cause some damage.
So now they plan on dropping a stage prop out there?
I guess they can toss it away from earth. I wonder how fast it will be traveling if someone throws it?
I am no friend to Attorney Gonzalez. In fact I've wanted him out of the position for some time. But to his credit, he has been placed in a horrible position.
Lets assume for one moment, before he took this position that he was a good lawyer. But to be led by a man who has destroyed so many other reputations is no easy task. It is a great honor and massive amount of responsibility to be in that position. But then to be "Serving at the Will of the President...", augh. He has shown to be loyal to his president. Did he misplace is trust and loyality? Maybe yes, Maybe no. But a strong un-dying loyality in this day and age is very very difficult to find.
In many ways, I respect that ill lasting lasting loyality. But sadly, I would have respected him more had he had the courage to be an honest man with integrity.
Virtual environment is not good unless you don't actually include the fact that real people are playing a game. In the case of WoW, people intentionally brought the plague back to the various cities. Why? Because it's absolutely hilarious to watch everyone in a city die almost instantly.
This would be why one server dragged Kazzak all the way to Stormwind. Just to see what would happen and to kill everyone.
The virtual world that they speak of would have to have the players NOT know that there was a plague being carried by them. If they did, players would kill people off for fun. It's just that simple.
On a side note, that plague in WoW, was loads of fun. Made many laugh for a while.
DnD is still pretty popular, but what happens is that those of us above the age of 30 who still play or enjoy the game find it more and more difficult to see a campaign through. Couples with kids that host. People show up with lots of beer. Then of the 4 hours of play time, too many people jump out of character.
It takes time and dedication, and sadly as people grow up, time is extremely limited.
You've got to be kidding me! Is this an ad for the Sally Struther's college degree commercials? If a ninth grader is considered too young for sexual activity, which affects them for the rest of their lives, how in gods name can they be expected to know what major is right for them. Most students don't really find their way until they've gone through high school and teachers help inspire them to look towards a higer education.
Isn't this similar to a communist attitude? Note I said similar, not actual communism.
In the country where Freedom is our motto, we are starting to see less and less freedoms./sigh GG Florida, and I went to school there, I can say this.
The worst Customer experience I've had in a while was with Yahoo.
My account was Hacked, and with the several attempts I made to work with Yahoo to regain control of my account they absolutely refused to help me regain that account.
I was shocked and amazed at the flippant attitude they had towards me, especially when I notified them almost immediately after the account was hacked./sigh
With our commincation process changing from Face to Face conversations, to Hard line Phone conversations, to Mobile phone (on the go) discussions, to Faxes, to Electonic documents, to Email, to Blackberry mail, to IM Text messages, and now to Phone text messages. Email is easy.
This makes you start to wonder how much of this email is truely work related? Friends, Family, e-vites, Amazon, e-bay, spam, and other such non-work related emails, or all work related???
Now I can understand if this is the new trend in Work emails where higher managers are trying to drive complete projects with 1 sentence emails that usually end up in the subject line (so they fit on a Blackberry). I know of a company that I used to work at that has managers doing that.
Another question one might ask, how much time could have been saved with a 5 minute Face to Face rather than 40+ emails? Face to face reduces so much stress in people, you can read emotions, facial expressions. One can't do that as easily in emails.
So this leads me to wonder, will a merger of this size cause a larger gravitational force as 4 swirling masses converge. I would expect that if these 4 galaxies can converge and stabalize, that the gravitational force would be pretty immense.
We've learned about Black Holes in the middle of galaxies, can you imagine the size of a the black hole this merger could form?
Would this draw other galaxies closer to the newly merged one, ever increasing the size of the merged one?
Sure these might appear to be wild questions, but I'd sure love to be around to watch it all unfold.
So a smart cute girl who studied and worked her ass off wrote a book to help to encourage young girls to NOT idolize the dumb retarded Blonde Bimbo role models that keep appearing all over the media. She appeals to her gender, GIRLS, that it's ok to be smart.
What's wrong with trying to encourage girls not to look up to Paris (Pathetic) Hilton, or Lindsey (Loser) Lohan, and Britany (Bimbo) Spears.
If I were a young black successful artist, and felt the same as you do I'd do my own thing to encourage young black males to look at schooling and education in a different manner. Instead of bashing a good supportative and encouraging book. Promote it, may the trend will spread.
While I disagree that the internet is killing the music industry, I say that the quality of the music is going downhill.
The idea of putting sound on files and then compressing them to a small number of bytes is tearing apart the quality of the sounds that initially produced the music.
Any person who has ever seriously played an instrument know how the notes mixed together from various instruments can reach ranges that no electronic device can capture.
From my time working in a bank, which was a short stint, when checks were the main source of transactions in the branch of the bank I worked at, there was the following policy. Checks were tallied in bundles. The employee tallyiny the bundle was trying to balance the bundle, based on what the various branches sent to this department of the bank. If the person tallying the bundle could not make it balance, it went to a corrections person. It was up to the corrections person to find and determine the error. If the corrections person, could not find the error, the bundle was checked my management to find the error.
The following were the possible errors and penalities as they were found from unbalanced bundles. * customer error in the check value (poor handwriting) - account credited/debited. * teller error - took a penality against their pay check (may have been the difference in error, can't remember) * tallying employee error - fixed $ amount deducted from base pay. * corrections employee error - larger fixed $ amount deducted from base pay.
Banks punish the tellers and the employees for their calculation mistakes.
I honestly cannot say what happens to the programmer who mis-programmed an ATM's errors.
On the whole, we both feel that there is the responsibility for both the banks to provide accuracy and customers to check their transactions.
The morale of my point is if both business and customers were more honest, jail-time wouldn't happen, and things would likely get fixed quickly and quietly, with little to no issue for other customers.
The bank isn't mailing something to you. It is a different law completely. If as you said, a company mails you a coupon and then realizes it's mistake, by law they must honor that. This is true of credit card companies and their offers of credit, so some extent (I'm not up on all the laws there, but I know if they extend the credit under some special set of circumstances, then they must oblige the offer). However, if you go to the bank and request $10.00 from the ATM and get $100, then clearly there is an issue with the machine. It does not make the money yours. There is a measure of common sense in this equation that people are failing to address. To keep the money, in full knowledge of an error, is theft. It's no different than going to a store and bumping into a candy stand and watching candy bars fall into your cart, knowing you didn't pay for them and keeping them.
But by the last gent's comment that there is a law about how things are handled through the post office, the argument did appear to come out of no where. And one must then ask, how is postal law the same as banking law.
We are also looking at the difference between services and cash.
If a programmer mis-programs or installs the wrong software in the scenario you described, and the customer doesn't check to make sure the job was done to his satifaction before going live with the business using the wrong software, there then come to 2 parties at fault. The programmer and the customer, for not checking.
The situation here is that if I don't check my cash received, then I'm not holding up my end of the responsibility. If the bank's ATM short changed a person, is it the banks fault or your for not checking? It's both. But this is why there is a need for honesty / integrity.
What you are saying is that if you accidentally receive your neighbors birthday card with money in it and you keep the money that you are by law entitled to that money? Because conversely, you are telling me that if your neighbor's bill is sent to you that it is your bill to pay now. Have you consider that?
That is a very weak argument for integrity and honesty. And where is this said law, and all of it's corrections, for I'm sure there would be. Please post a link and some proof of said law.
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They do put copy machines in Libraries which then can be used by individuals to photo copy entire books, which is copyright infringement. Of course I don't know why anyone would copy an entire book, but it is a similar concept.
Wait, didn't NASA just freak out a couple of missions ago because someone dropped a screw? If I remember correctly, they were quite worried that this tiny object would hit the shuttle and cause some damage.
So now they plan on dropping a stage prop out there?
I guess they can toss it away from earth. I wonder how fast it will be traveling if someone throws it?
I understand what the position is for. I was making my point that he showed his loyality to one man.
I am no friend to Attorney Gonzalez. In fact I've wanted him out of the position for some time. But to his credit, he has been placed in a horrible position.
Lets assume for one moment, before he took this position that he was a good lawyer. But to be led by a man who has destroyed so many other reputations is no easy task. It is a great honor and massive amount of responsibility to be in that position. But then to be "Serving at the Will of the President...", augh. He has shown to be loyal to his president. Did he misplace is trust and loyality? Maybe yes, Maybe no. But a strong un-dying loyality in this day and age is very very difficult to find.
In many ways, I respect that ill lasting lasting loyality. But sadly, I would have respected him more had he had the courage to be an honest man with integrity.
This is of course, only my opinion.
... but scientists do re-evaluate lots of stuff. They just aren't as quick as we'd like them to be.
Virtual environment is not good unless you don't actually include the fact that real people are playing a game. In the case of WoW, people intentionally brought the plague back to the various cities. Why? Because it's absolutely hilarious to watch everyone in a city die almost instantly.
This would be why one server dragged Kazzak all the way to Stormwind. Just to see what would happen and to kill everyone.
The virtual world that they speak of would have to have the players NOT know that there was a plague being carried by them. If they did, players would kill people off for fun. It's just that simple.
On a side note, that plague in WoW, was loads of fun. Made many laugh for a while.
So I've read some of the quotes by the posters...
DnD is still pretty popular, but what happens is that those of us above the age of 30 who still play or enjoy the game find it more and more difficult to see a campaign through. Couples with kids that host. People show up with lots of beer. Then of the 4 hours of play time, too many people jump out of character.
It takes time and dedication, and sadly as people grow up, time is extremely limited.
While I understand your point. I did say similar, not actual.
Thank you for the links. I shall review them further when I'm home.
You've got to be kidding me! Is this an ad for the Sally Struther's college degree commercials? If a ninth grader is considered too young for sexual activity, which affects them for the rest of their lives, how in gods name can they be expected to know what major is right for them. Most students don't really find their way until they've gone through high school and teachers help inspire them to look towards a higer education.
/sigh GG Florida, and I went to school there, I can say this.
Isn't this similar to a communist attitude? Note I said similar, not actual communism.
In the country where Freedom is our motto, we are starting to see less and less freedoms.
The worst Customer experience I've had in a while was with Yahoo.
/sigh
My account was Hacked, and with the several attempts I made to work with Yahoo to regain control of my account they absolutely refused to help me regain that account.
I was shocked and amazed at the flippant attitude they had towards me, especially when I notified them almost immediately after the account was hacked.
With our commincation process changing from Face to Face conversations, to Hard line Phone conversations, to Mobile phone (on the go) discussions, to Faxes, to Electonic documents, to Email, to Blackberry mail, to IM Text messages, and now to Phone text messages. Email is easy.
This makes you start to wonder how much of this email is truely work related? Friends, Family, e-vites, Amazon, e-bay, spam, and other such non-work related emails, or all work related???
Now I can understand if this is the new trend in Work emails where higher managers are trying to drive complete projects with 1 sentence emails that usually end up in the subject line (so they fit on a Blackberry). I know of a company that I used to work at that has managers doing that.
Another question one might ask, how much time could have been saved with a 5 minute Face to Face rather than 40+ emails? Face to face reduces so much stress in people, you can read emotions, facial expressions. One can't do that as easily in emails.
I've already had it cut down so it will fit on some nice jewerly....
It make me radiate with bling....
and sharp too.
If it's as cold as I can't imagine it could be, then Don't they know about shrinkage?
Honestly how many male astronauts would put themselves through that?
... I was walking around the lab and I sneezed. That's part of my boogers. /blushing sheepishly.
So this leads me to wonder, will a merger of this size cause a larger gravitational force as 4 swirling masses converge. I would expect that if these 4 galaxies can converge and stabalize, that the gravitational force would be pretty immense.
We've learned about Black Holes in the middle of galaxies, can you imagine the size of a the black hole this merger could form?
Would this draw other galaxies closer to the newly merged one, ever increasing the size of the merged one?
Sure these might appear to be wild questions, but I'd sure love to be around to watch it all unfold.
I guess it's forming the Voltron of Galaxies.
So a smart cute girl who studied and worked her ass off wrote a book to help to encourage young girls to NOT idolize the dumb retarded Blonde Bimbo role models that keep appearing all over the media. She appeals to her gender, GIRLS, that it's ok to be smart.
What's wrong with trying to encourage girls not to look up to Paris (Pathetic) Hilton, or Lindsey (Loser) Lohan, and Britany (Bimbo) Spears.
If I were a young black successful artist, and felt the same as you do I'd do my own thing to encourage young black males to look at schooling and education in a different manner. Instead of bashing a good supportative and encouraging book. Promote it, may the trend will spread.
That's where medical science changed a man's face.
How would plastic surgery affect this form of biometrics? IE Facelifts...
While I disagree that the internet is killing the music industry, I say that the quality of the music is going downhill.
The idea of putting sound on files and then compressing them to a small number of bytes is tearing apart the quality of the sounds that initially produced the music.
Any person who has ever seriously played an instrument know how the notes mixed together from various instruments can reach ranges that no electronic device can capture.
Digital is not always better.
For that matter, Who is a hardline phone for, much less actually writing hand written letters?
Great CD. I'm quite a fan of "The Shamen".
From my time working in a bank, which was a short stint, when checks were the main source of transactions in the branch of the bank I worked at, there was the following policy. Checks were tallied in bundles. The employee tallyiny the bundle was trying to balance the bundle, based on what the various branches sent to this department of the bank. If the person tallying the bundle could not make it balance, it went to a corrections person. It was up to the corrections person to find and determine the error. If the corrections person, could not find the error, the bundle was checked my management to find the error.
The following were the possible errors and penalities as they were found from unbalanced bundles.
* customer error in the check value (poor handwriting) - account credited/debited.
* teller error - took a penality against their pay check (may have been the difference in error, can't remember)
* tallying employee error - fixed $ amount deducted from base pay.
* corrections employee error - larger fixed $ amount deducted from base pay.
Banks punish the tellers and the employees for their calculation mistakes.
I honestly cannot say what happens to the programmer who mis-programmed an ATM's errors.
On the whole, we both feel that there is the responsibility for both the banks to provide accuracy and customers to check their transactions.
The morale of my point is if both business and customers were more honest, jail-time wouldn't happen, and things would likely get fixed quickly and quietly, with little to no issue for other customers.
The bank isn't mailing something to you. It is a different law completely. If as you said, a company mails you a coupon and then realizes it's mistake, by law they must honor that. This is true of credit card companies and their offers of credit, so some extent (I'm not up on all the laws there, but I know if they extend the credit under some special set of circumstances, then they must oblige the offer). However, if you go to the bank and request $10.00 from the ATM and get $100, then clearly there is an issue with the machine. It does not make the money yours. There is a measure of common sense in this equation that people are failing to address. To keep the money, in full knowledge of an error, is theft. It's no different than going to a store and bumping into a candy stand and watching candy bars fall into your cart, knowing you didn't pay for them and keeping them.
But by the last gent's comment that there is a law about how things are handled through the post office, the argument did appear to come out of no where. And one must then ask, how is postal law the same as banking law.
We are also looking at the difference between services and cash.
If a programmer mis-programs or installs the wrong software in the scenario you described, and the customer doesn't check to make sure the job was done to his satifaction before going live with the business using the wrong software, there then come to 2 parties at fault. The programmer and the customer, for not checking.
The situation here is that if I don't check my cash received, then I'm not holding up my end of the responsibility. If the bank's ATM short changed a person, is it the banks fault or your for not checking? It's both. But this is why there is a need for honesty / integrity.
What you are saying is that if you accidentally receive your neighbors birthday card with money in it and you keep the money that you are by law entitled to that money? Because conversely, you are telling me that if your neighbor's bill is sent to you that it is your bill to pay now. Have you consider that?
That is a very weak argument for integrity and honesty. And where is this said law, and all of it's corrections, for I'm sure there would be. Please post a link and some proof of said law.