Until they start requiring licenses and registration for bikes. They want them registered in case one get stolen. So they can track it down for you. It's for your benefit. Of course now that bikes are tracked they can now determine you location much like said license plate scanning/tracking is done. So you're argument of "so what, use a bike" fails when they start requiring licensing and registration of bikes. This is the classic "it doesn't affect me so I don't care" and then "well now it affects me, who's here to defend me" mentality.
I am very much in favor of a mostly robotic army. We can just make more robots with better weapons to kill the enemy. Why send our people when we can just send robots? Seriously. A robotic army would be the ultimate war machine.
I've had the same account from Verizon since when they were Bell Atlantic Wireless - with a modest price increase when the change over happened. That was 1997 maybe.. I've been grandfathered since then and have had four or five phones. Each time I get grandfathered in. I appreciate that. If not, there would be no way I'd pay $140/mo for wireless anything like my girlfriend does..
Jeeze, taking X-rays of your mouth might give you brain caner, that's a shocker. I wonder if people will also get cancer from the TSA scanners in 20 years? Think the DHS will actually perform a study to see what the long-term health risks are? Doubt it, not if there's money to be ma^H^H^H terrorists to be found.
BTW the article summary is based on what people "remember", as in it's not necessairly a scientific study. They asked people who got brain cancer if they ever had dental x-rays. FTA "results are based on people who were likely exposed to higher levels of radiation during dental X-rays than most are today." Nonetheless it does show a corelation but not a scientific link nor causasion.
I would LOVE the police to arrest people for abuse of the 911/EMS system. I'm a paramedic, we get called for toe pain all the time. That's not hyperbole. I would LOVE to have the police show up so I can say "this jackhole doesn't need an ambulance, he needs reprimand".
Not to be a jerk, but you don't really know what you're talking about. I'm a paramedic and I know first hand that doctors are quite often sleep deprived. I am 100% that you are as well, there is no doubt that computer programmers work hard and long hours, often at little to no extra pay.
Yes, doctors make bank money - they should too. They are compensated for their skills and hours. Computer programmers should be paid hansomely as well, but alas they are not.
In my first hand experience, doctors typically work 36 hour shifts. That's 36 hours in a row. Yes they are highly paid, and have 3-7 days off after their shift, but 36 hours in a row is nothing to shrug at.
As a paramedic I work 3 days in a row; 24 hour on, 24 hours on call, and 24 hours on, with a 24 hour day off, then another 24 hour shift. I then have 4 days off. This is typical of EMS shift work, although not all systems work the same hour schedule. For example, my fire fighter friends work 48 hours on and 96 hours off, rinse and repeat. Yes we have the ability to sleep when we can, but there are times we are busy enough that sleep comes at 3am only to be woken up at 5:30am.
This is my first hand knowledge of the subject.
I completely understand your point of view - I know many computer programmers who work 60-80 hours a week on salary. They come in at 3am to fix servers or reboot systems. They are not compensated for this extra work. However, to dismiss doctors and EMS because you believe they are not sleep deprived is not true.
BTW I am sleep deprived on occasion and I am definitely NOT compensated like a doctor is. In fact EMS providers are some of the lowest paid health professionals in the country. The person who cleans up the emergency rooms makes more than I do, and is part of a union with benefits. I do my job for the satisfaction of helping people and knowing I'm doing the job the right way. It's definitely not for the pay. Plus, the nurses I work with are hot so that's an intangible that comes with the job.
I personally like Gnome3 and Unity. I like them both. I also really like Gnome2. On my laptop I have Ubuntu 10.10 with Gnome2 and my desktop with Gnome3 and Unity.
Let me give you an example as to why I like Unity specifically. My girlfriend uses my desktop when I'm at work as I "inherited" her laptop for work purposes. I told her about Linux, Unity, Ubuntu, etc. etc. All she said to me was "does it work?" I said yes. I told her about the Unity Home launcher thing, where she can move the mouse to the upper left corner and type in what she wants to do. "Like Google?" she replied. YES! After that brief introduction, she was able to use the desktop Unity without any further instructions and has not had any problems. She said "that makes sense". She can type in Firefox and VIOLA there it is, no clicking on menus or anything. To further this, she needed to scan something and, according to her, she typed in "scanner" and VIOLA XSane opened up and she could scan whateverthehell it was she needed. She thought that typing in what you wanted was useful and she didn't have to hunt for programs in menus.
So, although I am a long time Linux user, and use Gnome2 most often, for a less-than-computer-literal person using Unity, literally using the desktop like a search engine to find the program she wants (ie: no menu crawling), she was very happy and had no problems.
So from a usability standpoint, Unity wins. If the target audience is a less savvy computer user. For me I'm used to Unity and Gnome3 but I can see why some people really like Gnome2 - its stable and once you are used to where your applications are, the menu system is straightforward and rarely (actually never) crashes.
Not for nothing but I would think in your specific case there would be an exception to the previous poster's suggestion. Clearly a medical condition would be an acceptable excuse to miss school. I think in your case that the rules were not followed by the school administration and you would have a legitimate gripe.
Let me add my experiences. I am a recording artist. You've never heard of my band and I'll tell you why. Years ago my band attempted to sign with a record company. The contract was handed to us and we did some due diligence and had a lawyer look it over. Essentially, our lawyer told us not to sign it if we really cared about our music. Heres how our contract read:
The company owns the recording and we license from them the ability to play the music live in a venue. We retain creative control insofar as what is actually recorded is what we want, and we retained artistic control as to the "album" cover and layout.
We were specifically forbidden to reproduce the music ourselves - As if we were mere customers buying a CD from a store. Customers rights and our redistribution and reproduction rights were the same. I could not for example, upload our CD to Napster (at the time).
We were "advanced" a fee to pay for the recording and marketing of our CD. This was to be repaid by CD sales and gate revenue. Any "overage" was paid to us via royalties only. In the details, this section stipulated that the Company was to be paid first for the recoup of the Advance, and were were specifically forbidden from viewing the Company expenses. We were also forbidden to sue the Company if for whatever reason they didn't pay the Advance. We could not sue in the case that the Company needed to change or otherwise modify our "recorded" work for some purpose (ie: to "edit" a song for radio play). You might think this goes against out "right" to retain artistic control. But we only control what was "recorded" and not the distribution of the material. Thus, if the Company wanted to edit our song, they would "sell" it or distribute it to whoever, and thus they can then edit the song because they control the distribution copies.
If the Company broke the contract (ie: didn't distribute our material for whatever reason) we could only tender an arbitration at the Company's choosing - we could not sue in court.
There are a lot of negatives in the preceding statements. The only positive was that the Company was an affiliate of Warner Brothers and thus, had access to a large distribution and marketing system.
Our lawyer told us in layman's terms: Sign your rights away in the hope of being a STAR. Though realistically, there was no hope of being a STAR, IMHO.
We opted to not sign the contract. We instead played our circle of bars and gigs for years, saving the money to build our own studio. We made enough to get some great gear, a nice computer and software, and record our own material. Which was never distributed in large channels. As we found out, large stores don't buy "independent" music. So we had out 10,000 copies sold though local channels and local radio. We made enough money to make more copies of our CDs, but that was it. No STAR. No limos. No chicks.
And that was that. You've never heard of Bench Head because we didn't sell our rights out. And that is the decision we made knowing full well that we weren't going to be millionaires. This isn't sour grapes. This is just reality.
I wanted to post to illustrate just how fucked up these companies are and what a "starving artist" is faced with when it comes to "the record deal".
I thought all boxed Intel and AMD CPUs came with a "stock" heatsink and fan. I don't really see this as news. You could always buy an Intel or AMD CPU w/o the heatsink or fan and install your own. That's what I've always done. I would sometimes however buy a "boxed" CPU with the stock fan for a customer who was paying for it as I felt that they wanted a system that "worked" as intended by the manufacturer. So I would get a boxed CPU and use the factory heatsink/fan.
I choose the "opt out" of the radiation machine for the exact same reason you do - if I must fly, and these bastards are going to invade my privacy and cause me to take my shoes off and make it inefficient for me to fly, well I'm going to make it as inefficient as possible for them as well. When they tell me "Sir step through here" my reply is "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither". After a strange look I get "Excuse me?" then my reply is "I opt out". And I get shuttled away for a pat down. Which to me is my way of saying "FU" to the ridiculous TSA and also my way of showing people I will defend my rights to choose. I choose toe get a pat down instead of a radiation machine scan. I understand none of it changes anything, but at least I made the choice and feel better about it myself.
I agree with your points but in the Real World this would never work out. Even though your data is YOUR DATA and thus should be private, no one is going to care - not the police, not their union or lawyers, not the judge. If you are not guilty and have enough money to sue the police, and take it to the supreme court, then good luck, you might get a law changed or reinterpreted. However for the rest of us, even if I was later released for XYZ fabricated crime, the police will still take my phone and pour through my private data looking for anything they want. And there wouldn't be a real world way to deal with that on my end.
The link your cited refers only to identifying yourself via name. You are still not required to provide a license or ID card. You must simply tell the officer your name, thus providing identification.
On technical grounds, if you are driving for example, in order to drive you must have a valid license, which an officer can request and you must provide. But legally, if you are walking around you don't need an ID. Good luck without one I guess but that's the ruling.
AMD 386DX40 with 8 megs RAM on two of those 4-in-one RAM cards because I only had 1meg RAM chips. I ran OS/2 on that machine, trying to run Windows3.1 and CorelDraw. In a window. On OS/2. Man those were the days..
Why do companies continue to do this? I'm so disappointed in the fact that I felt my Netflix account was a big FU to the cable companies. Now it seems that they are taking a page from the cable companies book. I see the same thing happening to Apple and Verizon Wireless as well. I just hope people get pissed off enough to start canceling these services and the companies start feeling the pain. But that might be wishful thinking on my part..
Retard I know what he's referring to. I was questioning whether he was being serious about abandoning nuclear power for fossil fuel. Which I presumed was sarcastic.
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AC/DC is supposed to be noisy! Man, Rock 'n Roll Ain't Noise Pollution!
Until they start requiring licenses and registration for bikes. They want them registered in case one get stolen. So they can track it down for you. It's for your benefit. Of course now that bikes are tracked they can now determine you location much like said license plate scanning/tracking is done. So you're argument of "so what, use a bike" fails when they start requiring licensing and registration of bikes. This is the classic "it doesn't affect me so I don't care" and then "well now it affects me, who's here to defend me" mentality.
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I am very much in favor of a mostly robotic army. We can just make more robots with better weapons to kill the enemy. Why send our people when we can just send robots? Seriously. A robotic army would be the ultimate war machine.
I've had the same account from Verizon since when they were Bell Atlantic Wireless - with a modest price increase when the change over happened. That was 1997 maybe.. I've been grandfathered since then and have had four or five phones. Each time I get grandfathered in. I appreciate that. If not, there would be no way I'd pay $140/mo for wireless anything like my girlfriend does..
+1 for Primer!
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I think he's implying the "never harmed" party was the lawyers - as in they got the actual pay out and the "harmed" party got less than $2000..
Heh my first slashdot first post woot!
Jeeze, taking X-rays of your mouth might give you brain caner, that's a shocker. I wonder if people will also get cancer from the TSA scanners in 20 years? Think the DHS will actually perform a study to see what the long-term health risks are? Doubt it, not if there's money to be ma^H^H^H terrorists to be found. BTW the article summary is based on what people "remember", as in it's not necessairly a scientific study. They asked people who got brain cancer if they ever had dental x-rays. FTA "results are based on people who were likely exposed to higher levels of radiation during dental X-rays than most are today." Nonetheless it does show a corelation but not a scientific link nor causasion.
I would LOVE the police to arrest people for abuse of the 911/EMS system. I'm a paramedic, we get called for toe pain all the time. That's not hyperbole. I would LOVE to have the police show up so I can say "this jackhole doesn't need an ambulance, he needs reprimand".
Who would want the 2010 version? No wonder they're closing the doors..
In NH speeding in a work zone is a DOUBLE FINE. Good money for the state...
Why didn't your friend just say "Some idiot keeps disabling the camera and I'm here to clean it with this spray"?
Not to be a jerk, but you don't really know what you're talking about. I'm a paramedic and I know first hand that doctors are quite often sleep deprived. I am 100% that you are as well, there is no doubt that computer programmers work hard and long hours, often at little to no extra pay. Yes, doctors make bank money - they should too. They are compensated for their skills and hours. Computer programmers should be paid hansomely as well, but alas they are not. In my first hand experience, doctors typically work 36 hour shifts. That's 36 hours in a row. Yes they are highly paid, and have 3-7 days off after their shift, but 36 hours in a row is nothing to shrug at. As a paramedic I work 3 days in a row; 24 hour on, 24 hours on call, and 24 hours on, with a 24 hour day off, then another 24 hour shift. I then have 4 days off. This is typical of EMS shift work, although not all systems work the same hour schedule. For example, my fire fighter friends work 48 hours on and 96 hours off, rinse and repeat. Yes we have the ability to sleep when we can, but there are times we are busy enough that sleep comes at 3am only to be woken up at 5:30am. This is my first hand knowledge of the subject. I completely understand your point of view - I know many computer programmers who work 60-80 hours a week on salary. They come in at 3am to fix servers or reboot systems. They are not compensated for this extra work. However, to dismiss doctors and EMS because you believe they are not sleep deprived is not true. BTW I am sleep deprived on occasion and I am definitely NOT compensated like a doctor is. In fact EMS providers are some of the lowest paid health professionals in the country. The person who cleans up the emergency rooms makes more than I do, and is part of a union with benefits. I do my job for the satisfaction of helping people and knowing I'm doing the job the right way. It's definitely not for the pay. Plus, the nurses I work with are hot so that's an intangible that comes with the job.
I personally like Gnome3 and Unity. I like them both. I also really like Gnome2. On my laptop I have Ubuntu 10.10 with Gnome2 and my desktop with Gnome3 and Unity. Let me give you an example as to why I like Unity specifically. My girlfriend uses my desktop when I'm at work as I "inherited" her laptop for work purposes. I told her about Linux, Unity, Ubuntu, etc. etc. All she said to me was "does it work?" I said yes. I told her about the Unity Home launcher thing, where she can move the mouse to the upper left corner and type in what she wants to do. "Like Google?" she replied. YES! After that brief introduction, she was able to use the desktop Unity without any further instructions and has not had any problems. She said "that makes sense". She can type in Firefox and VIOLA there it is, no clicking on menus or anything. To further this, she needed to scan something and, according to her, she typed in "scanner" and VIOLA XSane opened up and she could scan whateverthehell it was she needed. She thought that typing in what you wanted was useful and she didn't have to hunt for programs in menus. So, although I am a long time Linux user, and use Gnome2 most often, for a less-than-computer-literal person using Unity, literally using the desktop like a search engine to find the program she wants (ie: no menu crawling), she was very happy and had no problems. So from a usability standpoint, Unity wins. If the target audience is a less savvy computer user. For me I'm used to Unity and Gnome3 but I can see why some people really like Gnome2 - its stable and once you are used to where your applications are, the menu system is straightforward and rarely (actually never) crashes.
Not for nothing but I would think in your specific case there would be an exception to the previous poster's suggestion. Clearly a medical condition would be an acceptable excuse to miss school. I think in your case that the rules were not followed by the school administration and you would have a legitimate gripe.
Let me add my experiences. I am a recording artist. You've never heard of my band and I'll tell you why. Years ago my band attempted to sign with a record company. The contract was handed to us and we did some due diligence and had a lawyer look it over. Essentially, our lawyer told us not to sign it if we really cared about our music. Heres how our contract read: The company owns the recording and we license from them the ability to play the music live in a venue. We retain creative control insofar as what is actually recorded is what we want, and we retained artistic control as to the "album" cover and layout. We were specifically forbidden to reproduce the music ourselves - As if we were mere customers buying a CD from a store. Customers rights and our redistribution and reproduction rights were the same. I could not for example, upload our CD to Napster (at the time). We were "advanced" a fee to pay for the recording and marketing of our CD. This was to be repaid by CD sales and gate revenue. Any "overage" was paid to us via royalties only. In the details, this section stipulated that the Company was to be paid first for the recoup of the Advance, and were were specifically forbidden from viewing the Company expenses. We were also forbidden to sue the Company if for whatever reason they didn't pay the Advance. We could not sue in the case that the Company needed to change or otherwise modify our "recorded" work for some purpose (ie: to "edit" a song for radio play). You might think this goes against out "right" to retain artistic control. But we only control what was "recorded" and not the distribution of the material. Thus, if the Company wanted to edit our song, they would "sell" it or distribute it to whoever, and thus they can then edit the song because they control the distribution copies. If the Company broke the contract (ie: didn't distribute our material for whatever reason) we could only tender an arbitration at the Company's choosing - we could not sue in court. There are a lot of negatives in the preceding statements. The only positive was that the Company was an affiliate of Warner Brothers and thus, had access to a large distribution and marketing system. Our lawyer told us in layman's terms: Sign your rights away in the hope of being a STAR. Though realistically, there was no hope of being a STAR, IMHO. We opted to not sign the contract. We instead played our circle of bars and gigs for years, saving the money to build our own studio. We made enough to get some great gear, a nice computer and software, and record our own material. Which was never distributed in large channels. As we found out, large stores don't buy "independent" music. So we had out 10,000 copies sold though local channels and local radio. We made enough money to make more copies of our CDs, but that was it. No STAR. No limos. No chicks. And that was that. You've never heard of Bench Head because we didn't sell our rights out. And that is the decision we made knowing full well that we weren't going to be millionaires. This isn't sour grapes. This is just reality. I wanted to post to illustrate just how fucked up these companies are and what a "starving artist" is faced with when it comes to "the record deal".
I thought all boxed Intel and AMD CPUs came with a "stock" heatsink and fan. I don't really see this as news. You could always buy an Intel or AMD CPU w/o the heatsink or fan and install your own. That's what I've always done. I would sometimes however buy a "boxed" CPU with the stock fan for a customer who was paying for it as I felt that they wanted a system that "worked" as intended by the manufacturer. So I would get a boxed CPU and use the factory heatsink/fan.
I choose the "opt out" of the radiation machine for the exact same reason you do - if I must fly, and these bastards are going to invade my privacy and cause me to take my shoes off and make it inefficient for me to fly, well I'm going to make it as inefficient as possible for them as well. When they tell me "Sir step through here" my reply is "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither". After a strange look I get "Excuse me?" then my reply is "I opt out". And I get shuttled away for a pat down. Which to me is my way of saying "FU" to the ridiculous TSA and also my way of showing people I will defend my rights to choose. I choose toe get a pat down instead of a radiation machine scan. I understand none of it changes anything, but at least I made the choice and feel better about it myself.
I agree with your points but in the Real World this would never work out. Even though your data is YOUR DATA and thus should be private, no one is going to care - not the police, not their union or lawyers, not the judge. If you are not guilty and have enough money to sue the police, and take it to the supreme court, then good luck, you might get a law changed or reinterpreted. However for the rest of us, even if I was later released for XYZ fabricated crime, the police will still take my phone and pour through my private data looking for anything they want. And there wouldn't be a real world way to deal with that on my end.
The link your cited refers only to identifying yourself via name. You are still not required to provide a license or ID card. You must simply tell the officer your name, thus providing identification. On technical grounds, if you are driving for example, in order to drive you must have a valid license, which an officer can request and you must provide. But legally, if you are walking around you don't need an ID. Good luck without one I guess but that's the ruling.
AMD 386DX40 with 8 megs RAM on two of those 4-in-one RAM cards because I only had 1meg RAM chips. I ran OS/2 on that machine, trying to run Windows3.1 and CorelDraw. In a window. On OS/2. Man those were the days..
Why do companies continue to do this? I'm so disappointed in the fact that I felt my Netflix account was a big FU to the cable companies. Now it seems that they are taking a page from the cable companies book. I see the same thing happening to Apple and Verizon Wireless as well. I just hope people get pissed off enough to start canceling these services and the companies start feeling the pain. But that might be wishful thinking on my part..
Retard I know what he's referring to. I was questioning whether he was being serious about abandoning nuclear power for fossil fuel. Which I presumed was sarcastic.