I had a similar problem renewing my license in NY state. I have a fairly common name and someone with an identical name, down to the middle initial, and I believe even the same birthday had some charges for running a red light and fleeing the scene of an accident in NY City and some violations in Florida, as well. Problem was, I was living as far from NYC as you can get in the state and had only been to NYC when I was 5 years old. Not to mention that I was only 18 and had rarely driven outside of my county. Luckily, my mother knew someone at the DMV and through many phone calls and faxes, it was cleared up.
While my inconvenience was minor, it's scary to think was trouble someone could land in due to data quality issues.
Same here. And if they're not busted, I don't replace, I just add a new one if there's room for it. I've only had one drive failure in the last 10 years. It was a 120 GB Maxtor, I think. I had my music library on it and a few odds and ends. Luckily, it failed after I had just finished copying the music over to my new (at the time) PowerBook.
I've since added an external 300 GB external drive to my home network, and use it mainly for backing up my music and photos.
I've been playing and enjoying PoxNora for a while now. I recommend it, especially to people who don't have the time or will to invest hours for a gaming session. It's easy to sit down, find an opponent, and play a game lasting 15 to 30 minutes and be done with it.
I've also set up a site with a database of all of the current runes:
This is solved nicely in Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 through drop-down menu list.
I may be wrong, but doesn't Firefox get a kickback for sending people to Google? If they do, that doesn't seem all that ethically different from Google's own toolbar, malware-wise. If not, I apologize for the misinformation.:)
Yeah, this might be useful if you were actually in one of the new stories and wanted to show your mom.:)
Actually, a good quality copy of a news report could be useful for someone compiling a documentary, perhaps, depending on the liscensing they have on these things.
Perhaps he got complacent after early successes. His first few attempts at theft went flawlessly, so as he went on to do more, he began to feel like he'd never get caught.
Under the moto: if you don't do anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide?
No, under the moto that I'm already getting penalized for falling within the demographics of other people who happen to be bad drivers. If insurance companies can get more accurate statistical models, there are sure to be some companies who will "reward good drivers", as some already claim to do.
How long till it becomes mandatory and that police just ask you for the records each month?
I'd say it would be quite a long time for that to happen. Even though I am a long-time slashdotter, I tend to give the U.S. citizenry the benefit of the doubt most of the time. I don't jump to use logical fallacies like the slippery slope, giving no reasons that U.S. citizens would allow such an invasion of their privacy and an erosion of their rights. "Think of the children" and "Oh, no! Terrorists!" are given a little too much credence around here.
I'm no fan of insurance companies, but couldn't something like this be a good thing? They could penalize the bad drivers more to the benefit of the good drivers, saving those of us who don't drink a beer and have animated conversations on our cell phones.
This sounds sci-fi becoming real sci. John Scalzi's recent books, Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades, feature weapons that are uniquely tied to their owners such that no body else can fire them. I'm sure many other sci-fi books have similar types of weapons. Now they just need to come up with the shape-changing nanobot ammunition.
In the decade or so, the researchers hope to be able to predict CME collisions with the Earth and determine their impact.
Hopefully that means in the future we'll get CME days off from work, since havok-wreaking on communcations, GPS, and power networks would severly limit my productivity.
I know I'd rather be doing academic work in a field I'm interested in than punching a clock to clean tobacco spit out of trashcans or to clean up after someone's explosive diarrhea, especially if you get paid enough as a professor to live relatively comfortably.
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Personally, I find the "maybe" tag to be much more informative.
The Red Cross can just roll it into their blood drives: "Give a pint of blood and fill up your hydrogen tank!"
Shhh. Don't say things like that, or they won't let us take our asteroids on airplanes anymore.
I had a similar problem renewing my license in NY state. I have a fairly common name and someone with an identical name, down to the middle initial, and I believe even the same birthday had some charges for running a red light and fleeing the scene of an accident in NY City and some violations in Florida, as well. Problem was, I was living as far from NYC as you can get in the state and had only been to NYC when I was 5 years old. Not to mention that I was only 18 and had rarely driven outside of my county. Luckily, my mother knew someone at the DMV and through many phone calls and faxes, it was cleared up.
While my inconvenience was minor, it's scary to think was trouble someone could land in due to data quality issues.
Same here. And if they're not busted, I don't replace, I just add a new one if there's room for it. I've only had one drive failure in the last 10 years. It was a 120 GB Maxtor, I think. I had my music library on it and a few odds and ends. Luckily, it failed after I had just finished copying the music over to my new (at the time) PowerBook.
I've since added an external 300 GB external drive to my home network, and use it mainly for backing up my music and photos.
No, that would have been the last administration.
Are they going to leave it out on the porch over Halloween night so the neighborhood kids can smash it?
She's an American, born in Virginia, grew up in Tacoma, WA. However, she started her musical career in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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I've been playing and enjoying PoxNora for a while now. I recommend it, especially to people who don't have the time or will to invest hours for a gaming session. It's easy to sit down, find an opponent, and play a game lasting 15 to 30 minutes and be done with it.
:)
I've also set up a site with a database of all of the current runes:
http://pox.lot42.com/
All of the information is available on the main game site, but here it's organized a bit better (though a bit uglier, too.)
Thanks! A value of 3 set it back to the older version--just what I was looking for.
Maybe he started out researching injuries due to woodpeckers pecking out human eyes and one thing lead to another....
I wonder what the odds were that the first comment wouldn't be about sharks?
Nope, there are at least two posts above your that do as well. :)
Or it may be streaming. Though, you may need to give it a nice head start if you don't enjoy interludes of "Buffering..."
I may be wrong, but doesn't Firefox get a kickback for sending people to Google? If they do, that doesn't seem all that ethically different from Google's own toolbar, malware-wise. If not, I apologize for the misinformation.
Yeah, this might be useful if you were actually in one of the new stories and wanted to show your mom. :)
Actually, a good quality copy of a news report could be useful for someone compiling a documentary, perhaps, depending on the liscensing they have on these things.
Dr. Krauss's book is actually called The Physics of Star Trek and has a forward written by Stephen Hawking.
Perhaps he got complacent after early successes. His first few attempts at theft went flawlessly, so as he went on to do more, he began to feel like he'd never get caught.
I really did preview that one. Twice. ;)
That should read "It's not cheap being a bionic man."
It's not cheap being a .
No, under the moto that I'm already getting penalized for falling within the demographics of other people who happen to be bad drivers. If insurance companies can get more accurate statistical models, there are sure to be some companies who will "reward good drivers", as some already claim to do.
I'd say it would be quite a long time for that to happen. Even though I am a long-time slashdotter, I tend to give the U.S. citizenry the benefit of the doubt most of the time. I don't jump to use logical fallacies like the slippery slope, giving no reasons that U.S. citizens would allow such an invasion of their privacy and an erosion of their rights. "Think of the children" and "Oh, no! Terrorists!" are given a little too much credence around here.
I'm no fan of insurance companies, but couldn't something like this be a good thing? They could penalize the bad drivers more to the benefit of the good drivers, saving those of us who don't drink a beer and have animated conversations on our cell phones.
This sounds sci-fi becoming real sci. John Scalzi's recent books, Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades, feature weapons that are uniquely tied to their owners such that no body else can fire them. I'm sure many other sci-fi books have similar types of weapons. Now they just need to come up with the shape-changing nanobot ammunition.
Hopefully that means in the future we'll get CME days off from work, since havok-wreaking on communcations, GPS, and power networks would severly limit my productivity.
I know I'd rather be doing academic work in a field I'm interested in than punching a clock to clean tobacco spit out of trashcans or to clean up after someone's explosive diarrhea, especially if you get paid enough as a professor to live relatively comfortably.