I was nearly T-boned at a stop light by an elderly couple in a land-tank (Oldsmobile or similar); got halfway out (was turning right on my green light) and they sailed through the intersection without a care in the world. To top it off the geezer in the passenger seat was staring at me like I had no business being in the middle of the intersection.
So tempted to follow them and report the tag number to the police, but I had to be at work in 10 minutes.
My mother just recently had to take her father's keys and it nearly broke her heart. I'm glad she did though, between his failing eyesight and the condition of the car, I was afraid to ride with either her or grandma.
My father's mother was rear-ended by an elderly lady speeding over the crest of a hill (where my grandmother was stopped waiting to turn left) the collision sent both cars into an adjacent field and the lady responsible for the accident had to be cut out of her car, but no one else was injured.
Eyesight and reflex testing for the elderly should be mandatory starting at age 60 or so. Any older than that and the vast majority are a hazard on the road.
Re:The fansubbers dropped Media Factory's series
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Doesn't Animesuki usually (always?) drops torrents as soon as they become aware of a series being licensed?
Most fansub groups cease distribution of a given series as soon as it's licensed for production in the US. The point is that until it's licensed there is *no* english translation. Hard to argue that you're costing a company sales when they arent providing that product.
Don't blame that drop in student newspapers and media sciences entirely on the goverment. Kids, by and large, frankly don't give a shit. When I went to HS (class of 01 here) the student newspaper was a vapid waste of paper, and media sciences did nothing but announce the previous day's sports events and student birthdays (WTF?)
Now if you were a school official and saw that this newspaper which took X hundred dollars and hours of student time to put together, was largely ignored by the student body wouldn't you get rid of it too?
Alarms are far less security than you might think. Picture an apartment complex or a college dorm parking lot. Lots of riced up civics and chunky tired jeeps with alarms that go off if you *fart* next to the car.
After about a month of alarms going off in the dead of night, no one bats an eye at hearing one anymore.
I'd be scared out of my mind as well. SBC internet service seems to be largely region dependant (Some geographic areas appaear to have no/fewer problems, in others it's horrible) with the only uniformity being crap customer service, the only difference being how often you have to deal with it.
Being as i'm not in industry right now, I don't personally have any experience dealing with AT&T's enterprise offerings but they HAVE to be better than SBC.
Is the point of the signature bar on a card not so you can compare the signed reciept to the (supposed) signature of the holder? Leaving a card unsigned makes it extremely easy for someone to just sign the back with the name on the front and go to town.
On the other hand if you ask for ID you can usually go "oh, crap, i don't have it on me" and 9 times of 10 if you don't make an immediate move to go back out to the car to get it, the person will ring the card up as usual.
Someone else commented that Post offices won't take your card unless it has your acutal signature on it. I wonder how many other establishments do that.
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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You fail to grasp the fact that if the game isn't distributed in the country, all copies for sale are necessarily illegal, pirate copies. Thus banning them is less a statement about the game content and more an effort to get pirated software out of stores.
same here. I do subscribe to a few binaries groups, but the non-bin ones have a pretty low spam count. Generally if something gets crossposted there its been X-posted EVERYwhere.
Considering we didnt' systematically exterminate japanese-americans in those camps I fail to see exactly how calling them something other than "concentration camps" is minimizing the situation.
Were you workign under flourescent lights? Was the monitor referesh rate still defaulted at 60hz? If so it's no wonder people were getting headaches. Cranking the refresh rate up to 85Hz or so will do wonders for reducing eyestrain.
Actually morals don't really come into what I was considering.
I'm thinking more about population growth rate, living space and use of resources. Not to mention the disparity between rich and poor. If you think that's bad now, think about if being rich automatically means you get several generations to amass a fortune
"The Volokh Conspiracy" Doesn't appear to be accepting incoming connections anymore. For something labeled as a conspiracy that's certainly interesting. Course its probably just a slashdotting, but it's not letting me in w/ a Slashdot referral or otherwise.
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Strawman accusations coming from someone listing interrupt conflicts on their list of why not to use x86? Time to fast forward a few years man. If you'd stop tweaking and futzing for about a day or so I'd put money on your x86 machine working just fine. If not, well, i'm sorry, buy quality components next time.
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I was nearly T-boned at a stop light by an elderly couple in a land-tank (Oldsmobile or similar); got halfway out (was turning right on my green light) and they sailed through the intersection without a care in the world. To top it off the geezer in the passenger seat was staring at me like I had no business being in the middle of the intersection.
So tempted to follow them and report the tag number to the police, but I had to be at work in 10 minutes.
My mother just recently had to take her father's keys and it nearly broke her heart. I'm glad she did though, between his failing eyesight and the condition of the car, I was afraid to ride with either her or grandma.
My father's mother was rear-ended by an elderly lady speeding over the crest of a hill (where my grandmother was stopped waiting to turn left) the collision sent both cars into an adjacent field and the lady responsible for the accident had to be cut out of her car, but no one else was injured.
Eyesight and reflex testing for the elderly should be mandatory starting at age 60 or so. Any older than that and the vast majority are a hazard on the road.
Doesn't Animesuki usually (always?) drops torrents as soon as they become aware of a series being licensed?
Most fansub groups cease distribution of a given series as soon as it's licensed for production in the US. The point is that until it's licensed there is *no* english translation. Hard to argue that you're costing a company sales when they arent providing that product.
Don't blame that drop in student newspapers and media sciences entirely on the goverment. Kids, by and large, frankly don't give a shit. When I went to HS (class of 01 here) the student newspaper was a vapid waste of paper, and media sciences did nothing but announce the previous day's sports events and student birthdays (WTF?)
Now if you were a school official and saw that this newspaper which took X hundred dollars and hours of student time to put together, was largely ignored by the student body wouldn't you get rid of it too?
Alarms are far less security than you might think. Picture an apartment complex or a college dorm parking lot. Lots of riced up civics and chunky tired jeeps with alarms that go off if you *fart* next to the car.
After about a month of alarms going off in the dead of night, no one bats an eye at hearing one anymore.
The guys who run Linux are typically at home working out electrical or computer engineering problems or coding, not sitting in a coffee shop.
Would that be the heat output?
I'd be scared out of my mind as well. SBC internet service seems to be largely region dependant (Some geographic areas appaear to have no/fewer problems, in others it's horrible) with the only uniformity being crap customer service, the only difference being how often you have to deal with it.
Being as i'm not in industry right now, I don't personally have any experience dealing with AT&T's enterprise offerings but they HAVE to be better than SBC.
Is the point of the signature bar on a card not so you can compare the signed reciept to the (supposed) signature of the holder? Leaving a card unsigned makes it extremely easy for someone to just sign the back with the name on the front and go to town.
On the other hand if you ask for ID you can usually go "oh, crap, i don't have it on me" and 9 times of 10 if you don't make an immediate move to go back out to the car to get it, the person will ring the card up as usual.
Someone else commented that Post offices won't take your card unless it has your acutal signature on it. I wonder how many other establishments do that.
Myself as well. Great series.
You fail to grasp the fact that if the game isn't distributed in the country, all copies for sale are necessarily illegal, pirate copies. Thus banning them is less a statement about the game content and more an effort to get pirated software out of stores.
same here. I do subscribe to a few binaries groups, but the non-bin ones have a pretty low spam count. Generally if something gets crossposted there its been X-posted EVERYwhere.
Considering we didnt' systematically exterminate japanese-americans in those camps I fail to see exactly how calling them something other than "concentration camps" is minimizing the situation.
Perhaps I'm being too stuffy here but I can't see taking seriously a company that substituted a Z for S in their name.
I don't know where you're from, but I heard a whole bunch of offensive crap at school and simply had to deal with it.
You have no guarantee of a life free of being offended, and need to learn how to cope. School's a good place to learn how to do that.
That's curious, but I suppose it really depends on the nature of the work, the hours involved, and mostly the eyeballs glued to the monitor.
Were you workign under flourescent lights? Was the monitor referesh rate still defaulted at 60hz? If so it's no wonder people were getting headaches. Cranking the refresh rate up to 85Hz or so will do wonders for reducing eyestrain.
And no, the advances will not be just for the rich.
Yes they will. You think this will be cheap?
Actually morals don't really come into what I was considering.
I'm thinking more about population growth rate, living space and use of resources. Not to mention the disparity between rich and poor. If you think that's bad now, think about if being rich automatically means you get several generations to amass a fortune
I believe the proper question at this point isn't "can we" it's "Should we"
"The Volokh Conspiracy" Doesn't appear to be accepting incoming connections anymore. For something labeled as a conspiracy that's certainly interesting. Course its probably just a slashdotting, but it's not letting me in w/ a Slashdot referral or otherwise.
Strawman accusations coming from someone listing interrupt conflicts on their list of why not to use x86? Time to fast forward a few years man. If you'd stop tweaking and futzing for about a day or so I'd put money on your x86 machine working just fine. If not, well, i'm sorry, buy quality components next time.
Personally I'd prefer hardware that doesnt have "notorious" failure issues.
Now, if you had a car with an in-dash LCD screen, put the Mini under the seat, and got a bluetooth keyboard...
Hopefully you would be arrested for reckless driving the first time you attempted to make use of it while the vehicle was moving.