When life gets too difficult, with no hope of recovery, it's time to let go. In the case of something like Alzheimer's a living will specifying euthanasia would be extremely helpful. I just wish it was legal. I wouldn't want to live like that, nor to impose upon society.
Why has nobody mentioned ST:TNG pinball? It is rated as one of the best machines ever made and is still very popular, 13 years after it was made. There is still a thriving community making aftermarket and replacement parts for it. I enjoyed playing it so much at a local arcade that I bought one for my basement. It's got great sound, nice voice cues, and is overall an excellent game. I highly suggest it to anyone.
Best Buy offered to do a free check of a laptop when we bought it. They clicked through all the EULA crap so I never agreed to anything. I suppose I'm still technicaly eligible for the refund if I want to fight it...
I just recently bought a laptop for my wife and I had to go through hell getting all the pre-installed crap out of it. It had adware and spyware preloaded by the factory. It even had a 10GB hard drive partition with backup copies of everything that should have been on the restore cds / dvds that should have come with the laptop. I would have much rather paid less for the laptop, added windows onto the price and arrived in mostly the same place. We didn't want a laptop that we hadn't tried out in person before buying it, which around here limited us to Best Buy, Circuit City, and Office Max / Depot. Nobody had "clean" systems.... grumble....
According to this article
http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3faq.htm
AllOfMP3 is operating legallly in Russia. Near the bottom of the page, it says Moscow police investigated them, and prosecutirs found nothing wrong.
Last July, I visited Canada with my wife on out honeymoon. When returning to the US, we merely had to present our driver's licenses. We don't even have passports. The law differs from country to country, depending on where you visit.
I think situations where businesses have wronged a person, not causing any monetary damages to the person should be handled by small payment to the individual harmed ($250ish) and a "timeout" for the business during which they must remain closed. I don't know exactly what would be a good term, a day, a week, or a month. That would hurt the malicious business financially without the get rich quick mentality.
I do beleive it is ILLEGAL to require ID to vote. It'd disenfranchise those who can't afford ID. Sometimes, if you loose your birth cert, it can cost $50 to get a new one to get ID. Not everyone is gonna have that $50, but they still have the right to vote.
They do major cleaning restoration and enhancement to the audio! Do you really think they recorded A New Hope in Dolby 5.1 in 1978? They had to do major work on the soundtrack when they enhanced the film for DVD.
A couple of generic 160 gig drives from pricewatch ($70 each), combined with a few cheap enclosures from pricewatch ($20 each) and a safe deposit box across town ($30/year) ensures that even in the event of my home being completely wiped from the map, my data will survive.
I'm running a 4 disk 160gb doftware raid-5 which has no troubles as of yet. Two disks are year old Maxtor disks and 2 of them are brand new generic pricewatch disks. I've had no problems or trouble with any of them. Before I could afford more disks, the 2 maxtors were running mirrored in software with no trouble for about a year. After I filled them up, I decided to triple my capacity and go with the raid-5. It's been wonderful. I set it up using the guide at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.ht ml. I don't have any "hot" spares, but I have perfectly suitable replacement disks available to drop in once a primary drive fails. AND I have an offiste backup.
GM seems to have changed in 1995. My 1995 S10 has the one key for both and my wife's 1994 S10 has two keys (door/ignition). As a side note, I'm rekeying her doors to my single key to eliminate another unneeded key I've been carrying around. And my S10 is so easy to break in to, I don't NEED an extra key. I just keep a coathanger in the bed and use it when needeed.
how often do you lock or unlock your doors while driving? Never. That's why the extra buttons for it are a distractin to driving. After you enter your car, lock your door and don't mess with it until you get where you're going. Power locks encourage you to distract yourself while driving. My sister in law has power locks that lock themselves some short time (30 seconds maybe) after putting the car in gear. I find them both distracting and annoying. Her kids like to play with the locks while driving and occasionally lock her out when she is walking around the car to remove them from their seats. Power windows also cause people to look away from the road. On manual windows, the control is a simple, obvious handle instead of one button amongst many others. Rolling down the windows in my mother's honda requires me to look away from the road and at the damn buttons to figure out which one to use. Rolling down my van's window is a simple task, because the big handle is the only control in the area. As for "shifting suddelny" with an automatic transmission (which eliminates another distracting problem - constantly running the clutch and gear shifter), you should never be shifting suddenly. Power windows also tend toward unreliability. I've had countless friends who had the motors die and have windows that are stuck up (or down). Don't kid yourself, power windows are a gimmick intended to draw you back to the service department at the dealer and make you wreck your car so you need to buy a new one.
The only "dash" controls are for the lights, wipers, and the ignition key. Everytihng else is on the wheel or on the floor. About as simple as it gets. As for chevies having fancy trim, I don't even have cupholders or a glove compartment. Most of the dash is faded red vinyl/plastic with some small bits of peeling woodgrain sticker.
Sorry. No waterbed. The floor is plywod (original rusted away YEARS ago). The windows are blacked out, though. And there's a big peace sign painted on the back door.
Why would you want any of that crap? GPS, power, phones, huds, power windows, and power locks are major distractins from driving. The IR enhanced night driving will encourge those that have it to drive more recklessly at night, and hybrid engines are prohibitively difficult and expensive to work on. Do you really want to have to PAY a delaer to do your brakes or change your spark plugs? Do you enjoy having to have codes extracted from your vehicles' computer when diagnosing a problem? Wouldn't you rather be able to "do it yourself?" I'd really expect a typical Slashdotter to long for an older 60s or 70s vehicle that can be maintained and customized with only hand tools. Slashdotters like operating systems where thay can get "under the hood" and modify anything to their own liking. Why not the same with cars?
My vehicle has a simplified, functional interface. Key, lights (outside only), steering wheel, shifter, throttle, brake, and wipers. No fancy things like turn signals, a cabin fan, or a radio for me. It's a 1976 Chevrolet van with a carburated V8 and no onboard computer. I'll let you have it for the bargain price of $20,000, seeing as it is your dream vehicle.
Jay: All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all you motherfucks are next. Love, Jay and Silent Bob.
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iPod batteries are easy to replace. Pop open iPod, unplug battery, plug new battery, snap iPod back together. It seriously only takes a minute to do.
Seconded
When life gets too difficult, with no hope of recovery, it's time to let go. In the case of something like Alzheimer's a living will specifying euthanasia would be extremely helpful. I just wish it was legal. I wouldn't want to live like that, nor to impose upon society.
Why has nobody mentioned ST:TNG pinball? It is rated as one of the best machines ever made and is still very popular, 13 years after it was made. There is still a thriving community making aftermarket and replacement parts for it. I enjoyed playing it so much at a local arcade that I bought one for my basement. It's got great sound, nice voice cues, and is overall an excellent game. I highly suggest it to anyone.
Best Buy offered to do a free check of a laptop when we bought it. They clicked through all the EULA crap so I never agreed to anything. I suppose I'm still technicaly eligible for the refund if I want to fight it...
I just recently bought a laptop for my wife and I had to go through hell getting all the pre-installed crap out of it. It had adware and spyware preloaded by the factory. It even had a 10GB hard drive partition with backup copies of everything that should have been on the restore cds / dvds that should have come with the laptop. I would have much rather paid less for the laptop, added windows onto the price and arrived in mostly the same place. We didn't want a laptop that we hadn't tried out in person before buying it, which around here limited us to Best Buy, Circuit City, and Office Max / Depot. Nobody had "clean" systems.... grumble....
According to this article http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3faq.htm AllOfMP3 is operating legallly in Russia. Near the bottom of the page, it says Moscow police investigated them, and prosecutirs found nothing wrong.
In 500 years, won't we be using Stardates anyway?
Last July, I visited Canada with my wife on out honeymoon. When returning to the US, we merely had to present our driver's licenses. We don't even have passports. The law differs from country to country, depending on where you visit.
I think situations where businesses have wronged a person, not causing any monetary damages to the person should be handled by small payment to the individual harmed ($250ish) and a "timeout" for the business during which they must remain closed. I don't know exactly what would be a good term, a day, a week, or a month. That would hurt the malicious business financially without the get rich quick mentality.
I do beleive it is ILLEGAL to require ID to vote. It'd disenfranchise those who can't afford ID. Sometimes, if you loose your birth cert, it can cost $50 to get a new one to get ID. Not everyone is gonna have that $50, but they still have the right to vote.
If I could generate Ferraris in my garage for little to no cost and wanted to give them out for free, then YES.
They do major cleaning restoration and enhancement to the audio! Do you really think they recorded A New Hope in Dolby 5.1 in 1978? They had to do major work on the soundtrack when they enhanced the film for DVD.
A couple of generic 160 gig drives from pricewatch ($70 each), combined with a few cheap enclosures from pricewatch ($20 each) and a safe deposit box across town ($30/year) ensures that even in the event of my home being completely wiped from the map, my data will survive. I'm running a 4 disk 160gb doftware raid-5 which has no troubles as of yet. Two disks are year old Maxtor disks and 2 of them are brand new generic pricewatch disks. I've had no problems or trouble with any of them. Before I could afford more disks, the 2 maxtors were running mirrored in software with no trouble for about a year. After I filled them up, I decided to triple my capacity and go with the raid-5. It's been wonderful. I set it up using the guide at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.ht ml. I don't have any "hot" spares, but I have perfectly suitable replacement disks available to drop in once a primary drive fails. AND I have an offiste backup.
There are also multiple high quality audio channels.
GM seems to have changed in 1995. My 1995 S10 has the one key for both and my wife's 1994 S10 has two keys (door/ignition). As a side note, I'm rekeying her doors to my single key to eliminate another unneeded key I've been carrying around. And my S10 is so easy to break in to, I don't NEED an extra key. I just keep a coathanger in the bed and use it when needeed.
how often do you lock or unlock your doors while driving? Never. That's why the extra buttons for it are a distractin to driving. After you enter your car, lock your door and don't mess with it until you get where you're going. Power locks encourage you to distract yourself while driving. My sister in law has power locks that lock themselves some short time (30 seconds maybe) after putting the car in gear. I find them both distracting and annoying. Her kids like to play with the locks while driving and occasionally lock her out when she is walking around the car to remove them from their seats. Power windows also cause people to look away from the road. On manual windows, the control is a simple, obvious handle instead of one button amongst many others. Rolling down the windows in my mother's honda requires me to look away from the road and at the damn buttons to figure out which one to use. Rolling down my van's window is a simple task, because the big handle is the only control in the area. As for "shifting suddelny" with an automatic transmission (which eliminates another distracting problem - constantly running the clutch and gear shifter), you should never be shifting suddenly. Power windows also tend toward unreliability. I've had countless friends who had the motors die and have windows that are stuck up (or down). Don't kid yourself, power windows are a gimmick intended to draw you back to the service department at the dealer and make you wreck your car so you need to buy a new one.
The only "dash" controls are for the lights, wipers, and the ignition key. Everytihng else is on the wheel or on the floor. About as simple as it gets. As for chevies having fancy trim, I don't even have cupholders or a glove compartment. Most of the dash is faded red vinyl/plastic with some small bits of peeling woodgrain sticker.
Sorry. No waterbed. The floor is plywod (original rusted away YEARS ago). The windows are blacked out, though. And there's a big peace sign painted on the back door.
Why would you want any of that crap? GPS, power, phones, huds, power windows, and power locks are major distractins from driving. The IR enhanced night driving will encourge those that have it to drive more recklessly at night, and hybrid engines are prohibitively difficult and expensive to work on. Do you really want to have to PAY a delaer to do your brakes or change your spark plugs? Do you enjoy having to have codes extracted from your vehicles' computer when diagnosing a problem? Wouldn't you rather be able to "do it yourself?" I'd really expect a typical Slashdotter to long for an older 60s or 70s vehicle that can be maintained and customized with only hand tools. Slashdotters like operating systems where thay can get "under the hood" and modify anything to their own liking. Why not the same with cars?
My vehicle has a simplified, functional interface. Key, lights (outside only), steering wheel, shifter, throttle, brake, and wipers. No fancy things like turn signals, a cabin fan, or a radio for me. It's a 1976 Chevrolet van with a carburated V8 and no onboard computer. I'll let you have it for the bargain price of $20,000, seeing as it is your dream vehicle.
The setting: Krog's mother's front porch early in the morning of January 28, 2005. Me and Silent Bob have just rung his doorbell.
Jay - Hello. Do you post as krog on Slashdot.org?
Krog - Yeah. Why?
Jay - Did you at any time ever claim to be Jay and Silent Bob?
Krog - Yeah, a while ago. Why?
Me and Silent Bob beat the shit out of krog
Jay: All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all you motherfucks are next. Love, Jay and Silent Bob.
You sir, are an ass. Oh, and eat our shit....
that was 1943... in 1937 they were still copper. doublecheck your steel pennies.
Why is there a word for "pussy bread" in Finnish?
1. Turn it Off 2. Unplug all of the connections 3. make sure it is Un-manned
But once you do that, I will walk in to the room and steal the computer.