When I went on a cruise recently, a "tender" was the boat you took to the island. Perhaps they're tossing them onto desert islands and then locking them out of the boats to return home? Then again, considering the island I took the tender to, that wouldn't be a bad thing. (No Internet access but otherwise was incredible.*)
* The no Internet access isn't a problem if you're visiting the island. If I was forced to live there, though, it would become a problem.
I've got a laptop running Kodi connected to an external hard drive where I store my media. I can access Kodi via my Roku right now, but I want to hook it right up to my TV.
My problem right now is that my DVDs are holding me back. We have so many DVDs and no place to put them other than in the cabinet under the TV. While in there, they are difficult to look through and just take up space. I want to store them somewhere but don't want to put them in a place that will ruin them. (For example, the heat in my attic would make them unplayable after one summer.) I'm not sure if putting them in a Rubbermaid bin in the basement would ruin them. (The basement doesn't tend to be overly damp.)
The second problem is that our living room TV is an SD set. Yes, I know that HD is much better, but money is tight and we're using this SD set until it dies. So I need to figure out the best way to hook a laptop up to a RCA input.
Any suggestions on DVD storage or laptop-to-RCA converters would be appreciated.
To be fair, the police DO get extra privileges and powers over ordinary citizens. If you see someone speeding on a highway, you can't just order them to pull over. If you see someone steal something extremely valuable, you can't lock him up in your basement for the night. If you have good reason to suspect your neighbor is up to no good, no judge will let you bang down his door and search his house for wrongdoings.
That being said, cases like this X-Ray van are where the police take their extra power and try to grab more of it. That's why there should be transparency in police organizations and systems of checks and balances (e.g. warrants) - to prevent abuses of power and attempts to circumvent the law ostentatiously to enforce it.
Sometimes I get the feeling that some people think of freedom the way that collectors think of toys: They should be locked away in a case, behind a security system, in a darkened room where nobody can ever touch them. Only by locking them away can our freedoms be preserved in mint condition. What? You want to USE your freedoms? That's madness!!!
Except it's not just the operators. If they're pumping radiation into my house to measure how much is reflected, they are increasing my daily radiation dosage. The TSA's argument that I need to increase my radiation dosage before getting on a plane is a flimsy one, but still rock solid compared to the NYPD's "we need to drive around increasing random people's chances to develop cancer because Terrorism!" Doubly so when they tack on "and we can't be compelled to discuss anything about this program due to national security." When you're a local city's police force (even if said city is the largest in the country), you don't get to claim actions you take to be covered by national security.
Daniel Lee, managing director of P2U, said: "This is a regrettable incident for which we sincerely apologise. While we are grateful that the ICO recognises that our breach was not deliberate, we appreciate this was a serious matter.
Not deliberate? They advertised the records for sale and then sold the records to the fraudsters. It wasn't like their systems were hacked. This is like if I offer to watch my neighbor's house and then rent the house to my friends to throw a party in. "I'm sorry your house was trashed. This wasn't deliberate. All I did was sell my friend a copy of the key to your house for $50. Clearly, I wasn't to blame for this incident."
Libraries are often overlooked as a place to borrow DVDs from. While your local library isn't going to have the selection of MSU, it might have a respectable selection of DVDs to choose from. We make frequent trips to the library to take out DVDs along with our books. Best of all, it's free. Well, "essentially free." You pay for it via your taxes whether you use it or not.
If I recall correctly (this happened a long time ago), my father pretty much knew that the "no talking with a lawyer" clause was illegal but he needed the severance money to hold us over until he found another job and his old company was vindictive enough that they would withdraw it over the slightest perceived infraction. So he took the severance money and found somewhere else to work as quickly as possible.
That's what I was wondering. My father was laid off years ago and signed a severance package that amounted to "you won't even talk to a lawyer about us, including this severance package or you forfeit all the money in this package including the stuff we've already paid you." At the time, he had our entire family to support and he didn't know how long he'd be out of work so his employer knew they had him.
Now, if the severance package was "you agree to get paid 3 month's pay and are available for 2 years, then I'd refuse that. I'd get paid more flipping burgers at McDonald's than being their unpaid worker for two years.
I don't think this qualifies as a "No True Scotsman" because the article primarily talks about the US distribution of wealth. It refers to the "wealthy therapy" company as being global but gives US wealth statistics. Given that, I'd suggest that your saying "but your $22K salary would be considered wealthy if you lived in THIRD_WORLD_COUNTRY" is a logical fallacy in itself as you are expanding the scope of the argument to claim that EVERYONE is rich compared to someone else - no matter whether or not that person lives half a world away and/or in completely different conditions.
Specifically, 99% of people live on less than $22,000 per year. So if your incom is higher than $22,000, you are the 1%. Whatever you say of "the 1%" you are saying of yourself.
Maybe if you're talking about "in the entire world", but the reference of "the 1%" usually refers to just in the US. It can refer to just in another country as well, usually modified with the country name like "the 1% of Canada", but I've never heard of it referring to the entire world's population without specifically mentioning the world.
If we limit our discussion to just the US, then the Census Bureau says that "The top 5 percent had incomes of $206,568 or more." Obviously, the top 1% would earn more than this. (For the record, 22K puts you in the 2nd lowest quintile - nowhere near the top 1%.)
Anyone that comes forward now claiming to own "Happy Birthday To You" would need to explain why they 1) didn't assert their claim before this and 2) didn't contest the Warner/Chappell assertion of owning the copyright. They'd have a big uphill battle to get their copyright recognized.
That's just what it sounded like to me too. Years back, the music industry was posting record profits. Year after year, they were making more and more money. Then, one year, their profits slipped a bit. Suddenly, they were declaring that "piracy" cost them $X (where $X was the difference between what they made and some value larger than their previous year's record). The concept of the market naturally shrinking seemed foreign to them. It just HAD to be piracy!
Exactly. I remember when Google first came out with their ads and they seemed innovative because they were simple text ads. At the time, the "common knowledge" was that you needed blinking Flash ads that played sound, triggered full screen video if the mouse cursor went anywhere near the ad, and spawed a dozen pop-up ads. Anything less and users would ignore the ads. And, of course, as users tuned out your garish ads (even without using ad blockers), you needed to go even more garish to force them to pay attention.
The advertisers dug themselves into this hole with the types of ads they tried pushing on users and now they're acting surprised that users view ads in a negative manner and try to block them.
We got my son's diagnosis before the DSM V came out, but when people were aware that Asperger's was going to go away as a separate diagnosis. That's why our diagnosis read "Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Autism" - so that we wouldn't have any problems obtaining services in the future.
I also grew up with Asperger's Syndrome/Autism. All signs point to me being undiagnosed but on the spectrum. Back when I was young, I was just told I was "shy" (not really, I wanted to converse but didn't know how) and "weird". My oldest son all too often reminds me of myself at his age. This can work to our advantage (I can use techniques I've used for myself to help my son) or our disadvantage (I assume what helped me will help my son when he needs something completely different).
My youngest son is neurotypical so we often have conflicts where my oldest means well but comes across as bossy or overbearing. Luckily, my youngest is very easygoing so it doesn't ALWAYS result in a huge sibling fight.
Especially when you consider that ISPs seem to be drooling over the prospect of instituting caps with overage fees. If you pay $50 a month for 300GB of Internet Service and your Windows install is using some of your Internet for things like ads, phoning home to tell Microsoft what you're doing, etc. (but not counting security updates), then perhaps Microsoft should pay the users for the bandwidth that was wasted. No, each person wouldn't be paid much: Maybe $1 - 2 a month. Still, multiply that over the number of Windows 10 users and it'll cause some pain in their bank accounts (which is the only way to make a company behave a lot of times.)
Tofu can be great if prepared correctly. It absorbs flavors like a sponge so use it with garlic, onions, sauces, etc and you'll wind up with a great dish. It can also be nasty if prepared incorrectly. I went to one restaurant that sliced the tofu, put it on a plate, drizzled sauce over it, and served it. Horrid. Then again, if someone did that to a steak (placed it raw on a plate with sauce drizzled over it), I'd suspect that wouldn't taste good either.
Lots of people do it for Religious reasons, for instance, Adventists.
I'm Jewish and like keeping Kosher in my house. Kosher meat is insanely expensive, though, so we're mostly vegetarian at home. We do use some fake meat products mainly to supplement meals (fake burger crumbles in pasta sauce along with veggies) or as quick meals (quickly heat a frozen veggie burger when we have little time). The latter is essentially the vegetarian equivalent of getting a burger at McDonald's. It's quick, relatively inexpensive, and edible, but you're under no illusion that it's the best thing for you. (Mostly, we replace the "big hunk of meat" on our plates with Quinoa, lots of different vegetables, beans, and other healthy foods.)
I included the autism reference on purpose as I'm the parent of a child with Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Autism. He has plenty of issues (especially with socialization which doesn't come as naturally to him as it does to others), but he also has plenty of strengths that I don't see in neurotypical (not autistic) kids. It angers me to no end when someone calls people with autism "broken", especially people from the anti-vaccination movement who all but declare that kids are better off dead of vaccine-preventable illness than having autism. There are too many people who think an autism diagnosis means your kid is permanently faulty and thus should just be written off.
Yes, mistakes can happen. If someone gets injured or killed because you made an honest mistake, you'll likely serve little (if any) jail time. If you were just reckless, though, your jail time is increased.
To use a driving analogy: If you are driving your car, turn a corner, and hit into someone because you honestly just didn't see them, you're not likely to get a harsh sentence. If, however, you're swerving all over the road at 20mph over the speed limit and running red lights when you hit someone, your reckless driving is NOT going to help you in front of a judge/jury.
Similarly with guns: If you are a responsible gun owner who has one bad incident, there should be consequences (e.g. take a gun safety course) and the severity of the consequences should definitely scale with the injuries sustained (nobody hurt = less consequences than someone killed), but you should be given a second chance. If, however, you say you are responsible but have multiple instances where guns were "accidentally" not used responsibly (e.g. left loaded in the back seat with kids), then you don't get to maintain your claim of responsibility.
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When I went on a cruise recently, a "tender" was the boat you took to the island. Perhaps they're tossing them onto desert islands and then locking them out of the boats to return home? Then again, considering the island I took the tender to, that wouldn't be a bad thing. (No Internet access but otherwise was incredible.*)
* The no Internet access isn't a problem if you're visiting the island. If I was forced to live there, though, it would become a problem.
Apparently, Square Enix has remade the Dragon Quest series for Android (possibly iOS too, but I didn't check). The first one is $2.99 but the price goes up for the sequels.
Now if only someone could remake Castle of the Winds for Android!
I've got a laptop running Kodi connected to an external hard drive where I store my media. I can access Kodi via my Roku right now, but I want to hook it right up to my TV.
My problem right now is that my DVDs are holding me back. We have so many DVDs and no place to put them other than in the cabinet under the TV. While in there, they are difficult to look through and just take up space. I want to store them somewhere but don't want to put them in a place that will ruin them. (For example, the heat in my attic would make them unplayable after one summer.) I'm not sure if putting them in a Rubbermaid bin in the basement would ruin them. (The basement doesn't tend to be overly damp.)
The second problem is that our living room TV is an SD set. Yes, I know that HD is much better, but money is tight and we're using this SD set until it dies. So I need to figure out the best way to hook a laptop up to a RCA input.
Any suggestions on DVD storage or laptop-to-RCA converters would be appreciated.
To be fair, the police DO get extra privileges and powers over ordinary citizens. If you see someone speeding on a highway, you can't just order them to pull over. If you see someone steal something extremely valuable, you can't lock him up in your basement for the night. If you have good reason to suspect your neighbor is up to no good, no judge will let you bang down his door and search his house for wrongdoings.
That being said, cases like this X-Ray van are where the police take their extra power and try to grab more of it. That's why there should be transparency in police organizations and systems of checks and balances (e.g. warrants) - to prevent abuses of power and attempts to circumvent the law ostentatiously to enforce it.
Sometimes I get the feeling that some people think of freedom the way that collectors think of toys: They should be locked away in a case, behind a security system, in a darkened room where nobody can ever touch them. Only by locking them away can our freedoms be preserved in mint condition. What? You want to USE your freedoms? That's madness!!!
Or F-Rays for short.
*Officer fires an F-Ray at a pedestrian*
Pedestrian: Ow! My sperm!
*Officer fires the F-Ray again*
Pedestrian: Hmmm... It didn't hurt that time.
Except it's not just the operators. If they're pumping radiation into my house to measure how much is reflected, they are increasing my daily radiation dosage. The TSA's argument that I need to increase my radiation dosage before getting on a plane is a flimsy one, but still rock solid compared to the NYPD's "we need to drive around increasing random people's chances to develop cancer because Terrorism!" Doubly so when they tack on "and we can't be compelled to discuss anything about this program due to national security." When you're a local city's police force (even if said city is the largest in the country), you don't get to claim actions you take to be covered by national security.
Probably due to police radiation vans driving down your block.
Not deliberate? They advertised the records for sale and then sold the records to the fraudsters. It wasn't like their systems were hacked. This is like if I offer to watch my neighbor's house and then rent the house to my friends to throw a party in. "I'm sorry your house was trashed. This wasn't deliberate. All I did was sell my friend a copy of the key to your house for $50. Clearly, I wasn't to blame for this incident."
Libraries are often overlooked as a place to borrow DVDs from. While your local library isn't going to have the selection of MSU, it might have a respectable selection of DVDs to choose from. We make frequent trips to the library to take out DVDs along with our books. Best of all, it's free. Well, "essentially free." You pay for it via your taxes whether you use it or not.
If I recall correctly (this happened a long time ago), my father pretty much knew that the "no talking with a lawyer" clause was illegal but he needed the severance money to hold us over until he found another job and his old company was vindictive enough that they would withdraw it over the slightest perceived infraction. So he took the severance money and found somewhere else to work as quickly as possible.
That's what I was wondering. My father was laid off years ago and signed a severance package that amounted to "you won't even talk to a lawyer about us, including this severance package or you forfeit all the money in this package including the stuff we've already paid you." At the time, he had our entire family to support and he didn't know how long he'd be out of work so his employer knew they had him.
Now, if the severance package was "you agree to get paid 3 month's pay and are available for 2 years, then I'd refuse that. I'd get paid more flipping burgers at McDonald's than being their unpaid worker for two years.
He was let go exactly like this... except for all the ways that it was nothing like this. But other than those, completely like this!
I don't think this qualifies as a "No True Scotsman" because the article primarily talks about the US distribution of wealth. It refers to the "wealthy therapy" company as being global but gives US wealth statistics. Given that, I'd suggest that your saying "but your $22K salary would be considered wealthy if you lived in THIRD_WORLD_COUNTRY" is a logical fallacy in itself as you are expanding the scope of the argument to claim that EVERYONE is rich compared to someone else - no matter whether or not that person lives half a world away and/or in completely different conditions.
Maybe if you're talking about "in the entire world", but the reference of "the 1%" usually refers to just in the US. It can refer to just in another country as well, usually modified with the country name like "the 1% of Canada", but I've never heard of it referring to the entire world's population without specifically mentioning the world.
If we limit our discussion to just the US, then the Census Bureau says that "The top 5 percent had incomes of $206,568 or more." Obviously, the top 1% would earn more than this. (For the record, 22K puts you in the 2nd lowest quintile - nowhere near the top 1%.)
Anyone that comes forward now claiming to own "Happy Birthday To You" would need to explain why they 1) didn't assert their claim before this and 2) didn't contest the Warner/Chappell assertion of owning the copyright. They'd have a big uphill battle to get their copyright recognized.
That's just what it sounded like to me too. Years back, the music industry was posting record profits. Year after year, they were making more and more money. Then, one year, their profits slipped a bit. Suddenly, they were declaring that "piracy" cost them $X (where $X was the difference between what they made and some value larger than their previous year's record). The concept of the market naturally shrinking seemed foreign to them. It just HAD to be piracy!
Exactly. I remember when Google first came out with their ads and they seemed innovative because they were simple text ads. At the time, the "common knowledge" was that you needed blinking Flash ads that played sound, triggered full screen video if the mouse cursor went anywhere near the ad, and spawed a dozen pop-up ads. Anything less and users would ignore the ads. And, of course, as users tuned out your garish ads (even without using ad blockers), you needed to go even more garish to force them to pay attention.
The advertisers dug themselves into this hole with the types of ads they tried pushing on users and now they're acting surprised that users view ads in a negative manner and try to block them.
We got my son's diagnosis before the DSM V came out, but when people were aware that Asperger's was going to go away as a separate diagnosis. That's why our diagnosis read "Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Autism" - so that we wouldn't have any problems obtaining services in the future.
I also grew up with Asperger's Syndrome/Autism. All signs point to me being undiagnosed but on the spectrum. Back when I was young, I was just told I was "shy" (not really, I wanted to converse but didn't know how) and "weird". My oldest son all too often reminds me of myself at his age. This can work to our advantage (I can use techniques I've used for myself to help my son) or our disadvantage (I assume what helped me will help my son when he needs something completely different).
My youngest son is neurotypical so we often have conflicts where my oldest means well but comes across as bossy or overbearing. Luckily, my youngest is very easygoing so it doesn't ALWAYS result in a huge sibling fight.
There are a few ways of doing this.
Especially when you consider that ISPs seem to be drooling over the prospect of instituting caps with overage fees. If you pay $50 a month for 300GB of Internet Service and your Windows install is using some of your Internet for things like ads, phoning home to tell Microsoft what you're doing, etc. (but not counting security updates), then perhaps Microsoft should pay the users for the bandwidth that was wasted. No, each person wouldn't be paid much: Maybe $1 - 2 a month. Still, multiply that over the number of Windows 10 users and it'll cause some pain in their bank accounts (which is the only way to make a company behave a lot of times.)
Tofu can be great if prepared correctly. It absorbs flavors like a sponge so use it with garlic, onions, sauces, etc and you'll wind up with a great dish. It can also be nasty if prepared incorrectly. I went to one restaurant that sliced the tofu, put it on a plate, drizzled sauce over it, and served it. Horrid. Then again, if someone did that to a steak (placed it raw on a plate with sauce drizzled over it), I'd suspect that wouldn't taste good either.
I'm Jewish and like keeping Kosher in my house. Kosher meat is insanely expensive, though, so we're mostly vegetarian at home. We do use some fake meat products mainly to supplement meals (fake burger crumbles in pasta sauce along with veggies) or as quick meals (quickly heat a frozen veggie burger when we have little time). The latter is essentially the vegetarian equivalent of getting a burger at McDonald's. It's quick, relatively inexpensive, and edible, but you're under no illusion that it's the best thing for you. (Mostly, we replace the "big hunk of meat" on our plates with Quinoa, lots of different vegetables, beans, and other healthy foods.)
I included the autism reference on purpose as I'm the parent of a child with Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Autism. He has plenty of issues (especially with socialization which doesn't come as naturally to him as it does to others), but he also has plenty of strengths that I don't see in neurotypical (not autistic) kids. It angers me to no end when someone calls people with autism "broken", especially people from the anti-vaccination movement who all but declare that kids are better off dead of vaccine-preventable illness than having autism. There are too many people who think an autism diagnosis means your kid is permanently faulty and thus should just be written off.
Yes, mistakes can happen. If someone gets injured or killed because you made an honest mistake, you'll likely serve little (if any) jail time. If you were just reckless, though, your jail time is increased.
To use a driving analogy: If you are driving your car, turn a corner, and hit into someone because you honestly just didn't see them, you're not likely to get a harsh sentence. If, however, you're swerving all over the road at 20mph over the speed limit and running red lights when you hit someone, your reckless driving is NOT going to help you in front of a judge/jury.
Similarly with guns: If you are a responsible gun owner who has one bad incident, there should be consequences (e.g. take a gun safety course) and the severity of the consequences should definitely scale with the injuries sustained (nobody hurt = less consequences than someone killed), but you should be given a second chance. If, however, you say you are responsible but have multiple instances where guns were "accidentally" not used responsibly (e.g. left loaded in the back seat with kids), then you don't get to maintain your claim of responsibility.