Why do I see an increase in sales for custom contact lenses like Marilyn Manson etc. wear? Can you be compelled to remove a contact lens for a photograph?
Absolutely agreed. The liquid-bomb group was discovered and stopped by the British authorities through standard police work, which argues that the previous scans plus locking/reinforcing the cockpit doors plus the knowledge that you may die so you might as well attack the hijackers will stop any future hijackings.
Expand your question: has the TSA stopped any actual terrorism attempt? DHS claims that DHS has, but they can't tell us about it because that would be leaking information to the terrorists, as if the terrorist leaders wouldn't know an operation went pear-shaped when there wasn't an earth-shattering kaboom and they lost all contact with their cell. If a TSA checkpoint actually captured a high-value bad guy, you'd have a dozen or more cell phones shooting video and taking pictures, and they wouldn't be able to confiscate them all: we would know.
Me, I'm stuck. I've flown five times since 9/11, largely because of the increased security, and I'm getting on a plane in 4 hours for my annual trip to NIH (I'm in a study program). We were planning on driving cross-country (and taking a little vacation up to Maine) in order to avoid this TSA shit, but their scheduling couldn't be done in a sufficiently timely manner in order to mesh with my wife's work schedule, so I'm stuck and have to drive. Still, they're going to have to grope me: I am not going to go through one of those damn machines, especially since I've been told people with immunodeficiencies like me are radiologically-sensitive and having one genetic problem is more than enough, thenkyewveddymuch.
There was an episode of the original series where one of the villains plants a bomb in the batmobile set if the speedometer hit 60 MPH (or something, like 5 over the limit) and Robin was learning to drive. Bats was very preachy making sure Robin obeyed all traffic laws including the speed limit, so the bomb remained unboomed and eventually discovered.
A lot of taxes actually trickle down from the state level. Take a look at a municipality's budget some time, and you may see state taxes in addition to local taxes. It's sometimes about the only way that some tiny municipalities can continue to function as they don't have a big enough local tax base to provide minimal service.
2008 he was doing Not The Messiah, He's A Very Naughty Boy. I picked up the DVD and was sadly disappointed. It was amusing, quite amusing in parts, but overall I'd rather watch the movie. IMDB lists it as a 2010 release, so he might have been quite busy with the DVD production. He was always a bit of an outsider even during MPFS production, he was a year behind Cleese and Chapman at Cambridge and didn't really write with them when they were developing sketches for The Circus.
My MacBook Pro has Num Lock on F6, I can't speak to later models as mine is 4 years old and my wife's, which also has a Num Lock, is 3 years old. I have to keep my function keys enabled for using Win XP under Parallels for work so I have to use the fn key to activate it.
Pascal is a wonderful system. I was working for a play-by-mail game company in the early 80's and their new programs were being written on Northstar CP-M machines running the UCSD P system which was both an OS and development language. They're still running the same code on modern hardware. That is absolutely awesome.
That is my hope, that it will be available in physical form. I want a copy of that disk in my hand, plus I want the family pack as we have three laptops right now. I maintain very good backups, but I still want that disk.
(A) I explicitly have text messaging blocked, sending or receiving, on our cell phones.
(B) I don't have a home phone, just a cell. I also don't have a work phone per se as I telecommute, and that wouldn't pass the caller ID/location trace test.
I lived in AZ for over 40 years, moved away 6 years ago to NM. I remember when "Sheriff Joe" was doing a crackdown in one of the Eastern Phoenix valley towns, I don't recall if it was Guadalupe or Chandler or where. A Hispanic woman was pulled over, the officer addressed her in Spanish. She was a bilingual legal American, so she answered him in Spanish. For that she was detained for over 4 hours while they tried to prove she was an illegal.
The problem is that something you might consider useless now might be valuable later, and trying to distinguish which is which is quite the trick. I took 2.5 years of accounting in high school in the late 70's and it's served me quite well as a database programmer in understanding aspects of ERP systems that could be problematic. At that time, I had no idea that I'd end up specializing in database, much less what a database was.
The point of general education is to expose students to areas they may have never seen before and thus have a chance of the student developing new interests. They may not be useful now, but they might be useful in the future. Of course, there's no guarantee of that.
My wife bought me a gorgeous set of German knives for our anniversary a few years back, and I find myself consistently using two: 6" chef's and a 3" paring knife. On rare occasion I'll use others, for example, an el cheapo santoku for cutting up the dog's pills, but those two are my go-to knives.
I remember when I was a teenager just getting in to photography in the late 70's. We were at a county fair somewhere and some guy was walking around with a Nikon 35mm around his neck. I asked him if it was an FM or an FE (at the time you could only tell them apart by looking at them top-down). He had no idea, he just bought it because his son thought he needed a camera, and he had to buy Nikon.
A craftsman can make wonders out of poor tools, an idiot will usually make mediocre garbage out of expensive tools. It's definitely the skill of the craftsman that makes the diff.
We just replaced a static site with CMS and distributed content authors, I think we're over 12,000 pages, so not a truly huge site. I conducted Stage 1 training last week for a new bunch of authors, basic HTML, more advanced HTML, and CSS. I was quite pleased that 5 of the 7 who took the subsequent test scored over 90%.
CMS and distributed content authors is definitely the way to go for large sites. It took forever getting content edited or added under the old structure, but part of the reason for that was the person doing the updates had other duties and was not a web/HTML expert.
One thing that I really like DW for is site management. It's so easy to modify a page and squirt it up to the server. With it also maintaining the directory structure, I think it's pretty sweet. I just learned CSS (or the fundamentals thereof) two weeks ago, so I'll be looking at tuning up my sites and we'll see how much I like DW when I'm done with that.
Thank you for mentioning TextMate, I'll be checking it out. I've been using TextWrangler since I went Mac 4 years ago and haven't been too impressed. I cut my teeth on B.R.I.E.F. and am using TextPad on my work Windows machines.
Funny thing is, I recently came across my install files for Brief. It still works under XP command boxes! Doesn't have long file name support, but the R does stand for Reconfigurable....
Ditto. 4 year old MBP with 4 gig of ram. Wakes up almost instantly, goes to sleep pretty quick.
I am seriously considering getting an Air with maxxed ram and SSD. A friend of mine said it boots, not just wakes, almost instantly. At work I watched our help desk guys configure SSDs in their Win 7 desktops, watching Win 7 boot from cold to login in about 4 seconds was very impressive. The advantage to using an Air with SSD that doing full disk encryption is more viable since the shutdown would log you out and re-secure the volume, which sleeping while logged in would not.
Years ago I wrote an HTML generator in Microsoft Access. I had a large number of jokes, I could plug them in to a database and it would generate web pages that had one joke and first, last, previous, next links. Worked pretty slick, I still have the code around somewhere.
Then again, I write binary digital clocks to test out new programming languages that I'm learning, so I freely admit to being more than a little strange.
It depends on the state and sometimes the age of the vehicle. Arizona has emissions inspections, during which your mileage is logged. I then moved to New Mexico which only has emission testing in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Arizona also exempts new cars for a few years.
Personally, I wish NM would test state-wide. It would increase employment and add local economic stimulus if local mechanics were certified to conduct tests. I see too many of what I call "coal burners" pumping out horrible emissions and they have no incentive, carrot or stick, to get their car fixed. No, most of NM doesn't have air pollution problems, but I don't think that should be carte blanche to pollute indiscriminately.
I helped develop a payroll database pre-process for a police department, it took overtime and leave forms used by everyone in the PD and turned it in to codes used by the City's mainframe payroll system to cut checks. There were four different union contracts plus the standard city hourly/salary. The city brought in a Peoplesoft system and they wanted to integrate our pre-process into their system. We met with them and walked through how the contracts worked. It was such a joy to watch their happy faces get progressively more and more grim as we drilled in to the details and the Peoplesoft people just kept repeating "we can't do that."
I can definitely understand how complicated city payroll can be, but I don't understand how how they could let a project get so ridiculously out of control. I wonder if graft like this is typical of east coast government.
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I liked Robin Williams' line about Ronald Reagan: "He's a goddamned muppet!"
Wouldn't it be wonderful if it were so. And had I mod points, you would get them.
Why do I see an increase in sales for custom contact lenses like Marilyn Manson etc. wear? Can you be compelled to remove a contact lens for a photograph?
Absolutely agreed. The liquid-bomb group was discovered and stopped by the British authorities through standard police work, which argues that the previous scans plus locking/reinforcing the cockpit doors plus the knowledge that you may die so you might as well attack the hijackers will stop any future hijackings.
Expand your question: has the TSA stopped any actual terrorism attempt? DHS claims that DHS has, but they can't tell us about it because that would be leaking information to the terrorists, as if the terrorist leaders wouldn't know an operation went pear-shaped when there wasn't an earth-shattering kaboom and they lost all contact with their cell. If a TSA checkpoint actually captured a high-value bad guy, you'd have a dozen or more cell phones shooting video and taking pictures, and they wouldn't be able to confiscate them all: we would know.
Me, I'm stuck. I've flown five times since 9/11, largely because of the increased security, and I'm getting on a plane in 4 hours for my annual trip to NIH (I'm in a study program). We were planning on driving cross-country (and taking a little vacation up to Maine) in order to avoid this TSA shit, but their scheduling couldn't be done in a sufficiently timely manner in order to mesh with my wife's work schedule, so I'm stuck and have to drive. Still, they're going to have to grope me: I am not going to go through one of those damn machines, especially since I've been told people with immunodeficiencies like me are radiologically-sensitive and having one genetic problem is more than enough, thenkyewveddymuch.
There was an episode of the original series where one of the villains plants a bomb in the batmobile set if the speedometer hit 60 MPH (or something, like 5 over the limit) and Robin was learning to drive. Bats was very preachy making sure Robin obeyed all traffic laws including the speed limit, so the bomb remained unboomed and eventually discovered.
A lot of taxes actually trickle down from the state level. Take a look at a municipality's budget some time, and you may see state taxes in addition to local taxes. It's sometimes about the only way that some tiny municipalities can continue to function as they don't have a big enough local tax base to provide minimal service.
2008 he was doing Not The Messiah, He's A Very Naughty Boy. I picked up the DVD and was sadly disappointed. It was amusing, quite amusing in parts, but overall I'd rather watch the movie. IMDB lists it as a 2010 release, so he might have been quite busy with the DVD production. He was always a bit of an outsider even during MPFS production, he was a year behind Cleese and Chapman at Cambridge and didn't really write with them when they were developing sketches for The Circus.
What, slow banter?!
My MacBook Pro has Num Lock on F6, I can't speak to later models as mine is 4 years old and my wife's, which also has a Num Lock, is 3 years old. I have to keep my function keys enabled for using Win XP under Parallels for work so I have to use the fn key to activate it.
Pascal is a wonderful system. I was working for a play-by-mail game company in the early 80's and their new programs were being written on Northstar CP-M machines running the UCSD P system which was both an OS and development language. They're still running the same code on modern hardware. That is absolutely awesome.
Thanks! I haven't watched the keynote, I appreciate the info. I bought family packs for previous upgrades.
That is my hope, that it will be available in physical form. I want a copy of that disk in my hand, plus I want the family pack as we have three laptops right now. I maintain very good backups, but I still want that disk.
(A) I explicitly have text messaging blocked, sending or receiving, on our cell phones.
(B) I don't have a home phone, just a cell. I also don't have a work phone per se as I telecommute, and that wouldn't pass the caller ID/location trace test.
How would I register?
I lived in AZ for over 40 years, moved away 6 years ago to NM. I remember when "Sheriff Joe" was doing a crackdown in one of the Eastern Phoenix valley towns, I don't recall if it was Guadalupe or Chandler or where. A Hispanic woman was pulled over, the officer addressed her in Spanish. She was a bilingual legal American, so she answered him in Spanish. For that she was detained for over 4 hours while they tried to prove she was an illegal.
The problem is that something you might consider useless now might be valuable later, and trying to distinguish which is which is quite the trick. I took 2.5 years of accounting in high school in the late 70's and it's served me quite well as a database programmer in understanding aspects of ERP systems that could be problematic. At that time, I had no idea that I'd end up specializing in database, much less what a database was.
The point of general education is to expose students to areas they may have never seen before and thus have a chance of the student developing new interests. They may not be useful now, but they might be useful in the future. Of course, there's no guarantee of that.
My wife bought me a gorgeous set of German knives for our anniversary a few years back, and I find myself consistently using two: 6" chef's and a 3" paring knife. On rare occasion I'll use others, for example, an el cheapo santoku for cutting up the dog's pills, but those two are my go-to knives.
I remember when I was a teenager just getting in to photography in the late 70's. We were at a county fair somewhere and some guy was walking around with a Nikon 35mm around his neck. I asked him if it was an FM or an FE (at the time you could only tell them apart by looking at them top-down). He had no idea, he just bought it because his son thought he needed a camera, and he had to buy Nikon.
A craftsman can make wonders out of poor tools, an idiot will usually make mediocre garbage out of expensive tools. It's definitely the skill of the craftsman that makes the diff.
We just replaced a static site with CMS and distributed content authors, I think we're over 12,000 pages, so not a truly huge site. I conducted Stage 1 training last week for a new bunch of authors, basic HTML, more advanced HTML, and CSS. I was quite pleased that 5 of the 7 who took the subsequent test scored over 90%.
CMS and distributed content authors is definitely the way to go for large sites. It took forever getting content edited or added under the old structure, but part of the reason for that was the person doing the updates had other duties and was not a web/HTML expert.
One thing that I really like DW for is site management. It's so easy to modify a page and squirt it up to the server. With it also maintaining the directory structure, I think it's pretty sweet. I just learned CSS (or the fundamentals thereof) two weeks ago, so I'll be looking at tuning up my sites and we'll see how much I like DW when I'm done with that.
Thank you for mentioning TextMate, I'll be checking it out. I've been using TextWrangler since I went Mac 4 years ago and haven't been too impressed. I cut my teeth on B.R.I.E.F. and am using TextPad on my work Windows machines.
Funny thing is, I recently came across my install files for Brief. It still works under XP command boxes! Doesn't have long file name support, but the R does stand for Reconfigurable....
Ditto. 4 year old MBP with 4 gig of ram. Wakes up almost instantly, goes to sleep pretty quick.
I am seriously considering getting an Air with maxxed ram and SSD. A friend of mine said it boots, not just wakes, almost instantly. At work I watched our help desk guys configure SSDs in their Win 7 desktops, watching Win 7 boot from cold to login in about 4 seconds was very impressive. The advantage to using an Air with SSD that doing full disk encryption is more viable since the shutdown would log you out and re-secure the volume, which sleeping while logged in would not.
Years ago I wrote an HTML generator in Microsoft Access. I had a large number of jokes, I could plug them in to a database and it would generate web pages that had one joke and first, last, previous, next links. Worked pretty slick, I still have the code around somewhere.
Then again, I write binary digital clocks to test out new programming languages that I'm learning, so I freely admit to being more than a little strange.
It depends on the state and sometimes the age of the vehicle. Arizona has emissions inspections, during which your mileage is logged. I then moved to New Mexico which only has emission testing in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Arizona also exempts new cars for a few years.
Personally, I wish NM would test state-wide. It would increase employment and add local economic stimulus if local mechanics were certified to conduct tests. I see too many of what I call "coal burners" pumping out horrible emissions and they have no incentive, carrot or stick, to get their car fixed. No, most of NM doesn't have air pollution problems, but I don't think that should be carte blanche to pollute indiscriminately.
I helped develop a payroll database pre-process for a police department, it took overtime and leave forms used by everyone in the PD and turned it in to codes used by the City's mainframe payroll system to cut checks. There were four different union contracts plus the standard city hourly/salary. The city brought in a Peoplesoft system and they wanted to integrate our pre-process into their system. We met with them and walked through how the contracts worked. It was such a joy to watch their happy faces get progressively more and more grim as we drilled in to the details and the Peoplesoft people just kept repeating "we can't do that."
I can definitely understand how complicated city payroll can be, but I don't understand how how they could let a project get so ridiculously out of control. I wonder if graft like this is typical of east coast government.