Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
There is no benefit to letting the whistleblowers know that Cheney *might* be aware of who they are. It is better for Cheney to keep his awareness quiet and let the tips keep flowing in like insider information. He can then take whatever surreptitious actions are necessary.
This echoes the actions of a thousand incompetent secretaries I've seen who have been asked to send a confidential email out to a list of people by a manager who assumed they knew to send them one at a time or assumed they knew how to use the BCC. As I posted elsewhere, neither of those two actions are intuitive to someone who is relatively new to mass emailing or to Outlook where the BCC field is hidden by default.
They got the task given to someone using Outlook who has probably only sent brief emails between themselves and other staffers one recipient at a time. If they are relatively new to large email distributions their mindset maybe that it is like a paper mailout where a separate email is automatically sent to each individual address on the list. I've seen older secretaries in law firms who are masters at paper filing, shorthand and typing but for whom the intricacies of email are totally beyond them.
In Outlook the BCC field is not visible by default, you have to go to the View menu to turn it on. If the person sending this out had never sent a BCC they wouldn't even know it existed.
Maybe generational but there is an aspect of what kind of games do you like.
I watch my son playing Final Fantasy on his PS2 and the ridiculous complexity of weapons, healing potions, tactics, characters and maps just takes away any possibility of me just enjoying the game or environment.
The only thing I'll play on the kids consoles are the driving games.
For me there would still be great pleasure in Xevious or Tempest.
The reference to the Tacoma Narrows bridge is very relevant. Galloping Gertie showed that even without hurricane-force winds a very heavy ribbon-shaped strip can me made to move in an extreme fashion due to mechanical resonance. Even a small strip would have the same kind of resonance so that large relative movement can be extracted from even light winds.
Haven't you ever made a blade of grass whistle between your thumbs?
Why? What Internet connection do you have that would come close to maxing out even a 10Mb connection? How many hundreds of machines do you have on your home network that would requires a Gigabit on the inside port?
PCs come with Gigabit Ethernet connections these days because the cost difference is negligible. Having two 100MB ports provides more than enough bandwidth for average home use and may save some power which is the point of this machine.
George Takei is best known for playing Sulu as every single news article about this leads off. But it's not like that is the only thing he's done. See his Wikipedia entry to find out about his charitable work and service as Clinton's head of Japan - America relations.
Not really as I'm referring to longer terms. Jargon that survives the initial fad phase gets assimilated into the language over time. I'm sure you can recall quite a few words that were once jargon restricted to a small group which have since become part of common English.
There is a reason that Eskimo has so many words for varieties of snow
Leaving aside the fact that there is no one language called "Eskimo", the 'many words for snow' thing is a well know urban legend.
There are still thousands of languages on the earth which can have different ways of expressing concepts and ideas. I know jokes in Japanese that just cannot be translated into English or French or even Chinese for that matter. However, languages are fluid and you can't say that the words won't develop in English that will let me tell those jokes.
There have been thousands of cultures that have developed, sometimes to world-conquering levels, then faded and disappeared. Some did so naturally through being unable to self-sustain, others were the result of genocide or forced assimilation. Whether you feel sad about it or not, if Hitler had succeeded the Jewish culture would definitely not be the first to disappear through violent means. Not by a long shot.
The difference now is that there are forces that speed up the extinction of non-self-sustaining types of cultures. Here in Canada there are more than a few First Nations languages which no more than a couple of people still speak. These are being recorded and documented as quickly as possible but it is understood that these will die out as soon as there is no one who needs to use them as part of their daily existence.
Is it sad that this is happening? Only if you don't realize the fact that the only reason there are so many different languages on earth is because of historic geographic isolation of all the different peoples. With instant worldwide communication and the ability to travel to just about any spot on the earth within a day or two, the conditions that allowed disparate languages and cultures to develop in the first place no longer exist.
That being said, languages are still developing and evolving, but now due more to artificial forces such as intentional introduction of slang as personal identification and new technologies and methods that need new terms to describe. e.g.: "Double-click the minimize control to select the desired HDMI input". Perfectly understandable to you and me, complete gibberish to most people over 50. And that's just in English.
We live in interesting times. The second case of technological development having a profound effect on all mankind, the first being the industrial revolution. I believe this second phase will have a much greater effect than the first.
Bank vaults are designed to be pretty robust. Swap a couple of 2.5" USB drives in and out every month or so. The cost of a small-size box isn't THAT much. (I think we're paying $45/year for a medium-size box).
Just don't plan on seeing the sun for the next four months.
Oh, and by the way, if you're moving to Vancouver, remember we're in the 12th week of a civil worker strike = No garbage collection, no libraries, no community centers, etc.
On the "Aren't we great" side though, the city is amazingly clean for 12 weeks of no garbage collection.
What makes the experience uncomfortable is the unwanted attention of the lechers. If no-one actually noticed it wouldn't be a problem and you would probably see it more. However the reality is that a whole bunch of guys turn into redneck construction workers when they see a topless woman.
Right down to the constant "Anta baka ja nai?" Which she will of course state is not insulting in the least. But just try it in reverse and see how precious she is.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
There is no benefit to letting the whistleblowers know that Cheney *might* be aware of who they are. It is better for Cheney to keep his awareness quiet and let the tips keep flowing in like insider information. He can then take whatever surreptitious actions are necessary.
This echoes the actions of a thousand incompetent secretaries I've seen who have been asked to send a confidential email out to a list of people by a manager who assumed they knew to send them one at a time or assumed they knew how to use the BCC. As I posted elsewhere, neither of those two actions are intuitive to someone who is relatively new to mass emailing or to Outlook where the BCC field is hidden by default.
Profit without cost is a special case of government economics.
People are expected to just give you money.
This is simply it.
They got the task given to someone using Outlook who has probably only sent brief emails between themselves and other staffers one recipient at a time. If they are relatively new to large email distributions their mindset maybe that it is like a paper mailout where a separate email is automatically sent to each individual address on the list. I've seen older secretaries in law firms who are masters at paper filing, shorthand and typing but for whom the intricacies of email are totally beyond them.
In Outlook the BCC field is not visible by default, you have to go to the View menu to turn it on. If the person sending this out had never sent a BCC they wouldn't even know it existed.
Forgot about that, and the fact he started the fencing products company Duellists.
And not three hours after I post this, CNN has a profile on Bruce as a pilot.
Iron Maiden frontman. Commercial airline pilot.
His Discovery channel series "Flying Heavy Metal" shows he really know planes and demonstrated some insane maneuvers in large Airbus aircraft.
Maybe generational but there is an aspect of what kind of games do you like.
I watch my son playing Final Fantasy on his PS2 and the ridiculous complexity of weapons, healing potions, tactics, characters and maps just takes away any possibility of me just enjoying the game or environment.
The only thing I'll play on the kids consoles are the driving games.
For me there would still be great pleasure in Xevious or Tempest.
Nice easy flat roads. Buncha good people to eat, drink and be merry with.
Sounds fun to me.
As you can see by the gallery, the cycling is secondary to the partying.
The reference to the Tacoma Narrows bridge is very relevant. Galloping Gertie showed that even without hurricane-force winds a very heavy ribbon-shaped strip can me made to move in an extreme fashion due to mechanical resonance. Even a small strip would have the same kind of resonance so that large relative movement can be extracted from even light winds.
Haven't you ever made a blade of grass whistle between your thumbs?
it needs at least one gigabit port.
Why? What Internet connection do you have that would come close to maxing out even a 10Mb connection? How many hundreds of machines do you have on your home network that would requires a Gigabit on the inside port?
PCs come with Gigabit Ethernet connections these days because the cost difference is negligible. Having two 100MB ports provides more than enough bandwidth for average home use and may save some power which is the point of this machine.
It was a woman.
A very nice looking woman.
And I have no idea why she came up with this.
contains factually false hearsay intended to sway peoples opinions in favour of materialisim
Please explain this. I'm not sure what it has to do with exposing scam artists many of whom exist just to increase their own material wealth.
George Takei is best known for playing Sulu as every single news article about this leads off. But it's not like that is the only thing he's done. See his Wikipedia entry to find out about his charitable work and service as Clinton's head of Japan - America relations.
So now I will either need to heat them, or make sure they are fresh.
10 minutes in the microwave should be enough.
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Not really as I'm referring to longer terms. Jargon that survives the initial fad phase gets assimilated into the language over time. I'm sure you can recall quite a few words that were once jargon restricted to a small group which have since become part of common English.
There is a reason that Eskimo has so many words for varieties of snow
Leaving aside the fact that there is no one language called "Eskimo", the 'many words for snow' thing is a well know urban legend.
There are still thousands of languages on the earth which can have different ways of expressing concepts and ideas. I know jokes in Japanese that just cannot be translated into English or French or even Chinese for that matter. However, languages are fluid and you can't say that the words won't develop in English that will let me tell those jokes.
There have been thousands of cultures that have developed, sometimes to world-conquering levels, then faded and disappeared. Some did so naturally through being unable to self-sustain, others were the result of genocide or forced assimilation. Whether you feel sad about it or not, if Hitler had succeeded the Jewish culture would definitely not be the first to disappear through violent means. Not by a long shot.
The difference now is that there are forces that speed up the extinction of non-self-sustaining types of cultures. Here in Canada there are more than a few First Nations languages which no more than a couple of people still speak. These are being recorded and documented as quickly as possible but it is understood that these will die out as soon as there is no one who needs to use them as part of their daily existence.
Is it sad that this is happening? Only if you don't realize the fact that the only reason there are so many different languages on earth is because of historic geographic isolation of all the different peoples. With instant worldwide communication and the ability to travel to just about any spot on the earth within a day or two, the conditions that allowed disparate languages and cultures to develop in the first place no longer exist.
That being said, languages are still developing and evolving, but now due more to artificial forces such as intentional introduction of slang as personal identification and new technologies and methods that need new terms to describe. e.g.: "Double-click the minimize control to select the desired HDMI input". Perfectly understandable to you and me, complete gibberish to most people over 50. And that's just in English.
We live in interesting times. The second case of technological development having a profound effect on all mankind, the first being the industrial revolution. I believe this second phase will have a much greater effect than the first.
You should be backing up your memories to shiny rainbow-colored videotape.
Three words: Safety Deposit Box
Bank vaults are designed to be pretty robust. Swap a couple of 2.5" USB drives in and out every month or so. The cost of a small-size box isn't THAT much. (I think we're paying $45/year for a medium-size box).
VirtualCity is one of those small companies that thinks they have a great idea which will make them millions.
Then Google and Microsoft come along and do the same thing and 6 months later they're toast.
They only did a bit of Toronto and Montreal. They talk about expanding into the U.S. in 2007 but there's no updates on their website.
Nice knowing ya guys.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Bring your umbrellas.
And raincoats.
And boots.
Just don't plan on seeing the sun for the next four months.
Oh, and by the way, if you're moving to Vancouver, remember we're in the 12th week of a civil worker strike = No garbage collection, no libraries, no community centers, etc.
On the "Aren't we great" side though, the city is amazingly clean for 12 weeks of no garbage collection.
Because they can, doesn't mean they want to.
What makes the experience uncomfortable is the unwanted attention of the lechers. If no-one actually noticed it wouldn't be a problem and you would probably see it more. However the reality is that a whole bunch of guys turn into redneck construction workers when they see a topless woman.
Ping Pong!
We're definitely living in the same world.
Right down to the constant "Anta baka ja nai?" Which she will of course state is not insulting in the least. But just try it in reverse and see how precious she is.
Great post! The lack of subjects in following sentences can be a huge confusion when first learning Japanese.
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It's amazing how my Japanese wife can continue a conversation on a topic without re-specifying the subject much later.
She: When is Noriaki's meeting? ("Noriaki-kun no meetingu wa itsu?")
Me: This weekend. ("Kon shu-matsu")
(An hour or two passes)
She: (Is he) taking the train? (densha de iku?")
Me: What the hell are you talking about?