Indeed. Reporters can't just waltz up to the White House and start walking around like they own the place, but at the same time, requests for more extensive access are frequently granted. The same certainly holds true where safety of both the workers and the would-be documentarians are put at risk by allowing unfettered access to work areas.
Aside from that, we already know what a fucking oil-covered bird looks like. It's not the survival of any single bird that matters, but rather the survival of the estuaries and coastlines -- their "homes." But by the time the cleanup efforts are "over," and the oil spill is backpage news (as it already is in many news venues), there will be only an occasional followup to see the actual conditions of the shorelines, and little to no pressure to fix any lingering problems. That's the real tragedy.
In the case of voting, felons can still organize protests, publicize issues, and run for offices including judge and even sheriff. I could go on, but the absurdity should be self-evident. If anything, felons should be allowed to vote, and barred from running for office; though I don't think either restriction is particularly worthwhile.
In the case of firearm ownership, the idea is that the person has demonstrated irresponsible or malicious behavior, and cannot be trusted with a firearm. Unfortunately, making it illegal doesn't prevent malicious individuals from obtaining firearms and committing crimes. It does, however, prevent reformed individuals from protecting their person, property, and families; people who may well be targeted by criminals precisely *because* they're now reformed. In fact, I would trust a felon with a firearm before I would trust some 21-year-old punk off the street with no "history" of violence, because the felon has experienced firsthand how costly mistakes can be. Granted, some convicted felons won't care, but recidivism rates for violent crimes are pretty low overall, so clearly most of them *do* care. To put it another way, when a felony vehicular homicide *may* result in a temporary suspension of a driver's license while that same felony results in a permanent loss of firearm ownership something is very wrong, especially considering that the former is a privilege while the latter is a right enshrined in the Constitution. There should be, at the very least, both a rational basis for precluding firearm ownership in demonstrably dangerous individuals, and a method for appeals at proscribed intervals, similar to probation hearings. No one is the same person they were even 10 years ago, and pretending that they are doesn't help or change anything.
It's not really silly. In fact, standardizing the batteries would be easier than standardizing the "bricks", because bricks are rated for varying voltages and, perhaps more importantly, for varying maximum loads. You don't want to lug around a Dell XPS size brick to use with a Airbook, and the opposite wouldn't work. Batteries, OTOH, support higher loads through increased numbers. Further, laptop batteries are almost universally identical within their custom-molded casings to begin with, in a shape similar to a standard AA battery. Again, the main variant is the number of cells.
The variance in battery case form factors is almost certainly to drive sales of "custom" battery packs. The only argument I see in favor of differentiation is that it prevents ignorant users from populating their battery bays with incompatible battery types, but we already have that with NiMh/NiCad/Alkaline, and people seem to handle it okay in the majority of cases.
As for car batteries, the sizes may vary, but they have nearly universal connectors and voltages, so there's that. Also, the form factor isn't as relevant as much as the fact that a replacement fits in the compartment and provides enough current to run the starter motor.
Will Wikileaks weather wicked waylays while we watch wistfully with wonder? We waste weeks while wretches wreak waste! Wikileaks, worthy watchdog, warrants works! Wisen wayward wits with winning words (when we wake, where we work, while we walk)! Wax wealth, wield weapons, wear white, woo wet whorish women!
Grounding, or effectively grounding (by say, shorting two ends of a dipole) an antenna will *always* result in loss of signal, even when starting values are ideal. But regardless of how it was missed, the fact that it was missed at all means one thing: inadequate testing.
The people need to be responsible for themselves, and shouldn't expect others to take care of them.
And it's being responsible to pay taxes. Everyone's still taking care of "themselves," but the risk is distributed such that no one person bears a proportion larger than they could handle. That holds true whether it's fixing a sinkhole on the road in front of their house, or treating cancer, and should be patently obvious. It's the whole point of living in communities and societies; otherwise we'd just head off into the woods and fend for ourselves.
The stupid thing about paying extra for "Saturday delivery" is that you have no guarantee what day it will arrive, even for "guaranteed" shipments. Maybe your item was the last in stock, and they crushed it with a forklift. Maybe it will arrive on Friday. Maybe it won't arrive until Monday. Maybe it will get routed through Hong Kong and arrive in 3 months. All you're doing is paying a steep price to widen your window of opportunity by an UNKNOWN percentage. Personally, I think Saturday delivery should be a standard practice. Sundays too.
For that matter, any service or industry that doesn't rely on a sole individual should be available 24/7, including public services. If cops can work 24/7, judges can too.
[T]he tray is just four apps wide - how can you have clutter in only four items?
You can only see four items at a time... it scrolls.
And he complains he needs to press and hold to quit an app - but also complains most apps are just suspended. So then why quit an app?
Right now you need to quit (some) apps because they are setup to do certain things upon launch, and *only* upon launch. I suspect that will change in the near future, but in the meantime it's definitely annoying. For what it's worth, I've found that it's faster to browse and kill tasks through SBSettings, provided you have a jailbroken phone.
Futurama definitely takes a much keener intellect to really appreciate.
I know what you mean. Like when Bender's drinking a beer, at first I'm like "WTF, robots drink beer?!? That does not make sense!" But then after subsequent viewings, I come to the realization that his internal power source must be some sort of combustion engine, so really he's just refueling, but sometimes the waste water from his internal distillation process leaks onto his circuitry, which makes him behave erratically. Only then do I really appreciate the joke.
The surface waves may spread farther in area, but magnitude N is still magnitude N. It's like getting two feet of snow in D.C. -- it's unusual, but other people are still going to laugh at you when you freak out.
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Hello, this is Bubba with tech support. So, what are you wearing?
This is why we can't have nice things.
Indeed. Reporters can't just waltz up to the White House and start walking around like they own the place, but at the same time, requests for more extensive access are frequently granted. The same certainly holds true where safety of both the workers and the would-be documentarians are put at risk by allowing unfettered access to work areas.
Aside from that, we already know what a fucking oil-covered bird looks like. It's not the survival of any single bird that matters, but rather the survival of the estuaries and coastlines -- their "homes." But by the time the cleanup efforts are "over," and the oil spill is backpage news (as it already is in many news venues), there will be only an occasional followup to see the actual conditions of the shorelines, and little to no pressure to fix any lingering problems. That's the real tragedy.
Both restrictions are rather pointless.
In the case of voting, felons can still organize protests, publicize issues, and run for offices including judge and even sheriff. I could go on, but the absurdity should be self-evident. If anything, felons should be allowed to vote, and barred from running for office; though I don't think either restriction is particularly worthwhile.
In the case of firearm ownership, the idea is that the person has demonstrated irresponsible or malicious behavior, and cannot be trusted with a firearm. Unfortunately, making it illegal doesn't prevent malicious individuals from obtaining firearms and committing crimes. It does, however, prevent reformed individuals from protecting their person, property, and families; people who may well be targeted by criminals precisely *because* they're now reformed. In fact, I would trust a felon with a firearm before I would trust some 21-year-old punk off the street with no "history" of violence, because the felon has experienced firsthand how costly mistakes can be. Granted, some convicted felons won't care, but recidivism rates for violent crimes are pretty low overall, so clearly most of them *do* care. To put it another way, when a felony vehicular homicide *may* result in a temporary suspension of a driver's license while that same felony results in a permanent loss of firearm ownership something is very wrong, especially considering that the former is a privilege while the latter is a right enshrined in the Constitution. There should be, at the very least, both a rational basis for precluding firearm ownership in demonstrably dangerous individuals, and a method for appeals at proscribed intervals, similar to probation hearings. No one is the same person they were even 10 years ago, and pretending that they are doesn't help or change anything.
using a symbol is a bit silly.
Ignoring the fact that words and sentences are composed entirely of symbols, I suppose you're right.
It's not really silly. In fact, standardizing the batteries would be easier than standardizing the "bricks", because bricks are rated for varying voltages and, perhaps more importantly, for varying maximum loads. You don't want to lug around a Dell XPS size brick to use with a Airbook, and the opposite wouldn't work. Batteries, OTOH, support higher loads through increased numbers. Further, laptop batteries are almost universally identical within their custom-molded casings to begin with, in a shape similar to a standard AA battery. Again, the main variant is the number of cells.
The variance in battery case form factors is almost certainly to drive sales of "custom" battery packs. The only argument I see in favor of differentiation is that it prevents ignorant users from populating their battery bays with incompatible battery types, but we already have that with NiMh/NiCad/Alkaline, and people seem to handle it okay in the majority of cases.
As for car batteries, the sizes may vary, but they have nearly universal connectors and voltages, so there's that. Also, the form factor isn't as relevant as much as the fact that a replacement fits in the compartment and provides enough current to run the starter motor.
If absolutely nothing happened when the countdown hit zero, it would be a tie. Anything else at all would be a win.
Will Wikileaks weather wicked waylays while we watch wistfully with wonder? We waste weeks while wretches wreak waste! Wikileaks, worthy watchdog, warrants works! Wisen wayward wits with winning words (when we wake, where we work, while we walk)! Wax wealth, wield weapons, wear white, woo wet whorish women!
Wait, what?!?
I thought masturbation was something, you know... you do to yourself. When someone else does it, isn't that a handjob?
It's perfectly fine, yes.. until you catch up. They don't make old shows the way they used to.
Back when calculator watches were cool
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That reminds me of that song by the Lemonheads.
Coo, coo, ca-choo!
That presupposes that we wear pants.
Grounding, or effectively grounding (by say, shorting two ends of a dipole) an antenna will *always* result in loss of signal, even when starting values are ideal. But regardless of how it was missed, the fact that it was missed at all means one thing: inadequate testing.
The people need to be responsible for themselves, and shouldn't expect others to take care of them.
And it's being responsible to pay taxes. Everyone's still taking care of "themselves," but the risk is distributed such that no one person bears a proportion larger than they could handle. That holds true whether it's fixing a sinkhole on the road in front of their house, or treating cancer, and should be patently obvious. It's the whole point of living in communities and societies; otherwise we'd just head off into the woods and fend for ourselves.
The stupid thing about paying extra for "Saturday delivery" is that you have no guarantee what day it will arrive, even for "guaranteed" shipments. Maybe your item was the last in stock, and they crushed it with a forklift. Maybe it will arrive on Friday. Maybe it won't arrive until Monday. Maybe it will get routed through Hong Kong and arrive in 3 months. All you're doing is paying a steep price to widen your window of opportunity by an UNKNOWN percentage. Personally, I think Saturday delivery should be a standard practice. Sundays too.
For that matter, any service or industry that doesn't rely on a sole individual should be available 24/7, including public services. If cops can work 24/7, judges can too.
Walla!
[T]he tray is just four apps wide - how can you have clutter in only four items?
You can only see four items at a time... it scrolls.
And he complains he needs to press and hold to quit an app - but also complains most apps are just suspended. So then why quit an app?
Right now you need to quit (some) apps because they are setup to do certain things upon launch, and *only* upon launch. I suspect that will change in the near future, but in the meantime it's definitely annoying. For what it's worth, I've found that it's faster to browse and kill tasks through SBSettings, provided you have a jailbroken phone.
Apple's philosophy is about as polar opposite as you can get, if they (and the parent) get their way then there will be no tinkering
Nonsense.. Apple just wants you to learn more, so they raised the bar for tinkering. ;)
Futurama definitely takes a much keener intellect to really appreciate.
I know what you mean. Like when Bender's drinking a beer, at first I'm like "WTF, robots drink beer?!? That does not make sense!" But then after subsequent viewings, I come to the realization that his internal power source must be some sort of combustion engine, so really he's just refueling, but sometimes the waste water from his internal distillation process leaks onto his circuitry, which makes him behave erratically. Only then do I really appreciate the joke.
That's what I saw too. Maybe "Yesterama".
A Nelson survey?
HA-HA!
In all seriousness, though, I wonder how they can determine the depth of the hole, just from the surface characteristics?
Trigonometry?
The surface waves may spread farther in area, but magnitude N is still magnitude N. It's like getting two feet of snow in D.C. -- it's unusual, but other people are still going to laugh at you when you freak out.