Actually yes, a buisness cannot call a cell for non-solitided promotional reasons even if there is a prexisting buisness relationship. Of course this assumes they know its a cellphone. If you give them your cellphone number without telling them its a cellphone they will call it. You should then tell them that this is a cellphone and not to call for solisitations (spelling?). If they call again they have broken the law.
You should still be able to report them to the FTC at donotcall.gov BUT, I've been getting the same prerecorded messages myself, and I know they are illigal, but the donotcall.gov site freezes up whenever I try to submit a complaint. Anyone else have this problem?
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Seriously, drinking desalted urine is actually an acceptable method for dealing with a lack of water. And a bit of salt water isn't going to kill you unless you are already dehydrated. And these guys wern't planning on experimenting while dehydrated.
Pollution credits arn't such a bad idea really if the price is set high enough. It works as such, set the price equal to the cost of cleanup. Set the cost slightly higher than the cost of planting trees (not just buying up existing trees) to get rid of the polution. If paid to the government require the government to spend this money on the environment or parks. Smart companies will realize that they can either plant trees themselfs cheaper, or for even a bigger savings in money they will apply new technologies to reduce their emissions. Of course set cost on a local environment so a company can't get away with averaging thier several large and small pollution factors.
On a world view, yes you are correct (not about the Christian references remember name calling gets you nowhere) the US doesn't deserve the right to emit more pollution than any place else. But on a more serious side I don't see how your going to convense any government that such a thing would be a good idea. Ever nation that signed it would be have very minimal finanical impact. There is such a thing as soverignty among nations.
Dude, "don't confuse the sitution with facts" is a joke. It means don't confuse those poor saps who believe in the Kyoto treaty just because the facts don't support it.
Of course my system was for True Direct Democracy, I don't really see the reason to set up a large Direct Democracy infrastructure, if its simply going to be used as a check and not to get anything done.
Hmm Direct Democracy, but as a balance, interesting idea. Some thoughts. Of course the cost of having polls be open all the time is astronomical I guess it could be payed for by a local poll tax. Either way you have 2 ways this can be done. 1. Computer voting, please remember the digital divide. Yes most everyone can access a computer occasionally, but not everyone has access on a regular basis. 2. Poll voting, not everyone has the time to drive down to the polls on a regular basis.
I actually wrote up a system a while back that these problems could be overcome, for a term paper. Not gonna bother looking for it. Either way I'll break it down for you.
We set up a system of proxies, whereby if an individual doesn't have time to vote however your proxy voted is how you vote. This of course could only be handled well through computer voting, but we obviously could set up "polling" stations with free use of computers for this purpose. The proxie could be your best friend who you trust and has a good mind for politics. But you may feel that the best proxie would be someone who spends all of their time researching the issues so you would need some people who make it their job to be proxies. These people could campain in a simular way as our current representatives campain but they arn't elected, just choosen as a representative by the people under their proxy system. You could even have a system of taxes that would pay proxies some small amount of money per person so as to allow that person to make it their fulltime job.
Really whats the point. Few are going to check this. Also you can doctor the punchcard or optical scan machine also. But as long as there is a paper ballot that you manually put into a paper ballot box so that the totals can be compared. Why care if the machine is tampered with. This would quickly get discovered in spot checks, and be plainly obvious if a statewide count got done because of discrepancies.
Actually we do, luckly the vote isn't federalized, so local election boards made these bad decisions. The choices of these local boards can be heavily effected by local outrage. Sadly the outrage either didn't happen, or happend too late to change anything. For all those calling on a federalized popular vote, what would happen when the federal government votes itself corrupted voting machines. We would be screwed. Of course people hopfully would revolt, but they might not.
As theoretically all traffic should move at 35 mph if it got congested I assume one would simply have to build a bigger station that could hold more cars. Obviously if you had a situation where everyone wanted to go to a few select parts of the track creating congestion on those parts the best solution is to actually decrease the total number of cars on the entire track untill you can build more track to aliviate the problem. Its best that someone get stuck waiting on a platform than the entire system slows down. People would generally be able to estimate wait times then by lines at the station and choose another method, ie Taxi.
When someone said a picture was worth a thousand words they wern't joking. Comeon man who is gonna read this. Atleast point to an information brocure or something slightly easier to read. Anyways how does it work? What are you personal experiences with such a system.
Assuming the motor is on the car and not on the track, which could be possible also, I guess cars could push eachother along.
The cars apparently are designed not to collide where two tracks merge, so I assume collisions could be avoided if one breaks down. On the second part I guess one car could slowly push the car onfront of it, and the deposit the car onto a station so other cars could continue on their way. Obviously the station would then have to be shutdown then, but it would still be better than the current system of stalling. Stations could possibly have a third off ramp for removal of broken cars.
Nothing says you can't ride it alone. These cars will probably be designed on a per care cost basic instead of per person. So you pay for the car, if you want to split the car fine. But you don't have to.
Not really, the "density" difference is due to water forming a crystal like structure when it freezes. When it does this it expands, which decreases its density. Obviously when it is heated back up it contracts. Many materials do this over small temperature frames where by moving their molecules are allowed to fit closer together.
RTFL. They said the theoretical right mix of expanding and contracting elements which would produce zero change is what the ultimatly are wanting to develop. This is the first material that contracts over large temperature ranges, so it may be perfect for such a mix. Obviously they are still working on it.
Not sure if the pay is free or not, but they have a credits system for buying items. Prices are insanly high. I just don't see people paying out the nose for items in a text based world. (why people pay for them in graphical world either I don't know)
Have you tried it? As the entire protection system is based on it being encypted, I seriously doupt they did anything to protect the disk. It should copy perfectly.
Technically yes, but as the CD is completly encypted and you have to login to steam to unencypt it, it is protected. Just well, different. Though given I guess a backup of the CD will work as good as the original. Is this what you mean?
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Actually yes, a buisness cannot call a cell for non-solitided promotional reasons even if there is a prexisting buisness relationship. Of course this assumes they know its a cellphone. If you give them your cellphone number without telling them its a cellphone they will call it. You should then tell them that this is a cellphone and not to call for solisitations (spelling?). If they call again they have broken the law.
You should still be able to report them to the FTC at donotcall.gov BUT, I've been getting the same prerecorded messages myself, and I know they are illigal, but the donotcall.gov site freezes up whenever I try to submit a complaint. Anyone else have this problem?
Seriously, drinking desalted urine is actually an acceptable method for dealing with a lack of water. And a bit of salt water isn't going to kill you unless you are already dehydrated. And these guys wern't planning on experimenting while dehydrated.
Pollution credits arn't such a bad idea really if the price is set high enough. It works as such, set the price equal to the cost of cleanup. Set the cost slightly higher than the cost of planting trees (not just buying up existing trees) to get rid of the polution. If paid to the government require the government to spend this money on the environment or parks. Smart companies will realize that they can either plant trees themselfs cheaper, or for even a bigger savings in money they will apply new technologies to reduce their emissions. Of course set cost on a local environment so a company can't get away with averaging thier several large and small pollution factors.
On a world view, yes you are correct (not about the Christian references remember name calling gets you nowhere) the US doesn't deserve the right to emit more pollution than any place else. But on a more serious side I don't see how your going to convense any government that such a thing would be a good idea. Ever nation that signed it would be have very minimal finanical impact. There is such a thing as soverignty among nations.
Why? From an environmental position, it will just move polution to someone elses backyard.
Or where you just joking, if you were I don't get it.
Dude, "don't confuse the sitution with facts" is a joke. It means don't confuse those poor saps who believe in the Kyoto treaty just because the facts don't support it.
Yes, but local boards still could have bought systems but they didn't. I'm guessing it was a matter of not enough time rather than corruption.
Of course my system was for True Direct Democracy, I don't really see the reason to set up a large Direct Democracy infrastructure, if its simply going to be used as a check and not to get anything done.
Hmm Direct Democracy, but as a balance, interesting idea. Some thoughts.
Of course the cost of having polls be open all the time is astronomical I guess it could be payed for by a local poll tax.
Either way you have 2 ways this can be done.
1. Computer voting, please remember the digital divide. Yes most everyone can access a computer occasionally, but not everyone has access on a regular basis.
2. Poll voting, not everyone has the time to drive down to the polls on a regular basis.
I actually wrote up a system a while back that these problems could be overcome, for a term paper. Not gonna bother looking for it. Either way I'll break it down for you.
We set up a system of proxies, whereby if an individual doesn't have time to vote however your proxy voted is how you vote. This of course could only be handled well through computer voting, but we obviously could set up "polling" stations with free use of computers for this purpose.
The proxie could be your best friend who you trust and has a good mind for politics. But you may feel that the best proxie would be someone who spends all of their time researching the issues so you would need some people who make it their job to be proxies. These people could campain in a simular way as our current representatives campain but they arn't elected, just choosen as a representative by the people under their proxy system. You could even have a system of taxes that would pay proxies some small amount of money per person so as to allow that person to make it their fulltime job.
DREW of Slashdot proxy!
I'm pretty sure congress people are legally allowed to meet with any leader of any nation. As long as the meeting is not kept secret.
Really whats the point. Few are going to check this. Also you can doctor the punchcard or optical scan machine also. But as long as there is a paper ballot that you manually put into a paper ballot box so that the totals can be compared. Why care if the machine is tampered with. This would quickly get discovered in spot checks, and be plainly obvious if a statewide count got done because of discrepancies.
Actually we do, luckly the vote isn't federalized, so local election boards made these bad decisions. The choices of these local boards can be heavily effected by local outrage. Sadly the outrage either didn't happen, or happend too late to change anything. For all those calling on a federalized popular vote, what would happen when the federal government votes itself corrupted voting machines. We would be screwed. Of course people hopfully would revolt, but they might not.
As theoretically all traffic should move at 35 mph if it got congested I assume one would simply have to build a bigger station that could hold more cars. Obviously if you had a situation where everyone wanted to go to a few select parts of the track creating congestion on those parts the best solution is to actually decrease the total number of cars on the entire track untill you can build more track to aliviate the problem. Its best that someone get stuck waiting on a platform than the entire system slows down. People would generally be able to estimate wait times then by lines at the station and choose another method, ie Taxi.
Seriously, this isn't intended to replace cars but more for comuters and individuals. If you've got a lot of people get an SUV.
When someone said a picture was worth a thousand words they wern't joking. Comeon man who is gonna read this. Atleast point to an information brocure or something slightly easier to read. Anyways how does it work? What are you personal experiences with such a system.
Assuming the motor is on the car and not on the track, which could be possible also, I guess cars could push eachother along.
The cars apparently are designed not to collide where two tracks merge, so I assume collisions could be avoided if one breaks down. On the second part I guess one car could slowly push the car onfront of it, and the deposit the car onto a station so other cars could continue on their way. Obviously the station would then have to be shutdown then, but it would still be better than the current system of stalling. Stations could possibly have a third off ramp for removal of broken cars.
Nothing says you can't ride it alone. These cars will probably be designed on a per care cost basic instead of per person. So you pay for the car, if you want to split the car fine. But you don't have to.
Not really, the "density" difference is due to water forming a crystal like structure when it freezes. When it does this it expands, which decreases its density. Obviously when it is heated back up it contracts. Many materials do this over small temperature frames where by moving their molecules are allowed to fit closer together.
Yes, but its over a very small temperature range, past that it expands into steam. This material contracts over a fairly large temperature range.
RTFL. They said the theoretical right mix of expanding and contracting elements which would produce zero change is what the ultimatly are wanting to develop. This is the first material that contracts over large temperature ranges, so it may be perfect for such a mix. Obviously they are still working on it.
Not sure if the pay is free or not, but they have a credits system for buying items. Prices are insanly high. I just don't see people paying out the nose for items in a text based world. (why people pay for them in graphical world either I don't know)
http://www.achaea.com/credits.htm
I kept on reading that ase Age of Consention..
Oh well.
Have you tried it? As the entire protection system is based on it being encypted, I seriously doupt they did anything to protect the disk. It should copy perfectly.
Technically yes, but as the CD is completly encypted and you have to login to steam to unencypt it, it is protected. Just well, different.
Though given I guess a backup of the CD will work as good as the original. Is this what you mean?