Most independent stores I have gone to shop for music in are charing $16+ for a CD. If you're buying it for $12 and making $4+ a CD I seriously believe that you are gouging us.
Do you honestly think that a mom and pop record store is buying discs in the same volume at the same price as the largest retail juggernaut in the history of this planet?
Couterfiting occurs because people are careless, yes the technology helps prevent it somewhat, but after working as a cashier in my midteens I was amased to how my fellow coworks would get fake bills and accept it... some of them looked so fake it was unbelivable
I wouldn't expect the kid making minimum wage to be paid enough to care if the bills are bogus or not.
They are allowed to use a pilot and two dummies with the right size and weight, rather than actual passengers.
Actually, the dummies are an ingenious safety strategy. If the pilot has to eject, he'll go real limp like the dummy and people will catch him 'cause hey, free dummy.
(9)Voted YES on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1 - By God! Yes, we all know how excruciatingly painful it is to wait 3 days for appropriate checks to be made..
Yes, I believe that was Shapeshifter. Also, if memory serves, he still had the court fees ($700+) deducted from his bail even after having the case thrown out.
For that matter, why are there no third parties in this "Youth Debate"? I'll tell you why, the last thing we want to do is have the youth find out that it doesn't have to be a two party system.
Dammit, you gotta insert a pause in there if you want me to answer your question.
Just as importantly, are you going to legalise it so that the money paid for pot gets taxed, and is subject to free market pressures instead of (often violent) black market pressures?
I don't see that helping. There'll only be another black market to spring up in its place to sell untaxed weed. Kinda like the present-day moonshiners.
I cancelled my account with them too. Their linux client didn't work more often than not (It would continuously time out connections). Their downloads are dependent on this client, so I had no choice but to drop the service.
Klunky? Given the average skill of the AOL user, telling them to punch in the code from the SecureID keyfob couldn't be easier to do. Better than importing and keeping track of ssl certs across machines.
He is much more wordy now than he was earlier in his life. Is this inherintly a bad thing? Of course not. He is changing and maturing as a writter. As such, his style and genre is changing with him
If evolving as a writer means having a terminal case of Diahrrea of the Pen, leave me out of it.
I'm a pretty calm guy, but the 200+ pages of meandering (although the description of the experiments were interesting) in Quicksilver made me want to break something. How anyone could get past that and even onto two other books needs the literary equivalent of the purple heart for grace under incessant crap.
Cryptonomicon was great and I really enjoyed Snow Crash, but somebody has to get him away from the kool aid.
For full effect, re-read the parent post while playing Runaway Train by Soul Asylum.
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So does this book have any recommendations along those lines? What door locks, deadbolts, padlocks, bike locks, etc, follow the locksmith version of "best security practices"?
It seems that people in the hobby are reluctant to endorse brands. I saw Barry "The Key" Wels at HOPE this year. His presentation involved the pricey (and supposedly uber-secure) Medico locks and another brand of expensive lock that he agreed with the manufacturer to keep the brand name hidden during his talk.
When his talk shifted to his CryptoPhone project, he politely sidestepped an audience member asking what kind of lock he had on the doors of CryptoPhone's offices.
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Funny you should mention that. They have a device that does all of those things.
Most independent stores I have gone to shop for music in are charing $16+ for a CD. If you're buying it for $12 and making $4+ a CD I seriously believe that you are gouging us.
Do you honestly think that a mom and pop record store is buying discs in the same volume at the same price as the largest retail juggernaut in the history of this planet?
I agree until you get to the sex-ed question. Then Nader goes completely off topic.
Just ask Gregor Mendel.
You'd better not. He's been in a funk ever since Bobby's World was cancelled.
Writers block? When picking up a volume of the Baroque Cycle herniates a disc, it's safe to say that this isn't much of a problem for Mr. Stephenson.
A similar problem almost put Audi out of business in the 80's because of a "story" on 60 Minutes
Yes, but it did give rise to the funniest automotive acronym I've ever heard:
AUDI - Accelerates Under Demonic Influence.
Right up there with:
Fiat: Fix it again, Tony!
Gohnorrea...s .....
Herpes....
Chlamydia....
Syphilli
Genital Warts...
HPV....
Hepatitus...
Trichomoniasis..
I know! Things the average Slashdotter won't ever have to worry about.
ding ding ding
1 gram of antimatter would equal 23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy.
I thought the standard unit of explosive power was the ton of dynamite.
The Air Force has changed to the Challenger scale quite some time ago.
When I break my Finger? I need my files, you know...
Sounds like a good pretense for Social Engineering ones way into such a system.
Couterfiting occurs because people are careless, yes the technology helps prevent it somewhat, but after working as a cashier in my midteens I was amased to how my fellow coworks would get fake bills and accept it... some of them looked so fake it was unbelivable
I wouldn't expect the kid making minimum wage to be paid enough to care if the bills are bogus or not.
They are allowed to use a pilot and two dummies with the right size and weight, rather than actual passengers.
Actually, the dummies are an ingenious safety strategy. If the pilot has to eject, he'll go real limp like the dummy and people will catch him 'cause hey, free dummy.
It is good law there, until either overruled by the Supremes, or made the Law of the Land by the Supremes.
That is, unless it's vetoed by Diana Ross.
(9)Voted YES on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1 - By God! Yes, we all know how excruciatingly painful it is to wait 3 days for appropriate checks to be made..
Waiting period? But I'm mad right now!
Or are pilots going to have to fly by instruments and video screens to protect themselves?
Hell no. I don't want to flying when a pilot realizes that he can put the plane on auto and check out some Seinfeld reruns on the video screen.
Certainly the war on drugs has its profiteers and mercenaries, but jails take years to build.
Brick and mortar jails take a while, but prison camps, like the WWII Japanese internment camps, could surely be put up in a fraction of the time.
Yes, I believe that was Shapeshifter. Also, if memory serves, he still had the court fees ($700+) deducted from his bail even after having the case thrown out.
For that matter, why are there no third parties in this "Youth Debate"? I'll tell you why, the last thing we want to do is have the youth find out that it doesn't have to be a two party system.
Dammit, you gotta insert a pause in there if you want me to answer your question.
Just as importantly, are you going to legalise it so that the money paid for pot gets taxed, and is subject to free market pressures instead of (often violent) black market pressures?
I don't see that helping. There'll only be another black market to spring up in its place to sell untaxed weed. Kinda like the present-day moonshiners.
I bought a usb drive built into a wristwatch, similar to the one in ThinkGeek. It's functional and inconspicious.
I cancelled my account with them too. Their linux client didn't work more often than not (It would continuously time out connections). Their downloads are dependent on this client, so I had no choice but to drop the service.
it goes "doo doo doo" and it gives me great satisfaction.
I agree that Metamucil is a fine product, but what does that have to do with voting?
Why the bloody SecureID system that's so klunky?
Klunky? Given the average skill of the AOL user, telling them to punch in the code from the SecureID keyfob couldn't be easier to do. Better than importing and keeping track of ssl certs across machines.
He is much more wordy now than he was earlier in his life. Is this inherintly a bad thing? Of course not. He is changing and maturing as a writter. As such, his style and genre is changing with him
If evolving as a writer means having a terminal case of Diahrrea of the Pen, leave me out of it.
I'm a pretty calm guy, but the 200+ pages of meandering (although the description of the experiments were interesting) in Quicksilver made me want to break something. How anyone could get past that and even onto two other books needs the literary equivalent of the purple heart for grace under incessant crap.
Cryptonomicon was great and I really enjoyed Snow Crash, but somebody has to get him away from the kool aid.
For full effect, re-read the parent post while playing Runaway Train by Soul Asylum.
So does this book have any recommendations along those lines? What door locks, deadbolts, padlocks, bike locks, etc, follow the locksmith version of "best security practices"?
It seems that people in the hobby are reluctant to endorse brands. I saw Barry "The Key" Wels at HOPE this year. His presentation involved the pricey (and supposedly uber-secure) Medico locks and another brand of expensive lock that he agreed with the manufacturer to keep the brand name hidden during his talk.
When his talk shifted to his CryptoPhone project, he politely sidestepped an audience member asking what kind of lock he had on the doors of CryptoPhone's offices.