A lot of data is publicly available. You can bet your asses that the Brits don't just keep footage/info of criminals. And since no one over there seems to give a damn that they're being recorded 100% of the time they're in public, it might very well catch on here. This would be a small first step.
They should have it flag only licence plates that are reported stolen or where the registered owner has a warrant out. It should alert the officer as well as the event. They could cross-reference this with a GPS database for court use.
Maybe all this is happening for a reason. You know, a reason for our government to say, "Well NASA costs too much money and all they do is sit around drinking..we spend billions so we can have a few hammered pilots in space." before dissolving NASA and selling its assets to the highest bidder.
Bush has quite a few days left, and he/his cronies could very well be up to this.
..where it was promptly shot down by senators who listened to the lobbyists who went on and on about how it would bankrupt their companies, when in reality, they would just pass the cost directly to the consumer.
"Oh, BTW, we're increaseing your rates by $100 a month, starting three months ago. Congress is forcing us to do this, we'll call it the broadband tax."
Will this bill expire naturally? Or do we get to look forward to the possibility of having our bank accounts drained and house taken in a few years because we failed to pay a $50 parking ticket?
After all, 'impeding progress in the middle east' can be as easy as not paying your parking ticket. God knows we're the only ones footing the bill for that fiasco.
The randomness part is true, but its more than that.
We just don't know enough to make clear-cut rules on whether quantum mechanics plays a substantial role in consciousness. I would wager that it does, as consciousness is impossible to explain otherwise.
Consciousness, at the simplest, is a feedback loop. All organisms will seek to maintain balance. Their own bodies will let them know if they're hungry, horny, warm, cold, etc. Their instincts will tell them what to do about it.
However, I would be willing to bet that we'll make some pretty landmark discoveries in the next century regarding quantumness and consciousness. My chips are on QM playing a pretty big role in it..
Consciousness is pretty much a glorified feedback loop with some quantum strangeness thrown in. Unless you can find a way to entangle someone's consciousness and use one half of the entangled particles in a new consciousness (wet or electronic based) then the consciousness would not transfer over.
Fear is quite useful. Think about when you're a kid. You probably did dumb things without fear because you didn't know they were dangerous. Lets say you decided you wanted to sit on the roof to watch some fireworks, so you grab the ladder. It would be trivial for you to slip/fall/die from the roof, as its probably pretty sloped and not the best traction in the world. You saw an obvious walking surface and promised yourself you wouldn't fall.
Your mother, however, didn't think it was worth the risk. And she was probably right.
New situation. Your friend comes and says he has a great new stock for you two to invest in. Guarenteed 20%+ return. If you had no fear, you'd throw more money than you should right into it. Who knows. It might pay off. But its not a great idea to just invest without research.
There are many, many other instances where fear is a good idea. Irrational fear is bad (aka being deathly afraid of spiders, flying, etc), in which case, this might have a good use. But to remove all fear would be like to remove all of any other emotion.
If AT&T gets their wish and ends up paying for their privilige, the cost will be passed on to us, as consumers. It always is and always has been. We will pay more to ensure that we stay with their company and their dirty ways.
We will fucking PAY to keep AT&T on top, whether we like it or not.
"The music industry is slamming the small music scenes trying to make more people buy CDs because they can't find any local shows. Either that or pay $300 for a ticket to a concert that they're running 300 miles away. They're trying to kill the competition."
And its true. Anyone that says otherwise needs to look at whats going on around them. SoundExchange, the RIAA, the ASwhateveritscalled..all this money is small potatoes to them.
Cash flow is what its about. If they can successfully reduce the number of local music scenes and online radio stations, they figure that people will buy more CDs, go to more of their $400-a-ticket concerts, and pay $30 a month for internet radio. All of these things represent a cash flow. An internet radio station or a coffee house would be stupid to pay these fees.
What's the difference between internet radio, broadcast radio, and the radio you hear in your local Food Lion when you're buying your lucky charms? All three sources make money directly or indirectly from the music.
Obviously they aren't doing anything about it. Not offering to repair consoles that are scratching games. Dragging their feet with replacements. You know. The usual service offered by Microsoft.
They have plenty to learn to be actually successful in the console market. Its not like the PC market. People in the console market expect to be taken care of. Try getting a refund for Windows just because it caused your hardware to burst into flames.
MRSA isn't particular more potent than other staph infections. They just won't die easily. That and your body has very little experience fighting MRSA itself.
Imagine if you had a tree that bore fruit once or twice a day. But if you did not eat the fruit within an hour, it spoiled. There's no point in trying to conserve the fruit unless your demand is higher than the output of the tree.
Its always good to have say, 10% free. Out of ten fruit, leave one so that any surprise visitors might have a quick snack as well.
Of course, the other reason you might try to conserve it is to create artificial demand. Now, half of your crop goes to waste. You sell the other half for very high prices saying that your supply just can't keep up with demand and that you must sell them at a higher price due to the whole free market thing.
Point is, every fruit you don't sell will be useless in an hour. But its better to let a fruit rot than to sell it for a decent price, after all.
Shadowrun is a nice example. It can be played on Windows XP with a hack.
According to Microsoft, its simply not possible as the XP version is still under development. It comes as no big surprise that DX9 can do 90% of what DX10 can do, especially since DX10 is Vista-only. Its just another attempt to push an operating system that very few people want. I'm sure I'll end up with a copy of it in a few years, but very few people actually want it right now.
No developer outside of Microsoft in their right mind would make a Vista-only game right now. It would be like releasing some Virutal Boy games.
I would be willing to bet that the RIAA and ASCAP and BMI are all in bed having a wonderful time.
I would imagine that the RIAA will profit indirectly from ASCAP/BMI's actions, and ASCAP/BMI probably profit directly from CD/ticket sales through the RIAA.
Can't you see what's happening? Its been happening for over a decade now.
The music industry is slamming the small music scenes trying to make more people buy CDs because they can't find any local shows. Either that or pay $300 for a ticket to a concert that they're running 300 miles away. They're trying to kill the competition.
And yeah, they pretty much just go through the phone book and pick coffee houses to harass. I would say that if you're a coffee house that has paid and you haven't broken any obvious laws, that you should be entitled to that money back PLUS administrative fees.
What if I walked in, said you were violating a law that you were not, and demanded payment. What's that called again?
Tell that to the single mom that has a 70's car and can't afford anything better. Every penny of increase in price is another penny she doesn't have to feed her children.
Every show-off SUV driver you deter from driving, there will be at least three people who can't afford to buy a new car or change their lifestyles that will feel the burn.
I hope someday you understand what I'm talking about.
Business casual is all anyone should be forced to wear. Of course the higher-ups and sales people would want to dress nicer when going into meetings with clients/customers/etc, but as for everyone else..
Its quite superficial. Maybe during the dot com era people could see just how superficial it is. Maybe they were..you know..motivated? They could work efficiently without a strong piece of cloth tied around their necks to irritate them all day.
As a woman, you have quite a few dress options. A dress, a skirt, dress pants, several kinds of shirt, and more importantly, ties are optional. You can wear 30 different types of dressy shoe, and no matter how you wear your hair as long as it isn't in wild colors, it will probably be acceptable.
Us men have very limited options. As far as business professional goes, its pretty much suit-and-tie-with-dress-pants-dress-socks-and-dres s-shoes.
A few days ago I was infected with PurityScan, several droppers, and a trojan or three.
I have no idea how they got there, but all I saw was a command prompt window pop up for a half a second and then I started getting IE popups (I used Firefox).
A virus scan/adaware/spybot would remove them, but they'd reappear on the next reboot.
A safemode scan of those would remove them, but they'd reappear on the next reboot.
As a result I formatted my Windows drive and reinstalled.
There's no telling how many root kits were hiding in my kernel, all for that might advertising dollar or chance at identity theft.
Any company caught using malware (I'm looking at you, PurityScan) should face charges for criminal trespass and breaking/entering if it turns out they were seeking out services from these contractors.
Don't get me wrong. I dress nicely for my job, but I would dress more casually if I had to be around the building a lot. I certainly would dress more casually if I were in IT and were digging around under desks, in wiring closets, or above ceiling tiles on a regular basis.
Of course the world works in certain ways, but I think the dot com boom created quite a stir. There were people getting things done efficiently and effectively, they were happy, and they were getting paid. Suits and ties weren't the norm, neither were working 80 hour weeks with no overtime pay. There were parties every week or two.
If a team of 5 programmers working 40 hours or less a week can do more than 10 programmers working 80 hours a week, then the industry is fucked up. Those 10 programmers are probably stressed and unhappy, while their managers and/or sales department is living it up in making unreasonable promises and making unclear requests.
"Wow, that guy can program really well and he's not even wearing a suit and tie."
My parents actually warned me from wearing jeans on casual Friday at one point because they said it makes me look like I'm not doing anything and would probably get fired. The concept of being able to work without being reminded that your collar is cutting off your circulation was foreign to them.
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Yeah, that's where the problem comes in.
A lot of data is publicly available. You can bet your asses that the Brits don't just keep footage/info of criminals. And since no one over there seems to give a damn that they're being recorded 100% of the time they're in public, it might very well catch on here. This would be a small first step.
They should have it flag only licence plates that are reported stolen or where the registered owner has a warrant out. It should alert the officer as well as the event. They could cross-reference this with a GPS database for court use.
Maybe all this is happening for a reason. You know, a reason for our government to say, "Well NASA costs too much money and all they do is sit around drinking..we spend billions so we can have a few hammered pilots in space." before dissolving NASA and selling its assets to the highest bidder.
Bush has quite a few days left, and he/his cronies could very well be up to this.
..where it was promptly shot down by senators who listened to the lobbyists who went on and on about how it would bankrupt their companies, when in reality, they would just pass the cost directly to the consumer.
"Oh, BTW, we're increaseing your rates by $100 a month, starting three months ago. Congress is forcing us to do this, we'll call it the broadband tax."
Will this bill expire naturally? Or do we get to look forward to the possibility of having our bank accounts drained and house taken in a few years because we failed to pay a $50 parking ticket?
After all, 'impeding progress in the middle east' can be as easy as not paying your parking ticket. God knows we're the only ones footing the bill for that fiasco.
The randomness part is true, but its more than that.
We just don't know enough to make clear-cut rules on whether quantum mechanics plays a substantial role in consciousness. I would wager that it does, as consciousness is impossible to explain otherwise.
Consciousness, at the simplest, is a feedback loop. All organisms will seek to maintain balance. Their own bodies will let them know if they're hungry, horny, warm, cold, etc. Their instincts will tell them what to do about it.
However, I would be willing to bet that we'll make some pretty landmark discoveries in the next century regarding quantumness and consciousness. My chips are on QM playing a pretty big role in it..
Pretty good thinking you have there.
Consciousness is pretty much a glorified feedback loop with some quantum strangeness thrown in. Unless you can find a way to entangle someone's consciousness and use one half of the entangled particles in a new consciousness (wet or electronic based) then the consciousness would not transfer over.
Maybe because all you had was a brief blackout caused by lack of oxygen to the brain.
The drama doesn't start until the brain starts dying.
Fear is quite useful. Think about when you're a kid. You probably did dumb things without fear because you didn't know they were dangerous. Lets say you decided you wanted to sit on the roof to watch some fireworks, so you grab the ladder. It would be trivial for you to slip/fall/die from the roof, as its probably pretty sloped and not the best traction in the world. You saw an obvious walking surface and promised yourself you wouldn't fall.
Your mother, however, didn't think it was worth the risk. And she was probably right.
New situation. Your friend comes and says he has a great new stock for you two to invest in. Guarenteed 20%+ return. If you had no fear, you'd throw more money than you should right into it. Who knows. It might pay off. But its not a great idea to just invest without research.
There are many, many other instances where fear is a good idea. Irrational fear is bad (aka being deathly afraid of spiders, flying, etc), in which case, this might have a good use. But to remove all fear would be like to remove all of any other emotion.
Its really difficult to sign away your basic rights. Suing a person or company goes along with one of those basic rights.
"You can't sue us for any reason" should automatically invalidate all of a EULA/contract. Even the cancellation fees and other bullshit.
If AT&T gets their wish and ends up paying for their privilige, the cost will be passed on to us, as consumers. It always is and always has been. We will pay more to ensure that we stay with their company and their dirty ways.
We will fucking PAY to keep AT&T on top, whether we like it or not.
As I said in a post before,
"The music industry is slamming the small music scenes trying to make more people buy CDs because they can't find any local shows. Either that or pay $300 for a ticket to a concert that they're running 300 miles away. They're trying to kill the competition."
And its true. Anyone that says otherwise needs to look at whats going on around them. SoundExchange, the RIAA, the ASwhateveritscalled..all this money is small potatoes to them.
Cash flow is what its about. If they can successfully reduce the number of local music scenes and online radio stations, they figure that people will buy more CDs, go to more of their $400-a-ticket concerts, and pay $30 a month for internet radio. All of these things represent a cash flow. An internet radio station or a coffee house would be stupid to pay these fees.
What's the difference between internet radio, broadcast radio, and the radio you hear in your local Food Lion when you're buying your lucky charms? All three sources make money directly or indirectly from the music.
Rez wasn't about exploration.
I suggest you look into certain mind-altering substances.
Or just stay up for a few days and then try.
Either that, or learn to feel the music and beat without the need for such things. It was all about creating synesthesia.
Obviously they aren't doing anything about it. Not offering to repair consoles that are scratching games. Dragging their feet with replacements. You know. The usual service offered by Microsoft.
They have plenty to learn to be actually successful in the console market. Its not like the PC market. People in the console market expect to be taken care of. Try getting a refund for Windows just because it caused your hardware to burst into flames.
MRSA isn't particular more potent than other staph infections. They just won't die easily. That and your body has very little experience fighting MRSA itself.
Bandwidth is a funny resource.
Imagine if you had a tree that bore fruit once or twice a day. But if you did not eat the fruit within an hour, it spoiled. There's no point in trying to conserve the fruit unless your demand is higher than the output of the tree.
Its always good to have say, 10% free. Out of ten fruit, leave one so that any surprise visitors might have a quick snack as well.
Of course, the other reason you might try to conserve it is to create artificial demand. Now, half of your crop goes to waste. You sell the other half for very high prices saying that your supply just can't keep up with demand and that you must sell them at a higher price due to the whole free market thing.
Point is, every fruit you don't sell will be useless in an hour. But its better to let a fruit rot than to sell it for a decent price, after all.
Shadowrun is a nice example. It can be played on Windows XP with a hack.
According to Microsoft, its simply not possible as the XP version is still under development. It comes as no big surprise that DX9 can do 90% of what DX10 can do, especially since DX10 is Vista-only. Its just another attempt to push an operating system that very few people want. I'm sure I'll end up with a copy of it in a few years, but very few people actually want it right now.
No developer outside of Microsoft in their right mind would make a Vista-only game right now. It would be like releasing some Virutal Boy games.
I would be willing to bet that the RIAA and ASCAP and BMI are all in bed having a wonderful time.
I would imagine that the RIAA will profit indirectly from ASCAP/BMI's actions, and ASCAP/BMI probably profit directly from CD/ticket sales through the RIAA.
Can't you see what's happening? Its been happening for over a decade now.
The music industry is slamming the small music scenes trying to make more people buy CDs because they can't find any local shows. Either that or pay $300 for a ticket to a concert that they're running 300 miles away. They're trying to kill the competition.
And yeah, they pretty much just go through the phone book and pick coffee houses to harass. I would say that if you're a coffee house that has paid and you haven't broken any obvious laws, that you should be entitled to that money back PLUS administrative fees.
What if I walked in, said you were violating a law that you were not, and demanded payment. What's that called again?
Nice troll.
Tell that to the single mom that has a 70's car and can't afford anything better. Every penny of increase in price is another penny she doesn't have to feed her children.
Every show-off SUV driver you deter from driving, there will be at least three people who can't afford to buy a new car or change their lifestyles that will feel the burn.
I hope someday you understand what I'm talking about.
Then I suggest you start looking into lawsuit options.
There's no escape from the credit system, you should be entitled to quite a big payout, and I think it needs to happen.
I just don't understand the concept, I guess.
s s-shoes.
Business casual is all anyone should be forced to wear. Of course the higher-ups and sales people would want to dress nicer when going into meetings with clients/customers/etc, but as for everyone else..
Its quite superficial. Maybe during the dot com era people could see just how superficial it is. Maybe they were..you know..motivated? They could work efficiently without a strong piece of cloth tied around their necks to irritate them all day.
As a woman, you have quite a few dress options. A dress, a skirt, dress pants, several kinds of shirt, and more importantly, ties are optional. You can wear 30 different types of dressy shoe, and no matter how you wear your hair as long as it isn't in wild colors, it will probably be acceptable.
Us men have very limited options. As far as business professional goes, its pretty much suit-and-tie-with-dress-pants-dress-socks-and-dre
Running in an admin mode is only dangerous for this reason. Most exploits can find admin mode anyway, if you're in it or not.
A few days ago I was infected with PurityScan, several droppers, and a trojan or three.
I have no idea how they got there, but all I saw was a command prompt window pop up for a half a second and then I started getting IE popups (I used Firefox).
A virus scan/adaware/spybot would remove them, but they'd reappear on the next reboot.
A safemode scan of those would remove them, but they'd reappear on the next reboot.
As a result I formatted my Windows drive and reinstalled.
There's no telling how many root kits were hiding in my kernel, all for that might advertising dollar or chance at identity theft.
Any company caught using malware (I'm looking at you, PurityScan) should face charges for criminal trespass and breaking/entering if it turns out they were seeking out services from these contractors.
Don't get me wrong. I dress nicely for my job, but I would dress more casually if I had to be around the building a lot. I certainly would dress more casually if I were in IT and were digging around under desks, in wiring closets, or above ceiling tiles on a regular basis.
Of course the world works in certain ways, but I think the dot com boom created quite a stir. There were people getting things done efficiently and effectively, they were happy, and they were getting paid. Suits and ties weren't the norm, neither were working 80 hour weeks with no overtime pay. There were parties every week or two.
If a team of 5 programmers working 40 hours or less a week can do more than 10 programmers working 80 hours a week, then the industry is fucked up. Those 10 programmers are probably stressed and unhappy, while their managers and/or sales department is living it up in making unreasonable promises and making unclear requests.
"Wow, that guy can program really well and he's not even wearing a suit and tie."
My parents actually warned me from wearing jeans on casual Friday at one point because they said it makes me look like I'm not doing anything and would probably get fired. The concept of being able to work without being reminded that your collar is cutting off your circulation was foreign to them.
Its my own personal hell. If I want to play CS I can do so on unsecured servers where 11 of the 12 other people are cheaters.
The kind that spin around in a crowded room and get 12 headshots with their dualies.