Nearly identical experience here. The message I got was that mastery of the previous 20 years worth of editions of the software made zero difference if I hadn't used the most recent edition in production.
The bill's comments aren't legally binding; only the text of the bill would be binding. The comments would be used for voting rules on the bill itself and potentially to determine the law's intent in a court challenge. IOW anyone can say anything they want, but when it passes, it's the text of the bill that counts, not the speeches that surrounded it.
I agree with you that it's not specifically for Bush. It's for the one that comes after Bush, which is most likely Schwartzenegger. It's my opinion they'll have any legal obstacles preventing his presidency out of his way by then. They'll run him against Hillary to scare everyone, then we'll have a nice foreign usurper in control, and an Austrian at that. Just like Socialist Germany did.
I hadn't even thought of that. That sounds more like what would happen. It's not enough that these guys make tons of money, they have to be control freaks on top of it.
As this expands and more theaters go digital, will it break the stranglehold that the big distributors have now, or will legal tricks just assure it's the same as before? There are lots of great films out there that get almost no screens because they don't fit the distributors' views of what goes in their catalogs or what will earn them payback for printing and shipping.
As I understand it, not being in the theater business, theaters are pretty much at the mercy of distributors right now because smaller studios just can't afford the cost of wide distribution. Will digital distribution truly lower the cost and give theaters a wider palette of films to choose from? I suspect the big distrubutors will defeat that possibility with legal tricks, but I'm hoping otherwise.
If they'd only fix it for Windows, that would at least be something. You'd think after as many revisions that it's gone through you'd be able to easily save your place in a long document. The full version has bookmarks, but you have to go out of your way to define them, and their little drag & drop editor to move the bookmarks around is atrocious. Besides that, it requires you to modify and resave the document. You'd think that a simple leftOffPageNumber entry in a state file or the registry would be simple enough.
While destroying individual chips is an okay temporary solution, the better solution is to change the system that deems it okay to use the items in the first place.
Seeing as how they were evacuated before they got flooded out, it sounds to me like they did get warned and spared the disaster.
TV stations, radio stations, desktop weather applications, government siren towers -- all provide warnings. If no one in the camp was running a TV, radio, or computer, and they weren't within range of a warning siren how do you propose the "weather incumbent" *or* the government have alerted them? Obviously they were warned somehow since they got out while it was still ankle-deep.
Also, don't forget the use of Doppler radar for weather was invented by a TV meteorologist, a commercial provider, not by the government (Gary England at KWTV in Oklahoma City).
Before you bash the commercial providers, you better take a real hard look at what we do. We take early notification very seriously and constantly work to improve the quality and lead-time of the notifications. I work work for a weather and notification software company, and we've gotten letters from people whose lives were saved by alerts given by our software -- people that left their houses because of a warning we sent, and returned later to find their houses destroyed by the very tornado we warned them about.
The best way to end the show would have been to find out that Scully was actually Mulder's sister. She could've found out she'd been adopted or whatever, and it would have tied in perfectly with their "no kissing" rule that lasted for most of the series. It also would have fit in with their alien bloodlines things where past abductees (Samantha/Scully) are later impregnated.
In addition, I am convinced that the star of the show was actually Krycek, and Mulder was just forever on the fringes of being able to figure out what Krycek was doing. It's obvious Krycek got a whole lot more accomplished than Mulder ever did.
Information costs money to create and gather. I guess people should what, donate their time making it so you don't have to pay?
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To the other posts blaming this on the "Religious Right:" If they talk about Hell, you complain. If someone else REMOVES the word "Hell", you complain. Which is it? They're talking about Hell too much, or not enough?
Besides, the "Religous Right" is a myth. They're religious alright, but they're not Christian, and they're not conservative. They would do good to read what the Bible has to say about religion.
Sure, if you redefine "honest" to mean what you just said, then most people do qualify. At the moment, however, "honest" is not defined as "I take what I want when I want, and pay for what I choose to keep."
The terms of the sale are set out in advance. If you don't agree to those terms, and the seller isn't willing to negotiate, that doesn't mean you can just take what you want.
Search the web for it too. There's lots written about it. It's from a month and a half ago or so, so a lot of it has already fallen out of Google News, but it's still mentioned.
Note it's not just an ID card -- it's an implant. If your job required one, would you take it?
I have a kid, and no way would I let them tag her. Just because some people don't watch or stay with their kids is no reason to track everyone. Incrementally they have wedged those tags into all kinds of places, and they're not going to stop with something that's all friendly-sounding like "finding lost kids."
I do not have proof of this, but I heard a woman describe how they kicked in her door at 5 in the morning and arrested her husband the day after his firearm license expired. I hesitate to mention it since I cannot find the documentation, but as far as hearsay goes, it's happened.
As far as I know, most states have a short grace period for renewal. I do not know exactly when or where this occurred (it was supposedly recent).
Technically, he may have been in violation of the law since the registration had expired 5 hours earlier, so the arrest may have been lawful. Since I don't know the details, I can't say any more. But from the woman's description, it sounded like a pretty big waste of storm troopers.
He's a publicity-seeking self-aggrandizing hack that accidentally manages to get things right on occassion. His most recent only told 1/10th of the story on 9/11, and then pretty much pinned it all on Bush, and Bush is barely more than a clueless puppet of the real power-brokers. If you want to hear a real patriot, listen to Alex Jones. He's a bitter pill at first, but once you realize he backs up 100% of what he says with public, mainstream news sources, you can't help but know he's right.
The Democrats generally want to ban them all. The Republicans want to ban some of them, and make you register all the rest. They're both wrong. Guns shouldn't have to be banned OR registered. With gun registration, whose doors do you think the martial law stormtroopers are going to knock in first?
Given the "free speech zones" (a cage within a cage surrounded by barbed wire at the DNC, the "no-protest" areas, and the arrests of people with unpopular opinions), as well as fully tamper-tolerant electronic voting machines, your options are getting narrower.
The fact that the child porn exists indicates there are still children being abused to produce the porn. In addition, all that surfing is going to increase the demand for the material, and thus lead to an increase in the abuse itself.
IMO the surfing is not a safe activity. It is the activity partaken in lack of opportunity. Would you rather surf porn or have sex? The porn is a placeholder until the opportunity for the real thing presents. Why would that be any different for a pedophile? I don't know the "hunting" behavior of pedophiles, whether they actively seek or whether they're just opportunists -- but I can't beleive that feeding their desire with the porn is going to somehow make them docile.
Besides, as I already pointed out, producing the porn itself requires the very behavior we're trying to avoid. Even the faked child porn is unacceptable because according to what I've read, pedophiles often use these images to trick their targets into beleiving the behavior is acceptable or normal.
Your general rules are bad. Thanks to hormones in the milk and other diet issues, girls are hitting puberty at a much earlier age now. My daughter got her period at age 9. Technically, she's sexually mature, but if I catch you trying to have sex with her, you're going home with a stump if you don't bleed to death first.
Most 11 and 12-year old females are sexually mature. Do you honestly think you'd try to have sex with a 12-year old? Your post indicates you would. If that's the case, you're very twisted. I don't care how "mature" and how much "consent" a child that age gives, they're not a fair target for sex.
In addition, regardless of sexual maturity, our culture artificially keeps minors more mentally and emotionally immature than their physical age and intelligence could otherwise account for. Anyone aiming for minors is only out to satisfy their own sexual desires, not looking for an emotional or intellectual connection. I'm not saying there aren't mature minors, but any grown man aiming for them, as far as I'm concerned, is nothing but a self-serving danger to society, because there's nothing coming out of that kind of a relationship other than sex. If you're just in it for the sex, then you are the one that's wrong, not the rest of us, and you can't be in that kind of relationship for anything else.
This one is excellent and well-reviewed in a number of publications: http://www.ccrane.com/quick_charger.asp. I have had mine for a while now and can attest it's excellent. It handles from four AAA through 4 D-cells. It has a slow-start (which prevents the batteries from getting hot), and for NiCd, it even discharges the batteries to 1.0V before recharging them. The spring clip is VERY strong, which helps assure good contact (at least I assume that's why they're so strong). You can leave the batteries in it, too, and it will keep them topped off.
It's not cheap (US$40) but it's been well worth it to me. I use rechargeables for everything and in every size except 9V. I get my batteries from http://www.batteryspace.com/. I like the AA 2250 mAh (currently 24 for US$30); they seem to last forever in my digital camera. My 11-year old daughter goes through batteries like crazy for her CD player, radio, clocks, toys, and flashlights, and going all-rechargeable was one of the best moves I ever made. I do keep a spare set of alkaline D-cells for my radio in case of extended power outage, but haven't had to use them yet (My 8 9500 mAh D-cells, like the A-cells, seem to last forever.
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Or young men in Norway entering compulsory military service?
Just don't say Hey Siri, Alexa, Playstation, or OK Google when you're drowning someone in the bathtub and you're probably good to go.
Nearly identical experience here. The message I got was that mastery of the previous 20 years worth of editions of the software made zero difference if I hadn't used the most recent edition in production.
The bill's comments aren't legally binding; only the text of the bill would be binding. The comments would be used for voting rules on the bill itself and potentially to determine the law's intent in a court challenge. IOW anyone can say anything they want, but when it passes, it's the text of the bill that counts, not the speeches that surrounded it.
I agree with you that it's not specifically for Bush. It's for the one that comes after Bush, which is most likely Schwartzenegger. It's my opinion they'll have any legal obstacles preventing his presidency out of his way by then. They'll run him against Hillary to scare everyone, then we'll have a nice foreign usurper in control, and an Austrian at that. Just like Socialist Germany did.
I hadn't even thought of that. That sounds more like what would happen. It's not enough that these guys make tons of money, they have to be control freaks on top of it.
As this expands and more theaters go digital, will it break the stranglehold that the big distributors have now, or will legal tricks just assure it's the same as before? There are lots of great films out there that get almost no screens because they don't fit the distributors' views of what goes in their catalogs or what will earn them payback for printing and shipping.
As I understand it, not being in the theater business, theaters are pretty much at the mercy of distributors right now because smaller studios just can't afford the cost of wide distribution. Will digital distribution truly lower the cost and give theaters a wider palette of films to choose from? I suspect the big distrubutors will defeat that possibility with legal tricks, but I'm hoping otherwise.
If they'd only fix it for Windows, that would at least be something. You'd think after as many revisions that it's gone through you'd be able to easily save your place in a long document. The full version has bookmarks, but you have to go out of your way to define them, and their little drag & drop editor to move the bookmarks around is atrocious. Besides that, it requires you to modify and resave the document. You'd think that a simple leftOffPageNumber entry in a state file or the registry would be simple enough.
While destroying individual chips is an okay temporary solution, the better solution is to change the system that deems it okay to use the items in the first place.
Seeing as how they were evacuated before they got flooded out, it sounds to me like they did get warned and spared the disaster.
TV stations, radio stations, desktop weather applications, government siren towers -- all provide warnings. If no one in the camp was running a TV, radio, or computer, and they weren't within range of a warning siren how do you propose the "weather incumbent" *or* the government have alerted them? Obviously they were warned somehow since they got out while it was still ankle-deep.
Also, don't forget the use of Doppler radar for weather was invented by a TV meteorologist, a commercial provider, not by the government (Gary England at KWTV in Oklahoma City).
Before you bash the commercial providers, you better take a real hard look at what we do. We take early notification very seriously and constantly work to improve the quality and lead-time of the notifications. I work work for a weather and notification software company, and we've gotten letters from people whose lives were saved by alerts given by our software -- people that left their houses because of a warning we sent, and returned later to find their houses destroyed by the very tornado we warned them about.
The best way to end the show would have been to find out that Scully was actually Mulder's sister. She could've found out she'd been adopted or whatever, and it would have tied in perfectly with their "no kissing" rule that lasted for most of the series. It also would have fit in with their alien bloodlines things where past abductees (Samantha/Scully) are later impregnated.
In addition, I am convinced that the star of the show was actually Krycek, and Mulder was just forever on the fringes of being able to figure out what Krycek was doing. It's obvious Krycek got a whole lot more accomplished than Mulder ever did.
Information costs money to create and gather. I guess people should what, donate their time making it so you don't have to pay?
What do YOU do for a living?
To the other posts blaming this on the "Religious Right:" If they talk about Hell, you complain. If someone else REMOVES the word "Hell", you complain. Which is it? They're talking about Hell too much, or not enough?
Besides, the "Religous Right" is a myth. They're religious alright, but they're not Christian, and they're not conservative. They would do good to read what the Bible has to say about religion.
Well, they're not exactly fake domains are they? I mean, they're registered and all.
Sure, if you redefine "honest" to mean what you just said, then most people do qualify. At the moment, however, "honest" is not defined as "I take what I want when I want, and pay for what I choose to keep."
The terms of the sale are set out in advance. If you don't agree to those terms, and the seller isn't willing to negotiate, that doesn't mean you can just take what you want.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2004/1907 04mythofrfid.htm.
Search the web for it too. There's lots written about it. It's from a month and a half ago or so, so a lot of it has already fallen out of Google News, but it's still mentioned.
Note it's not just an ID card -- it's an implant. If your job required one, would you take it?
I have a kid, and no way would I let them tag her. Just because some people don't watch or stay with their kids is no reason to track everyone. Incrementally they have wedged those tags into all kinds of places, and they're not going to stop with something that's all friendly-sounding like "finding lost kids."
I do not have proof of this, but I heard a woman describe how they kicked in her door at 5 in the morning and arrested her husband the day after his firearm license expired. I hesitate to mention it since I cannot find the documentation, but as far as hearsay goes, it's happened.
As far as I know, most states have a short grace period for renewal. I do not know exactly when or where this occurred (it was supposedly recent).
Technically, he may have been in violation of the law since the registration had expired 5 hours earlier, so the arrest may have been lawful. Since I don't know the details, I can't say any more. But from the woman's description, it sounded like a pretty big waste of storm troopers.
You nailed it, on all points.
I don't have links handy on the arrests, but this is a good jumping-off point: Google search of First Ammendment Center
He's a publicity-seeking self-aggrandizing hack that accidentally manages to get things right on occassion. His most recent only told 1/10th of the story on 9/11, and then pretty much pinned it all on Bush, and Bush is barely more than a clueless puppet of the real power-brokers. If you want to hear a real patriot, listen to Alex Jones. He's a bitter pill at first, but once you realize he backs up 100% of what he says with public, mainstream news sources, you can't help but know he's right.
The Democrats generally want to ban them all. The Republicans want to ban some of them, and make you register all the rest. They're both wrong. Guns shouldn't have to be banned OR registered. With gun registration, whose doors do you think the martial law stormtroopers are going to knock in first?
No, but I've been reading the news.
Given the "free speech zones" (a cage within a cage surrounded by barbed wire at the DNC, the "no-protest" areas, and the arrests of people with unpopular opinions), as well as fully tamper-tolerant electronic voting machines, your options are getting narrower.
That situation does not exist in a vacuum.
The fact that the child porn exists indicates there are still children being abused to produce the porn. In addition, all that surfing is going to increase the demand for the material, and thus lead to an increase in the abuse itself.
IMO the surfing is not a safe activity. It is the activity partaken in lack of opportunity. Would you rather surf porn or have sex? The porn is a placeholder until the opportunity for the real thing presents. Why would that be any different for a pedophile? I don't know the "hunting" behavior of pedophiles, whether they actively seek or whether they're just opportunists -- but I can't beleive that feeding their desire with the porn is going to somehow make them docile.
Besides, as I already pointed out, producing the porn itself requires the very behavior we're trying to avoid. Even the faked child porn is unacceptable because according to what I've read, pedophiles often use these images to trick their targets into beleiving the behavior is acceptable or normal.
Your general rules are bad. Thanks to hormones in the milk and other diet issues, girls are hitting puberty at a much earlier age now. My daughter got her period at age 9. Technically, she's sexually mature, but if I catch you trying to have sex with her, you're going home with a stump if you don't bleed to death first.
Most 11 and 12-year old females are sexually mature. Do you honestly think you'd try to have sex with a 12-year old? Your post indicates you would. If that's the case, you're very twisted. I don't care how "mature" and how much "consent" a child that age gives, they're not a fair target for sex.
In addition, regardless of sexual maturity, our culture artificially keeps minors more mentally and emotionally immature than their physical age and intelligence could otherwise account for. Anyone aiming for minors is only out to satisfy their own sexual desires, not looking for an emotional or intellectual connection. I'm not saying there aren't mature minors, but any grown man aiming for them, as far as I'm concerned, is nothing but a self-serving danger to society, because there's nothing coming out of that kind of a relationship other than sex. If you're just in it for the sex, then you are the one that's wrong, not the rest of us, and you can't be in that kind of relationship for anything else.
This one is excellent and well-reviewed in a number of publications: http://www.ccrane.com/quick_charger.asp. I have had mine for a while now and can attest it's excellent. It handles from four AAA through 4 D-cells. It has a slow-start (which prevents the batteries from getting hot), and for NiCd, it even discharges the batteries to 1.0V before recharging them. The spring clip is VERY strong, which helps assure good contact (at least I assume that's why they're so strong). You can leave the batteries in it, too, and it will keep them topped off.
It's not cheap (US$40) but it's been well worth it to me. I use rechargeables for everything and in every size except 9V. I get my batteries from http://www.batteryspace.com/. I like the AA 2250 mAh (currently 24 for US$30); they seem to last forever in my digital camera. My 11-year old daughter goes through batteries like crazy for her CD player, radio, clocks, toys, and flashlights, and going all-rechargeable was one of the best moves I ever made. I do keep a spare set of alkaline D-cells for my radio in case of extended power outage, but haven't had to use them yet (My 8 9500 mAh D-cells, like the A-cells, seem to last forever.
The C. Crane charger says it only does NiCd and NiMH, but I also recharge "rechargeable Alkalines" http://www.rayovac.com/products/recharge/rec_alk.s html in it with no problems.