Americans weren't previously this bad, but 9/11 and the government's call to report anything out of the ordinary caused us to lose rationality. The fact that this continues to happen isn't really a surprise.
It sounds like this was thought up by autism-spectrum techies (like myself) who prefer to relate to machines.
Personally, I prefer the bag that's best appropriate for the job at hand. I'll use either or both, depending on what's being carried:
I'll put round produce in plastic bags, as they don't stack well in a squarish paper bag.
I'll put smaller frozen things in plastic bags because the condensation on them may dissolve cheap paper bags on the way home.
Larger frozen things like pizza in a box go in a paper bag with a plastic bag liner so the plastic bag won't tear.
Most everything else goes in paper.
(We reuse these bags later by using them to hold garbage and recycling, as our garbage and recycling pickups require plastic and paper containers, respectively.)
None of the above preferences can be encoded in a simple "paper or plastic" preference on a credit card. Plus, I don't hand over my credit card until payment is requested, so putting that preference on the card is stupid.
If I ever see any sign that I am contributing to the problem, I will stop immediately or will change what I'm doing. So far, there is no such sign.
You've been made aware of the backscatter problem, it's been explained how your activities will contribute to this, but you'll only stop when a recipient of your emails comes up and testifies that you've contributed to the problem?
This sounds suspiciously like an excuse a spammer might make for sending out unsolicited advertisements. Be careful that you don't become the enemy you claim to be fighting.
But the recipient, it at least many cases, isn't the person who sent the message!
If I ever see this to be a problem, I'll find something else. But if I can't even find any indication that any third person has ever received one of the responses, I'm not going to worry about it.
In-use addresses in the domains I control are often forged into outbound spams and the amount of backscatter I get back from that is within the same order of magnitude as the spam now. Thanks ever so much for deliberately contributing to the problem.
Unless your auto reply script is only responding to certain emails that clearly do have a reply address which will be read by the spammer, odds are very good you're spamming people yourself.
This is exactly why I've finally decided to start treating backscatter the same as spam and reporting it as well. In cases of foreign language backscatter, it's very difficult to tell between it and the foreign language spam anyway.
I know 'elite' is a bad word in politics. But the job you're applying for, if you get it and it goes well, they might carve your head into a mountain. If you don't actually think you're better than us, then what the f**k are you doing? In fact, not only do I want an elite president, I want someone who's embarrassingly superior to me, somebody who speaks 16 languages and sleeps two hours a night hanging upside down in a chamber they themselves designed.
In the '06 elections, the Democrats won overwhelmingly, taking back control of both houses of Congress.
A 49%/49%/2% split in the Senate and a slight 54%/46% majority in the House is not what I would call "overwhelming" in any fashion. If you're looking for activity, you shouldn't look to a body that's evenly split on one side and without a veto-proof majority on the other side.
why (until recently) were we actually paying for oil on the open market to put back into the ground in the strategic reserve. I suspect we are the only country on earth doing something so silly. Stockpiling a commodity you expect to get scarce and expensive, even for just short peaks, is not silly, it's fiscally sound.
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Teradata may have crossed the 1-petabyte mark by now too.
Sounds like it was precipitously named, then.
This isn't a settlement, this looks like she paid $750 x 8 for the songs.
A mutually-agreed-to set of actions that ends the lawsuit is indeed a settlement.
To me, not sure who said it, but the qoute goes like this: "anyone who claims they understand QM does not understand it."
This seems to be more generally true, not just for QM.
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
Recall, Bruce Schneier calls this "The War on the Unexepcted".
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html
Americans weren't previously this bad, but 9/11 and the government's call to report anything out of the ordinary caused us to lose rationality. The fact that this continues to happen isn't really a surprise.
Also on Cygwin and the Debian GNU/Hurd system, which is not Linux.
FYI, Cygwin is intended to be a Linux-like environment on top of Windows.
It sounds like this was thought up by autism-spectrum techies (like myself) who prefer to relate to machines.
Personally, I prefer the bag that's best appropriate for the job at hand. I'll use either or both, depending on what's being carried:
(We reuse these bags later by using them to hold garbage and recycling, as our garbage and recycling pickups require plastic and paper containers, respectively.)
None of the above preferences can be encoded in a simple "paper or plastic" preference on a credit card. Plus, I don't hand over my credit card until payment is requested, so putting that preference on the card is stupid.
This is the SECOND time its happened. More like deja vu than old news...Even reality has a dupe now and then.
No, those are glitches in the Matrix.
Wow. Perhaps Dan Brown should have checked Wikipedia for the Grail's location and saved himself a bit of time.
To my knowledge there is only 1 way to get money out of the Church. And it involves the M word.
Misappropriation? Mooching?
From the press release:
On April 28, 2008, Davidson was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 21 months (just under 2 years) in federal prison.
I'm sure glad they did that math for me. o_O
For the Democrats, it's "immoral" to own a gun, or to not open your wallet and support every other person in the country financially.
This is why people might refer to you as a Republican.
Argh, read the summary too shallowly before posting.
I wonder if their words are similar in meaning to "a few", "a bunch", and "lots".
Perhaps they're just big Terry Pratchett fans?
"And now for the newest hit from Men Without Morals, The SafeNet Dance."
"We can lie if we want to / We can contradict ourselves -"
*click*
Ugh, the music these days sucks.
That's why I chose a kung fu sufi [...]
I wasn't aware that Islamic mystics taught ancient Chinese martial arts. Good for them.
If I ever see any sign that I am contributing to the problem, I will stop immediately or will change what I'm doing. So far, there is no such sign.
You've been made aware of the backscatter problem, it's been explained how your activities will contribute to this, but you'll only stop when a recipient of your emails comes up and testifies that you've contributed to the problem?
This sounds suspiciously like an excuse a spammer might make for sending out unsolicited advertisements. Be careful that you don't become the enemy you claim to be fighting.
This bit is, of course, funnier if you've worked with coax Ethernet cabling.
CxO terms are pretty common for the top level in larger corporations.
This is often referred to as "C level", as in, "For this project to succeed, we need buy-in at C level."
But the recipient, it at least many cases, isn't the person who sent the message!
If I ever see this to be a problem, I'll find something else. But if I can't even find any indication that any third person has ever received one of the responses, I'm not going to worry about it.
In-use addresses in the domains I control are often forged into outbound spams and the amount of backscatter I get back from that is within the same order of magnitude as the spam now. Thanks ever so much for deliberately contributing to the problem.
Unless your auto reply script is only responding to certain emails that clearly do have a reply address which will be read by the spammer, odds are very good you're spamming people yourself.
This is exactly why I've finally decided to start treating backscatter the same as spam and reporting it as well. In cases of foreign language backscatter, it's very difficult to tell between it and the foreign language spam anyway.
TinLC
For those not understandng this,
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/TINLC.html
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/L/Lumber-Cartel.html
I know 'elite' is a bad word in politics. But the job you're applying for, if you get it and it goes well, they might carve your head into a mountain. If you don't actually think you're better than us, then what the f**k are you doing? In fact, not only do I want an elite president, I want someone who's embarrassingly superior to me, somebody who speaks 16 languages and sleeps two hours a night hanging upside down in a chamber they themselves designed.
- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, 4 April 2008
In the '06 elections, the Democrats won overwhelmingly, taking back control of both houses of Congress.
A 49%/49%/2% split in the Senate and a slight 54%/46% majority in the House is not what I would call "overwhelming" in any fashion. If you're looking for activity, you shouldn't look to a body that's evenly split on one side and without a veto-proof majority on the other side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110th_United_States_Congress
Blaming Congressional Democrats for not getting done what they wanted is highly disingenuous, regardless if you agree with them or not.
Any sort of contribution or gift to a politician, monetary or otherwise, will be seen as a bribe and prosecuted as high treason.
Impossible. Perhaps you've forgotten, but the Constitution enumerates what can be considered treason, and this isn't it.
From Article III, Section 3:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.