There is still the actual labor of integrating it into their manufacturing process. That is not cheap and it has to be recouped somewhere. Altruistic intentions don't pay bills.
Buy a computer from the company I work for. I'll be happy to sell you a new computer built to your specs with absolutely no money going to Microsoft. Face it, you have a choice. You just choose not to exercise it.
I work for an IT company that also just happens to be an OEM. We get Windows XP Home for $50 and Windows XP Pro for about $100. I imagine that the big OEMs get it for even less.
And that issue is also present in SUVs. Look how heigh their bumper is (oh, but it must look cool and bad...)
If you have ever been on a deer lease in an SUV scouting out the property, you'd quickly realize that ground clearance at the front and rear of the vehicle is a must.
Yes, contrary to what most people on/. might think, some of us actually use these vehicles for what they were designed for.
A large chunk of the broadband infrastructure has been destroyed. The company I work for has been offline for two days. About the only company in our area (Northwest Louisiana) that can give us service close to equal of that to a T1 is Time Warner, but it will take 30-45 days for them to get us back online. We were supposed to be back online with Bell South on Thursday, but their data center in New Orleans got taken out this morning when another levy broke.
Most of the major cellphone companies already have cell towers that they can tow by truck and quickly deploy. The problem with the situation in New Orleans is that all roads in and out of the city are currently closed and most of the city is currently underwater.
You also have to roll out additional towers throughout the state. I live in Shreveport, LA and I am currently having a hard time getting through on my cellphone. I'm also getting an automated message that it will cost me $2.99 a minute to check my voicemail.
I'm a little over a year away from graduating with my degree and I've already been offered a permanent job after graduation with a great company. I'm currently employed for the summer making $8 an hour where the median average is around $6. I also have solid part time work doing PC Repair during the school year on the weekends, holidays, and breaks. On top of that I've been offered contract work throughout the year for the projects the company does on contract. For me, the future has never looked brighter.
You can either work for a corporation that sees you as nothing more than a workhorse or you can work for a small to medium sized company where you are seen as an asset and given opportunities to advance. It's all about what you make of the opportunities you are given.
while Louisiana never had a large Air Force, Army, or Navy presence...
Uhh, what about Barkesdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, LA? It's one of the largest B-52 bases in the world and sprawls over several square miles. I would consider that a pretty large military presence.
Because of the infrastructure building, Louisiana is a far, far different place today. Lafayette's vote is a reflection of the very deeply-held Louisiana belief that big comanies get their money from the citizens anyway; why shouldn't we try to build one ourselves, with our money, and do it better?
For such a deeply held belief, I don't know a single person in the state of Louisiana that shares it. I think you should speak for yourself and stop speaking for everyone in the state.
The conservative justices are the ones that wrote the dissenting opinion. I guess it's too much to ask that you actually read and comprehend the article.
Nice try. My parents were making $150,000 a year while I was in high school and the recruiters wouldnt leave me alone. The same was true with a lot of other people I went to high school with. Hell, they are still sending me stuff to try to get me once I graduate college.
For the vast majority of recreational divers, an equipment failure is never really poses a safety hazard. For SCUBA divers, it is not a problem to ascend from 60 feet on one breath of air, exhaling all the way up to avoid a lung embolism. Combined with the fact that most people dive in pairs, equipment failure is really more of a inconvenience than a life threatening problem for most recreational divers.
The possibility of salt water leaking into the electronics is also basically a non-issue. With a decent underwater housing, electronics being destroyed by contact with salt water is almost unheard of.
Pure O2 is poisonous below about 32feet, if I remember correctly and if you go below about 100feet, just depending you can get high. Go google, "rapture of the deep."
This is called nitrogen narcosis. As you go deeper, nitrogen tends to act as a narcotic. In the average case, it is just like being intoxicated from alcohol. In severe cases, it can lead to halucinations. This can be best described as what technical divers call the "Martini Effect." Passing 100 feet is equivalent to drinking one martini on an empty stomach, and for every 50 feet past that it is like consuming another martini.
Also, now that I think about it, I think the US navy has some pure O2 underwater low depth breathing rigs like this. The big advantage of those is that they produce no bubbles. Very stealthy.
This is referred to as a rebreather. The more advanced rebreathers can allow a diver to go much deeper for much longer, optimizing the breathing mix for whatever depth you are at. The diver can also control the mixture manually, allowing for things like a faster decompression cycle. Some air mixtures allow the body to vent nitrogen much more efficiently. It's common practice for technical divers to decompress on a mixture like Nitrox and even pure oxygen.
I guess I should have made it even more clear that I was referring to drving while in the state of Texas. It is a general practice that slower moving vehicles will move over to the shoulder on one-lane highways in order to allow faster moving traffic to overtake. This is legal unless posted otherwise.
That said, did they make the right choice in selecting the Taser? It was two large, male officers versus one small woman, perhaps they could have easily subdued her physically. Maybe pepper spray would have been a better choice.
The officers probably could have physically removed her from the vehicle, but that would have risked greater injury to both the woman and the officers versus the use of the Taser. The use of the Taser is also preferable to the use of pepper spray. The effects of the Taser wear off almost immediately once it is shut off. The effects of pepper spray lasts several hours, and will actually get into the hair. If you arent careful when showering after being pepper sprayed, the pepper spray will get into your eyes once again.
Personally, I do think that they're becoming a little too quick to resort to the Taser, knowing what we know about how dangerous it can be. It's supposed to be a "non-lethal" weapon, yet people are dying from it. Nobody's out there dying from pepper spray, so why is Taser still enjoying the same "non-lethal" categorization?
I would challenge you to find one case where the Taser was the sole cause of death. I have yet to find one. The most I have seen is the Taser listed as a possible contributing factor. In most of those cases, I've seen drug overdoses and heart attacks listed as the cause of death in most of the autopsies. When there is a valid study that links the use of a Taser and heart attacks, then I might concede that Tasers are killing people.
There are also claims that the use of pepper spray has contributed to deaths, but the only real study I managed to find in my short Google search was by the ACLU. I don't particularly trust the ACLU much, but the study (in pdf format) can be found here
If you are driving on the highways in the United States (as opposed to the interstate), it even gets downright dangerous. I spent a great deal of time last week driving back and forth between a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas and a deer lease literally outside a town in the middle of nowhere. A great deal of my time was spent on Highway 80 (180, 280, 380, etc). Over a 3 day period, I lost count of the number of people I would find doing 50 mph in a 70 mph.
To make matters worse, most of these drivers would refuse to pull onto the shoulder so motorists behind them could overtake. That leaves crossing a dotted yellow line and crossing into the opposite lane as the only other choice to get around the person. This can be deadly and I've seen and almost been involved in some close calls with respect to head-on collissions.
Or you could just download Apache 2.x for Windows, install Cygwin and get an SSH server, and download either MySQL or PostgreSQL for a database server. All for free and all will run on Windows XP Home.
Senator Kerry supports raising the taxes of the wealthy while lowering the taxes of the middle and lower classes. That sounds a lot like the redistribution of wealth to me, which is inherently socialist. I also happen to believe that socialism is a liberal form of economic theory.
And now for my jab...
...when you say that my definition is archaic and wrong because it doesn't represent the way people around YOU in the South or Midwest or whatever shitty part of the country you live in...
You just threw out your defense of the classical interpretation of the word "liberal" with that remark.
Global test Question 1: Country has violated terms of the cease-fire established in 1991 by a) kicking out weapons inspectors b) deploying weapons in buffer zones c) firing on the aircraft of two countries which were involved in the cease-fire d) attempting to acquire weapons that were banned e) attaining missiles that go beyond the maximum range limit imposed by the UN f) failing to provide proper documentation about destruction of their nuclear and chemical weapon programs
Do you: a) Try the diplomatic course that has failed repeatedly in the past b) pick up the persian gulf war where it left off c) do nothing
Even if Iraq was not attempting to acquire WMDs, there were more than enough reasons to go to war. Iraq was by no means innocent and knew the theoretical consequences of the failure to uphold the terms of the cease-fire agreement.
Pretty stupid to spend $160,000 to go to a college that was ranked 47th in the country in 2002 for computer science in my opinion. There were 46 other choices that were probably better, would have cost you a lot less and would have higher prestige than the degree coming from an "ivy league school." But then again, ability seems to outweigh prestige in this field anyways.
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There is still the actual labor of integrating it into their manufacturing process. That is not cheap and it has to be recouped somewhere. Altruistic intentions don't pay bills.
Buy a computer from the company I work for. I'll be happy to sell you a new computer built to your specs with absolutely no money going to Microsoft. Face it, you have a choice. You just choose not to exercise it.
I work for an IT company that also just happens to be an OEM. We get Windows XP Home for $50 and Windows XP Pro for about $100. I imagine that the big OEMs get it for even less.
And that issue is also present in SUVs. Look how heigh their bumper is (oh, but it must look cool and bad...)
/. might think, some of us actually use these vehicles for what they were designed for.
If you have ever been on a deer lease in an SUV scouting out the property, you'd quickly realize that ground clearance at the front and rear of the vehicle is a must.
Yes, contrary to what most people on
I consider Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA to be heads and shoulders above Visual Studio. It is quite possibly the best IDE I've ever used.
A large chunk of the broadband infrastructure has been destroyed. The company I work for has been offline for two days. About the only company in our area (Northwest Louisiana) that can give us service close to equal of that to a T1 is Time Warner, but it will take 30-45 days for them to get us back online. We were supposed to be back online with Bell South on Thursday, but their data center in New Orleans got taken out this morning when another levy broke.
Right now, the only connection I have is dialup.
Most of the major cellphone companies already have cell towers that they can tow by truck and quickly deploy. The problem with the situation in New Orleans is that all roads in and out of the city are currently closed and most of the city is currently underwater.
You also have to roll out additional towers throughout the state. I live in Shreveport, LA and I am currently having a hard time getting through on my cellphone. I'm also getting an automated message that it will cost me $2.99 a minute to check my voicemail.
There is always a duty to mitigate damages.
Nope, salaried position at $38k
With Google being located in Mountain View, California, is that part of the contract even enforcable?
I'm a little over a year away from graduating with my degree and I've already been offered a permanent job after graduation with a great company. I'm currently employed for the summer making $8 an hour where the median average is around $6. I also have solid part time work doing PC Repair during the school year on the weekends, holidays, and breaks. On top of that I've been offered contract work throughout the year for the projects the company does on contract. For me, the future has never looked brighter.
You can either work for a corporation that sees you as nothing more than a workhorse or you can work for a small to medium sized company where you are seen as an asset and given opportunities to advance. It's all about what you make of the opportunities you are given.
while Louisiana never had a large Air Force, Army, or Navy presence... Uhh, what about Barkesdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, LA? It's one of the largest B-52 bases in the world and sprawls over several square miles. I would consider that a pretty large military presence. Because of the infrastructure building, Louisiana is a far, far different place today. Lafayette's vote is a reflection of the very deeply-held Louisiana belief that big comanies get their money from the citizens anyway; why shouldn't we try to build one ourselves, with our money, and do it better? For such a deeply held belief, I don't know a single person in the state of Louisiana that shares it. I think you should speak for yourself and stop speaking for everyone in the state.
The conservative justices are the ones that wrote the dissenting opinion. I guess it's too much to ask that you actually read and comprehend the article.
Women... proof you should never trust anything that bleeds for four days and doesnt die.
Nice try. My parents were making $150,000 a year while I was in high school and the recruiters wouldnt leave me alone. The same was true with a lot of other people I went to high school with. Hell, they are still sending me stuff to try to get me once I graduate college.
I thought it was alcohol and calculus that dont mix. You know, dont drink and derive?
For the vast majority of recreational divers, an equipment failure is never really poses a safety hazard. For SCUBA divers, it is not a problem to ascend from 60 feet on one breath of air, exhaling all the way up to avoid a lung embolism. Combined with the fact that most people dive in pairs, equipment failure is really more of a inconvenience than a life threatening problem for most recreational divers.
The possibility of salt water leaking into the electronics is also basically a non-issue. With a decent underwater housing, electronics being destroyed by contact with salt water is almost unheard of.
Pure O2 is poisonous below about 32feet, if I remember correctly and if you go below about 100feet, just depending you can get high. Go google, "rapture of the deep."
This is called nitrogen narcosis. As you go deeper, nitrogen tends to act as a narcotic. In the average case, it is just like being intoxicated from alcohol. In severe cases, it can lead to halucinations. This can be best described as what technical divers call the "Martini Effect." Passing 100 feet is equivalent to drinking one martini on an empty stomach, and for every 50 feet past that it is like consuming another martini.
Also, now that I think about it, I think the US navy has some pure O2 underwater low depth breathing rigs like this. The big advantage of those is that they produce no bubbles. Very stealthy.
This is referred to as a rebreather. The more advanced rebreathers can allow a diver to go much deeper for much longer, optimizing the breathing mix for whatever depth you are at. The diver can also control the mixture manually, allowing for things like a faster decompression cycle. Some air mixtures allow the body to vent nitrogen much more efficiently. It's common practice for technical divers to decompress on a mixture like Nitrox and even pure oxygen.
I guess I should have made it even more clear that I was referring to drving while in the state of Texas. It is a general practice that slower moving vehicles will move over to the shoulder on one-lane highways in order to allow faster moving traffic to overtake. This is legal unless posted otherwise.
That said, did they make the right choice in selecting the Taser? It was two large, male officers versus one small woman, perhaps they could have easily subdued her physically. Maybe pepper spray would have been a better choice.
The officers probably could have physically removed her from the vehicle, but that would have risked greater injury to both the woman and the officers versus the use of the Taser. The use of the Taser is also preferable to the use of pepper spray. The effects of the Taser wear off almost immediately once it is shut off. The effects of pepper spray lasts several hours, and will actually get into the hair. If you arent careful when showering after being pepper sprayed, the pepper spray will get into your eyes once again.
Personally, I do think that they're becoming a little too quick to resort to the Taser, knowing what we know about how dangerous it can be. It's supposed to be a "non-lethal" weapon, yet people are dying from it. Nobody's out there dying from pepper spray, so why is Taser still enjoying the same "non-lethal" categorization?
I would challenge you to find one case where the Taser was the sole cause of death. I have yet to find one. The most I have seen is the Taser listed as a possible contributing factor. In most of those cases, I've seen drug overdoses and heart attacks listed as the cause of death in most of the autopsies. When there is a valid study that links the use of a Taser and heart attacks, then I might concede that Tasers are killing people.
There are also claims that the use of pepper spray has contributed to deaths, but the only real study I managed to find in my short Google search was by the ACLU. I don't particularly trust the ACLU much, but the study (in pdf format) can be found here
If you are driving on the highways in the United States (as opposed to the interstate), it even gets downright dangerous. I spent a great deal of time last week driving back and forth between a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas and a deer lease literally outside a town in the middle of nowhere. A great deal of my time was spent on Highway 80 (180, 280, 380, etc). Over a 3 day period, I lost count of the number of people I would find doing 50 mph in a 70 mph.
To make matters worse, most of these drivers would refuse to pull onto the shoulder so motorists behind them could overtake. That leaves crossing a dotted yellow line and crossing into the opposite lane as the only other choice to get around the person. This can be deadly and I've seen and almost been involved in some close calls with respect to head-on collissions.
Or you could just download Apache 2.x for Windows, install Cygwin and get an SSH server, and download either MySQL or PostgreSQL for a database server. All for free and all will run on Windows XP Home.
Senator Kerry supports raising the taxes of the wealthy while lowering the taxes of the middle and lower classes. That sounds a lot like the redistribution of wealth to me, which is inherently socialist. I also happen to believe that socialism is a liberal form of economic theory.
...when you say that my definition is archaic and wrong because it doesn't represent the way people around YOU in the South or Midwest or whatever shitty part of the country you live in ...
And now for my jab...
You just threw out your defense of the classical interpretation of the word "liberal" with that remark.
Global test Question 1: Country has violated terms of the cease-fire established in 1991 by a) kicking out weapons inspectors b) deploying weapons in buffer zones c) firing on the aircraft of two countries which were involved in the cease-fire d) attempting to acquire weapons that were banned e) attaining missiles that go beyond the maximum range limit imposed by the UN f) failing to provide proper documentation about destruction of their nuclear and chemical weapon programs
Do you: a) Try the diplomatic course that has failed repeatedly in the past b) pick up the persian gulf war where it left off c) do nothing
Even if Iraq was not attempting to acquire WMDs, there were more than enough reasons to go to war. Iraq was by no means innocent and knew the theoretical consequences of the failure to uphold the terms of the cease-fire agreement.
Pretty stupid to spend $160,000 to go to a college that was ranked 47th in the country in 2002 for computer science in my opinion. There were 46 other choices that were probably better, would have cost you a lot less and would have higher prestige than the degree coming from an "ivy league school." But then again, ability seems to outweigh prestige in this field anyways.