Not only that, but Amazon also provides a marketplace for its users too, which brings it into rather more direct competition with eBay. The only bit missing is the auction element - and thank heavens for that!
Well, there's already a $99 laptop available with a widely used OS, if you're prepared to forgo x86 compatibility and modern specifications (although I bet it'd run RISC OS without too much trouble... hmm, maybe there's an idea there?)
The fact that the processor isn't an x86-based one (according to a previous poster, it's a MIPS chip) is probably a rather more significant barrier than its speed.
On the other hand, going to see smaller, less mainstream movies can be particularly wonderful. In the most extreme example, my ex and I had the cinema to ourselves when we went to see Secretary; but I've managed to see a fair few films with so few other people in the cinema that it really does repay the investment.
On the other hand, only one person needs to decide to relate their thoughts on the film and everything else to their friend on the other end of a cellphone to spoil it for everyone. It should be legal to shoot those people where they sit, frankly.
(With a crossbow, of course, to avoid further disruption. Or a bow and arrow. Maybe even slit their throat or garotte them.)
Actually, the "waiting to shit" thing is probably classifiable as torture. We're talking about basic, necessary biological needs that can make a person sick if they're fucked about with.
Now, 2 minute showers and living in dorms is unpleasant, sure, but not degrading or cruel in quite the same way (you can still sleep, you're still , and as you correctly point out, prison ain't supposed to be pleasant. But controlling when people can use the toilet is a much higher level of brutality, and achieves no purpose whatsoever except to make them feel, well, shitty.
Would anyone be the least bit surprised by a discovery that some significant percentage of CEOs have a significantly lower "murder threshold" than the population as a whole...?
The key word is "distribute". It's OK to have them as the one person who knows everything - after all, that's the kind of knowledge you can only acquire by living it - but not OK to have them as the only person who knows anything. If trust is the issue, then ensuring that there are enough other people who know the important things without any one person knowing enough to do damage will meet the requirement of distributed knowledge. If it's a question of taming their ego, then it's enough to ensure they're aware that replacing them would not be impossible - making them feel like they're viewed as a corporate drone will make them feel thoroughly underappreciated and probably bring about their early departure, which you don't want.
Good luck buying a Jaguar XJ220 direct from Jag. It's an older model. They don't make them any more.
Well maybe not, but Alesis aren't making any more Fusions either, and yet you can still pick one up fairly easily (and for a song, these days; they're an excellent second or third synth). No manufacturer is going to scrap a pile of old stock just because a new model has come out. And that's before we get into thorny questions like how to even define 'make' and 'stock' wrt software.
The guy who set it up drove his car through a red light and got his neck broken.
Don't most people wait until they know they're going to be fired before opting for drastic solutions of that nature?
(Seriously though - if you're someone who will never accept a lift from your sysadmin again, now's a really good time to remind your management of the importance of more than one person knowing vital security information - and ideally the other person being the most risk-averse one in the organisation...)
Indeed. About the only place you can't get away with that kind of shit is in a small organisation where everyone has a pretty good idea of what everyone else is up to anyway. Unfortunately, the public sector tends not to do small...
I don't know, it seems an eminently sensible way to name gods. We could have Killkill for the bringer of death, or Badbad for the source of evil, or Hichic for the god of wine... this has possibilities.
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Not only that, but Amazon also provides a marketplace for its users too, which brings it into rather more direct competition with eBay. The only bit missing is the auction element - and thank heavens for that!
Ironic, really, that the whole point of Trusted Computing is that the person doing the computing cannot be trusted...
Well, there's already a $99 laptop available with a widely used OS, if you're prepared to forgo x86 compatibility and modern specifications (although I bet it'd run RISC OS without too much trouble... hmm, maybe there's an idea there?)
Yes, because unionised flora is the only way to ensure fairness for plants at the hands of the oppressive petit-fauna elite.
Unless you mean to imply he's gone senile, I think the word you want there is "is".
The fact that the processor isn't an x86-based one (according to a previous poster, it's a MIPS chip) is probably a rather more significant barrier than its speed.
On the other hand, going to see smaller, less mainstream movies can be particularly wonderful. In the most extreme example, my ex and I had the cinema to ourselves when we went to see Secretary; but I've managed to see a fair few films with so few other people in the cinema that it really does repay the investment.
On the other hand, only one person needs to decide to relate their thoughts on the film and everything else to their friend on the other end of a cellphone to spoil it for everyone. It should be legal to shoot those people where they sit, frankly.
(With a crossbow, of course, to avoid further disruption. Or a bow and arrow. Maybe even slit their throat or garotte them.)
Are there not jurisdictions where that case has already been made, successfully, quite some time ago?
...er, "(you can sleep, you're still getting cleaned off)" even.
Actually, the "waiting to shit" thing is probably classifiable as torture. We're talking about basic, necessary biological needs that can make a person sick if they're fucked about with.
Now, 2 minute showers and living in dorms is unpleasant, sure, but not degrading or cruel in quite the same way (you can still sleep, you're still , and as you correctly point out, prison ain't supposed to be pleasant. But controlling when people can use the toilet is a much higher level of brutality, and achieves no purpose whatsoever except to make them feel, well, shitty.
He didn't kill his teenage daughter, despite shooting her in the neck; she was presumably then able to relate what had happened.
Would anyone be the least bit surprised by a discovery that some significant percentage of CEOs have a significantly lower "murder threshold" than the population as a whole...?
Yep, that pretty much sums it up...
The key word is "distribute". It's OK to have them as the one person who knows everything - after all, that's the kind of knowledge you can only acquire by living it - but not OK to have them as the only person who knows anything. If trust is the issue, then ensuring that there are enough other people who know the important things without any one person knowing enough to do damage will meet the requirement of distributed knowledge. If it's a question of taming their ego, then it's enough to ensure they're aware that replacing them would not be impossible - making them feel like they're viewed as a corporate drone will make them feel thoroughly underappreciated and probably bring about their early departure, which you don't want.
Meh. Ignore me and my lousy reading comprehension.
I think you might be labouring under a misapprehension about the kind of processors Freescale make these days.
And without capitalisation, even emailing you is a disincentive to communication. Well played, sir.
76, when the legal limit is 75? I suspect some fun could be had with margins of error there...
Well maybe not, but Alesis aren't making any more Fusions either, and yet you can still pick one up fairly easily (and for a song, these days; they're an excellent second or third synth). No manufacturer is going to scrap a pile of old stock just because a new model has come out. And that's before we get into thorny questions like how to even define 'make' and 'stock' wrt software.
It's called "trying to get elected", and it's what happens when we hold fucking beauty contests to choose our leaders and representatives.
Don't most people wait until they know they're going to be fired before opting for drastic solutions of that nature?
(Seriously though - if you're someone who will never accept a lift from your sysadmin again, now's a really good time to remind your management of the importance of more than one person knowing vital security information - and ideally the other person being the most risk-averse one in the organisation...)
Indeed. About the only place you can't get away with that kind of shit is in a small organisation where everyone has a pretty good idea of what everyone else is up to anyway. Unfortunately, the public sector tends not to do small...
Aren't you buggered if the ambient temperature in your parts goes up 10C, though?
I say unify them both, as the male and female faces of the deity Bangbang.
(Not to be confused with the god of internal combustion...)
I don't know, it seems an eminently sensible way to name gods. We could have Killkill for the bringer of death, or Badbad for the source of evil, or Hichic for the god of wine... this has possibilities.