Blue channel: Arrived from an EU state, no need to declare anything. Green channel: Arrived from a non-EU state, nothing to declare. Red Channel: Arrived from a non-EU state, stuff to declare.
If you're coming from the EU it's meant to be a free trade zone and customs should let you through with whatever you are carrying. Exceptions would be things that are legal in one state but not another. UK customs also get pissy with cars full of booze and ciggies from Calais - the EU are likley to bitchslap them on this.
The green channel is used when you arrive from outside the EU and aren't carrying goods over your duty free limits. So a bottle of perfume and a litre of spirits is OK. A case of whisky is not. You also have to declare any goods over a certain (stupidly low) value. The likelyhood of a spot check depends on where your flight has come from. A charter flight full of skiers from Geneva won't attract much attention. An arrival from Dubai will have the agents scenting electronic gizmos and gold...
Red channel. This is where you go if you are importing goods over your duty free allowance and you want to voluntarily declare them. You show customs what you're declaring and they tell you how much you need to pay. Why not chance the green channel and save some money? Because they do spot checks on people going through the green channel and you'll be in trouble if caught out. Most likely you'll have to pay more than if you were honest.
I was quite surprised buying a TV in India - there are quite a few HD sets to be had. Not just the huge plasmas and LCDs that have falled out of a Bollywood movie. There are old style CRT sets too. HD seems to have more of an impact than widescreen as all the CRTs that I've seen are 4:3 ratio. I bought a Philips HD CRT TV and have a Mac mini hooked up to it.
No, the Indians are pretty consistent with the metric system. All the road signs display distances and speed limits in kilometres. They so at least have the good sense to drive on the correct side of the road though - although the other carriageway is freely available regardless of oncoming traffic.
BTW the Mumbai-Pune expressway is an interesting example of a new road. It starts off as a pretty typical three lane motorway/freeway/autobahn/... until it hits the Western Ghats. It remains a three lane motorway/... but with the added fun of hairpins, chicanes and gradients steep enough to bring trucks to a crawl.
Posting this on an M70. I have to agree with you: it'a a complete beast of a machine, it's even got a Quadro FX Go1400 for the graphics! It blasts through our CAM package test macro run 25% faster than my desktop used to. 2.13GHz M vv 2x2GHz AthlonMP - the second proc didn't help much as the package is single threaded. Now, if only it ran OS X...
The proud Brit striding aboard a rocket with his Union Jack uniform doesn't seem so proud when he's having to launch from a site which flies a different flag.
That's easily solved - just design a suitable British Space Exploration logo. I'd go for a Union Flag against a dark background with a few stars sprinkled on it. Something like this ought to do the trick.
including one that shows a Seattle man shortly before he died July 2, said Enumclaw police Cmdr. Eric Sortland.
The Seattle Times is being a bit coy there. Leave it to Private Eye to explain just how he died:
"Basically, his colon was ruptured, along with his lower organs," Police Commander Eric Sortland told reporters in Enumclaw, Washington state, "and he bled to death after suffering massive trauma from extensive internal injuries. When we first arrived at the ranch, the other men there said they had no idea how it had happened, but then we found a cache of hundreds of hours of videotaped man-on-beast sex sessions, hidden in a barn, and realised we were dealing with a bestiality ring. These people were very diligent in filming their activities, and eventually we found what we were looking for: actual footage of the man being thoroughly sodomised to death by a stallion.
It was recently very difficult to get the entire Doctor Who 2005 down by bittorrent.
Doctor Who hard to find? My 150GB P2P sourced archive (including every episode from Jon Pertwee's first to David Tennant's introduction) suggests otherwise... demonoid and uknova had episodes up within an hour of broadcast and they flew down at intarweb melting speeds. I guess it might be a bit harder now a few months later, Download 'em when they're fresh.
I'm posting this on a mini with an admittedly low number of files but it comes up with a complete list of file containing 'e' in about a third of a second.
I also have an MDD G4 2x1.0GHz which is currently running headless due to a combination of a borked nVidia card and idiotic cow-orkers who sent back the replacement card I'd ordered whilst on holiday because... I was on holiday. Anyway, mdfind from the command line takes exactly 1 minute to list every file containing 'e' form the 0.5TB of data on that machine - 'q' took 30 seconds. Fucking weeks ago - I love my cow-orkers - when I had a GUI on that machine I was never troubled with bad slowness using spotlight from finder and I'm not that quick a typer.
The OS X search widget from Panther knows to restart the search on new characters being typed so I'd be surprised if the Tiger flagship Spotlight was dumb enough to wait for the search to complete before refining the search to take new characters into account. The mini seems to confirm this because the Spotlight searches appear to flush bad matches as soon as you type a new character.
Allow me to give some more props to the Mach3. I'd always used Wilkinsons - I started with the 'Protector' (the anti-cut one for wusses) but that and all subsequent oned just clogged up with hairs. I thought that was the way things were until I tried a Mach3 - it is truly awesome in it's anti-clogging abilities. I'm a lazy once a week shaver and it works like magic - the blade seems to stay sharp fot insane lengths of time too.
I'd always shied away from the Gilettes because of the daft Top Gun style advertising and being associated with David fucking Beckham doesn't help either. Ignore the adverts - their razors roxor.
You missed out the other mathematical magic number: i in that equation. But the point stands: Euler's mathematical goodness suggests that the digits pi ought to be just as random as the digits of e: no more, no less.
Have you seen the GNU "coding standards"? All based on RMS' personal preferences, all insane.
Just had a look. Not only does it give coding advice but it also clears up the vi/emacs question:
When a feature is used only by users (not by programs or command files), and it is done poorly in Unix, feel free to replace it completely with something totally different and better. (For example, vi is replaced with Emacs.)
Yes, you'd better search every dark corner of Apple's site to determine future release dates because it's not as if every single Apple announcement gets splashed all over Slashdot and the rest of the web. Luckily I slayed a goat when the mini was announced and the entrails divined that Tiger would be released in H1 2005 - I've just ordered mine today. The lesson is to learn to read the Apple release cycle if you don't want to get stung - it ain't that hard...
but, if this theory has any weight, it could be equally valid.
Here's my theory - I reckon it is equally valid too:
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to disappear into a black hole -- is ludicrous.
Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night?
Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "black hole" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "black hole" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "black hole" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "black hole" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950.
That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the black hole", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "black hole" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
Yeah, swap hottie for Z-list celeb and I see your point. However Bonnie Langford was obviously an unmitigated disaster from the very day it was announced that she was to be the new assisstant. The whole 'celeb' thing was driving Dr Who ever further off the airwaves - Hale and Pace FFS... JN-T did a lot of good for Dr Who in his earlier days but the latter stuff seemed to run off the rails - of course the BBC were hardly supportive in the dying years.
I think Billie Piper is not in the 'hire a '''''''famous''''''' (how many sarcastic quotes are needed when famous is used in the context of Bonnie Langford?) face' league - yes she's rolling around in the Z-list but:
a) Let's forget the bratty 'cos we want to' teen shit b) She can act (Canterbury Tales) c) Jordan and her ilk are the true get a shit celeb for publicity bimbos
So, I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt - my torrent is at 56.9% with a healthy download rate so I'll know for sure tomorrow...
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EU customs:
Blue channel: Arrived from an EU state, no need to declare anything.
Green channel: Arrived from a non-EU state, nothing to declare.
Red Channel: Arrived from a non-EU state, stuff to declare.
If you're coming from the EU it's meant to be a free trade zone and customs should let you through with whatever you are carrying. Exceptions would be things that are legal in one state but not another. UK customs also get pissy with cars full of booze and ciggies from Calais - the EU are likley to bitchslap them on this.
The green channel is used when you arrive from outside the EU and aren't carrying goods over your duty free limits. So a bottle of perfume and a litre of spirits is OK. A case of whisky is not. You also have to declare any goods over a certain (stupidly low) value. The likelyhood of a spot check depends on where your flight has come from. A charter flight full of skiers from Geneva won't attract much attention. An arrival from Dubai will have the agents scenting electronic gizmos and gold...
Red channel. This is where you go if you are importing goods over your duty free allowance and you want to voluntarily declare them. You show customs what you're declaring and they tell you how much you need to pay. Why not chance the green channel and save some money? Because they do spot checks on people going through the green channel and you'll be in trouble if caught out. Most likely you'll have to pay more than if you were honest.
I was quite surprised buying a TV in India - there are quite a few HD sets to be had. Not just the huge plasmas and LCDs that have falled out of a Bollywood movie. There are old style CRT sets too. HD seems to have more of an impact than widescreen as all the CRTs that I've seen are 4:3 ratio. I bought a Philips HD CRT TV and have a Mac mini hooked up to it.
The San Marino Grand Prix isn't in San Marino.
No, the Indians are pretty consistent with the metric system. All the road signs display distances and speed limits in kilometres. They so at least have the good sense to drive on the correct side of the road though - although the other carriageway is freely available regardless of oncoming traffic.
BTW the Mumbai-Pune expressway is an interesting example of a new road. It starts off as a pretty typical three lane motorway/freeway/autobahn/... until it hits the Western Ghats. It remains a three lane motorway/... but with the added fun of hairpins, chicanes and gradients steep enough to bring trucks to a crawl.
Posting this on an M70. I have to agree with you: it'a a complete beast of a machine, it's even got a Quadro FX Go1400 for the graphics! It blasts through our CAM package test macro run 25% faster than my desktop used to. 2.13GHz M vv 2x2GHz AthlonMP - the second proc didn't help much as the package is single threaded. Now, if only it ran OS X...
That's easily solved - just design a suitable British Space Exploration logo. I'd go for a Union Flag against a dark background with a few stars sprinkled on it. Something like this ought to do the trick.
The Seattle Times is being a bit coy there. Leave it to Private Eye to explain just how he died:
I'd say that merits a tick in the deviant column.
This is the one true emacs vi mode.
Duh to me! That's the heretical invisible invisible yellow unicorn. Better make that:
R 255
G 0
B 255
A 0
before i get a 'mosquito bite'...
R 255
G 255
B 0
A 0
Duh!
Doctor Who hard to find? My 150GB P2P sourced archive (including every episode from Jon Pertwee's first to David Tennant's introduction) suggests otherwise... demonoid and uknova had episodes up within an hour of broadcast and they flew down at intarweb melting speeds. I guess it might be a bit harder now a few months later, Download 'em when they're fresh.
I'm posting this on a mini with an admittedly low number of files but it comes up with a complete list of file containing 'e' in about a third of a second.
I also have an MDD G4 2x1.0GHz which is currently running headless due to a combination of a borked nVidia card and idiotic cow-orkers who sent back the replacement card I'd ordered whilst on holiday because... I was on holiday. Anyway, mdfind from the command line takes exactly 1 minute to list every file containing 'e' form the 0.5TB of data on that machine - 'q' took 30 seconds. Fucking weeks ago - I love my cow-orkers - when I had a GUI on that machine I was never troubled with bad slowness using spotlight from finder and I'm not that quick a typer.
The OS X search widget from Panther knows to restart the search on new characters being typed so I'd be surprised if the Tiger flagship Spotlight was dumb enough to wait for the search to complete before refining the search to take new characters into account. The mini seems to confirm this because the Spotlight searches appear to flush bad matches as soon as you type a new character.
Allow me to give some more props to the Mach3. I'd always used Wilkinsons - I started with the 'Protector' (the anti-cut one for wusses) but that and all subsequent oned just clogged up with hairs. I thought that was the way things were until I tried a Mach3 - it is truly awesome in it's anti-clogging abilities. I'm a lazy once a week shaver and it works like magic - the blade seems to stay sharp fot insane lengths of time too.
I'd always shied away from the Gilettes because of the daft Top Gun style advertising and being associated with David fucking Beckham doesn't help either. Ignore the adverts - their razors roxor.
e^(i*pi)=-1
You missed out the other mathematical magic number: i in that equation. But the point stands: Euler's mathematical goodness suggests that the digits pi ought to be just as random as the digits of e: no more, no less.
Just had a look. Not only does it give coding advice but it also clears up the vi/emacs question:
Here's a tip from Surfin' Safari for those with Java issues: reinstall the security update 2005-002 to fix the java issue.
No idea if it works but something to try...
Azureus seems to work fine for me - have you tried trashing its preferences? Or any java preference files that are lurking around...
This one was in the NT based OSes for a long time:
That was the case for original Doctor Who but the new series has a proper budget - about £1,000,000 per episode - and that's big for any BBC drama.
Yes, you'd better search every dark corner of Apple's site to determine future release dates because it's not as if every single Apple announcement gets splashed all over Slashdot and the rest of the web. Luckily I slayed a goat when the mini was announced and the entrails divined that Tiger would be released in H1 2005 - I've just ordered mine today. The lesson is to learn to read the Apple release cycle if you don't want to get stung - it ain't that hard...
Here's my theory - I reckon it is equally valid too:
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to disappear into a black hole -- is ludicrous.
Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is
evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night?
Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that
particular favor!) That's where the "black hole" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "black hole" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "black hole" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "black hole" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950.
That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the
black hole", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "black hole" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our
government when the sun goes down.
(props to spiralx)
Yeah, swap hottie for Z-list celeb and I see your point. However Bonnie Langford was obviously an unmitigated disaster from the very day it was announced that she was to be the new assisstant. The whole 'celeb' thing was driving Dr Who ever further off the airwaves - Hale and Pace FFS... JN-T did a lot of good for Dr Who in his earlier days but the latter stuff seemed to run off the rails - of course the BBC were hardly supportive in the dying years.
I think Billie Piper is not in the 'hire a '''''''famous''''''' (how many sarcastic quotes are needed when famous is used in the context of Bonnie Langford?) face' league - yes she's rolling around in the Z-list but:
a) Let's forget the bratty 'cos we want to' teen shit
b) She can act (Canterbury Tales)
c) Jordan and her ilk are the true get a shit celeb for publicity bimbos
So, I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt - my torrent is at 56.9% with a healthy download rate so I'll know for sure tomorrow...
In which bizarre alternate time line was Bonnie Langford ever considered a hottie? Let's have some proper assistants please:
Leela
Romana II
Jo Grant getting it off with a Dalek
Implying? Here's what they're currently saying - 13:45 GMT 29/Nov/2004:
We own all your code. Pay us all your money.
H4X0red or Darl's latest mission statement - you decide!
Can't help you with 1K chess but here is a commented disassembly of Jet Set Willy:
linkee