Because 1) it usually butts out of the designated space, either on the sides or into the driving lane of the lot and 2) just because you're still in the space doesn't mean it doesn't cause a pain in the ass for people on either side of you. Here's a fun exercise. Park your car in a space and have two friends park on either side of you as close as possible to your space without crossing the line. Unless you're a very small person you probably won't be able to get back into your car at all without going through the trunk.
Read my post again. I specifically covered the fact that even when in a van spot with five or six feet of clearance on all sides, some people still park at odd angles that usually but into the driving lane. A lot of times, it actually causes LESS clearance.
From what I've seen, most people with handicap stickers park in a way that tells you they're handicapped. Usually they're at a sharp angle off of the parallel from the lines or they park really close to another car. Even when it's a little compact car in a space reserved for a van with 5 or 6 feet clearance on all sides, so you know it's not because they need the extra room. And then there's the people with handicapped stickers who just stay in their car in the spot while someone without any handicaps runs inside for them. People with the stickers who either shouldn't be driving or else shouldn't have the sticker in the first place are a bigger problem than people who steal a handicapped spot without having the sticker.
Fun anecdote. In college, I broke my leg and was in a wheelchair for three months. The officer (state school, so the campus cops were state troopers with all of the training and abilities that go with it) still wouldn't let me have a handicap sticker. He was fired less than a year later for stealing donuts from the local gas station.
I'd like to see if there's a a correlation between most pirated game and top selling game. I'm willing to bet the more pirated a game is the better its sales generally are as well.
Just because someone won't testify against themself doesn't mean they can't be charged with stupid crap and then prosecuted because they are technically guilty just because the law itself is stupid.
So it's just like human behavior. Spend some time looking at themselves, then doing a video chat with someone they could just go over and talk to. If anything, they're ahead of humans just because they don't take pictures at MySpace angles.
With a majority of adults having some sort of Internet access these days (whether at work, at home or at the library), maybe it's time we start looking into changing the good ol' US of A into a democracy. Get rid of congress and make the legislative branch be truly democratic. At the very least, we'd save a few million a year on taxes going towards salaries and pensions.
The point is that you have committed violations of the law... it doesn't matter if they're gross violations or even if the common person realizes they're violations. Most people commit some sort of violation every day (Ever go 56 in a 55 zone? That's breaking the law). Just because it's inconsequential, unenforced or otherwise ignored doesn't mean you're not breaking a law. We're heading in a direction where everything is illegal and we just accept a state that can arrest you for anything if they decide they want to.
Given the state of the laws in effect today, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't committed some kind of offense within the last month. It's more like "You're a criminal but you have nothing to be concerned about unless we want to enforce it"
Stop getting your panties in a wad and learn to take a joke. When the character of Sulu was originally created, Roddenberry didn't have a specific country of origin in mind but instead wanted him to represent Asia as a whole... and last time I checked my map, China was a big part of Asia. The fact that the actor who came to play Sulu was ethnically Japanese came later and Sulu's own Japanese backstory was based on that actor.
Haven't tried to verify from a credible source, but I've heard that plane hijackers (including the 9/11 incident) often use MS Flight Simulator as a sort of basic training for flying the planes they hijack. Of course, sitting in a cockpit is a lot easier to simulate realistically in a game than charging tanks.
And I do the safety dance plenty often without having ever played WoW.
That's the only thing that kept me playing Bioshock... I didn't care for the gameplay but I enjoyed the story. Actually, the story is what keeps me going through most FPS single player modes... if the story is really good I'll forgive the campaign for sucking otherwise, sort of like if a book is really good I'll forgive the author if they're not the world's greatest writer.
When Gene Roddenberry originally created the character, he was supposed to stand for all of Asia and is named after the Sulu sea because it touches "all shores"... he's not supposed to be from a specific nation.
At this rate, if we want Star Trek to remain at all within the thinnest stretches of credibility, the next reboot of the series will have the Enterprise captained by Sulu and Kirk will be pitching manure in Iowa.
Excessive coffee (IE: a couple cups every day) causes caffeine addiction within about a week. After that, it takes more and more coffee just to reach normal alertness... people just think it makes them more alert because their so used to their reduced state of alertness without coffee that they don't realize it's merely bringing them up to par.
I don't deny that we have a lot of unused/misused IPs. My college had an entire 65,534 IP class B block to itself. The college has around 3,000 students (a third of which are commuters and not there every day) and maybe 1,000 professors, administrators, janitors and other staff. Even if every student, professor and janitor was given ten publicly addressable IPs, they would still have thousands left over. My point to the poster was about forfeiting IPs if they're unused for a set period of time or just because there's not a website on them, not a denial that there's a shitric ton of wasted IPs.
With stuff like DynDNS why do you need a static IP anywhere? It's useful for VPNing into my home network, setting up DNS (dynamic DNS only goes so far), hosting a webserver, etc... same as any commercial use for people that host stuff at home.
Also, you generally can't get Time Warner Business Class in an apartment.
I think he means you can hire yourself out as an "IPv6 Changeover Consultant", spend ten minutes coming up with an IPv6 addressing scheme and then passing it on the the IT droids while taking the credit and the money.
You assume everyone with an IP is using it to host a website. And what about people that have a redundant data link that only comes up when their main link goes down? "Well, we haven't had any downtime in the past year, guess we don't need any backups! Go ahead, take my IP!"
I can see what he meant by "control the customer" - most customer service would call it something like managing customer expectations - but that is the way way way way way wrong way to say it... especially in an interview.
A lot of really crappy legislation, even stuff like the DMCA and SOPA, could be turned into good if revised. The problem with most of the legislation is that it's too broad, like firing buckshot into a group of hostages to take out one terrorist. If the legislation was fine-tuned into a sniper rifle then it might be okay. When it comes to laws, it's usually better to have a law that's too narrow to get the fringe or weaker cases than one that's too broad just so you can mop up the gray areas.
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Because 1) it usually butts out of the designated space, either on the sides or into the driving lane of the lot and 2) just because you're still in the space doesn't mean it doesn't cause a pain in the ass for people on either side of you. Here's a fun exercise. Park your car in a space and have two friends park on either side of you as close as possible to your space without crossing the line. Unless you're a very small person you probably won't be able to get back into your car at all without going through the trunk.
Read my post again. I specifically covered the fact that even when in a van spot with five or six feet of clearance on all sides, some people still park at odd angles that usually but into the driving lane. A lot of times, it actually causes LESS clearance.
I was trying to 'spin the statistics' to show that piracy doesn't hurt sales. Whether or not it helps it is harder to determine.
From what I've seen, most people with handicap stickers park in a way that tells you they're handicapped. Usually they're at a sharp angle off of the parallel from the lines or they park really close to another car. Even when it's a little compact car in a space reserved for a van with 5 or 6 feet clearance on all sides, so you know it's not because they need the extra room. And then there's the people with handicapped stickers who just stay in their car in the spot while someone without any handicaps runs inside for them. People with the stickers who either shouldn't be driving or else shouldn't have the sticker in the first place are a bigger problem than people who steal a handicapped spot without having the sticker.
Fun anecdote. In college, I broke my leg and was in a wheelchair for three months. The officer (state school, so the campus cops were state troopers with all of the training and abilities that go with it) still wouldn't let me have a handicap sticker. He was fired less than a year later for stealing donuts from the local gas station.
I'd like to see if there's a a correlation between most pirated game and top selling game. I'm willing to bet the more pirated a game is the better its sales generally are as well.
Just because someone won't testify against themself doesn't mean they can't be charged with stupid crap and then prosecuted because they are technically guilty just because the law itself is stupid.
So it's just like human behavior. Spend some time looking at themselves, then doing a video chat with someone they could just go over and talk to. If anything, they're ahead of humans just because they don't take pictures at MySpace angles.
With a majority of adults having some sort of Internet access these days (whether at work, at home or at the library), maybe it's time we start looking into changing the good ol' US of A into a democracy. Get rid of congress and make the legislative branch be truly democratic. At the very least, we'd save a few million a year on taxes going towards salaries and pensions.
The point is that you have committed violations of the law... it doesn't matter if they're gross violations or even if the common person realizes they're violations. Most people commit some sort of violation every day (Ever go 56 in a 55 zone? That's breaking the law). Just because it's inconsequential, unenforced or otherwise ignored doesn't mean you're not breaking a law. We're heading in a direction where everything is illegal and we just accept a state that can arrest you for anything if they decide they want to.
Given the state of the laws in effect today, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't committed some kind of offense within the last month. It's more like "You're a criminal but you have nothing to be concerned about unless we want to enforce it"
Stop getting your panties in a wad and learn to take a joke. When the character of Sulu was originally created, Roddenberry didn't have a specific country of origin in mind but instead wanted him to represent Asia as a whole... and last time I checked my map, China was a big part of Asia. The fact that the actor who came to play Sulu was ethnically Japanese came later and Sulu's own Japanese backstory was based on that actor.
Haven't tried to verify from a credible source, but I've heard that plane hijackers (including the 9/11 incident) often use MS Flight Simulator as a sort of basic training for flying the planes they hijack. Of course, sitting in a cockpit is a lot easier to simulate realistically in a game than charging tanks.
And I do the safety dance plenty often without having ever played WoW.
That's the only thing that kept me playing Bioshock... I didn't care for the gameplay but I enjoyed the story. Actually, the story is what keeps me going through most FPS single player modes... if the story is really good I'll forgive the campaign for sucking otherwise, sort of like if a book is really good I'll forgive the author if they're not the world's greatest writer.
When Gene Roddenberry originally created the character, he was supposed to stand for all of Asia and is named after the Sulu sea because it touches "all shores"... he's not supposed to be from a specific nation.
At this rate, if we want Star Trek to remain at all within the thinnest stretches of credibility, the next reboot of the series will have the Enterprise captained by Sulu and Kirk will be pitching manure in Iowa.
Excessive coffee (IE: a couple cups every day) causes caffeine addiction within about a week. After that, it takes more and more coffee just to reach normal alertness... people just think it makes them more alert because their so used to their reduced state of alertness without coffee that they don't realize it's merely bringing them up to par.
I don't deny that we have a lot of unused/misused IPs. My college had an entire 65,534 IP class B block to itself. The college has around 3,000 students (a third of which are commuters and not there every day) and maybe 1,000 professors, administrators, janitors and other staff. Even if every student, professor and janitor was given ten publicly addressable IPs, they would still have thousands left over. My point to the poster was about forfeiting IPs if they're unused for a set period of time or just because there's not a website on them, not a denial that there's a shitric ton of wasted IPs.
In Soviet America, you are charged with battery with a battery!
With stuff like DynDNS why do you need a static IP anywhere? It's useful for VPNing into my home network, setting up DNS (dynamic DNS only goes so far), hosting a webserver, etc... same as any commercial use for people that host stuff at home.
Also, you generally can't get Time Warner Business Class in an apartment.
I think he means you can hire yourself out as an "IPv6 Changeover Consultant", spend ten minutes coming up with an IPv6 addressing scheme and then passing it on the the IT droids while taking the credit and the money.
On second thought, maybe I can finally get a static IP at home. Damnit Time Warner, let me have a static IP.
You assume everyone with an IP is using it to host a website. And what about people that have a redundant data link that only comes up when their main link goes down? "Well, we haven't had any downtime in the past year, guess we don't need any backups! Go ahead, take my IP!"
During an ISP changeover in March, we only needed one IP but the ISP gave us a block of 4. Hmm, maybe we can resell the extras...
I can see what he meant by "control the customer" - most customer service would call it something like managing customer expectations - but that is the way way way way way wrong way to say it... especially in an interview.
A lot of really crappy legislation, even stuff like the DMCA and SOPA, could be turned into good if revised. The problem with most of the legislation is that it's too broad, like firing buckshot into a group of hostages to take out one terrorist. If the legislation was fine-tuned into a sniper rifle then it might be okay. When it comes to laws, it's usually better to have a law that's too narrow to get the fringe or weaker cases than one that's too broad just so you can mop up the gray areas.