You need to read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. The series has 3 books that have won the Hugo for Best Novel and 3 others that were nominated but didn't win. It is one of the best scifi series out there.
Available from Baen. DRM free. Heck, completely free from here.
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
Go to the Cryoburn CD to find the files.
This is a site that is hosting the CDs that Baen will include in some hardcover books. The CDs are freely redistributable. Baen is aware of the site and while it doesn't actively support it, they haven't asked them to stop.
You can get the complete set of the Vorkosigan books (minus one story called Memory that was forgotten when they made the disc, ironic huh) including the most recent book that had the CD included. That's right, they included an ebook version when you bought the hardcopy.
The files are all drm free and they give you the option of getting the epub, mobi, lrf, txt, html and another format I'm forgetting.
I can't believe that I'm the only one that wants to know how the individual justices decided on this case. I can't find anything (not even on scotusblog) about which side each of the groups of four were on.
"This [Supreme] Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." - Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17
Both of my children were premature (one born at 29 weeks, the other at 33). Both stayed in the NICU for 8 weeks. A top of the line NICU. The total bill for both of them was under 500k. This includes all the specialists, an emergency airlift for my wife with our first child, etc.
The study found that children born one day before the Kindergarten cutoff date had a much higher rate of ADHD than those born the day after the cutoff.
No one is saying that it doesn't exist. It is severely over-diagnosed though.
Odds are extremely good that it was a Best Buy Rebate Gift Card. Very different from the regular Gift Cards. The rebate versions allow you to take the card to BB and get cash for it instead of having to purchase anything.
Basically it allows you to get the cash without having to cash a check.
This last Thanksgiving, most of the big dollar items (computers, cameras) had rebate giftcards as part of the rebate. It stated right there in the add that the rebate giftcards can be converted to cash. I also asked about 5 of the managers there if this was true, everyone said yes.
It switched back to the old style in the past 30 minutes.
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I'm not intending to troll, but I don't get the lure of hunting at all. The animals stand no chance.
Part of it is cheaper meat.
Hunters also serve the purpose of keeping the populations under control.
In South Dakota for the past three years, there has been lower than average rainfall resulting in less food for the wildlife. The deer population was also expanding too fast. If hunters weren't around to thin out the populations, then wasting disease would have spread through the deer herds.
The money from hunting licenses goes directly to environmental programs that keep the hunting land in good shape.
Most hunters care more for the environment than any non-hunter you will meet, including PETA and Earth First members.
They are bastards for putting this on the main page.
Some of us like to be surprised by things. Now slashdot has decided to take it upon themselves to ruin the next 30 shows for their readers that have been watching Jeopardy.
Thank you oh so much/.
Please take this off the main page or reword the article so no one else has to have their enjoyment ruined.
I'm also in favour of a waiting period. I don't want someone buying a gun because he just found out his wife is cheating on him. I'm also in favour of registering guns which includes ballistics. A bullet pulled from a murder victim should be traced back to the gun that fired it and the person who purchased it.
Waiting periods cut both ways though. What about the woman who is being stalked and has gone to the police, but they can't do anything?
Background checks are one thing, but waiting periods don't do a thing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
A ballistic database is pointless at the time of purchase for a number of reasons.
1) The ballistic markings change over time through simple usage. 2) The markings are easy to change quickly using a file. If someone is planning on using a gun in a crime and a ballistic database is in place, it only takes a few moments to render the gun unfindable. 3) Prohibitably expensive. And before you say "if it saves one life or catches one criminal" we live in a culture of tradeoffs. We don't have speedlimits of 5 mph, even though that would dramatically cut down on car accident deaths. The costs associated with a speedlimit that low are thought to be unacceptable compared to the benefits achieved with a higher speed limit. I know that's an absurd comparison, but the same thing goes for the 55 mph speed limit. 4) Unnecessary. Over 99% of guns in the US are never used in a crime. A database of ballistics of bullets taken from crime victims is one thing, but to test new guns is futile.
There are many reasons not to report a defensive gun use to the police. One is the hassle you go through.
Another is because they might have the gun illegally. That does not lower the usefulness of a gun in self defense. As the saying goes "it's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six."
The DOJ numbers only count the times where a police report was filed. This either means the person that defended themselves a) fired the weapon or b) was in an area where they felt comfortable telling the police what happened.
This leaves out all the times that a gun is used in self defense but never fired. In fact, most of the time a gun is not fired. Criminals look for easy targets. Simply the sight of a gun is usually enough to cause any person intent on harm to stop. There is nothing a home invader hates to hear more than the sound of a pump shotgun being worked.
Leaving the difference in definitions of what constitutes a defensive gun use (DGU), even using the DOJs numbers of DGUs, you have over 100,000 a year. Compare this to the 15,000 murders by guns, or even the 40,000 deaths (a number that includes suicides, and police/civilian shootings in self defense).
The companies that run SAP R/3 choose what db to run. They may already be running an Oracle db.
There is also a perception of "you get what you pay for." Most people would scoff at wine that is 2 dollars a bottle, even if the wine is normally 30 dollars and it that price because the store is trying to free up shelf space.
You have two completely different situations there.
SUVs contribute to polution, I could accept them having to pay for environmental items.
People who build/rent houses/apartments are not hurting anyone. It is that type of thinking that discourages people from building more apartments and low cost homes, thus creating the housing shortage. Take an economics course and live on your own for a while.
You like it now when it's free. The problem is that Napster depends on others to provide the content. Once they start charging, the # of songs available will decline sharply.
I've seen ~$600 bandied around here (though I couldn't find it at Gateway),
That's because even us sales people at Gateway haven't been told the price. I have seen the actual unit, but not turned on. Looks pretty cool. Has a stylus that is stored in back.
I guess he should have said: "Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, Presybterian, Southern Baptist, Pentecostal, Apostolic, Catholic, Anglican, Buddhist, Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, Hare Krishna, Hindu, Taoist or Scientologits,
================================================== ==========
You forgot Ba'hai, Barrean (sp?) and Evangelical Free.
So says Handgun Control Inc. And you didn't even get the stat right. The lie they put up is that a gun is 22 times more likely to be used against someone you know. The thing they neglect to tell you is that that includes people you have just met before. The other thing they don't tell you is that most home defense is against people you know. Kinda makes sense, doesn't it?
Stop swallowing what the media tells you and actually research things yourself.
"but the fans want to see more of the "real" episodes. "
Not quite. For most people that have been watching the show since the begining, the conspiracy eps have been entertaining, and at first they were very well written and provided the means for the show to continue. But the last year or so, those episodes have been boring and very forced. The best episodes have always been the stand alones. The cochroach ep, Sideshow and others like that have better writing and directing and are more true to what made a lot of us fans.
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You need to read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. The series has 3 books that have won the Hugo for Best Novel and 3 others that were nominated but didn't win. It is one of the best scifi series out there.
Available from Baen. DRM free. Heck, completely free from here.
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
Go to the Cryoburn CD to find the files.
This is a site that is hosting the CDs that Baen will include in some hardcover books. The CDs are freely redistributable. Baen is aware of the site and while it doesn't actively support it, they haven't asked them to stop.
You can get the complete set of the Vorkosigan books (minus one story called Memory that was forgotten when they made the disc, ironic huh) including the most recent book that had the CD included. That's right, they included an ebook version when you bought the hardcopy.
The files are all drm free and they give you the option of getting the epub, mobi, lrf, txt, html and another format I'm forgetting.
I can't believe that I'm the only one that wants to know how the individual justices decided on this case. I can't find anything (not even on scotusblog) about which side each of the groups of four were on.
Treaties do NOT supersede the Constitution.
"This [Supreme] Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." - Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17
Both of my children were premature (one born at 29 weeks, the other at 33). Both stayed in the NICU for 8 weeks. A top of the line NICU. The total bill for both of them was under 500k. This includes all the specialists, an emergency airlift for my wife with our first child, etc.
How about actually reading the article.
The study found that children born one day before the Kindergarten cutoff date had a much higher rate of ADHD than those born the day after the cutoff.
No one is saying that it doesn't exist. It is severely over-diagnosed though.
Then you don't quite understand our system of government. The Republican congress had to ram the balanced budget down his throat.
Odds are extremely good that it was a Best Buy Rebate Gift Card. Very different from the regular Gift Cards. The rebate versions allow you to take the card to BB and get cash for it instead of having to purchase anything.
Basically it allows you to get the cash without having to cash a check.
This last Thanksgiving, most of the big dollar items (computers, cameras) had rebate giftcards as part of the rebate. It stated right there in the add that the rebate giftcards can be converted to cash. I also asked about 5 of the managers there if this was true, everyone said yes.
It switched back to the old style in the past 30 minutes.
I'm not intending to troll, but I don't get the lure of hunting at all. The animals stand no chance.
Part of it is cheaper meat.
Hunters also serve the purpose of keeping the populations under control.
In South Dakota for the past three years, there has been lower than average rainfall resulting in less food for the wildlife. The deer population was also expanding too fast. If hunters weren't around to thin out the populations, then wasting disease would have spread through the deer herds.
The money from hunting licenses goes directly to environmental programs that keep the hunting land in good shape.
Most hunters care more for the environment than any non-hunter you will meet, including PETA and Earth First members.
They are bastards for putting this on the main page.
/.
Some of us like to be surprised by things. Now slashdot has decided to take it upon themselves to ruin the next 30 shows for their readers that have been watching Jeopardy.
Thank you oh so much
Please take this off the main page or reword the article so no one else has to have their enjoyment ruined.
He's one of my favorites, along with
Thomas Sowell and Dick Morris
I'm also in favour of a waiting period. I don't want someone buying a gun because he just found out his wife is cheating on him. I'm also in favour of registering guns which includes ballistics. A bullet pulled from a murder victim should be traced back to the gun that fired it and the person who purchased it.
Waiting periods cut both ways though. What about the woman who is being stalked and has gone to the police, but they can't do anything?
Background checks are one thing, but waiting periods don't do a thing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
A ballistic database is pointless at the time of purchase for a number of reasons.
1) The ballistic markings change over time through simple usage.
2) The markings are easy to change quickly using a file. If someone is planning on using a gun in a crime and a ballistic database is in place, it only takes a few moments to render the gun unfindable.
3) Prohibitably expensive. And before you say "if it saves one life or catches one criminal" we live in a culture of tradeoffs. We don't have speedlimits of 5 mph, even though that would dramatically cut down on car accident deaths. The costs associated with a speedlimit that low are thought to be unacceptable compared to the benefits achieved with a higher speed limit. I know that's an absurd comparison, but the same thing goes for the 55 mph speed limit.
4) Unnecessary. Over 99% of guns in the US are never used in a crime. A database of ballistics of bullets taken from crime victims is one thing, but to test new guns is futile.
There are many reasons not to report a defensive gun use to the police. One is the hassle you go through.
Another is because they might have the gun illegally. That does not lower the usefulness of a gun in self defense. As the saying goes "it's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six."
Having lived in Beijing, I have no problem believing this. Two reasons.
1) He got the price right. The normal price for dvd/vcd from street vendors is 8-12 yuan. This is about $1.
2) I saw it happen. Not with this movie (I was there summer of 2001) but with others.
I don't know for a fact that this is true with the Two Towers, but it's not that hard to believe.
His numbers are higher for a very good reason.
The DOJ numbers only count the times where a police report was filed. This either means the person that defended themselves a) fired the weapon or b) was in an area where they felt comfortable telling the police what happened.
This leaves out all the times that a gun is used in self defense but never fired. In fact, most of the time a gun is not fired. Criminals look for easy targets. Simply the sight of a gun is usually enough to cause any person intent on harm to stop. There is nothing a home invader hates to hear more than the sound of a pump shotgun being worked.
Leaving the difference in definitions of what constitutes a defensive gun use (DGU), even using the DOJs numbers of DGUs, you have over 100,000 a year. Compare this to the 15,000 murders by guns, or even the 40,000 deaths (a number that includes suicides, and police/civilian shootings in self defense).
If I, as a consumer, hire someone to edit a movie that I have in my collection, is that a copyright violation?
What if I hire someone to read all the magazines I receive and have them write up a summary of all the stories?
I realize these examples are different from what Cleanflicks does, but the questions address what you are saying.
I think he was refering to a race on a inclined oval track.
From what I remember, the concern was both for the drivers and that the cars wouldn't fly off the track because of the high speed.
The companies that run SAP R/3 choose what db to run. They may already be running an Oracle db.
There is also a perception of "you get what you pay for." Most people would scoff at wine that is 2 dollars a bottle, even if the wine is normally 30 dollars and it that price because the store is trying to free up shelf space.
You have two completely different situations there.
SUVs contribute to polution, I could accept them having to pay for environmental items.
People who build/rent houses/apartments are not hurting anyone. It is that type of thinking that discourages people from building more apartments and low cost homes, thus creating the housing shortage. Take an economics course and live on your own for a while.
You like it now when it's free. The problem is that Napster depends on others to provide the content. Once they start charging, the # of songs available will decline sharply.
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Ty
alSeen@narnia.net
I've seen ~$600 bandied around here (though I couldn't find it at Gateway),
That's because even us sales people at Gateway haven't been told the price. I have seen the actual unit, but not turned on. Looks pretty cool. Has a stylus that is stored in back.
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alSeen@narnia.net
I guess he should have said: "Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, Presybterian, Southern Baptist, Pentecostal, Apostolic, Catholic, Anglican, Buddhist, Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, Hare Krishna, Hindu, Taoist or Scientologits, ================================================== ==========
You forgot Ba'hai, Barrean (sp?) and Evangelical Free.
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alSeen@narnia.net
So says Handgun Control Inc. And you didn't even get the stat right. The lie they put up is that a gun is 22 times more likely to be used against someone you know. The thing they neglect to tell you is that that includes people you have just met before. The other thing they don't tell you is that most home defense is against people you know. Kinda makes sense, doesn't it?
Stop swallowing what the media tells you and actually research things yourself.
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alSeen@narnia.net
Ask and you shall receive.
http://www.setileague.org/articles/meat.h tm
It's a very short story by Terry Bisson. Very funny. I'd like to see Outer Limits do a show based off of it.
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Ty
alSeen@narnia.net
"but the fans want to see more of the "real" episodes. "
Not quite. For most people that have been watching the show since the begining, the conspiracy eps have been entertaining, and at first they were very well written and provided the means for the show to continue. But the last year or so, those episodes have been boring and very forced. The best episodes have always been the stand alones. The cochroach ep, Sideshow and others like that have better writing and directing and are more true to what made a lot of us fans.