>>An extra AC adapter, to leave plugged in at home.
Absolutely essential - as is a second battery if you are not using it as a mobile desktop and hitting the road a lot - those AC adapter cables don't tend to like being repeatedly coiled and un-coiled, plugged and un-plugged... Also for some some unknown reason, laptop power supplies tend to be proprietary voltage/connector combinations which makes it very painful should one fail.
So, who're you going to be buying that replacement proprietary power supply from? Thought so.
See RMS. Ooops! See RMS's mother. She's a nice lady. She must be patriotic. (Quick, we need a stand in for RMS's mother. She has to bake apple pies. Lots of Apple Pies.).
The part of the plan which you're ignoring (and which the Inquirer has tucked away in a single sentence) is "Where multiple agencies are involved the file will denote which one profesional will have overall reponsibilty.".
The main aim of this initiative is to make a single person responsible for each child, as recently a number of cases have come to light where children have died as a result of neglect despite the fact that they were known to social services as being at risk. The idea is to stop children being lost between the cracks between the different agencies that oversee different aspects of the child's life (education, home welfare, health etc..).
The fact that each child will have a record is a means to an end, and besides, there is no mention of collecting any information above what is already collected by the different agencies.
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The measures are largely the result of the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie who was battered, abused and starved to death by her carers in London in 2000. She was eight years old.
The inquiry found confusion and incompetence amongst a number of agencies that might have saved the child. Inquiry head, Lord Laming, said there were at least 12 occasions on which police, social workers or NHS staff might have intervened had they talked to one another. "
My handheld GPS commonly gets 14 foot accuracy. It's accurate enough that if I have it on and tracking when I drive to work and when I drive back I can see on the screen that I was in a differnt lane of the road on the way back.
If you were driving in the opposite direction and were still in the same lane as before, I think that would be a bigger problem.
I think one key element that you may have missed when you were writing your hilarious and highly original 'predictive post' is that most truly great predictions are made BEFORE the events that they describe occur. This is where the word-stem 'predict' comes from in their name. What you. sir, have actually produced is a summary of what you have already read on this page. This can only be considered impressive if you are about age 8, in which case I offer my apologies for this sarcastic post and offer you a helpful reminder to try not to get jam on Daddy's keyboard.
I hope this helps you in your future posting attempts.
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"The whole world" with more than a few minor exceptions like the UK, Spain, Australia, etc. Minor, yeah. The UN resolution that might have authorized war had a majority of the Security Council supporting it. It was withdrawn under the threat of a unilateral veto by France. Only in the mind of an unusually arrogant Frenchman does France constitute the "whole world".
Assuming you're American, my irony meter just exploded.
4. Build Linux installation software that allows a new user to stick a CD in the slot, click "Go", walk away, and come back 15 minutes later to find Windows gone, Linux up and running, and all his Windows-created data and files preserved and migrated to the right Linux apps.
And while we're at it, would you like a satelite that can scratch your ass with a laser-beam from space?
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M$ Programmer: Well, nobody's going to read this anyway, so "\\f*ck this bullsh*t"
I would have thought even an MS programmer would get the slashes in their C++ comments the right way round.
>>An extra AC adapter, to leave plugged in at home.
Absolutely essential - as is a second battery if you are not using it as a mobile desktop and hitting the road a lot - those AC adapter cables don't tend to like being repeatedly coiled and un-coiled, plugged and un-plugged... Also for some some unknown reason, laptop power supplies tend to be proprietary voltage/connector combinations which makes it very painful should one fail.
So, who're you going to be buying that replacement proprietary power supply from? Thought so.
The Commodore Amiga had this from atleast the Amiga 500, possibly earlier and that was in 1986.
TWC in Queens (New York City for you non-Merkins is ...
;)
Hmm. AFAIK, atleast in the UK, a Merkin is the name for a pubic wig. Queens must be an interesting place..
What the iLug needs most is:
1. Money.
2. Information.
3. Technical help.
I think I've decoded the secret plea for help in their message! Dispatch the special agents from Massachusetts immediately!
I wonder how much money it would take for the average person to participate.
;)
I think it's the under average people that wouldn't want to participate....
Based on past experience, the driver for your root filesystem is *definitely* one of those things that works better if it's not a module ;)
Tim Berners-Lee got the knighthood less than a month ago.
And he's now known as Sir-Lee, the miserable dwarf.
See RMS. Ooops! See RMS's mother. She's a nice lady. She must be patriotic. (Quick, we need a stand in for RMS's mother. She has to bake apple pies. Lots of Apple Pies.).
Is Steve Jobs' Mum free?
All the lines in your script are commented out!
That's why it's not working.
HTH HAND
Well shit. I guess that sound you hear is everyone *not* rushing out to cancel their iPod orders.
Seriously, WMA support on my iPod is about as useful as being able to put cornflakes in my toaster. Who gives a shit?
much to the wife's annoyance (that I'm taking up closet space)
Perhaps it's time to come out the closet? I'm sure your wife will understand.
>Executio Protection
Old man Saddam could use feature that right about now.
Why? In case Harry Potter tries to kill him?
The part of the plan which you're ignoring (and which the Inquirer has tucked away in a single sentence) is "Where multiple agencies are involved the file will denote which one profesional will have overall reponsibilty.".
The main aim of this initiative is to make a single person responsible for each child, as recently a number of cases have come to light where children have died as a result of neglect despite the fact that they were known to social services as being at risk. The idea is to stop children being lost between the cracks between the different agencies that oversee different aspects of the child's life (education, home welfare, health etc..).
The fact that each child will have a record is a means to an end, and besides, there is no mention of collecting any information above what is already collected by the different agencies.
" The measures are largely the result of the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie who was battered, abused and starved to death by her carers in London in 2000. She was eight years old.
The inquiry found confusion and incompetence amongst a number of agencies that might have saved the child. Inquiry head, Lord Laming, said there were at least 12 occasions on which police, social workers or NHS staff might have intervened had they talked to one another. "
In other breaking news, I have just scratched my ass. There is no evidence of terrorist involvement at this time.
I'm really hoping that 'sueicide' is intended to be a topical pun on the word 'sue'.
Either that or you are yet another member of the Slashdot Illiterati.
I'm thinking of getting an iPod at some point, but I only run Linux (on x86). Does Apple support Linux connectivity?
An air / vacume barrier.
Looks like you need to work on your spell-checker technology.
My handheld GPS commonly gets 14 foot accuracy. It's accurate enough that if I have it on and tracking when I drive to work and when I drive back I can see on the screen that I was in a differnt lane of the road on the way back.
If you were driving in the opposite direction and were still in the same lane as before, I think that would be a bigger problem.
Note: CmdrTaco is not a good person to take lessons from.
I would just like to thank you for posting the TubGirl link. Any chance I ever had of fathering children has disappeared in one look at that picture.
ObSimpsons: You killed my horny.
I notice you're not denying the gay porn ;)
I think one key element that you may have missed when you were writing your hilarious and highly original 'predictive post' is that most truly great predictions are made BEFORE the events that they describe occur. This is where the word-stem 'predict' comes from in their name. What you. sir, have actually produced is a summary of what you have already read on this page. This can only be considered impressive if you are about age 8, in which case I offer my apologies for this sarcastic post and offer you a helpful reminder to try not to get jam on Daddy's keyboard.
I hope this helps you in your future posting attempts.
"The whole world" with more than a few minor exceptions like the UK, Spain, Australia, etc. Minor, yeah. The UN resolution that might have authorized war had a majority of the Security Council supporting it. It was withdrawn under the threat of a unilateral veto by France. Only in the mind of an unusually arrogant Frenchman does France constitute the "whole world".
Assuming you're American, my irony meter just exploded.
4. Build Linux installation software that allows a new user to stick a CD in the slot, click "Go", walk away, and come back 15 minutes later to find Windows gone, Linux up and running, and all his Windows-created data and files preserved and migrated to the right Linux apps.
And while we're at it, would you like a satelite that can scratch your ass with a laser-beam from space?