Ummm, yes, Mr. Lucas do you still have the costume around for Jabba the Hut? We'd like to borrow it for this Mini-series we're doing over here at Sci-Fi.....
CCTV is not being used to "search" your person. Get real. If you walk down main street with a kilo of cocaine poking out of your pocket and a cop sees it and arrests you he didn't illegally "search" your person - it was publicly displayed. Now if they decide to x-ray you or put the camera in your living room, thats different.
No, it really is to track down deadbeat dads. A number of states have similar laws. If you're running to avoid payment, you don't get a license, which is perfectly reasonable - driving on public highways is a not a right, last time I checked.
Honestly, given that a drivers license is the most common form of identification used in this country for damn near everything, requiring a unique identification before giving you such a license is a pretty reasonable request. I mean, without asking for either a birth certificate or SS# they have no way a of verifying who you really are. Is your name really John Smith or is it actually John Doe and you're applying for a license under a different name because the Judge yanked your old license after your 14th DWI? Or is it Jacob Smith establishing a new identity cause he's wanted for murdering little girls and cute puppy dogs? Yes, I know the Slashdot crowd is insanely protective of their privacy, all that data being collected about them, but you need a balance - certain information _should_ be collected and _should_ stick with you and without some form of unique ID that sticks with you such as the social security number, this is very difficult to pull off. Some things are my business. If you're a child molester, I should know that before I hire you at a daycare. If you have a history of DWI's and drug abuse, I have a right to know that before I hire you to drive a semi or fly an airplane. Your right to privacy must balanced against everyone elses right to know.
Your drivers license has a picture so that it can be more easily verified as yours. Other forms of ID would require that a cop fingerprint you or something every time he pulls you over. No, your fishing license doesn't have a picture on it, but theres no skills test involved in aquiring one either. Mostly because unlicensed drivers are a lot more likely to get people killed than an unlicensed fisherman.
Most of these issues come down to a lack of time and money. The creators of the show wanted another year or so to work on it, but the network wanted it now. Particularly script development. The reason for all the repeat FX shots was that they simply didn't have to time do do unique shots.
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As long as we're pointing out similarities between farms going under and these companies, part of the reason that many family farms went under more recently is that for quite a while farm land was very seriously overpriced - to the point that you couldn't realistically buy a farm and then expect to farm it profitably and make your loan payments. This however, did not stop people from trying. Some bought it planning to hold onto it as an investment. After all, its gone up so far, why shouldn't it continue? This is somewhat parallel to the stock prices of these tech companies - overpriced beyond what could be justified, and when it finally came down it came down hard and a lot of people got burned.
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Once perhaps, but the same dealership torching their entire inventory twice? And then installing extra security out of pocket?
Not sure if this is the same problem, but using MSIE(which I rarely do anyway) on Slashdot with Moderator points I sometimes find that the list boxes "smear" up the page when I scroll up and down.
The point of what he said was not that unions haven't helped provide these things in an industrial setting, but that information and tech workers already have them, and therefore don't need unionization.
Persoanlly, I would hate to see unions in tech related jobs - in union shops, seniority tends to get be emphasized over ability. So that gut they hired 3 weeks before you, you know the one couldn't figure out how to install a copy of windows? Who thinks a command prompt is "too hard"? Well, he might get promoted ahead of you cause he's been here longer.
By the standards of anything other than the last few years, 6 or 7% is damn low. By the standards of virtually any other country, 6 or 7% is again, damn low. Most of Europe is double digits and almost always is. When we were approaching 4% economists were going nuts because they didn't think it could get that low without the economy crashing. 6 or 7 % is still a very good economy.
Yes, I'd say the chances of Grand Forks getting this is quite low...Winnipeg might be a closer possibility than Minneapolis if it's shown in Canada as well.
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This is correct - Because the motion is not linear. The suns gravity creates a constant force on the earth, creating a constant inward acceleration. Acceleration breaks relativity. There is no frame of reference from which the sun travels around the earth.
You seem to have a rather insecure attitude towards something that is a natural bodily process. Why are tampon commercials any less acceptable to you than soap or shampoo atheletes foot?
Given that domain names are non-case sensitive, AIMster.com is the same domain as aimster.com. They quite intentionally included the name of a trademarked piece of software to which they did not have rights.
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My experience with North Dakota suggests that the book of Everyone within the state of North Dakota is no more than a medium-small book...
OK, you've piqued my curiosity. What exactly would be accomplished by throwing poison ivy in the fire? Does the irritant chemical survive in the smoke?
There is a difference between recognizing a manmade structure, such as an aircraft carrier as US territory - all US ships are, I believe - and recognizing a manmade structure as an independant nation in and of itself.
I have a feeling the result of this would be a couple of soldiers getting in a little target practice. I'm pretty sure this would get noticed(motion detectors, anyone?). Any halfway competent marksman with a 12 gauge should be able to blow such a plane away in very short order. The guys they have guarding Area 51 can probably manage with an M-16
Having grown tired of answering the really simple questions one gets asked by family and friends, many of them now have the following peice of paper posted next to their machines:
Retry it.
Restart it
Reinstall it
It's greatly reduced the amount of time I spend hand holding many of them over the phone.
Oh well, I've already posted once on this stupid topic might as well do it again....Probably just get modded down.
Butterfly Ballots: It was designed by a committee consisting OF DEMOCRATS. The Republicans has nothing whatsoever to do with the design of this ballot. Deal with it.
As for playing nice, I'm sure that the democrats going around picking up bums off the street and giving them packs of cigarettes to vote is entirely ok in your opinion? As for the Republicans preparing to call for recounts, it would seem that the Democrats were too, wouldn't it? Not to mention the media @#$% up declaring the state for the democrats before the(mostly republican) panhandle had finished voting. Yeah, the republicans play dirty. So do the Democrats. Neither party really gives a damn about anything except getting elected for another(2,4,6) years. They're both willing to play very dirty to do so.
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I'm sick of this "stolen election" and "Bush lost the election" crap. George W. Bush won the election under the current rules. The rules may have been stupid and outdated, but he still won under those rules. Accept it. 300,000 votes accross the country is not a significant margin, particularly given that half the country didn't even vote(Ok, I'll give you that one as a point on "Americans are so studpid"). If it had happened a week earlier or a week later it could have gone either way. And at any rate, both candidates got more support than Clinton ever did in either election.
So he dropped bombs on Iraq. So did Clinton. Yes, our Iraq policy is really screwed up. No, this is not Bush's fault, it's a mess he inherited. Realistically, we should have gone all the way back during the Gulf war and kicked Saddam out, but the UN wouldn't approve such a thing so we didn't do it.
Our economy. This is another thing I'm getting pretty sick of hearing. You know what? Recessions happen. It's part of the economic cycle. However, if this is a recession, it's a pretty damn mild one, particularly given the insanely long period of growth we just went through. Just because we've gotten used to 3% a year growth doesn't mean that anything less is a recession.
Also - The stock market is not the economy. The stock market bears only a passing relationship to how the economy is actually doing. Yeah, it's not been doing so hot lately but this is largely because a whole bunch of people with more money than brains dumped tons of venture capital into companies without viable business plans just because they had an e in their names. Its down, but thats because people finally wised up to what Greenspan and a lot of other people were saying 2 years ago and realized that it was insanely overvalued in the first place. As for us enjoying our "financial crisis"...Where might you happen to live that you think you're getting off so easy? When we go down, we tend to drag others along with us.
Bush actually handled the China thing as it should have been handled. So we spied on them. If you don't think they spy on us, you've really lost touch with reality. They were in international airspace, and that fighter had no business being where it was, other than to harass the crew of the American plane. If anyone deserves an apology out of this, it's us. "Criminally corrupt"? I have yet to see any evidence of corruption on the part of this man or his aides. In fact, he's been a fairly honest politician. As far as I'm concerned he has done pretty much exactly as he said he would when campaigning. And as much as you might like to rip on Bush, don't rip on his Aides - Cheney, Powell - they're all extremely good people. Deal.
Now, Mr. Anonymous Coward - Would you care to tell us where you happen to live?
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Ummm, yes, Mr. Lucas do you still have the costume around for Jabba the Hut? We'd like to borrow it for this Mini-series we're doing over here at Sci-Fi.....
CCTV is not being used to "search" your person. Get real. If you walk down main street with a kilo of cocaine poking out of your pocket and a cop sees it and arrests you he didn't illegally "search" your person - it was publicly displayed. Now if they decide to x-ray you or put the camera in your living room, thats different.
Honestly, given that a drivers license is the most common form of identification used in this country for damn near everything, requiring a unique identification before giving you such a license is a pretty reasonable request. I mean, without asking for either a birth certificate or SS# they have no way a of verifying who you really are. Is your name really John Smith or is it actually John Doe and you're applying for a license under a different name because the Judge yanked your old license after your 14th DWI? Or is it Jacob Smith establishing a new identity cause he's wanted for murdering little girls and cute puppy dogs? Yes, I know the Slashdot crowd is insanely protective of their privacy, all that data being collected about them, but you need a balance - certain information _should_ be collected and _should_ stick with you and without some form of unique ID that sticks with you such as the social security number, this is very difficult to pull off. Some things are my business. If you're a child molester, I should know that before I hire you at a daycare. If you have a history of DWI's and drug abuse, I have a right to know that before I hire you to drive a semi or fly an airplane. Your right to privacy must balanced against everyone elses right to know.
Your drivers license has a picture so that it can be more easily verified as yours. Other forms of ID would require that a cop fingerprint you or something every time he pulls you over. No, your fishing license doesn't have a picture on it, but theres no skills test involved in aquiring one either. Mostly because unlicensed drivers are a lot more likely to get people killed than an unlicensed fisherman.
Most of these issues come down to a lack of time and money. The creators of the show wanted another year or so to work on it, but the network wanted it now. Particularly script development. The reason for all the repeat FX shots was that they simply didn't have to time do do unique shots.
As long as we're pointing out similarities between farms going under and these companies, part of the reason that many family farms went under more recently is that for quite a while farm land was very seriously overpriced - to the point that you couldn't realistically buy a farm and then expect to farm it profitably and make your loan payments. This however, did not stop people from trying. Some bought it planning to hold onto it as an investment. After all, its gone up so far, why shouldn't it continue? This is somewhat parallel to the stock prices of these tech companies - overpriced beyond what could be justified, and when it finally came down it came down hard and a lot of people got burned.
Once perhaps, but the same dealership torching their entire inventory twice? And then installing extra security out of pocket?
Not sure if this is the same problem, but using MSIE(which I rarely do anyway) on Slashdot with Moderator points I sometimes find that the list boxes "smear" up the page when I scroll up and down.
The point of what he said was not that unions haven't helped provide these things in an industrial setting, but that information and tech workers already have them, and therefore don't need unionization. Persoanlly, I would hate to see unions in tech related jobs - in union shops, seniority tends to get be emphasized over ability. So that gut they hired 3 weeks before you, you know the one couldn't figure out how to install a copy of windows? Who thinks a command prompt is "too hard"? Well, he might get promoted ahead of you cause he's been here longer.
By the standards of anything other than the last few years, 6 or 7% is damn low. By the standards of virtually any other country, 6 or 7% is again, damn low. Most of Europe is double digits and almost always is. When we were approaching 4% economists were going nuts because they didn't think it could get that low without the economy crashing. 6 or 7 % is still a very good economy.
Yes, I'd say the chances of Grand Forks getting this is quite low...Winnipeg might be a closer possibility than Minneapolis if it's shown in Canada as well.
This is correct - Because the motion is not linear. The suns gravity creates a constant force on the earth, creating a constant inward acceleration. Acceleration breaks relativity. There is no frame of reference from which the sun travels around the earth.
You seem to have a rather insecure attitude towards something that is a natural bodily process. Why are tampon commercials any less acceptable to you than soap or shampoo atheletes foot?
Not so. I do believe that support for Microchannel took a little longer to appear for linux. :)
My, doesn't that bring back the memories. Does that code still work in any newer games?
There is are a lot of slashdot readers that would argue the barbarians are already here and hence invasion would be redundant....
Given that domain names are non-case sensitive, AIMster.com is the same domain as aimster.com. They quite intentionally included the name of a trademarked piece of software to which they did not have rights.
My experience with North Dakota suggests that the book of Everyone within the state of North Dakota is no more than a medium-small book...
No case. They legitimately believed they had IP rights, the companies that signed on agreed. There was no deception. The case would be thrown out.
OK, you've piqued my curiosity. What exactly would be accomplished by throwing poison ivy in the fire? Does the irritant chemical survive in the smoke?
There is a difference between recognizing a manmade structure, such as an aircraft carrier as US territory - all US ships are, I believe - and recognizing a manmade structure as an independant nation in and of itself.
I have a feeling the result of this would be a couple of soldiers getting in a little target practice. I'm pretty sure this would get noticed(motion detectors, anyone?). Any halfway competent marksman with a 12 gauge should be able to blow such a plane away in very short order. The guys they have guarding Area 51 can probably manage with an M-16
Retry it.
Restart it
Reinstall it
It's greatly reduced the amount of time I spend hand holding many of them over the phone.
Butterfly Ballots: It was designed by a committee consisting OF DEMOCRATS. The Republicans has nothing whatsoever to do with the design of this ballot. Deal with it.
As for playing nice, I'm sure that the democrats going around picking up bums off the street and giving them packs of cigarettes to vote is entirely ok in your opinion? As for the Republicans preparing to call for recounts, it would seem that the Democrats were too, wouldn't it? Not to mention the media @#$% up declaring the state for the democrats before the(mostly republican) panhandle had finished voting. Yeah, the republicans play dirty. So do the Democrats. Neither party really gives a damn about anything except getting elected for another(2,4,6) years. They're both willing to play very dirty to do so.
Get off the conspiracy "will of the people " trip. It was essentially a tie. Somebody had to be chosen, and Bush was the one who won under the rules that existed at the time. He's the president. Learn to deal with it, and try and win in 2004.
I'm sick of this "stolen election" and "Bush lost the election" crap. George W. Bush won the election under the current rules. The rules may have been stupid and outdated, but he still won under those rules. Accept it. 300,000 votes accross the country is not a significant margin, particularly given that half the country didn't even vote(Ok, I'll give you that one as a point on "Americans are so studpid"). If it had happened a week earlier or a week later it could have gone either way. And at any rate, both candidates got more support than Clinton ever did in either election.
So he dropped bombs on Iraq. So did Clinton. Yes, our Iraq policy is really screwed up. No, this is not Bush's fault, it's a mess he inherited. Realistically, we should have gone all the way back during the Gulf war and kicked Saddam out, but the UN wouldn't approve such a thing so we didn't do it.
Our economy. This is another thing I'm getting pretty sick of hearing. You know what? Recessions happen. It's part of the economic cycle. However, if this is a recession, it's a pretty damn mild one, particularly given the insanely long period of growth we just went through. Just because we've gotten used to 3% a year growth doesn't mean that anything less is a recession.
Also - The stock market is not the economy. The stock market bears only a passing relationship to how the economy is actually doing. Yeah, it's not been doing so hot lately but this is largely because a whole bunch of people with more money than brains dumped tons of venture capital into companies without viable business plans just because they had an e in their names. Its down, but thats because people finally wised up to what Greenspan and a lot of other people were saying 2 years ago and realized that it was insanely overvalued in the first place. As for us enjoying our "financial crisis"...Where might you happen to live that you think you're getting off so easy? When we go down, we tend to drag others along with us.
Bush actually handled the China thing as it should have been handled. So we spied on them. If you don't think they spy on us, you've really lost touch with reality. They were in international airspace, and that fighter had no business being where it was, other than to harass the crew of the American plane. If anyone deserves an apology out of this, it's us. "Criminally corrupt"? I have yet to see any evidence of corruption on the part of this man or his aides. In fact, he's been a fairly honest politician. As far as I'm concerned he has done pretty much exactly as he said he would when campaigning. And as much as you might like to rip on Bush, don't rip on his Aides - Cheney, Powell - they're all extremely good people. Deal.
Now, Mr. Anonymous Coward - Would you care to tell us where you happen to live?