Russian cops can be very tough. The problem is corruption. So my proposal is to allow them to keep any cash, internal organs, and equipment they recover from the spammers (after using it as evidence of course). Bounty hunters!
Your innocent angels are at the mercy of a big scary world and must be protected. Here is what you can do:
- Cut off their ears to protect them from bad words - Blind them to protect them from bad images - Demand that cars be banned because I read somewhere that some pervert used one once in some state to get a kid to go with him - Ban kids from using phones because there have been obscene phone calls
Maybe it would be easier to just freeze your kids in carbonite and put them on the wall.
On a serious note, why ban access in schools and libraries? 99% of these kids access the net from home. I think people should be thrilled to find out that they were even going to the local library in the first place. They've got school access so restricted I wonder how useful it is anymore. Maybe, just maybe, this is just a showpiece bill to placate parents who won't admit that they don't control things at home? We've gone through this with TV and music (thanks Tipper!) already.
"America's Internet police, reportedly including as many as 50,000 state agents, have monitored the American citizenry's online habits. They have blocked Web sites, erased commentary and arrested people for what is deemed unpatriotic, or anti-social, speech. Several hours each week Jane Shmoe, a college student, goes to a little-known on-campus office crammed with computers. There she logs on, unsuspected by other students, to help police her university's Internet forum." From the article: "Under the Familiy Safe Internet initiative, service providers and other companies have been urged to purge their servers of offensive content, ranging from pornography to anything that smacks of overt political criticism or dissent. The Homeland Security authorities say that more than two million supposedly 'unhealthy' images have already been deleted under this campaign by various US Internet service providers, and more than six hundred supposedly 'unhealthy' Internet forums were shut down. These deletions are presented as voluntary acts of corporate civic virtue, but have a coercive aspect to them, because no company would likely risk being singled out as a laggard."
I think I'll have to add a shaman's rattle to my debugging process.
I had a similar experience working for an oceanographics lab. It was my first real job out of college and I was one of the systems gophers (in addition to real work).
One morning I came in and the QA woman had left me a message all upset that her computer wasn't working. She said that she had tried everything. I rushed down there and looked at it for a minute. Moved the mouse, clicked the monitor power switch, then looked under her desk and saw the unplugged power cord. Problem solved! She was so sheepish that I didn't even have the heart to make a joke about it.
Delete from internet.world where lower(page_text) like '% beastiality%' or lower(page_text) like '% lose weight%' or lower(page_text) like '% refinance%' or lower(page_text) like '% ebay%' or lower(page_text) like '% make money fast%' or lower(page_text) like '% enlarge your%' or lower(page_text) like '% teens%'; commit;
My first car was a Ford Pinto with an unbreakable anti-theft system. Every so often, at seemingly random times, it would stall and couldn't be started for approx 24 hrs. It usually did this in the worst possible places (left lane of highway, busy intersection, etc). Any thief who could bypass this system could have had the car if he only told me how he did it because no mechanic was ever able to figure it out.
On a good note I did get to use 100% of my free AAA tows for that year.
My wife's Honda Civic has a similar feature that prevents it from being started if you leave the cruise control on. The cruise control button "on" light is dim and well hidden behind the steering wheel for extra security.
The answer is to take all your money, convert it into gold coins, then bury it in a chest on an uninhabited island. Don't forget to kill the pirates who helped you bury it before leaving. Celebrate with a bottle of rum.
From tellers to ATMS and then back to tellers? The business cycle would be complete! The irony would be delicious. Of course you'd just see lots of guys with foreign accents and phony mustaches going to banks to make "vithdravels".
I wonder if the phishers grumble about getting flooded with phony Citibank emails from their competitors?
For some reason sex has always been seen as worse than violence by the authorities. It strikes me as a bizarre double standard. You could always show someone being murdered in TV and movies but show a woman's breast and it had better be attached to a tribes-woman cooking dinner in a National Geographic special. I don't recall the FCC ever freaking out over a bloody scene on TV but they sure did when Janet Jackson flashed a boob. I guess your kids are better off seeing people killing, without seeing the consequences of course, than having them see genitals, which they see every time they take a bath anyway. If I had to choose I'd rather they see "turgitity" or breasts than see some guy getting beaten senseless on "Cops". I'm not advocating showing explicit sex of course.
I agree 100% about the benefits of wrist and forearm exercises. I started to actually get occasional stabs of pain when using my thumb to turn a faucet or doorknob. My wrists also started to get a constant dull soreness. This all went away completely after doing martial arts (wu shu/kung fu) for a few months (now many years). One of the things that helped the most were the Aikido wrist exercises we would do to get ready to practice wrist locks (Chin Na). Here is a good site about them: Aikido Wrist Exercises.
The idea that IE is a "loss leader" assumes that people are buying windows for IE. I doubt that is the case. People buy windows because that is what you buy when you get a computer, right? You want to run mainstream apps and those are written for windows systems. This isn't like a supermarket where you come in for some produce and leave with that plus some overpriced cereal. They gave out IE years ago to drive out the competition when they thought the internet was a market that could be controled (remember when "portals" where hot?). Now IE is like notepad, no says "I'm going to buy windows to get IE!".
I have to wonder how many of the people in the megabuck$ seating actually paid for it out of their own pockets. I suspect that many of those seats are turning into the equivalent of the company boxes at games. They are given out as favors and gifts to relatives or business associates. If you don't have to pay for it what do you care how much it costs and the business that paid for it counts it as a business expense.
When I first glanced at the article I thought it said "Abrahams", as in Jim Abrahams and David Zucker of "Airplane!" fame. I think they should be the ones doing this movie and rename it "Starship!".
If I read his issue correctly it seems the problem wasn't he didn't know how to use the kiosk, the problem was the kiosk wasn't working ("machine miserably failed to get past the second page"), nor was the other one they pointed him to ("their broken and defunct Dell Genesis Terminal"). He also commented that the application process seemed to require computer use for a job that didn't require it, not that he didn't know how to use one.
So his problem is with a company not providing a means to apply for a job, which may be discriminatory if they don't provide a reasonable means to apply to the general public.
"Maybe if he figured out how to get the thing fixed (who to call, whatever), or fixed it himself". Stores LOVE it when people come in and start screwing around with their equipment. That would go over real well. Plus, if you know how to fix a piece of equipment you've never seen before on the spot then you probably don't need a job in retail.
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Speaking of neural wiring. One very important nerve, the vagus nerve, is very likely the most important nerve in the body. It runs to the heart, larynx, lungs, and internal organs yet doesn't go via the spinal cord, it runs directly from the brainstem down the neck. This means that no matter how much damage your spine suffers your automatic functions will still work (explaining why people can be total paraplegics but stay alive). This may be an evolutionary advantage but I find it hard to believe that anything that survived a severed spinal cord would live long enough to reproduce.
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Russian cops can be very tough. The problem is corruption. So my proposal is to allow them to keep any cash, internal organs, and equipment they recover from the spammers (after using it as evidence of course). Bounty hunters!
Your innocent angels are at the mercy of a big scary world and must be protected. Here is what you can do:
- Cut off their ears to protect them from bad words
- Blind them to protect them from bad images
- Demand that cars be banned because I read somewhere that some pervert used one once in some state to get a kid to go with him
- Ban kids from using phones because there have been obscene phone calls
Maybe it would be easier to just freeze your kids in carbonite and put them on the wall.
On a serious note, why ban access in schools and libraries? 99% of these kids access the net from home. I think people should be thrilled to find out that they were even going to the local library in the first place. They've got school access so restricted I wonder how useful it is anymore. Maybe, just maybe, this is just a showpiece bill to placate parents who won't admit that they don't control things at home? We've gone through this with TV and music (thanks Tipper!) already.
So if you don't want to lose the contents of your RAM I guess you just stick it in the freezer?
I hope he doesn't try using this system in Alaska.
"America's Internet police, reportedly including as many as 50,000 state agents, have monitored the American citizenry's online habits. They have blocked Web sites, erased commentary and arrested people for what is deemed unpatriotic, or anti-social, speech. Several hours each week Jane Shmoe, a college student, goes to a little-known on-campus office crammed with computers. There she logs on, unsuspected by other students, to help police her university's Internet forum." From the article: "Under the Familiy Safe Internet initiative, service providers and other companies have been urged to purge their servers of offensive content, ranging from pornography to anything that smacks of overt political criticism or dissent. The Homeland Security authorities say that more than two million supposedly 'unhealthy' images have already been deleted under this campaign by various US Internet service providers, and more than six hundred supposedly 'unhealthy' Internet forums were shut down. These deletions are presented as voluntary acts of corporate civic virtue, but have a coercive aspect to them, because no company would likely risk being singled out as a laggard."
I think I'll have to add a shaman's rattle to my debugging process.
I had a similar experience working for an oceanographics lab. It was my first real job out of college and I was one of the systems gophers (in addition to real work).
One morning I came in and the QA woman had left me a message all upset that her computer wasn't working. She said that she had tried everything. I rushed down there and looked at it for a minute. Moved the mouse, clicked the monitor power switch, then looked under her desk and saw the unplugged power cord. Problem solved! She was so sheepish that I didn't even have the heart to make a joke about it.
I look forward to Apple and Intel releasing the "Apple Core" chip.
Delete from internet.world
where lower(page_text) like '% beastiality%'
or lower(page_text) like '% lose weight%'
or lower(page_text) like '% refinance%'
or lower(page_text) like '% ebay%'
or lower(page_text) like '% make money fast%'
or lower(page_text) like '% enlarge your%'
or lower(page_text) like '% teens%';
commit;
My first car was a Ford Pinto with an unbreakable anti-theft system. Every so often, at seemingly random times, it would stall and couldn't be started for approx 24 hrs. It usually did this in the worst possible places (left lane of highway, busy intersection, etc). Any thief who could bypass this system could have had the car if he only told me how he did it because no mechanic was ever able to figure it out.
On a good note I did get to use 100% of my free AAA tows for that year.
My wife's Honda Civic has a similar feature that prevents it from being started if you leave the cruise control on. The cruise control button "on" light is dim and well hidden behind the steering wheel for extra security.
I hate to break it to you but I found her "Hide-A-Key". You chose an obvious place to try to hide it.
"How about how to pick up under age girls."
I already have ten emails telling me how to do this, AND THEY ARE IN MY AREA!
You mean there is a race of humanoids made entirely out of a traditional Mexican sauce?
The answer is to take all your money, convert it into gold coins, then bury it in a chest on an uninhabited island. Don't forget to kill the pirates who helped you bury it before leaving. Celebrate with a bottle of rum.
The key is to be a customer at a bank that doesn't give a shit about you. Then you always know all emails are phony.
From tellers to ATMS and then back to tellers? The business cycle would be complete! The irony would be delicious. Of course you'd just see lots of guys with foreign accents and phony mustaches going to banks to make "vithdravels".
I wonder if the phishers grumble about getting flooded with phony Citibank emails from their competitors?
Then they can fake accounts, fake investments, fake interest, and...hell, why don't they just open a bank?
For some reason sex has always been seen as worse than violence by the authorities. It strikes me as a bizarre double standard. You could always show someone being murdered in TV and movies but show a woman's breast and it had better be attached to a tribes-woman cooking dinner in a National Geographic special. I don't recall the FCC ever freaking out over a bloody scene on TV but they sure did when Janet Jackson flashed a boob. I guess your kids are better off seeing people killing, without seeing the consequences of course, than having them see genitals, which they see every time they take a bath anyway. If I had to choose I'd rather they see "turgitity" or breasts than see some guy getting beaten senseless on "Cops". I'm not advocating showing explicit sex of course.
I agree 100% about the benefits of wrist and forearm exercises. I started to actually get occasional stabs of pain when using my thumb to turn a faucet or doorknob. My wrists also started to get a constant dull soreness. This all went away completely after doing martial arts (wu shu/kung fu) for a few months (now many years). One of the things that helped the most were the Aikido wrist exercises we would do to get ready to practice wrist locks (Chin Na). Here is a good site about them: Aikido Wrist Exercises.
The idea that IE is a "loss leader" assumes that people are buying windows for IE. I doubt that is the case. People buy windows because that is what you buy when you get a computer, right? You want to run mainstream apps and those are written for windows systems. This isn't like a supermarket where you come in for some produce and leave with that plus some overpriced cereal. They gave out IE years ago to drive out the competition when they thought the internet was a market that could be controled (remember when "portals" where hot?). Now IE is like notepad, no says "I'm going to buy windows to get IE!".
When I was in college I was living in a cashless society. Ok, it was just me.
I have to wonder how many of the people in the megabuck$ seating actually paid for it out of their own pockets. I suspect that many of those seats are turning into the equivalent of the company boxes at games. They are given out as favors and gifts to relatives or business associates. If you don't have to pay for it what do you care how much it costs and the business that paid for it counts it as a business expense.
"These seats rule! My dad works for Elektra!"
When I first glanced at the article I thought it said "Abrahams", as in Jim Abrahams and David Zucker of "Airplane!" fame. I think they should be the ones doing this movie and rename it "Starship!".
"Planet Brokeback", Kirk and Spock hide in the interdimensional closet.
I hear that Slashdot has a patent on a technology that forces you to read the same articles over and over again.
If I read his issue correctly it seems the problem wasn't he didn't know how to use the kiosk, the problem was the kiosk wasn't working ("machine miserably failed to get past the second page"), nor was the other one they pointed him to ("their broken and defunct Dell Genesis Terminal"). He also commented that the application process seemed to require computer use for a job that didn't require it, not that he didn't know how to use one.
So his problem is with a company not providing a means to apply for a job, which may be discriminatory if they don't provide a reasonable means to apply to the general public.
"Maybe if he figured out how to get the thing fixed (who to call, whatever), or fixed it himself". Stores LOVE it when people come in and start screwing around with their equipment. That would go over real well. Plus, if you know how to fix a piece of equipment you've never seen before on the spot then you probably don't need a job in retail.
Speaking of neural wiring. One very important nerve, the vagus nerve, is very likely the most important nerve in the body. It runs to the heart, larynx, lungs, and internal organs yet doesn't go via the spinal cord, it runs directly from the brainstem down the neck. This means that no matter how much damage your spine suffers your automatic functions will still work (explaining why people can be total paraplegics but stay alive). This may be an evolutionary advantage but I find it hard to believe that anything that survived a severed spinal cord would live long enough to reproduce.