Over the last 20 years of parenthood I ran into exactly two instances (that I knew of) where they encountered a genuinely predatory person. I was able to ensure nothing bad happened on those occasions. So I agree the chances are remote. But so what, when it's your kids no chance at all is acceptable.
I also had a small number of occasions like the OP where the child wandered off in a crowded place and I went into Defcon-6 OMG mode. Again nothing bad happened. But you cannot discount the chance of a troubled person (who otherwise would have done nothing) taking an impulse opportunity if they randomly encounter an obviously unattended child.
The police used to sell these vehicles because I saw them regularly turn up at car auctions. Normally of course when people sell at auction they clean up their vehicles to make them attractive and get the best price, however the no-insurance cars were exactly as they were when seized. Very strange to see half-eaten lunches on the passenger seat and so on. Without exception they had the messiest nastiest interiors with cigarette butts and junk all over the place. Maybe there is a certain type of person who cheats on the insurance.
I don't understand why Slashdot posts with "um" annoy me so much, but they do. Um often seems to accompany a reply when not only disagreeing with someone but implying that they were stupid as well. Maybe there is something to this research. Anyway, um-people, please put yourselves on the psycho list.
Why do Americans use this strange form of English? I mean using a comma to separate nouns and usually only towards the end of a sentence. The obvious way to write the same thing would surely be "Facebook details executive salaries and bonuses."
Not a criticism by the way. I would really like to know and Google has not helped me.
One of the Harry Potter films had this. In the movie it was called "Skelegrow" and fixed Harry's broken arm in just a few days when he fell off his broomstick.
If you don't get all the certs you will never get past the dumb HR filters. But if you do get the certs the experienced interviewing manager will snicker at your book-learning naivety and reject you as not hard-core enough.
It depends upon your definition of "the exact same quality". I pay more to buy organic free range eggs instead of factory eggs. I don't suppose there is any nutritional difference but I feel better about it because hopefully the chickens have a slightly better life.
The key here is those eggs are not very much more expensive, also I don't buy a large quantity of eggs, so the actual monetary cost to me is not that much. Provided that the price differential can be kept realistic then I think most people would go along with paying more for ethically produced MP3 players too.
Do you buy this "insurance plan" in advance, just in case? Or wait until you fry your processor then sign up quick and make a claim? How will Intel know?
It originates from a time when anyone with aspirations to status in an organisation also had a secretary to perform manual tasks involving keyboards and typing. Admitting to doing one's own typing was a bit of a career depressant. These days I can't believe that anyone of whatever age in business can make serious claim to non-use of computers.
Almost happened already - the Orange San Francisco a.k.a. ZTE Blade is available for 99 pounds prepaid, or sometimes even less. No contract or plan or whatever it's called in your country. Runs Android 2.1 Eclair (upgradeable to Froyo) and to the average person works identically to the expensive top-end phones. Apple will need to hyperfuel their marketing machine if they are to convince people to pay four times that amount.
I personally doubt that the average non-geek understands they are buying tablet hardware running a system called Android version n. They think they are buying a cool web thingy. You know like those expensive ones that are all called i-something (i for internet)?
OK I accept that the little green robots appear from time to time but after you throw away the packaging there is not much in your face to remind you of "Android" all the time.
Even if they aren't geeks I'm also guessing that they are still smart enough to know that teeth-achingly cheap gadgets generally disappoint and any deficiencies in the user experience are likely down to that not the green robots per se.
In 2003 I took my UK GSM phone on a family trip to the Florida Keys. Before I left I asked about roaming data use abroad and Vodafone told me no problem, just use it like you would at home, no APN reconfiguration necessary and no extra charges. They were completely true to their word and although I ssh'd back to the UK quite frequently I never saw anything on my phone bill.
Of course this was probably before telco woke up to the money that could be made.
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Over the last 20 years of parenthood I ran into exactly two instances (that I knew of) where they encountered a genuinely predatory person. I was able to ensure nothing bad happened on those occasions. So I agree the chances are remote. But so what, when it's your kids no chance at all is acceptable.
I also had a small number of occasions like the OP where the child wandered off in a crowded place and I went into Defcon-6 OMG mode. Again nothing bad happened. But you cannot discount the chance of a troubled person (who otherwise would have done nothing) taking an impulse opportunity if they randomly encounter an obviously unattended child.
Not as impressive as the actual jump but could not help feeling it was cool that I could do that.
Be careful I knew someone who converted his Volvo 244 and it blew up in his garage. You can't safely put the vehicle into an unventilated space.
The police used to sell these vehicles because I saw them regularly turn up at car auctions. Normally of course when people sell at auction they clean up their vehicles to make them attractive and get the best price, however the no-insurance cars were exactly as they were when seized. Very strange to see half-eaten lunches on the passenger seat and so on. Without exception they had the messiest nastiest interiors with cigarette butts and junk all over the place. Maybe there is a certain type of person who cheats on the insurance.
I don't understand why Slashdot posts with "um" annoy me so much, but they do. Um often seems to accompany a reply when not only disagreeing with someone but implying that they were stupid as well. Maybe there is something to this research. Anyway, um-people, please put yourselves on the psycho list.
http://www.bitterwallet.com/fancy-dating-a-gamer/57716
Kapikachhu, AKA "Mucuna pruriens", AKA "Velvet Bean"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucuna_pruriens
Something to do with the way its dopamine content affects the reward stimuli feedback system. Definitely works I've tried it.
"Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses"
Why do Americans use this strange form of English? I mean using a comma to separate nouns and usually only towards the end of a sentence. The obvious way to write the same thing would surely be "Facebook details executive salaries and bonuses."
Not a criticism by the way. I would really like to know and Google has not helped me.
One of the Harry Potter films had this. In the movie it was called "Skelegrow" and fixed Harry's broken arm in just a few days when he fell off his broomstick.
If you don't get all the certs you will never get past the dumb HR filters. But if you do get the certs the experienced interviewing manager will snicker at your book-learning naivety and reject you as not hard-core enough.
It depends upon your definition of "the exact same quality". I pay more to buy organic free range eggs instead of factory eggs. I don't suppose there is any nutritional difference but I feel better about it because hopefully the chickens have a slightly better life.
The key here is those eggs are not very much more expensive, also I don't buy a large quantity of eggs, so the actual monetary cost to me is not that much. Provided that the price differential can be kept realistic then I think most people would go along with paying more for ethically produced MP3 players too.
Do you buy this "insurance plan" in advance, just in case? Or wait until you fry your processor then sign up quick and make a claim? How will Intel know?
A car analogy? Or how may libraries of congress / football fields?
Seriously I doubt 10.51 petaflops means anything to anyone except a small coterie of supercomputer nerds.
http://www.automaticnumberplaterecognition.co.uk/
Type "about:about" (without the quotes) into the Chrome address bar for plenty of interesting stats and access to useful features.
For example chrome://net-internals/#hsts allows you to force HTTPS on a per-site basis.
Sometimes you don't win at gambling. What do they expect? If he had been lucky and instead made a 2 billion profit you would not be reading this.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news-in-pictures/news-briefly/windows-7-designed-'during-massive-piss%11up'-201109014257/
HTML 5 local storage worries the hell out of me. It's nothing new though because Microsoft has had an almost identical "userdata persistence" feature since forever. Try this link in IE browser http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/persistence/userData_1.htm
It originates from a time when anyone with aspirations to status in an organisation also had a secretary to perform manual tasks involving keyboards and typing. Admitting to doing one's own typing was a bit of a career depressant. These days I can't believe that anyone of whatever age in business can make serious claim to non-use of computers.
Currently I have six user apps running but the battery use is listed as "Android System: 97%"
If I click this it gives a long list of all the included packages in Android but does not itemise the 97% total figure against each package.
The battery use for the userland apps is not visible at all. Altogether doesn't help much to identify any hogs.
Do you think any car owner in their right mind would take their vehicle to that garage to be hacked around in that way? I sure wouldn't!
Connect your toilet to your wireless router
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
Almost happened already - the Orange San Francisco a.k.a. ZTE Blade is available for 99 pounds prepaid, or sometimes even less. No contract or plan or whatever it's called in your country. Runs Android 2.1 Eclair (upgradeable to Froyo) and to the average person works identically to the expensive top-end phones. Apple will need to hyperfuel their marketing machine if they are to convince people to pay four times that amount.
I personally doubt that the average non-geek understands they are buying tablet hardware running a system called Android version n. They think they are buying a cool web thingy. You know like those expensive ones that are all called i-something (i for internet)?
OK I accept that the little green robots appear from time to time but after you throw away the packaging there is not much in your face to remind you of "Android" all the time.
Even if they aren't geeks I'm also guessing that they are still smart enough to know that teeth-achingly cheap gadgets generally disappoint and any deficiencies in the user experience are likely down to that not the green robots per se.
In 2003 I took my UK GSM phone on a family trip to the Florida Keys. Before I left I asked about roaming data use abroad and Vodafone told me no problem, just use it like you would at home, no APN reconfiguration necessary and no extra charges. They were completely true to their word and although I ssh'd back to the UK quite frequently I never saw anything on my phone bill.
Of course this was probably before telco woke up to the money that could be made.