Iraq: No ICBMs, no nukes, invaded and President executed after a mock trial.
Korea: Nukes, ICBMs (not worldwide range, but can hit California), currently negotiating in multilateral talks.
Iraq: Invaded another country, didn't have powerful friends.
North Korea: Hasn't invaded another country since the 1950s, has powerful friends in Russia and China, and has enough conventional artillary already positioned to flatten Seoul within an hour.
Nukes aren't the only reason for the current situation.
On a side note, I thought the US was build on people coming from bad situations to live the American dream, you guys sure have changed your mindset lately.
If that was the case, there wouldn't be any complaints, because then they wouldn't be getting paid less. It's the fact that they're only temp workers that get paid up to 23 percent less than Americans in the same positions that cheeses people off. Level playing field--fine. Unfair playing field where management lies about not being able to find qualified personnel and then turns around and pays substantially lower salaries--not good.
It's not the average where half are under and half over, the median is the point where half are over and half under.
If we look at the wikipedia entry for average, we'll see that in addtion to the mean, "There are many other types of averages, such as median (used most often to describe house prices and incomes)." So you can use the word "average" as in the joke and still be correct.
The main problems with paper for more than casual use are:
1: You obscure what you touch. Until we get transparent hands, people will obscure the sheet of paper while using it.
2: Smudges and fold lines. If you don't think this is a real problem, look at the average shoppping list at the grocery store. And that's casual use.
3: Gorilla Arm syndrome. This has been the downfall of paper-based systems for frequent input each and every time they have been re-launched as the next big thing.
Actually, that's the point. Zippo Manufacturing, the ones who make the lighters, is located in Pennsylvania. Zippo.com, a totally unrelated firm that among other things provided news feeds, is located in California. The lighter company wanted to bring the trademark case to Pennsyvania for state law trademark dilution under 54 Pa.C.S.A. 1124. Naturally, the internet company wanted that dismissed for for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue.
My fault, though. Should have kept better notes, it's actually Zippo Manufacturing v. Zippo.com.
The new law is based on a novel definition of what constitutes a presence in the state: It includes any Web site based in the state that earns a referral fee for sending customers to an online retailer.
It's not novel. In Zippo v. Zippo 952 F. Supp. 1119, the Court found Pennsylvania had jurisdiction over Zippo.com, a California-based company, over the fact it engaged in electronic commerce with 3,000 individuals and 7 ISPs located in Pennsylvania. In this case, Amazon is engaged in electronic commerce with numerous companies, via the referral fee, based out of New York--thus New York should have the same jurisdiction rights as Pennsylvania did.
But the plot holes get bigger and bigger as you go along. I didn't mind the problems with Ender's Game (all the queens at the home planet, linear colonization in a straight line towards Earth), but the utter stupidity of everyone except the main characters in the later books was too big of a turn-off.
Limited human contact with a primitive alien species--fine. No cameras or tape recorders allowed--seems unlikely but I can buy the 'no contamination of the native culture' line. No miniture recorders or cameras--okay, bullshit territory here; Ender has a earpiece that records damn near everything, but the researchers can't have them? Hell, how can they not be required to wear them?
Fence around the human compound, but no surveillance cameras or sensors--who would design a piece of crap like that?
Spaceships capable of traveling between the stars but no overhead imagery satellites--we can read license plates now with our piss-poor space capacity and they can't have visual, IR, and radar surveillance 24/7? Come on, they're suddenly growing grains, it's not like you can hide that.
The courts are not going to agree that it is constitutionally problematic that they cannot comply due to reasonable manpower issues.
From Cubby v. Compuserve, a case dealing with postings made on a forum on Compuserve:
CompuServe has no more editorial control over such a publication than does a public library, book store, or newsstand, and it would be no more feasible for CompuServe to examine every publication it carries for potentially defamatory statements than it would be for any other distributor to do so.
The court system does have an amazing amount of sense at times. Under the First Amendment, it would be a impermissible burden to have to monitor each and every work.
CUBBY v. COMPUSERVE, U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, 776 F. Supp. 135, October 29, 1991
For some reason, it's a common habit among some people to use the name of a nation's capital to refer to the government or part of the government of said country. Thus, you'll see "Washington has stepped up inspection of cargo" used instead of a more accurate yet clumsy "The US Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Boarder Protection has stepped up inspection of cargo."
Dell has a chart showing the performance for various configurations. Under the Basic Windows Vista Experience - No Aero column (800MHz, 512MB), they show Great for...
Booting the Operating System, without running applications or games
When usage starts peaking there is no way to get the sun to send down more energy. A 92 square mile station wouldn't be any more useful than a much smaller station.
So that's like saying if you need more water then it wouldn't be any better to pull water out of the Mississippi with a bucket than a cup because you can't make the river flow any faster?
I realize that marketing has nothing to do with the features or performance of a program. But it does have a factor in acceptance at work. There's no way I'm going in front of our Engineering Review Board for a product called "The Gimp", no matter how much money it's going to save.
...This week sausages cause cancer, no doubt next week they'll help prevent MS.
It's all a load of old cock...
I realize that sausages are made of the leftover bits, but I would try a brand that doesn't contain only old cock...not that I'm passing judgement or anything.
I can remember coming across a book about the entire Y2K thing back in the late '70s, filled with both dire warnings and algorithms. And I remember thinking, "Jeez, that's over 20 years away. Nobody's going to be using any software around today that far in the future."
You'd love Arlington, Virinia then. There's a 19th Street North, 19th Road North, 19th Sreet South, and 19th Road South. Or there's 20th Street North, 20th Place North, and 20th Road North. And the best part is...these names all get used for multiple road segments that aren't connected. Or there's the spot where 20th Rd N runs into a T-intersection with...20th St. N and 21st St. N. That's right, a (small) stretch of road changes name in the middle!
Well, the first thing you need to do is actually start reading the article you're using for support. From the fine article you quoted:
The FBI says it found CDs with child porn in Perez's room, the only one it searched.
Up to the time you can show how a wifi connection will make a physical CD magically show up in a room, then any argument about plausible deniability based off this case is full of it. You can't claim someone else was using your wireless connection to download child porn when you have a big stack of CDs with child pornography on them. Nobody is stupid enough to believe that. The only way this could have been a test case would be if they hadn't found any evidence beside the network traffic.
What this shows is that illegal traffic coming to/from your address constitutes probable cause, which is a different kettle of fish.
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Iraq: Invaded another country, didn't have powerful friends.
North Korea: Hasn't invaded another country since the 1950s, has powerful friends in Russia and China, and has enough conventional artillary already positioned to flatten Seoul within an hour.
Nukes aren't the only reason for the current situation.
On a side note, I thought the US was build on people coming from bad situations to live the American dream, you guys sure have changed your mindset lately.
If that was the case, there wouldn't be any complaints, because then they wouldn't be getting paid less. It's the fact that they're only temp workers that get paid up to 23 percent less than Americans in the same positions that cheeses people off. Level playing field--fine. Unfair playing field where management lies about not being able to find qualified personnel and then turns around and pays substantially lower salaries--not good.
British you see, useless. If I had a Luger, eh? Think of it, scientists properly equipped. The answer's with you, the voters.
It's not the average where half are under and half over, the median is the point where half are over and half under.
If we look at the wikipedia entry for average, we'll see that in addtion to the mean, "There are many other types of averages, such as median (used most often to describe house prices and incomes)." So you can use the word "average" as in the joke and still be correct.
After all, we're talking about something scheduled for after 2012-12-21.
The main problems with paper for more than casual use are: 1: You obscure what you touch. Until we get transparent hands, people will obscure the sheet of paper while using it. 2: Smudges and fold lines. If you don't think this is a real problem, look at the average shoppping list at the grocery store. And that's casual use. 3: Gorilla Arm syndrome. This has been the downfall of paper-based systems for frequent input each and every time they have been re-launched as the next big thing.
But it seems he's from Nigeria and wants help tranferring money out of the country.
Actually, that's the point. Zippo Manufacturing, the ones who make the lighters, is located in Pennsylvania. Zippo.com, a totally unrelated firm that among other things provided news feeds, is located in California. The lighter company wanted to bring the trademark case to Pennsyvania for state law trademark dilution under 54 Pa.C.S.A. 1124. Naturally, the internet company wanted that dismissed for for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue.
My fault, though. Should have kept better notes, it's actually Zippo Manufacturing v. Zippo.com.
The new law is based on a novel definition of what constitutes a presence in the state: It includes any Web site based in the state that earns a referral fee for sending customers to an online retailer.
It's not novel. In Zippo v. Zippo 952 F. Supp. 1119, the Court found Pennsylvania had jurisdiction over Zippo.com, a California-based company, over the fact it engaged in electronic commerce with 3,000 individuals and 7 ISPs located in Pennsylvania. In this case, Amazon is engaged in electronic commerce with numerous companies, via the referral fee, based out of New York--thus New York should have the same jurisdiction rights as Pennsylvania did.
Spoilers...
But the plot holes get bigger and bigger as you go along. I didn't mind the problems with Ender's Game (all the queens at the home planet, linear colonization in a straight line towards Earth), but the utter stupidity of everyone except the main characters in the later books was too big of a turn-off.
Limited human contact with a primitive alien species--fine. No cameras or tape recorders allowed--seems unlikely but I can buy the 'no contamination of the native culture' line. No miniture recorders or cameras--okay, bullshit territory here; Ender has a earpiece that records damn near everything, but the researchers can't have them? Hell, how can they not be required to wear them? Fence around the human compound, but no surveillance cameras or sensors--who would design a piece of crap like that? Spaceships capable of traveling between the stars but no overhead imagery satellites--we can read license plates now with our piss-poor space capacity and they can't have visual, IR, and radar surveillance 24/7? Come on, they're suddenly growing grains, it's not like you can hide that.
And don't get me started about the OCD.
The courts are not going to agree that it is constitutionally problematic that they cannot comply due to reasonable manpower issues.
From Cubby v. Compuserve, a case dealing with postings made on a forum on Compuserve:
The court system does have an amazing amount of sense at times. Under the First Amendment, it would be a impermissible burden to have to monitor each and every work.
CUBBY v. COMPUSERVE, U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, 776 F. Supp. 135, October 29, 1991
For some reason, it's a common habit among some people to use the name of a nation's capital to refer to the government or part of the government of said country. Thus, you'll see "Washington has stepped up inspection of cargo" used instead of a more accurate yet clumsy "The US Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Boarder Protection has stepped up inspection of cargo."
It's a floor wax and a dessert topping.
Audrey Farber? Susan Underhill?
When usage starts peaking there is no way to get the sun to send down more energy. A 92 square mile station wouldn't be any more useful than a much smaller station.
So that's like saying if you need more water then it wouldn't be any better to pull water out of the Mississippi with a bucket than a cup because you can't make the river flow any faster?
I realize that marketing has nothing to do with the features or performance of a program. But it does have a factor in acceptance at work. There's no way I'm going in front of our Engineering Review Board for a product called "The Gimp", no matter how much money it's going to save.
I realize that sausages are made of the leftover bits, but I would try a brand that doesn't contain only old cock...not that I'm passing judgement or anything.
Using plain old //slashdot.org/ for the article got rid of the problem for me.
Once is accident.
Twice is coincidence.
Thrice is enemy action.
I don't think they exist.
I can remember coming across a book about the entire Y2K thing back in the late '70s, filled with both dire warnings and algorithms. And I remember thinking, "Jeez, that's over 20 years away. Nobody's going to be using any software around today that far in the future."
True believers know it was a giant floating brain, while the heretics believe it was from a virus-laden powerplant worker.
You'd love Arlington, Virinia then. There's a 19th Street North, 19th Road North, 19th Sreet South, and 19th Road South. Or there's 20th Street North, 20th Place North, and 20th Road North. And the best part is...these names all get used for multiple road segments that aren't connected. Or there's the spot where 20th Rd N runs into a T-intersection with...20th St. N and 21st St. N. That's right, a (small) stretch of road changes name in the middle!
Well, the first thing you need to do is actually start reading the article you're using for support. From the fine article you quoted:
Up to the time you can show how a wifi connection will make a physical CD magically show up in a room, then any argument about plausible deniability based off this case is full of it. You can't claim someone else was using your wireless connection to download child porn when you have a big stack of CDs with child pornography on them. Nobody is stupid enough to believe that. The only way this could have been a test case would be if they hadn't found any evidence beside the network traffic.
What this shows is that illegal traffic coming to/from your address constitutes probable cause, which is a different kettle of fish.