So explain to me again how cyber cafe's *cause* crime?
Oh, I know what you are getting at (I hope). The Cafe's themselves do nothing to "cause" crime any more than adult bookstores do. The patrons of these establishments cause the crime. That makes the Cafe a public nuisance as far as the city is concerned.
The big thing here in Los Angeles is issuing conditional use permits to put a leash on certain types of businesses. One classic example is when Dave & Busters tried to open a place here in Woodland Hills. D&B is 18-and over, they have a dress code, they card, and overall it's a very nice place. But D&B has a video arcade in it. D&B wanted to pour millions into the building to fix it up. The city would only give them a conditional use permit which would be revokable for any reason they see fit after some time period (6 to 18 months or so). D&B decided to screw all that and went somewhere else.
So there it is in a nutshell.
The patrons are the problem. The solution, it seems, is to get rid of the problem by getting rid of the businesses.
They certainly can. That is if you consider shooting the patrons a crime.
There have been several instances of violence at Cyber Cafe's, mainly from playing on-line shooting games.
One instance that happened here at a local cafe:
Cafe A is at one physical address, Cafe B at another. Player at A frags player at B. Player B gets P.O.'d and sees who owns the IP address of the other player. Player B then looks up who owns the domain, and finds Cafe A's address. Player B drives to Cafe A and asks manager where player "A" is. Player B lies in wait in the parking lot and frags Player A (for real) when he leaves.
-- The Constitution and laws of the United States forbid all interference with the religious or political concerns of other nations.
U.S. President Millard Fillmore to the Emperor of Japan, 1852
I don't have one of them in front of me, but I noticed them earlier when my bank was handing them out via the ATM.
Look closely at the bill, the circles are in a faint yellow color all over the surface to the right of the picture on the front. You can barely see them, but they are there.
Too bad its mostly a myth about getting pounded in the ass in prison. Everything is supervised including showers. They even seperate the gay prisoners from the straight prisoners due to violence against gay prisoners.
That myth isn't all bad, it keeps people out of prison. There's good reason why the prison system doesn't try to dispel that myth.
Too bad. Perhaps they can pay Turkey to put the spammers in their prisons? I've watched Midnight Express, I'd think it would work.
It would even take care of the idiots who propogate those damn chain letters:
First offense: watch the movie. Second offense: live the movie.
Particulary nefarious spammers should have breasts tattooed to their backs before sending them off. I'm not being cruel, I just have to think of the welfare of the other prisoners.
Make the voting booths a bit more substantial, like the "man-traps" that are in some banks now.
Voter enters the booth, booth closes and locks. The booth will not re-open until the person has voted properly or if they page a pollworker to let them out. If the latter occurs, the pollworker can give them additional instructions or let them out and note the incident for any subsequent legal challenges to the election.
Of course, in all fairness a "none of the above" entry should be made for any one-party election.
I vote in all local and national elections and my local incumbent "representative" is not of my political party. My party (or any other party for that matter) does not even have a candidate on the ballot! In those cases, I leave the entry blank if I cannot vote "NO" to abstain. Since in the Florida election all the candidate choices were Republicans, I would think that some voters seeing their party was not represented at all on the ballot would abstain in a similar fashion.
The Linksys I mentioned above stated that it used.NET extensions or somesuch and required 2000 or XP. Fer Chrissakes, all it's doing is showing JPEG images and playing MP3's.
Another unit I found at a local Fry's also looked promising, but also required a "server" application that was only available in a windows version.
I fail to see why it is so difficult for these manufacturers to release a player that can display MPEG1/MPEG2/MP3/DIVX/JPEG/GIF and play MP3 (and possibly WMA and OGG) files without having to have anything other than a shared directory on the PC side.
While I was eyeing the recent flood of media players that hook up to the TV, I was also disappointed that just about every solution I find on the local shelves all require Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Thinking that they just put that there because it required a Windows share to hook up to was overly optimisitc, it needs to run software on the PC as well.
That rules out OS X and Linux users. I would also hazard a guess that this one will do the same, since their other similar media product has these restrictions.
Frankly, I don't know what your definition of "commercial success" is, but the iPod *is* most definitely a commercial success and a great product as well.
As for the deification and disillusionment part (as a general rule), you are spot-on.
But still, it has the capabilities of adding external components. Microphone, several wireless remotes, FM tuners, external batteries and a crappy (read: slow) memory card storage device.
Unlike the US, if you are aquitted in Norway, the prosecutor can appeal the aquittal up to two more times. Jon did not appeal at all. IIRC, the prosecutor still has one chance at appealing to Norway's highest court. So he may not be out of the woods quite yet.
Actually the $99 you pay gets you a refurbished iPod, not the iPod you sent in in the first place. Read the Apple site:
NOTE: iPod equipment that is sent in for battery service or service requiring other repairs will be replaced with functionally equivalent new, used, or refurbished iPod equipment. You will not receive the same iPod that was sent in for service.
Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.
Sure can. Forget about references though, you'll need them in the tight job marketplace.
Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.
Ah, then you remember that "Do not compete" clause that was required for your employment. Then you remember telling your boss to "Sod off".
If a company lets you go, are you entitled to unemployment compenstation of some sort? Yes.
It only works if you are fired or laid off. Good luck paying any sort of bills with that. Your boss can also tell them that you quit - and they will deny you benefits until you can appeal. That can take up to 3-6 months. (Speaking from experience here)
Can a company legally tell another company that you don't bathe, you write shitty code and your mother-in-law calls you 17 times a day distracting you at work? No.
If you work in a small industry, or sometimes a larger one, you will always run into people you knew at one point or another. I work for a DoD contractor, and always meet former coworkers or hear of former coworkers at other companies - and this is a very large industry. This can work for you or against you. Your former boss who most likely has been in the industry longer than you, has a similar (and likely larger) network.
Not too far off. Back in the 90's I was reading an SF book in the Berzerker Wars series where the machines would take captured humans remove their brains and train the brains to be used as fast calculators.
Triggering the pain centers were used as punishment for being too slow or coming up with the wrong answer. When some of these were "recovered" by the humans, they were put down because they were then totally insane.
Price normally would, but do you remember those stereo component CD recorders that can burn CDs off of tape, radio or other CDs without a computer? Those will only record on Music CD-R's.
Since you mention RIAA, I'll assume you live in the U.S.:
There is no RIAA tax on CD-R or CD-RW media. Recordable CDs that are used for data storage are not subject to the piracy tax. If you decide to burn data on 'Music' CD-R/RW (those labeled for music recording purposes), then you effectively paid the tax to the RIAA to record your backups.
Fines won't work, but these will (televise them for better effect):
1. Electroshock therapty 2. Injecting vinegar into the testicles 3. Fire ant enema 4. Force them to watch a Roseanne and Anna Nichole lesbo love fest just like in A Clockwork Orange. 5. That rat-in-a-bucket trick they did on 2Fast 2Furious
Cruel and unusual punishment has it's place. Public hangings, burning at the stake, the guillotine and others had a purpose OTHER than punishment of crimes: it served as a warning to others as well.
2013 APs under their flightpath not all the APs in the city. To get all the APs in the city, they'd have to drive or fly over nearly every damn street in it.
I'm conducting an AP survey of the West San Fernando Valley (just north of this WarFlying survey) covering all the primanry and secondary surface streets. So far I have 50-70% of it recorded and already have over 1000 APs recorded in KisMac. Network security on these has been abysmal.
This survey is a followup to one I did 18 months ago. Back then 28% of all the detected APs had WEP encryption. When I removed all the residential areas and left Warner Center (home to Fortune 500 firms, Insurance Companies, Banks and DoD contractors) I got... wait for it... 28% of APs with WEP encryption. It makes me all warm inside thinking about it.
All I can say for sure is that Linksys has the AP market pretty much locked up with Apple/Lucent a distant second and Netgear an even more distant third. Everything else is noise.
The armed forces are there with the scientists. From what my co-worker told me (he was stationed there in the US Navy) is that the scientists at the bases hate everyone and everything there that is not a fellow scientist. The main reason the military is tolerated is because they do the upkeep on the bases and are a convenient when a rescue/evacuation is needed. The scientists have a big say on what goes on there.
There's a high degree of elitism and snobbishness on the part of the scientists, and from what he told me, this doesn't surprise me at all.
I'd recommend the pilot just bundle up and walk out to the local wildlife and start petting them (they have no fear of humans) or giving them food handouts (especially the large seagulls). That might piss off the scientists enough to give him the fuel just to be rid of him.
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Oh, I know what you are getting at (I hope). The Cafe's themselves do nothing to "cause" crime any more than adult bookstores do. The patrons of these establishments cause the crime. That makes the Cafe a public nuisance as far as the city is concerned.
The big thing here in Los Angeles is issuing conditional use permits to put a leash on certain types of businesses. One classic example is when Dave & Busters tried to open a place here in Woodland Hills. D&B is 18-and over, they have a dress code, they card, and overall it's a very nice place. But D&B has a video arcade in it. D&B wanted to pour millions into the building to fix it up. The city would only give them a conditional use permit which would be revokable for any reason they see fit after some time period (6 to 18 months or so). D&B decided to screw all that and went somewhere else.
So there it is in a nutshell.
The patrons are the problem. The solution, it seems, is to get rid of the problem by getting rid of the businesses.
They certainly can. That is if you consider shooting the patrons a crime.
There have been several instances of violence at Cyber Cafe's, mainly from playing on-line shooting games.
One instance that happened here at a local cafe:
Cafe A is at one physical address, Cafe B at another.
Player at A frags player at B.
Player B gets P.O.'d and sees who owns the IP address of the other player.
Player B then looks up who owns the domain, and finds Cafe A's address.
Player B drives to Cafe A and asks manager where player "A" is.
Player B lies in wait in the parking lot and frags Player A (for real) when he leaves.
--
The Constitution and laws of the United States forbid all interference with the religious or political concerns of other nations.
U.S. President Millard Fillmore to the Emperor of Japan, 1852
Hands up for those of you at work and avoided clicking on it only to find out that it's on the same web page as the previous 10 or so items.
On the very newest bill design?
I don't have one of them in front of me, but I noticed them earlier when my bank was handing them out via the ATM.
Look closely at the bill, the circles are in a faint yellow color all over the surface to the right of the picture on the front. You can barely see them, but they are there.
Too bad. Perhaps they can pay Turkey to put the spammers in their prisons? I've watched Midnight Express, I'd think it would work.
It would even take care of the idiots who propogate those damn chain letters:
First offense: watch the movie.
Second offense: live the movie.
Particulary nefarious spammers should have breasts tattooed to their backs before sending them off. I'm not being cruel, I just have to think of the welfare of the other prisoners.
Make the voting booths a bit more substantial, like the "man-traps" that are in some banks now.
Voter enters the booth, booth closes and locks. The booth will not re-open until the person has voted properly or if they page a pollworker to let them out. If the latter occurs, the pollworker can give them additional instructions or let them out and note the incident for any subsequent legal challenges to the election.
Of course, in all fairness a "none of the above" entry should be made for any one-party election.
I vote in all local and national elections and my local incumbent "representative" is not of my political party. My party (or any other party for that matter) does not even have a candidate on the ballot! In those cases, I leave the entry blank if I cannot vote "NO" to abstain. Since in the Florida election all the candidate choices were Republicans, I would think that some voters seeing their party was not represented at all on the ballot would abstain in a similar fashion.
So there's nothing to see here.
The Linksys I mentioned above stated that it used .NET extensions or somesuch and required 2000 or XP. Fer Chrissakes, all it's doing is showing JPEG images and playing MP3's.
Another unit I found at a local Fry's also looked promising, but also required a "server" application that was only available in a windows version.
I fail to see why it is so difficult for these manufacturers to release a player that can display MPEG1/MPEG2/MP3/DIVX/JPEG/GIF and play MP3 (and possibly WMA and OGG) files without having to have anything other than a shared directory on the PC side.
While I was eyeing the recent flood of media players that hook up to the TV, I was also disappointed that just about every solution I find on the local shelves all require Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Thinking that they just put that there because it required a Windows share to hook up to was overly optimisitc, it needs to run software on the PC as well.
That rules out OS X and Linux users. I would also hazard a guess that this one will do the same, since their other similar media product has these restrictions.
Frankly, I don't know what your definition of "commercial success" is, but the iPod *is* most definitely a commercial success and a great product as well.
As for the deification and disillusionment part (as a general rule), you are spot-on.
Yeah, you got me.
But still, it has the capabilities of adding external components. Microphone, several wireless remotes, FM tuners, external batteries and a crappy (read: slow) memory card storage device.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Unlike the US, if you are aquitted in Norway, the prosecutor can appeal the aquittal up to two more times. Jon did not appeal at all. IIRC, the prosecutor still has one chance at appealing to Norway's highest court. So he may not be out of the woods quite yet.
Actually the $99 you pay gets you a refurbished iPod, not the iPod you sent in in the first place. Read the Apple site:
NOTE: iPod equipment that is sent in for battery service or service requiring other repairs will be replaced with functionally equivalent new, used, or refurbished iPod equipment. You will not receive the same iPod that was sent in for service.
iPod Battery Replacement
Getting a new or refurbished unit isn't all that bad of a deal. I'm pretty sure they won't send you a dinged-up scratched to hell unit
Ah, then you remember that "Do not compete" clause that was required for your employment. Then you remember telling your boss to "Sod off".
It only works if you are fired or laid off. Good luck paying any sort of bills with that. Your boss can also tell them that you quit - and they will deny you benefits until you can appeal. That can take up to 3-6 months. (Speaking from experience here)
If you work in a small industry, or sometimes a larger one, you will always run into people you knew at one point or another. I work for a DoD contractor, and always meet former coworkers or hear of former coworkers at other companies - and this is a very large industry. This can work for you or against you. Your former boss who most likely has been in the industry longer than you, has a similar (and likely larger) network.
Found more stuff:
Nissan Cars
Canon's Wacky Stuff
JR's Bullet Trains
Here's the Ultimate:
Build your own IBM Thinkpad
Honda does make models:
Honda Origami Here
and here
No motorcycles from hat I can find.
Not too far off. Back in the 90's I was reading an SF book in the Berzerker Wars series where the machines would take captured humans remove their brains and train the brains to be used as fast calculators.
Triggering the pain centers were used as punishment for being too slow or coming up with the wrong answer. When some of these were "recovered" by the humans, they were put down because they were then totally insane.
Price normally would, but do you remember those stereo component CD recorders that can burn CDs off of tape, radio or other CDs without a computer? Those will only record on Music CD-R's.
This article explains it better than I can.
Since you mention RIAA, I'll assume you live in the U.S.:
There is no RIAA tax on CD-R or CD-RW media. Recordable CDs that are used for data storage are not subject to the piracy tax. If you decide to burn data on 'Music' CD-R/RW (those labeled for music recording purposes), then you effectively paid the tax to the RIAA to record your backups.
Fines won't work, but these will (televise them for better effect):
1. Electroshock therapty
2. Injecting vinegar into the testicles
3. Fire ant enema
4. Force them to watch a Roseanne and Anna Nichole lesbo love fest just like in A Clockwork Orange.
5. That rat-in-a-bucket trick they did on 2Fast 2Furious
Cruel and unusual punishment has it's place. Public hangings, burning at the stake, the guillotine and others had a purpose OTHER than punishment of crimes: it served as a warning to others as well.
2013 APs under their flightpath not all the APs in the city. To get all the APs in the city, they'd have to drive or fly over nearly every damn street in it.
I'm conducting an AP survey of the West San Fernando Valley (just north of this WarFlying survey) covering all the primanry and secondary surface streets. So far I have 50-70% of it recorded and already have over 1000 APs recorded in KisMac. Network security on these has been abysmal.
This survey is a followup to one I did 18 months ago. Back then 28% of all the detected APs had WEP encryption. When I removed all the residential areas and left Warner Center (home to Fortune 500 firms, Insurance Companies, Banks and DoD contractors) I got... wait for it... 28% of APs with WEP encryption. It makes me all warm inside thinking about it.
All I can say for sure is that Linksys has the AP market pretty much locked up with Apple/Lucent a distant second and Netgear an even more distant third. Everything else is noise.
The armed forces are there with the scientists. From what my co-worker told me (he was stationed there in the US Navy) is that the scientists at the bases hate everyone and everything there that is not a fellow scientist. The main reason the military is tolerated is because they do the upkeep on the bases and are a convenient when a rescue/evacuation is needed. The scientists have a big say on what goes on there.
There's a high degree of elitism and snobbishness on the part of the scientists, and from what he told me, this doesn't surprise me at all.
I'd recommend the pilot just bundle up and walk out to the local wildlife and start petting them (they have no fear of humans) or giving them food handouts (especially the large seagulls). That might piss off the scientists enough to give him the fuel just to be rid of him.
Then buy it via Apple or the Apple store. They offer a 14-day price protection policy for just this very reason.
BB, CC and their ilk will beat prices or match them. I have never had a problem getting them to match a price up to 30 days from the purchase date.
Good idea. They DID irradiate the males to prevent breeding. You know what happened one time they released the flies?
They found out the files were net sterile after all and made a bad situation even worse. But that was just a one-time cock-up.
Thanks. That brings back memories. I haven't seen the motorcycle running about since 1984 or thereabouts.