Wow. My original working hypothesis is that they were a gang of Satanists who were doing everything in their power to slander Christianity, but I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's all about making money entrapping decent people into doing something they can sue them for.
To quote someone they're going to have to face some day, "Behold, they have their reward."
Instead of the "unity candle" part of the ceremony, they had two iPads set up on a music stand, and after being pronounced husband and wife, they went to the iPads and changed their Facebook statuses to "Married."
This particular guy in Pennsylvania sounds like a crook -- but some of the other links look much more questionable. The Ontario one, in particular, looks like a flat-out "Casino just decides not to pay out" incident.
When you're dealing with casinos, in general, you're hardly dealing with paragons of virtue.
Hm... Your experience seems to be different from mine. I grew up in Lower Alabama in the 1960s, and the infamous "n word" was considered something "not for polite company." Granted, lots of "company" was not "polite", but that word was generally used in the same sorts of company as George Carlin's Seven Words, lewd jokes, etc.
Some older people (older than my parents) were more free with their use of the word.
VHS became more popular than Betamax because an entire movie would fit on a single VHS tape. For most consumers, that factor far outweighed the somewhat better picture, and arguable "technical superiority". Much later, Sony produced Betamax decks that could record more than one (1) hour of programming, but by then, VHS had too much of a lead.
Not quite just "destroy every bunker their leadership might hide in." Target specifically the infrastructure that that leadership uses to maintain control over their slave state. Let the psychotic leaders sit safe in their bunkers until a million-man-mob of starving ex-slaves armed with torches and pitchforks drags them out.
Bradly Manning, as an active-duty member of the military, is subject to the UCMJ, not civilian courts. The rules are different. (And he knew what he was getting into when he took the oath.)
I don't block ads, because as others have said, I do want to support the web pages I like, but I also run NoScript. No advertiser needs to run scripts on my browser to show me an ad. I never permit ad servers to run scripts.
Well, hardly ever. Not intentionally. Sometimes, a web page I want content from is balky due to some javascript not getting enabled, and I've hit "allow all this page", though usually in that case, I hit "temporarily allow all this page."
Every now and then, I audit my NoScript whitelist and remove anything that's an ad server. What I really should do is get a list of all ad servers and blacklist them in NoScript.
I'm sure even Larry and Company realize the importance of not angering every single one of your customers. If you drive absolutely everyone off your ubiquitous application platform, and no one wants to develop for it anymore, you don't get the opportunity to lock them into your products.
... and not just about the "jury nullification" thing.
In some cases, judges have withheld important, material information from the jury in order to get the verdict they wanted.
The two cases I'm thinking of, one involved some ridiculous charges brought by everyone's favorite criminal UFO cult against one of its critics. The other was a medical marijuana case where the judge concealed from the jury that it was a medical marijuana case, and that the doctor on trial had fully complied with state law. In both cases, after the trial, several jurors said that they were horrified, and that if they had had any idea of the full facts, they would have voted differently.
When someone who says "X is violating the freedom of speech rights" and tries to shut him/her/it up as punishment, than that person has not yet grasped the principle of "freedom of speech".
Typical, though... "Free speech for everyone who agrees with me. Anyone who doesn't agree with me is [insert bad name here], and must be silenced for The Good of The People."
Every time I see one of these 'theme park' things, I think of Terry Talbot's hilarious song "Bible Land", which lampoons the whole concept. (I couldn't find the lyrics online, but it seems like there are MP3s available; it was on his album "A Time to Laugh, A Time to Sing".)
.... "Then I smelled that all-too-familiar hippie bohemian aroma... somebody was gettin' stoned in Bible Land."
When Obama said he had visited 57 states during his campaign for the presidency, I don't need anyone to "call him out" on the error to know it's an error.
Yes, he said it. Check Snopes, which makes excuses for the error, but being pretty honest, does verify that he did indeed say it.
FiOS has always sounded like one of those things I'd love to have. It's not ever going to be available where I currently live.
A couple of years ago, when it looked like I was going to be moving out of state, I thought that, all other things being somewhere near equal, I'd sure like to move to an area that had FiOS service. So, I tried to find out where in the general area of my possible destination it might be available.
No one at Verizon was willing to talk. I could randomly stab in the dark with a street address and get a yes/no answer, but no coverage map. "Trade Secret" or something. That was annoying.
Induction cooktops operate at a frequency of a few tens of kilohertz. Using it to excite a Tesla coil probably can't be made to work, at least, not with a reasonable number of turns on your secondary coil. The coil under the surface of the cooktop has a large number of turns.
(To step up voltage, you want a few turns on the primary, and many times as many turns on the secondary.)
Well, of course. Succeed or fail, no Mythbusters segment is complete until they BLOW SOMETHING UP!! That is always a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
Well, the browser plugin is javascript, so in theory, they'd risk discovery if they tried to slip a fast one in it. And violation of trust would be death to the company.
On the other hand, it's scrunched javascript that makes your eyes water to try to read it...
I had ruled them out (Give all my passwords to a third party? I don't think so.) until I listened to an explanation of how their system works on Steve Gibson's "Security Now" podcast.
1) They don't have your master password. What they have is encrypted by your master password. (So don't forget it; if you do, they can't help you.)
(Well, unless you turn on their "password recovery" feature, which I do not.)
2) There's a local copy of the database on your computer(s), so if LastPass is down, you can still access everything. Changes get synced the next time you can connect to LastPass. If LastPass dies the true death tomorrow, you still have your passwords.
I'd tried some of the other solutions -- I liked pwsafe, but there isn't a Mac version. Keepass was OK, but I didn't like it as well, it didn't autofill on a Mac, and didn't have any good way to sync passwords between the Mac and my various PCs.
With Lastpass, all my passwords are synced everywhere I use it, automatically, as long as I've got internet connectivity. (And if I don't, I'm not logging into anything that requires a password anyway.)
There are some other nifty features that I haven't used... one-time passwords, "secret decoder ring" paper printouts, etc. What I'm using does what I need, and it just works, in a very convenient way.
Quote the spammer, “If there’s anything that does hit my e-mail box that I didn’t ask to receive, I’ll simply press the delete button."
Any spammer which uses this line of argument should be locked in a prison cell with a 1200 baud terminal logged in to an email account. He only gets fed if he responds to the "Your food is ready" email within 15 minutes.
The email address he is given for this purpose is posted on every spammer list on Earth.
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Wow. My original working hypothesis is that they were a gang of Satanists who were doing everything in their power to slander Christianity, but I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's all about making money entrapping decent people into doing something they can sue them for.
To quote someone they're going to have to face some day, "Behold, they have their reward."
"Five day waiting period? But my psychotic ex is threatening to kill me and my children TODAY!"
A friend's daughter got married last month, wearing these "Think Geek" T-shirts.
Instead of the "unity candle" part of the ceremony, they had two iPads set up on a music stand, and after being pronounced husband and wife, they went to the iPads and changed their Facebook statuses to "Married."
Yes, the shuttle has brought satellites back down to Earth.
http://www.sattel.com/life_of_palapa_b2.htm
Let me just be the first one to say, that I can predict with astounding accuracy what will happen in 2010. :-)
This particular guy in Pennsylvania sounds like a crook -- but some of the other links look much more questionable. The Ontario one, in particular, looks like a flat-out "Casino just decides not to pay out" incident.
When you're dealing with casinos, in general, you're hardly dealing with paragons of virtue.
Hm... Your experience seems to be different from mine. I grew up in Lower Alabama in the 1960s, and the infamous "n word" was considered something "not for polite company." Granted, lots of "company" was not "polite", but that word was generally used in the same sorts of company as George Carlin's Seven Words, lewd jokes, etc.
Some older people (older than my parents) were more free with their use of the word.
VHS became more popular than Betamax because an entire movie would fit on a single VHS tape. For most consumers, that factor far outweighed the somewhat better picture, and arguable "technical superiority". Much later, Sony produced Betamax decks that could record more than one (1) hour of programming, but by then, VHS had too much of a lead.
Not quite just "destroy every bunker their leadership might hide in." Target specifically the infrastructure that that leadership uses to maintain control over their slave state. Let the psychotic leaders sit safe in their bunkers until a million-man-mob of starving ex-slaves armed with torches and pitchforks drags them out.
Bradly Manning, as an active-duty member of the military, is subject to the UCMJ, not civilian courts. The rules are different. (And he knew what he was getting into when he took the oath.)
Exactly. I find this tale hard to believe. Until the back door is found in the code, I'm very, very skeptical.
I don't block ads, because as others have said, I do want to support the web pages I like, but I also run NoScript. No advertiser needs to run scripts on my browser to show me an ad. I never permit ad servers to run scripts.
Well, hardly ever. Not intentionally. Sometimes, a web page I want content from is balky due to some javascript not getting enabled, and I've hit "allow all this page", though usually in that case, I hit "temporarily allow all this page."
Every now and then, I audit my NoScript whitelist and remove anything that's an ad server. What I really should do is get a list of all ad servers and blacklist them in NoScript.
I'm sure even Larry and Company realize the importance of not angering every single one of your customers. If you drive absolutely everyone off your ubiquitous application platform, and no one wants to develop for it anymore, you don't get the opportunity to lock them into your products.
Hey, it's always worked for Intuit.
... and not just about the "jury nullification" thing.
In some cases, judges have withheld important, material information from the jury in order to get the verdict they wanted.
The two cases I'm thinking of, one involved some ridiculous charges brought by everyone's favorite criminal UFO cult against one of its critics. The other was a medical marijuana case where the judge concealed from the jury that it was a medical marijuana case, and that the doctor on trial had fully complied with state law. In both cases, after the trial, several jurors said that they were horrified, and that if they had had any idea of the full facts, they would have voted differently.
When someone who says "X is violating the freedom of speech rights" and tries to shut him/her/it up as punishment, than that person has not yet grasped the principle of "freedom of speech".
Typical, though... "Free speech for everyone who agrees with me. Anyone who doesn't agree with me is [insert bad name here], and must be silenced for The Good of The People."
Every time I see one of these 'theme park' things, I think of Terry Talbot's hilarious song "Bible Land", which lampoons the whole concept. (I couldn't find the lyrics online, but it seems like there are MP3s available; it was on his album "A Time to Laugh, A Time to Sing".)
When Obama said he had visited 57 states during his campaign for the presidency, I don't need anyone to "call him out" on the error to know it's an error.
Yes, he said it. Check Snopes, which makes excuses for the error, but being pretty honest, does verify that he did indeed say it.
FiOS has always sounded like one of those things I'd love to have. It's not ever going to be available where I currently live.
A couple of years ago, when it looked like I was going to be moving out of state, I thought that, all other things being somewhere near equal, I'd sure like to move to an area that had FiOS service. So, I tried to find out where in the general area of my possible destination it might be available.
No one at Verizon was willing to talk. I could randomly stab in the dark with a street address and get a yes/no answer, but no coverage map. "Trade Secret" or something. That was annoying.
Induction cooktops operate at a frequency of a few tens of kilohertz. Using it to excite a Tesla coil probably can't be made to work, at least, not with a reasonable number of turns on your secondary coil. The coil under the surface of the cooktop has a large number of turns.
(To step up voltage, you want a few turns on the primary, and many times as many turns on the secondary.)
So, this is how the Dalek's "toilet plunger hand" works.
That's the contest I'd like to see -- put chatbots on spam trap addresses, and see how long they can keep the 419ers occupied.
Well, of course. Succeed or fail, no Mythbusters segment is complete until they BLOW SOMETHING UP!! That is always a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
Especially that cement truck. WOO HOO!!
Well, the browser plugin is javascript, so in theory, they'd risk discovery if they tried to slip a fast one in it. And violation of trust would be death to the company.
On the other hand, it's scrunched javascript that makes your eyes water to try to read it...
I love it!
I had ruled them out (Give all my passwords to a third party? I don't think so.) until I listened to an explanation of how their system works on Steve Gibson's "Security Now" podcast.
1) They don't have your master password. What they have is encrypted by your master password. (So don't forget it; if you do, they can't help you.) (Well, unless you turn on their "password recovery" feature, which I do not.)
2) There's a local copy of the database on your computer(s), so if LastPass is down, you can still access everything. Changes get synced the next time you can connect to LastPass. If LastPass dies the true death tomorrow, you still have your passwords.
I'd tried some of the other solutions -- I liked pwsafe, but there isn't a Mac version. Keepass was OK, but I didn't like it as well, it didn't autofill on a Mac, and didn't have any good way to sync passwords between the Mac and my various PCs.
With Lastpass, all my passwords are synced everywhere I use it, automatically, as long as I've got internet connectivity. (And if I don't, I'm not logging into anything that requires a password anyway.)
There are some other nifty features that I haven't used... one-time passwords, "secret decoder ring" paper printouts, etc. What I'm using does what I need, and it just works, in a very convenient way.
Quote the spammer, “If there’s anything that does hit my e-mail box that I didn’t ask to receive, I’ll simply press the delete button."
Any spammer which uses this line of argument should be locked in a prison cell with a 1200 baud terminal logged in to an email account. He only gets fed if he responds to the "Your food is ready" email within 15 minutes.
The email address he is given for this purpose is posted on every spammer list on Earth.