That was my first thought, too: Arnold was one of the first civilian owners of the Humvee...and yet his administration is overseeing a suit against auto manufacturers for vehicles that produce smog. It doesn't compute.
Of course, I'm sure Arnold can't drive most of the hybrids that are currently available - I have trouble comfortably fitting in a lot of smaller cars for anything more than a short trip, and I'm much smaller than he is - he probably has to have an SUV or something just so he can ride in it comfortably. Still...even Chevy Suburbans and Ford Expeditions are more efficient than a Humvee.
I just wired my (preexisting) house with Cat 5e ethernet cable, telephone, and TV cable. It wasn't that hard to do, though it did take some time, and having someone be able to get the fish tape and attach the wires to it helps a LOT (I had no help for most of it, and the project took two or three times as long as it should've - also, sometimes my cat would attack the cables as I was pulling them up to the attic, making it even harder).
(The phone wiring in the house was bad and only had two jacks, in inconvenient locations - there were more but they were all removed when the house was remodeled. The cable TV wiring was all cut when the house was remodeled - I found the remains in the attic. Since I was redoing the telephone anyway, I decided to put in ethernet and cable as well and have it look modern.)
For your specific question, as others have said it might be a problem to go into an unfinished house to do that. There may be laws, and there may be things in your contract that deal with it. My brother did it for his guitar room in the house he had built, but I don't know how he got permission (or even if he did) to do it.
I think the parent was saying that it doesn't make sense to be carrying an iPod when you're actively out trying to kill someone, hence the rocket-resistant casing doesn't seem that important. No one has a problem with soldiers having iPods while they're relaxing off-duty.
Remember the Lazy Inventor section on the Dilbert website? (If you're not familiar with it, the idea was you could post ideas and get feedback on them. "All talk, no funding.") The best one was "child-free days" where someone suggested restaurants and such have children-free days where adults could eat without screaming kids running around.
You would've thought he'd suggested shooting all children on sight and clubbing baby seals to boot. The flamewar was HUGE.
Wasn't the original idea behind the Shuttle that it would be launching so often it wouldn't be a special event?:) I know that goal is now impossible, but it's still kind of funny that you'd be mad about a lack of coverage.
I think you can decline new agreement changes even if you have a balance: you notify them, and you stay under the old terms until the balance is paid off, then the card is cancelled. However if you use the card during that time, it's considered acceptance of the new agreement.
I periodically get mailer-daemon messages because some asshat has decided that an e-mail address using my personal domain is perfect for his/her reply-to address.
I'm in that boat right now - someone is using one of my domain names on their reply-to address, so I get dozens (or more) mailer-daemon messages each day. I hate to automatically filter them into trash in case I send a message that bounces. Very frustrating.
I wish my employer would do something like this. I have something like 15 different passwords now. Most change every three months, but some change every 30 days. The rules for creating them are different (one system is overly sensitive about full words in the password, so if you have !sum3518daasdkj235 it'll reject it because the real word "sum" is in there). We all write them down - we have to, or we'd be on the phone with help desks all the time getting them reset. It's extremely frustrating.
I've requested several times that we get software for storing passwords, but the requests fall on deaf ears.
I agree that incidents in the air tend to be limited to takeoff and landing times. I think similar results would come out though: a journey in a car is still more dangerous than a journey in a plane. It'd be interesting to find out... Hmmm...
This is true. Popular Science did an article where the author kept a diary of the risks he was encountering and would rate them, then they showed the diary to risk experts and got comments. What you said is exactly correct: people downplay the risks of, say, riding in a car, because they do it so often, while they worry a lot more about the risks of flying - despite the fact that flying is far safer than riding in a car.
Wow. My experience with Radio Shack employees is that they know nothing AND have no people skills, so I'm surprised they'd reject someone on those grounds. (And in your case, I have a feeling the _manager_ was the one lacking in people skills, not you...)
Yep - I've got a 4M Plus I bought of someone locally for $80 or something. One of the best purchases I've made. Unfortunately it does suck a lot of power: enough to cause my UPS to switch over to batteries when I turn on the laser. So, until I get some wiring done, I go for the inkjet...
A good first step, but I'd like more - fact checking as well. Someone knowledgable in the field would verify the facts presented before the article went gold.
And therein lies the biggest strength of Wikipedia (in my view). Any topic can have as many words or pictures devoted to it as it needs. Yes, Wikipedia has issues with editing and all, but it'd be cool if somehow someone could take a snapshot of pages that are "gold" (in very good condition, with correct information, etc) and use those as an encyclopedia people would trust.
I'm not sure what the security restrictions are where you are, but in the US the only restrictions for drinks are that you can't take them through security and you can't board the plane with one - but the airline can give you a drink once you're on board (as happened to me Tuesday) and you can buy a drink from the vendors behind security as long as you finish it before boarding (as I did yesterday).
Besides - what company is going to give you 2 or 3 extra days at each end of the trip so you can take a cruise instead of flying? My employer would also check the cost of the cruise versus the airline and you'd take whichever is more advantageous to them - almost certainly the airline.
Presumably the people on that jury would've used computers and had problems during a Windows upgrade. After all, how are you going to find 12 people that haven't?
Nothing like using the font "Comic Sans MS" to convey "BSD Is Great" to me. That seems like an especially bad travesty - I don't care for it when I see it in Windows, but using it in a BSD-related presentation has to be part of some diabolical scheme to discredit BSD.
If that were the case, I suspect the consultant could then successfully sue Microsoft. Before someone mentions it, I know Microsoft's EULA says they're not responsible for damages to their system, but I'd like to point out that it's likely the consultant has some sort of escape clause in his contract as well. (In other words, if you proposed that the company sue the consultant, ignoring that escape clause, then why not also ignore the Microsoft EULA escape clause?)
However I doubt the company would sue the consultant - if nothing else, it'd cost too much for too little reward - how much money do consultants really have anyway? Lockheed Martin and EDS have nice deep pockets, but a consultant in business for himself? Nah.
I hadn't heard about the California and El Paso things. Well, I guess I know which states not to visit.:)
As for sobriety checkpoints, the only ones I've ever seen have been from something like 10 p.m. through 3 a.m. or something like that, which isn't the normal traveling time for me. I've never been stopped by one.
Still...a five or ten minute delay at a sobriety checkpoint is MUCH better than an hour or two in a line for security exam. At least I get to sit down while I wait.
Right now, even though gas prices are high, I'm loving my motorhome. If my upcoming vacation (the week after next) was based on air travel, I'd be pretty bummed right now, but with the motorhome, the only security check I have to worry about is to make sure the doors are locked when I stop for breaks.:) It's freedom!
Unfortunately, next week I have a business trip which will require air travel. I'm hoping the delays at security checkpoints reported today are resolved by Tuesday (yeah, I know, not much hope of that).
I use a mousepad even with an optical mouse. In fact I've never used a mouse without a mousepad.
The fighting comes from the fact that the cord goes off the pad on my keyboard tray, then goes straight down. It's resisting movement in several directions. I can't change it at work, and at home I was able to get the cord in a relatively good position, but it still got in the way.
I've used wireless mice for years and love them. The batteries have to be replaced every six months, tops. Both of mine have been Microsoft mice. It's nice not having to fight with the cord every time I want to use it. I use a wired mouse at work and find the cord annoying - it's always getting in the way.
My feeling on wireless devices is this: for my laptop, my PS2 controller, and my mouse, wireless is great, because these things are all meant to move around. For my keyboard, CPU, monitor, etc., I'm fine with wires because they don't move around.
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That was my first thought, too: Arnold was one of the first civilian owners of the Humvee...and yet his administration is overseeing a suit against auto manufacturers for vehicles that produce smog. It doesn't compute.
Of course, I'm sure Arnold can't drive most of the hybrids that are currently available - I have trouble comfortably fitting in a lot of smaller cars for anything more than a short trip, and I'm much smaller than he is - he probably has to have an SUV or something just so he can ride in it comfortably. Still...even Chevy Suburbans and Ford Expeditions are more efficient than a Humvee.
I just wired my (preexisting) house with Cat 5e ethernet cable, telephone, and TV cable. It wasn't that hard to do, though it did take some time, and having someone be able to get the fish tape and attach the wires to it helps a LOT (I had no help for most of it, and the project took two or three times as long as it should've - also, sometimes my cat would attack the cables as I was pulling them up to the attic, making it even harder).
(The phone wiring in the house was bad and only had two jacks, in inconvenient locations - there were more but they were all removed when the house was remodeled. The cable TV wiring was all cut when the house was remodeled - I found the remains in the attic. Since I was redoing the telephone anyway, I decided to put in ethernet and cable as well and have it look modern.)
Some pics of the results: http://rjmarq.org/house/wiring/
For your specific question, as others have said it might be a problem to go into an unfinished house to do that. There may be laws, and there may be things in your contract that deal with it. My brother did it for his guitar room in the house he had built, but I don't know how he got permission (or even if he did) to do it.
I think the parent was saying that it doesn't make sense to be carrying an iPod when you're actively out trying to kill someone, hence the rocket-resistant casing doesn't seem that important. No one has a problem with soldiers having iPods while they're relaxing off-duty.
Remember the Lazy Inventor section on the Dilbert website? (If you're not familiar with it, the idea was you could post ideas and get feedback on them. "All talk, no funding.") The best one was "child-free days" where someone suggested restaurants and such have children-free days where adults could eat without screaming kids running around.
You would've thought he'd suggested shooting all children on sight and clubbing baby seals to boot. The flamewar was HUGE.
Fast for a Delorean maybe... :)
Wasn't the original idea behind the Shuttle that it would be launching so often it wouldn't be a special event? :) I know that goal is now impossible, but it's still kind of funny that you'd be mad about a lack of coverage.
I think you can decline new agreement changes even if you have a balance: you notify them, and you stay under the old terms until the balance is paid off, then the card is cancelled. However if you use the card during that time, it's considered acceptance of the new agreement.
I periodically get mailer-daemon messages because some asshat has decided that an e-mail address using my personal domain is perfect for his/her reply-to address.
I'm in that boat right now - someone is using one of my domain names on their reply-to address, so I get dozens (or more) mailer-daemon messages each day. I hate to automatically filter them into trash in case I send a message that bounces. Very frustrating.
I wish my employer would do something like this. I have something like 15 different passwords now. Most change every three months, but some change every 30 days. The rules for creating them are different (one system is overly sensitive about full words in the password, so if you have !sum3518daasdkj235 it'll reject it because the real word "sum" is in there). We all write them down - we have to, or we'd be on the phone with help desks all the time getting them reset. It's extremely frustrating.
I've requested several times that we get software for storing passwords, but the requests fall on deaf ears.
I agree that incidents in the air tend to be limited to takeoff and landing times. I think similar results would come out though: a journey in a car is still more dangerous than a journey in a plane. It'd be interesting to find out... Hmmm...
This is true. Popular Science did an article where the author kept a diary of the risks he was encountering and would rate them, then they showed the diary to risk experts and got comments. What you said is exactly correct: people downplay the risks of, say, riding in a car, because they do it so often, while they worry a lot more about the risks of flying - despite the fact that flying is far safer than riding in a car.
The laser isn't plugged into the UPS, though it's on the same circuit. That's what makes it so scary when it kicks over to batteries... :)
Wow. My experience with Radio Shack employees is that they know nothing AND have no people skills, so I'm surprised they'd reject someone on those grounds. (And in your case, I have a feeling the _manager_ was the one lacking in people skills, not you...)
Yep - I've got a 4M Plus I bought of someone locally for $80 or something. One of the best purchases I've made. Unfortunately it does suck a lot of power: enough to cause my UPS to switch over to batteries when I turn on the laser. So, until I get some wiring done, I go for the inkjet...
A good first step, but I'd like more - fact checking as well. Someone knowledgable in the field would verify the facts presented before the article went gold.
And therein lies the biggest strength of Wikipedia (in my view). Any topic can have as many words or pictures devoted to it as it needs. Yes, Wikipedia has issues with editing and all, but it'd be cool if somehow someone could take a snapshot of pages that are "gold" (in very good condition, with correct information, etc) and use those as an encyclopedia people would trust.
I'm not sure what the security restrictions are where you are, but in the US the only restrictions for drinks are that you can't take them through security and you can't board the plane with one - but the airline can give you a drink once you're on board (as happened to me Tuesday) and you can buy a drink from the vendors behind security as long as you finish it before boarding (as I did yesterday).
Besides - what company is going to give you 2 or 3 extra days at each end of the trip so you can take a cruise instead of flying? My employer would also check the cost of the cruise versus the airline and you'd take whichever is more advantageous to them - almost certainly the airline.
Presumably the people on that jury would've used computers and had problems during a Windows upgrade. After all, how are you going to find 12 people that haven't?
Nothing like using the font "Comic Sans MS" to convey "BSD Is Great" to me. That seems like an especially bad travesty - I don't care for it when I see it in Windows, but using it in a BSD-related presentation has to be part of some diabolical scheme to discredit BSD.
If that were the case, I suspect the consultant could then successfully sue Microsoft. Before someone mentions it, I know Microsoft's EULA says they're not responsible for damages to their system, but I'd like to point out that it's likely the consultant has some sort of escape clause in his contract as well. (In other words, if you proposed that the company sue the consultant, ignoring that escape clause, then why not also ignore the Microsoft EULA escape clause?)
However I doubt the company would sue the consultant - if nothing else, it'd cost too much for too little reward - how much money do consultants really have anyway? Lockheed Martin and EDS have nice deep pockets, but a consultant in business for himself? Nah.
I hadn't heard about the California and El Paso things. Well, I guess I know which states not to visit. :)
As for sobriety checkpoints, the only ones I've ever seen have been from something like 10 p.m. through 3 a.m. or something like that, which isn't the normal traveling time for me. I've never been stopped by one.
Still...a five or ten minute delay at a sobriety checkpoint is MUCH better than an hour or two in a line for security exam. At least I get to sit down while I wait.
Right now, even though gas prices are high, I'm loving my motorhome. If my upcoming vacation (the week after next) was based on air travel, I'd be pretty bummed right now, but with the motorhome, the only security check I have to worry about is to make sure the doors are locked when I stop for breaks. :) It's freedom!
Unfortunately, next week I have a business trip which will require air travel. I'm hoping the delays at security checkpoints reported today are resolved by Tuesday (yeah, I know, not much hope of that).
I use a mousepad even with an optical mouse. In fact I've never used a mouse without a mousepad.
The fighting comes from the fact that the cord goes off the pad on my keyboard tray, then goes straight down. It's resisting movement in several directions. I can't change it at work, and at home I was able to get the cord in a relatively good position, but it still got in the way.
I've used wireless mice for years and love them. The batteries have to be replaced every six months, tops. Both of mine have been Microsoft mice. It's nice not having to fight with the cord every time I want to use it. I use a wired mouse at work and find the cord annoying - it's always getting in the way.
My feeling on wireless devices is this: for my laptop, my PS2 controller, and my mouse, wireless is great, because these things are all meant to move around. For my keyboard, CPU, monitor, etc., I'm fine with wires because they don't move around.
Fortunately for the CEO, the car owners have no way of getting to the airport. ;)