The article says she was in Israel for a month, and got the large phone bill for that time. Do Israel and Canada use the same system? If not, I can easily believe she left her cell phone at home, where it could be stolen. If she seldom uses it, I can see not keeping track of it at all times (I routinely forget where I leave mine, so I zip it into a pocket on my backpack), and not immediately noticing it was gone.
Basically, her side of the story is not that unbelievable.
I graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1984 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science, which was in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. There was a BSCS program for several years before that. The head of the Computer Science department being married to the head of the Mathematics department certainly helped, I suppose...
Oh, and I'm 47, and still programming, mostly legacy systems for the past 6 years. I'm self-employed, doing contract support. There are still a lot of C/C++ Unix systems out there, thanks to most companies' innate conservatism. One of the few things I enjoy about the computer field is troubleshooting, analyzing existing systems and fixing them so that they do what the client wants (even if it's not what they need:-( ). I've worked with so many operating systems, languages, and software systems they're all blurring together, so I can see the common attributes of systems regardless of the language, so it's become very boring fixing the same problems over and over...
I don't expect to be doing this when I'm 65, though, but right now I don't know what else I can do and still make this kind of money.
He said "you" and "us" to refer to Christians and non-Christians. So, when he said "our" government and the country was not created for "you" but for "us", how is that putting words in his mouth?
Nothing in the Constitution says "government should stay the hell out of religious matters", it says Congress shall pass no law establishing a religion, and won't prohibit the free exercise of any.
As far as "nothing stopping me," the courts have made it very clear that I cannot express Christian ideas, cannot use Christian images, cannot perform Christian ceremonies or even mention that I'm a Christian, if any of that occurs on public land, in public schools, or in government buildings, if there are any non-Christians who would be offended by them. That is prohibiting the free exercise. Ordering someone to remove their Bible from view, or forbidding the word "Christmas" from being used in conjuction with the holiday in schools, or confiscating Bibles from students who are reading from them in study hall, these are "prohibiting free exercise".
I'm waiting for the day when some group of you "separationists" sues the states of California and Texas for naming their cities after obvious Christian symbols and people, which is clearly "establishing a religion." Sacramento, San (anything), and Corpus Christi are obviously meant to "establish Christianity" in those cities, a blatant violation of "separation of Church and State".
And yet you feel free to shove down our throats the inability to use land we as taxpayers paid for, using the powers of government that we as voters participate in.
Also, displaying any religious symbols is most emphatically not "establishing a religion." All it's doing is offending people who feel they have a "right" not to be offended, while simultaneously denying Christians the same "right."
And you call it "your government." Telling phrase, that. Maybe the next thing will be disenfranchising people who don't agree with your views on religion. After all, if I as a Christian and a voter participate in "your government" I might be voting based on my religious beliefs, which is as much an "establishment of religion" as any public display of symbols. Heavens (sorry), I might even run for office, and electing a Christian might just bring the End of the Republic! You Know How THOSE People Are...
The Gulf Stream shuts down, causing Europe to get cold enough for the glaciers to stop shrinking and start growing again.
Meanwhile the pack ice at latitudes above Europe continues melting due to the increasing temperature at those latitudes.
Unless.
The polar ice stops melting, along with Europe becoming frozen, restoring the salinity differences that caused the Gulf Stream in the first place.
Or.
The increased temperature at the Pole affects ice formation in Europe preventing the mega-glaciers from forming.
Do the climate models that predict the circulation shutdown also predict continued temperature increases in the polar areas at the same time as the major cooldown of Europe? Is North America (including western Canada) included in the affected areas? Currently permafrost is disappearing in Canada, if the Gulf Stream shuts down, will that permafrost melting cease and reverse?
Please pardon me, I'm just a skeptic when it comes to claims these days.
Not to mention that paging using the Page Up/Page Down keys got lost somewhere between 1.0.4 and 1.5. Very irritating. Works in Camino and Safari, so I use them instead.
But what if we're already in the matrix.. that would be a direct neural interface inside a direct neural interface... Talk about a mind bender.. or should I say 'spoon bender'?
Does anyone really believe that phones won't be a catch all device soon, regardless of what Apple does?
Phones continue to add features, and consumers seem to want this feature. I doubt Apple can stop it regardless of what they do.
I'm not so sure it's a matter of consumers wanting feature-laden phones, it's more a matter of phone makers refusing to make or sell phones without them. Personally, I just need a phone that makes phone calls and keeps my phone numbers handy. I don't need or want a video/still camera-music player-caller-specific ringtone-PDA that also happens to make phone calls if it manages to boot up in time.
I mean, it's not like we don't have the technology to make simple cell phones!:-)
Well, I'm about as conservative as they come, and I've been a Mac owner since '91. I was a Mac programmer for two years before that, thanks to a DARPA project I wrote code for. From then on I've appreciated the ease of use and general trouble-free nature of Macs. I tried to go Linux for a while, but I was spending most of my time just keeping up to date with kernel patches, new versions of applications, and just trying to keep XFree86 recognizing my graphics card/monitor. I'd much rather spend my time just using the computer than trying to maintain it.
Gee, I've stayed with the same platform for nearly 15 years. How... radical.. of me.
If it's a Republican PAC, no. If it's a Democrat PAC, of course.:-)
The problem is, if the Internet is not excepted, all bloggers will have to prove that they are not being paid by some PAC to post, or else they will be subject to fines for violating campaign finance "reform" laws.
It'll never work, because the US part will assume it's the size of a US football field, and the Canadians will assume it's larger because they use metric "yards"...
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The article says she was in Israel for a month, and got the large phone bill for that time. Do Israel and Canada use the same system? If not, I can easily believe she left her cell phone at home, where it could be stolen. If she seldom uses it, I can see not keeping track of it at all times (I routinely forget where I leave mine, so I zip it into a pocket on my backpack), and not immediately noticing it was gone.
Basically, her side of the story is not that unbelievable.
I graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1984 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science, which was in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. There was a BSCS program for several years before that. The head of the Computer Science department being married to the head of the Mathematics department certainly helped, I suppose...
:-( ). I've worked with so many operating systems, languages, and software systems they're all blurring together, so I can see the common attributes of systems regardless of the language, so it's become very boring fixing the same problems over and over...
Oh, and I'm 47, and still programming, mostly legacy systems for the past 6 years. I'm self-employed, doing contract support. There are still a lot of C/C++ Unix systems out there, thanks to most companies' innate conservatism. One of the few things I enjoy about the computer field is troubleshooting, analyzing existing systems and fixing them so that they do what the client wants (even if it's not what they need
I don't expect to be doing this when I'm 65, though, but right now I don't know what else I can do and still make this kind of money.
He said "you" and "us" to refer to Christians and non-Christians. So, when he said "our" government and the country was not created for "you" but for "us", how is that putting words in his mouth?
Nothing in the Constitution says "government should stay the hell out of religious matters", it says Congress shall pass no law establishing a religion, and won't prohibit the free exercise of any.
As far as "nothing stopping me," the courts have made it very clear that I cannot express Christian ideas, cannot use Christian images, cannot perform Christian ceremonies or even mention that I'm a Christian, if any of that occurs on public land, in public schools, or in government buildings, if there are any non-Christians who would be offended by them. That is prohibiting the free exercise. Ordering someone to remove their Bible from view, or forbidding the word "Christmas" from being used in conjuction with the holiday in schools, or confiscating Bibles from students who are reading from them in study hall, these are "prohibiting free exercise".
I'm waiting for the day when some group of you "separationists" sues the states of California and Texas for naming their cities after obvious Christian symbols and people, which is clearly "establishing a religion."
Sacramento, San (anything), and Corpus Christi are obviously meant to "establish Christianity" in those cities, a blatant violation of "separation of Church and State".
And yet you feel free to shove down our throats the inability to use land we as taxpayers paid for, using the powers of government that we as voters participate in.
Also, displaying any religious symbols is most emphatically not "establishing a religion." All it's doing is offending people who feel they have a "right" not to be offended, while simultaneously denying Christians the same "right."
And you call it "your government." Telling phrase, that. Maybe the next thing will be disenfranchising people who don't agree with your views on religion. After all, if I as a Christian and a voter participate in "your government" I might be voting based on my religious beliefs, which is as much an "establishment of religion" as any public display of symbols. Heavens (sorry), I might even run for office, and electing a Christian might just bring the End of the Republic! You Know How THOSE People Are...
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Actually, it's "Ain't" if you're on the Moon (a Harsh Mistress, as we all know), or if you're a computer geek:
TANSTAAFL:
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/TANSTAAFL.html
http://jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TANSTAAFL.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanstaafl
There
Ain't
No
Such
Thing
As
A
Free
Lunch.
Wouldn't the best domain at Io be eie.io?
Sounds like it should, but I'm sure there's some model that predicts that it can't.
It might be Cindy Crawford...
So.
The Gulf Stream shuts down, causing Europe to get cold enough for the glaciers to stop shrinking and start growing again.
Meanwhile the pack ice at latitudes above Europe continues melting due to the increasing temperature at those latitudes.
Unless.
The polar ice stops melting, along with Europe becoming frozen, restoring the salinity differences that caused the Gulf Stream in the first place.
Or.
The increased temperature at the Pole affects ice formation in Europe preventing the mega-glaciers from forming.
Do the climate models that predict the circulation shutdown also predict continued temperature increases in the polar areas at the same time as the major cooldown of Europe? Is North America (including western Canada) included in the affected areas? Currently permafrost is disappearing in Canada, if the Gulf Stream shuts down, will that permafrost melting cease and reverse?
Please pardon me, I'm just a skeptic when it comes to claims these days.
Not to mention that paging using the Page Up/Page Down keys got lost somewhere between 1.0.4 and 1.5. Very irritating. Works in Camino and Safari, so I use them instead.
I always thought porn drove entertainment technology improvements...
Oh, wait: hentai.
Nevermind...
I've heard that "The Bard's Tale" dogs the wag...
rtcl2long 2mny wrds brdnow lol cya
What? What do you mean that doesn't count as a real comment?
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But what if we're already in the matrix.. that would be a direct neural interface inside a direct neural interface... Talk about a mind bender.. or should I say 'spoon bender'?
Or more likely just Bender: "We're boned!"
I mean, it's not like we don't have the technology to make simple cell phones!
You should be more sensitive. Even bytes get lonely for a little bit.>
And desperate for even a nibble...
Well, I'm about as conservative as they come, and I've been a Mac owner since '91. I was a Mac programmer for two years before that, thanks to a DARPA project I wrote code for. From then on I've appreciated the ease of use and general trouble-free nature of Macs. I tried to go Linux for a while, but I was spending most of my time just keeping up to date with kernel patches, new versions of applications, and just trying to keep XFree86 recognizing my graphics card/monitor. I'd much rather spend my time just using the computer than trying to maintain it.
Gee, I've stayed with the same platform for nearly 15 years. How... radical.. of me.
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A sane and logical post that respects more of our rights than anything currently on the table.
:-)
You must be new here.
(yes, I'm being sarcastic, I see your user number...)
If it's a Republican PAC, no. If it's a Democrat PAC, of course. :-)
The problem is, if the Internet is not excepted, all bloggers will have to prove that they are not being paid by some PAC to post, or else they will be subject to fines for violating campaign finance "reform" laws.
Ah, so you're starting to paint meter lines, rather than yard lines? I could always tell before if I was watching CFL, because of the 55 yard line.
It'll never work, because the US part will assume it's the size of a US football field, and the Canadians will assume it's larger because they use metric "yards"...
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Not if the exercise is accompanied with 'roids.
There are many good over the counter medications that help with them, I'm told.
Time to redefine the term "short-haul trucking."
:-)
Will the nanotrucks need nano-union nano-drivers?
What about the nano-truckstops? Staffed with nano-waitresses?
etc. etc. etc.