They've got ATMs all over the place. They run this Ponzi scheme where people give them money and then they loan out almost all of it to other people. Eventually this money gets re-deposited and again they loan out almost all of it. This cycle continues until the total amount of money that they own to depositors is substantially larger than the actual money they can ever get their hands on. They try to re-coup this by charging crazy fees on their ATMs and monthly fees for getting to play in the scheme but in the end like all Ponzi schemes, this one crashed.
So get this, then, they have these other dudes with guns who force people to pay them money so that it can be funneled back into the Ponzi scheme to keep it going.
On second thought, what we have here is far worse than in Russia. Damn Bank of America.
There certainly is no perfect language but I find any programmer that really spends time learning Ada, or Python or other language really well ends up being a better C++ programmer in the end too. Brief interludes don't really cut it either.
It is posts like this that make be both wish that I had mod points and that there was a very insightful option that transferred a fraction of karma points to the the poster.
Lacking that, moderators should feel free to mod up the parent and mod me down!
Not a surprise at all. Conservatives were more than willing to cheer as their rights "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" were destroyed by the Patriot act as long as the party in power had the right letter in parenthesis as they talked about it.
Liberals are dancing in joy about a law that confiscates wealth from all citizens to give to the insurance companies as long as we call them evil as will fill their pockets. I suspect no complaints from them about this attack on the Constitution because it is 'their guy' doing the attacking.
The answer is certainly not moderates who a are pretty much happy to give up any right as long as you do it slowly.
Enjoy the scenery on the road to serfdom because when we get there, I think we will find that the collectivist paradise promised by the political elite will leave us wishing were we are the promised land of the "South of the Border" tourist trap. Hopefully we will at least get a nice bumper sticker out of the deal.
My wife does molecular and cytogenetic testing. This was her reaction:
"Over reaction. Yes the state labs keep blood spots...I don't know when anyone would ever want to go back and get a sample with someone's name on it unless they were working on a gene that is on the newborn screening panel. They legally can not use genetic testing to prevent you from getting a job or insurance..and who would. It would take more time and money than it's worth to get that information from a newborn screening card. Everyone is told about newborn screening and everyone has the opportunity to decline. It's a matter of whether you are actually paying attention to what is happening with your child. If you don't understand you have a responsibility to speak up. Newborn screening is important...research on deidentified samples is important. No one is out to get you. No one has the time or energy to get you. Life is not CSI."
Oh well then. That is settled. Nothing to worry about. Cool. By the way, I have setup cameras outside your bedroom window and have been taping the sex acts you and your wife have been involved in. Since there are laws that outlaw rape, murder, etc nobody that I distribute this to will getdo anything to her...and who would.. No one is out to get you. Life is not CSI.
Umm... NASA also relies on "unsubstantiated claims" and need to overcome major technical hurdles before they can safely carry astronauts into orbit.
The shuttle has about a 1 in 65 chance of catastrophic failure resulting in loss of the crew.
For all of its vaunted simplicity, the Apollo flights only flew 18 times and had one very very close loss of the crew in space (and of course one actual loss of crew on the ground).
I honestly don't know if private companies will do better or not but it is not as if NASA's record in this area is all that great either. Having a somewhat adversarial relationship between private enterprise and the government as we have with airlines appears to have contributed to overall safe air travel. I think it is worth a shot to try it in space.
When the government is both the provider of a service and the one auditing it, you end up with no independent evaluators except at the accident boards.
Sure there are some shows that were killed for being 'too cerebral' where it was true, but plenty of shows that received the ax with that phrase had a slightly different underlying problem. They were too f*ing boring.
'Too cerebral' allows the network to break it off without hurting the feelings of the fans or the producers. It will be interesting to see which category this pilot falls into...Maybe if it does not turn out well the pilot and I can just be friends.
The submission claims this is "throwing the baby out with the bathwater"...huh? No. This law is like throwing away the poop you washed off the baby along with the bathwater. The original analogy is trying to say that to get rid of something of no value, you also threw out something that had value. These other items you listed as untended consequences can cause the same sorts of distraction based accidents as cell phones but it is just not in vogue to hate them.
Distracted driving is distracted driving. People love to hate other people's cell phones but think nothing of twiddling with the radio or turning to face their passenger as they have a conversation. In general I think these laws on top of laws are a bad idea because there are generally already distracted driver laws. Trying to single out specific items in the law is just silly and is an attempt to cater to those people that want an ever increasing number of laws and power for the state. So great, we outlawed hand held electronic devices. I guess I will have to bring out a mini-Victrola with a crank. Sure it will be hand held and a terrible distraction for the driver but it is not electronic so it must be safe.
On the verge of dumping firefox after years of use. 3.5.2 was horrible. 3.5.3 crashed within the first 5 minutes of use.
The #1 reason I would dump any SW product is stability. If it can't perform its intended function without crashing then nothing else matters. Lets just hope I don't need to switch to Chrome to get this to post.
violation of copyright and denies the copyright holder compensation
So what? The copyright holders (note: that's the studios -- not any of the artists involved) are actively and maliciously destroying our Fair Use rights; why should we give a shit about theirs?
In America, they came first for the property of the studios, And I did not speak up because I was not a Studio;
... You know how the rest of it goes.
Why you choose to allow those that you disagree with to define you is beyond me..
BluRay is ALREADY OBSOLETE. Yes it's a bitch to rip. But who cares. Media is all online and streaming now. Broadcasts are in HD 1080p. There are SOO MANY OTHER WAYS to get the same content. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CAN HAVE A 4GB HD MOVIE THAT LOOKS THE SAME AS A 30GB BLURAY. All this 1080p content is becoming available as torrents, just download as normal (hint searching for mkv files may help).
The problem with just going with a torrent is that in all likelihood that ends up being a violation of copyright and denies the copyright holder compensation for my viewing of the material. Some of us want to be able to rip things so we can buy them but then use them in what we deem to be a reasonable manner (e.g. a central DVD repository in the house).
I won't buy a blue ray player or any disks until it it rather fully defeated. I realize this is a squishy middle ground position that is likely to be frowned upon from all sides because even the use that I deem 'fair' is outside of what many copyright holders are willing to grant me. I'd end with oh well, sue me...but we all know where that is heading:)
Some of these places clearly do not respect a do not call list policy as they call even when you are on the national list and/or call back even after repeated requests to go on their own do not call list.
However, they do appear to maintain a crazy list. Drag the call out. Speak slowly and say lots of things that don't make sense. You get to have a little fun and and up on their do not call list...Well, that or the democrats elect you speaker of the house. Either way you win.
One item in the list is gnat which is one particular implementation of Ada. So, there is at least one Ada implementation on the list. I did not recognize any others.
Having it in bottled water makes perfect sense -- that way, you won't feel so bad about contributing to the destruction of the biosphere by drinking bottled water.
How long until the first trojan comes along that password-protects your drive for you with a random password, irrevocably locking you out? 'Universal' interfaces can have drawbacks as well.
Great, now that you gave them the idea it will only be about 10 minutes. That knock you just heard on your door is from the Department of Homeland Security.:)
Looking at the 50-inch plasma screens, the lowest is 163W and the highest is 609W. That's quite a range. Maybe it really is worthwhile setting legally enforced efficiency standards, because it's clear the industry hasn't sorted the issue out.
Looking at the moderation scores I see some comments get flagged in the negative territory and others go as high as 5. Maybe it is worthwhile setting legally enforced slashdot commenting standards, because it's clear the digerati hasn't sorted the issue out.
I can tell I must be getting old when one of my first responses is 'Cmon, just go buy the movie already'.
Yes you are getting old but not for the reason you think.
I don't have any movies/songs that I did not buy but I also won't buy any BlueRay players or Disks until they are broken.
While I am not a huge purchaser of DVDs (I probably own less than 200 counting a few TV series that come on multiple disks) I do buy the movies/shows that I really like but I hate having to go through the cabinet, find the disk, remember to have the kids put away theirs when done, etc.
I want my movies on a central server in my house for easy access. This is not practical with stand-alone disks. I'd even be willing to pay a few dollars more for a version where the license specifically allows me to transfer the item to a server like this.
Ignoring for a moment the argument about whether or not the government should be funding this lets just talk about the full article v.s. your post...
From the full article "Fermilab's financial crisis began in December, when the U.S. Congress passed a last-minute budget for the 2008 fiscal year (ScienceNOW, 19 December 2007). Legislators whacked Fermilab's budget from the $372 million requested by the Department of Energy (DOE) to $320 million, $22 million less than the lab had received in 2007. To balance the books, lab officials said they would have to cut about 200 of the lab's then-1950 employees."
You have gotten so used to bashing Republicans that you really are missing the point that both parties are corrupt and extending government beyond the constitutionally defined limits. Then each side argues about how they don't like the cuts and/or spending that was pushed from the other side and we all end up so worked up that we miss the point that the government should not be doing any of this stuff.
Apple is refusing to allow background tasks simply because they can't trust all developers to write them properly. Hell, most desktop developers can't be bothered to do a sleep(0) when their app is lazily polling for something. Hell most desktop developers don't even realize that in most cases they should NOT be polling for anything even with a sleep but should instead look for a way to work with blocking calls that let the application stay asleep until the even happens. If you write polling loops you are contributing to global warming and should be prosecuted and have you concealed software license revoked.
Of course what is really happening with these two is that they don't care that much about the technology or the program but by pushing for it they can say "I told you so" if anything were to get shot down.
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So get this, then, they have these other dudes with guns who force people to pay them money so that it can be funneled back into the Ponzi scheme to keep it going.
On second thought, what we have here is far worse than in Russia. Damn Bank of America.
There certainly is no perfect language but I find any programmer that really spends time learning Ada, or Python or other language really well ends up being a better C++ programmer in the end too. Brief interludes don't really cut it either.
Lacking that, moderators should feel free to mod up the parent and mod me down!
Liberals are dancing in joy about a law that confiscates wealth from all citizens to give to the insurance companies as long as we call them evil as will fill their pockets. I suspect no complaints from them about this attack on the Constitution because it is 'their guy' doing the attacking.
The answer is certainly not moderates who a are pretty much happy to give up any right as long as you do it slowly.
Enjoy the scenery on the road to serfdom because when we get there, I think we will find that the collectivist paradise promised by the political elite will leave us wishing were we are the promised land of the "South of the Border" tourist trap. Hopefully we will at least get a nice bumper sticker out of the deal.
If a ball falls down it is because of gravity. If it bounces back up it is because of gravity.
Actually, when it bounces back up it is due to inertia but thanks for playing.
My wife does molecular and cytogenetic testing. This was her reaction:
"Over reaction. Yes the state labs keep blood spots...I don't know when anyone would ever want to go back and get a sample with someone's name on it unless they were working on a gene that is on the newborn screening panel. They legally can not use genetic testing to prevent you from getting a job or insurance..and who would. It would take more time and money than it's worth to get that information from a newborn screening card. Everyone is told about newborn screening and everyone has the opportunity to decline. It's a matter of whether you are actually paying attention to what is happening with your child. If you don't understand you have a responsibility to speak up. Newborn screening is important...research on deidentified samples is important. No one is out to get you. No one has the time or energy to get you. Life is not CSI."
Oh well then. That is settled. Nothing to worry about. Cool. By the way, I have setup cameras outside your bedroom window and have been taping the sex acts you and your wife have been involved in. Since there are laws that outlaw rape, murder, etc nobody that I distribute this to will getdo anything to her...and who would.. No one is out to get you. Life is not CSI.
Umm... NASA also relies on "unsubstantiated claims" and need to overcome major technical hurdles before they can safely carry astronauts into orbit. The shuttle has about a 1 in 65 chance of catastrophic failure resulting in loss of the crew. For all of its vaunted simplicity, the Apollo flights only flew 18 times and had one very very close loss of the crew in space (and of course one actual loss of crew on the ground). I honestly don't know if private companies will do better or not but it is not as if NASA's record in this area is all that great either. Having a somewhat adversarial relationship between private enterprise and the government as we have with airlines appears to have contributed to overall safe air travel. I think it is worth a shot to try it in space. When the government is both the provider of a service and the one auditing it, you end up with no independent evaluators except at the accident boards.
'Too cerebral' allows the network to break it off without hurting the feelings of the fans or the producers. It will be interesting to see which category this pilot falls into...Maybe if it does not turn out well the pilot and I can just be friends.
Distracted driving is distracted driving. People love to hate other people's cell phones but think nothing of twiddling with the radio or turning to face their passenger as they have a conversation. In general I think these laws on top of laws are a bad idea because there are generally already distracted driver laws. Trying to single out specific items in the law is just silly and is an attempt to cater to those people that want an ever increasing number of laws and power for the state. So great, we outlawed hand held electronic devices. I guess I will have to bring out a mini-Victrola with a crank. Sure it will be hand held and a terrible distraction for the driver but it is not electronic so it must be safe.
On the verge of dumping firefox after years of use. 3.5.2 was horrible. 3.5.3 crashed within the first 5 minutes of use. The #1 reason I would dump any SW product is stability. If it can't perform its intended function without crashing then nothing else matters. Lets just hope I don't need to switch to Chrome to get this to post.
So what? The copyright holders (note: that's the studios -- not any of the artists involved) are actively and maliciously destroying our Fair Use rights; why should we give a shit about theirs?
In America, they came first for the property of the studios, And I did not speak up because I was not a Studio;
Why you choose to allow those that you disagree with to define you is beyond me..
BluRay is ALREADY OBSOLETE. Yes it's a bitch to rip. But who cares. Media is all online and streaming now. Broadcasts are in HD 1080p. There are SOO MANY OTHER WAYS to get the same content. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CAN HAVE A 4GB HD MOVIE THAT LOOKS THE SAME AS A 30GB BLURAY. All this 1080p content is becoming available as torrents, just download as normal (hint searching for mkv files may help).
The problem with just going with a torrent is that in all likelihood that ends up being a violation of copyright and denies the copyright holder compensation for my viewing of the material. Some of us want to be able to rip things so we can buy them but then use them in what we deem to be a reasonable manner (e.g. a central DVD repository in the house).
I won't buy a blue ray player or any disks until it it rather fully defeated. I realize this is a squishy middle ground position that is likely to be frowned upon from all sides because even the use that I deem 'fair' is outside of what many copyright holders are willing to grant me. I'd end with oh well, sue me...but we all know where that is heading :)
So ... does this mean that this bacterium is now the "oldest living thing"?
No, that distinction still applies to Democratic Senator and former KKK member Robert Byrd.
However, they do appear to maintain a crazy list. Drag the call out. Speak slowly and say lots of things that don't make sense. You get to have a little fun and and up on their do not call list...Well, that or the democrats elect you speaker of the house. Either way you win.
Where's Ada?
One item in the list is gnat which is one particular implementation of Ada. So, there is at least one Ada implementation on the list. I did not recognize any others.
Having it in bottled water makes perfect sense -- that way, you won't feel so bad about contributing to the destruction of the biosphere by drinking bottled water.
How long until the first trojan comes along that password-protects your drive for you with a random password, irrevocably locking you out? 'Universal' interfaces can have drawbacks as well.
Great, now that you gave them the idea it will only be about 10 minutes. That knock you just heard on your door is from the Department of Homeland Security. :)
Looking at the 50-inch plasma screens, the lowest is 163W and the highest is 609W. That's quite a range. Maybe it really is worthwhile setting legally enforced efficiency standards, because it's clear the industry hasn't sorted the issue out.
Looking at the moderation scores I see some comments get flagged in the negative territory and others go as high as 5. Maybe it is worthwhile setting legally enforced slashdot commenting standards, because it's clear the digerati hasn't sorted the issue out.
I can tell I must be getting old when one of my first responses is 'Cmon, just go buy the movie already'.
Yes you are getting old but not for the reason you think.
I don't have any movies/songs that I did not buy but I also won't buy any BlueRay players or Disks until they are broken.
While I am not a huge purchaser of DVDs (I probably own less than 200 counting a few TV series that come on multiple disks) I do buy the movies/shows that I really like but I hate having to go through the cabinet, find the disk, remember to have the kids put away theirs when done, etc.
I want my movies on a central server in my house for easy access. This is not practical with stand-alone disks. I'd even be willing to pay a few dollars more for a version where the license specifically allows me to transfer the item to a server like this.
Oh, so that was the point of Windows Vista. It makes sense now.
Ignoring for a moment the argument about whether or not the government should be funding this lets just talk about the full article v.s. your post... From the full article "Fermilab's financial crisis began in December, when the U.S. Congress passed a last-minute budget for the 2008 fiscal year (ScienceNOW, 19 December 2007). Legislators whacked Fermilab's budget from the $372 million requested by the Department of Energy (DOE) to $320 million, $22 million less than the lab had received in 2007. To balance the books, lab officials said they would have to cut about 200 of the lab's then-1950 employees." You have gotten so used to bashing Republicans that you really are missing the point that both parties are corrupt and extending government beyond the constitutionally defined limits. Then each side argues about how they don't like the cuts and/or spending that was pushed from the other side and we all end up so worked up that we miss the point that the government should not be doing any of this stuff.
Agreed. Of course I better not see that POP mail request be in a polling loop with the sleep(0) from the parent post! :)
Umm, I think that ship has already sailed.
http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/SchumerWebsite/schumer_around_ny/record.cfm?id=264754&
and Barbara Boxer (D)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=politics&id=4447425
Of course what is really happening with these two is that they don't care that much about the technology or the program but by pushing for it they can say "I told you so" if anything were to get shot down.