State issue visas to visitors at their consular offices worldwide, who do not benefit from waivers, who applied for and received entry clearence. The visa is a stamp, or now a vignette stamped into a passport (harder to forge). The INS check the visa and approve people at the port of entry. State also issue passports, but I was referring to th thing that visitors require. Sorry that wasn't clear.
What are those things called that most non-citizens are supposed to get before they come to come to the US? Is it a blue white and gold thingy? Maybe the department of state should check what they are doing in case they upset the Visa group.
If I have a burglary and I inflate the claim - I am committing an act of fraud. If I go to the police and make a statement of what was missing, I can be guilty of perjury.
What is the difference when this guy cites a value of $250,000?
Actually in Russia, the tax police have AK47s and wear ski-masks. Somone I know was present during one of these inspections and it definitely was something worse than the IRS.
I disagree with you but I disagree even more with the idiot who modded you down.
The PK thread in Farscape is definitely reminiscent of the behaviour of various colonial powers up to and including the Bush government. Regrettably, entertainment may be the only way of campaigning against it. Michael Moore certainly didn't get very far did he?
The Mickey Mouse(tm) protection act and the DMCA are both examples of legislation that affects everyone. I have seen some very good arguments here against both mentioned here and another place. Unfortunately those arguments are not reaching enough people.
Farscape was a great show and I hope it will be brought back. Maybe some of the techniques used by the 'scapers will be interesting for us geeks on other themes like the above. Think of it, an ad showing someone being arrested for using a VCR!!!
Just think, instead of sending you yet another suggestion to partake of the latest penis enlargement scheme, they could just send you a URL pointing to the appropriate message in the archive. I'm sure many recipients would be a lot happier if they received a URL rather than a 1K message. Microsoft's Outlook would be nice and friendly too and probably display it without prompting.
Of course, it would make filtering easier too.....
Interestingly enough, the German Post Office is using electric powered trolleys for delivery. These are small, pedestrian controled and are easily manouvered onto escalators, trams and busses. They are bigger than a Segway but with three wheels, are dumber and therefore a lot cheaper.
With the distance between houses in towns being relatively small, the advantage of giving the postman wheels are negligable.
Where I see it being more useful is something like an airport where personnel have to move rapidly around a terminal and currently bikes are in use.
Actuall, Perl and GCC can be installed in one step via cygwin and that is one of the easier installations in the MS world that I came across. Xemacs and the lizard are another download but Xemacs is using the cygwin installer now.
Don't forget the free X-server (also on cygwin), it may not be the best, but it works and the price is right.
And that is without a load of "133t d00d5" speak. It is easy to dump Viagra and penis enalrgement ads automagically into the trash but misspellings and alternative representations can cause problems, even a space between letters (i.e., V I A G R A) can fool simpler filters. Also there is the problem of false positives, a problem when you discuss your visit to Scunthorpe.
I'm not sure if the AC is genuine, but he has a valid point. If the AC developed some code which was combined by a third party with the GPLed code and the third-party released the merged software as propriatary.
Its an interesting point because the AC acted in good faith and it is that third-party who did the dirty. However if the code isn't attributed during the merge, it becomes very difficult to say which bit came from where.
My view is that the merger was the same as the third-party inadvertantly disclosing AC's proprietary software. The third-party becomes responsible for any tidying up.
I found Gentoo relatively easy to get up. It took a lot loooonger to get it do what I wanted though.
No, I have worked on a lot of computers in the past and have had to struggle through a lot worse than this.OTOH, my notebook is running RH and I keep Gentoo for some other systems.
I've been in a much worse situation courtesy of Redmond with their dependency hell which forced an operating system reinstall.
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I would observe that I definitely wouldn't like to do this, I didn't like coming up from 10 metres when I took my PADI Open Water.
The reason this came to light was when the Kursk went down. The discussion was that the RN was one of the few fleets to still train all their sub crews to do this and to carry the escape equipment. The Russians were in the past (at least the subs had escape compartments), but the USN didn't consider this option as they have DSVs for rescue.
OTOH, coming up in the Barents sea definitely wouldn't be nice.
I guess that wasn't recent. I have had X working under Cygwin from even before they had the installer integrated. Nowadays, it is easier. With wine, it is just a matter of fiddling, or spending money on WineX or something.
The user stated that they were inexperienced. Inexperience is not an absence of intelligence and this is clearly a person who is at least willing to try things.
I'm sorry that you consider that an inexperienced person should be afraid of other ways of installing. Please remember that the idea of a GUI installer for an operating system is quite new. Haven't you ever tried to get an operating system up and running with inadequate documentation, a lot of unwritten dependancies and nothing but the command line?
I don't consider myself an evangelist for Gentoo but I want to explain that there is a faster way to run Linux. Wouldn't you agree? Would you be happier putting in a slow distro, getting the hang of it and then moving onto something faster, if you know that things *will* get better?
Please note that I *did* state that it wasn't for the newbie. However, if the packaging was improved (i.e., loading of groups of programs), I don't see why compilation from source can't be hidden from installer and a better configuration shell added for configuration.I wouldn't not recommend Gentoo to someone who was a novice. Did you try configuring Linux in the early days? A learning experience, but not neccessarily a bad one. However if somone doesn't want to learn a lot about Linux, then, yes, Gentoo isn't the best.
Installation from source allows a system to be customised and is extremely powerful. With many home systems equipped with significant hard disk and memory, why can't a system rebuild itself overnight automatically?
Most distributions go with a more or less specific kernel (586/686/Atholon, etc) but only i386 applications. Newer processors only really sing with specially compiled code.
A distribution such as Gentoo may not be the easiest to install but you get the whole gubbins, X, Gnome or KDE and the apps compiled for your system.
Microsoft tend to distribute generic code, and if you are lucky you may get a model specific dll. What Microsoft can not do is to distribute code that can be compiled for a specific model, well not until they deliver code that gets compiled during setup. Note, this can be done with optimisable intermediate code rather than source, but it wouldn't be easy.
The tagging of books has been discussed (the tag is part of the book, not the pallet) with the current 'owner' being encoded in the RFID tag's memory.
Another interesting one is hand guns. If a hand gun can be tagged and the owner recorded on the tag, then it becomes very easy to verify firearms ownership, i.e., that AK47 has a tag claiming it is a small smith and wesson revolver with the owner named Mr. Bin Laden. I guess that will go down like a lead balloon with the NRA.
Already there are warehouses that are essentially peopleless. Each pallet/product container is identified and its position is known and the contents list maintained. Items may be taken from a station to the warehouse, stored and back to another station without human contact. Robot pickers, and small robot trucks to carry the containers to and from the warehouse.
This works very well for high value items, but it is interesting seeing the concept trickle down the chain to low price items, and providing tracking all the way down the delivery chain.
The Royal Navy still has an escape tower filled with water at their training centre in Gosport and to get your submariner rating, you had to practice there. Escapes are definitely considered survivable from 100 metres which is why there is training.
I agree about the cinematography, but you forget about direction.
Kurosawa's actors tended to act. Lucas has managed to get some very uneven performances out of some top stars, i.e., Liam Neeson (who has otherwise roved himself to be a very good actor).
I see Lucas as a technocrat of film-making. His films have some of the best effects around (not the best, because by definition, the best are invisible). However it easier to direct an effect than to get the right performance out of a person.
In Germany, people are concrned about antibiotics in meat. Regrettably, the medical profession still blandly perscribes antibiotics where none are needed, i.e., a cold. neither I nor my family take them unless we are clear that there is a bacterial element in the infection.
In the third world, you can buy antibiotics over the counter. The drugs are fine and apart from cheaper packaging, are identical to the stuff I can find in a western pharamcist. These drugs seem to be Some people take them correctly, some do not.
The proposed solution is to hold some antibiotics exclusively for animal use, some for regular human use and hold back some in case of emergency like Vanomycin. Regrettably, the quantities of antibiotics floating around in a hospital means that there will also be a resistent pool of bacteria there.
I agree that multi-resistant bacteria aren't yet a major problem but it is one that is avoidable by having some kind of use policy inside and outside the hospital that is better than what is currently used. Policy and coordination don't cost a lot and it will help the problem from growing.
Taxing expenditure over income tends to be a conservative option.
The programs that benefit will be those that benefit the state. For'n welfare come out of the Federal pot.
Regrettably this seems to be similar to the arrangements we have in the EU where a business doing business with another member state becomes responsible for remitting taxes in that state in the value of business in that state crosses the registration threshold there. Luckily our registration thresholds are quite high so it is less likely to hit "Mom & Pop" businesses.
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State issue visas to visitors at their consular offices worldwide, who do not benefit from waivers, who applied for and received entry clearence. The visa is a stamp, or now a vignette stamped into a passport (harder to forge). The INS check the visa and approve people at the port of entry. State also issue passports, but I was referring to th thing that visitors require. Sorry that wasn't clear.
What are those things called that most non-citizens are supposed to get before they come to come to the US? Is it a blue white and gold thingy? Maybe the department of state should check what they are doing in case they upset the Visa group.
What is the difference when this guy cites a value of $250,000?
Actually in Russia, the tax police have AK47s and wear ski-masks. Somone I know was present during one of these inspections and it definitely was something worse than the IRS.
The PK thread in Farscape is definitely reminiscent of the behaviour of various colonial powers up to and including the Bush government. Regrettably, entertainment may be the only way of campaigning against it. Michael Moore certainly didn't get very far did he?
Farscape was a great show and I hope it will be brought back. Maybe some of the techniques used by the 'scapers will be interesting for us geeks on other themes like the above. Think of it, an ad showing someone being arrested for using a VCR!!!
Of course, it would make filtering easier too.....
Caste is definitely still relevant in India.Whilst I would agree that the prejudice is supressed, it definitely still exists.
With the distance between houses in towns being relatively small, the advantage of giving the postman wheels are negligable.
Where I see it being more useful is something like an airport where personnel have to move rapidly around a terminal and currently bikes are in use.
Don't forget the free X-server (also on cygwin), it may not be the best, but it works and the price is right.
And that is without a load of "133t d00d5" speak. It is easy to dump Viagra and penis enalrgement ads automagically into the trash but misspellings and alternative representations can cause problems, even a space between letters (i.e., V I A G R A) can fool simpler filters. Also there is the problem of false positives, a problem when you discuss your visit to Scunthorpe.
Its an interesting point because the AC acted in good faith and it is that third-party who did the dirty. However if the code isn't attributed during the merge, it becomes very difficult to say which bit came from where.
My view is that the merger was the same as the third-party inadvertantly disclosing AC's proprietary software. The third-party becomes responsible for any tidying up.
ACtually, the Finns even have mobile phones for dogs. I guess a dog may have problems changing his contract though!
No, I have worked on a lot of computers in the past and have had to struggle through a lot worse than this.OTOH, my notebook is running RH and I keep Gentoo for some other systems.
I've been in a much worse situation courtesy of Redmond with their dependency hell which forced an operating system reinstall.
The reason this came to light was when the Kursk went down. The discussion was that the RN was one of the few fleets to still train all their sub crews to do this and to carry the escape equipment. The Russians were in the past (at least the subs had escape compartments), but the USN didn't consider this option as they have DSVs for rescue.
OTOH, coming up in the Barents sea definitely wouldn't be nice.
I guess that wasn't recent. I have had X working under Cygwin from even before they had the installer integrated. Nowadays, it is easier. With wine, it is just a matter of fiddling, or spending money on WineX or something.
I'm sorry that you consider that an inexperienced person should be afraid of other ways of installing. Please remember that the idea of a GUI installer for an operating system is quite new. Haven't you ever tried to get an operating system up and running with inadequate documentation, a lot of unwritten dependancies and nothing but the command line?
I don't consider myself an evangelist for Gentoo but I want to explain that there is a faster way to run Linux. Wouldn't you agree? Would you be happier putting in a slow distro, getting the hang of it and then moving onto something faster, if you know that things *will* get better?
Installation from source allows a system to be customised and is extremely powerful. With many home systems equipped with significant hard disk and memory, why can't a system rebuild itself overnight automatically?
A distribution such as Gentoo may not be the easiest to install but you get the whole gubbins, X, Gnome or KDE and the apps compiled for your system.
Microsoft tend to distribute generic code, and if you are lucky you may get a model specific dll. What Microsoft can not do is to distribute code that can be compiled for a specific model, well not until they deliver code that gets compiled during setup. Note, this can be done with optimisable intermediate code rather than source, but it wouldn't be easy.
Another interesting one is hand guns. If a hand gun can be tagged and the owner recorded on the tag, then it becomes very easy to verify firearms ownership, i.e., that AK47 has a tag claiming it is a small smith and wesson revolver with the owner named Mr. Bin Laden. I guess that will go down like a lead balloon with the NRA.
This works very well for high value items, but it is interesting seeing the concept trickle down the chain to low price items, and providing tracking all the way down the delivery chain.
The Royal Navy still has an escape tower filled with water at their training centre in Gosport and to get your submariner rating, you had to practice there. Escapes are definitely considered survivable from 100 metres which is why there is training.
Kurosawa's actors tended to act. Lucas has managed to get some very uneven performances out of some top stars, i.e., Liam Neeson (who has otherwise roved himself to be a very good actor).
I see Lucas as a technocrat of film-making. His films have some of the best effects around (not the best, because by definition, the best are invisible). However it easier to direct an effect than to get the right performance out of a person.
In the third world, you can buy antibiotics over the counter. The drugs are fine and apart from cheaper packaging, are identical to the stuff I can find in a western pharamcist. These drugs seem to be Some people take them correctly, some do not.
The proposed solution is to hold some antibiotics exclusively for animal use, some for regular human use and hold back some in case of emergency like Vanomycin. Regrettably, the quantities of antibiotics floating around in a hospital means that there will also be a resistent pool of bacteria there.
I agree that multi-resistant bacteria aren't yet a major problem but it is one that is avoidable by having some kind of use policy inside and outside the hospital that is better than what is currently used. Policy and coordination don't cost a lot and it will help the problem from growing.
The programs that benefit will be those that benefit the state. For'n welfare come out of the Federal pot.
Regrettably this seems to be similar to the arrangements we have in the EU where a business doing business with another member state becomes responsible for remitting taxes in that state in the value of business in that state crosses the registration threshold there. Luckily our registration thresholds are quite high so it is less likely to hit "Mom & Pop" businesses.