From my experiences with the BBB I've equated the BBB to the generic business DMA, literally. In my experience I've found them to act more like a frontline for businesses rather than a layer of defense for the consumer. YMMV of course but mine hasn't been the greatest.
However using your logic I could Photoshop (yes I'm using it as a verb) a pict of me on a grassy nole in Dallas, TX with my 30-30 aimed at JFK's head and write a text blurb saying it was me and I'd be guilty of assassinating JFK. It doesn't really compute, does it?
You live in Nebraska. I live in Kansas. Howdy neighbor. At least I can root for K-State.;-) Lets get together, drink beer, and go cow tippin' sometime.
...and maybe if we give the farmers something useful to grow (Energy crops), we won't have to pay them to not grow anything (ween them off subsidies - Nearly $75 billion spent last year in the US alone to keep farmers employed because there isn't a market for the stuff they grow). May as well earn their money growing sometihng useful!
I can't disagree more with your inflamitory anti-farmer sentiments. Do you know here that $75 billion went last year? I can tell you this much. Not a dime, not one damned penny went in my grandfather's pocket nor any other farmer or rancher I know personally. My grandfather harvested 6 crops last year, excluding his crops that went to feed his cattle. So where did all that money all go? It went to the big businesses that invaded our nation's oldest industry (farming in case it's not obvious). I'm talking about companies like Tyson and Farmland that know how to milk the system and have enough money to lobby our corrupt government for additional federal hand-outs. This isn't Ma and Pa Farmer from the rural midwest mind you. These companies are run by suits on the coasts that wouldn't know good river-bottom black dirt if it was crammed down their fscking throats with their silver spoons. Think of Tyson and Farmland as you do the bloated airline industry that uses threats of bankruptcy to get green-lined handshakes from Uncle Sam. It's a good comparison.
Your anti-farmer sentiments are damned sure misplaced. This isn't to say that I'm in any way against "energy crops," assuming they can be made reliable through science and that they don't exclude the small farmers. I also have no respect for the sensationalist site you linked to. Their global warming "articles" are ridiculous at best.
Screens aren't a possiblity. Think about how much debris will collect in these screens. You'll now create a need to clean 14,000 screens (both sides of the turbine to be truly safe) regularly to prevent a major degregation in efficiency. Screens aren't an acceptable alternative. They've never used them on turbine-powered aircraft and for obvious reasons.
but waaah. I mean it would be nice if it didn't harm the birds but there really isn't a fix for this. These turbines do by far less damage to the environment than other methods of generating electricity. A few birds doesn't make me think twice in all honesty.
That's true. I wonder though if there is any trouble getting a locate for your phone when it's in another provider's coverage area. For example Sprint PCS only covers a small area in Kansas, mainly Wichita, Topeka, and KC although they are adding towers up and down the turnpike. Alltel doesn't technically cover Wichita or Topeka due to Cingular's monopoly. I wonder if things like that prevent such locates. It's a damned good idea though.
That's a good idea. I wonder how well that would you. You know, any electrical engineer with a good understanding of radio could easily build a device to jam cellular communication. This could be put into a device as small as a TI-96 or smaller and could provide enough interference to jam signals within the car itself. I wonder if this is a trick of the trade for professional car thiefs. Hmmm... I can think of two enginerds with just such skills now. After I finish my EE I hope to have such 'skills' too.:-)
I read your comment and I wanted to point out that LoJack's only work in certain areas. I read the list once. It covered cities like Dallas and Chicago and other really large cities. It didn't cover ANY of Kansas or most other states. If OnStar really covers those states then this would be an awesome replacement for the LoJack. It's worth pointing out that any half-assed organized punk will disable a LoJack or OnStar box shortly after jacking the ride. I would like to see OnStar sell me a small box I can discretely hide somewhere on my car that is only used for tracking my car when I ask them to. That would be sweet. Then I could pick where I want to hide it rather than GM installing it at the factory. Nice.
LOL. We're not that far out. My folks live in Grenola, KS. That's about 1.5 hours driving time SE of Wichita. It's about 20 miles from Oklahoma. The county basically has no industry so there aren't a lot of people (or county income for that matter).
Hehe, quite true. They really aren't in the middle of now where. It may be to some people; actually I'm sure it is to some people. The house is about 5 miles off of the highway (a US highway BTW). Dirt roads of course. Rural water doesn't reach. We are the end of the phone line, literally. The town they are moving from is 6 miles south of the house and had only 231 people in the last census. That's not too remote. Still it's rural Kansas. I'm always amazed at the people that think our nearest larger town of 11,000 people is dinky. City folks. City slickers. Ha! When I was a kid we cut and sold hedge posts (you might not know what those are if you're a city slicker) to a guy from Satanta, KS. He had 3 ranches, the main one in Clayton, New Mexico. The driveway to that ranch was 20 miles long. That's after a 12 mile drive off the highway. When Dean, his foreman, rode fence he was gone for 3 days. That's remote.:) Thanks for the comments.
Not everyone wants to pay for radio, but I guess if you spend enough time listening to it, maybe it's worthwhile.
My folks just built a log home in an area where you can not get any cellular signal. You can barely pickup the nearest radio stations, and that's only if you hold your nose just right. TV via antenna is next to impossible thanks to our hills that surround the home. Satelitte isn't just used by radio aficionados. Real folks like you and I sometimes need it.
I worked for Haddock Computer Center (seems to be down) in Wichita, KS for a short time when I was in college. The owner, Richard Haddock, was a programmer from the 60s or 70s (I'm not sure when exactly). He wrote some sort of accounting software or management software for oil companies. It ran on some ancient computer system that I can't recall off the top of my head. I remember sitting in the back room one day eating my lunch. I was kicked back in a chair with my feet up on some big box. My Burger King lunch (I remember that detail) was laid out on top of that box. Richard's father came into the back and we got to talking while I ate. He told me how Richard got his start. Then he said something about that computer right there was what Richard used. He was referring to the really big box I had my feet on and my lunch on. I hadn't noticed that it was a computer system. I thought it was a generator or ancient telco pedestal. It was some honkin' big computer system that Richard kept on hand just in case one of the companies that ran his ancient software went down and needed a quick recovery. Ie, he was still providing some level of support for his oil field software. I thought that was neat.
Seriously, consult a lawyer. Your employer probably didn't break any laws. Then again they might have. It depends on the laws in your state. A lawyer will be able to tell you though. Using discovery you could get the security assesment that the 3rd-party company provided your employer. If that company commited libel against you, you can sue for damages. Loosing your job is damn sure damage IMHO.
The best advice I or anyone else can give you is to consult a real lawyer, not a slashdot-wannabe-lawyer. Would you come to slashdot to ask for love advice?... I didn't think so.;-) IANAL either, but I drool over the female ADAs on L&O though.:)
"Frankly, "Max" may be biased. I suspect that he's mostly right -- that the hammered-on and designed-by-folks-with-security-experience BSD code is more reliable than the new stuff Apple churned out."
Apple didn't "churn it out." It's derived from OpenStep Workspace Manager as anyone with any relevant knowledge of OS X would know. Hell it even states in it the man page:
Derived from the Openstep Workspace Manager filesystem utility programs.
"I do know that "MacDork" definitely *is* biased....I wish editors would reject stories that are just blatently biased, or at least reserve the right to re-summarize story submissions."
Why would the Slashdot folks do something so stupid? All of their articles are biased. It's that biasness that gives whiny little wish-I-knew-it-all people such as yourself a place to bitch and moan and make people think you're smart.
Your village called. They want their idiot back. Shoo. Go on now. Shoo.
Oh look, another Troll has moderator points again. *sigh*
My second thought on the capture is about the upcoming election. This might be too much of a good thing and might help make Bush no longer look like the dismal failure that he is. That is a bad thing because we need his ass out of there. I hope this doesn't help him in the polls.
<conspiracy theory mode>
Wouldn't it make a great conspiracy if the administration knew where to find Saddam the whole time and waited to capture him until they needed it most or would do them the most good? Ie, before the holidays or before the election to boost Bush in the polls. It's an interesting idea. Surely it's not possible though. If Saddam gets a slap on the wrist then that might be why. Interesting....
</conspiracy theory mode>
Now there are no more major bits of "good news(tm)" that can come out of Iraq. Now we can get back to concentrating on the lies and spin surrounding the war. This should be an excellent moral boost for our men and women over there fighting. Good for them.
Good god man. Do you not get it? Are you dense or something? *sigh* I've got spam filtering rules to hone. I don't have time to waste arguing. RTFL and write your congresspeople.
The only people I know of with this kind of bandwidth at their finger tips are spammers using the SoBig worms. Then again anyone can take advantage of the same open proxies themselves for whatever purpose.
Did you bother to RTFL you quoted? Apparently not. The YOU-CAN-SPAM Act supercedes all state laws dealing with commercial email except for laws the parts that relate to fraud. Ie, Joe Blow spammer can't say you're garuanteed to lose 100lbs in a week or that you'll add 5 inches to your manhood in a month. That's fraud. That is covered by other laws not specifically dealing with spam anyhow. RTFL yourself.
Unfortunately it does. This is one of the reasons we anti-spammers are so damned pissed over the YOU-CAN-SPAM Act. It supercedes all related state laws. It also takes away the private right to action. Ideally the fed's law would allow a more restrictive state law if a given state has such a law. I don't have links for this but it's been states numerous times in the past articles on this DMA-sponsored law.
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From my experiences with the BBB I've equated the BBB to the generic business DMA, literally. In my experience I've found them to act more like a frontline for businesses rather than a layer of defense for the consumer. YMMV of course but mine hasn't been the greatest.
Get it right. They'll use JB Weld. That stuff is the best. :-)
Trial by fire I guess. :-)
However using your logic I could Photoshop (yes I'm using it as a verb) a pict of me on a grassy nole in Dallas, TX with my 30-30 aimed at JFK's head and write a text blurb saying it was me and I'd be guilty of assassinating JFK. It doesn't really compute, does it?
LOL. Do share... This is the holidays, right?
You live in Nebraska. I live in Kansas. Howdy neighbor. At least I can root for K-State. ;-) Lets get together, drink beer, and go cow tippin' sometime.
I can't disagree more with your inflamitory anti-farmer sentiments. Do you know here that $75 billion went last year? I can tell you this much. Not a dime, not one damned penny went in my grandfather's pocket nor any other farmer or rancher I know personally. My grandfather harvested 6 crops last year, excluding his crops that went to feed his cattle. So where did all that money all go? It went to the big businesses that invaded our nation's oldest industry (farming in case it's not obvious). I'm talking about companies like Tyson and Farmland that know how to milk the system and have enough money to lobby our corrupt government for additional federal hand-outs. This isn't Ma and Pa Farmer from the rural midwest mind you. These companies are run by suits on the coasts that wouldn't know good river-bottom black dirt if it was crammed down their fscking throats with their silver spoons. Think of Tyson and Farmland as you do the bloated airline industry that uses threats of bankruptcy to get green-lined handshakes from Uncle Sam. It's a good comparison.
Your anti-farmer sentiments are damned sure misplaced. This isn't to say that I'm in any way against "energy crops," assuming they can be made reliable through science and that they don't exclude the small farmers. I also have no respect for the sensationalist site you linked to. Their global warming "articles" are ridiculous at best.
Screens aren't a possiblity. Think about how much debris will collect in these screens. You'll now create a need to clean 14,000 screens (both sides of the turbine to be truly safe) regularly to prevent a major degregation in efficiency. Screens aren't an acceptable alternative. They've never used them on turbine-powered aircraft and for obvious reasons.
but waaah. I mean it would be nice if it didn't harm the birds but there really isn't a fix for this. These turbines do by far less damage to the environment than other methods of generating electricity. A few birds doesn't make me think twice in all honesty.
That's true. I wonder though if there is any trouble getting a locate for your phone when it's in another provider's coverage area. For example Sprint PCS only covers a small area in Kansas, mainly Wichita, Topeka, and KC although they are adding towers up and down the turnpike. Alltel doesn't technically cover Wichita or Topeka due to Cingular's monopoly. I wonder if things like that prevent such locates. It's a damned good idea though.
That's a good idea. I wonder how well that would you. You know, any electrical engineer with a good understanding of radio could easily build a device to jam cellular communication. This could be put into a device as small as a TI-96 or smaller and could provide enough interference to jam signals within the car itself. I wonder if this is a trick of the trade for professional car thiefs. Hmmm... I can think of two enginerds with just such skills now. After I finish my EE I hope to have such 'skills' too. :-)
I read your comment and I wanted to point out that LoJack's only work in certain areas. I read the list once. It covered cities like Dallas and Chicago and other really large cities. It didn't cover ANY of Kansas or most other states. If OnStar really covers those states then this would be an awesome replacement for the LoJack. It's worth pointing out that any half-assed organized punk will disable a LoJack or OnStar box shortly after jacking the ride. I would like to see OnStar sell me a small box I can discretely hide somewhere on my car that is only used for tracking my car when I ask them to. That would be sweet. Then I could pick where I want to hide it rather than GM installing it at the factory. Nice.
LOL. We're not that far out. My folks live in Grenola, KS. That's about 1.5 hours driving time SE of Wichita. It's about 20 miles from Oklahoma. The county basically has no industry so there aren't a lot of people (or county income for that matter).
Hehe, quite true. They really aren't in the middle of now where. It may be to some people; actually I'm sure it is to some people. The house is about 5 miles off of the highway (a US highway BTW). Dirt roads of course. Rural water doesn't reach. We are the end of the phone line, literally. The town they are moving from is 6 miles south of the house and had only 231 people in the last census. That's not too remote. Still it's rural Kansas. I'm always amazed at the people that think our nearest larger town of 11,000 people is dinky. City folks. City slickers. Ha! When I was a kid we cut and sold hedge posts (you might not know what those are if you're a city slicker) to a guy from Satanta, KS. He had 3 ranches, the main one in Clayton, New Mexico. The driveway to that ranch was 20 miles long. That's after a 12 mile drive off the highway. When Dean, his foreman, rode fence he was gone for 3 days. That's remote. :) Thanks for the comments.
My folks just built a log home in an area where you can not get any cellular signal. You can barely pickup the nearest radio stations, and that's only if you hold your nose just right. TV via antenna is next to impossible thanks to our hills that surround the home. Satelitte isn't just used by radio aficionados. Real folks like you and I sometimes need it.
I worked for Haddock Computer Center (seems to be down) in Wichita, KS for a short time when I was in college. The owner, Richard Haddock, was a programmer from the 60s or 70s (I'm not sure when exactly). He wrote some sort of accounting software or management software for oil companies. It ran on some ancient computer system that I can't recall off the top of my head. I remember sitting in the back room one day eating my lunch. I was kicked back in a chair with my feet up on some big box. My Burger King lunch (I remember that detail) was laid out on top of that box. Richard's father came into the back and we got to talking while I ate. He told me how Richard got his start. Then he said something about that computer right there was what Richard used. He was referring to the really big box I had my feet on and my lunch on. I hadn't noticed that it was a computer system. I thought it was a generator or ancient telco pedestal. It was some honkin' big computer system that Richard kept on hand just in case one of the companies that ran his ancient software went down and needed a quick recovery. Ie, he was still providing some level of support for his oil field software. I thought that was neat.
The best advice I or anyone else can give you is to consult a real lawyer, not a slashdot-wannabe-lawyer. Would you come to slashdot to ask for love advice? ... I didn't think so. ;-) IANAL either, but I drool over the female ADAs on L&O though. :)
Just ask McBride when he'll release the 2.8 kernel.
Apple didn't "churn it out." It's derived from OpenStep Workspace Manager as anyone with any relevant knowledge of OS X would know. Hell it even states in it the man page:
"I do know that "MacDork" definitely *is* biased....I wish editors would reject stories that are just blatently biased, or at least reserve the right to re-summarize story submissions."
Why would the Slashdot folks do something so stupid? All of their articles are biased. It's that biasness that gives whiny little wish-I-knew-it-all people such as yourself a place to bitch and moan and make people think you're smart.
Your village called. They want their idiot back. Shoo. Go on now. Shoo.
My second thought on the capture is about the upcoming election. This might be too much of a good thing and might help make Bush no longer look like the dismal failure that he is. That is a bad thing because we need his ass out of there. I hope this doesn't help him in the polls.
<conspiracy theory mode>
Wouldn't it make a great conspiracy if the administration knew where to find Saddam the whole time and waited to capture him until they needed it most or would do them the most good? Ie, before the holidays or before the election to boost Bush in the polls. It's an interesting idea. Surely it's not possible though. If Saddam gets a slap on the wrist then that might be why. Interesting....
</conspiracy theory mode>
Now there are no more major bits of "good news(tm)" that can come out of Iraq. Now we can get back to concentrating on the lies and spin surrounding the war. This should be an excellent moral boost for our men and women over there fighting. Good for them.
Good god man. Do you not get it? Are you dense or something? *sigh* I've got spam filtering rules to hone. I don't have time to waste arguing. RTFL and write your congresspeople.
The only people I know of with this kind of bandwidth at their finger tips are spammers using the SoBig worms. Then again anyone can take advantage of the same open proxies themselves for whatever purpose.
Did you bother to RTFL you quoted? Apparently not. The YOU-CAN-SPAM Act supercedes all state laws dealing with commercial email except for laws the parts that relate to fraud. Ie, Joe Blow spammer can't say you're garuanteed to lose 100lbs in a week or that you'll add 5 inches to your manhood in a month. That's fraud. That is covered by other laws not specifically dealing with spam anyhow. RTFL yourself.
Unfortunately it does. This is one of the reasons we anti-spammers are so damned pissed over the YOU-CAN-SPAM Act. It supercedes all related state laws. It also takes away the private right to action. Ideally the fed's law would allow a more restrictive state law if a given state has such a law. I don't have links for this but it's been states numerous times in the past articles on this DMA-sponsored law.