Any attempt at high-density housing is often met with hostility from environmental NIMBYs and hostile existing property owners unwilling to give any room to these efforts by filing complaints and grievances. The intense culture surrounding perpetual property value increases is baffling in one sense considering the supposed social conscience that is supposed to exist in the Bay Area.
Wait.. I've heard this before. It's called: "I've got mine, so fuck you!"
I never knew SF was such a bastion of Republican values... It seems like personal greed is universal despite political ideologies.
This is precisely how the anti theft software for my Macs work. For it to be most effective, you should set the firmware password (to prevent booting off other media), encrypt the disk, set a password on your account, and leave the guest account active.
The whole idea is to get the thief to use it so it can phone home. If it is locked up too tight, they'll just be parted out or tossed.
That nifty law they passed for kill switches in cell phones means they no longer steal phones to resell and reactivate, now they just steal them for the the parts.
The nozzle is just under the seat, not in the lower part of the bowl. Most modern Japanese toilets have the nozzle on a retractable wand that is always out of the "drop zone" and emerges only when commanded to do so with the controls.
So no, you cannot pee or crap on them* and they keep pretty clean on their own. But there is also a button that will extend it for a wipe down.
*If you push the button while dropping a load, all bets are off. If you push it while peeing, it'll piss back at you, but the modern Toto units won't deploy if there's no one on the seat.
It's Stop, Butt Rinse, Butt Rinse (gentle, for hemorrhoids), Feminine Wash, and Air Dry.
Opening the cover for those controls you usually only mess with once is just for comedic effect. But those controls are for moving the jet forward or backward to bullseye the target area, stream strength, pulsed or non-pulsing streams, temperature, and seat warming settings.
Yeah, we had one of these. Don't knock them till you try them, your sphincter will thank you later, especially when wiping is like trying to get peanut butter out of a shag carpet.
A good type II tape like Maxell UD-XLII or TDK-SA made amazing recordings.
Thanks for the flash of nostalgia. I used to make tons of recordings on Maxell and TDK tapes, before finally settling on my go-to choice: Maxell UD-XLIIS. Most of my stuff didn't play metal tapes, and I gravitated to CDs once the selection in record stores became better than a handful of classical titles and Toto IV.
There's two real memorable times I had when there were leaps in audio technology: The first time I heard a CD in a showroom after a lifetime of cassettes and LPs. And the first time I heard an audio system playing Raiders of the Lost Ark in Beta HiFi.
Nowadays if I want warm, I put a 78rpm record on the Victrola and crank it up (literally).
This type of article is exactly what you'd expect from The Drudge Report, and/. seems to be a bit late with the news (it was on Drudge last week).
Quite simply:
Japan does not have the same cultural baggage about this you'd find in the west. There's no huge population that had the whole Bible and "Mark of the Beast" drummed into their heads. There's no conspiracy theorists. No persecution of Jews - even though they were an ally of Nazi Germany.
In WWII, for all the things the Japanese did during the war, they did not share the Nazi's attitude towards Jews. Chiune Sugihara saved many European Jews during the war by giving them visas allowing them to escape Europe via Siberia. The government and the military pretty much ignored the orders to round up and exterminate Jews coming from Germany, with the one exception of a ghetto being built in Shanghai. The Japanese did not run any extermination campaigns and pretty much left Jews in their sphere of influence alone during the war.
Because of this, the marking of individuals does not carry the same knee-jerk gut reaction there as it would here, and people in Japan would liken it to how Americans see the commonplace medical alert bracelets.
"It would be extremely difficult for someone, including a nation-state actor, to alter actual ballot counts or election results by cyber attack or intrusion,"
That's rich. With all the whining and hand-wringing about not trusting electronic voting machines since the Bush administration, we already know many cannot be audited and leave no paper trail of ballots cast by voters.
Yeah, they can't because we simply won't know if they did.
Considering the alternative was a lifetime of research in the "Worker's Paradise" or staying in the country where their handiwork was dropping daily on people's heads.
With mine (TWC) they charge extra to enable the wifi on your cable modem/router without a certain level of service. Additionally, they will enable a hotspot using their modem allowing other people to use it (but separate from your network, they claim).
I loathe these shenanigans, and prefer to control my equipment. Hence two more pieces of junk to join my USR Courier modem, Psion 3, and other junk in my "Island of Misfit Toys".
I'm on TWC (for now, at least) and you have to buy a modem off a very specific (and short) list if you are going to connect it to their network and expect them to provision it for you.
Unless you are in one of the battleground states, you do not have much of a voice. See how the electoral college works. If she's up 10-15% in the polls in your state on election day, your voice will be a tad louder voting for a candidate of your choice, rather than the "lesser of two evils".
For example: if you happen to live in California, you won't be blocking anybody. HRC is going to win unless we finally have that megaquake and all the costal cities fall into the ocean.
I purchased several years back an HP-m475dw. Basically a Color Laserjet 400 Pro with a scanner bed on the top.
I never had one problem with it aside from one jam on the paper feeder for the scanner.
I do need to occasionally get drivers from the HP site as well as firmware updates to fix the occasional bugs - like the one I discovered where the printer would freeze up scanning a 16+ page document to a PDF file. Well, HP decided that such support should not be available anymore to this class of machine without a service contract. That's right, no more updates unless you fork over money - sorta.
If I log in with my account and access the support page for the printer, I'm reminded that it is out of warranty and I need to purchase a service contract to continue and download files.
*but*
If I log out and search for the printer and drivers on Google, it takes me to the very same page where the latest firmware and drivers are freely downloadable to me as an anonymous user.
I did not mean to make that comparison. It's very similar in another way:
If they cannot trademark the ringing phone noise in the EU, then AAMCO cannot trademark their beep-beep car horn either. In the US it's a protected "sound mark".
Hillary has so much money she doesn't need to get paid any more.
You are telling me rich people don't want to get richer? Seriously?
I can understand that when a rich person gets rich enough, making money gets boring and they have other people manage it for them. Once that happens, they usually look to start amassing power and the ability to control others.
No US workers are being laid off to hire H1B's. UCSF just cut their IT costs by going to an outside contractor and laying off a portion of their workforce - this is perfectly legal. And just so happens to be the way the system is rigged to get around laws protecting US workers. The contractor is able to supply IT workers at a lower cost per head than the existing employees because they use H1Bs that work for considerably less salary. UCSF benefits from less employee overhead, and the contracting firm gets paid the H1B's salary plus a bit more for profit.
By inserting the contractor between the company and the H1B workers, companies are immune from H1B restrictions.
Just about every H1B story that hits the news (SCE, Disney, etc.) use this method.
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There's a possible solution:
An application that replaces FileVault called Espionage 3 is compatible. It looks good, but I'm leery of 3rd party solutions and my data.
I just saw what you are talking about. Guest does not work with the software. Bummer, it worked with the original Filevault, but not Filevault 2.
Even if the software runs as a system service?
Just logged in as guest to check and it's there and running. Guest account runs fine too.
Any attempt at high-density housing is often met with hostility from environmental NIMBYs and hostile existing property owners unwilling to give any room to these efforts by filing complaints and grievances. The intense culture surrounding perpetual property value increases is baffling in one sense considering the supposed social conscience that is supposed to exist in the Bay Area.
Wait.. I've heard this before. It's called: "I've got mine, so fuck you!"
I never knew SF was such a bastion of Republican values... It seems like personal greed is universal despite political ideologies.
Logan's Run much ?
“If you are strong, you win renewal.”
This is precisely how the anti theft software for my Macs work. For it to be most effective, you should set the firmware password (to prevent booting off other media), encrypt the disk, set a password on your account, and leave the guest account active.
The whole idea is to get the thief to use it so it can phone home. If it is locked up too tight, they'll just be parted out or tossed.
That nifty law they passed for kill switches in cell phones means they no longer steal phones to resell and reactivate, now they just steal them for the the parts.
More like this:
Kentucky Fried Movie predicted this in 1977:
FeelAround
On the linked photo, yes. It's a "gentle" spray. Hemorrhoids are very common in Japan, and a strong blast would be the last thing you need.
The nozzle is just under the seat, not in the lower part of the bowl. Most modern Japanese toilets have the nozzle on a retractable wand that is always out of the "drop zone" and emerges only when commanded to do so with the controls.
So no, you cannot pee or crap on them* and they keep pretty clean on their own. But there is also a button that will extend it for a wipe down.
*If you push the button while dropping a load, all bets are off. If you push it while peeing, it'll piss back at you, but the modern Toto units won't deploy if there's no one on the seat.
It's not "enema"
It's Stop, Butt Rinse, Butt Rinse (gentle, for hemorrhoids), Feminine Wash, and Air Dry.
Opening the cover for those controls you usually only mess with once is just for comedic effect. But those controls are for moving the jet forward or backward to bullseye the target area, stream strength, pulsed or non-pulsing streams, temperature, and seat warming settings.
Yeah, we had one of these. Don't knock them till you try them, your sphincter will thank you later, especially when wiping is like trying to get peanut butter out of a shag carpet.
A good type II tape like Maxell UD-XLII or TDK-SA made amazing recordings.
Thanks for the flash of nostalgia. I used to make tons of recordings on Maxell and TDK tapes, before finally settling on my go-to choice: Maxell UD-XLIIS. Most of my stuff didn't play metal tapes, and I gravitated to CDs once the selection in record stores became better than a handful of classical titles and Toto IV.
There's two real memorable times I had when there were leaps in audio technology: The first time I heard a CD in a showroom after a lifetime of cassettes and LPs. And the first time I heard an audio system playing Raiders of the Lost Ark in Beta HiFi.
Nowadays if I want warm, I put a 78rpm record on the Victrola and crank it up (literally).
Somehow I'd knew it'd come to this.
This type of article is exactly what you'd expect from The Drudge Report, and /. seems to be a bit late with the news (it was on Drudge last week).
Quite simply:
Japan does not have the same cultural baggage about this you'd find in the west. There's no huge population that had the whole Bible and "Mark of the Beast" drummed into their heads. There's no conspiracy theorists. No persecution of Jews - even though they were an ally of Nazi Germany.
In WWII, for all the things the Japanese did during the war, they did not share the Nazi's attitude towards Jews. Chiune Sugihara saved many European Jews during the war by giving them visas allowing them to escape Europe via Siberia. The government and the military pretty much ignored the orders to round up and exterminate Jews coming from Germany, with the one exception of a ghetto being built in Shanghai. The Japanese did not run any extermination campaigns and pretty much left Jews in their sphere of influence alone during the war.
Because of this, the marking of individuals does not carry the same knee-jerk gut reaction there as it would here, and people in Japan would liken it to how Americans see the commonplace medical alert bracelets.
Non-techies often giggle when I use the word "dongle". Can't we find a better word before HR hauls me in for alleged harassment?
Not as far fetched as you think....
That's rich. With all the whining and hand-wringing about not trusting electronic voting machines since the Bush administration, we already know many cannot be audited and leave no paper trail of ballots cast by voters.
Yeah, they can't because we simply won't know if they did.
Yes they did.
Considering the alternative was a lifetime of research in the "Worker's Paradise" or staying in the country where their handiwork was dropping daily on people's heads.
Tom Lehrer has a great song about that...
That's a good point, but it depends on the ISP.
With mine (TWC) they charge extra to enable the wifi on your cable modem/router without a certain level of service. Additionally, they will enable a hotspot using their modem allowing other people to use it (but separate from your network, they claim).
I loathe these shenanigans, and prefer to control my equipment. Hence two more pieces of junk to join my USR Courier modem, Psion 3, and other junk in my "Island of Misfit Toys".
What do you mean by random device?
I'm on TWC (for now, at least) and you have to buy a modem off a very specific (and short) list if you are going to connect it to their network and expect them to provision it for you.
And - Comcast has such a list too.
Apple is going to eventually end up selling paper bags. And Microsoft is going to do the printing.
Now Samsung will quickly design and release SamsungBag(TM), releasing it month or so before Apple releases their reinvented iBag...
Unless you are in one of the battleground states, you do not have much of a voice. See how the electoral college works. If she's up 10-15% in the polls in your state on election day, your voice will be a tad louder voting for a candidate of your choice, rather than the "lesser of two evils".
For example: if you happen to live in California, you won't be blocking anybody. HRC is going to win unless we finally have that megaquake and all the costal cities fall into the ocean.
I purchased several years back an HP-m475dw. Basically a Color Laserjet 400 Pro with a scanner bed on the top.
I never had one problem with it aside from one jam on the paper feeder for the scanner.
I do need to occasionally get drivers from the HP site as well as firmware updates to fix the occasional bugs - like the one I discovered where the printer would freeze up scanning a 16+ page document to a PDF file. Well, HP decided that such support should not be available anymore to this class of machine without a service contract. That's right, no more updates unless you fork over money - sorta.
If I log in with my account and access the support page for the printer, I'm reminded that it is out of warranty and I need to purchase a service contract to continue and download files.
*but*
If I log out and search for the printer and drivers on Google, it takes me to the very same page where the latest firmware and drivers are freely downloadable to me as an anonymous user.
I did not mean to make that comparison. It's very similar in another way:
If they cannot trademark the ringing phone noise in the EU, then AAMCO cannot trademark their beep-beep car horn either. In the US it's a protected "sound mark".
This is news to me. Just about anyone in the US has heard one of these commercials (relevant part):
AAMCO
I know their logo is trademarked in the EU, but cannot find anything about the sound.
Hillary has so much money she doesn't need to get paid any more.
You are telling me rich people don't want to get richer? Seriously?
I can understand that when a rich person gets rich enough, making money gets boring and they have other people manage it for them. Once that happens, they usually look to start amassing power and the ability to control others.
It isn't exactly working that way.
No US workers are being laid off to hire H1B's. UCSF just cut their IT costs by going to an outside contractor and laying off a portion of their workforce - this is perfectly legal. And just so happens to be the way the system is rigged to get around laws protecting US workers. The contractor is able to supply IT workers at a lower cost per head than the existing employees because they use H1Bs that work for considerably less salary. UCSF benefits from less employee overhead, and the contracting firm gets paid the H1B's salary plus a bit more for profit.
By inserting the contractor between the company and the H1B workers, companies are immune from H1B restrictions.
Just about every H1B story that hits the news (SCE, Disney, etc.) use this method.
Like this?
High budget scientific re-enactment