Pull out in three months, announcing the intention loud and clear. Explain to the Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites exactly what that means.
Then do it.
Then deal with whoever comes out on top of the heap at the end of a couple of years, or longer if there is no clear victor in sight.
Only problem of course might be the interference with the oil supply and other US interests in the area. It is moderately clear that the US is not interested in a stable government in Iraq, but a stable government alighend with US interests in the region (see Shah of Iran or Daniel Ortega for other examples of democracy at work).
Right now, there is no such thing as legal online gambling in the US. Because of that, all online gambling businesses are breaking the law.
Not totally true.
It is illegal to operate an on-line gambling website within the United States (possible exceptions to allow you to buy lottery tickets online, and other things which can line a politician's pockets).
In some states, it is illegal to participate in on-line gambling. In MA however, it is apparently still legal to participate in on-line gambling for things like poker, at least according to my local chief-of-police and a quick phone call to the AG.
Arguably this could be because Israel has no interest in stopping the mortar shells and small rockets from hitting their soil. These acts provide a marvelous excuse to the world to justify continuing the ethnic cleansing that is still going on, as well as supporting the claim that "These people (arab, Palestinian, Muslim...) are not to be trusted".
Hell, I wouldn't die of shock to find that some of the missiles had been fired by Israeli SF from Gaza into random fields.
(This is not so much a rant at the Israelis as a fundamental distrust of most governments where a continued "state-of-terror" works in favor of the party in power)
Argument at the Federal level (HR 4117, I think) is that online gambling somehow permits money laundering and terrorism by allowing people to transfer money to and from off-shore sites with limited oversight or control.
Somehoe, I don't see Osama bin Laden sitting at the $2/$4 table at PartyPoker.com thinking "If I make my flush, I can buy another AK-47".
Washington state -- I have no idea. I do suspect that money has changed hands (err, I mean vigorous lobbying has taken place) but it's hard to see who the winners would be.
Example, I'm sitting here playing poker in another window right now (it's legal in the People's Republic of Massachusetts -- I asked the AG). If I couldn't play poker online, I wouldn't be heading down to Foxwoods (nearest Tribal Nation Casino from my house) -- I'd probably subscribe to a MMORPG and pay the monthly fee. Actually, I might be losing less money at that point...:) especially is I can sell my l33t r!ng of pr0nography on e-bay to some sucker for real cash.
Used to be that, if you were denied entry into a country, then the carrier that brought you there was responsible for carrying your sorry ass back at their cost.
That's why international airlines tend to ask at checkin whether you have the right paperwork to get off at the other end.
I'm running MS Windows at work across two screens right now, and it was painless to set up (not counting banging my head on the desk bracket when furkling with the monitor cable). Took me a bit of fiddling around to figure out where to put the tool bar and what to place where across the two-screen desktop, but that was not a Windows problem, but more a matter of trying things and moving them around until I found a good setup.
Now if I had three monitors, I could fire up Flight Sim and really cook! I wonder how to get IT to buy me a HOTAS for the PC?:)
What about TCAS which most/all commercial carriers should have?
This is basically a system where a system on the air vehicle notices a nearby air vehicle and can recommend avoiding action. For a UAV, this could be hard-wired into the on-board system or at the very least monitored back at the operator's workstation. Bear in mind, these things are basically large radio-controlled aircraft with some limited auto-pilot/loiter capability -- it's not RoboFighter or Stealth or whatever that crap movie was:)
Yes, Joe Pilot pottering along VFR listing to Howard Stern instead of Center will be somewhat at risk, but that's often the case even when flying a regular small air vehicle.
Also (depending on the operational theater) yer actual UAV pilot has more of a God's Eye View of the world than the nose-gunner in a fast jet. There are/will be more people watching what's happening (AWACS, ATC at various levels, Mk 1 and Mk 2 eyeballs, telemetry/imaging data in all directions) to reduce the chances of target tunnel vision.
I'm not sure whether I like the idea or not (well, as someone who worked on UAVs a while ago, I sort-of do for purely selfish reasons) but I don't see it impacting air safety much.
Heck, I'd be happy to narrow it down to 5 feet or even a room...:-(
Figured a low-power RFID reader (like on)e of the Alien ones) would get me down to a couple of feet, although the read time would be fairly dismal given the number of tags to disambiguate.
I'm now watching epidoes of "Red Green" to come up with some inspiration for a better solution:-)
As various astute posters have observed, just having a list on your computer/pda/Windows TabletPC doesn't help you find a book; but it can add to the frustration of "I know I have a copy, but where is it?".
One solution would be to put an RFID tag in each book, and then scan for them...
A more/.-friendly solution would be to interface your library software with your RoomBa, so you can sit at your computer, pick a book from your on-line catalog and then have one of your legion of house robots retrieve the book and bring it (along with a cup of coffee and an oatmeal cookie) to your comfy chair.
I've gone through the first stages of this project a couple of times (used to work in the RFID business) and the project always went awry at about the step of "Take all the books off the shelves and sort them."
One of these days (probably right after I lose weight), I'm going to drag all the books off all the shelves and sort them.
Anyone want to buy any computer science textbooks from the 1970s?
Well, assuming you are not trolling (last line makes me wonder...)
Yup, the US demands that you declare income earned even while you are not resident in the US of A (for citizens, resident aliens (green card), people with work-permits). It's like a sexually transmitted disease but you have less fun catching it.
Extra gotcha. Money you earn overseas and pay taxes on overseas (overseas in this case means outside the USA) is also liable to US taxation. But they will credit some percentage of the money you paid to the local country for taxes. So if I spend six months in Bavaria working and being paid in Germany, I'll be paying taxes to the Germans on the money I earn. Uncle Sam will then give me a tax credit against my US taxes to the same amount (up to my US tax obligation).
But if I earn the money working for six months in a country the US does not approve of (Iran, Cuba, ?possibly North Korea?), then I'll pay local country taxes and US taxes -- Uncle Sam will give no tax credit for money earned under "unapproved countries".
Disclaimer: This is certainly how it worked 6 years ago -- may have changed in a Post 9/11 world with the Global War on Terror
I've not seen this in a bank, but vaguely know the rules at the local casino. If you cash out $10,000 or more in hard currency then the casino files a CTR (Cash Transaction Report) with the Fed saying that you went hime with a big bucket o'money.
Between (I think) $6,500 and $9,999.99 the casino will file an SAR (Suspicious Activity Report, gotta love the title) -- this is to avoid the chance that you might be structuring to avoid the CTR. If you have too many SARs within a certain period, expect a visit from someone. You also get a W2G (or 1099-G or whatever the IRS form is) in some circumstances.
Not that it has happened to me (yet) but one can always hope. I investigated it a little before a poker tournament last year, but sadly...:-(
On the Boston Dynamics website, they show a picture of "BigDog" wnich has both pairs of legs facing the same direction. I wonder if there is some mechanical advantage to having the opposing motion like that. And they make a little one (called "LittleDog") which looks quite cute.
This is cool, although I admit the film did look like Muppet pr0n (Naked Muppets dancing for your pleasure).
I don't think we will ever see average joe owning his own server.
I disagree. My son (who uses the computer as a tool, not as a hobby or as a software geek) is living in a house with three other people, and between them they have I think it is 6 computers (laptops & desktops) hooked into a wireless LAN. It's all off-the-shelf stuff, with a little bit of help from the local geek (not me, although I did buy at leat one of the computers). None of them are computer geeks -- I'd put them all at the joe-average level, maybe a bit above the ones who just use the computer to browse the internet, download pr0n and read Slashdot.
If some company came out with an easily configurable disc farm/server that plugged into a LAN and provided a bunch of disc space, place to plug the printer, maybe even integrated physically with a network hub... I could see people buying it. Look, Apple for years made networks that artists could use -- buy your bits, plug them together and "lo-and-behold" it all works. I knew a lot of graphic artists in the Boston area in the late 80s/early 90s who had quite sophisticated home networks but couldn't tell a network cable from a power-cord. The stuff "just worked".
Maybe there's a market for it. And as long as you don't have to configure SAMBA to get the damned thing working... grumble mutter...
This article contains numerous links about transient behaviour, erroneous fire warnings and other odd things caused by electronic devices in the cabin.
It is a small number, but it is non-zero.
Especially worrying are the cases where the glideslope indicators were being "misled" because of apparent electronic interference from the back.
This was also discussed at length on PPRuNe a while ago.
I think it was Arthur C Clarke who commented that we should devote time and energy to building a "replicator". The first one would be hideously expensive. The second one would be free.
It's an urban racing game, set in a fictional city. There's billboards for Burger King, Cingualr (indeed your in-car comm system has the Cinguar X logo)... and so on.
It's pretty interesting at first, but gets annoying later. Surprisingly (for me) it's annoying because of the lack of variety -- you don't see a Verizon ad, only Cingular, you don't see MickeyD's, only Burger King...
Somehow it might be worth seeing Darth Vader and Luke sit down at the Tatooine Sports Bar and get into a fight over whether Miller Lite Tastes Great or is Less Filling...
And having worked at a company which had one of the smaller EMC storage arrays, this pretty much happened weekly. Got to the point that the technician was stopping by our office every couple of days!
T'was claimed that they'd had a bad batch of drives from IBM:-)
Worst part was, as the company was winding down, we had some kind of problem with the "phone-home" logic on the storage array. So every ten minutes, you'd hear the very loud and anachronistic sound of a modem dialing out and trying to warble a connection.
We have a second hand Prius (one of the original ones). On short commutes (10 miles or less), we're getting anywhere from 41 mpg (height of sumemr with the a/c going full blast) to about 45 mpg. On the highway (trips of 40-50 miles or more, usually at speed) we're getting 50-52 mpg.
But it's more comfortable than a motorbike:-)
Conversely, Wal-Mart will gain a lot of business from people (stereotypically identified as "fundies") who want to shop somewhere where they are not in any danger of finding a copy of "Anal Entries 16", "Cum Gargling Whores 11" and so forth.
Wal-mart has made a business decision that there is more money to be made by catering to the "genteel" (i.e. non-pr0n) market than there is to be lost from us^h^hyou perverted people. And you know what, they are probably right. There's a fairly small retail OTC market for pr0n, when you can buy/rent/download over the Internet. But there are a lot of people worried about "moral decay" in present society who will shop in a pr0n-free zone, and who will tell two friends, and they tell two friends and so on.
Two weeks ago, 28 men from the battalion took part in a rout of Iraqi gunmen who had been terrorising the Route 6 motorway which links Al Amarah to Basra. The troops had been ordered to rescue two vehicles and their occupants from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which was ambushed by a group of 50 Iraqis.
The battle, one of three separate attacks against British troops in the area on the same day, ended when the soldiers fixed bayonets and stormed a series of enemy positions dug-in by the road-side. About 30 Iraqis were killed, 12 were captured and a further dozen are believed to have fled from the battlefield.
After the action, Capt Justin Barry, a military spokesman, said: "The fighters engaged were basically terrorists and gangsters - people who are out to destabilise the area, drive out the Coalition and suck as much out of Iraq as they can.
"But at the end of the day, we got the better of them. The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment were engaged in very heavy hand-to-hand fighting and bayonets were fixed. There's a great sense of satisfaction among the men with the way this turned out."
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Pull out in three months, announcing the intention loud and clear. Explain to the Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites exactly what that means.
Then do it.
Then deal with whoever comes out on top of the heap at the end of a couple of years, or longer if there is no clear victor in sight.
Only problem of course might be the interference with the oil supply and other US interests in the area. It is moderately clear that the US is not interested in a stable government in Iraq, but a stable government alighend with US interests in the region (see Shah of Iran or Daniel Ortega for other examples of democracy at work).
Right now, there is no such thing as legal online gambling in the US. Because of that, all online gambling businesses are breaking the law.
Not totally true.
It is illegal to operate an on-line gambling website within the United States (possible exceptions to allow you to buy lottery tickets online, and other things which can line a politician's pockets).
In some states, it is illegal to participate in on-line gambling. In MA however, it is apparently still legal to participate in on-line gambling for things like poker, at least according to my local chief-of-police and a quick phone call to the AG.
Hell, I wouldn't die of shock to find that some of the missiles had been fired by Israeli SF from Gaza into random fields.
(This is not so much a rant at the Israelis as a fundamental distrust of most governments where a continued "state-of-terror" works in favor of the party in power)
Somehoe, I don't see Osama bin Laden sitting at the $2/$4 table at PartyPoker.com thinking "If I make my flush, I can buy another AK-47".
Washington state -- I have no idea. I do suspect that money has changed hands (err, I mean vigorous lobbying has taken place) but it's hard to see who the winners would be.
Example, I'm sitting here playing poker in another window right now (it's legal in the People's Republic of Massachusetts -- I asked the AG). If I couldn't play poker online, I wouldn't be heading down to Foxwoods (nearest Tribal Nation Casino from my house) -- I'd probably subscribe to a MMORPG and pay the monthly fee. Actually, I might be losing less money at that point... :) especially is I can sell my l33t r!ng of pr0nography on e-bay to some sucker for real cash.
That's why international airlines tend to ask at checkin whether you have the right paperwork to get off at the other end.
Paris Hilton did OK out of am embarrassing video circulating on the internet.
I'm running MS Windows at work across two screens right now, and it was painless to set up (not counting banging my head on the desk bracket when furkling with the monitor cable). Took me a bit of fiddling around to figure out where to put the tool bar and what to place where across the two-screen desktop, but that was not a Windows problem, but more a matter of trying things and moving them around until I found a good setup.
Now if I had three monitors, I could fire up Flight Sim and really cook! I wonder how to get IT to buy me a HOTAS for the PC? :)
This is basically a system where a system on the air vehicle notices a nearby air vehicle and can recommend avoiding action. For a UAV, this could be hard-wired into the on-board system or at the very least monitored back at the operator's workstation. Bear in mind, these things are basically large radio-controlled aircraft with some limited auto-pilot/loiter capability -- it's not RoboFighter or Stealth or whatever that crap movie was :)
Yes, Joe Pilot pottering along VFR listing to Howard Stern instead of Center will be somewhat at risk, but that's often the case even when flying a regular small air vehicle.
Also (depending on the operational theater) yer actual UAV pilot has more of a God's Eye View of the world than the nose-gunner in a fast jet. There are/will be more people watching what's happening (AWACS, ATC at various levels, Mk 1 and Mk 2 eyeballs, telemetry/imaging data in all directions) to reduce the chances of target tunnel vision.
I'm not sure whether I like the idea or not (well, as someone who worked on UAVs a while ago, I sort-of do for purely selfish reasons) but I don't see it impacting air safety much.
Unless you served in Starfleet, I think you mean Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
As long as Kevin Costner doesn't star in the movie version of Waterland...
Figured a low-power RFID reader (like on)e of the Alien ones) would get me down to a couple of feet, although the read time would be fairly dismal given the number of tags to disambiguate.
I'm now watching epidoes of "Red Green" to come up with some inspiration for a better solution :-)
One solution would be to put an RFID tag in each book, and then scan for them...
A more /.-friendly solution would be to interface your library software with your RoomBa, so you can sit at your computer, pick a book from your on-line catalog and then have one of your legion of house robots retrieve the book and bring it (along with a cup of coffee and an oatmeal cookie) to your comfy chair.
I've gone through the first stages of this project a couple of times (used to work in the RFID business) and the project always went awry at about the step of "Take all the books off the shelves and sort them."
One of these days (probably right after I lose weight), I'm going to drag all the books off all the shelves and sort them.
Anyone want to buy any computer science textbooks from the 1970s?
Yup, the US demands that you declare income earned even while you are not resident in the US of A (for citizens, resident aliens (green card), people with work-permits). It's like a sexually transmitted disease but you have less fun catching it.
Extra gotcha. Money you earn overseas and pay taxes on overseas (overseas in this case means outside the USA) is also liable to US taxation. But they will credit some percentage of the money you paid to the local country for taxes. So if I spend six months in Bavaria working and being paid in Germany, I'll be paying taxes to the Germans on the money I earn. Uncle Sam will then give me a tax credit against my US taxes to the same amount (up to my US tax obligation).
But if I earn the money working for six months in a country the US does not approve of (Iran, Cuba, ?possibly North Korea?), then I'll pay local country taxes and US taxes -- Uncle Sam will give no tax credit for money earned under "unapproved countries".
Disclaimer: This is certainly how it worked 6 years ago -- may have changed in a Post 9/11 world with the Global War on Terror
I've not seen this in a bank, but vaguely know the rules at the local casino. If you cash out $10,000 or more in hard currency then the casino files a CTR (Cash Transaction Report) with the Fed saying that you went hime with a big bucket o'money.
Between (I think) $6,500 and $9,999.99 the casino will file an SAR (Suspicious Activity Report, gotta love the title) -- this is to avoid the chance that you might be structuring to avoid the CTR. If you have too many SARs within a certain period, expect a visit from someone. You also get a W2G (or 1099-G or whatever the IRS form is) in some circumstances.
Not that it has happened to me (yet) but one can always hope. I investigated it a little before a poker tournament last year, but sadly ... :-(
This is cool, although I admit the film did look like Muppet pr0n (Naked Muppets dancing for your pleasure).
I disagree. My son (who uses the computer as a tool, not as a hobby or as a software geek) is living in a house with three other people, and between them they have I think it is 6 computers (laptops & desktops) hooked into a wireless LAN. It's all off-the-shelf stuff, with a little bit of help from the local geek (not me, although I did buy at leat one of the computers). None of them are computer geeks -- I'd put them all at the joe-average level, maybe a bit above the ones who just use the computer to browse the internet, download pr0n and read Slashdot.
If some company came out with an easily configurable disc farm/server that plugged into a LAN and provided a bunch of disc space, place to plug the printer, maybe even integrated physically with a network hub... I could see people buying it. Look, Apple for years made networks that artists could use -- buy your bits, plug them together and "lo-and-behold" it all works. I knew a lot of graphic artists in the Boston area in the late 80s/early 90s who had quite sophisticated home networks but couldn't tell a network cable from a power-cord. The stuff "just worked".
Maybe there's a market for it. And as long as you don't have to configure SAMBA to get the damned thing working... grumble mutter...
It is a small number, but it is non-zero.
Especially worrying are the cases where the glideslope indicators were being "misled" because of apparent electronic interference from the back.
This was also discussed at length on PPRuNe a while ago.
I think it was Arthur C Clarke who commented that we should devote time and energy to building a "replicator". The first one would be hideously expensive. The second one would be free.
Then I'm guessing:
- Starflight - the plane that could not land
- Deep Impact
So three to go...It's pretty interesting at first, but gets annoying later. Surprisingly (for me) it's annoying because of the lack of variety -- you don't see a Verizon ad, only Cingular, you don't see MickeyD's, only Burger King ...
Somehow it might be worth seeing Darth Vader and Luke sit down at the Tatooine Sports Bar and get into a fight over whether Miller Lite Tastes Great or is Less Filling...
T'was claimed that they'd had a bad batch of drives from IBM :-)
Worst part was, as the company was winding down, we had some kind of problem with the "phone-home" logic on the storage array. So every ten minutes, you'd hear the very loud and anachronistic sound of a modem dialing out and trying to warble a connection.
We have a second hand Prius (one of the original ones). On short commutes (10 miles or less), we're getting anywhere from 41 mpg (height of sumemr with the a/c going full blast) to about 45 mpg. On the highway (trips of 40-50 miles or more, usually at speed) we're getting 50-52 mpg. But it's more comfortable than a motorbike :-)
pay enough money and we won't send you nude pictures of Cowboyneal!
Probably make enough from that to buy a couple of BitKeeper licences...
Wal-mart has made a business decision that there is more money to be made by catering to the "genteel" (i.e. non-pr0n) market than there is to be lost from us^h^hyou perverted people. And you know what, they are probably right. There's a fairly small retail OTC market for pr0n, when you can buy/rent/download over the Internet. But there are a lot of people worried about "moral decay" in present society who will shop in a pr0n-free zone, and who will tell two friends, and they tell two friends and so on.