Pickpockets are dumb - how many kazillions of car stereos have simiar anti-theft technology built in, but theifs still take them?
They must be a pretty good pickpocket if they can take a car stereo out of your pocket. If I were carrying something that bulky around in my pocket, I'd definitely notice it was missing.
The museum I work for currently has a traveling exhibit called The Enemy Within: Terror in America from 1776 to today. It illustrates that terrorism has existed the entire time the US has (and before) by showing that the KKK, the Red Scare, the Germans during WWI, the Oklahoma City bombing, several militiamen examples, the Weather Underground, and even the British who burned the White House.
I believe that as people see it, they realize that it's not just a few incidents, but terrorism has always been around, but that we (as a country) have always prevailed.
Public Universities are beginning to change. About 2 years ago, NC State University (my school) switched from using the SSN to a six digit ID number which the Cashier's Office had already been using in their own database.
They issued new ID cards to everyone along with other much needed improvements (your SSN is no longer used as a standard barcode on the front, larger photo, newer magstripe, expiration date, etc.). This made everything much more secure and departments and professors are no longer allowed to have/use your SSN as a primary key.
Also old television... On "I Love Lucy," Lucy made a ad for a TV show on the show. It was for a health tonic and she got drunk during the show (within a show) and funniness ensued.
Let us not forget, the time Ned Flanders went to Vegas. He looks up at the sky and asks God what to do and a voice from the sky replies, "Keep gaming."
Even in Vegas, they practice gaming, not gambling. It sounds better.
As far as public transportation goes, newer busses made in the last 5-10 years have a lot of computing hardware in them. The vehicles I now drive (El Dorado National) has every system "multiplexed" through the same wiring harnesses with all sorts of interlocks that are controlled by microchips. I'd be willing to guess that they have more chips than my PC does. Every panel you remove has a huge bundle of wiring all with a LED status indicator.
But I guess that would hurt the unemployment rate in places like Young America, MN (is there such a place?) where many of the rebates end up being sent.
Young America is the name of a promotions company that does many things other than just rebates. I've noticed many, many things that go there. The drink cap offers Pepsi had, sweepstakes entries, and lots of other promotional things. Just look at all they say they offer.
I'm pretty sure some of them were in Western North Carolina judging from the conversations I overhear. I'm a bus driver for a system that mostly services students. When I moved here I was amazed at how dim the students seem compared to those I was around at NC State. It seems they "baby" the students here. They even rent their textbooks to the students instead of having them buy them and the professors can't teach out of books that aren't on the department's list.
This university seems more like High School 2.0 from my point of view.
Even though sodas use this more distributed method, their products are still not the same universally for the smaller guys. One of my favorite sodas (Sun-Drop, which happens to be owned by Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up) is produced by Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated where I live now, but has a much different taste than the Sun-Drops I got from Choice Bottling Company in my hometown. In my area the franchises are handed out roughly by county, so who I ordered it from for a business depended solely on location.
For smaller companies and brands, this variance may be tolerated in order to get their product out more, but a major brand isn't going to tolerate this.
But, you've also got to figure that if only one cereal company bought into this, that would make their products fly off the shelf until everyone else did it and it became the norm. People are usually suckers for flashy advertising. So, even if it did dip into the profit margins a bit, even with only twice the volume, they could make a bundle.
I don't know, my good old NES power supply doesn't sit on the carpet... It hangs on the wall outlet, and I've never had a problem with it overheating...
I've been running BOINC for a while (6 projects and over 20,000 credits on my main desktop), but even in those days, it wasn't hard to set up. The e-mail sent out is fairly straightforward and tells you the URL and project key to use. I didn't have to manage the 6 seperate projects differently. Just set the URL and key and it downloaded all the rest on it's on, and is great at switching between projects, queueing up workunits, and even recovering from random process crashes and communications problems.
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I believe that as people see it, they realize that it's not just a few incidents, but terrorism has always been around, but that we (as a country) have always prevailed.
The exhibit was designed by the International Spy Museum, Washington, DC.x .aspx
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Not to mention that on a standard keypad M and O are on the some key, so any multitap users would be screwed.
Public Universities are beginning to change. About 2 years ago, NC State University (my school) switched from using the SSN to a six digit ID number which the Cashier's Office had already been using in their own database.
They issued new ID cards to everyone along with other much needed improvements (your SSN is no longer used as a standard barcode on the front, larger photo, newer magstripe, expiration date, etc.). This made everything much more secure and departments and professors are no longer allowed to have/use your SSN as a primary key.
Also old television... On "I Love Lucy," Lucy made a ad for a TV show on the show. It was for a health tonic and she got drunk during the show (within a show) and funniness ensued.
There should be a mod option that's something like '-1 Guerilla Mktg' for posts like this.
Let us not forget, the time Ned Flanders went to Vegas. He looks up at the sky and asks God what to do and a voice from the sky replies, "Keep gaming."
Even in Vegas, they practice gaming, not gambling. It sounds better.
The only reason it looks cool is because we saw it on ST:TNG.
I close the lid without fail. Even when I've been drinking. Partly due to the cat but mostly because it looks more proper with it closed.
As far as public transportation goes, newer busses made in the last 5-10 years have a lot of computing hardware in them. The vehicles I now drive (El Dorado National) has every system "multiplexed" through the same wiring harnesses with all sorts of interlocks that are controlled by microchips. I'd be willing to guess that they have more chips than my PC does. Every panel you remove has a huge bundle of wiring all with a LED status indicator.
Other types of "stoning" makes people lethargic and unmotivated as well.
I'm pretty sure some of them were in Western North Carolina judging from the conversations I overhear. I'm a bus driver for a system that mostly services students. When I moved here I was amazed at how dim the students seem compared to those I was around at NC State. It seems they "baby" the students here. They even rent their textbooks to the students instead of having them buy them and the professors can't teach out of books that aren't on the department's list.
This university seems more like High School 2.0 from my point of view.
If we want to be picky about it, coffee is a grocery...
Some places already do. Ever been to a Sam's Club?
But of course! You always have to know where your towel is...
Even though sodas use this more distributed method, their products are still not the same universally for the smaller guys. One of my favorite sodas (Sun-Drop, which happens to be owned by Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up) is produced by Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated where I live now, but has a much different taste than the Sun-Drops I got from Choice Bottling Company in my hometown. In my area the franchises are handed out roughly by county, so who I ordered it from for a business depended solely on location.
For smaller companies and brands, this variance may be tolerated in order to get their product out more, but a major brand isn't going to tolerate this.
That's why nearly any service manual tells you to disconnect the (-) battery post before getting into the engine.
But, you've also got to figure that if only one cereal company bought into this, that would make their products fly off the shelf until everyone else did it and it became the norm. People are usually suckers for flashy advertising. So, even if it did dip into the profit margins a bit, even with only twice the volume, they could make a bundle.
FWIW, I have seen Harpoon in Harris-Teeter and Lowes Foods here in NC.
But, what "activities" at night in a dark room would I want to stop to have an IM with someone...
I mean, you gotta have priorities.
I don't know, my good old NES power supply doesn't sit on the carpet... It hangs on the wall outlet, and I've never had a problem with it overheating...
I've been running BOINC for a while (6 projects and over 20,000 credits on my main desktop), but even in those days, it wasn't hard to set up. The e-mail sent out is fairly straightforward and tells you the URL and project key to use. I didn't have to manage the 6 seperate projects differently. Just set the URL and key and it downloaded all the rest on it's on, and is great at switching between projects, queueing up workunits, and even recovering from random process crashes and communications problems.
Currently, that's the only thing keeping the Borg away from Earth...