If you do want to help, donate clothing/water purifiers like Brita more than cash. They atleast go the victims directly.
DO NOT DO THIS!!! Donate cash. Legitimate organizations can spend your money far better than you can. They'll have (access to) locals who will know what's needed. The $10 you spend on a filtered water pitcher (which won't help with bacteria) could go toward a real purifier that several people could use.
Things are cheaper over there, and they'll usually negotiate deals on bulk purchases anyway. Plus, rather than a few bits in a bank's computer, you've caused them to deal with physical items...they have enough logistical problems.
Now, if you (general "you", not freedom_india specifically) are local to the area, quit reading Slashdot and start helping!
The looking into the future episodes, particularly those so far ahead that all my favourite characters are long-dead and the universe has moved on, always diminished the scale of the main series to me, rather than showing how worthwhile it had all been as I suspect JMS intended.
The whole point of that episode was to show that their influence was still extremely strong even one million years in the future. I don't understand how that could diminish the scale. But, I don't understand lots of things, so there you go.:-)
It became to much of a Star Trek clone.....(One ship travelling through space encountering weird aliens...)
JMS released, briefly, the scripts for the last 3-4 episodes. If you'd read them, you'd see that Crusade was headed in a very different direction than where it started. That tends to be his style -- set things up like A, progress toward B, and then WHAM on to Z.
I liked Crusade when TNT wasn't screwing with it. I liked that Gideon had no problems destroying ancient artifacts (or keeping one as a "pet"), or throwing an entire civilization into chaos because he didn't like how they used TV broadcasts from Earth.
Actually, their bread and butter are the people who don't play much. The people that are on 16 hours a day pay the same price the people that play a few hours a week pay.
That said, slot machines don't group with you and shoot the breeze about the how you/they really ought to look at a calendar to find out what day it is.
And the camera(s) that would likely be installed...you'd cover that up, too, I assume? And when the car stops and opens up at a police station because the computer realized the image hadn't changed in 15 seconds, alerted an operator (optional), and treated it as a Panic Button being pushed. Then what?
They charge you for auto-debit???? We give discounts to get people to use it, since it saves us a ton of money on bad debt right-offs. We easily make up the difference.
(general tip here) Never ask to be transferred to a manager. End your conversation and call back. As soon as it's your turn to start talking, ask to speak with a supervisor. If you try to escalate the call with the person you're having a problem with, they will likely warn the supervisor why you want to escalate things -- and it'll only be their side of it -- if they bother to do it at all.
This won't always work, but you'll increase your changes of actually getting to a real supervisor faster.
ImageMagick, by default(?), wants to use "mpeg2encode". If you're using Debian, there isn't a package for this as far as I can tell. You can grab the source for the encoder/decoder here (FTP). Look for mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz. Compiles easily; doesn't seem to need anything fancy.
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What's Apple got?
Existence?
If you do want to help, donate clothing/water purifiers like Brita more than cash. They atleast go the victims directly.
DO NOT DO THIS!!! Donate cash. Legitimate organizations can spend your money far better than you can. They'll have (access to) locals who will know what's needed. The $10 you spend on a filtered water pitcher (which won't help with bacteria) could go toward a real purifier that several people could use.
Things are cheaper over there, and they'll usually negotiate deals on bulk purchases anyway. Plus, rather than a few bits in a bank's computer, you've caused them to deal with physical items...they have enough logistical problems.
Now, if you (general "you", not freedom_india specifically) are local to the area, quit reading Slashdot and start helping!
I can't count the number of times I've dragged a file to the "Overwrite With Nuls" icon on the desktop. This wouldn't help at all!
These folks might not appreciate it.
What do you want?
The looking into the future episodes, particularly those so far ahead that all my favourite characters are long-dead and the universe has moved on, always diminished the scale of the main series to me, rather than showing how worthwhile it had all been as I suspect JMS intended.
The whole point of that episode was to show that their influence was still extremely strong even one million years in the future. I don't understand how that could diminish the scale. But, I don't understand lots of things, so there you go. :-)
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It became to much of a Star Trek clone.....(One ship travelling through space encountering weird aliens...)
JMS released, briefly, the scripts for the last 3-4 episodes. If you'd read them, you'd see that Crusade was headed in a very different direction than where it started. That tends to be his style -- set things up like A, progress toward B, and then WHAM on to Z.
I liked Crusade when TNT wasn't screwing with it. I liked that Gideon had no problems destroying ancient artifacts (or keeping one as a "pet"), or throwing an entire civilization into chaos because he didn't like how they used TV broadcasts from Earth.
They got to use it for months (year(s)?) earlier. Think of all those suckers that paid for Doom and Quake! Phew!
Actually, their bread and butter are the people who don't play much. The people that are on 16 hours a day pay the same price the people that play a few hours a week pay.
That said, slot machines don't group with you and shoot the breeze about the how you/they really ought to look at a calendar to find out what day it is.
You spin me right 'round...
And the camera(s) that would likely be installed...you'd cover that up, too, I assume? And when the car stops and opens up at a police station because the computer realized the image hadn't changed in 15 seconds, alerted an operator (optional), and treated it as a Panic Button being pushed. Then what?
Sex is just like that!
But then you can't put them in this museum!
Try here. Gmail invite trading. Took me a few days to get one.
Call it...sTeVo
They charge you for auto-debit???? We give discounts to get people to use it, since it saves us a ton of money on bad debt right-offs. We easily make up the difference.
/loves his G5 with its 4-button mouse
This won't always work, but you'll increase your changes of actually getting to a real supervisor faster.
And it's not a repeat!
Repent, I say! Repent!
/still agnostic
You mean ROUS...Rodents Of Unusual Size.
.net is the answer to: ?xis sulp ruof si tahW
Modula this guy up!
The semicolon ends the if(), making it do nothing. The block inside the braces will always be executed.
Do I get a cookie?
ImageMagick, by default(?), wants to use "mpeg2encode". If you're using Debian, there isn't a package for this as far as I can tell. You can grab the source for the encoder/decoder here (FTP). Look for mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz. Compiles easily; doesn't seem to need anything fancy.