Supposedly Cat Stevens was pulled off a plane for having a name close to that of a terrorist. He also has a passport issued by Great Britain. I don't know the man personally but based on his public statements I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt about not being a terrorist. Still having that gov't issued passport didn't save him from all that hassle. From what I hear about foreign journalists waiting on cold concrete floors for 48 hours before being trown out of the USA Cat Stevens got lucky by just getting deported.
Most companies require you to have a degree, and present proof that you do have it. A lot of companies require verifiable references that prove you have the work experience you claim you have.
A fine point but you don't have to go to college to get on an airplane. The great thing about this country once was that any man could travel and live a life free of government sponsored scrutiny.
If you want to travel anywhere, you have to show a ticket to prove that you paid for it. Ditto for movies, concerts, sports events... if you want to get a refund, you have to show the receipt.
Also true but again any one should be allowed to travel freely provided they've payed their fare without further scrutiny. If they can't prove I'm going to bomb the plane after I've walked through the metal dector and they've swabbed my back pack down and put the swab on a chemical sniffer then I deserve to get on the plane regardless of who I am.
I'm not american, and we do have national ID cards, we've had them forever and no one ever gave a damn about it, since we aren't into conspiracy theories and the whole fearing the government thing...
That's nice for you and your country but clearly you haven't been paying attention to all the other freedoms that are being grabbed up by the US government. What if your name is suspicously close to that of a terrorist? You can't expect the guy at the airport to understand you're not the terrorist. Afterall, if they airport screeners don't recognize a name like Kennedy (Still a bigger political dynasty then the Bush family) then you have no hope of travelling freely on your own.
What if a fly lands on the teletype as your name wizzes by? What will you do when they cut a hole in your roof and suck you out of your home?
Yep, if those mongolians had regulated outriggers the way congress and the FAA regulate things there'd be no beautiful islands with naked polenesian women. US Gubmint wake up! We want to go into space. With you or without you we will. Some of us know how little it takes to get to space and we're tired of waiting for NASA to let us go.
Wasn't this robots life span only supposed to be 90 days? Hasn't it been way more than 90 days since the mission started? I say 'good work!' Let the little machine retire with some dignity. It's earned it.
Also, get a new SSN issued and have the old marked as fradulent. It will prevent any new credit cards or loans being created in your name and destroy your credit
You can never get a new SSN issued to the same person. There are no exceptions no way no how. Applying for an SSN for a trust account and then using it for personal transactions is a federal crime. If someone steals your SSN you are screwed. If the SS bureau reissues a number to you and the prior owner is not already dead (happens a lot) you cannot demand a new one. You have to wait until the prior user surrenders it upon death.
I totally agree with you about CG. I don't mind watching a movie with cheesy special effects but when I see CGI and know it's just CGI I feel let down. I'd rather see a model set or a matte painting then CGI. Hell I'd rather see the wires pulling the palmtrees and a bucket in the shot of a hurricane then some shiny cartoon storm.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas... That was the only movie I've ever seen that used CGI effectively. Especially when the carpet freaks out. Dude that was tweaked.
Yeah. I was in the room back in '95 when Gates said that over the next few years computers will need 130 megs of ram to run smoothly. As we all know 130 is a power of 2.
Does anyone know when this this is going to be on? I checked the schedule for all the PBS stations here and there's bubkis. Same for my parents house (thought they could tape it for me) 500 miles away. Are any PBS stations going to carry this show or is it just vaporware?
A quick cursory search shows that nobody has mentioned the "Star Wars Holiday Special" yet. I mean, come on. Doesn't anyone remember what happened the last time Georgey Boy thought TV would be a good idea. OK I admit I didn't watch Ewoks or Droids.
The 2nd coolest guy at PSU after a certain Joe Pa. Posted all the letters and his responses on his office door. When you see the full story unfold in front of you, then you can't help think about how much better the world would be without lawyers.
Don't get me started on Connecticut. I84 is a cruel joke. They really need to get rid of those left lane exits and make it 4 lanes each way for the entire state. Dropping the speed limit to 50 for no reason then making speeding tickets a 2 day affair if you want to contest it is in my opinion a violation of the right to a speedy trial. And any state that puts a speeding trap in the last 10 miles before crossing a state border is just looking to collect a toll from out of state drivers. That makes the highway around the cities safer how? It doesn't. It just annoys the locals less but allows a steady revenue stream from those less likely to fight it. Kind of a scumbag thing to do.
I have several CD's that I love which have gone out of print. Those I have backed up with the originals in a safe place. This habit I got into afer I watched my wife jam a CD into my car player on top of the CD that was already in there. Earlier that Day I was listening to one of my out of print albums, in fact my favorite album of all time. I didn't realize she had changed CD's when I flipped out on her. CD player was destroyed as were the two disks involved. Thankfully the player was a 60 dollar POS I installed myself and the two disks were burned. And I now only listen to the copies of that album.
Yes but that private aircraft is taking a great deal of benefit from public infrastructure. Air traffic control, air routes and even the physical properties of the airport are publicly financed. They are using public resources so they are not entirely private.
I just saw this yesterday and I reluctantly agree with you. The copy I have ($5.50 @ Walmart) was very badly dubbed. Jackie Chan who for a long time has done his own dubbing sadly was not present when the new overdub was mastered. I did think the action scenes rank up there with anything he's done before. In fact the action scenes were great! Certainly better then the action in Rush Hour (but not Rush Hour 2) However everything else about this movie is pure crap. At least I didn't rent it. It would be a waste of a tank of gas to return it.
I'm not sure how novel and ground breaking this is. The technology has been around for a while, in fact is a simple 'bolt on' option for almost all the leading microscopes brands.
Dumbass. Try getting an education yourself. The film festival is about war propaganda. Juxtaposing the outright racist cartoons of World War 2 with Fox News, it borders on genius.
And I was being ironic by spelling it that way. I know what a homonym is.
I'm going to one of these shows tonight. To make it even more gorilla it's a film festival of old WWII anti-german and anti-japanese propaganda cartoons and the movie Outfoxed.
No the MMR vaccine contained thimerasol, a mercury compund known to cause neurological damage. Some children developed autism. The children who didn't recieve the vaccine didn't develop autism. The devil is in the statistics used to draw these conclusions.
That's a pain for something that fits in your trunk.
How is that a pain? You have to bring your car to get it inspected (in most states, I'm not sure about Ohio). If this thing fits in your car then it's that much easier to get it inspected. Now I'm not saying do them both on one day at the Citgo Station but if there's an inspection station for your plane then it's easier to bring it to them then have them come out to your cornfield to inspect it.
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Supposedly Cat Stevens was pulled off a plane for having a name close to that of a terrorist. He also has a passport issued by Great Britain. I don't know the man personally but based on his public statements I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt about not being a terrorist. Still having that gov't issued passport didn't save him from all that hassle. From what I hear about foreign journalists waiting on cold concrete floors for 48 hours before being trown out of the USA Cat Stevens got lucky by just getting deported.
A fine point but you don't have to go to college to get on an airplane. The great thing about this country once was that any man could travel and live a life free of government sponsored scrutiny.
If you want to travel anywhere, you have to show a ticket to prove that you paid for it. Ditto for movies, concerts, sports events... if you want to get a refund, you have to show the receipt.
Also true but again any one should be allowed to travel freely provided they've payed their fare without further scrutiny. If they can't prove I'm going to bomb the plane after I've walked through the metal dector and they've swabbed my back pack down and put the swab on a chemical sniffer then I deserve to get on the plane regardless of who I am.
I'm not american, and we do have national ID cards, we've had them forever and no one ever gave a damn about it, since we aren't into conspiracy theories and the whole fearing the government thing...
That's nice for you and your country but clearly you haven't been paying attention to all the other freedoms that are being grabbed up by the US government. What if your name is suspicously close to that of a terrorist? You can't expect the guy at the airport to understand you're not the terrorist. Afterall, if they airport screeners don't recognize a name like Kennedy (Still a bigger political dynasty then the Bush family) then you have no hope of travelling freely on your own.
What if a fly lands on the teletype as your name wizzes by? What will you do when they cut a hole in your roof and suck you out of your home?
When the papers are more important then the man holding them we will all cease to be human.
I know I am.
Yep, if those mongolians had regulated outriggers the way congress and the FAA regulate things there'd be no beautiful islands with naked polenesian women. US Gubmint wake up! We want to go into space. With you or without you we will. Some of us know how little it takes to get to space and we're tired of waiting for NASA to let us go.
They should use the hydrogen powered solar truck to teach drivers ed.
Wasn't this robots life span only supposed to be 90 days? Hasn't it been way more than 90 days since the mission started? I say 'good work!' Let the little machine retire with some dignity. It's earned it.
You can never get a new SSN issued to the same person. There are no exceptions no way no how. Applying for an SSN for a trust account and then using it for personal transactions is a federal crime. If someone steals your SSN you are screwed. If the SS bureau reissues a number to you and the prior owner is not already dead (happens a lot) you cannot demand a new one. You have to wait until the prior user surrenders it upon death.
I for one welcome our non-pneumatic overlords.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas... That was the only movie I've ever seen that used CGI effectively. Especially when the carpet freaks out. Dude that was tweaked.
Yeah. I was in the room back in '95 when Gates said that over the next few years computers will need 130 megs of ram to run smoothly. As we all know 130 is a power of 2.
Does anyone know when this this is going to be on? I checked the schedule for all the PBS stations here and there's bubkis. Same for my parents house (thought they could tape it for me) 500 miles away. Are any PBS stations going to carry this show or is it just vaporware?
A quick cursory search shows that nobody has mentioned the "Star Wars Holiday Special" yet. I mean, come on. Doesn't anyone remember what happened the last time Georgey Boy thought TV would be a good idea. OK I admit I didn't watch Ewoks or Droids.
The 2nd coolest guy at PSU after a certain Joe Pa. Posted all the letters and his responses on his office door. When you see the full story unfold in front of you, then you can't help think about how much better the world would be without lawyers.
Don't get me started on Connecticut. I84 is a cruel joke. They really need to get rid of those left lane exits and make it 4 lanes each way for the entire state. Dropping the speed limit to 50 for no reason then making speeding tickets a 2 day affair if you want to contest it is in my opinion a violation of the right to a speedy trial. And any state that puts a speeding trap in the last 10 miles before crossing a state border is just looking to collect a toll from out of state drivers. That makes the highway around the cities safer how? It doesn't. It just annoys the locals less but allows a steady revenue stream from those less likely to fight it. Kind of a scumbag thing to do.
I have several CD's that I love which have gone out of print. Those I have backed up with the originals in a safe place. This habit I got into afer I watched my wife jam a CD into my car player on top of the CD that was already in there. Earlier that Day I was listening to one of my out of print albums, in fact my favorite album of all time. I didn't realize she had changed CD's when I flipped out on her. CD player was destroyed as were the two disks involved. Thankfully the player was a 60 dollar POS I installed myself and the two disks were burned. And I now only listen to the copies of that album.
Yes but that private aircraft is taking a great deal of benefit from public infrastructure. Air traffic control, air routes and even the physical properties of the airport are publicly financed. They are using public resources so they are not entirely private.
A much better name then endoplasmic reticulum but not as cool a name as golgi apparatus.
I just saw this yesterday and I reluctantly agree with you. The copy I have ($5.50 @ Walmart) was very badly dubbed. Jackie Chan who for a long time has done his own dubbing sadly was not present when the new overdub was mastered. I did think the action scenes rank up there with anything he's done before. In fact the action scenes were great! Certainly better then the action in Rush Hour (but not Rush Hour 2) However everything else about this movie is pure crap. At least I didn't rent it. It would be a waste of a tank of gas to return it.
For the low LOW price of 55 bucks I can pad my resume with "Radio and TV Repairman".
I'm not sure how novel and ground breaking this is. The technology has been around for a while, in fact is a simple 'bolt on' option for almost all the leading microscopes brands.
And I was being ironic by spelling it that way. I know what a homonym is.
I'm going to one of these shows tonight. To make it even more gorilla it's a film festival of old WWII anti-german and anti-japanese propaganda cartoons and the movie Outfoxed.
No the MMR vaccine contained thimerasol, a mercury compund known to cause neurological damage. Some children developed autism. The children who didn't recieve the vaccine didn't develop autism. The devil is in the statistics used to draw these conclusions.
How is that a pain? You have to bring your car to get it inspected (in most states, I'm not sure about Ohio). If this thing fits in your car then it's that much easier to get it inspected. Now I'm not saying do them both on one day at the Citgo Station but if there's an inspection station for your plane then it's easier to bring it to them then have them come out to your cornfield to inspect it.