From what I have heard (and checked up on), almost all of the supposed "laws" date back to the 50s, when joke books would list them. They have since propagated as "fact", although they do not, in fact, exist.
Examples includes "it is illegal to bathe in a tree in Kansas", etc.
State statues are available online and often municipal statutes. Of all the goofy ones that have been presented as "fact", I have yet to see one that is real. Not to say there aren't any, but many of the ones presented as existing are simply jokes that got out of control.
In Florida and California, laser pointers and jackasses are pretty common in big release movies. Particularly in the first couple weeks after release and during certain hours (early evening is particularly bad).
Arthouse films, not surprisingly, don't have the problem. I think it's less the region and more the type of audience the film and the show hours draw.
The one I have is some sort of digital direct film transfer from the master. It has two counters running, clearly visible, but they don't obscure the action. I believe one is counting time and one is counting frames (which again points to it being a direct, frame by frame digital transfer). The resolution is not anywhere near HD, likely NTSC-ish.
It has stereo sound and possibly better, but I haven't played it on anything that can do surround.
I can't say much more about it as I haven't done more than zip though it a bit to check that it's what it says it is and not an early revision. I'll watch it in full after I see it in the theater... which I don't plan on doing until after the crowds die down.
Furry, ponygirl/boy, gorean slave, take your pick. There are local and global, commercial and community supported forums dedicated just to finding human pets.
They were self-concious at the beginning. I was there when the Soviet Russia meme started, and *that* was self-concious. Hell, the grits, petrified and Natalie Portman memes were self-concious.
During a (rather large) office move and subsequent reinventory of hardware and software, an on-site consultant accidently knocked an ARCServe disc off a table. It fell to the floor, pancaked and shattered. This was the über-site license version for Novell -- not a cheap piece of software.
We contacted whoever owned ARCServe back then (this was around 1997ish), and they couldn't believe it, but they said "Okay, send us proof of the broken disc, and we'll send you a new one". So I told somebody in the department to fax them the disc. An hour later they returned with the pieces. "Uhh... how do I... err...?"
So I walked them over to the photocopier, laid down the pieces, copied them and handed him the copy. "There. That should be easier".
Heh. Temporary cognitive disconnect in an otherwise intelligent person. I still picture them standing in front of the fax machine with the cover sheet, parts of the disc and a determined look.
There are no misspelled words in my post. There is, however, a lesser used alternate spelling that is still in the dictionary. I know because I thought my spelling was wrong and checked that it was in the dictionary... without reading the definition. Now that I have, I note that the definition I have is "See Ecstasy", and the spelling is marked obsolete.
Ah, well. My SO is a chemist and doesn't care about spelling. She is obsessed with corsets and lingere, however. I'll take Victoria's Secret and Madame S bills over nitpicking my spelling any day.
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Take the blade off and you have the world's finest lady pleasuring device. Trust me, it works.
I'm not quite sure why you think an inert, unmoving stick of plastic roughly shaped like a pencil would be a fine device to pleasure a lady with. There are plenty of other options in various textures (and some that vibrate) built just for that purpose.
I believe you're thinking of the M3 Power. If you're getting electric pulses off the M3 Turbo, you're standing in a puddle in your bathroom and you have a bad ground to your electrical outlet.
Yes. You list several good shows. But B5, Firefly and the new Battlestar Galactica are the cream of the crop. The "most Sci-Fi" he likely refers to are shows like Mutant X, Vampire High, Lost in Space, Buck Rogers (season one and season two, virtually different series), the original Battlestar Galactica, V: the Series, Cleopatria 2525, Roswell, Phil of the Future, Knight Rider, Airwolf, War of the Worlds and others. Check your Tivo under "Science Fiction" and then think about how many can be considered to have good stories, especially in later shows when any initial good ideas were used up.
The fact that you watch well written shows does not mean that all the SciFi on television is well written; it just means you don't watch the badly written shows.
(Oh, and don't reply "But I liked -insert show here-"... I liked War of the Worlds, but the later episodes were terrible. I enjoy Buck Rogers, but fully recognize the writing is drek. Enjoying a show does not mean it is well written with good storylines).
If you're a real geek (i.e., the kind that likes playing with numbers and memorizing the electronegativity values in period table order, not the kind that like iPods and animé because they are trendy), check out the SCE series of books - Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Really good series with Scotty as a deskbound administrator controlling teams of engineers fixing oddball problems throughout the Federation.
And the best captain? Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the USS Excalibur. Notable at being the only alien captain in charge of a series (even if it is a book series), and also in charge of a vastly more diverse crew in terms of species (which being a book series helps). Very few humans on the bridge, and each species is at a post where they excel. Brikar security officers just make sense.
Oh, and I liked Enterprise, but the screwed with the Thollians, for which I am very upset and will pretend never happened.
The only place where binary prefixes are useful is for memory. The only place.
To either pick a nit or to generalize that, it's actually only useful when you're dealing with a value addressed by a binary value. Early era harddrives did measure in binary values; the early operating systems were closer to the hardware and it made sense.
But it is only used when you're talking about something addressed in binary values - memory of some sort.
Uh... no. Hertz is cycles per second and the usage of it predates digital computers by quite a bit. As a result, it uses the decimal SI prefixes just like 1 kilometer is 1000 meters exactly, not 1024 meters. You'd screw up quite a bit of acoutic, light and other measurements if you were to try and use a binary-based prefix with hertz.
If you doubt this, take a look at a nearby radio and realize what those station numbers refer to. Marconi predates Moore by just a bit.
Setting aside the fact that many open source projects have backers, and many open source authors are paid for their work, the simple fact that there is big money to go after is enough to attract many attorneys.
A lawsuit, even a fairly big one, is well within the means of a typical homeowner. Not for a ramen-eating subsistence level college student, but even there, you have plenty of legal options. And most developers that I talk to are married with a home and children, certainly able to retain counsel, especially for something that is clear cut and can provide hefty fees the attorney can get a cut of.
We're not talking about some elite, near mythical group of people; open a phone book if you need a lawyer.
Oh, you can blow your career in most professions (legal, medical and financial excepted) and get a new job the next day in the same field (or at least the next couple weeks). However, she's not likely to get a key position at a well regarded news institution with this black mark on her history.
Career blowing is not the same as being made unemployable. It means she has a heavy barrier to rising past a certain point and now will be actively avoided by places that covet their reputation or simply practice careful selection in their dealings. If you're just worried about paying the bills, no biggie. If you want to accomplish something with your life, it is a fairly serious blow.
No matter how terrible or wonderful the subject of a story is, publishing - pushing out to the public - their home address and the address of their close family members is not an ethical act for a journalist. It is harassment, pure and simple.
I have no complaint about her discussion of the religion, as that provides context about an interesting subject. Publishing her mother's address is not ethical, and is borderline criminal.
Whoa. Nasty. Sounds like she's simply blown her career as a journalist for highly unethical behaviour. It is good to see that her (former) fellow journalists and publishers see that and are blacklisting her. Very very seldom are there acts where I can't see a point to the "other side". This is despicable.
Yes[1]. You'll need a hardware Skype phone (there are several available now), and a POTS card. You basically plug the POTS card into the computer, and plug the computer into the Skype extension jack (most Skype phones seem to have them).
The way the nice ones work[1], you use # to flip between a telco dialtone and a Skype "dialtone".
[1] Disclaimer - I know one person in real life who has done this and he was vaguely connected to a Skype phone manufacturer. While I plan to do something similar, I have not done it myself (because I'm moving cross country in a month and setting up a new home office at the other end).
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Examples includes "it is illegal to bathe in a tree in Kansas", etc.
State statues are available online and often municipal statutes. Of all the goofy ones that have been presented as "fact", I have yet to see one that is real. Not to say there aren't any, but many of the ones presented as existing are simply jokes that got out of control.
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Arthouse films, not surprisingly, don't have the problem. I think it's less the region and more the type of audience the film and the show hours draw.
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It has stereo sound and possibly better, but I haven't played it on anything that can do surround.
I can't say much more about it as I haven't done more than zip though it a bit to check that it's what it says it is and not an early revision. I'll watch it in full after I see it in the theater... which I don't plan on doing until after the crowds die down.
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You're new to the internet, aren't you?
Furry, ponygirl/boy, gorean slave, take your pick. There are local and global, commercial and community supported forums dedicated just to finding human pets.
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Why? I torrent all the time. ISOs of Linux distros, funny videos, archives of webcasts.
If the MPAA and RIAA shut down all illegal traffic, there would still be plenty of people using BitTorrent. It's a great protocol.
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We contacted whoever owned ARCServe back then (this was around 1997ish), and they couldn't believe it, but they said "Okay, send us proof of the broken disc, and we'll send you a new one". So I told somebody in the department to fax them the disc. An hour later they returned with the pieces. "Uhh... how do I... err...?"
So I walked them over to the photocopier, laid down the pieces, copied them and handed him the copy. "There. That should be easier".
Heh. Temporary cognitive disconnect in an otherwise intelligent person. I still picture them standing in front of the fax machine with the cover sheet, parts of the disc and a determined look.
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Ah, well. My SO is a chemist and doesn't care about spelling. She is obsessed with corsets and lingere, however. I'll take Victoria's Secret and Madame S bills over nitpicking my spelling any day.
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No, the Mach3 Power has a vibrating handle. The Mach3 Turbo is a just stick of molded plastic.
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I'm not quite sure why you think an inert, unmoving stick of plastic roughly shaped like a pencil would be a fine device to pleasure a lady with. There are plenty of other options in various textures (and some that vibrate) built just for that purpose.
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The fact that you watch well written shows does not mean that all the SciFi on television is well written; it just means you don't watch the badly written shows.
(Oh, and don't reply "But I liked -insert show here-"... I liked War of the Worlds, but the later episodes were terrible. I enjoy Buck Rogers, but fully recognize the writing is drek. Enjoying a show does not mean it is well written with good storylines).
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And the best captain? Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the USS Excalibur. Notable at being the only alien captain in charge of a series (even if it is a book series), and also in charge of a vastly more diverse crew in terms of species (which being a book series helps). Very few humans on the bridge, and each species is at a post where they excel. Brikar security officers just make sense.
Oh, and I liked Enterprise, but the screwed with the Thollians, for which I am very upset and will pretend never happened.
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To either pick a nit or to generalize that, it's actually only useful when you're dealing with a value addressed by a binary value. Early era harddrives did measure in binary values; the early operating systems were closer to the hardware and it made sense.
But it is only used when you're talking about something addressed in binary values - memory of some sort.
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If you doubt this, take a look at a nearby radio and realize what those station numbers refer to. Marconi predates Moore by just a bit.
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A lawsuit, even a fairly big one, is well within the means of a typical homeowner. Not for a ramen-eating subsistence level college student, but even there, you have plenty of legal options. And most developers that I talk to are married with a home and children, certainly able to retain counsel, especially for something that is clear cut and can provide hefty fees the attorney can get a cut of.
We're not talking about some elite, near mythical group of people; open a phone book if you need a lawyer.
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Career blowing is not the same as being made unemployable. It means she has a heavy barrier to rising past a certain point and now will be actively avoided by places that covet their reputation or simply practice careful selection in their dealings. If you're just worried about paying the bills, no biggie. If you want to accomplish something with your life, it is a fairly serious blow.
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I have no complaint about her discussion of the religion, as that provides context about an interesting subject. Publishing her mother's address is not ethical, and is borderline criminal.
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The way the nice ones work[1], you use # to flip between a telco dialtone and a Skype "dialtone".
[1] Disclaimer - I know one person in real life who has done this and he was vaguely connected to a Skype phone manufacturer. While I plan to do something similar, I have not done it myself (because I'm moving cross country in a month and setting up a new home office at the other end).
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Linux (GPL): Here. Use it however you want, but if you change it and share it, share the changes.
Windows (Commercial): Pay us $100 and don't share or change it. Agree and we'll issue you a license to run one copy.
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