That is, they may be capable of paying them, but paying the doctor for something he fixed last month (or 3 or 4 months ago... medical billing systems are slow) is less advantageous than paying the rent for the next month.
OK, but a CRT's phoshor still loses its glow quicker. Response doesn't mean complete change. Hitting the brakes cuz the light is red doesn't necessarily mean you stop before the intersection.
Can prisoners really make free phone calls like that? Here, (The US), they all have to make collect calls or BUY a phone card (and even then your call list has to be approved)... in the case of the collect call, you can permenantly block calls from that prison. Who the HELL thought up the idea of letting the incarcerated call anyone they want?! Seems crazy to me. Shit, jail would be like a vacation for a mob man.
I dunno about over the pond, but over here caller ID is useless as defense against them anyway. IT;s either private, Unavailable, or show's a number with no name.
I only kissed his bumper because he hit his brakes. Not to stop, that is, but to brake-check the living shit out of me. The only reason I was that close was because (surprise!) his plate lights were out.
Neither of us even mentioned the bump to the cop, either. I didn't because I didn't want to give the cop any more ammo, and he didn't because his story was that he hit me, and then I took off ahead of him.
Should I have done it? Hell no. But it felt good to let him know "hey, you didn't get away, fuckhead"
The cosine error only works in their favor. The smaller the angle, the slower you appear to be going. For instance, to the radar gun, if you're going 100MPH and he's right in front of you, it's gonna read 100. Now if he's to your side, it's going to read 0, because relative to the radar gun, you're moving sideways, not forward.
In May, I was hit by a hit-and-run driver. Long story short, I made it rather obvious that I got his plate number afterwords. He wouldn't stop, so after 2 miles I bumped him in the rear and turned around. So, the dickwad went to the cops right away and told them a different story.
I'm 19. He's 57. Guess who the cop believed. Even though I got his plate number and he didn't get mine (he said that when he hit me, I ran from him. Yeah, right.), I got a ticket for failing to yeild. Yeild to what? There was nothing in the intersection when he pulled out. He was going almost double the limit.
Needless to say, the dickwad said he tried to stop at a hunting club up the road. He didn't, but I went to TerraServer and got good images of where the accident happened and the road afterwords. The look on the judge's face was priceless. I asked the other driver to point out where the accident happened. He did. I then dropped the other seven pages attached to it (all taped together in a fan) and showed the judge where he said he stopped, 3 miles away, and the road the entire way there, with its 15 foot shoulders, and rougly 15 driveways beforehand. Not Guilty. Now his truck isn't being fixed, and is going to be reposessed soon (loan without colission coverage = nono), and mine is.
Of course, the cop was pissed off that I won. He still refused to press charges against the other driver for hit-and-run.
How DARE you even THINK that punishing a hacker by death is fair.
Look at the analogy this way: You left your house with the windows unlocked, a few wide open, and the front door bolted securely with a paperclip. Somebody robbed you. That man gets probably tops 1 year in jail. Why? BECAUSE YOU'RE A MORON! YOU LEFT YOUR SHIT UNSECURED!
I know you stupid flunkie businessmen seem to think that you don't own your shit, with your Digital Rights Management, leases, service contracts, and all that bullshit, but that's part of capitalism: YOU DO. You FUCKING OWN THE COMPUTERS THESE VIRUSES ARE INFECTING. PROTECT THEM. If you don't change your oil in your car, your motor will sieze. If you take it to the dealership and say it's their fault, they'll laugh you all the way to the used car lot.
$10B in economic damage? Here's a hint: There'd be no damage if you'd be vigilant.
Stupid fucks. Maybe you should be the ones on death row for allowing so much economic damage.
Actually, I knew about the effect already: My step-grandfather (huge extended family) used to do it when he was in the Army, he said it warmed him up. He died of prostate cancer. Hmm.
I was hit over a month ago by a hit and run driver. I called the cops, and the old man showed up at the station. I had his plate number, he DID NOT have mine.
He says I cut him off, slammed into him when he tried to pass, and then got ahead of him.
Hmm, then I couldn't have his plate number unless I was telepathic. Guess who the moron cop believed? Not me.
This is one example of many (On the other side of the pond). I don't waste my time with the bastards anymore.
Ah, grasshopper. This is America, you have missed some things:
Problem 1: Will it get too hot and burn a petty-lawsuit-starting lawyer? Problem 2: No matter how harmless the CaO, will it ever leak out from container failure? Problem 3: Will the FDA be OK with out materials? Problem 4: How do we make it simple to use?
That's 4 problems in 10 seconds I thought of. Give them 31536000 times longer, and I'm sure they can come up with more.
Actually, the 4.6l V8 in my 1994 Ford Thunderbird gets 25MPG on the highway, according to the EPA. The car weighs over 3800lbs. And this is an 11 year old car.
Welcome to July 2005. Any venture taken at selling movies or music over the internet will result in higher piracy. You're a day late, and a dollar short. The ship has sailed, the fat lady has sung. It's now too easy and too ingrained into most people's minds that it's free on p2p anyway, and they can watch it in their normal player. They're used to it. Sure, you'll have buyers, but you're not making pirates go away.
If you're born in America, you deserve an easier job, more money and a better standard of living than someone who wasn't born in America.
You're DAMN RIGHT I do!
My family has been over here for centuries, as have other families. Meanwhile, over in Africa, they're telling eachother that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. In China, they were letting the government walk all over them, telling them that freedom is bad. In Taiwan, they were too busy using crack and sleeping with prostitutes to notice the Industrial Revolution go whizzing by. And now, I'm being told that since these third world countries are willing to work in shit conditions for shit pay because, well, their ancestors couldn't give two shits about what they did, I'm going to have to take a pay cut or worse, lose my job.
I DO deserve the quality of life that I enjoy here in America, and I DO deserve the freedom, pay, and good job conditions that I get too. My parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents all fought and worked long and hard for it. Many died in the military for it. Do you think the only thing on their mind was themselves? That they didn't care about the future, about what their descendants would have to deal with? Guess what, buddy, they did. It's July motherfuckin' Fourth and I just got off of work. ON A FEDERAL HOLIDAY. If you think for ONE SECOND that Americans are lazy, well, we're not. Most of us DO work long and hard for our money, and it pisses us off to no great end when some country that had nothing better to do but shoot at eachother and get doped up for the past two centuries comes and takes all our jobs away.
If those motherfuckers overseas are willing to work for shit pay and live in shit housing and breathe heavy metals and asbestos all day, they have nobody to blame but THEMSELVES. Americans have ALWAYS worked hard since the founding of this country, and now, we're telling the powers that be that we're not willing to get paid shit and work in hazardous conditions anymore. We've done it for decades upon decades now, the upper-class has all the money they could ever need, and it's time to start sharing. Instead, they're moving on to the next shithole country to rip people off.
Want someone over here in America to be mad at? The upper class. The families that got where they are today by squandering money off of everyone else. You're damn right the working-class of America is pissed off about outsourcing, we put our blood, sweat, and tears into our work to see our employers say, "Sorry, you're not cheap enough!" and send the jobs over to India and us to the unemployment center.
I remember being in about 4th grade, and the school got a new lab full of LC-III's. The principal walked in, and saw not one flying toaster. What he saw was a hundred skylines and a message "not enough memory".
To this day, I've never seen anyone get that mad at a toaster, especially a flying one.
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Well, yeah. Why? The poor don't pay their bills.
That is, they may be capable of paying them, but paying the doctor for something he fixed last month (or 3 or 4 months ago... medical billing systems are slow) is less advantageous than paying the rent for the next month.
Here's the difference:
A 12 year old kid knows he is incapable of flying, seeing through walls, or having lasers shoot from his fingertips.
The same 12 year old probably knows that he's perfectly capable of sexual intercourse.
You obviously haven't seen enough P.1.L.L.Z Fr0m |\/|eXIc0 spam ads have you?
What, you really think the janitor at a steel mill should get $12.00 an hour because he's in the union?
Oh, ok. I guess you'd buy Japanese steel if it were cheaper than the Union made American steel. So you'd be just like Wal-Mart.
OK, but a CRT's phoshor still loses its glow quicker. Response doesn't mean complete change. Hitting the brakes cuz the light is red doesn't necessarily mean you stop before the intersection.
Sorry mods, this is off topic, but...
Can prisoners really make free phone calls like that? Here, (The US), they all have to make collect calls or BUY a phone card (and even then your call list has to be approved)... in the case of the collect call, you can permenantly block calls from that prison. Who the HELL thought up the idea of letting the incarcerated call anyone they want?! Seems crazy to me. Shit, jail would be like a vacation for a mob man.
I dunno about over the pond, but over here caller ID is useless as defense against them anyway. IT;s either private, Unavailable, or show's a number with no name.
I only kissed his bumper because he hit his brakes. Not to stop, that is, but to brake-check the living shit out of me. The only reason I was that close was because (surprise!) his plate lights were out.
Neither of us even mentioned the bump to the cop, either. I didn't because I didn't want to give the cop any more ammo, and he didn't because his story was that he hit me, and then I took off ahead of him.
Should I have done it? Hell no. But it felt good to let him know "hey, you didn't get away, fuckhead"
The cosine error only works in their favor. The smaller the angle, the slower you appear to be going. For instance, to the radar gun, if you're going 100MPH and he's right in front of you, it's gonna read 100. Now if he's to your side, it's going to read 0, because relative to the radar gun, you're moving sideways, not forward.
In May, I was hit by a hit-and-run driver. Long story short, I made it rather obvious that I got his plate number afterwords. He wouldn't stop, so after 2 miles I bumped him in the rear and turned around. So, the dickwad went to the cops right away and told them a different story.
I'm 19. He's 57. Guess who the cop believed. Even though I got his plate number and he didn't get mine (he said that when he hit me, I ran from him. Yeah, right.), I got a ticket for failing to yeild. Yeild to what? There was nothing in the intersection when he pulled out. He was going almost double the limit.
Needless to say, the dickwad said he tried to stop at a hunting club up the road. He didn't, but I went to TerraServer and got good images of where the accident happened and the road afterwords. The look on the judge's face was priceless. I asked the other driver to point out where the accident happened. He did. I then dropped the other seven pages attached to it (all taped together in a fan) and showed the judge where he said he stopped, 3 miles away, and the road the entire way there, with its 15 foot shoulders, and rougly 15 driveways beforehand. Not Guilty. Now his truck isn't being fixed, and is going to be reposessed soon (loan without colission coverage = nono), and mine is.
Of course, the cop was pissed off that I won. He still refused to press charges against the other driver for hit-and-run.
Sounds like Beta vs S-VHS, lol.
$1600 a month?
I'm a janitor. Summer job. I wish.
Ok. =) Sorry. Just being a pissy American.
You'd rather have the UN try and run it? I sure don't put much faith in them.
so it's ours. Dont like it? Get the fuck out.
... it raises my blood pressure.
You motherfucking slimy capitalist piece of SHIT!
How DARE you even THINK that punishing a hacker by death is fair.
Look at the analogy this way: You left your house with the windows unlocked, a few wide open, and the front door bolted securely with a paperclip. Somebody robbed you. That man gets probably tops 1 year in jail. Why? BECAUSE YOU'RE A MORON! YOU LEFT YOUR SHIT UNSECURED!
I know you stupid flunkie businessmen seem to think that you don't own your shit, with your Digital Rights Management, leases, service contracts, and all that bullshit, but that's part of capitalism: YOU DO. You FUCKING OWN THE COMPUTERS THESE VIRUSES ARE INFECTING. PROTECT THEM. If you don't change your oil in your car, your motor will sieze. If you take it to the dealership and say it's their fault, they'll laugh you all the way to the used car lot.
$10B in economic damage? Here's a hint: There'd be no damage if you'd be vigilant.
Stupid fucks. Maybe you should be the ones on death row for allowing so much economic damage.
therefore probably causing a few trucks to be late. maybe $10,000 in economic damage. Should I be jailed?
I was joking. :P
Actually, I knew about the effect already: My step-grandfather (huge extended family) used to do it when he was in the Army, he said it warmed him up. He died of prostate cancer. Hmm.
Police? Protect and serve? Ha.
I was hit over a month ago by a hit and run driver. I called the cops, and the old man showed up at the station. I had his plate number, he DID NOT have mine.
He says I cut him off, slammed into him when he tried to pass, and then got ahead of him.
Hmm, then I couldn't have his plate number unless I was telepathic. Guess who the moron cop believed? Not me.
This is one example of many (On the other side of the pond). I don't waste my time with the bastards anymore.
Ask the dead people? Show me how.
Ah, grasshopper. This is America, you have missed some things:
Problem 1: Will it get too hot and burn a petty-lawsuit-starting lawyer?
Problem 2: No matter how harmless the CaO, will it ever leak out from container failure?
Problem 3: Will the FDA be OK with out materials?
Problem 4: How do we make it simple to use?
That's 4 problems in 10 seconds I thought of. Give them 31536000 times longer, and I'm sure they can come up with more.
Actually, the 4.6l V8 in my 1994 Ford Thunderbird gets 25MPG on the highway, according to the EPA. The car weighs over 3800lbs. And this is an 11 year old car.
I wouldn't say they do too bad.
Dear recording and movie industries:
Welcome to July 2005. Any venture taken at selling movies or music over the internet will result in higher piracy. You're a day late, and a dollar short. The ship has sailed, the fat lady has sung. It's now too easy and too ingrained into most people's minds that it's free on p2p anyway, and they can watch it in their normal player. They're used to it. Sure, you'll have buyers, but you're not making pirates go away.
You're DAMN RIGHT I do!
My family has been over here for centuries, as have other families. Meanwhile, over in Africa, they're telling eachother that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. In China, they were letting the government walk all over them, telling them that freedom is bad. In Taiwan, they were too busy using crack and sleeping with prostitutes to notice the Industrial Revolution go whizzing by. And now, I'm being told that since these third world countries are willing to work in shit conditions for shit pay because, well, their ancestors couldn't give two shits about what they did, I'm going to have to take a pay cut or worse, lose my job.
I DO deserve the quality of life that I enjoy here in America, and I DO deserve the freedom, pay, and good job conditions that I get too. My parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents all fought and worked long and hard for it. Many died in the military for it. Do you think the only thing on their mind was themselves? That they didn't care about the future, about what their descendants would have to deal with? Guess what, buddy, they did. It's July motherfuckin' Fourth and I just got off of work. ON A FEDERAL HOLIDAY. If you think for ONE SECOND that Americans are lazy, well, we're not. Most of us DO work long and hard for our money, and it pisses us off to no great end when some country that had nothing better to do but shoot at eachother and get doped up for the past two centuries comes and takes all our jobs away.
If those motherfuckers overseas are willing to work for shit pay and live in shit housing and breathe heavy metals and asbestos all day, they have nobody to blame but THEMSELVES. Americans have ALWAYS worked hard since the founding of this country, and now, we're telling the powers that be that we're not willing to get paid shit and work in hazardous conditions anymore. We've done it for decades upon decades now, the upper-class has all the money they could ever need, and it's time to start sharing. Instead, they're moving on to the next shithole country to rip people off.
Want someone over here in America to be mad at? The upper class. The families that got where they are today by squandering money off of everyone else. You're damn right the working-class of America is pissed off about outsourcing, we put our blood, sweat, and tears into our work to see our employers say, "Sorry, you're not cheap enough!" and send the jobs over to India and us to the unemployment center.
Thanks. Milk just went up my nose.
I remember being in about 4th grade, and the school got a new lab full of LC-III's. The principal walked in, and saw not one flying toaster. What he saw was a hundred skylines and a message "not enough memory".
To this day, I've never seen anyone get that mad at a toaster, especially a flying one.