I'll second the Bluehost recommendation. I've used them for years, no complaints. However, I used GoDaddy to register my domain eons ago (and have the auto annual renewal, which is coming up shortly)
Who would you recommend in place of GD? They were always pretty cheap.
I have belonged to several zombie fansites and zombie survival oriented forums over the years, where the members regularly do the things mentioned in this article. There are even threads where members post and compare photos of their massive weapons collections, many of which have AR15s, pistol grip combat shotties and other goodies not allowable in my state.
No one has ever posted, at least to my knowledge, about being questioned, harassed or contacted by any official in the midst of their activities; and while that doesn't mean they aren't silently placed on some watchlist, I think it's unlikely; especially given the number of natural disasters the North American continent has seen in recent years. It just makes sense to stock up on some supplies. Not every government agency is the TSA. It's a losing argument for the feds because the CDC and FEMA promote survival saavy; if a serious terrorist attack occurs again, or a hurricane/flood/wildfire/earthquake/tornado strikes, victims in that area will need some of those survival skills and gear, and they know it.
I don't have a problem with him getting co-credit, on many of those patents, but I think he should have shared the credit with the inventors who actually made the breakthroughs where Edison had little more involvement than financing it. They did the actual imaginative and intellectual work, his funding and shop helped make it possible. Of course, the inventions he personally worked on or led should be his.
Agreed. Almost anyone these days can conduct and release a "study" and bias it or spin it to fit their personal beliefs, whether deliberately or subconsciously, though I suspect the former in this case. Sadly, it's becoming more commonplace, on all sides of any debate. Credentials don't necessarily mean anything, there are PhDs out there writing books espousing doomsday 2012 and homeopathy, among other things.
Yet, there are too many studies that have found objective improvements in health after being given placebos to support the notion that the placebo effect is entirely psychological.
Doctors in one study successfully eliminated warts by painting them with a brightly colored, inert dye and promising patients the warts would be gone when the color wore off. In a study of asthmatics, researchers found that they could produce dilation of the airways by simply telling people they were inhaling a bronchodilator, even when they weren't. Patients suffering pain after wisdom-tooth extraction got just as much relief from a fake application of ultrasound as from a real one, so long as both patient and therapist thought the machine was on. Fifty-two percent of the colitis patients treated with placebo in 11 different trials reported feeling better -- and 50 percent of the inflamed intestines actually looked better when assessed with a sigmoidoscope ("The Placebo Prescription" by Margaret Talbot, New York Times Magazine, January 9, 2000).
Why is it so popular to pick on NASCAR all of a sudden? I suppose that diehard basketball and football fans have higher IQs? (you know, the ones that paint their bare chests blue in 10 degree weather or wear cheese on their head) What's the difference, you're either watching men run around and throw a ball back and forth, or you're watching cars drive around in a circle. Both are pretty mindnumbing, really.
Granted, If you delve deeper, you find people who are into the "strategy" of the game (though IMO that angle is exaggerated) or people who are into the mechanics of the engines and into the physics of things like drafting. NASCAR isn't my personal cup of tea, but it's not nearly as braindead as the parroting around here would have you think. Though it kills me when I hear someone call tires, "tar-yers".
As a fellow American, I think you're completely off the mark on the first point, you have the viewpoint of an OWS'er. Most Americans are more concerned with what they make than with what everyone else makes, with the exception of maybe their own peer group (keeping up with the Joneses). Socialism is usually just seen as "too much" government control, and is perhaps confused with Communism.
I completely concur on your second point, however; fascist has become a very general term for the abuse of authority... or just someone you don't like.
Agreed. And I'll just toss in, for good measure, it's not like people couldn't kill each other wholesale before the advent of firearms. Bows/arrows, crossbows/bolts, knives, swords, axes, spears, clubs, etc.. Guns just make it more convenient. Over 3,000 people were murdered on 9-11 and not one shot was fired, far as I know. Someone could probably take out 20 people at once on a crowded intersection by mowing them down with their car.
Now, when we get to the point where people can start 3D printing nukes... maybe in 50 years, well.. I'll probably be dead by then anyway. Good luck!:-)
Exactly this. In the early eighties, I used to work in a dept store's sporting goods section, where they sold ammo, but no guns.
I thought it was ironic at the time, but the customers only needed to show me an ID, like a driver's license, to prove they were 18 or older, to buy the ammo. I, on the other hand, as an employee who only sold the stuff and didn't actually use it (I'm not anti-gun, I just didn't have any guns), had to go downtown and get fingerprinted. It was like the same way that cops differentiate between drug users and their "pushers"; they're more strict with the pushers.
Come to think of it, they may as well merge the ATF with the DEA (alcohol and tobacco are drugs too) and get it over with.
I must be in a significant minority, because I actually like Comic Sans. I wouldn't use it on my resume/CV of course, and probably not for an important paper of any sort, but for an informal, casual kind of look, including most of my email, it just works - it's friendly and I find it very easy on the eyes. But then I also grew up reading Charlie Brown books, which uses a similar typeface.
Now, serifed fonts, generally speaking, are not as easy on the eye to me, and some can even get distracting when they get too complex.
"Looking right at the screen now, it's very odd; very long with a tiny, round viewing area.. in fact it's tiny, like a really tiny deep CRT.. and what a funny place for the power butto
But it is entertaining sometimes (emphasis on sometimes). It's becoming sort of like a geek/intellectual analogy to the WWE, or the Jerry Springer show.
'We have concluded that, on an objective assessment, the decision of the Crown Court that this 'tweet' constituted or included a message of a menacing character was not open to it.
I've reread this sentence several times and it doesn't make sense to me. If remove the clause "that this 'tweet' constituted or included a message of a menacing character" you're left with "We have concluded that, on an objective assessment, the decision of the Crown Court was not open to it."
The decision was not "open" to what, exactly?
That's the same logic people use to justify buying Honda's $35,000 Acura that has automatic everything and can even park itself. Personally I'd rather buy a Honda Civic for $15,000, do my own parking, and give myself $20,000 worth of time off (3 months) to spend it with my wife & kids & friends.
Wow, are your priorities whack. What could possibly be more important than a status symbol? Bad American! *smacks you on nose with newspaper*:-D
(actually I have no idea if you're an american or not.. though I am.. and drive a 15 year old car.)
I sometimes wonder just how much influence Hollywood has had on Mac purchases, since most shows and movies that heavily featured laptops or computers in use - at least in the nineties and 2000s- usually depicted Macs. The only exceptions I can think of off the top my head: on Big Bang theory Leonard and Sheldon use Alienware (PC) laptops, and on the short lived X Files spin-off "The Lone Gunman" the hackers actually used Unix or Linux.
Totally agree with the Lexus drivers thing - they're the ones who irk me the most. They seem to believe they're better than everyone else and that they own the road, and that you're damn lucky they reluctantly share it with you. I've also noticed however that the new crop of SUV driving soccer moms are getting really bad too, which honestly surprised me. We typically think of males as more aggressive, but behind the wheel of a big vehicle, I guess some women get a testosterone boost -they can be right pricks.
I can't say I've noticed anything about Prius drivers though. Unless you count Brian Griffin;)
We discovered the God Particle. It is omnipresent and omnipotent. It made everything possible. The Bible is right. The Torah and Koran are wrong.
I'm guessing more like centuries.
Umm.. a strange anti-christian sentiment; the Torah is -essentially speaking- the first five books of the Bible, AKA the Pentateuch and the (Greek) Septuigint, and all three religions share their origins and general belief in an omnipresent and ominpotent God. Now let's talk about that Budhha guy, he had some real mass!
And if -- ghod forbid -- we discover a way to make the vacuum unstable, then we might learn how to make one really big boom. Just one, because it will consume the entire universe, but that one will be REALLY BIG.
What do you think happened when the last sentient species figured this out, about.. oh, 13.7 billion years ago..
Well, technically, if's a tax break, then instead of charging people a new tax who don't get healthcare insurance, it should simply reduce the taxes of everyone else who does - that's a tax break; the other is a selective tax hike. So really, looking at it that way, taxes really just went up across the board, but those with insurance get a break.
I really doubt my taxes are going to go *down because of this. Besides, this isn't really healthcare reform, it's healthcare insurance reform. Is there anything in this about limiting torts or reducing malpractice conditions/suits? That's the kind of thing that's making insurance so expensive, all the litigation and liability.
So how is this any different than Auto Insurance? If another driver hits my car, and he has no insurance, who pays? Will everyone be required to have Auto Insurance regardless if they want it? This is just the beginning of the slippery slope.
It's already mandatory in a lot of states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_auto_insurance to own car insurance...except in a few states where guess what...you pay a fee (tax) to drive around like an idiot in an uninsured car.
Liability, though, not coverage for your own vehicle. It is similar, but the ifference is, that's a mandatory requirement for someone who has purchased a car and drives it. ACT mandates insurance for your merely being alive.
lol I'd mod you funny but I already posted in here.
In real life, that'd be a serious conundrum.. if you nudge someone just a little off center, they'd be likely to dislocate their shoulder or break a leg as it hit the edge of the portal at high velocity.. or worse.
The other thing I've wondered about, what if you could move the portals once they were created? What would happen if you stuck someone in one of these infinite loops, then gradually brought the two portals closer together until they were an inch apart? I imagine you'd wind up with some serious bloody hamburger as body parts were forced to overlap and inhabit the same space simultaneously.
My kid had a tough time with school this year, he's in fourth grade and sometimes it seems they're trying to teach those kids trig already. He hated school this year with a passion. However, he's a huge fan of portal, so if they used the game to help teach, it should probably make school more interesting and fun.
Well.. either that, or just ruin Portal for him.
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I'll second the Bluehost recommendation. I've used them for years, no complaints. However, I used GoDaddy to register my domain eons ago (and have the auto annual renewal, which is coming up shortly) Who would you recommend in place of GD? They were always pretty cheap.
I have belonged to several zombie fansites and zombie survival oriented forums over the years, where the members regularly do the things mentioned in this article. There are even threads where members post and compare photos of their massive weapons collections, many of which have AR15s, pistol grip combat shotties and other goodies not allowable in my state.
No one has ever posted, at least to my knowledge, about being questioned, harassed or contacted by any official in the midst of their activities; and while that doesn't mean they aren't silently placed on some watchlist, I think it's unlikely; especially given the number of natural disasters the North American continent has seen in recent years. It just makes sense to stock up on some supplies. Not every government agency is the TSA. It's a losing argument for the feds because the CDC and FEMA promote survival saavy; if a serious terrorist attack occurs again, or a hurricane/flood/wildfire/earthquake/tornado strikes, victims in that area will need some of those survival skills and gear, and they know it.
I don't have a problem with him getting co-credit, on many of those patents, but I think he should have shared the credit with the inventors who actually made the breakthroughs where Edison had little more involvement than financing it. They did the actual imaginative and intellectual work, his funding and shop helped make it possible. Of course, the inventions he personally worked on or led should be his.
Don't forget Edison, whose 1,000+ patents were largely made by various employees and contributors, but he garnered the historical credit.
Agreed. Almost anyone these days can conduct and release a "study" and bias it or spin it to fit their personal beliefs, whether deliberately or subconsciously, though I suspect the former in this case. Sadly, it's becoming more commonplace, on all sides of any debate. Credentials don't necessarily mean anything, there are PhDs out there writing books espousing doomsday 2012 and homeopathy, among other things.
Placebos are not increasing effectiveness. In fact, they have no effectiveness.
They just decrease the perception of pain or other subjective symptoms.
Not entirely so. Placebo can sometimes have measurable objective results. http://www.skepdic.com/placebo.html
Yet, there are too many studies that have found objective improvements in health after being given placebos to support the notion that the placebo effect is entirely psychological.
Doctors in one study successfully eliminated warts by painting them with a brightly colored, inert dye and promising patients the warts would be gone when the color wore off. In a study of asthmatics, researchers found that they could produce dilation of the airways by simply telling people they were inhaling a bronchodilator, even when they weren't. Patients suffering pain after wisdom-tooth extraction got just as much relief from a fake application of ultrasound as from a real one, so long as both patient and therapist thought the machine was on. Fifty-two percent of the colitis patients treated with placebo in 11 different trials reported feeling better -- and 50 percent of the inflamed intestines actually looked better when assessed with a sigmoidoscope ("The Placebo Prescription" by Margaret Talbot, New York Times Magazine, January 9, 2000).
Why is it so popular to pick on NASCAR all of a sudden? I suppose that diehard basketball and football fans have higher IQs? (you know, the ones that paint their bare chests blue in 10 degree weather or wear cheese on their head) What's the difference, you're either watching men run around and throw a ball back and forth, or you're watching cars drive around in a circle. Both are pretty mindnumbing, really.
Granted, If you delve deeper, you find people who are into the "strategy" of the game (though IMO that angle is exaggerated) or people who are into the mechanics of the engines and into the physics of things like drafting. NASCAR isn't my personal cup of tea, but it's not nearly as braindead as the parroting around here would have you think. Though it kills me when I hear someone call tires, "tar-yers".
As a fellow American, I think you're completely off the mark on the first point, you have the viewpoint of an OWS'er. Most Americans are more concerned with what they make than with what everyone else makes, with the exception of maybe their own peer group (keeping up with the Joneses). Socialism is usually just seen as "too much" government control, and is perhaps confused with Communism.
I completely concur on your second point, however; fascist has become a very general term for the abuse of authority... or just someone you don't like.
Agreed. And I'll just toss in, for good measure, it's not like people couldn't kill each other wholesale before the advent of firearms. Bows/arrows, crossbows/bolts, knives, swords, axes, spears, clubs, etc.. Guns just make it more convenient. Over 3,000 people were murdered on 9-11 and not one shot was fired, far as I know. Someone could probably take out 20 people at once on a crowded intersection by mowing them down with their car.
:-)
Now, when we get to the point where people can start 3D printing nukes... maybe in 50 years, well.. I'll probably be dead by then anyway. Good luck!
Exactly this. In the early eighties, I used to work in a dept store's sporting goods section, where they sold ammo, but no guns.
I thought it was ironic at the time, but the customers only needed to show me an ID, like a driver's license, to prove they were 18 or older, to buy the ammo. I, on the other hand, as an employee who only sold the stuff and didn't actually use it (I'm not anti-gun, I just didn't have any guns), had to go downtown and get fingerprinted. It was like the same way that cops differentiate between drug users and their "pushers"; they're more strict with the pushers.
Come to think of it, they may as well merge the ATF with the DEA (alcohol and tobacco are drugs too) and get it over with.
I must be in a significant minority, because I actually like Comic Sans. I wouldn't use it on my resume/CV of course, and probably not for an important paper of any sort, but for an informal, casual kind of look, including most of my email, it just works - it's friendly and I find it very easy on the eyes. But then I also grew up reading Charlie Brown books, which uses a similar typeface.
Now, serifed fonts, generally speaking, are not as easy on the eye to me, and some can even get distracting when they get too complex.
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"Looking right at the screen now, it's very odd; very long with a tiny, round viewing area.. in fact it's tiny, like a really tiny deep CRT.. and what a funny place for the power butto
But it is entertaining sometimes (emphasis on sometimes). It's becoming sort of like a geek/intellectual analogy to the WWE, or the Jerry Springer show.
'We have concluded that, on an objective assessment, the decision of the Crown Court that this 'tweet' constituted or included a message of a menacing character was not open to it.
I've reread this sentence several times and it doesn't make sense to me. If remove the clause "that this 'tweet' constituted or included a message of a menacing character" you're left with "We have concluded that, on an objective assessment, the decision of the Crown Court was not open to it."
The decision was not "open" to what, exactly?
That's the same logic people use to justify buying Honda's $35,000 Acura that has automatic everything and can even park itself. Personally I'd rather buy a Honda Civic for $15,000, do my own parking, and give myself $20,000 worth of time off (3 months) to spend it with my wife & kids & friends.
Wow, are your priorities whack. What could possibly be more important than a status symbol? Bad American! *smacks you on nose with newspaper* :-D
(actually I have no idea if you're an american or not.. though I am.. and drive a 15 year old car.)
I sometimes wonder just how much influence Hollywood has had on Mac purchases, since most shows and movies that heavily featured laptops or computers in use - at least in the nineties and 2000s- usually depicted Macs. The only exceptions I can think of off the top my head: on Big Bang theory Leonard and Sheldon use Alienware (PC) laptops, and on the short lived X Files spin-off "The Lone Gunman" the hackers actually used Unix or Linux.
Totally agree with the Lexus drivers thing - they're the ones who irk me the most. They seem to believe they're better than everyone else and that they own the road, and that you're damn lucky they reluctantly share it with you. I've also noticed however that the new crop of SUV driving soccer moms are getting really bad too, which honestly surprised me. We typically think of males as more aggressive, but behind the wheel of a big vehicle, I guess some women get a testosterone boost -they can be right pricks. ;)
I can't say I've noticed anything about Prius drivers though. Unless you count Brian Griffin
So that's what Ralph Cramden did to Alice? He was ahead of his time.
We discovered the God Particle. It is omnipresent and omnipotent. It made everything possible. The Bible is right. The Torah and Koran are wrong.
I'm guessing more like centuries.
Umm.. a strange anti-christian sentiment; the Torah is -essentially speaking- the first five books of the Bible, AKA the Pentateuch and the (Greek) Septuigint, and all three religions share their origins and general belief in an omnipresent and ominpotent God. Now let's talk about that Budhha guy, he had some real mass!
And if -- ghod forbid -- we discover a way to make the vacuum unstable, then we might learn how to make one really big boom. Just one, because it will consume the entire universe, but that one will be REALLY BIG.
What do you think happened when the last sentient species figured this out, about.. oh, 13.7 billion years ago..
I'm not even going to dignify this story by posting in it.
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Well, technically, if's a tax break, then instead of charging people a new tax who don't get healthcare insurance, it should simply reduce the taxes of everyone else who does - that's a tax break; the other is a selective tax hike. So really, looking at it that way, taxes really just went up across the board, but those with insurance get a break.
I really doubt my taxes are going to go *down because of this. Besides, this isn't really healthcare reform, it's healthcare insurance reform. Is there anything in this about limiting torts or reducing malpractice conditions/suits? That's the kind of thing that's making insurance so expensive, all the litigation and liability.
I'd never heard of 'pinning' something to the task bar before this article....??
I believe they're referring to the Quick Launch toolbar feature. You could add other toolbars too.
So how is this any different than Auto Insurance? If another driver hits my car, and he has no insurance, who pays? Will everyone be required to have Auto Insurance regardless if they want it? This is just the beginning of the slippery slope.
It's already mandatory in a lot of states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_auto_insurance to own car insurance...except in a few states where guess what...you pay a fee (tax) to drive around like an idiot in an uninsured car.
Liability, though, not coverage for your own vehicle. It is similar, but the ifference is, that's a mandatory requirement for someone who has purchased a car and drives it. ACT mandates insurance for your merely being alive.
lol I'd mod you funny but I already posted in here.
In real life, that'd be a serious conundrum.. if you nudge someone just a little off center, they'd be likely to dislocate their shoulder or break a leg as it hit the edge of the portal at high velocity.. or worse.
The other thing I've wondered about, what if you could move the portals once they were created? What would happen if you stuck someone in one of these infinite loops, then gradually brought the two portals closer together until they were an inch apart? I imagine you'd wind up with some serious bloody hamburger as body parts were forced to overlap and inhabit the same space simultaneously.
My kid had a tough time with school this year, he's in fourth grade and sometimes it seems they're trying to teach those kids trig already. He hated school this year with a passion. However, he's a huge fan of portal, so if they used the game to help teach, it should probably make school more interesting and fun.
Well.. either that, or just ruin Portal for him.