I had a similar case, but different outcome. I was pulled over one morning on my way to work for doing 40 in a 30. The speed limit was 40, then 30 for about 200 feet, then 40 again right after and the cop got me in that section. Fine, I was guilty, etc. Cop said was the end of his shift, he was going to just run my license and if it came up clean he'd let me off with a warning. He came back and said it was suspended, and I couldn't drive away. He was very nice, allowed me to call my wife to come get the car (I was about 3 minutes from home at the time) and I didn't have to pay for a towing.
The suspended license was from a ticket I had paid 2 years prior by pleading, they sent the ticket amount, I paid it with money order and finished up college and my address changed. Turns out they either never received the money order or applied it wrong, or SOMETHING, not sure exactly what, just that it was shown as never paid. I contacted the courthouse, they gave me the amount I owed, I immediately got another money order, sent it registered and return receipt to the courthouse and went through my old records for the ticket and money order stub from my original payment. I presented the old money order stub, the old ticket, the new money order stub and my return receipt from mailing out the payment (again) and not only did the judge drop the driving without a license, he lowered my speeding ticket down to a double parking citation (non-moving violation) so my insurance rates wouldn't go up.
Town Judges are citizens in their off hours. They know the crap we go through and are not against you when you go into court. If you treat a judge with respect and explain everything that happened, what you did to correct it, cooperate throughout the proceedings you will often get off MUCH lighter than you would if you're placing the blame elsewhere.
In my case I didn't blame the other court of screwing up, I just presented all the information I had and explained how I tried to make everything right and the judge saw that I wasn't trying to be a hardass or make excuses. Yeah, I told him I didn't know my license was suspended at the time, but I also gave him the proof that I in good faith believed that the ticket was well and truly paid. The golden rule applies double in a court room. Treat the judge with respect. He has earned it by being voted into office.
You can't just divide 14 million by 50 to get an average for each state because the majority of those workers are in the high population states, of which NY is #2 population in the US. Even dividing equally by 50 you get 280,000, which is clearly higher than the 100,000 you gave as a generous number. Keep in mind the regulation is anyone who can come in contact with patients. That means a janitor who removed the trash from rooms or an IT guy who works on the nurses computers at a check in area both need vaccinations.
I won't go into the profit margins with you because I am not knowledgeable enough with the subject matter to add anything there.
You will never be able to find a tax reduction you can attribute to the government collecting this. That's not how it works, it just means the government is taking more. That doesn't mean I think the government should tolerate tax evasion. It will make MS a little less profitable/competitive, because they either have to absorb the higher tax from their profits or raise their prices/sales.
The negative to this unfortunately unprovable. 775M might mean that the parking costs for using the state parks did not go up by $2/car, or that a school grant program was not reduced in funding, or that school funding was increased instead of holding steady. Just because taxes were not reduced does not mean it won't have an effect.
Taxes are a necessary evil in society. We can debate individual taxes all you want, but your blanket statement of giving the government the most possible tax money is off base. If Microsoft were paying this 775M+ in taxes they are avoiding with a loophole that is 775M less in taxes that need to be assessed elsewhere.
Not in the real world though. After pregnancy a woman doesn't start ovulating for a couple of months. Most women don't start ovulating until they are close to done breastfeeding. Add in the fact that most women don't get pregnant in the first month of trying you add more time to that.
Even the Duggar family with 17 kids took from 1988 to 2009 to do it. so 21 years for 17 kids. You can be sure they're a fertile horny couple who doesn't bother with contraception.
I'm all for Nuclear, but people in this thread are missing a very fundamental aspect of halflife. If something has a halflife of 10 years, that means in 10 years 50% of it will decay into SOMETHING. There is no guarantee that that something is stable.
I yanked this from the half-life article on wikipedia.
An example is the natural decay chain of 238U which is as follows:
* decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 4.5 billion years to thorium-234
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 24 days to protactinium-234
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 1.2 minutes to uranium-234
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 240 thousand years to thorium-230
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 77 thousand years to radium-226
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 1.6 thousand years to radon-222
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 3.8 days to polonium-218
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 3.1 minutes to lead-214
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 27 minutes to bismuth-214
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 20 minutes to polonium-214
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 160 microseconds to lead-210
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 22 years to bismuth-210
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 5 days to polonium-210
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 140 days to lead-206, which is a stable nuclide.
Some radionuclides may have several different paths of decay. For example, approximately 36% of bismuth-212 decays, through alpha-emission, to thallium-208 while approximately 64% of bismuth-212 decays, through beta-emission, to polonium-212. Both the thallium-208 and the polonium-212 are radioactive daughter products of bismuth-212, and both decay directly to stable lead-208.
Show me your decay chart on the waste from the reactors before you go saying in 10 years something with a half life of 10 years is safe.
Windows limitation, not itunes. iTunes could install an administrator level driver that gets around the limitation through effectively running itself as superuser. Is that a good thing or a bad thing that it doesn't? That's up to you to decide.
Most likely he was running as a standard user instead of as an administrator. If iTunes doesn't have admin rights or an admin process deeper down to allow burning you'll get the invalid rights.
Why run Vista32 on a 64 bit processor at all? You can use the Vista32 license key to install Vista64 and have native support for the memory without going into test mode on windows. Much better than the possible issues you'll run into trying to hack this together. Especially if you're going for something production.
Price is the same. In fact, you can barrow someone's 64 bit disk and use your 32 bit license key to to install 64 bit Vista. It is on the front page because it is quite interesting.
I have a feeling he hit it on the head when he mentioned third party drivers as being a possible reason for the limit.
Many presidents owned slaves too, does that mean we should switch back to slavery? Works great in Civilization 4, you kill some population and make a courthouse!
The main container in a truecrypt container is a certain size. That size does not change no matter if you have a hidden container or not. "Comparing sizes" on the main container is not going to give you any indication that there is a hidden container. As I said in a previous response to you, TrueCrypt will happily use the entire Main container for data storage if you let it. You have to actively work to make sure the main container does not overwrite data in the hidden container. It is not meant to be used often, it is meant to give plausible deniability that there is no hidden container.
Check out the documentation on the TrueCrypt Page about hidden volumes.
You don't understand how a Truecrypt hidden container works. When you open the main container without entering the password for the hidden container, truecrypt will happily overwrite the hidden container, no questions asked. There is nothing "unencrypted" in the main container. The main container is not meant to be used often, it is meant to be plausible deniability to the existence of the hidden volume. When a TrueCrypt container is made, it puts random data on every part of the file, so if someone were to look at the empty sectors on the main drive they would see completely random data, which is no different than what they would see if you did or did not have a hidden container. Anytime you mount the main partition and want to change the data without risking damage to the hidden container you need to provide the hidden containers passphrase.
Girls sure didn't look that mature when I was growing up....
I disagree with this statement. Males naturally mature at a slower rate than females. I know that to me it seemed like overnight girls suddenly had breasts. That was definitely not the case, but I just noticed them because I started caring. Just because I didn't notice them before that doesn't mean they weren't there. Being a mature male at this point you look back at younger girls and realize just how early they "bloom".
about 7 years back I was laid off looking for another job, had my resume on Monster and a couple of other resume sites and got an email saying they were opening a new office in my area and were holding interviews for someone to help run their network.
What they didn't say is that it was an MLM selling insurance, and the network wasn't a computer network, but rather a network of people. I drove an hour and a half for an interview which was just these scumbags hawking their insurance MLM to a bunch of unemployed people (There were about 50 people in the room).
As soon as I realized it was a pyramid scheme I said so in as many words and walked out. About 10 others followed.
Pissed me off, wasted a tank of gas and 4 hours of time I could have been using with my family.
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I had a similar case, but different outcome. I was pulled over one morning on my way to work for doing 40 in a 30. The speed limit was 40, then 30 for about 200 feet, then 40 again right after and the cop got me in that section. Fine, I was guilty, etc. Cop said was the end of his shift, he was going to just run my license and if it came up clean he'd let me off with a warning. He came back and said it was suspended, and I couldn't drive away. He was very nice, allowed me to call my wife to come get the car (I was about 3 minutes from home at the time) and I didn't have to pay for a towing.
The suspended license was from a ticket I had paid 2 years prior by pleading, they sent the ticket amount, I paid it with money order and finished up college and my address changed. Turns out they either never received the money order or applied it wrong, or SOMETHING, not sure exactly what, just that it was shown as never paid. I contacted the courthouse, they gave me the amount I owed, I immediately got another money order, sent it registered and return receipt to the courthouse and went through my old records for the ticket and money order stub from my original payment. I presented the old money order stub, the old ticket, the new money order stub and my return receipt from mailing out the payment (again) and not only did the judge drop the driving without a license, he lowered my speeding ticket down to a double parking citation (non-moving violation) so my insurance rates wouldn't go up.
Town Judges are citizens in their off hours. They know the crap we go through and are not against you when you go into court. If you treat a judge with respect and explain everything that happened, what you did to correct it, cooperate throughout the proceedings you will often get off MUCH lighter than you would if you're placing the blame elsewhere.
In my case I didn't blame the other court of screwing up, I just presented all the information I had and explained how I tried to make everything right and the judge saw that I wasn't trying to be a hardass or make excuses. Yeah, I told him I didn't know my license was suspended at the time, but I also gave him the proof that I in good faith believed that the ticket was well and truly paid. The golden rule applies double in a court room. Treat the judge with respect. He has earned it by being voted into office.
This will get 100% of the crap off your system or your money back!
I work on a farm.
100,000 is a low estimate
As of 2006 there are 14 million health care workers in the US. http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm
You can't just divide 14 million by 50 to get an average for each state because the majority of those workers are in the high population states, of which NY is #2 population in the US. Even dividing equally by 50 you get 280,000, which is clearly higher than the 100,000 you gave as a generous number. Keep in mind the regulation is anyone who can come in contact with patients. That means a janitor who removed the trash from rooms or an IT guy who works on the nurses computers at a check in area both need vaccinations.
I won't go into the profit margins with you because I am not knowledgeable enough with the subject matter to add anything there.
You will never be able to find a tax reduction you can attribute to the government collecting this. That's not how it works, it just means the government is taking more. That doesn't mean I think the government should tolerate tax evasion. It will make MS a little less profitable/competitive, because they either have to absorb the higher tax from their profits or raise their prices/sales.
The negative to this unfortunately unprovable. 775M might mean that the parking costs for using the state parks did not go up by $2/car, or that a school grant program was not reduced in funding, or that school funding was increased instead of holding steady. Just because taxes were not reduced does not mean it won't have an effect.
Taxes are a necessary evil in society. We can debate individual taxes all you want, but your blanket statement of giving the government the most possible tax money is off base. If Microsoft were paying this 775M+ in taxes they are avoiding with a loophole that is 775M less in taxes that need to be assessed elsewhere.
Why limit yourself to Tasty? Just go with "Please Eat The Animals" and you cover all your bases.
You show your ignorance when you say "Lucas hammer of wrath"
George Lucas is a huge supporter of projects like this.
Not in the real world though. After pregnancy a woman doesn't start ovulating for a couple of months. Most women don't start ovulating until they are close to done breastfeeding. Add in the fact that most women don't get pregnant in the first month of trying you add more time to that.
Even the Duggar family with 17 kids took from 1988 to 2009 to do it. so 21 years for 17 kids. You can be sure they're a fertile horny couple who doesn't bother with contraception.
Don't try to explain that to them...
I know a lot of people who have pre-purchased windows 7 to have on release day. I didn't see that happening with Vista.
I yanked this from the half-life article on wikipedia.
An example is the natural decay chain of 238U which is as follows:
* decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 4.5 billion years to thorium-234
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 24 days to protactinium-234
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 1.2 minutes to uranium-234
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 240 thousand years to thorium-230
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 77 thousand years to radium-226
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 1.6 thousand years to radon-222
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 3.8 days to polonium-218
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 3.1 minutes to lead-214
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 27 minutes to bismuth-214
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 20 minutes to polonium-214
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 160 microseconds to lead-210
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 22 years to bismuth-210
* which decays, through beta-emission, with a half-life of 5 days to polonium-210
* which decays, through alpha-emission, with a half-life of 140 days to lead-206, which is a stable nuclide.
Some radionuclides may have several different paths of decay. For example, approximately 36% of bismuth-212 decays, through alpha-emission, to thallium-208 while approximately 64% of bismuth-212 decays, through beta-emission, to polonium-212. Both the thallium-208 and the polonium-212 are radioactive daughter products of bismuth-212, and both decay directly to stable lead-208.
Show me your decay chart on the waste from the reactors before you go saying in 10 years something with a half life of 10 years is safe.
Windows limitation, not itunes. iTunes could install an administrator level driver that gets around the limitation through effectively running itself as superuser. Is that a good thing or a bad thing that it doesn't? That's up to you to decide.
Most likely he was running as a standard user instead of as an administrator. If iTunes doesn't have admin rights or an admin process deeper down to allow burning you'll get the invalid rights.
If they just want to reward you for working on your own hardware, a bonus is the way to go.
Who *ALSO* wouldn't be doing the signing of their own kernel as described in the article. Your argument fails to compel.
Why run Vista32 on a 64 bit processor at all? You can use the Vista32 license key to install Vista64 and have native support for the memory without going into test mode on windows. Much better than the possible issues you'll run into trying to hack this together. Especially if you're going for something production.
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Price is the same. In fact, you can barrow someone's 64 bit disk and use your 32 bit license key to to install 64 bit Vista. It is on the front page because it is quite interesting.
I have a feeling he hit it on the head when he mentioned third party drivers as being a possible reason for the limit.
Many presidents owned slaves too, does that mean we should switch back to slavery? Works great in Civilization 4, you kill some population and make a courthouse!
Rotation != Orbit
The main container in a truecrypt container is a certain size. That size does not change no matter if you have a hidden container or not. "Comparing sizes" on the main container is not going to give you any indication that there is a hidden container. As I said in a previous response to you, TrueCrypt will happily use the entire Main container for data storage if you let it. You have to actively work to make sure the main container does not overwrite data in the hidden container. It is not meant to be used often, it is meant to give plausible deniability that there is no hidden container.
Check out the documentation on the TrueCrypt Page about hidden volumes.
You don't understand how a Truecrypt hidden container works. When you open the main container without entering the password for the hidden container, truecrypt will happily overwrite the hidden container, no questions asked. There is nothing "unencrypted" in the main container. The main container is not meant to be used often, it is meant to be plausible deniability to the existence of the hidden volume. When a TrueCrypt container is made, it puts random data on every part of the file, so if someone were to look at the empty sectors on the main drive they would see completely random data, which is no different than what they would see if you did or did not have a hidden container. Anytime you mount the main partition and want to change the data without risking damage to the hidden container you need to provide the hidden containers passphrase.
Just use a 360 USB controller.
Girls sure didn't look that mature when I was growing up....
I disagree with this statement. Males naturally mature at a slower rate than females. I know that to me it seemed like overnight girls suddenly had breasts. That was definitely not the case, but I just noticed them because I started caring. Just because I didn't notice them before that doesn't mean they weren't there. Being a mature male at this point you look back at younger girls and realize just how early they "bloom".
about 7 years back I was laid off looking for another job, had my resume on Monster and a couple of other resume sites and got an email saying they were opening a new office in my area and were holding interviews for someone to help run their network.
What they didn't say is that it was an MLM selling insurance, and the network wasn't a computer network, but rather a network of people. I drove an hour and a half for an interview which was just these scumbags hawking their insurance MLM to a bunch of unemployed people (There were about 50 people in the room).
As soon as I realized it was a pyramid scheme I said so in as many words and walked out. About 10 others followed.
Pissed me off, wasted a tank of gas and 4 hours of time I could have been using with my family.