this is not about right or wrong. This is about survival. If Israel does not take care of this cockroach problem today, there maybe no Israel tomorrow. 5-6 million surrounded by 500-900 million enemies, that is not a simple life. Israel is strategically is in a pickle, there are too many enemies. So it is always a better tactic to kill as many enemies today as possible and continue killing the enemies and not negotiating with them.
And there lies the stupidity of the situation. Only an idiot would take somebody's holy land, and place an opposing group (who also thinks it's their holy land) in that same space.
As long as both groups are living in the same geographic area, there will be limitless bloodshed. Both sides of the issue have enough zealots who would rather die than be peaceful.
If one of the groups was actually serious about peace, they would move. Sure, it would be a horribly difficult, expensive proposition. But it's far better than a never ending war.
One thing you can do, is use a password vault and use another password for the questions they ask. My mother's maiden name? It's "avxQta6TNIwqqKAxqOGHRo6xdZP6bJYyo3BoBRmh".
I have a friend who's first name is him mother's maiden name. It's an odd name as well, and people usually ask "where did that come from". A while back he actually had to come up with a plausable story so he wasn't giving away a "secret" every time somebody asked. Annoying. Now you have to know him pretty well to get that info.
I don't think his parents thought of that possibility when they named him way back when.
I know a lot of manufacturers have started including iPod connections in the glovebox with stereo's equipped with direct control of the gadget, but has anyone made a headunit with a cassette-like bay for the iPod? It would be like, retro cool. I guess the problem comes with the different form factors of all the different iPods, but I suppose they could include various shims
That's an idea I've had for a while... A car stereo sized device that basicaly contains an amplifier and volume control, maybe a display for equaliser effects. 3.5mm socket for plugging your mp3 player into. A USB HID interface (per the above user) might be a plus too.
I'd go for producing it but the price would probably end up higher than a cheap stereo from a supermarket.
The minuses are that it's in my arm rest, I can't see what's playing, the display on my head unit doesn't know how to cope with the iPod and try to treat it as a CD changer so it display's a loop of disc one tracks 1-3.
It'd be the perfect setup if I could navigate my iPod via my steering wheel controls and my head unit could essentially mirror iPod Display (or something similar.)
I just got an Alpine CDA-9856 to replace my worn out Aiwa. It plays CDs, MP3 & WMDs (or whatever MS calls their music format). It displays the MP3 tags on the head unit, and using a $30 cable plugged into an iPod, it will recharge the iPod as well as control it and display tags on the head unit. Not bad for $200, three line outs and a fairly hefty amp built in.
It doesn't integrate with steering wheel controls,. but I can live with that.
On the other hand a fully loaded semi trailer carries 80,000 lb of cargo. Even if the tractor and empty trailer weigh 80k lb then they are doing alot better than the individual person getting groceries in a car.
I understand what you're saying, but your math is way off.
A loaded truck cannot weigh more that 80,000 total pounds (yes, you can get exceptions, but it doesn't happen for regular cargo). An average tractor and trailer weighs about 45,000 pounds, leaving about 35,000 pounds of cargo.
If you haul heavy things, like beer, cola or water, the trailer will hit max weight long before it's full. If, on the other hand, it's full of toilet paper it's easy to haul a second trailer.
I worked in a warehouse as a truck loader for a while. We drove 9,500 pound forklifts (6,000 lb truck & 3,500 lb battery) that carried two pallets of beer at the same time. The load was 3' deep, 6' high and 7' wide. There were 210 12 packs in a pallet, and weighed 2,200 pounds. Fully loaded we were close to 14,000 pounds and would drop 20 to 30 pallets in each trailer (lighter trailers hauled more, and some pallets were lighter than others).
I propose, instead, that we learn to develop our social networks rather than our electronic ones, and get to know our neighbors; if the house is on fire, THEY'RE the ones that will be calling the fire department, and they're the ones that I want calling out the neighborhood to battle the blaze with their hoses and pails.
Unless you live out of the neighbors' sight like I do. I'm fairly rural, and unless the house explodes or is hit by lightning, by the time you see there's a problem it's way too late.
A large portion of the audience were seniors who get the tickets as part of their yearly subscription. Some walked out - there's know way you could follow the story without already knowing it ahead of time.
Perhaps they thought they were going to see the sequel to Lord of the Dance.
Instead of suing the world willy-nilly Hollywood should have seen this as a huge business opportunity. On the other side of this metaphorical coin, companies creating altered revisions of protected work should have worked with the owners' of said copyrighted work to fill this niche.
I imagine there might be a market for the content-conscientious consumer; although as some fark submitter pointed out a 16-minute edition of Pulp Fiction might not be very interesting.
That's exactly what happens now.
WalMart has decided that it won't sell some videos, movies, CDs... based on their content. WalMart is such a huge vendor, that it's millions of lost dollars if they don't sell your product.
Most of the studios sell two versions of things - one for regular stores, and one for WalMart. For example, in Team America, part of the sex scene was deleted.
If they hadn't released an edited version, WalMart wouldn't have carried it.
One of the reasons that I hate WalMart is that they only sell one version of the product, and they don't really advertize that it's a "cleaned up" version.
But yes, it's a huge business opportunity, and WalMart & Hollywood are making big bucks because of it.
If an item is $10.00, with an $10.00 instant rebate, I still pay the tax on the full $10.0.
Exactly how it works in California. My $10 phone ended up costing $50 after fees adn taxes. A $1000 computer has $85 in taxes, even though it was advertised for $500 after rebates.
I imagine that, with a relatively simple modification, you could have bullets that can only be fired in a particular building eg a gun club.
And only for the super-wealthy; this is going to be really expensive.
I live in the sticks, and the cops can take as long as 45 minutes to respond. An intruder in your house, or a cougar eyeing your child as a meal aren't going to wait 45 minutes for the sheriff. So... most people around here have pistols, long guns and shotguns for sport, food and self defense.
The only way you can stay practiced enough to be an effective shot is to shoot regularly. My deer rifle costs $1 to pull the trigger, so I practice with rifles that shoot cheaper ammo.
This idea is so lame and so infeasible, that I expect W to implement it as law later this week.
It's not a "crazy phobia" when the union is so out of control that domestic industries can no longer compete with foreign ones. This, incidentally, is why Ford and (especially) GM are getting their asses handed to them by foreign companies: Toyota, Honda, Hyundai etc. are building factories here that employ Americans at low, non-union wages, while Ford and GM are closing factories because they're drowning in pension payments to their unionized workers. The union is so powerful -- too powerful -- that it's actually driving jobs away and hurting both the economy and the workers themselves.
How come you don't mention Daimler-Chrysler in your condemnation of the unions? DC has the same union contracts that GM and Ford have. They have the same "lazy union workers" that Ford and GM have.
However, DC is making huge profits. Actually, the Daimler (Mercedes) end of the company is losing money and the Chrysler arm is keeping Mercedes alive.
How do they do it with all those lazy, overpaid union guys? Perhaps they have good designers, managers, marketeers and engineers?
If every GM car was as good as a new 'Vette or Cad, perhaps they'd be making more profit? Perhaps if they stopped making ugly, shitty cars that get bad mileage they'd sell a few more? No, it's easier to blame the unions.
One more thought about lazy union guys. Bud, Miller and Coors make interchangeable products. Sure, there are slight differences between the three brands, but for the most part, the difference is the marketing, not the product.
Since Coors isn't unionized, it sells for much less monry than Bud and Miller, right? And Miller is a little cheaper than Bud, because theire union guys make less than Bud.
What? That's not the case? You mean that Coors makes more profit per can because they sell a product made for less labor cost for the same money and just keep the profit difference
Fucking lazy union guys.
I've worked union and non-union shops. Sure, there's some built in slop when you have a union. On the other hand, the non-union shops I've worked in are so dangerous it can be terrifying to work there. I've worked in education, IT and metal fabrication. I'm currently half owner of a family business, and we won't unionize because there's only an occasional employee. However, we treat them well, and pay them far more than prevailking wages.
Going into store-fronts and throwing tantrums may make you feel better but spare a thought for the poor employee you're hurling at: in most cases they will be more inclined do give more help if you approach civilly. Be mad, but don't direct it at front-end employeees: it's not their fault.
I agree that it may not be a good place to start from, but I've been treated very poorly by CSRs in many places in L.A. They don't listen, don't care and know they won't be fired for being useless. And if I made just above minimum wage to deal with the public, I'd have the same attitude.
Sometime, you just have to be an ass to get what you need.
If you don't like their policies, DON'T BUY THEIR MUSIC! It's that simple. You don't need to explain why you're not buying it since you're not doing business with them anymore.
If I ran a business that people were boycotting, I'd want to know why.
I'm not condoning sex offenders, but it had no relevance to the story.
They are trying to imply that he was doing something wrong by simply being on sex offender list. Perhaps he was surfing kiddie porn, or perhaps he has a "no internet" clause in his parole - or perhaps he just didn't want to pay for internet access.
In any case, I think this is really sleazy reporting to mention his status, unless it has something to do with the case.
I read TFA, and it made no mention of speed, distance or any other aspect of the contest. The driver lies down, but how? On the stomache, or the back (with a periscope?). Were they inside to avoid being blown about (aboot?) by the wind?
There's no set up necessary when you get a hosting plan. Just click on Gallery 2, and it gets installed for you. Nothing to set up. Apache is set up, MySQL is set up, Email servers set up, webmail set up. I trust that the guys running the hosting service know more about properly setting up all this stuff than I do. Also, I save money on the electricity of running that extra box, the cost of having an extra box, and I pay cheaper Internet access rates because I'm not hosting a server. It's also more reliable than your general home internet. They also do back-ups, and a myriad of other services I wouldn't bother to do myself. And I bet if you put a couple Google ads on the 25 friends' accounts you were hosting, you could probably make your money back, and then some.
For you an I there's "no setup". However, my father would take weeks to get it done. He's not dumb, he's just not "computer smart". To him, Apache is 1) a Native American Indian b) a type of Chevy truck
You cannot think that the rest of the world is even close to/. readers in terms of tech savy.
Example: I was showing a friend how to use Picasa & Gallery. He's 50, very mechanical, expert level skier and motorcycle rider, the best finish carpenter around... not dumb. However, he wasn't aware that the "open/save" dialog box in WIndows was related to all the folders on the desktop - he wasn't sure how to find something after he saved it.
Thta's one of the reasons I'm doing web design and web hosting in a small town - there's lots of small businesses who want a $20 a month website.
They have no business representing ANYBODY when it comes to technology. Why not find somebody who can display an understanding of computers and the internet instead of somebody who is fluent in 1996 buzzwords?
Sadly, those fools we elect have no idea of most of the laws they pass. They are so busy trying to get re-elected that they have no time to research what they are voting on. I'm certainly not an expert at everything, and neither are they.
Case in point: a number of years ago, one of our elected reresentatives tried to push a bill that required the use of seatbelts on motorcycles. It made me wonder how long he actually thought about it before submitting it.
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My limited experience is that whatever filtering Hotmail uses has been allowing lots of Spam to slip through in the last few weeks.
Anyone else?
How's Yahoo & G-Mail been doing?
I use gmail, and although it's let one or two pieces of spam through in the last week, it's always been near 100%.
I get 50-100 email a day on gmail.
this is not about right or wrong. This is about survival. If Israel does not take care of this cockroach problem today, there maybe no Israel tomorrow. 5-6 million surrounded by 500-900 million enemies, that is not a simple life. Israel is strategically is in a pickle, there are too many enemies. So it is always a better tactic to kill as many enemies today as possible and continue killing the enemies and not negotiating with them.
And there lies the stupidity of the situation. Only an idiot would take somebody's holy land, and place an opposing group (who also thinks it's their holy land) in that same space.
As long as both groups are living in the same geographic area, there will be limitless bloodshed. Both sides of the issue have enough zealots who would rather die than be peaceful.
If one of the groups was actually serious about peace, they would move. Sure, it would be a horribly difficult, expensive proposition. But it's far better than a never ending war.
One thing you can do, is use a password vault and use another password for the questions they ask. My mother's maiden name? It's "avxQta6TNIwqqKAxqOGHRo6xdZP6bJYyo3BoBRmh".
I have a friend who's first name is him mother's maiden name. It's an odd name as well, and people usually ask "where did that come from". A while back he actually had to come up with a plausable story so he wasn't giving away a "secret" every time somebody asked. Annoying. Now you have to know him pretty well to get that info.
I don't think his parents thought of that possibility when they named him way back when.
Courts afford ridiculous leeway to pro se litigants. For an example case, look at Dioguardi v Durning, 139 F 2d 774 (2d Cir. 1944)
If I'm reading that correctly, it was over 60 years ago. I'm guessing that things have changed.
Do you have a different example?
I know a lot of manufacturers have started including iPod connections in the glovebox with stereo's equipped with direct control of the gadget, but has anyone made a headunit with a cassette-like bay for the iPod? It would be like, retro cool. I guess the problem comes with the different form factors of all the different iPods, but I suppose they could include various shims
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No, but you can buy an aftermarket CD player/head unit that has an iPod interface & cable. Very slick. $200.
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-dqg3xoV8x67/cgi-bin/
That's an idea I've had for a while... A car stereo sized device that basicaly contains an amplifier and volume control, maybe a display for equaliser effects. 3.5mm socket for plugging your mp3 player into. A USB HID interface (per the above user) might be a plus too.
P rodView.asp?wm=fp&I=500CDA9856
I'd go for producing it but the price would probably end up higher than a cheap stereo from a supermarket.
You get all that, plus AM/FM and the ability to play CDs & MP3 CDs for $200.
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-dqg3xoV8x67/cgi-bin/
OK, you don't get USB, but you can plug in and control an iPod.
You can get a $100 casette player with an AUX input if you don't want/need a CD player.
The minuses are that it's in my arm rest, I can't see what's playing, the display on my head unit doesn't know how to cope with the iPod and try to treat it as a CD changer so it display's a loop of disc one tracks 1-3.
P rodView.asp?wm=fp&I=500CDA9856
It'd be the perfect setup if I could navigate my iPod via my steering wheel controls and my head unit could essentially mirror iPod Display (or something similar.)
I just got an Alpine CDA-9856 to replace my worn out Aiwa. It plays CDs, MP3 & WMDs (or whatever MS calls their music format). It displays the MP3 tags on the head unit, and using a $30 cable plugged into an iPod, it will recharge the iPod as well as control it and display tags on the head unit. Not bad for $200, three line outs and a fairly hefty amp built in.
It doesn't integrate with steering wheel controls,. but I can live with that.
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-dqg3xoV8x67/cgi-bin/
On the other hand a fully loaded semi trailer carries 80,000 lb of cargo. Even if the tractor and empty trailer weigh 80k lb then they are doing alot better than the individual person getting groceries in a car.
I understand what you're saying, but your math is way off.
A loaded truck cannot weigh more that 80,000 total pounds (yes, you can get exceptions, but it doesn't happen for regular cargo). An average tractor and trailer weighs about 45,000 pounds, leaving about 35,000 pounds of cargo.
If you haul heavy things, like beer, cola or water, the trailer will hit max weight long before it's full. If, on the other hand, it's full of toilet paper it's easy to haul a second trailer.
I worked in a warehouse as a truck loader for a while. We drove 9,500 pound forklifts (6,000 lb truck & 3,500 lb battery) that carried two pallets of beer at the same time. The load was 3' deep, 6' high and 7' wide. There were 210 12 packs in a pallet, and weighed 2,200 pounds. Fully loaded we were close to 14,000 pounds and would drop 20 to 30 pallets in each trailer (lighter trailers hauled more, and some pallets were lighter than others).
I propose, instead, that we learn to develop our social networks rather than our electronic ones, and get to know our neighbors; if the house is on fire, THEY'RE the ones that will be calling the fire department, and they're the ones that I want calling out the neighborhood to battle the blaze with their hoses and pails.
Unless you live out of the neighbors' sight like I do. I'm fairly rural, and unless the house explodes or is hit by lightning, by the time you see there's a problem it's way too late.
A large portion of the audience were seniors who get the tickets as part of their yearly subscription. Some walked out - there's know way you could follow the story without already knowing it ahead of time.
Perhaps they thought they were going to see the sequel to Lord of the Dance.
If that was the case, I'd leave too.
Instead of suing the world willy-nilly Hollywood should have seen this as a huge business opportunity. On the other side of this metaphorical coin, companies creating altered revisions of protected work should have worked with the owners' of said copyrighted work to fill this niche.
I imagine there might be a market for the content-conscientious consumer; although as some fark submitter pointed out a 16-minute edition of Pulp Fiction might not be very interesting.
That's exactly what happens now.
WalMart has decided that it won't sell some videos, movies, CDs... based on their content. WalMart is such a huge vendor, that it's millions of lost dollars if they don't sell your product.
Most of the studios sell two versions of things - one for regular stores, and one for WalMart.
For example, in Team America, part of the sex scene was deleted.
If they hadn't released an edited version, WalMart wouldn't have carried it.
One of the reasons that I hate WalMart is that they only sell one version of the product, and they don't really advertize that it's a "cleaned up" version.
But yes, it's a huge business opportunity, and WalMart & Hollywood are making big bucks because of it.
If an item is $10.00, with an $10.00 instant rebate, I still pay the tax on the full $10.0.
Exactly how it works in California. My $10 phone ended up costing $50 after fees adn taxes.
A $1000 computer has $85 in taxes, even though it was advertised for $500 after rebates.
Any luck with your sig?
I imagine that, with a relatively simple modification, you could have bullets that can only be fired in a particular building eg a gun club.
And only for the super-wealthy; this is going to be really expensive.
I live in the sticks, and the cops can take as long as 45 minutes to respond. An intruder in your house, or a cougar eyeing your child as a meal aren't going to wait 45 minutes for the sheriff. So... most people around here have pistols, long guns and shotguns for sport, food and self defense.
The only way you can stay practiced enough to be an effective shot is to shoot regularly. My deer rifle costs $1 to pull the trigger, so I practice with rifles that shoot cheaper ammo.
This idea is so lame and so infeasible, that I expect W to implement it as law later this week.
It's not a "crazy phobia" when the union is so out of control that domestic industries can no longer compete with foreign ones. This, incidentally, is why Ford and (especially) GM are getting their asses handed to them by foreign companies: Toyota, Honda, Hyundai etc. are building factories here that employ Americans at low, non-union wages, while Ford and GM are closing factories because they're drowning in pension payments to their unionized workers. The union is so powerful -- too powerful -- that it's actually driving jobs away and hurting both the economy and the workers themselves.
How come you don't mention Daimler-Chrysler in your condemnation of the unions? DC has the same union contracts that GM and Ford have. They have the same "lazy union workers" that Ford and GM have.
However, DC is making huge profits. Actually, the Daimler (Mercedes) end of the company is losing money and the Chrysler arm is keeping Mercedes alive.
How do they do it with all those lazy, overpaid union guys? Perhaps they have good designers, managers, marketeers and engineers?
If every GM car was as good as a new 'Vette or Cad, perhaps they'd be making more profit? Perhaps if they stopped making ugly, shitty cars that get bad mileage they'd sell a few more? No, it's easier to blame the unions.
One more thought about lazy union guys.
Bud, Miller and Coors make interchangeable products. Sure, there are slight differences between the three brands, but for the most part, the difference is the marketing, not the product.
Since Coors isn't unionized, it sells for much less monry than Bud and Miller, right? And Miller is a little cheaper than Bud, because theire union guys make less than Bud.
What? That's not the case? You mean that Coors makes more profit per can because they sell a product made for less labor cost for the same money and just keep the profit difference
Fucking lazy union guys.
I've worked union and non-union shops. Sure, there's some built in slop when you have a union. On the other hand, the non-union shops I've worked in are so dangerous it can be terrifying to work there. I've worked in education, IT and metal fabrication. I'm currently half owner of a family business, and we won't unionize because there's only an occasional employee. However, we treat them well, and pay them far more than prevailking wages.
Going into store-fronts and throwing tantrums may make you feel better but spare a thought for the poor employee you're hurling at: in most cases they will be more inclined do give more help if you approach civilly. Be mad, but don't direct it at front-end employeees: it's not their fault.
I agree that it may not be a good place to start from, but I've been treated very poorly by CSRs in many places in L.A. They don't listen, don't care and know they won't be fired for being useless. And if I made just above minimum wage to deal with the public, I'd have the same attitude.
Sometime, you just have to be an ass to get what you need.
If you don't like their policies, DON'T BUY THEIR MUSIC! It's that simple. You don't need to explain why you're not buying it since you're not doing business with them anymore.
If I ran a business that people were boycotting, I'd want to know why.
How can I change, so that I can take your money?
I remember back in '73 when the US announced that we were transitioning to the metric system.
I hope this time it works better.
I think they're trying to insinuate that he was downloading kiddie porn. Plenty of documented cases of that happening, but no proof in this article.
Exactly why I think it's sleazy reporting.
I'm not condoning sex offenders, but it had no relevance to the story.
They are trying to imply that he was doing something wrong by simply being on sex offender list. Perhaps he was surfing kiddie porn, or perhaps he has a "no internet" clause in his parole - or perhaps he just didn't want to pay for internet access.
In any case, I think this is really sleazy reporting to mention his status, unless it has something to do with the case.
Why not write a decent article with those details in it in the first place? I'm on a news hunt, not a research project.
Exactly.
I read TFA, and it made no mention of speed, distance or any other aspect of the contest. The driver lies down, but how? On the stomache, or the back (with a periscope?). Were they inside to avoid being blown about (aboot?) by the wind?
I'm assuming they didn't drive it across Canada.
Sheesh.
There's no set up necessary when you get a hosting plan. Just click on Gallery 2, and it gets installed for you. Nothing to set up. Apache is set up, MySQL is set up, Email servers set up, webmail set up. I trust that the guys running the hosting service know more about properly setting up all this stuff than I do. Also, I save money on the electricity of running that extra box, the cost of having an extra box, and I pay cheaper Internet access rates because I'm not hosting a server. It's also more reliable than your general home internet. They also do back-ups, and a myriad of other services I wouldn't bother to do myself. And I bet if you put a couple Google ads on the 25 friends' accounts you were hosting, you could probably make your money back, and then some.
/. readers in terms of tech savy.
For you an I there's "no setup". However, my father would take weeks to get it done. He's not dumb, he's just not "computer smart". To him, Apache is 1) a Native American Indian b) a type of Chevy truck
You cannot think that the rest of the world is even close to
Example: I was showing a friend how to use Picasa & Gallery. He's 50, very mechanical, expert level skier and motorcycle rider, the best finish carpenter around... not dumb. However, he wasn't aware that the "open/save" dialog box in WIndows was related to all the folders on the desktop - he wasn't sure how to find something after he saved it.
Thta's one of the reasons I'm doing web design and web hosting in a small town - there's lots of small businesses who want a $20 a month website.
They have no business representing ANYBODY when it comes to technology. Why not find somebody who can display an understanding of computers and the internet instead of somebody who is fluent in 1996 buzzwords?
Sadly, those fools we elect have no idea of most of the laws they pass. They are so busy trying to get re-elected that they have no time to research what they are voting on. I'm certainly not an expert at everything, and neither are they.
Case in point: a number of years ago, one of our elected reresentatives tried to push a bill that required the use of seatbelts on motorcycles. It made me wonder how long he actually thought about it before submitting it.
7) Enough of a fanboy to buy 2nd hand mac to play command & conquer.
8) Bah! Enough, this article is boring....
Exactly where I stopped reading as well.