So you are saying taking out a window would be a good thing?
I'm not referring to someone trying to shoot someone and hitting the side of the plane. I'm saying if you allow guns on the plane, someone can use it to damage a critical portion of the plane.
I suppose you could anticipate that the criminal will announce to the plane what he intends to do before he does it.
But that only happens in lollipop land, also known as Hollywood.
The best option to improve security is to let people get training and a permit that allows them to carry a weapon anywhere. If you have a significant portion of the population armed at all times then the chance of terrorist getting much further than "I have a bom..." before someone drops them would reduce the chances of such act to virtually zero.
Apparently someone has not taken into account:
A. Airplanes are pressurized. B. Shooting a small hole in the side of the plane is a bad thing.
Your idea works wonderfully in lollipop land, but unfortunately we have to deal with the laws of physics.
Every once in a while Congress get's something right.
Prediction markets are pretty terrible at predicting. Instead what they show is the wisdom of the crowds.
If we were to create a prediction market for blu-ray over HD-DVD, it would have suddenly shifted to blu-ray winning by a greater margin right after Warner bros announced it was going blu-ray exclusive. Now how was that a prediction? It's not.
Then next week, when HD-DVD makes some announcement, the market will adjust back some other direction.
This is what I've seen with political markets. The market is a lagging indicator from polling data and news media coverage. It's not an actual predictor.
Wasn't my original intention. But I ended up selling my old rear projection screen and buy a Sharp 46d64u lcd flat panel.
I wanted a new DVD player with HDMI.(all my old ones were component video only) So I was looking around and they were like $100, or $200 for a good one.
Amazon was having a sale on the Toshiba HD-DVD. The A3 was around $200, and you got ten free movies. Researching it a bit, decided I needed the A35 unless I also wanted to upgrade my surround receiver. It was $299, but you got the ten free movies, and they were all decent movies most of which I don't have. So I figured for the extra $100 or so i was going to spend, I got about $150 in movies. Why not, just to try it.
I can get hidef disks thorugh Netflix. I have no intention on buying any more HD-DVDs until I see what happens with the formats, or players that play both HD and BR are cheap.
the HD-DVD player shows up later this week. Then I'll know if it's worthwhile or not.
In my opinion, from what I've seen of the specs and such, I'm more interested in the audio capabilities.
Asus might see the target market for these as business, in which case they're going to toss out the in the box mounts in favor of multi-display, swing arm mounts, or wall mount.
On a side note: Many of the things that/.er's complain about the government gettting mixed up in would have been slammed hard by Robert Bork. If he were on the court today he'd be telling Bush and Congress that neither have the authority to do a lot of what they have done.
Obviously you are unfamiliar with the Saturday Night Massacre, and how Robert Bork first made it into the history books.
That would probably explain it. Switching them on/off definately reduces their life time.
It would also explain the ridiculous long longevity ratings(5000-15000 hours?), because I'm sure this was measured by just leaving the lightbulbs on for months at a time.
When I first started installing these about 2-3 years ago, the CFLs were advertised as lasting much longer than regular light bulbs. Like 5,000 hours instead of 750 hours. But I'm finding them burning out at about the same rate.
The first ones, were some bulbs in a hallway that burned out after only around two years. I figured this was my fault because the motion sensing switch in that hallway was faulty and sometimes would flick the lights on and off. So I replaced the switch, and then the bulbs.
But then the bulb in the garage door opener burned out. That was the first one I put in about 4 years ago. Figuring an average of being on maybe 20 minutes a day for 4 years... That's only 486 hours. I would have expected a incadescent to burn out in that time period, especially since there's a bit of vibration.
But then this week, one of the bulbs in the entry way light burned out. It's just over a year old, and used maybe 30 minutes a day. We only use that light when we're preparing to take the dog out for a walk.
Now I understand that longevity is statistical, but I'm still shocked that these CFLs aren't really lasting any longer than incadescents. That's something of a pain, considering it's not easy to dispose of these bulbs. I have to take them over to the recyling center.
I used to keep a plain old phone around for just in case. But then I switched to Vonage, and doesn't matter much anyway. Even though my equipment is on a UPS, the Comcast stuff is not.
WHat he specifically was talking about was fraud in the totals reported from the local county and precincts. In the locales he was complaining about, those were all run by Democrats. It would go beyond belief to think that somehow the local election boards were reporting the "right" totals and somehow the State government was changing those totals without them noticing, so it's meaningless who was running the State.
I've never heard that complaint with regards to Ohio or Florida.
The complaints always had something to do with voter registration and polling locations. Issues that are handled at the state level, or at minimum the county. Hardly the precinct level.
I realize you wish to display your extreme partisanship by blindly defending people, but it doesn't really help the discussion move forward.
About one out of every 4 discs I get through netflix are damaged to the point of being unplayable. Half the time they're cracked, the other half they're scratched or chipped. I probably have a higher incidence of damage, as I tend to request older movies instead of new releases, but still...
The worst case was one which was cracked almost in half. I didn't realize it when I took it out of the wrapper and inserted it into my DVD player. The clanking sound as it tried to play was the first indication. The fact that the DVD player was damaged is what made me angry.
The most amazing one, and this was clearly netflix's fault, was a disk that had apparently been cleaned with sandpaper. You could see the circular scratches in the dvd showing quite clearly that it had been cleaned with a machine. I wonder how many discs they destroyed before they realized the cleaning pad was dirty?
I switched to Netflix because I was tired of the kiosks.
Kiosks have two problems:
#1 - Only one person can browse through the selection at a time, which creates tremendous lines #2 - They have an extremely limited number of movies
I just flat out got tired of standing in line only to find out that the movie i did want was all out.
Streaming movies isn't a threat until every house has a T3 with full bandwidth to the source. I watch TV shows from NBC streaming, and that's fine... but for a movie, I want the DVD experience at a minimum.
All right then. It's not worth buying. I'll stick with BF2. I've already unlocked all the weapons there, and they hardly make much difference anyway as I'm generally more effective with an AK-47 or M-16 than anything else. Plus the squad play is superior to most everything else out there.
This is practically a worthless review. Ohhh, the startup sequence is so pretty! ohhh... Who cares. In BF2 I deleted the movie files so I don't have to put up with that crap on startup.
The real question I have is how is multiplayer play? Nobody buys these games to play the singleplayer maps. That's lame ass boring. But there's always a difference between MP and SP. I tried singleplayer and thought it sucked, and I'm disappointed they didn't put up a multiplayer demo like BF2 and RTCW had done.(which is why they became so popular, BTW)
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So you are saying taking out a window would be a good thing?
I'm not referring to someone trying to shoot someone and hitting the side of the plane. I'm saying if you allow guns on the plane, someone can use it to damage a critical portion of the plane.
I suppose you could anticipate that the criminal will announce to the plane what he intends to do before he does it.
But that only happens in lollipop land, also known as Hollywood.
Apparently someone has not taken into account:
A. Airplanes are pressurized.
B. Shooting a small hole in the side of the plane is a bad thing.
Your idea works wonderfully in lollipop land, but unfortunately we have to deal with the laws of physics.
I don't see why you didn't. That's what the rest of us do.
Funny. If the Democrats had proposed it and the Republicans halted it, you'd be cheering that as proof that Republicans care about morals and values.
Take your partisan hackery elsewhere.
Did you notice the day after Obama did well in Iowa, there was a sudden storm front that hit the west coast?
He's running a Godless campaign, it happens most election years.
[hint: The market tanks because of a jobs report that came out from the labor dept]
Every once in a while Congress get's something right.
Prediction markets are pretty terrible at predicting. Instead what they show is the wisdom of the crowds.
If we were to create a prediction market for blu-ray over HD-DVD, it would have suddenly shifted to blu-ray winning by a greater margin right after Warner bros announced it was going blu-ray exclusive. Now how was that a prediction? It's not.
Then next week, when HD-DVD makes some announcement, the market will adjust back some other direction.
This is what I've seen with political markets. The market is a lagging indicator from polling data and news media coverage. It's not an actual predictor.
Well, that's been the prediction the last ten years, might as well be consistent.
Wasn't my original intention. But I ended up selling my old rear projection screen and buy a Sharp 46d64u lcd flat panel.
I wanted a new DVD player with HDMI.(all my old ones were component video only) So I was looking around and they were like $100, or $200 for a good one.
Amazon was having a sale on the Toshiba HD-DVD. The A3 was around $200, and you got ten free movies. Researching it a bit, decided I needed the A35 unless I also wanted to upgrade my surround receiver. It was $299, but you got the ten free movies, and they were all decent movies most of which I don't have. So I figured for the extra $100 or so i was going to spend, I got about $150 in movies. Why not, just to try it.
I can get hidef disks thorugh Netflix. I have no intention on buying any more HD-DVDs until I see what happens with the formats, or players that play both HD and BR are cheap.
the HD-DVD player shows up later this week. Then I'll know if it's worthwhile or not.
In my opinion, from what I've seen of the specs and such, I'm more interested in the audio capabilities.
Printers are going to break, people are going to be stuck in line waiting for a ballot to be printed.
What a wonderful clusterfuck this is going to turn out to be.
Rule says you can't have spare lithium battery = all batteries must be confiscated. Not our fault, they say, the Americans make us do this.
Just to be assholes, and help give America an even worse name.
So is the premise that everybody wants a super duper mount that rotates, tilts, height adjusts and plays sodoku.
Going back to... the nice thing about LCDs is you can buy your own mount.
Asus might see the target market for these as business, in which case they're going to toss out the in the box mounts in favor of multi-display, swing arm mounts, or wall mount.
Obviously you are unfamiliar with the Saturday Night Massacre, and how Robert Bork first made it into the history books.
Hasn't this always been true?
90% of the music I bought in the 1980s when I was a teen went to the trash.
That's the nice thing about LCDs... There is a standard mount, and you can buy any stand you want.
That would probably explain it. Switching them on/off definately reduces their life time.
It would also explain the ridiculous long longevity ratings(5000-15000 hours?), because I'm sure this was measured by just leaving the lightbulbs on for months at a time.
When I first started installing these about 2-3 years ago, the CFLs were advertised as lasting much longer than regular light bulbs. Like 5,000 hours instead of 750 hours. But I'm finding them burning out at about the same rate.
The first ones, were some bulbs in a hallway that burned out after only around two years. I figured this was my fault because the motion sensing switch in that hallway was faulty and sometimes would flick the lights on and off. So I replaced the switch, and then the bulbs.
But then the bulb in the garage door opener burned out. That was the first one I put in about 4 years ago. Figuring an average of being on maybe 20 minutes a day for 4 years... That's only 486 hours. I would have expected a incadescent to burn out in that time period, especially since there's a bit of vibration.
But then this week, one of the bulbs in the entry way light burned out. It's just over a year old, and used maybe 30 minutes a day. We only use that light when we're preparing to take the dog out for a walk.
Now I understand that longevity is statistical, but I'm still shocked that these CFLs aren't really lasting any longer than incadescents. That's something of a pain, considering it's not easy to dispose of these bulbs. I have to take them over to the recyling center.
Not going to work.
I used to keep a plain old phone around for just in case. But then I switched to Vonage, and doesn't matter much anyway. Even though my equipment is on a UPS, the Comcast stuff is not.
I've never heard that complaint with regards to Ohio or Florida.
The complaints always had something to do with voter registration and polling locations. Issues that are handled at the state level, or at minimum the county. Hardly the precinct level.
I realize you wish to display your extreme partisanship by blindly defending people, but it doesn't really help the discussion move forward.
I'm not saying ther is a conspiracy, but uhh, the state officials were Republicans, not Democrats.
About one out of every 4 discs I get through netflix are damaged to the point of being unplayable. Half the time they're cracked, the other half they're scratched or chipped. I probably have a higher incidence of damage, as I tend to request older movies instead of new releases, but still...
The worst case was one which was cracked almost in half. I didn't realize it when I took it out of the wrapper and inserted it into my DVD player. The clanking sound as it tried to play was the first indication. The fact that the DVD player was damaged is what made me angry.
The most amazing one, and this was clearly netflix's fault, was a disk that had apparently been cleaned with sandpaper. You could see the circular scratches in the dvd showing quite clearly that it had been cleaned with a machine. I wonder how many discs they destroyed before they realized the cleaning pad was dirty?
I switched to Netflix because I was tired of the kiosks.
Kiosks have two problems:
#1 - Only one person can browse through the selection at a time, which creates tremendous lines
#2 - They have an extremely limited number of movies
I just flat out got tired of standing in line only to find out that the movie i did want was all out.
Streaming movies isn't a threat until every house has a T3 with full bandwidth to the source. I watch TV shows from NBC streaming, and that's fine... but for a movie, I want the DVD experience at a minimum.
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/remotemgmt.html
Compaq has been using these for like 10 years and they've gotten better and better and cheaper and cheaper.
The only reason you should be in the server room is to physically move equipment.
All right then. It's not worth buying. I'll stick with BF2. I've already unlocked all the weapons there, and they hardly make much difference anyway as I'm generally more effective with an AK-47 or M-16 than anything else. Plus the squad play is superior to most everything else out there.
It seems they didn't learn from COD3.
This is practically a worthless review. Ohhh, the startup sequence is so pretty! ohhh... Who cares. In BF2 I deleted the movie files so I don't have to put up with that crap on startup.
The real question I have is how is multiplayer play? Nobody buys these games to play the singleplayer maps. That's lame ass boring. But there's always a difference between MP and SP. I tried singleplayer and thought it sucked, and I'm disappointed they didn't put up a multiplayer demo like BF2 and RTCW had done.(which is why they became so popular, BTW)
That's what I would have preferred to hear about.