I'm not sure if this will have the outcome you're hoping for.
Two of the five victims have already recouped their losses. That's already part of the outcome I was hoping for. Personally, as long as its leaders stop defrauding people, I don't have a problem with the Church of Scientology thriving. It seems every major religion originally starts off that way, it first starts out as an extreme cult exploiting its members to the max, and then it becomes tamer, more institutionalized, and safer for its members over time.
If the gambling ban is repealed, these sites would immediately cease to be "criminal enterprises", and become legal offshore Internet gambling sites.
No. There is also the current problem of off-shore casinos reneging on paying their largest winners. To make off-shore gambling more legit, we would need to make those enterprise bonded (or insured) with actual assets in the US that could be taken away and given to the winners in case of breach of contract.
And while we're at it, we'd probably also need some kind of auditing process, to make sure there is no other type of in-house cheating designed to cheat customers out of their winnings (that being said, don't ask me how to do that last part, that's not my field).
In any case, the responses to the letter were basically like "chill out, lady. It's an honor. We just think white people are so exotic and foreign!" Etc.
I've had Japanese girls buy me drinks, take pictures of me, pay for things, offer me a place to stay -- all because they essentially wanted to get into my pants. The standard for beauty in Japan is the tall white European body with blond hair and blue eyes (it doesn't matter if you're just average looking, or less than average-looking, as long as you're white -- Japanese girls will do everything they can to get in bed with you).
On the other hand, their own race, they consider completely ugly. It's such an extreme form of self-loathing, it's difficult to describe. Is this fucked-up? Sure, it is, extremely so, but I wouldn't bring up that picture example without explaining it first. And yes, I do agree that the Japanese are racists, but for other reasons -- not because they're ashamed of their own body type -- that's a different type of problem.
Yeah, 1% in a controlled laboratory setting where photographs taken indoors were used as input, instead of actual images taken from actual video footage. Otherwise, it's a 47% success rate for contrived photographs taken outdoors (according to that second article you linked to).
So unless the Turks plan to make everyone of their people entering a public place, enter a well-lit photo booth, and stare at the camera for a couple of seconds a certain way (otherwise, they get zapped a la Minority Reports) -- then I don't really see the benefit of this system.
That's not the original terms. It was changed recently. Not that I read the original version either, but let's pretend for a minute that I did read the original terms. Can someone remind me of what they were?
it's rather ironic that the whole lefty money is the root of all evil crowds that populate most university's permit their workplace to be so much more dangerous.
Do not confuse the liberal arts departments with the science and engineering departments. At my school for instance, whenever there was a strike by the liberal arts students and faculty, you can be sure that none of the science and engineering students or faculty took part in it. We all used to cross the picket lines.
On a side-note, your cell phone service can't be turned off for non-payment if there is a police wire on it. At least that's what happened on "The Wire" HBO's series (an awesome show by the way), so take this bit of information with a little bit of salt.:)
Tetris is likewise protected by design patents, trademarks, and copyright.
No, that's the thing, Tetris Co is more like SCO than anything else, and that's probably why the parent selected 'Tetris' as an example.
The game Tetris itself is not patented. It can't be. The game was copied/ripped off from a guy in Russia who doesn't even have any kind of relationship with the company claiming now to own the game.
The company that's suing everyone now likes to present itself as the originator, but the only thing it can do in court is try to sue for trademark infringement, or design similarities, to its actual implementation -- which is much tougher to do (especially if you consider the fact that the makers of Tetris-like games are careful enough to avoid calling their game "Tetris" to avoid this issue).
I guess that neither the small plane crashing into the White House, nor the failed hijacking that aimed to crash a French commercial airliner into the Eiffel Tower, would count for Professor Obvious either.
And which part did you find condescending? "a cute little notebook" a phrase she may have very well used herself, or was it the assumption that this was a just a "passing phase" (Doesn't everyone on this planet, both genders included, myself included, have "passing phases" of one kind or another?)
If you're really interested in having always on internet or making free voip calls from anywhere, just keep in mind that Verizon keeps its cell phone "Unlimited data plan" limited to 5 GB per month.
If they are actually good at tech and pay any attention to it at all, they don't have a reason to switch.
It depends. For instance, if you're a web developer who's using linux boxes (or some kind of cloud) in production, using linux/unix/BSD/OS X is a far better idea than developing on Windows. The integration between your development machine and your production environment will be completely transparent in that case.
This isn't to say that Microsoft doesn't have awesome integration within its own set of tools, SQL Server, Visual Studio, IIS, its own performance monitoring tools, etc, but it really depends on what you're working on. And no, cygwin and ssh putty are not adequate replacements for a full-blown unix development environment, those tools will do in a pinch if you get stuck, but they're quite limited and they will make you lose more time than anything else if you're developing for a Unix-like production environment.
It was. Just check the date -- this Clinton hard-drive was lost during the later part of the Bush administration. This throws your theory to bits, doesn't it.
That includes all the G1 developers who have a new and deeper understanding of Java and might be looking for a wider market to apply it to...
As a G1 developer, I'd have to ask -- what market? This hypothetical 1 billion market is pure wishful thinking on its part. On the internet, Sun doesn't have a captive audience. Sun also doesn't have the experience of making consumer products, let alone cool or usable consumer products.
And last, Sun couldn't have picked a worst partner for itself, by picking Joyent for its cloud offering. A cloud is supposed to be reliable and scalable, and Joyent is anything but reliable or scalable (despite Joyents' fame for having so many famous co-founders, it's a piece of crap right now). As a developer, this at least shows me that Sun has completely fallen out of touch with its developers and the marketplace, and it's just digging itself deeper right now. Copying your (cooler) competitors and chasing the latest buzzwords is not a sound business strategy.
If you ran an experiment where some customers had their orders delayed by a few minutes more than was necessary and had some kind of metric to determine their enjoyment of their dining experience, it wouldn't be so absurd.
Sure, it wouldn't be so absurd, because we all know that a Microsoft Live results page is just like a nice burger, or a nice frothy Guiness getting poured ever slowly. The slower it takes, the better it usually is.
In fact, that should be Microsoft new marketing campaign: "At Microsoft Live, we make all our results from scratch and we don't pre-index anything. It does take a little bit longer, and we may not be the biggest search engine around, but that's just a sign we're focusing on delivering quality results -- not fast results."
I don't want my house, garden, neighborhood and face plastered all over the web for everyone to gawk at.
Google street view doesn't record faces. Besides unless you're the octo-mom's neighbor or something, you'll have to work pretty damn hard at getting people to gawk at your property (why would everyone be gawking at your property when they could be gawking at hundreds of millions of other properties?). What makes you think your property is so special anyway?
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Well yes, the ITU doesn't like the fact that people can make phone calls over the internet, and it wants to stop that.
Two of the five victims have already recouped their losses. That's already part of the outcome I was hoping for. Personally, as long as its leaders stop defrauding people, I don't have a problem with the Church of Scientology thriving. It seems every major religion originally starts off that way, it first starts out as an extreme cult exploiting its members to the max, and then it becomes tamer, more institutionalized, and safer for its members over time.
No. There is also the current problem of off-shore casinos reneging on paying their largest winners. To make off-shore gambling more legit, we would need to make those enterprise bonded (or insured) with actual assets in the US that could be taken away and given to the winners in case of breach of contract.
And while we're at it, we'd probably also need some kind of auditing process, to make sure there is no other type of in-house cheating designed to cheat customers out of their winnings (that being said, don't ask me how to do that last part, that's not my field).
Hopefully, I'll have more than 500 readers when I'm 97.
With a username like yours, I wouldn't be spreading this story around if I were you.
I've had Japanese girls buy me drinks, take pictures of me, pay for things, offer me a place to stay -- all because they essentially wanted to get into my pants. The standard for beauty in Japan is the tall white European body with blond hair and blue eyes (it doesn't matter if you're just average looking, or less than average-looking, as long as you're white -- Japanese girls will do everything they can to get in bed with you).
On the other hand, their own race, they consider completely ugly. It's such an extreme form of self-loathing, it's difficult to describe. Is this fucked-up? Sure, it is, extremely so, but I wouldn't bring up that picture example without explaining it first. And yes, I do agree that the Japanese are racists, but for other reasons -- not because they're ashamed of their own body type -- that's a different type of problem.
Yeah, 1% in a controlled laboratory setting where photographs taken indoors were used as input, instead of actual images taken from actual video footage. Otherwise, it's a 47% success rate for contrived photographs taken outdoors (according to that second article you linked to).
So unless the Turks plan to make everyone of their people entering a public place, enter a well-lit photo booth, and stare at the camera for a couple of seconds a certain way (otherwise, they get zapped a la Minority Reports) -- then I don't really see the benefit of this system.
That's not the original terms. It was changed recently. Not that I read the original version either, but let's pretend for a minute that I did read the original terms. Can someone remind me of what they were?
Do not confuse the liberal arts departments with the science and engineering departments. At my school for instance, whenever there was a strike by the liberal arts students and faculty, you can be sure that none of the science and engineering students or faculty took part in it. We all used to cross the picket lines.
On a side-note, your cell phone service can't be turned off for non-payment if there is a police wire on it. At least that's what happened on "The Wire" HBO's series (an awesome show by the way), so take this bit of information with a little bit of salt. :)
No, that's the thing, Tetris Co is more like SCO than anything else, and that's probably why the parent selected 'Tetris' as an example.
The game Tetris itself is not patented. It can't be. The game was copied/ripped off from a guy in Russia who doesn't even have any kind of relationship with the company claiming now to own the game.
The company that's suing everyone now likes to present itself as the originator, but the only thing it can do in court is try to sue for trademark infringement, or design similarities, to its actual implementation -- which is much tougher to do (especially if you consider the fact that the makers of Tetris-like games are careful enough to avoid calling their game "Tetris" to avoid this issue).
I guess that neither the small plane crashing into the White House, nor the failed hijacking that aimed to crash a French commercial airliner into the Eiffel Tower, would count for Professor Obvious either.
No, not Asia, they would have gotten the Kama Sutra reference.
And which part did you find condescending? "a cute little notebook" a phrase she may have very well used herself, or was it the assumption that this was a just a "passing phase" (Doesn't everyone on this planet, both genders included, myself included, have "passing phases" of one kind or another?)
If you're really interested in having always on internet or making free voip calls from anywhere, just keep in mind that Verizon keeps its cell phone "Unlimited data plan" limited to 5 GB per month.
Do we actually need to explain to you that trolls have green skin, or that there is actually no way for us to mod you - 1 Hulk even if we wanted to?
It depends. For instance, if you're a web developer who's using linux boxes (or some kind of cloud) in production, using linux/unix/BSD/OS X is a far better idea than developing on Windows. The integration between your development machine and your production environment will be completely transparent in that case.
This isn't to say that Microsoft doesn't have awesome integration within its own set of tools, SQL Server, Visual Studio, IIS, its own performance monitoring tools, etc, but it really depends on what you're working on. And no, cygwin and ssh putty are not adequate replacements for a full-blown unix development environment, those tools will do in a pinch if you get stuck, but they're quite limited and they will make you lose more time than anything else if you're developing for a Unix-like production environment.
Forget the Nitrous Oxide, the real tragedy for the parents is if their kids ever get addicted to the denti$t.
It was. Just check the date -- this Clinton hard-drive was lost during the later part of the Bush administration. This throws your theory to bits, doesn't it.
As a G1 developer, I'd have to ask -- what market? This hypothetical 1 billion market is pure wishful thinking on its part. On the internet, Sun doesn't have a captive audience. Sun also doesn't have the experience of making consumer products, let alone cool or usable consumer products.
And last, Sun couldn't have picked a worst partner for itself, by picking Joyent for its cloud offering. A cloud is supposed to be reliable and scalable, and Joyent is anything but reliable or scalable (despite Joyents' fame for having so many famous co-founders, it's a piece of crap right now). As a developer, this at least shows me that Sun has completely fallen out of touch with its developers and the marketplace, and it's just digging itself deeper right now. Copying your (cooler) competitors and chasing the latest buzzwords is not a sound business strategy.
Yeah, it's easy to confuse the ACLU with the christian conservative don't-show-me-naked lobby, the ACLU better be careful.
Nothing says like: "Don't cut my budget. I'll show you what happens if you cut my budget you f____s"
Sure, it wouldn't be so absurd, because we all know that a Microsoft Live results page is just like a nice burger, or a nice frothy Guiness getting poured ever slowly. The slower it takes, the better it usually is.
In fact, that should be Microsoft new marketing campaign: "At Microsoft Live, we make all our results from scratch and we don't pre-index anything. It does take a little bit longer, and we may not be the biggest search engine around, but that's just a sign we're focusing on delivering quality results -- not fast results."
I don't know. If the natives are going to come after me with their pitchforks, I'd rather be in a vehicle with better get away speed.
Google street view doesn't record faces. Besides unless you're the octo-mom's neighbor or something, you'll have to work pretty damn hard at getting people to gawk at your property (why would everyone be gawking at your property when they could be gawking at hundreds of millions of other properties?). What makes you think your property is so special anyway?