Question: Does British Law have a "Fruit of the poisoned tree." concept like US law? If so then this list cannot be legally used to prosecute tax avoidance or evasion.
Hmm, but If I send my 1tb passport drive via USPS Priority Mail flat rate in their small box, (which has room for packing material to protect the drive.) It would cost $4.95 (less if I pay the shipping on line) to send it on that same route. It should get there in two to three days.
So the box would be quicker, and much cheaper (not counting cost of the external drive) than your pipeline.
Nope the pipeline needs to be even fatter than what you specified to beat transporting physical media.
p.s. You could fit two 1tb passport drives in the specified box.
That's funny that you've found problems, I haven't. I like the fact that my phone, my wife's phone, my Nook and my camera can all charge/sync off the same connector's and adapters.
All four devices charge/sync just fine on the various adapters and cables that came with each device, so I only have to take one cable when I travel not three. And as more devices standardize, I don't have to buy a new car adapter each time I get a new device, and they can all charge off my computer.
Me and my family (Wife and three kids) live quite comfortably on an AGI of about 48k. We have no debt but our mortgage; and both our vehicles are paid for. We paid cash for both of them, my truck was brand new off the lot.
Do we have a million toys? The latest gadgets and gizmo's? No, but we are comfortable, my wife teases me about having as many computers as we do, our kids watch far more TV than we do, and PBSkids looks just fine on a non HD screen. On the other hand we are able to help others in need and have a good sized emergency fund, and a stable of investments.
How did we do it? Well first off, when we bought our house we didn't look to get the biggest McMansion in town stretching out our income to the absolute maximum we could afford, we found something that fit our needs and had room to grow our family within our plans. Oh, and my wife (an Attorney by education and pre-marriage employment) is by her choice a stay at home mom. We do all this on one income.
About 10 years ago someone told me I'd need a minimum of 50k a year to comfortably raise a family. I'm still not quite to that point but doing fine. Would I like more? Sure, but we are comfortable, satisfied and happy.
Vines, thus vinyards, vintners, vintage and Wine. It's not an issue of being a "naming nazi", it's the fact that grapes grow on vines and the entire wine industry has it's entire lexicon based on the fact that grapes grow on vines.
How about this use. They've sold 500 of these, most of them most likely to ports. These devices are used to scan cargo containers. They are used to scan cargo containers arriving at our military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I see no reason at all for these to ever be used in the general public in the manner being put forth in this FUD article.
There is a legit and non-privacy invasive mission and use for these vehicles. Many more than 500 will be needed before we start getting to a surplus where they could be redirected to these "evil tactics". How many ports do we have, how many containers are unloaded every day, how many can they currently scan versus that total load.
They don't log you out. A few minutes after you walk away the screen saver will kick in and lock the screen, but pulling a CAC doesn't log you out. That would make it a real pain to register a new CAC card on a system, or do one of many common tasks we do where someone will sit at another's machine and log into AKO or another site with their own CAC.
Wrong. I regularly used USB drives on classified and unclassified systems up until the ban. Personal ones were strictly verboten in classified systems but on unclass ones it was no big deal, and very common to use personal ones. Especially since supply would usually only come up with old low-capacity thumb drives (I'm talking 128 meg when 4 gb was common and 8 gb were the big ones on the market).
While I haven't seen any official statement about it being lifted. I have started seeing USB drives work more and more often.
But then again maybe someone in the G6 (Army IT guys) just decided the ban was stupid when they were issuing out new computers and while USB was blocked, Firewire, eSATA and SD card port and slots were all active and working. My office went from everyone carrying USB drives in their pockets to everyone carrying SD cards.
Now if the machine is off the mil network the USB works, if the USB drive is in the machine when I connect to the network it works, but if I pull the drive out and re-insert it or if I connect and log in and then insert the USB drive it doesn't work, typical military brilliance.
PDF's are not the answer. Open formats like epub are. With an open format ad blockers and the like can be created.
I tried a couple pdf formatted books on my Nook, talk about a pain, the default font size in the PDF's was either way too big or most commonly way to small, when you adjust the font size in the nook, you can get the font where you need it, but with the bdf's I tried it screwed up the formatting, and the page count was a joke, it was reporting the number of pdf pages left, not the number of page turns needed to finish the ebook.
I agree, as long as the ads stay similarly confined. However today's advertisers are going to want product placement within the books, and when you hit that product, up will pop a video ad that you can't skip. Or the next page will be the ad.
Can I get a pop-up blocker for my Nook?
That's the kind of advertising I think most of us fear. The "Hey you might also like these books" ads currently found in the back of many old and new books are fine. But can the advertisers, publishers and sellers fight the temptation to fully leverage the advertising potential of these modern multi-media capable readers?
One nitpick and then the rant: At least with my Nook, most the $9.99 and up books are the new releases still in HB only. I don't really have a problem with that price, it's the books that have been out in paperback for 10 years that they want $6 for that I have issues with.
Paying $9.99 for a new release can be worth it, just as previously I might have plunked down the $30 or more for the hardback from the favorite author or series that I'm really motivated to read or collect. But come on, no book that has been out in paperback for more than a couple years should cost anywhere near $6 for the eBook format, when the paperback is only a couple dollars more. I'm thinking $2 or $3 bucks tops. I don't expect them to be free, but the publishing and marketing costs were most likely paid by the HB release, all books are processed in electronic formats already so it's not like they're even having to pay someone to type in a book, it was submitted in electronic format, or was entered into electronic formats to be typeset and published.
As to ads, as long as I can get the books in the epub format for my nook, I've already found an open source editor and can delete them out if they get annoying.
Ads in general are not necessarily a bad thing, books have had ads and order forms in the back of them for decades. If they want to keep doing that, well it just tells me when that book is finished and I can close the book and open another one.
I'll be able to tell in an instant. Having grown up with very hard water, Distilled water is tasteless and bitter compared to a glass of water with a rich flavor of various minerals.
I'll take the hard water please, keep your distilled crap for washing the car.
Minerals also serve to replenish electrolytes lost when you sweat, distilled water has zero electrolytes.
What about the Afghan people who were being denied any opportunity to progress by the Taliban regime? And who now have the opportunity to progress in many parts of the country. Women can work again, girls can go to school again, in 2004 the Afghan people voted for the first time in decades, and followed that five years later with a second presidential election. (I'm not a fan of the result of that election, Karzai needed to be ousted.)
You make it sound like the U.S. invasion introduced war, death and hardships to the Afghan people. No, it was the Soviets who invaded in 1979 that started the 30+ years of war and terror in that country. Prior to the invasion they had a fairly modern system of government that gradually leaned further and further to the left until they embraced communism. Then the tribal and religious leaders outside the capitol started pushing back, at that point the Soviets invaded and the war began. The U.S. has not done it perfectly, very very far from it. But the results to date are a vastly improved society with greater levels of freedom than they've seen in decades if ever, with the exception of within the area's we've let the Taliban control due to insufficient troop strength (thanks to the Iraq diversion.)
If you're going to criticize at least get your facts straight. You claim to be so moved by the vets in(and missing from) your classroom. Yet we all have a much better idea of whats happening than you do. We didn't start the war in Afghanistan, but we are planning on finishing it, even if it does take several more years. When we leave, a democratically elected government capable of policing and defending itself will be in place.
Generations of Afghans (their generations are much shorter than ours) have only known war. We are trying to end that, but it takes combat to end a war.
Bradly Manning is a traitor and should face the full penalty for his crimes, his leaks have cost and will cost the lives of brave Afghans working to push the Taliban out and keep them out. And that will deter other Afghans from assisting in the effort, thus delaying and prolonging the effort. He is no hero and deserves no respect. Agree or disagree with the war, his actions served only to prolong it and will result in many more deaths.
And the documents show that the vast majority of those civilians were/are killed by the Taliban, mostly via indiscriminately placed and detonated IEDs. So this leak is just putting more people at risk not fewer.
Back east has been warmer this summer. But, the west has been cooler and wetter this spring and summer. So I'll trade your local weather anomaly for mine.
In most Western European and similar 1st world countries, that is the case. In far more countries the rule seems to be drive where and however you want to get there, safely or not. Passing on the left or right or just driving in the second or even third lane of a two lane road.
And does this Bus thingy never cross intersections or run into areas with only one lane in each direction.
Also as others have noted there are some serious perspective/scale issues with the illustrations and the model, that make both poor representations of what the final product looks like.
Every couple years someone gets lost and nearly dies in the deserts of South-eastern Utah, because their GPS tells them to follow a jeep trail in their mini-van.
Their GPS tells them the route to follow, so they mindlessly turn off the busy paved roads onto increasingly rough dirt roads that eventually turn into trails Jeeps struggle to travel over.
Just a point. We did find WMD, we found small cache's of chemical weapons all over the country. We even had troops hit by a few IED's made with Chem shells.
What we didn't find was the massive production systems (remember the mobile labs from the U.N. presentation by Sec. Powell?) or massive stockpiles. But of course all most critics claim is that we didn't find any. However if the small cache's were combined we found quite a bit, just not the single big stockpile, or more importantly any active production facilities.
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Question: Does British Law have a "Fruit of the poisoned tree." concept like US law? If so then this list cannot be legally used to prosecute tax avoidance or evasion.
Hmm, but If I send my 1tb passport drive via USPS Priority Mail flat rate in their small box, (which has room for packing material to protect the drive.) It would cost $4.95 (less if I pay the shipping on line) to send it on that same route. It should get there in two to three days.
So the box would be quicker, and much cheaper (not counting cost of the external drive) than your pipeline.
Nope the pipeline needs to be even fatter than what you specified to beat transporting physical media.
p.s. You could fit two 1tb passport drives in the specified box.
Only if said 747 is also carrying a supply of beets.
That's funny that you've found problems, I haven't. I like the fact that my phone, my wife's phone, my Nook and my camera can all charge/sync off the same connector's and adapters.
All four devices charge/sync just fine on the various adapters and cables that came with each device, so I only have to take one cable when I travel not three. And as more devices standardize, I don't have to buy a new car adapter each time I get a new device, and they can all charge off my computer.
Me and my family (Wife and three kids) live quite comfortably on an AGI of about 48k. We have no debt but our mortgage; and both our vehicles are paid for. We paid cash for both of them, my truck was brand new off the lot.
Do we have a million toys? The latest gadgets and gizmo's? No, but we are comfortable, my wife teases me about having as many computers as we do, our kids watch far more TV than we do, and PBSkids looks just fine on a non HD screen. On the other hand we are able to help others in need and have a good sized emergency fund, and a stable of investments.
How did we do it? Well first off, when we bought our house we didn't look to get the biggest McMansion in town stretching out our income to the absolute maximum we could afford, we found something that fit our needs and had room to grow our family within our plans. Oh, and my wife (an Attorney by education and pre-marriage employment) is by her choice a stay at home mom. We do all this on one income.
About 10 years ago someone told me I'd need a minimum of 50k a year to comfortably raise a family. I'm still not quite to that point but doing fine. Would I like more? Sure, but we are comfortable, satisfied and happy.
Your comprehension of what is needed is way off.
Vines, thus vinyards, vintners, vintage and Wine. It's not an issue of being a "naming nazi", it's the fact that grapes grow on vines and the entire wine industry has it's entire lexicon based on the fact that grapes grow on vines.
Try Harbor, that might be a legal synonym.
True, I believe we've outsourced the responsibility/ability to understand it to a guy named Bob living on an otherwise deserted island in Micronesia.
How about this use. They've sold 500 of these, most of them most likely to ports. These devices are used to scan cargo containers. They are used to scan cargo containers arriving at our military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I see no reason at all for these to ever be used in the general public in the manner being put forth in this FUD article.
There is a legit and non-privacy invasive mission and use for these vehicles. Many more than 500 will be needed before we start getting to a surplus where they could be redirected to these "evil tactics". How many ports do we have, how many containers are unloaded every day, how many can they currently scan versus that total load.
They don't log you out. A few minutes after you walk away the screen saver will kick in and lock the screen, but pulling a CAC doesn't log you out.
That would make it a real pain to register a new CAC card on a system, or do one of many common tasks we do where someone will sit at another's machine and log into AKO or another site with their own CAC.
Wrong. I regularly used USB drives on classified and unclassified systems up until the ban. Personal ones were strictly verboten in classified systems but on unclass ones it was no big deal, and very common to use personal ones. Especially since supply would usually only come up with old low-capacity thumb drives (I'm talking 128 meg when 4 gb was common and 8 gb were the big ones on the market).
While I haven't seen any official statement about it being lifted. I have started seeing USB drives work more and more often.
But then again maybe someone in the G6 (Army IT guys) just decided the ban was stupid when they were issuing out new computers and while USB was blocked, Firewire, eSATA and SD card port and slots were all active and working. My office went from everyone carrying USB drives in their pockets to everyone carrying SD cards.
Now if the machine is off the mil network the USB works, if the USB drive is in the machine when I connect to the network it works, but if I pull the drive out and re-insert it or if I connect and log in and then insert the USB drive it doesn't work, typical military brilliance.
PDF's are not the answer. Open formats like epub are. With an open format ad blockers and the like can be created.
I tried a couple pdf formatted books on my Nook, talk about a pain, the default font size in the PDF's was either way too big or most commonly way to small, when you adjust the font size in the nook, you can get the font where you need it, but with the bdf's I tried it screwed up the formatting, and the page count was a joke, it was reporting the number of pdf pages left, not the number of page turns needed to finish the ebook.
I'll stick to epub format thanks.
I agree, as long as the ads stay similarly confined. However today's advertisers are going to want product placement within the books, and when you hit that product, up will pop a video ad that you can't skip. Or the next page will be the ad.
Can I get a pop-up blocker for my Nook?
That's the kind of advertising I think most of us fear. The "Hey you might also like these books" ads currently found in the back of many old and new books are fine. But can the advertisers, publishers and sellers fight the temptation to fully leverage the advertising potential of these modern multi-media capable readers?
One nitpick and then the rant: At least with my Nook, most the $9.99 and up books are the new releases still in HB only. I don't really have a problem with that price, it's the books that have been out in paperback for 10 years that they want $6 for that I have issues with.
Paying $9.99 for a new release can be worth it, just as previously I might have plunked down the $30 or more for the hardback from the favorite author or series that I'm really motivated to read or collect. But come on, no book that has been out in paperback for more than a couple years should cost anywhere near $6 for the eBook format, when the paperback is only a couple dollars more. I'm thinking $2 or $3 bucks tops. I don't expect them to be free, but the publishing and marketing costs were most likely paid by the HB release, all books are processed in electronic formats already so it's not like they're even having to pay someone to type in a book, it was submitted in electronic format, or was entered into electronic formats to be typeset and published.
As to ads, as long as I can get the books in the epub format for my nook, I've already found an open source editor and can delete them out if they get annoying.
Ads in general are not necessarily a bad thing, books have had ads and order forms in the back of them for decades. If they want to keep doing that, well it just tells me when that book is finished and I can close the book and open another one.
I'll be able to tell in an instant. Having grown up with very hard water, Distilled water is tasteless and bitter compared to a glass of water with a rich flavor of various minerals. I'll take the hard water please, keep your distilled crap for washing the car. Minerals also serve to replenish electrolytes lost when you sweat, distilled water has zero electrolytes.
Fun! A target rich environment.
Ommmmminous Hummmmmmm
What about the Afghan people who were being denied any opportunity to progress by the Taliban regime? And who now have the opportunity to progress in many parts of the country. Women can work again, girls can go to school again, in 2004 the Afghan people voted for the first time in decades, and followed that five years later with a second presidential election. (I'm not a fan of the result of that election, Karzai needed to be ousted.)
You make it sound like the U.S. invasion introduced war, death and hardships to the Afghan people. No, it was the Soviets who invaded in 1979 that started the 30+ years of war and terror in that country. Prior to the invasion they had a fairly modern system of government that gradually leaned further and further to the left until they embraced communism. Then the tribal and religious leaders outside the capitol started pushing back, at that point the Soviets invaded and the war began. The U.S. has not done it perfectly, very very far from it. But the results to date are a vastly improved society with greater levels of freedom than they've seen in decades if ever, with the exception of within the area's we've let the Taliban control due to insufficient troop strength (thanks to the Iraq diversion.)
If you're going to criticize at least get your facts straight. You claim to be so moved by the vets in(and missing from) your classroom. Yet we all have a much better idea of whats happening than you do. We didn't start the war in Afghanistan, but we are planning on finishing it, even if it does take several more years. When we leave, a democratically elected government capable of policing and defending itself will be in place.
Generations of Afghans (their generations are much shorter than ours) have only known war. We are trying to end that, but it takes combat to end a war.
Bradly Manning is a traitor and should face the full penalty for his crimes, his leaks have cost and will cost the lives of brave Afghans working to push the Taliban out and keep them out. And that will deter other Afghans from assisting in the effort, thus delaying and prolonging the effort. He is no hero and deserves no respect. Agree or disagree with the war, his actions served only to prolong it and will result in many more deaths.
And the documents show that the vast majority of those civilians were/are killed by the Taliban, mostly via indiscriminately placed and detonated IEDs. So this leak is just putting more people at risk not fewer.
Back east has been warmer this summer. But, the west has been cooler and wetter this spring and summer. So I'll trade your local weather anomaly for mine.
In most Western European and similar 1st world countries, that is the case. In far more countries the rule seems to be drive where and however you want to get there, safely or not. Passing on the left or right or just driving in the second or even third lane of a two lane road.
And does this Bus thingy never cross intersections or run into areas with only one lane in each direction.
Also as others have noted there are some serious perspective/scale issues with the illustrations and the model, that make both poor representations of what the final product looks like.
It states that it uses the space between the tops of cars and the bottoms of the bridges.
The idea is to make use of the space between regular-size cars and bridges,
How high are their bridges?
And what if a big rig wants to drive down that road to deliver some furniture or something?
Every couple years someone gets lost and nearly dies in the deserts of South-eastern Utah, because their GPS tells them to follow a jeep trail in their mini-van.
Their GPS tells them the route to follow, so they mindlessly turn off the busy paved roads onto increasingly rough dirt roads that eventually turn into trails Jeeps struggle to travel over.
Just a point. We did find WMD, we found small cache's of chemical weapons all over the country. We even had troops hit by a few IED's made with Chem shells.
What we didn't find was the massive production systems (remember the mobile labs from the U.N. presentation by Sec. Powell?) or massive stockpiles. But of course all most critics claim is that we didn't find any. However if the small cache's were combined we found quite a bit, just not the single big stockpile, or more importantly any active production facilities.
Yep, you grew up, after how many centuries of years of constant warfare?