It's a yacht and Steve Jobs ferchrissakes. You don't think they'd be filming episodes of "the deadliest catch" on it do you?
That boat was never intended to leave the harbor on even just a windy day. When you have more money than God you can build $137M yachts and treat them like the big toys that they are.
into a mindless, duplicate-the-stuff-you-saw-in-a-movie toy.
I think there is huge potential with the Mindstorms kits, but you can't get technic pieces without buying a much more expensive kit that happens to contain an item you need, or turning to the aftermarket where guys buy those expensive kits and sell them off piece by piece for a huge markup. Lego is leaving all that money on the table.
You see incredible machines on you tube, such as Rubik's cube solvers, that people have built using Mindstorms and technics parts and the most mind boggling aspect of those creations is the "how the hell did they get all those parts?" factor. Either they spent a fortune or they work for Lego and have free access to all the parts. Either way, making machines like that is way out of reach for most people.
That sounds like the ticket carries the assumption of owner's guilt. How do they know the letter was delivered to the owner of the vehicle? How can it be legal to transfer responsibility for someone else's crime to the owner of the vehicle simply because the police can't be bothered to identify the real criminal or even to ensure that the letter accusing the vehicle owner was even delivered to that person?
In the US, it is the driver who is committing the crime, not the vehicle, and not the owner of the vehicle (unless it is he or she at the wheel). That's why the driver AND the vehicle have to be identified in the photo.
for a couple years. They were eventually removed because people simply ignored the tickets that came in the mail. Tickets delivered by mail are not delivered by a sworn peace officer so they were unenforceable. The state contracted with a private company because sending process servers out to deliver tickets would be too expensive.
There were other ways around the tickets, too. Two car families would register husband's car in wife's name and wife's car in husband's name. If the face in the photo doesn't match the license photo of the registered owner, the ticket would not be mailed. One guy in Scottsdale collected >30 tickets without having to pay because he wore a gorilla mask when he drove past the cameras. He admitted to owning the car and the mask, but denied being at the wheel and no one could prove that he was behind the wheel when the photos were snapped.
it became a bad thing to tell a stupid person that their ideas were crap. We told them that they were all special and unique snowflakes and their ideas were as valid and important as anyone else's.
Have you ever noticed that stupid people are almost always on the wrong side of every argument? Unfortunately, our American democracy counts the voices of the stupid equal to the voices of the not stupid. That's why we are still arguing about evolution, global warming, etc.
The US is well into a permanent downward slide and the human race in general is doomed. We have destroyed our planet before our technology enabled us to leave it behind. I think the thanks goes mostly to the stupid...
Losing Paypal isn't a big deal. You can call your credit card company (if you have a card) and ask them to issue a single-use number for you. Then you can pay with your credit card without giving away your actual card number.
Car companies haven't figured out how to make power windows, seats, and locks keep working for 10 years, how can you expect them to figure out how to keep a computer working that long?
Considering what it costs to get a power window repaired, who is going to pay to repair/replace the computer in the dash if the car will operate without it?
No one has to state it specifically. You manage it through hiring practices, like the insurance companies do.
Insurance is in the business of making money. They do that through investment activities and on the spread between what they take in in premiums and what they pay out in claims. How do they increase profits? By taking in more and paying out less. How do they pay out less? By denying claims that should be covered under their contracts. Have you ever received a letter from an insurance company explaining "benefits" - insurance industry speak for denial of claim? You call the company to ask what the paper means and you get to talk to an idiot who knows nothing about insurance or the letter they sent you. The insurance companies employ a minimum wage army of clueless people to answer calls and frustrate callers into giving up.
MS does the same- hire low skilled programmers and give them tasks that are out of their scope of knowledge. Result? Windows!
Q: When will candidates who are actually qualified to represent science or at a minimum show an interest in it be the representatives of science with regard to political decision-making?"
A: when hell freezes over
The US is a nation of dopes. We get the government we deserve, the one we are dumb enough to vote for.
"low cost". Maintaining a MS OS is only "low cost" if you have someone who will do it for free- i.e. you're the family geek, keeping the wife and kid's computers working so they can enjoy compatibility with systems at school and work.
I subscribe to the "conspiracy theory" of MS OSes. They are deliberately unreliable and insecure in order to keep an army of IT people employed fixing them. The army continues to support and specify MS OSes because they know they'll have years of bugs, security problems, and random instability to look forward to from which to derive a pay check.
You have me there. I want more room and no more cost. I want to be treated like a human being.
Of course, the free market solves all problems in the most efficient manner, so only people with adequate net worth are worthy of being treated like humans. The rest of us are no different than cattle and deserve no better treatment.
Perhaps I should pull myself up by my bootstraps, start a small business (maybe I can borrow some money from my parents!), and who knows, with years of hard work and the success guaranteed by the free market, some day I too, may be able to fly first class, or, if I dream just a little bigger, maybe even travel between my homes and off-shore banks in my private jet. The only thing stopping me from achieving that dream is my laziness and sense of entitlement.
Gosh darn it, you've shown me the error of my thinking- I'm going to turn over a new leaf. Tomorrow I'll vote republican as the first step in my self-remake and I'll be on my way to untold wealth! I hope everyone will join me!
Who cares about carbon fiber, bigger windows, etc.
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I can enter text in Swype faster with one thumb than I can type (of course, I never learned to type and have to look at the keys while I peck away with 3 or four fingers).
I'm sick of trying to be part of the solution. I'm going to become part of the problem.
I'm going to get me a Hummer- not the newer, tiny ones, one of the big old ones, and have it converted to burn a mixture of rubber from tires, motor oil, and coal. I wanna leave a trail of thick, black smoke everywhere I go.
MS' claims that they had to shift their focus to security engineering and had to delay release of new products is BS. It's like the republicans claiming that we need more tax cuts for the rich to create jobs in the US. If they had really done an security research and development Windows might now actually be the stable, reliable platform that they keep claiming it is.
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It's a yacht and Steve Jobs ferchrissakes. You don't think they'd be filming episodes of "the deadliest catch" on it do you?
That boat was never intended to leave the harbor on even just a windy day. When you have more money than God you can build $137M yachts and treat them like the big toys that they are.
into a mindless, duplicate-the-stuff-you-saw-in-a-movie toy.
I think there is huge potential with the Mindstorms kits, but you can't get technic pieces without buying a much more expensive kit that happens to contain an item you need, or turning to the aftermarket where guys buy those expensive kits and sell them off piece by piece for a huge markup. Lego is leaving all that money on the table.
You see incredible machines on you tube, such as Rubik's cube solvers, that people have built using Mindstorms and technics parts and the most mind boggling aspect of those creations is the "how the hell did they get all those parts?" factor. Either they spent a fortune or they work for Lego and have free access to all the parts. Either way, making machines like that is way out of reach for most people.
What a shame...
prior art against the company that makes Lincoln Logs. They better call their IP lawyers ASAP!
with frickin' laser on their heads!
That sounds like the ticket carries the assumption of owner's guilt. How do they know the letter was delivered to the owner of the vehicle? How can it be legal to transfer responsibility for someone else's crime to the owner of the vehicle simply because the police can't be bothered to identify the real criminal or even to ensure that the letter accusing the vehicle owner was even delivered to that person?
In the US, it is the driver who is committing the crime, not the vehicle, and not the owner of the vehicle (unless it is he or she at the wheel). That's why the driver AND the vehicle have to be identified in the photo.
Here's an article: http://jalopnik.com/5355617/man-avoids-37-speed-camera-tickets-by-wearing-monkey-mask
for a couple years. They were eventually removed because people simply ignored the tickets that came in the mail. Tickets delivered by mail are not delivered by a sworn peace officer so they were unenforceable. The state contracted with a private company because sending process servers out to deliver tickets would be too expensive.
There were other ways around the tickets, too. Two car families would register husband's car in wife's name and wife's car in husband's name. If the face in the photo doesn't match the license photo of the registered owner, the ticket would not be mailed. One guy in Scottsdale collected >30 tickets without having to pay because he wore a gorilla mask when he drove past the cameras. He admitted to owning the car and the mask, but denied being at the wheel and no one could prove that he was behind the wheel when the photos were snapped.
Kung-Fu master, afraid they might get their asses kicked by a girl?
Who knows, maybe they were right, maybe her Kung Fu is the best!
our technology enabled us to leave it behind. We are stupid and doomed to die on this rock.
it became a bad thing to tell a stupid person that their ideas were crap. We told them that they were all special and unique snowflakes and their ideas were as valid and important as anyone else's.
Have you ever noticed that stupid people are almost always on the wrong side of every argument? Unfortunately, our American democracy counts the voices of the stupid equal to the voices of the not stupid. That's why we are still arguing about evolution, global warming, etc.
The US is well into a permanent downward slide and the human race in general is doomed. We have destroyed our planet before our technology enabled us to leave it behind. I think the thanks goes mostly to the stupid...
Losing Paypal isn't a big deal. You can call your credit card company (if you have a card) and ask them to issue a single-use number for you. Then you can pay with your credit card without giving away your actual card number.
Car companies haven't figured out how to make power windows, seats, and locks keep working for 10 years, how can you expect them to figure out how to keep a computer working that long?
Considering what it costs to get a power window repaired, who is going to pay to repair/replace the computer in the dash if the car will operate without it?
No one has to state it specifically. You manage it through hiring practices, like the insurance companies do.
Insurance is in the business of making money. They do that through investment activities and on the spread between what they take in in premiums and what they pay out in claims. How do they increase profits? By taking in more and paying out less. How do they pay out less? By denying claims that should be covered under their contracts. Have you ever received a letter from an insurance company explaining "benefits" - insurance industry speak for denial of claim? You call the company to ask what the paper means and you get to talk to an idiot who knows nothing about insurance or the letter they sent you. The insurance companies employ a minimum wage army of clueless people to answer calls and frustrate callers into giving up.
MS does the same- hire low skilled programmers and give them tasks that are out of their scope of knowledge. Result? Windows!
Q: When will candidates who are actually qualified to represent science or at a minimum show an interest in it be the representatives of science with regard to political decision-making?"
A: when hell freezes over
The US is a nation of dopes. We get the government we deserve, the one we are dumb enough to vote for.
"low cost". Maintaining a MS OS is only "low cost" if you have someone who will do it for free- i.e. you're the family geek, keeping the wife and kid's computers working so they can enjoy compatibility with systems at school and work.
I subscribe to the "conspiracy theory" of MS OSes. They are deliberately unreliable and insecure in order to keep an army of IT people employed fixing them. The army continues to support and specify MS OSes because they know they'll have years of bugs, security problems, and random instability to look forward to from which to derive a pay check.
Board might want/need to have phones with a reliable mapping application.
MS is the GOP of software companies.
Just one more issue the GOP is on the wrong side of!
that the GOP is on the right side on an issue for once? I'm suspicious...
You're going to need them.
You have me there. I want more room and no more cost. I want to be treated like a human being.
Of course, the free market solves all problems in the most efficient manner, so only people with adequate net worth are worthy of being treated like humans. The rest of us are no different than cattle and deserve no better treatment.
Perhaps I should pull myself up by my bootstraps, start a small business (maybe I can borrow some money from my parents!), and who knows, with years of hard work and the success guaranteed by the free market, some day I too, may be able to fly first class, or, if I dream just a little bigger, maybe even travel between my homes and off-shore banks in my private jet. The only thing stopping me from achieving that dream is my laziness and sense of entitlement.
Gosh darn it, you've shown me the error of my thinking- I'm going to turn over a new leaf. Tomorrow I'll vote republican as the first step in my self-remake and I'll be on my way to untold wealth! I hope everyone will join me!
All I want is some godammed leg and elbow room.
I can enter text in Swype faster with one thumb than I can type (of course, I never learned to type and have to look at the keys while I peck away with 3 or four fingers).
I'm sick of trying to be part of the solution. I'm going to become part of the problem.
I'm going to get me a Hummer- not the newer, tiny ones, one of the big old ones, and have it converted to burn a mixture of rubber from tires, motor oil, and coal. I wanna leave a trail of thick, black smoke everywhere I go.
MS' claims that they had to shift their focus to security engineering and had to delay release of new products is BS. It's like the republicans claiming that we need more tax cuts for the rich to create jobs in the US. If they had really done an security research and development Windows might now actually be the stable, reliable platform that they keep claiming it is.
MS deserves it's long overdue death.