2006 was a merciful one. Not a single Hurricane hit the east coast. Living in Miami, I can see the need for good nails. The problem is, dade county has a building code which requires concrete block construction. you don't need nails for cb construction. Those certainly don't look like roofing nails either.
Instead of building a better nail, which isn't a bad thing, try to lobby the gulf coast to adopt building codes like Miami/Dade County has.
That's the only thing that is going to help.
the second little pig built his house out of wood. And it got blown away.
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maybe this is preempting obfuscation. Perhaps vista contains Linux code. This trickery would have both camps so caught up in litigation that no one would have the time or resources to notice that.
we already know that Microsoft's TCP/IP implementation originally came from Unix.
They're not the recording industry and the don't benefit America. so what's the deal?
They are a powerful lobbying organization who simply can't be trusted.
what is going to happen when the recording industry (let's be real about that, they are publishers) when the publishers no longer wish to pay the extortion fees of the RIAA?
the poll workers claim that it's not common for a machine that gets used so much to get out of sync.
the machine gets used once a year. In the eight years I've done work with kiosk systems, I've never once seen a heavily used touch screen get out of sync
apparently, that's why republicans are always listed first on the florida ballot.
we all got it wrong. the easiest way to steal an election is to shift the touch screen sync to make the votes for democrats appear as a vote for the republican.
the only thing I don't get is, how to they make the sync shift in only that part of the screen? why can you still click the forward button just fine?
another thing, wouldn't such a flaw in the touchscreen hardware and/or software make the whole machine unreliable for such a purpose?
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2006 was a merciful one. Not a single Hurricane hit the east coast.
Living in Miami, I can see the need for good nails. The problem is, dade county has a building code which requires concrete block construction.
you don't need nails for cb construction. Those certainly don't look like roofing nails either.
Instead of building a better nail, which isn't a bad thing, try to lobby the gulf coast to adopt building codes like Miami/Dade County has.
That's the only thing that is going to help.
the second little pig built his house out of wood. And it got blown away.
the third little pig lived in Miami.
you heard me.
don't become arthritic.
it's a choice you know.
eat your oxtails and keep on playing.
Thank you for writing about this situation which you encoutered with
our web site.
First, please allow me to express my sincere apologies for any
frustration that has been caused. It is certainly not our intention
for our customers to have anything but a pleasant experience at our
store.
We are working hard to provide a stress-free and convenient holiday
shopping experience at Amazon.com. Unfortunately, we have not met
that standard in this case.
Please note many customers voted for customer vote program and were
waiting to place their orders at 11 A.M. This caused high network
traffic and hence our web site was slow.
We utilize top of the line servers, internal routers and network
connections. Although we often wish we could avert this problem,
many issues regarding speed are actually a result of complex
routing patterns over the Internet itself. Even the best Internet
services can't get around this fundamental problems.
To help prevent this problem in the future, you can reset your
cachesize. Go to the "Cache" or "Temporary Internet Files" option
on your web browser (in Internet Explorer, go to "Tools" and
choose "Internet Options"; if you use Netscape, go to "Options" and
choose "Network Preferences"), and make sure you have your memory
cache set to 3000 kilobytes, and your disk cache set to 5000
kilobytes.
For instructions on clearing your cache on other browsers and
platforms, please consult your browser's help documentation for
details on how to manage this process.
We here at Amazon customer service continuously strive to assist the
customers in each and every way can and feel disappointed when we
are unable to address customer's concerns. I hope you can understand
our limitations in this regard. as if the problem were the fault of my firefox cache
Thank you science for making it possible to reverse diabetes type 1.
thank you god for giving us diabetes.
masters are already burned onto gold CD-Rs
that's why we say a game as "gone gold"
you can buy gold CD-Rs now dummy
the website was created in Feb '06
there is no physical address listed. only emails.
the website itself is a bit shady. lots of tech speak and lots of funny looking product mockups and some sample images.
nothing hardcore or concrete. no corporate records found.
caveat emptor
invest wisely
maybe this is preempting obfuscation. Perhaps vista contains Linux code. This trickery would have both camps so caught up in litigation that no one would have the time or resources to notice that.
we already know that Microsoft's TCP/IP implementation originally came from Unix.
it's not intended to be a great RPG with great gameplay.
it is intended to hook you enough to keep spending your money monthly.
that is the business model. ALL mmorpgs are deeply flawed from the enlightened player's perspective.
they are perfect from the shareholders' perspective.
Stupider is not a word.
The Internet showed me the correct use, "more stupid".
the principle of induction is already at use in plenty of devices to provide wireless power.
They're not the recording industry and the don't benefit America. so what's the deal?
They are a powerful lobbying organization who simply can't be trusted.
what is going to happen when the recording industry (let's be real about that, they are publishers) when the publishers no longer wish to pay the extortion fees of the RIAA?
computer science is great if your name is apu. Call yourself Alex and get that CS degree.
is it viable in the U.S.? no way no how. CS is dead here.
it's the last wasteland.
the final frontier.
the wild west.
youth uses the internet because they aren't told how and why to do so.
This just means that every vista computer will be running microsoft's DNS server on it tied to the SMB file sharing service.
That's not a good thing.
This just means one more security headache to put up with.
Just one more way for a windows box to be rooted.
the poll workers claim that it's not common for a machine that gets used so much to get out of sync.
the machine gets used once a year. In the eight years I've done work with kiosk systems, I've never once seen a heavily used touch screen get out of sync
apparently, that's why republicans are always listed first on the florida ballot.
we all got it wrong. the easiest way to steal an election is to shift the touch screen sync to make the votes for democrats appear as a vote for the republican.
the only thing I don't get is, how to they make the sync shift in only that part of the screen? why can you still click the forward button just fine?
another thing, wouldn't such a flaw in the touchscreen hardware and/or software make the whole machine unreliable for such a purpose?
the owners want the profits now. They can worry about that later when they are sitting in their solid gold bentleys.
you showed a terrible lack of judgement.
you applied your principles of the technology industry to the airline industry
you expect Northwest airlines to just whip up a patch to this?
This will cost that company millions to fix.
they will have to invent a new boarding pass system. then implement it throughout all of the airports where they fly to.
it will take them a year at least to get this resolved.
what you should have done is arranged for a private demonstration with your local congressman.
Well it's about fucking time!
the train left the station years ago.
the EMI exec has been standing at the station with his thumb up the collective ass of the music industry!
maybe now they will stop fighting the mp3
it's your computer.
I'm running firefox in 1080p and I have no lag
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.htm l?product=firefox-2.0&os=win&lang=en-US get it here!
Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma CHAMELEON!!!
Jack Thompson, if you act like a knob, someone's gonna turn you.
start with something useful.
start with britannica.
that's 13 seconds maybe 100 times a day for those who do such work
that's 22 minutes freed up during the course of a day.
now when you add up how much time it takes to wait for your computer's hourglass cursor?
it may not seem much while you wait.
but it can add up to hours of time saved during a work week.
that's real productivity.
yes, that's what I first thought, but when I read further...
I was able to interpret it meant, mammals were becoming extinct because of the orbit changes
the "right to scam" state.
this is the home of insurance scammers and low wages and immigrants galore!