Because GHW Bush thought it would rip his coalition apart *and* fail to achieve the goal. As for North Korea, they're living proof that once you HAVE nukes, you're pretty much immune as long as people think you're crazy enough to use them on Tokyo.
I would imagine that fighter pilots use hookers for much the same reason celebrities do: they're not paying for sex, because they can get that for free; they're paying for her to go away after they're done. And not name them in paternity suits.
Please mod parent up. (Although I don't think the "invisible hand" is a delusion, just a victim of wishful thinking about what it can do.) The market sets prices. THE MARKET SETS PRICES. It doesn't guarantee that good things will get invented, it doesn't mean bad things won't be produced. It does guarantee that prices will be established that will clear goods from the market. (This is a good thing, because it means that over time we tend to get more of what we want and less of what we don't -- but it doesn't mean that we'll get exactly what we want when we want it.)
I saw a similar problem with Win95 (though not 98), using good old cheap NE2000 clones. Install the network and card: doesn't work. Remove card, reboot, remove network config. Reboot. Install network card and network. Reboot. Works.
I've never had to support somebody that was paying my salary. It does make it easier, because you can always tell your mom you're not going to do any more phone support until she learns how to speak the lingo.
Memory is your desk. You have to put something on your desk to work on it. The hard drive is your filing cabinet.
You can't read things in the filing cabinet without getting up, walking across the room, opening it up, flipping through the files, and taking the one you want back to your desk. Although the filing cabinet can hold a lot of stuff very cheaply, you can't work directly on stuff in it. Furthermore, the smaller your desk is, the fewer things you'll be able to keep on it, and the more you'll have to get up and walk over to the filing cabinet. This takes your computer lots of time, if you keep doing it, so you have to buy enough desk to hold all the things you'll want to work on at the same time.
Check my replies to others for why I didn't mean mouthing off. I (and many others) frequently travel armed, so this in particular is not proof that an armed society is a polite one - they certainly don't seem to show much politeness toward the populace at large, even though under Mississippi law your car is considered an extension of your home, and no permit is required to have a weapon in the car. If I didn't work for a state-owned hospital, I'd always leave the gun in the car (I did for years before I took this job), but you're not allowed to have one on campus.
It did lead to one slightly humorous incident soon after Sept 11 - when they were doing inspections of cars entering airport property and I went to pick up a friend. I told the officers I had a pistol under the seat, so it wouldn't be a surprise. They asked if I was planning to take it into the airport. I told them no, it would stay in the car. They sent me on my way.
As I told someone else, this comment was sort of fired from the hip, so it gave several people the wrong idea. You don't have to mouth off; you just stop being polite. No more "sir" or "officer". Ask for name, badge number, and supervisor's name. Ask if you are free to go, and then leave without further comment.
Yeah, this is my attitude. I don't mouth off; as the old cop saying goes, you may beat the rap but you won't beat the ride. I should have been more clear - there's no benefit to being a smartass, but you can make it quite apparent that you're unhappy with their behavior and will make an issue of it.
Allow me to explain the situation I'm thinking of. A speed trap was set up on a road near my house. I worked all night. I was coming home. I certainly wasn't staring at the speedometer, and although I'm no speed demon, it is at least possible that the officer really did clock me doing 47 in a 35 - it was downhill on a 4-lane road. Fast forward two weeks. My wife is going to work down the same road. She's been informed that they're out there, so she drives cautiously. The officer cites her for... 48 in a 35. (She was going uphill.) Now, she is a speed demon normally, so it's not insane to think she'd have done it most days - but not when she knew they were there. When she was pulled over, she was one of half a dozen drivers in the same situation. This time, however, they took the "silly little lady" attitude with her - my guy had simply asked for my license and proof of insurance, asked no questions, and handed me a ticket stating he had radared me at such and such speed. Meanwhile, they're radaring their cop buddies and actually saying things like "Hey Dave, you got up to 55 that time!"
She got mad, started kind of ranting at the guys. I, of course, was furious with her when I heard this. I told her that what she should have done is said nothing, waited until he came up with the ticket, and then (politely) asked for the names and badge numbers of every officer present, as well as their supervisor's name, so that she could report their behavior.
Probably is, though, until they decide to exclude you from it for cause. It's not as though they have a bouncer who decides whether or not you're cool enough to shop at REI.
While I am very sorry for your loss, how exactly would monitoring prevent SIDS? Parents must sleep sooner or later, and the absence of breath sounds is not something we easily cue to while asleep.
You know, why aren't they just using the old 49 MHz and 900 MHz channels that were used for phones in the old days?
I have a 49MHz phone that I replaced only because it didn't get caller ID (my conversations are never interesting enough to be worth listening to). Slightly worse distance reception than my new DECT, but not much. Nice analog degradation - people fuzz before they drop out. Got 50 m of signal out of it, too.
Yeah, I've heard of that before. And you're right, it's a problem. I'm pretty darn conscientious about my trash, so I tend to forget that not everyone else is...
Why? Something that doesn't degrade... isn't a problem. We make all kinds of things that don't degrade - bricks and concrete, for example - and they're not ecodisasters. They do occupy landfill space, but very few places are really at any risk of running out of landfill space. As long as they don't have toxic leachates - such as older, metallic newspaper inks - there's really very little concerning about plastics per se. (Interesting tip for the young: did you know why Styrofoam first became a bugbear of the environmental movement? Not because it doesn't biodegrade - it's harmless insulation, after all - but because it was blown into foam using CFCs.)
More likely I would just make a huge number of 5', 10' and 20' cables and make more when I run out or if I get a special request.
See, at this point, isn't the custom-cut just a special-request sideline for the Customer Who Knows What He Wants (And Is Willing To Pay Extra)? I think you should be able to buy the other lengths more cheaply than you could make them, but then maybe I'm just too far out of the market.
Why not just buy a variety of sizes in bulk and have them on hand? Many of them will not have tape measures in hand, so you'll end up going to their rooms, measuring it out, cutting, crimping, and - unless their next-door-neighbor needs the same thing - walking back to the front of the dorm to hawk your wares. Much less wear and tear on you to sit at a small table and sell your product, even if there's a mite less profit in it.
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Because GHW Bush thought it would rip his coalition apart *and* fail to achieve the goal. As for North Korea, they're living proof that once you HAVE nukes, you're pretty much immune as long as people think you're crazy enough to use them on Tokyo.
I would imagine that fighter pilots use hookers for much the same reason celebrities do: they're not paying for sex, because they can get that for free; they're paying for her to go away after they're done. And not name them in paternity suits.
Nah, just had a younger sister. You'd be amazed how much little girls LOVE to write with paint pens. The black paper is just to make it opaque.
So write in silver paint pen on black paper.
Please mod parent up. (Although I don't think the "invisible hand" is a delusion, just a victim of wishful thinking about what it can do.) The market sets prices. THE MARKET SETS PRICES. It doesn't guarantee that good things will get invented, it doesn't mean bad things won't be produced. It does guarantee that prices will be established that will clear goods from the market. (This is a good thing, because it means that over time we tend to get more of what we want and less of what we don't -- but it doesn't mean that we'll get exactly what we want when we want it.)
Heh, these weren't PnP. They were soft configurable for address, IRQ, maybe DMA?
I saw a similar problem with Win95 (though not 98), using good old cheap NE2000 clones. Install the network and card: doesn't work. Remove card, reboot, remove network config. Reboot. Install network card and network. Reboot. Works.
I've never had to support somebody that was paying my salary. It does make it easier, because you can always tell your mom you're not going to do any more phone support until she learns how to speak the lingo.
Only Catholics, so far as I know. Protestants most certainly do not. Ask someone else about Orthodox.
Doctors started washing their hands because they realized they'd kill fewer babies and mothers - look up Semmelweis.
Well, you can use my analogy:
Memory is your desk. You have to put something on your desk to work on it. The hard drive is your filing cabinet.
You can't read things in the filing cabinet without getting up, walking across the room, opening it up, flipping through the files, and taking the one you want back to your desk. Although the filing cabinet can hold a lot of stuff very cheaply, you can't work directly on stuff in it. Furthermore, the smaller your desk is, the fewer things you'll be able to keep on it, and the more you'll have to get up and walk over to the filing cabinet. This takes your computer lots of time, if you keep doing it, so you have to buy enough desk to hold all the things you'll want to work on at the same time.
Check my replies to others for why I didn't mean mouthing off. I (and many others) frequently travel armed, so this in particular is not proof that an armed society is a polite one - they certainly don't seem to show much politeness toward the populace at large, even though under Mississippi law your car is considered an extension of your home, and no permit is required to have a weapon in the car. If I didn't work for a state-owned hospital, I'd always leave the gun in the car (I did for years before I took this job), but you're not allowed to have one on campus.
It did lead to one slightly humorous incident soon after Sept 11 - when they were doing inspections of cars entering airport property and I went to pick up a friend. I told the officers I had a pistol under the seat, so it wouldn't be a surprise. They asked if I was planning to take it into the airport. I told them no, it would stay in the car. They sent me on my way.
As I told someone else, this comment was sort of fired from the hip, so it gave several people the wrong idea. You don't have to mouth off; you just stop being polite. No more "sir" or "officer". Ask for name, badge number, and supervisor's name. Ask if you are free to go, and then leave without further comment.
Yeah, this is my attitude. I don't mouth off; as the old cop saying goes, you may beat the rap but you won't beat the ride. I should have been more clear - there's no benefit to being a smartass, but you can make it quite apparent that you're unhappy with their behavior and will make an issue of it.
Allow me to explain the situation I'm thinking of. A speed trap was set up on a road near my house. I worked all night. I was coming home. I certainly wasn't staring at the speedometer, and although I'm no speed demon, it is at least possible that the officer really did clock me doing 47 in a 35 - it was downhill on a 4-lane road. Fast forward two weeks. My wife is going to work down the same road. She's been informed that they're out there, so she drives cautiously. The officer cites her for... 48 in a 35. (She was going uphill.) Now, she is a speed demon normally, so it's not insane to think she'd have done it most days - but not when she knew they were there. When she was pulled over, she was one of half a dozen drivers in the same situation. This time, however, they took the "silly little lady" attitude with her - my guy had simply asked for my license and proof of insurance, asked no questions, and handed me a ticket stating he had radared me at such and such speed. Meanwhile, they're radaring their cop buddies and actually saying things like "Hey Dave, you got up to 55 that time!"
She got mad, started kind of ranting at the guys. I, of course, was furious with her when I heard this. I told her that what she should have done is said nothing, waited until he came up with the ticket, and then (politely) asked for the names and badge numbers of every officer present, as well as their supervisor's name, so that she could report their behavior.
Probably is, though, until they decide to exclude you from it for cause. It's not as though they have a bouncer who decides whether or not you're cool enough to shop at REI.
Being polite != helping. And when they stop being polite to me, I have no further use for being polite to them.
Why not just steal Internet access off the RV park's APs?
While I am very sorry for your loss, how exactly would monitoring prevent SIDS? Parents must sleep sooner or later, and the absence of breath sounds is not something we easily cue to while asleep.
You know, why aren't they just using the old 49 MHz and 900 MHz channels that were used for phones in the old days?
I have a 49MHz phone that I replaced only because it didn't get caller ID (my conversations are never interesting enough to be worth listening to). Slightly worse distance reception than my new DECT, but not much. Nice analog degradation - people fuzz before they drop out. Got 50 m of signal out of it, too.
Okay, so I'm American, but I understand only about 1 in 30 words that he speaks during that video. Do Brits find this comprehensible?
Yeah, I've heard of that before. And you're right, it's a problem. I'm pretty darn conscientious about my trash, so I tend to forget that not everyone else is...
Should have thought of that. Thanks.
seems like an ecodisaster
Why? Something that doesn't degrade... isn't a problem. We make all kinds of things that don't degrade - bricks and concrete, for example - and they're not ecodisasters. They do occupy landfill space, but very few places are really at any risk of running out of landfill space. As long as they don't have toxic leachates - such as older, metallic newspaper inks - there's really very little concerning about plastics per se. (Interesting tip for the young: did you know why Styrofoam first became a bugbear of the environmental movement? Not because it doesn't biodegrade - it's harmless insulation, after all - but because it was blown into foam using CFCs.)
More likely I would just make a huge number of 5', 10' and 20' cables and make more when I run out or if I get a special request.
See, at this point, isn't the custom-cut just a special-request sideline for the Customer Who Knows What He Wants (And Is Willing To Pay Extra)? I think you should be able to buy the other lengths more cheaply than you could make them, but then maybe I'm just too far out of the market.
Why not just buy a variety of sizes in bulk and have them on hand? Many of them will not have tape measures in hand, so you'll end up going to their rooms, measuring it out, cutting, crimping, and - unless their next-door-neighbor needs the same thing - walking back to the front of the dorm to hawk your wares. Much less wear and tear on you to sit at a small table and sell your product, even if there's a mite less profit in it.