It's weird how Americans think that all governmental action must come only at the Federal level now.
Considering how the Federal level is rapidly overriding all other levels (please consult the overthrow of the Oregon law on medical marijuana, or perhaps we can go straight to Every, er, No Child Left Behind for that), why shouldn't people think that? If a state tries to do anything not blessed at the Federal level, the Feds can and will hammer it down.
I use PeaPod in my area, and it's pretty good. I live by myself, and have no pets, but have friends over one weekend night.
I log in, do the picking, have it delivered on Saturday morning, put it away, and it's done. They advise you, when delivering, if they had to substitute things ("No A&W in stock, we brought you Mug" was a recent one) or if something isn't available (dammit, that's right, they didn't bring the cheesecake!). You can pick two-hour windows, or save $1 on your delivery fee by picking a six-hour window.
For someone like me, who likes to spend a Saturday on the couch except for lumbering to do the laundry, it's great.
The last order was for $120 in groceries; the delivery charge was $9.50, just to give you a hint as to what the costs are. (Plus I tip well - I know some people disagree with that, but I'd rather have the rep as a guy who overtips and get good service than a rep as a cheapskate and my food shows up with the ice cream as a soup...)
Considering we're coming up on Banned Books Week 2006, this is the perfect time to make these books available.
And yes, every book that Google has up there has been banned or challenged in public libraries across the country. There are still places where 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'Tom Sawyer' are considered improper reading for children - and for adults.
He's talking about the Hudson-Bergen Rail Line, which starts in Bayonne and currently goes as far north as Port Imperial, the ferry station near the Lincoln tunnel.
There's projections to take it up farther north, past Fort Lee and into Englewood and Tenafly (all towns with a relatively high-income population and high street population of autos).
Most people brought expensive electronic devices in from their cars. Security was not the best in the area and we had on average two car break-ins a month. Even if I did drive, I wouldn't leave my machine in the car, or it might not be there when I got back.
If my personal laptop and my personal PDA are in my personal bag, not connected to anything, not even turned on, where do they get off playing with my crap? I don't drive to work, and it's exceedingly inconvenient to go to a LAN party uptown by way of northern NJ, as that means going from NYC to home to NYC again - inefficient.
There is no reason for the IT staff to be searching bags - in fact, going into my bag is a violation of corporate privacy rules. There's no rule against you having the laptop with you, as long as it's not turned on in the office.
Where I am now in Lower Manhattan, I can take it outside and connect to a public hotspot with the wifi card, and no one says anything about it.
And just as a note? The machines were running Windows NT4. You know, the OS that DOESN'T support USB in any configuration? But they gave out floppies if you asked.
The sheer magnificent idiocy of this staggered me.
At one point the corporate machine-support staff tried to set up the following:
All laptops in the building must be formatted to the corporate image (personal or not, connected to the network or not)
All PDAs had to be hard-reset before leaving the building unless your manager approved it
Any other device with a USB port had to be opened and checked by the desktop support group
The sneaky bastards kept trying to steal my laptop, my PDA and my Nomad Jukebox to do this. I kept catching them and throwing them out of my cube (at one point, literally, as he refused to leave until he had formatted my laptop's hard drive and I had to roll him out in my chair and overturn it in the corridor).
Finally, they stopped that after they did this to an senior VP and erased the powerpoint presentation he had on his laptop. Heads rolled for THAT little debacle. The funny part was that his machine was already work-provided, he just didn't work in our building, so they didn't know him...
MaximumPC (for the reviews, mostly), and CPU. I continue to look at Computer Shopper, mostly because "The Hard Edge" and Alfred Poor's column remain invaluable and interesting.
Starring David Carradine as Bill Gates Michael Madsen as Steve Ballmer Uma Thurman as The Bride (Tove Torvalds, avenging her dead husband Linus, her reign of bloody revenge sponsored by IBM)
and Chiaki Kuriyama as Gogo NT, the prototype Microsoft Killing App. (because really, when you're dealing with this stuff, you need a killer android, preferably Japanese in a schoolgirl outfit, for the sheer surrealism factor.)
Actually, it makes sense. A number of large law firms have New Hampshire registrations for branches. It gives them tax breaks and reasonable access to most of the venues in Massachusetts.
Can anybody see this happening if Consumer Reports published a study indicating that a dishwasher wasn't as quiet as claimed or a car wasn't as safe as claimed?
I think they're waiting for something akin to a car being rated as badly as those mini-jeeps back in the early 90s, that they managed to get to tip over in a standard driving scenario test (not even the extreme ones they have), so they can leap on them. Attack someone when they've hit you with the worst criticism, and ignore anything other than the most damning.
That was the location I was at - Beaverton, OR. And yeah, we were Tier 1. And god help anyone who needed to go to Tier 2 because we didn't have any real contact points for it...
I worked for a while for Stream International in Oregon, and I know people that worked for them in Dallas.
And yeah, it was a grab-train-dump situation for the first week, and then you got tossed out on the floor.
I got let go, and no one ever told me why. But the training and experience I got there - supporting Netscape 1.2 and 2.0 - was invaluable in getting my foot in the door at other places. It was a hell of a meatgrinder for me, but I lived...
However, it allows him to argue it with more weight than a straight computer scientist, especially if, like his wife, he can build relationships with the people that actually make the laws.
Well, yeah. That's always a pain in the ass (literally). But the getting to the plane part was sometimes worse before the TSA came in. It's far easier now.
I mean, I flew, with my laptop, a week and a half after the Planes Hit, and didn't get any kind of ding from security. I've flown a bunch of times since then, and nothing. Four or five flights from Dulles in DC, and nothing at all like this.
The worst I had was in Denver, where I hadn't realized my ID card had expired two weeks before (hey, I thought they all expired at the end of the month), and they just had me go through a secondary search. At that point, they had me boot the computer (which was easy, as I'd had it on standby instead of having to power it up), and checked my shoes.
Since the TSA came in, I've been overall pleased with the situation - most of the people I've encountered have been pleasant, and the rest at least passable, and all of them have done their job with a minimum of stressing me out about it. While I'm not a big fan of 'add another federal agency', traveling by plane has actually gotten EASIER from Newark International since the TSA got up to speed, and I make sure to thank them for their help every time I go through.
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It's weird how Americans think that all governmental action must come only at the Federal level now.
Considering how the Federal level is rapidly overriding all other levels (please consult the overthrow of the Oregon law on medical marijuana, or perhaps we can go straight to Every, er, No Child Left Behind for that), why shouldn't people think that? If a state tries to do anything not blessed at the Federal level, the Feds can and will hammer it down.
I use PeaPod in my area, and it's pretty good. I live by myself, and have no pets, but have friends over one weekend night.
I log in, do the picking, have it delivered on Saturday morning, put it away, and it's done. They advise you, when delivering, if they had to substitute things ("No A&W in stock, we brought you Mug" was a recent one) or if something isn't available (dammit, that's right, they didn't bring the cheesecake!). You can pick two-hour windows, or save $1 on your delivery fee by picking a six-hour window.
For someone like me, who likes to spend a Saturday on the couch except for lumbering to do the laundry, it's great.
The last order was for $120 in groceries; the delivery charge was $9.50, just to give you a hint as to what the costs are. (Plus I tip well - I know some people disagree with that, but I'd rather have the rep as a guy who overtips and get good service than a rep as a cheapskate and my food shows up with the ice cream as a soup...)
...but I learned a lot and made a lot of good friends as a student at Beaver College.
So to hell with the slang, and also? Howard Stern (who made it a series of jokes on his show) needs to go straight to Hell.
I imagine this will be unpopular as an opinion.
Considering we're coming up on Banned Books Week 2006, this is the perfect time to make these books available.
And yes, every book that Google has up there has been banned or challenged in public libraries across the country. There are still places where 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'Tom Sawyer' are considered improper reading for children - and for adults.
Good work, Google. Keep on it.
Well, I think they're talking here about the iBook replacement, not the Powerbook replacement that the MacBook Pro is.
He's talking about the Hudson-Bergen Rail Line, which starts in Bayonne and currently goes as far north as Port Imperial, the ferry station near the Lincoln tunnel.
There's projections to take it up farther north, past Fort Lee and into Englewood and Tenafly (all towns with a relatively high-income population and high street population of autos).
...and Alfred Poor. I think this goes off my list now.
Oh, well, there's always Maximum PC.
Coolie claimed it was a sensitive artistic statement about the plight of the black man in the 'hood, and his chances of escaping its dangers.
Well, actually, he said, "it was about how bad it is for my homies".
Oh, and just as a note:
Most people brought expensive electronic devices in from their cars. Security was not the best in the area and we had on average two car break-ins a month. Even if I did drive, I wouldn't leave my machine in the car, or it might not be there when I got back.
If my personal laptop and my personal PDA are in my personal bag, not connected to anything, not even turned on, where do they get off playing with my crap? I don't drive to work, and it's exceedingly inconvenient to go to a LAN party uptown by way of northern NJ, as that means going from NYC to home to NYC again - inefficient.
There is no reason for the IT staff to be searching bags - in fact, going into my bag is a violation of corporate privacy rules. There's no rule against you having the laptop with you, as long as it's not turned on in the office.
Where I am now in Lower Manhattan, I can take it outside and connect to a public hotspot with the wifi card, and no one says anything about it.
And just as a note? The machines were running Windows NT4. You know, the OS that DOESN'T support USB in any configuration? But they gave out floppies if you asked.
The sheer magnificent idiocy of this staggered me.
At one point the corporate machine-support staff tried to set up the following:
The sneaky bastards kept trying to steal my laptop, my PDA and my Nomad Jukebox to do this. I kept catching them and throwing them out of my cube (at one point, literally, as he refused to leave until he had formatted my laptop's hard drive and I had to roll him out in my chair and overturn it in the corridor).
Finally, they stopped that after they did this to an senior VP and erased the powerpoint presentation he had on his laptop. Heads rolled for THAT little debacle. The funny part was that his machine was already work-provided, he just didn't work in our building, so they didn't know him...
MaximumPC (for the reviews, mostly), and CPU. I continue to look at Computer Shopper, mostly because "The Hard Edge" and Alfred Poor's column remain invaluable and interesting.
After that? Maxim, Dragon and Esquire.
One presumes you really mean 'She Bangs'.
The version performed by William 'On key? What is this on key thing you speak of?' Hung.
I know, but I wanted to get an Uma Thurman reference in.
I'd have gone farther, but frankly, my brain wouldn't let me substitute anyone else at Microsoft for Daryl Hannah.
The fifth ad campaign by Quentin Tarantino.
Starring David Carradine as Bill Gates
Michael Madsen as Steve Ballmer
Uma Thurman as The Bride (Tove Torvalds, avenging her dead husband Linus, her reign of bloody revenge sponsored by IBM)
and Chiaki Kuriyama as Gogo NT, the prototype Microsoft Killing App. (because really, when you're dealing with this stuff, you need a killer android, preferably Japanese in a schoolgirl outfit, for the sheer surrealism factor.)
Actually, it makes sense. A number of large law firms have New Hampshire registrations for branches. It gives them tax breaks and reasonable access to most of the venues in Massachusetts.
Can anybody see this happening if Consumer Reports published a study indicating that a dishwasher wasn't as quiet as claimed or a car wasn't as safe as claimed?
I think they're waiting for something akin to a car being rated as badly as those mini-jeeps back in the early 90s, that they managed to get to tip over in a standard driving scenario test (not even the extreme ones they have), so they can leap on them. Attack someone when they've hit you with the worst criticism, and ignore anything other than the most damning.
I bow to your immense ability to spin crap into gold thread.
That was the location I was at - Beaverton, OR. And yeah, we were Tier 1. And god help anyone who needed to go to Tier 2 because we didn't have any real contact points for it...
If I got a call on the line that indicated it was from Ayanami Rei, I'd give her the best damn service available.
Because, you know, if I didn't, she might come step on me with EVA-00. And that would suck.
I worked for a while for Stream International in Oregon, and I know people that worked for them in Dallas.
And yeah, it was a grab-train-dump situation for the first week, and then you got tossed out on the floor.
I got let go, and no one ever told me why. But the training and experience I got there - supporting Netscape 1.2 and 2.0 - was invaluable in getting my foot in the door at other places. It was a hell of a meatgrinder for me, but I lived...
However, it allows him to argue it with more weight than a straight computer scientist, especially if, like his wife, he can build relationships with the people that actually make the laws.
Well, yeah. That's always a pain in the ass (literally). But the getting to the plane part was sometimes worse before the TSA came in. It's far easier now.
I mean, I flew, with my laptop, a week and a half after the Planes Hit, and didn't get any kind of ding from security. I've flown a bunch of times since then, and nothing. Four or five flights from Dulles in DC, and nothing at all like this.
The worst I had was in Denver, where I hadn't realized my ID card had expired two weeks before (hey, I thought they all expired at the end of the month), and they just had me go through a secondary search. At that point, they had me boot the computer (which was easy, as I'd had it on standby instead of having to power it up), and checked my shoes.
Since the TSA came in, I've been overall pleased with the situation - most of the people I've encountered have been pleasant, and the rest at least passable, and all of them have done their job with a minimum of stressing me out about it. While I'm not a big fan of 'add another federal agency', traveling by plane has actually gotten EASIER from Newark International since the TSA got up to speed, and I make sure to thank them for their help every time I go through.
I have. Including the parts they haven't shown in the US. Waiting for the 'uncensored' MMI release.