'we' is not really we; its someone in power who finally gets personally pissed off enough by this that he does something. until the ruling class object to this, it will continue to be a personal invasion.
I really didn't want to pull a Ted Kennedy reference out, but this just screams. Sen. Ted was put on the no-fly list a while back. Didn't see much change for the 'lower classes' in that did you?
Yes it was a mixup of names, but it clearly identified the futility of that system. He got out of it quickly obviously, but even he didn't do much if anything to have it removed.
if you've worked for any length of time, having a 'pristine' laptop just screams "there's a lot more to dig for".
As others have posted, if it is clearly blank and there has been significant work done they'll start issuing your personal stuff since the work had to be done *somewhere*. Besides they'll have IP logs showing connections back and forth from the laptop as well as company documents showing you produced X work products.
If you can't produce where you did that work, well they are going to start nosing into your personal stuff. Yes you'd be in the right to fight it, but the legal bills don't care about right or wrong.
the *only* solution is don't mix personal and business. period.
as someone who makes pretty decent use of the AH (and Auctioneer), personally I think it works great. And by decent use I'm talking 30 minutes a day. As for amassing bundles of gold, I think you're off base. I *might* make 1000g a week in profit when including money made from quests and dailies on my main toon as well.
Yes I buy under-priced stacks and sell them individually. You know what? that's called a free market. I take the 'risk' of spending for goods in bulk because I think I can sell them individually for more.
As for buying out the market, that only works when there isn't enough of a supply. Try buying out the market for silk cloth...it just ain't gonna happen. If there's a small enough supply that 1000g can buy it all up, guess what, it's not the buyer that's making the price artificially high but the original seller making prices artificially low. Buy buying in bulk and reselling individual items helps more people get goods at lower over all prices rather than just you buying the one under-priced stack.
If you need multiple stacks of something that isn't in abundance...sucks to be you (and everyone else) go farm it.
The moon has 1 'trillionth' the atmospheric pressure as earth, that's just about as close to zero as you can get. So I'll agree there is *some* but it ain't gonna be moving anything.
That said, some additional reading shows how electrostatic charges can cause cycling of moon dust up and down the elevation range much like an atmosphere would do.
So I did indeed learn something;-) But it isn't the atmosphere that's going to cause dust particles to get places they could cause problems on the solar panels.
Since there is specifically zero atmosphere, the only dust you're going to get on the rover is something directly applying it via ballistic trajectory. That's pretty easy to prevent with simply placement slightly away from drive paths.
A wind driven environment will *always* have more dust flying around than the moon. there isn't any atmosphere to push it so it just sits until something imparts energy to it.
the Mars rover's weren't *designed* to keep their panels clean. The rovers were only rated to last 3 months so that wasn't a requirement. That we've gotten multiple years out of them is simply (lots of) icing on the cake.
It's fair to ask about dust, but bringing up a system that was never designed to be around long enough to worry about it isn't a fair comparison.
As far as nuclear, putting aside the fuel and waste storage requirements of nuclear, what happens when a solar panel 'breaks'? not exactly a lot. It simply doesn't function. When a reactor 'breaks', well you've pretty well made the local area uninhabitable. And when your entire sustaining environment is localized to the reactor, you've got a pretty big problem. Unless you're planning on running miles of power cable in addition to just building the base...
Is a nuclear breach likely? probably not, but when you have zero backup capability you need to think hard about putting in things that can go spectacularly wrong.
A.) *Something* had to be done with the economy. Otherwise we dive into a very deep very painful depression. Few people argue that point with any sort of factual basis. Strong gov't leadership and action is the key to pulling out of things quicker and at lower cost. Whether we've had leadership and action is a point for debate. TARP had some good points but hasn't ever really been implemented. A gov't bouncing back and forth creating more uncertainty or changing the direction of its programs doesn't help either.
I'd say we've seen a deep depression avoided and we're now starting to see stabilization in many areas of the economy based on continuing reports of progress and/or lack of increased downturn.
B.) My understanding is that Bush tried to lance Freddie and Fannie. While they played a part in the bubble, they most certainly were not the cause. The cause was the 'securitization' of mortgages into instruments so complex they needed theoretical physicists to write the financial equations that defined them. *Nobody* understood these things.
Next you had the ratings agencies which rated these securities, which they couldn't understand, as AAA and we're off to the races.
C.) Factor in the Credit Default Swaps, and in addition to these non-understood thinly backed securities you have 30x insurance riders on them with no gov't oversight at all.
You're right that many other areas factored in as well. In my opinion, it was allowing banks to become investment banks and other such 'non-bank' type organizations that then allowed the 'banks' to avoid what oversight there was since they were no longer 'banks'. This is Phil Gramm's golden egg, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
D.) think we agree on this one
as for the rest of my post being partisan opinion?
E.) I was agreeing with the OP
F.) OP complained about Dem hypocrites, how is simply saying both sides have them opinion?
G.) Less opinion than a theory, though I'll agree that's perhaps a semantic point.
A. And doing *nothing would certainly help joblessness...
B. Bush *did* trash the economy, and the GOP in Congress before him, (Phil Gramm I'm looking at you!)
C. The banks were only able to take on too much risk because the lax/non-existant oversight.
D. And politicizing the monetary base would be a good thing how exactly?
E. As an Obama voter, I'm getting upset with him on the lack of follow through, though likely in different areas than yourself
F. You really want to compare GOP hypocrites to Dem hypocrites? I'd be happy to jettison Pelosi *and* Reid, for people who actually push into investigating Dubya and company
G. No argument on this point. The transparency is decidedly lacking, though in fairness, Bush did lace the non-political gov't jobs with fellow political hacks. Couldn't be that they are the ones hindering the transparency perhaps? not entirely, but hey who's looking for scapegoats...
As for being angry on your own right, congrats. Now remember how the liberals who were angry at Bush for an illegal war, wild secrecy, torture and generally ruining our global reputation (among other things) were called 'anti-american' and 'unpatriotic'?
GUI usage is great for 'objects' like files where the variability between objects is relatively few.
*Actions* however are orders of magnitude more numerous. When you have to memorize an icon for every single action, it gets unwieldy. Icon graphics can only be so detailed before they are just blurs. *words* (little w) represent pretty specific ways to describe things and have done pretty well through the years me thinks.
Given Word's penchant for "everything including 5 kitchen sinks" in available functionality, it doesn't scale well to the icon/ribbon concept.
Most of this would be completely moot if MS has simply made the ribbon AN OPTION...but they force fed it to everybody. I don't want OO doing the same thing.
it can also be that an unrelated 'positive' adaptation kept them in the gene pool. If they have a negative effect on reproduction/survival they will disappear, but if there's a competing positive effect it can override the negative emphasis.
remember, few people live so far away from civilization. And in any event those people aren't the ones targeted for buying an all electric vehicle. And if your 'daily' driving includes crossing TEXAS, well you're doubly not in line for these vehicles.
even those people might find a use for an all electric 4WD type of run-about...less gasoline they have to haul in for something they can just unplug and use when needed.
All-electric *battery* vehicles will have limited usages, but the limits on the usage still encompasses over 90% of current driving done today. That's a pretty hefty market to aim for.
And once you have an all electric car running on batteries, it's pretty trivial to tack on an engine for extra range in terms of series hybrid's as has already been mentioned. That can be gasoline, hydrogen fuel cells, solar, whatever. The 'jump' is getting cars that run on electricity first.
Personal information is not 'classified', but it is 'sensitive'; so yes it can be the case where data is sensitive but not classified.
You're right on about the press release thing though...my thoughts exactly. When I read "and previously reported the Presidential Helo plans were found online" and other similar things. Maybe we want to look at this company that just *happens* to keep finding things online that help it out business wise. (yes I know the helo plans were traced specifically but just saying the idea isn't terribly far fetched).
And the other thing about the article "it's not easy to prevent users from installing P2P software". Oh really? last time I checked even 'XP Home' prevented you from installing stuff without an admin password. If users are installing their own programs...you've already got serious problems.
googling "Gull Island" brings up a total of 4 conspiracy mongering sites, but zip in the way of any 'official' record of reserves discovered there.
linky gives some more factual data. 3 wells have been drilled on Gull Island, none of them produced anything remotely close to the conspiracy claims of a 200 year supply. In fact, not even enough to consider drilling there.
that's the thing, most everyplace as 'regional issues'. Though most don't involve basic necessities of life like, ahem, water.
Having grown up in the Northeast, I'm amazed at the lack of 'natural issues' the Northeast has. Extremely rare tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes. No appreciable landslide risks, forest fires hardly ever happen (i.e. it's wet), no active volcanoes. There's the acid rain thing, but that's manmade.
Build your house away from trees, with a high sloping roof (snow) and a supply of firewood and there aren't many natural disasters likely to even phase you.
And yes I've lived in other parts of the US, it's only then that you learn to appreciate the things you took for granted.
as a serious question....are you saying that using encryption in your communications would increase your penalties?
Is this codified law somewhere? Since the future of all electronic communications is going to be encrypted I would think this presents a pretty serious problem (or from a law standpoint a powerful club).
Using encrypted wireless communications on your router is not by nature going to increase your penalties, why should encrypting the rest of your communications do so?
How many bugs in CPUs versus Windows or Linux or any other medium large software package. Let me know when Intel has to publish a Knowledge Base the size of Microsoft's to track the defects in its software.
A bad date format in a report is trivial, a bad format in register processing is catastrophic.
Hardware is generally more bug free...not for any technical reason but one of economics.
If I'm producing hardware and there's a bug, the cost for a fix is astronomically high (pun intended) compared with the cost of fixing a software bug. As a result, hardware makers tend to be *very* thorough about fixing bugs prior to actual implementation.
as a long time WoW player and mostly casual player at that...WoW is going to go quietly into the night. Not from this or any other game, but from itself. It probably has 1 maybe 2 more expansions left before it's all pretty much done.
Once the top levels reach 100, we're going to have > +500 stat bonuses for plain blue items! Just starts to border on ridiculousness to me.
unless Blizz can find some way to resolve the inherent inflation in game stats with every expansion, some things will be interesting but more and more it will be just a rehash of past instances and game play. Wintergrasp was an interesting expansion of BG's but by itself wouldn't be enough to keep me interested.
It's not silly at all for a system that isn't designed to run 'off grid'. That's what the 'Sync' option is.
The Hybrid systems can do what you are talking about but cost significantly more money and also include a battery bank to provide the power in a constant manner as opposed to the variable nature of the panels.
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'we' is not really we; its someone in power who finally gets personally pissed off enough by this that he does something. until the ruling class object to this, it will continue to be a personal invasion.
I really didn't want to pull a Ted Kennedy reference out, but this just screams. Sen. Ted was put on the no-fly list a while back. Didn't see much change for the 'lower classes' in that did you?
Yes it was a mixup of names, but it clearly identified the futility of that system. He got out of it quickly obviously, but even he didn't do much if anything to have it removed.
I'd do it over the Internet. Faster, cheaper, more secure
It's only faster because they tend to frown on using a station wagon full of backup tapes as your carry on...
we're talking about a $1250 amount that could affect his entire career down the road.(worst case obviously)
You ask a lawyer for advice now for a small fee to hopefully avoid a large legal bill for actual defense representation later.
if you've worked for any length of time, having a 'pristine' laptop just screams "there's a lot more to dig for".
As others have posted, if it is clearly blank and there has been significant work done they'll start issuing your personal stuff since the work had to be done *somewhere*. Besides they'll have IP logs showing connections back and forth from the laptop as well as company documents showing you produced X work products.
If you can't produce where you did that work, well they are going to start nosing into your personal stuff. Yes you'd be in the right to fight it, but the legal bills don't care about right or wrong.
the *only* solution is don't mix personal and business. period.
as someone who makes pretty decent use of the AH (and Auctioneer), personally I think it works great. And by decent use I'm talking 30 minutes a day. As for amassing bundles of gold, I think you're off base. I *might* make 1000g a week in profit when including money made from quests and dailies on my main toon as well.
Yes I buy under-priced stacks and sell them individually. You know what? that's called a free market. I take the 'risk' of spending for goods in bulk because I think I can sell them individually for more.
As for buying out the market, that only works when there isn't enough of a supply. Try buying out the market for silk cloth...it just ain't gonna happen. If there's a small enough supply that 1000g can buy it all up, guess what, it's not the buyer that's making the price artificially high but the original seller making prices artificially low. Buy buying in bulk and reselling individual items helps more people get goods at lower over all prices rather than just you buying the one under-priced stack.
If you need multiple stacks of something that isn't in abundance...sucks to be you (and everyone else) go farm it.
I'll raise you a Hawaii telescope site linky
;-) But it isn't the atmosphere that's going to cause dust particles to get places they could cause problems on the solar panels.
The moon has 1 'trillionth' the atmospheric pressure as earth, that's just about as close to zero as you can get. So I'll agree there is *some* but it ain't gonna be moving anything.
That said, some additional reading shows how electrostatic charges can cause cycling of moon dust up and down the elevation range much like an atmosphere would do.
So I did indeed learn something
Since there is specifically zero atmosphere, the only dust you're going to get on the rover is something directly applying it via ballistic trajectory. That's pretty easy to prevent with simply placement slightly away from drive paths.
A wind driven environment will *always* have more dust flying around than the moon. there isn't any atmosphere to push it so it just sits until something imparts energy to it.
the Mars rover's weren't *designed* to keep their panels clean. The rovers were only rated to last 3 months so that wasn't a requirement. That we've gotten multiple years out of them is simply (lots of) icing on the cake.
It's fair to ask about dust, but bringing up a system that was never designed to be around long enough to worry about it isn't a fair comparison.
As far as nuclear, putting aside the fuel and waste storage requirements of nuclear, what happens when a solar panel 'breaks'? not exactly a lot. It simply doesn't function. When a reactor 'breaks', well you've pretty well made the local area uninhabitable. And when your entire sustaining environment is localized to the reactor, you've got a pretty big problem. Unless you're planning on running miles of power cable in addition to just building the base...
Is a nuclear breach likely? probably not, but when you have zero backup capability you need to think hard about putting in things that can go spectacularly wrong.
A.) *Something* had to be done with the economy. Otherwise we dive into a very deep very painful depression. Few people argue that point with any sort of factual basis. Strong gov't leadership and action is the key to pulling out of things quicker and at lower cost. Whether we've had leadership and action is a point for debate. TARP had some good points but hasn't ever really been implemented. A gov't bouncing back and forth creating more uncertainty or changing the direction of its programs doesn't help either.
I'd say we've seen a deep depression avoided and we're now starting to see stabilization in many areas of the economy based on continuing reports of progress and/or lack of increased downturn.
B.) My understanding is that Bush tried to lance Freddie and Fannie. While they played a part in the bubble, they most certainly were not the cause. The cause was the 'securitization' of mortgages into instruments so complex they needed theoretical physicists to write the financial equations that defined them. *Nobody* understood these things.
Next you had the ratings agencies which rated these securities, which they couldn't understand, as AAA and we're off to the races.
C.) Factor in the Credit Default Swaps, and in addition to these non-understood thinly backed securities you have 30x insurance riders on them with no gov't oversight at all.
You're right that many other areas factored in as well. In my opinion, it was allowing banks to become investment banks and other such 'non-bank' type organizations that then allowed the 'banks' to avoid what oversight there was since they were no longer 'banks'. This is Phil Gramm's golden egg, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
D.) think we agree on this one
as for the rest of my post being partisan opinion?
E.) I was agreeing with the OP
F.) OP complained about Dem hypocrites, how is simply saying both sides have them opinion?
G.) Less opinion than a theory, though I'll agree that's perhaps a semantic point.
A. And doing *nothing would certainly help joblessness...
B. Bush *did* trash the economy, and the GOP in Congress before him, (Phil Gramm I'm looking at you!)
C. The banks were only able to take on too much risk because the lax/non-existant oversight.
D. And politicizing the monetary base would be a good thing how exactly?
E. As an Obama voter, I'm getting upset with him on the lack of follow through, though likely in different areas than yourself
F. You really want to compare GOP hypocrites to Dem hypocrites? I'd be happy to jettison Pelosi *and* Reid, for people who actually push into investigating Dubya and company
G. No argument on this point. The transparency is decidedly lacking, though in fairness, Bush did lace the non-political gov't jobs with fellow political hacks. Couldn't be that they are the ones hindering the transparency perhaps? not entirely, but hey who's looking for scapegoats...
As for being angry on your own right, congrats. Now remember how the liberals who were angry at Bush for an illegal war, wild secrecy, torture and generally ruining our global reputation (among other things) were called 'anti-american' and 'unpatriotic'?
how's it feel on the other foot?
I would say Menus do scale since they can be nested with multiple sub-menus to further refine what you are looking for.
;-)
The 'Key Assist' feature plus your idea to be able to search it for what you want sounds like a great idea.
I bet you could even so it with menus as well
GUI usage is great for 'objects' like files where the variability between objects is relatively few.
*Actions* however are orders of magnitude more numerous. When you have to memorize an icon for every single action, it gets unwieldy. Icon graphics can only be so detailed before they are just blurs. *words* (little w) represent pretty specific ways to describe things and have done pretty well through the years me thinks.
Given Word's penchant for "everything including 5 kitchen sinks" in available functionality, it doesn't scale well to the icon/ribbon concept.
Most of this would be completely moot if MS has simply made the ribbon AN OPTION...but they force fed it to everybody. I don't want OO doing the same thing.
it can also be that an unrelated 'positive' adaptation kept them in the gene pool. If they have a negative effect on reproduction/survival they will disappear, but if there's a competing positive effect it can override the negative emphasis.
remember, few people live so far away from civilization. And in any event those people aren't the ones targeted for buying an all electric vehicle. And if your 'daily' driving includes crossing TEXAS, well you're doubly not in line for these vehicles.
even those people might find a use for an all electric 4WD type of run-about...less gasoline they have to haul in for something they can just unplug and use when needed.
All-electric *battery* vehicles will have limited usages, but the limits on the usage still encompasses over 90% of current driving done today. That's a pretty hefty market to aim for.
And once you have an all electric car running on batteries, it's pretty trivial to tack on an engine for extra range in terms of series hybrid's as has already been mentioned. That can be gasoline, hydrogen fuel cells, solar, whatever. The 'jump' is getting cars that run on electricity first.
Personal information is not 'classified', but it is 'sensitive'; so yes it can be the case where data is sensitive but not classified.
You're right on about the press release thing though...my thoughts exactly. When I read "and previously reported the Presidential Helo plans were found online" and other similar things. Maybe we want to look at this company that just *happens* to keep finding things online that help it out business wise. (yes I know the helo plans were traced specifically but just saying the idea isn't terribly far fetched).
And the other thing about the article "it's not easy to prevent users from installing P2P software". Oh really? last time I checked even 'XP Home' prevented you from installing stuff without an admin password. If users are installing their own programs...you've already got serious problems.
I call BS. any sources to back up your claim?
googling "Gull Island" brings up a total of 4 conspiracy mongering sites, but zip in the way of any 'official' record of reserves discovered there.
linky gives some more factual data. 3 wells have been drilled on Gull Island, none of them produced anything remotely close to the conspiracy claims of a 200 year supply. In fact, not even enough to consider drilling there.
need new "Missed Funny(+1) By *That* Much" moderation....
that's the thing, most everyplace as 'regional issues'. Though most don't involve basic necessities of life like, ahem, water.
Having grown up in the Northeast, I'm amazed at the lack of 'natural issues' the Northeast has. Extremely rare tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes. No appreciable landslide risks, forest fires hardly ever happen (i.e. it's wet), no active volcanoes. There's the acid rain thing, but that's manmade.
Build your house away from trees, with a high sloping roof (snow) and a supply of firewood and there aren't many natural disasters likely to even phase you.
And yes I've lived in other parts of the US, it's only then that you learn to appreciate the things you took for granted.
except that it takes relatively little to make a wing useless; i.e. ice buildup on flying aircraft.
So they just tie some light stuff (styrofoam even) to the blade to make it non-aerodynamic during transport.
as a serious question....are you saying that using encryption in your communications would increase your penalties?
Is this codified law somewhere? Since the future of all electronic communications is going to be encrypted I would think this presents a pretty serious problem (or from a law standpoint a powerful club).
Using encrypted wireless communications on your router is not by nature going to increase your penalties, why should encrypting the rest of your communications do so?
note the 'generally' qualifier in my post.
How many bugs in CPUs versus Windows or Linux or any other medium large software package. Let me know when Intel has to publish a Knowledge Base the size of Microsoft's to track the defects in its software.
A bad date format in a report is trivial, a bad format in register processing is catastrophic.
Hardware is generally more bug free...not for any technical reason but one of economics.
If I'm producing hardware and there's a bug, the cost for a fix is astronomically high (pun intended) compared with the cost of fixing a software bug. As a result, hardware makers tend to be *very* thorough about fixing bugs prior to actual implementation.
um, I specifically said 1-2 more expansions in the rest of that paragraph ;-) and quoted level 100 lol
What part were you disagreeing with again?
as a long time WoW player and mostly casual player at that...WoW is going to go quietly into the night. Not from this or any other game, but from itself. It probably has 1 maybe 2 more expansions left before it's all pretty much done.
Once the top levels reach 100, we're going to have > +500 stat bonuses for plain blue items! Just starts to border on ridiculousness to me.
unless Blizz can find some way to resolve the inherent inflation in game stats with every expansion, some things will be interesting but more and more it will be just a rehash of past instances and game play. Wintergrasp was an interesting expansion of BG's but by itself wouldn't be enough to keep me interested.
It's not silly at all for a system that isn't designed to run 'off grid'. That's what the 'Sync' option is.
The Hybrid systems can do what you are talking about but cost significantly more money and also include a battery bank to provide the power in a constant manner as opposed to the variable nature of the panels.