I'm not sure if this has been covered, and I'm sure as hell not going to wade through comments in the four-digit range, but there are a couple of ways to get your money's worth.
One is to buy a nonstandard caret. You hear.75 caret, 1 caret,.5 carets, like nature and jewelers worked on a rational number system. But people go in and want to buy the nice round numbers. So there is less demand for the odd chickens... you might be able to get the.73, for example, for quite a bit less than the.75.
Actually, there was a pilot TV movie I recall, basically about an android that goes on the lam to learn more about people. At one point, he is in a poolhall, and some guys try to "shark" the "rube". He clues in that it's geometry and physics. He looks at the table, a bunch of equations get overlaid on his cheesy pixilated view, with a path for everything to go down. "I should make all the balls go into the holes?" "Just solids or stripes" says one of the sharks. "Ah. I will make that adjustment," says the robot, followed by another view with altered trajectory.
Can't remember the name of it, though. "21st Century Android" or something. Like I said, it was a pilot, didn't go anywhere.
I mean, I'm sure these things must build up some kind of reserve -- they wouldn't be practical otherwise -- but exactly how much light is required to charge up? Would a low-light condition (say, street lighting in a quiet neighborhood) be too low? Is so, how long before the eyes stop functioning?
In reference to Mary Jane... actually this is reasonably true to the comic. She had _serious_ issues with her abusive father; it was part of the reason she was staying with *her* aunt, IIRC. This came out more or less the same time she and Parker got very serious (pre-marraige buildup).
Well, keep in mind this is Canada (Don't know where you are). Outside of Toronto and a couple of other places, we're not exactly known for huge metropoli.;) Vancouver (where I live now) is rated at 2 million for the GVRD, but the city itself is only about 400K.
As I live in Van now, my speculation is just that, based on my experience of similar events in the past. I can find out, though. Stay tuned.
St. John's is just shy of 100K people, with a sister city right next door pushing that to abot 130-150K. It's also the provincial capital. And this is not a rural airport, it's an international hub (being physically closest to Europe still counts for something, b'ys.) While he certainly wouldn't have the exposure he has in Toronto, we're not talking backwater hicks, either. Factor in that it is still a small enough place that a visit from him would constitute local celebrity news, and you've got a better than even chance that his presence was known.
If you mail a warez crack, DeCSS, kiddie porn, or something similar to yourself using a Hotmail account, does this mean Microsoft can be held legally accountable.:)
This could have possibilities, if we can dig up a few kamikaze mailers....
-TBHiX-
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I'm not sure if it qualifies in the same vein as the topic, but in The Straight Dope, there is a question posed as to the details of the Schröedinger's cat analogy, along with a similarly versed response. Quite good, I think.
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C++ teaches us patience; we teach C++ tolerance. -- my rephrasing of a Buddhist proverb.
You've experienced both, as I understand it: you have been a "name" band. enjoying celebrity status, but you've also managed to acquire a loyal following who are familiar with your corpus of work and the band's history and approach to music. Would any of you like to comment on your own observations/thoughts about these two ways of being successful within the industry?
Her Dad is Linus. This means she's likely to have better than average intelligence and, quite probably, excellent coding skills. And if she gets even a fraction of his personality, she'll have charm.
Her mom is a martial arts champion. This implies she'll probably learn to open the really big cans of whoop ass.;) from what I've seen, she'll probably be a looker too.
Thanks to her old man working for Transmeta, she'll probably have access to enough funds to fully realize her potentials.
Conclusion? Man, forget John Connor. When Microsoft accidently gets involved in that super-secret Skynet project, and the Terminator units come for our collective asses, this is the person I'm expecting to save humanity.;)
I'd elaborate, but the voices in my head say they're coming to give me some of those pretty pills again and I have to go hide.
OK, I stand corrected. However, I still find it suprising. Usually something worth that much isn't going to stay put once sufficiently sticky fingers pass over it.
At least I don't have to look; as I said, I have a copy, though I'm looking to sell it.
It's okay. (if you really can't wait, do what I did - check with your local library, and failing that, use the Interlibrary Loan System)
The book is worth a couple of hundred $US even in semi-crappy condition. You really think a library copy would have lasted more than a couple of weeks before getting pinched? I have a copy of the original and until I sell it, I won't be letting it out of the house.;)
-TBHiX-
BTW, shameless plug: anyone who wants to make a reasonable offer... kmorris at-sign cs period mun period ca. You know the substitutions.
Fraud, in this case, is a highly subjective thing. Picture signing several forms, most of which are legitimate and one of which is the release form. If the person actually delivers something to you, asks you to "sign these forms", and you do, where is the fraud? He's not claiming that (all) the forms are for the delivery.
Such tactics are, so I am told, routinely used by paparazzi and other photographers to get "permission" to sell otherwise personal pics. I'm not saying they can't be taken to court, just that establishing fraud becomes a much more difficult task.
As a wise man once said, no amount of legislation can protect someone from their own stupidity. Nor should it.
As I understand contract law, whether you see the document is relatively unimportant. Someone could take pictures of you, get you to sign a release form that you think is just signing for a delivery or some other such ruse, and then sell the pics. The release form would still be legally binding, as you should have at least looked at the form you signed.
So it is here. If you haven't taken measures to ensure that the program you use to digitally sign documents is doing so everytime and only when you intend to sign a document, then hard cheese. Use of a DS program, in conjunction with the law, is tantamount to declaring "I agree to be held accountable to any document bearing my digital signature."
So, the authour is quite correct in saying that a DS does not always mean that you saw the document, but given what I've detailed here, does it matter?
I've read about the Internet Death Penalty, the occasionally-threatened but never-implemented blocking of ANY packets originating from that site. It's a very serious threat, but something like this may warrant it. Does anyone have details about how this might be initiated?
-TBHiX-
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There's quite a bit of code in the source, as I recall. It's easier just to pick the links out of the four or five in the info. YMMV.
There is the occasional one that appears to be of "real" people (as opposed to somebody trying for free publicity for their portfolio or luring you into a pr0n site.) Quite a few cute girls I know have tried their hand at modelling, and have professional-quality pics to show for it. But they aren't models. Why shouldn't they use these pics?
Similarly, some people are good at photography, or know someone who is. Still, I agree that the more of the elements you mention occur in one picture (particularly the exotic locale - vacation pics just don't get done that way!), the less likely it is to be anything other than a glamour shot.
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Found a way to trace the pics. Click "Page Info". The link to the pic is the second or third-last one listed. Open it in a new window. Usually, chopping off the last bit of the link's URL will get you to the page hosting the pic.
My point? After following a few of the ones that looked.... professionally hot, shall we say, it seems that a large number of them are indeed links to professional pages. Not all of them, mind you. Just a large majority of them.
All I know is, even if I wanted to risk my self-esteem, I'd never post anywhere where someone might be able to find my website.
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I'm not sure. I'd probably give them a bulk rate -- they'd only have to pay me $15 or so per message to take them.
(Cat stares balefully at TBHiX for a moment, then goes back to licking herself.)
"BAAAAAAAAAAD kitty! You just go to your basket and think about what you did!"
Hmph. Sorry about that, folks. She just hasn't been the same since she slept on my copy of Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming". Well, at least I know where that pre-paid order for eight gross of catnip toys came from.
Not that the guy is dying or anything, but it got me to thinking. I think I'd love to have it said of me, after I'm gone, "He kept closer tabs on (insert large powerful entity here) than (large powerful entity) would have preferred."
Ah, another fan game, one that sounds like it could be as much fun as xBill. Of course, will we have the option of running a biathalon with panicked Bill Gates as the targets? Just a thought...
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I'm not sure if this has been covered, and I'm sure as hell not going to wade through comments in the four-digit range, but there are a couple of ways to get your money's worth.
.75 caret, 1 caret, .5 carets, like nature and jewelers worked on a rational number system. But people go in and want to buy the nice round numbers. So there is less demand for the odd chickens... you might be able to get the .73, for example, for quite a bit less than the .75.
One is to buy a nonstandard caret. You hear
I'm sure there are others.
-TBHiX-
Actually, there was a pilot TV movie I recall, basically about an android that goes on the lam to learn more about people. At one point, he is in a poolhall, and some guys try to "shark" the "rube". He clues in that it's geometry and physics. He looks at the table, a bunch of equations get overlaid on his cheesy pixilated view, with a path for everything to go down. "I should make all the balls go into the holes?" "Just solids or stripes" says one of the sharks. "Ah. I will make that adjustment," says the robot, followed by another view with altered trajectory.
Can't remember the name of it, though. "21st Century Android" or something. Like I said, it was a pilot, didn't go anywhere.
I mean, I'm sure these things must build up some kind of reserve -- they wouldn't be practical otherwise -- but exactly how much light is required to charge up? Would a low-light condition (say, street lighting in a quiet neighborhood) be too low? Is so, how long before the eyes stop functioning?
Still, interesting stuff.
In reference to Mary Jane... actually this is reasonably true to the comic. She had _serious_ issues with her abusive father; it was part of the reason she was staying with *her* aunt, IIRC. This came out more or less the same time she and Parker got very serious (pre-marraige buildup).
;)
So dere.
Well, keep in mind this is Canada (Don't know where you are). Outside of Toronto and a couple of other places, we're not exactly known for huge metropoli. ;) Vancouver (where I live now) is rated at 2 million for the GVRD, but the city itself is only about 400K.
As I live in Van now, my speculation is just that, based on my experience of similar events in the past. I can find out, though. Stay tuned.
-TBHiX-
St. John's is just shy of 100K people, with a sister city right next door pushing that to abot 130-150K. It's also the provincial capital. And this is not a rural airport, it's an international hub (being physically closest to Europe still counts for something, b'ys.) While he certainly wouldn't have the exposure he has in Toronto, we're not talking backwater hicks, either. Factor in that it is still a small enough place that a visit from him would constitute local celebrity news, and you've got a better than even chance that his presence was known.
If you mail a warez crack, DeCSS, kiddie porn, or something similar to yourself using a Hotmail account, does this mean Microsoft can be held legally accountable. :)
This could have possibilities, if we can dig up a few kamikaze mailers....
-TBHiX-
All my comment are belong to me. You have no need to agree make your dissent. For great amusement!
I'm not sure if it qualifies in the same vein as the topic, but in The Straight Dope, there is a question posed as to the details of the Schröedinger's cat analogy, along with a similarly versed response. Quite good, I think.
-TBHiX-
C++ teaches us patience; we teach C++ tolerance. -- my rephrasing of a Buddhist proverb.
You've experienced both, as I understand it: you have been a "name" band. enjoying celebrity status, but you've also managed to acquire a loyal following who are familiar with your corpus of work and the band's history and approach to music. Would any of you like to comment on your own observations/thoughts about these two ways of being successful within the industry?
First, obligatory congrats.
Now, consider the probabilities here...
Conclusion? Man, forget John Connor. When Microsoft accidently gets involved in that super-secret Skynet project, and the Terminator units come for our collective asses, this is the person I'm expecting to save humanity. ;)
I'd elaborate, but the voices in my head say they're coming to give me some of those pretty pills again and I have to go hide.
-TBHiX-
OK, I stand corrected. However, I still find it suprising. Usually something worth that much isn't going to stay put once sufficiently sticky fingers pass over it.
At least I don't have to look; as I said, I have a copy, though I'm looking to sell it.
-TBHiX-
The book is worth a couple of hundred $US even in semi-crappy condition. You really think a library copy would have lasted more than a couple of weeks before getting pinched? I have a copy of the original and until I sell it, I won't be letting it out of the house. ;)
-TBHiX-
BTW, shameless plug: anyone who wants to make a reasonable offer... kmorris at-sign cs period mun period ca. You know the substitutions.
Fraud, in this case, is a highly subjective thing. Picture signing several forms, most of which are legitimate and one of which is the release form. If the person actually delivers something to you, asks you to "sign these forms", and you do, where is the fraud? He's not claiming that (all) the forms are for the delivery.
Such tactics are, so I am told, routinely used by paparazzi and other photographers to get "permission" to sell otherwise personal pics. I'm not saying they can't be taken to court, just that establishing fraud becomes a much more difficult task.
As a wise man once said, no amount of legislation can protect someone from their own stupidity. Nor should it.
-TBHiX-
As I understand contract law, whether you see the document is relatively unimportant. Someone could take pictures of you, get you to sign a release form that you think is just signing for a delivery or some other such ruse, and then sell the pics. The release form would still be legally binding, as you should have at least looked at the form you signed.
So it is here. If you haven't taken measures to ensure that the program you use to digitally sign documents is doing so everytime and only when you intend to sign a document, then hard cheese. Use of a DS program, in conjunction with the law, is tantamount to declaring "I agree to be held accountable to any document bearing my digital signature."
So, the authour is quite correct in saying that a DS does not always mean that you saw the document, but given what I've detailed here, does it matter?
-TBHiX
I've read about the Internet Death Penalty, the occasionally-threatened but never-implemented blocking of ANY packets originating from that site. It's a very serious threat, but something like this may warrant it. Does anyone have details about how this might be initiated?
-TBHiX-
There's quite a bit of code in the source, as I recall. It's easier just to pick the links out of the four or five in the info. YMMV.
-TBHiX-
There is the occasional one that appears to be of "real" people (as opposed to somebody trying for free publicity for their portfolio or luring you into a pr0n site.) Quite a few cute girls I know have tried their hand at modelling, and have professional-quality pics to show for it. But they aren't models. Why shouldn't they use these pics?
Similarly, some people are good at photography, or know someone who is. Still, I agree that the more of the elements you mention occur in one picture (particularly the exotic locale - vacation pics just don't get done that way!), the less likely it is to be anything other than a glamour shot.
-TBHiX-
Found a way to trace the pics. Click "Page Info". The link to the pic is the second or third-last one listed. Open it in a new window. Usually, chopping off the last bit of the link's URL will get you to the page hosting the pic.
My point? After following a few of the ones that looked.... professionally hot, shall we say, it seems that a large number of them are indeed links to professional pages. Not all of them, mind you. Just a large majority of them.
All I know is, even if I wanted to risk my self-esteem, I'd never post anywhere where someone might be able to find my website.
-TBHiX-
I'm not sure. I'd probably give them a bulk rate -- they'd only have to pay me $15 or so per message to take them.
-TBHiX-
(TBHiX turns around, looks at cat)
"It was you, wasn't it, Tizzy?!"
(Cat stares balefully at TBHiX for a moment, then goes back to licking herself.)
"BAAAAAAAAAAD kitty! You just go to your basket and think about what you did!"
Hmph. Sorry about that, folks. She just hasn't been the same since she slept on my copy of Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming". Well, at least I know where that pre-paid order for eight gross of catnip toys came from.
-TBHiX-
Not that the guy is dying or anything, but it got me to thinking. I think I'd love to have it said of me, after I'm gone, "He kept closer tabs on (insert large powerful entity here) than (large powerful entity) would have preferred."
-TBHiX-
if ( LARGE_POWERFUL_ENTITY == Cthulu )
{
why_this_is_an_epitath = true;
}
So which am I -- lichen or algae? ;)
-TBHiX-
...currently enjoying a nice hot cup of coffee-flavoured moss, apparently.
Well, looks like my advanced studies plan just finalised. ;)
I can just picture my thesis: "The Gray Goo Scenario and University Cafeteria Supply Issues: a Modest Proposal".
I'll forego the obvious jokes about atomic-scale diplomas, labs, etc., as the humour so derived is way to small to notice. ;)
-TBHiX-
Dual Athlon GOOOOOOOOD!
(Locked clock multiplier BAAAAAAAAD!)
I have been so looking forward to the opportunity to get me some dual AMD action... I hope it won't be too long before they're on the market.
-TBHiX-
Ah, another fan game, one that sounds like it could be as much fun as xBill. Of course, will we have the option of running a biathalon with panicked Bill Gates as the targets? Just a thought...
-TBHiX-