There was one episode where a local telephone number was given, with the area code. I later looked it up and found that it was a Missouri area code. I think there's evidence to a few different places.
The whole concept of fillibustering is ridiculous. If a particular action requires an X% vote, yet can be fillibustered with a Y% vote, then effectively, the issue needs a Y% vote to pass. So, instead of this fillibuster bullsh*t, let's just make the requirement Y%.
Obviously it's better to get issues passed that both side can at least somewhat agree with than to have the see-saw effect. We don't need congress to swing wildly liberal or conservative as the balance of power swings back and forth...rather, we need congress to come to a consensus on things that most people agree with.
I didn't preclude that... approval voting IMO is a form of direct popular vote. In any case, it solves the problem whereby someone can get more than 50% of the vote and be elected president... not that this has happened yet, but it's come close.
Umm, how about my vote counting equally to a Californian's vote? The electoral college system was a novel solution to the political landscape of the late 18th century. Today, the United States is not 13 mini-kingdoms but is rather 50 geographic divisions with seamless borders. There is no longer a reason to have any system other than a direct popular vote.
I live in Rhode Island, and let me tell you, the electoral system does exactly one thing: makes my vote worthless. Whether I'm voting Democrat or Republican, my vote sure as heck isn't going to matter. With the current system, Rhode Island *IS* forgotten.
Unfortunately neither. The exisiting software goes by the name "Pronto" and "Invoice-IT", by a couple of long-dead software companies. There's no serial port access that I know of.
Quite honestly, the $5000 software was the cheapest one we found, and others went $10k and up. But since you ask, here's why an upgrade is necessary:
Awhile back I upgraded their ancient 486's which we becoming unreliable to some modern hardware. We found that some quirk in the DOS programs only allowed it to work on Windows 9x, and not on 2K or XP. The major problems with the current software is that it gets corrupted very easily. We make tape backups, but it's a pain in the a$$ to work with in Windows (not as easy as a `tar c` in Linux!). Plus, the DOS software has no export capability. They constantly call me up to fix something that has gone wrong with it, and that's the main reason they want to upgrade. Oh, and one other thing: their program has the capability to take pictures of members for the check-in program, which relies on this proprietary DOS-era ISA capture card. Once that card goes, they're up shit creek without a paddle.
My customer is more than willing to pay $5k or even $10k if it's the best solution, and so far I'm inclined to tell them to do it. The purpose of the Ask Slashdot is to see if there's anything obvious I'm missing:)
an A-cup is a 1-inch difference between the measurement below the bust versus around the bust. B-cup is 2 inches, C-cup is 3 inches, etc. DD is the same as E, DDD is the same as EE which is the same as F. This holds valid through an H cup. After that, the interval is 2 inches, with the doubled letter being the in-between value. This, H-cup is 8", and I-cup is 10", and a 9" difference would be an HH-cup.
The largest bra size manufactured without a special order is a size 60N.
I hear this argument all the time...but what I would like to hear is a concrete, SPECIFIC example of a right that is somehow violated with this system in action.
Depends on how big your account is, but between 5 and 6%. The number they quote on the main page is 5.45% on a $7500 balance. So roughly you pay $4 per thousand borrowed, per month. When you consider that commissions are in the $7-$15 range, it's not too bad unless you start to borrow large amounts.
I have 1000 shares of SCOX short, and the amount that's above water is earning interest at 0.1%. I think last month it brought in $0.35 (which is, granted, practically nothing). If it goes so high that it cuts into my margin account, then I would pay. I use Scottrade. If your broker doesn't have dirt-cheap commissions and doesn't do basic things like paying interest on your cash balances, dear god get another broker.
A couple of things that I gleaned from reading the article:
The sensor makes its decision 350 feet down the road. At 50 mph, this is ~5 seconds away, plus braking. (50mph = 73ft/sec). With braking, it's probably double that, so say you have 10 seconds to stop.
Secondly, the article sort of glosses over how fast it turns from green->yellow->red. Green->yellow can be instantaneous, that's no big deal, but it's the delay before yellow->red that matters.
So, if from 350 feet away, the light turns yellow, then 5 seconds later turns red, I'd say that probably it's not really THAT hurried of a light, from a safety point of view.
I recently bought a silent Nexus power supply. Ran me $70. It's silent, looks very cool, and to boot the fan actually blows across the CPU. The back of the PS (the part when you put the plug into) is a mesh instead of solid metal, so the airflow is quite effective.
Cripes, yeah, my Armada V300 had the exact same problem, though it's a few years older than yours... my solution was to apply a couple of layers of tape (I used gaff tape, but duct tape probably works just as well) to the hinge to give it some resistance. The tape peeled off after awhile, so I did it again, supergluing it this time.
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It was a joke :-P Grok was first used in Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" as far as I know.
This list only has ENGLISH words, and as we all know, "grok" is Martian.
There was one episode where a local telephone number was given, with the area code. I later looked it up and found that it was a Missouri area code. I think there's evidence to a few different places.
Switzerland: Every citizen between 18 and 40 is required to have a gun in their house. Gun deaths are near nil.
The whole concept of fillibustering is ridiculous. If a particular action requires an X% vote, yet can be fillibustered with a Y% vote, then effectively, the issue needs a Y% vote to pass. So, instead of this fillibuster bullsh*t, let's just make the requirement Y%.
Obviously it's better to get issues passed that both side can at least somewhat agree with than to have the see-saw effect. We don't need congress to swing wildly liberal or conservative as the balance of power swings back and forth...rather, we need congress to come to a consensus on things that most people agree with.
I didn't preclude that... approval voting IMO is a form of direct popular vote. In any case, it solves the problem whereby someone can get more than 50% of the vote and be elected president... not that this has happened yet, but it's come close.
Umm, how about my vote counting equally to a Californian's vote? The electoral college system was a novel solution to the political landscape of the late 18th century. Today, the United States is not 13 mini-kingdoms but is rather 50 geographic divisions with seamless borders. There is no longer a reason to have any system other than a direct popular vote.
I live in Rhode Island, and let me tell you, the electoral system does exactly one thing: makes my vote worthless. Whether I'm voting Democrat or Republican, my vote sure as heck isn't going to matter. With the current system, Rhode Island *IS* forgotten.
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It's Froogle.com (by Google) that created the domain name, and besides, 9/11 occurred roughly around lunch time on the west coast besides.
foo@bar.com. It's a classic. Also, sometimes I use a@b.c, but some sites don't allow it.
Unfortunately neither. The exisiting software goes by the name "Pronto" and "Invoice-IT", by a couple of long-dead software companies. There's no serial port access that I know of.
Quite honestly, the $5000 software was the cheapest one we found, and others went $10k and up. But since you ask, here's why an upgrade is necessary:
:)
Awhile back I upgraded their ancient 486's which we becoming unreliable to some modern hardware. We found that some quirk in the DOS programs only allowed it to work on Windows 9x, and not on 2K or XP. The major problems with the current software is that it gets corrupted very easily. We make tape backups, but it's a pain in the a$$ to work with in Windows (not as easy as a `tar c` in Linux!). Plus, the DOS software has no export capability. They constantly call me up to fix something that has gone wrong with it, and that's the main reason they want to upgrade. Oh, and one other thing: their program has the capability to take pictures of members for the check-in program, which relies on this proprietary DOS-era ISA capture card. Once that card goes, they're up shit creek without a paddle.
My customer is more than willing to pay $5k or even $10k if it's the best solution, and so far I'm inclined to tell them to do it. The purpose of the Ask Slashdot is to see if there's anything obvious I'm missing
No, but since you ask:
The number is the measurement below the bust.
an A-cup is a 1-inch difference between the measurement below the bust versus around the bust.
B-cup is 2 inches, C-cup is 3 inches, etc.
DD is the same as E, DDD is the same as EE which is the same as F. This holds valid through an H cup. After that, the interval is 2 inches, with the doubled letter being the in-between value.
This, H-cup is 8", and I-cup is 10", and a 9" difference would be an HH-cup.
The largest bra size manufactured without a special order is a size 60N.
I hear this argument all the time...but what I would like to hear is a concrete, SPECIFIC example of a right that is somehow violated with this system in action.
I'm going to give you a present.
Here:
It's a giant clump of space. Please use it to separate paragraphs.
Started out at $49k, and after 18 months on the job, I now make about $60k. (New England area)
Depends on how big your account is, but between 5 and 6%. The number they quote on the main page is 5.45% on a $7500 balance. So roughly you pay $4 per thousand borrowed, per month. When you consider that commissions are in the $7-$15 range, it's not too bad unless you start to borrow large amounts.
I have 1000 shares of SCOX short, and the amount that's above water is earning interest at 0.1%. I think last month it brought in $0.35 (which is, granted, practically nothing). If it goes so high that it cuts into my margin account, then I would pay. I use Scottrade. If your broker doesn't have dirt-cheap commissions and doesn't do basic things like paying interest on your cash balances, dear god get another broker.
You only pay interest on a short position if it's underwater. If it's above water, your broker pays you interest.
A couple of things that I gleaned from reading the article:
The sensor makes its decision 350 feet down the road. At 50 mph, this is ~5 seconds away, plus braking. (50mph = 73ft/sec). With braking, it's probably double that, so say you have 10 seconds to stop.
Secondly, the article sort of glosses over how fast it turns from green->yellow->red. Green->yellow can be instantaneous, that's no big deal, but it's the delay before yellow->red that matters.
So, if from 350 feet away, the light turns yellow, then 5 seconds later turns red, I'd say that probably it's not really THAT hurried of a light, from a safety point of view.
I recently bought a silent Nexus power supply. Ran me $70. It's silent, looks very cool, and to boot the fan actually blows across the CPU. The back of the PS (the part when you put the plug into) is a mesh instead of solid metal, so the airflow is quite effective.
YMMV
Cripes, yeah, my Armada V300 had the exact same problem, though it's a few years older than yours... my solution was to apply a couple of layers of tape (I used gaff tape, but duct tape probably works just as well) to the hinge to give it some resistance. The tape peeled off after awhile, so I did it again, supergluing it this time.
YMMV.
I'd like to see the money come out of the defence budget to fund it.
I agree. I work as an engineer in an unamed area of the defense sector (gov't employee), and I haven't seen a single assignment in 3 months.