On a side-note, this woman could have some form of age-related mental illness.
I know it's a taboo topic to talk about. I also know that the journalist took great pains to paint the picture of an intelligent woman, but really, being an RN, teaching CPR, marrying couples, and communicating with "lightning-fast sign language". That's not really a complete measure of mental health. Is it?
For instance, her sign language ability would only indicate that at least a function of her brain was still working correctly, but it is no guarantee that everything else was working correctly. As to her Oregon Registered Nurse certification, I couldn't find any other registered nurse, even among the really old nurses, with as many probationary blemishes on their records as she's had.
The only sane one here seems to her deaf husband. Apparently, along with the FBI and the police, her husband was one of the ones who kept on telling her that this was just all a big scam, and yet, even after receiving all those warnings, the wife kept on going -- disobeying her husband -- disregarding the FBI -- disregarding the police, and investing/realizing the bulk of their loss even well after all the alarm bells had already gone well off.
That's why I'm thinking she really might have some sort of mental illness, and if I were her husband, I would be asking the courts -- to judge her incompetent -- and remove her rights to access/control their accounts, otherwise she might do it again, but just with a different scam the next time.
There's a Christian pastor close to where I live that just issued a challenge to his congregation, for all the married couples to have sex every day for a week. Another a couple of hours drive away recently issued a similar challenge, but it was ever day for a month.
I bet you'd never expect that from a Christian, would you. Especially a Christian leader.
That's not the root of the problem. Seeing sex as an obligation, a chore, is the exact problem most sexless married couples have. Reinforcing that point is only going to make that tendency worse.
If you're married and if you've stopped having sex, aside from any obvious physical/psychological/drug changes either of you may have had, you should also take a look at how your partner or yourself use sex to reward/punish/seek approval from each other. For instance, if your wife gives you sex because you took out the trash this morning, or because you gave her an expensive gift, or conversely, if your wife withholds sex anytime she doesn't get what she wants from you, then it means you have slowly conditioned her and she has slowly conditioned herself to only see sex as an obligation or a chore. This is the same problem that many prostitutes have, once they associate sex as a currency or a job, then it becomes ever more difficult to get any kind of intrinsic pleasure out of it.
And having a pastor telling you to have sex on a schedule, because that's your responsibility -- your obligation -- your duty -- then that's only going to turn you off even more and that's only going to make you lose even more respect for your marriage partner. Pastors should just stop making up rules for everyone. The World doesn't run on simple rules. The World can not just run on obligation and guilt.
OCLC stores the bibliographic records in its database, but it did not create the vast majority of them. The records were created by catalogers at thousands of libraries. These libraries contribute their records to OCLC so that they can be shared with other libraries, but never do they grant OCLC ownership of the records.
It could possibly mean, that they will try to enforce this new policy only once their database has accumulated enough tainted records.
As it stands, there should be no tainted records in there right now. Right?
I managed a Radio Shack store, 01-896*, in Florida.
Radio Shack stopped carrying most things due to liability. They even got sued for a kid coming in, getting a reed switch, and using it to kill his parents (true story).
Are you sure you were a manager there? Most of the lawsuits I could find were about employees being labeled managers to screw them out of their overtime pay, or about employees being screwed out of their 401k plan.
I think it a little strange that you or anyone else believe locking your own data in some remote server in some proprietary format is fine, and having to work on your files through a slow internet link and browser, and paying for use on a per-hour basis is a good idea.
Remote Server? Google Apps also works offline in your browser (just click on work offline, it explains it. it will download google gears to your computer, plus all your online files, and it will synchronize them whenever you happen to be back online).
By locking up your data locally, and only locally, I hope you're diligent enough to keep backups if your computer/laptop breaks down, or ever gets stolen. With google apps, I can keep my data both on the server and on the local machine, and if I'm ever traveling, or staying in a sketchy area, I can always keep my data only online if I chose to.
Proprietary format? Google Apps doesn't even have its own proprietary format to save to. Its default for its docs is a zipped folder with all of its files in HTML. Although, if you select each file individually, it will allow you to save each file in that same format plus OpenDocument, PDF, RTF, Text, and Word. And with its spreadsheets, its options are Excel, OpenOffice, and PDF (although, if you go inside a particular file, it has the additional capability of exporting/emailing to more formats).
But what I'll never understand is that anybody would deem Google worthy of trust as far as data privacy is concerned.
Hey man, I'll trust google as much as much I trust my bank teller not to invade my privacy. A bank teller may very well be able to look at all my private account information, but as long as that bank teller is not my wife, my girlfriend, my mother, my ex, or anyone else I may have had a close personal relationship with, I'm not too worried or anything (It's not like I'm some famous person).
Also, I happen to have a paid account on google apps, which gives me an account with more space, no ads, a custom domain, and a Service Level Agreement that's decent.
They can't seriously believe that their blade server secrets are threatened by iPods...
No, don't let his job title fool you, this guy is a well known leader in the chip design community.
And since Apple recently purchased PA Semi, it looks like Apple is now in direct competition against IBM. And so that guy may seem like he might just be helping Apple make the iPod chip smaller, but his technical know-how and the people he's going to attract, are definitely going to help the new (PA Semi) division of Apple.
I disagree AC. I have just recently established my own small business. $25 and a one page form filed with the Secretary of State and I am doing business. Now should I want to take it further and go LLC or incorporate or what have you there will be many thousands spent on lawyers, taxes, bribes etc. But, I have a small business and the only government connect I have is to my P.O.( think Probation not Post)
Are you a successful land developer? a bank/insurance? a large defense/war contractor? a large Katrina contractor? a large farmer? a large utility? a television/radio station?
No, with $25 as your current investment, and a Probation/Parole Officer as you only government connection, your story is probably even more complicated than that. And the two parents were talking about "successful businesses", not any small business. I'm sure China has plenty of small businesses as well.
If you take a look at Google's stopbadware faq, this is clearly the type of software that falls within their category.
What is badware?
An application is badware if it acts deceptively or irreversibly, or if it engages in potentially objectionable behavior without prominently disclosing this behavior and obtaining the user's affirmative consent.
Badware is software that fundamentally disregards a user's choice over how his or her computer will be used. There are several commonly recognized terms for types of badware - spyware, malware, and deceptive adware. Common examples might be a free screensaver that surreptitiously generates ads, or a malicious web browser toolbar that makes your browser go to different pages than the ones you expected. Some badware is harder to spot, such as keylogger programs that can transmit personal data to malicious parties. To learn more, click here.
Why badware, and not malware, spyware, adware, or another more commonly recognized term?
We decided to call ourselves StopBadware.org, and emphasize the term badware, because we want to be a 'big tent.' We want to attack all forms of badware, not just software that steals your information (spyware) or software that pops up unexpected ads (deceptive adware). Terms like spyware or malware don't fully capture the violation of user choice that is key to our definition of badware.
Read that one last sentence especially: "Terms like spyware or malware don't fully capture the violation of user choice that is key to our definition of badware.":-)
Also, do report third party web sites that link directly to their trial download executables, those are badware sites as well if they fail to mention that those trials (1) contain DRM and (2) that this DRM will continue to hog live resources long after that game has been uninstalled through their uninstaller. However, if those third party web sites do disclose those two facts, please do not report them, full disclosure is what we want, those sites that are honest in their disclosures should go up in ranking, and the ones that are dishonest should go down in ranking (and should be blacklisted until they eventually correct their information).
You're forgetting the 'Total Cost of Ownership' of a playing a real guitar. It's the one year of private lessons, the two years of frustration, and the seven years of practice, that will cost you the most. This is like the Windows vs. Unix debate all over again. Only in this case, instead of pissing off all your Windows friends at parties, you're pissing off all your Guitar Hero/Rockband friends.
Also, is it really such a good thing to have Micro$oft active in the open-source community? Forgive me, but talk like this makes me a little nervous.
There is no need to be nervous. Microsoft has a long history of peaceful cooperation with the open-source community.
Microsoft already did that to the University-sponsored Mosaic browser, and the Mosaic guys who were then working for Netscape, obviously didn't have a problem with it. Mosaic is a fond memory for them, that's probably why they chose a similar sounding name, Mozilla. I'm sure they'll be glad Microsoft takes their code, yet again.
Crichton botched the science that he was trying to criticize. I think that's a much stronger condemnation than the presence or absence of any given piece of university-derived parchment. The first article disputes his 0.8C prediction, pointing out that the trend he attributes his predicted rise to should actually have a bit of a cooling effect. Here is a list of other, specific rebuttals to Crichton (primarily his novel "State of Fear"), in case you're interested.
I followed your links, they were all critiques of his science-fiction book, and none were critiques of his talk to Congress. Science-fiction books are supposed to be wrong on some accounts. Aren't they? Isn't there supposed to be a measure of fiction within them? Isn't fiction something that's made up? And isn't something that's made up -- something that's very likely to be wrong -- in some way -- somehow? Name me a couple of science-fiction books that haven't "botched" Science to some degree, I'd be curious to know what you'd find. These books probably exist, but I really doubt they would be considered "science-fiction" in the general sense of the term.
Degrees in medicine and biology do not make one an expert on climate change.
That's the thing, he never even claimed to be an expert on climate change. His talk to Congress was on "the politicization of Science", a pretty decent talk you're either unwilling to read, or unwilling to critique. The guy did a Post Fellowship on Public Policy. He's critiqued his own field, Medicine. Your implied assertion, that a published scientist in one or two scientific disciplines, and a Post-Fellow in Public Policy, shouldn't be allowed to do Public Policy critiques across other scientific disciplines, is scary. Sometimes, some of the best critiques come from outside the inner academic sanctum of a particular field (although that's not always the case, obviously).
And may be, if he had arrived at the committee hearing, and entered a copy of his science-fiction book -- as *his* testimony, then you'd have a point. That being said, he didn't do that. He gave a short talk on "the politicization of Science", a written copy of which I already gave you the link to.
Focusing on whether the consensus view is necessarily correct or not has nothing to do with the irrefutable evidence that the climate is changing and the likely probability that humans are causing it completely or contributing to it.
Crichton predicted future warming at 0.8 degrees C.
So taking out that "irrefutable" phrase out of your statement since Michael Crichton (in his book or in real life) wasn't even trying to refute that part of it in the first place.
We're left with:
Focusing on whether the consensus view is necessarily correct or not has nothing to do with [...] the likely probability that humans are causing it completely or contributing to it.
...and yet your statement still doesn't make sense. The "likely probability that humans are causing it completely or contributing to it" is your conclusion. We know that. We know Crichton disagreed with it. You can't use the fact that Crichton disagreed with you to discredit him. That's just silly.
The third was when he wrote State of Fear and testified before congress. I never read the book, but just to watch the kind of anti-intellectuals like Inhof invite a science fiction author to be regarded as an expect on climate change.
Michael Crichton spoke on "the politicization of Science". Here is the google-cached written reproduction of that talk (which I found on his site, but his site is currently down). And here is the educational background of Michael Crichton. That being said, don't just rely on his educational background. And don't rely on the fact that he was seen testify in front of an idiot. His talk speaks for itself. It's quite short, and to the point.
Crichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, researching public policy with Jacob Bronowski. He taught courses in anthropology at Cambridge University and writing at MIT. Crichton's 2004 bestseller, State of Fear, acknowledged the world was growing warmer, but challenged extreme anthropogenic warming scenarios. He predicted future warming at 0.8 degrees C. (His conclusions have been widely misstated.)
Crichton's interest in computer modeling went back forty years. His multiple-discriminant analysis of Egyptian crania, carried out on an IBM 7090 computer at Harvard, was published in the Papers of the Peabody Museum in 1966. His technical publications included a study of host factors in pituitary chromophobe adenoma, in Metabolism, and an essay on medical obfuscation in the New England Journal of Medicine.
I currently work for an unamed large geotechnical company with HQ in Holland. Their bonehead corporate ICT network routes all traffic through a global gateway in either Holland or the US. I work in Perth, Australia. To access a server on the floor below, the packets are going 1/2 way around the world and back. And its fscking slow.
Thank god for our hosting networks;)
I was going to say. It's nothing that a diamond head cement drill wouldn't solve. I'm just sorry you went for the easy invisible solution instead.
Nothing says "Fuck you HQ" like a bunch of cat wires dangling randomly from the ceiling.
I think he was talking about Dick 'Antichrist' Cheney and Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin. However, I'm not sure where your 'Kool-Aid' cult-suicide reference comes from. Obama doesn't claim god talks to him. He doesn't even test his people's loyalty like Barracuda does. It's the true zealouts, from the left or from the right, that you have to worry about.
Last time I checked pretty much all mp4 audio (AAC) files were named.m4a or simply.mp4, not.aac. This repeated mistake makes me wonder just how much exposure you've had to the format.
Thanks for the heads up..m4a files I can play just fine (at least on MediaMonkey). It's the.aac files I can't (unless I'm on VLC). And I have plenty of both.m4a files and.aac files (I just doubled-checked). The files with the.aac extension I have are all audiobooks (if that tells you anything). Are you saying the.aac extension/wrapper is not related to the (AAC) format everybody keeps on talking about? What is it then?
While I know geeks tend to associate it with iTunes, it's pretty much a universal standard in newer players.
You mean Apple iPod or iPhone players? My two Creative mp3 players and my Krazor cell phone can not play.aac files. And the only thing on my computer that can play those files is the VLC player, and VLC can pretty much play anything -- anyway..aac files are some of the most finicky media files I have. Almost all the other medias I have can be pretty much played on several of the players I have installed,.aac can not, it can only play on one software player, the VLC player (besides iTunes). And don't even get me started on the.aac quality,.aac files just sound awful.
Are you bombarded by TV in public libraries and during funerals, or are you simply irked when a bar-owner decides to show a football game on his TV in his bar?
I've been bombarded by TV in Japanese subways, by SUVs in front of me at night with built-in TVs, in Thai Air-conditioned Buses (for some reason, Thai people really love badly dubbed stupid American action movies, that's the only thing they'll show, and of course there is only one set of speakers for everyone), American Shell gas stations, newer diebold ATMs, American high end supermarkets produce sections/cashier's section, many elevators in modern buildings, reception areas, and freeway lighted super-bright jumbo signs and/or very large public squares lighted jumbo signs.
That being said, I very much doubt that gizmo would really work on any of those TVs. So I'll just wait until they can implant a computer into my optical nerves that will filter all that extra noise before it gets into my brain (no doubt, science fiction readers already know what I'm talking about). On second-thought, I think I'll just medicate myself to dull my senses and dull my brain cells until they get that computer thingy worked out, they seem to have some really nice psychometric drugs they're constantly advertising on American television.
You're assuming that if he could get into a partnership agreement with Best Buy, that he would be able to get all the same profits a large imitator could get. I say that's unlikely, big retailers are notorious for squeezing the profit margins out of their suppliers. And as an individual entrepreneur, it's very unlikely that he would have the same negotiating power that a larger supplier would get.
And after all is said and done, a small supplier selling stuff to Best Buy might very well lose lots of money on the deal. It's often the supplier who has to pay for shelf space, it's often the supplier who has to pay for the advertising/marketing/display cost, and it's often the supplier who has to eat the cost for distributing and returning opened/unsold merchandise -- even if there was nothing wrong with it -- in the first place.
If you're an individual entrepreneur, selling through Best Buy may be good for your ego and it may be good to brag to your family about (after all, it might be the only time your family acknowledges that you might not be a bum), but the real bulk of your profits will still be coming from your online/catalog sales and the smaller speciality shops. And through those other channels, it's very likely that your trademarked name, your domain name, your higher profit margin, and the fact that you were the first to market/first on the news/first in the google index/first in people's mind, that might give you that competitive edge you need.
Yeah, it's time to dump my shares of IBM. I don't have anything against tyranny itself. I just prefer to see tyranny applied to something marginally more useful, like a one-click button, or a two-click mouse, or stealing underwear, certainly not this nonsense...
That guy in Tennessee was me! That's the last time I try to inject single quotes and an AND into my address block. I was hoping for a different result.
My son got suspended when a group ganged up on him. Non of the gang-bangers were punished. He said something they didn't like, so he was being 'disrespectful'. The lesson there was that it is ok to force your will on someone, as long as you can demonstrate that they did something you didn't like.
What did he say? What did the group do to him? Did he go tell the principal? Or was it the group that went to the principal? Did he have marks on him? Or vice versa? Was there an age difference between him and the others? Does your son have an history of violence? Or an history at the school?
I'm sorry, but your story sounds incredibly one-sided. I've watched enough Judge Judy's or Jerry Springer's shows to know that many parents will often lie to others and lie to themselves, and/or omit large chunks of relevant information.
If it had been me, and assuming the story was really the way you say it was, I would have tried to get the police involved, and I would have moved heaven and earth to get my kid moved to another school/a different district. And may be you did that, I'm not saying you didn't.
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Bloomberg? No. Penny-stock spam? May be.
On a side-note, this woman could have some form of age-related mental illness.
I know it's a taboo topic to talk about. I also know that the journalist took great pains to paint the picture of an intelligent woman, but really, being an RN, teaching CPR, marrying couples, and communicating with "lightning-fast sign language". That's not really a complete measure of mental health. Is it?
For instance, her sign language ability would only indicate that at least a function of her brain was still working correctly, but it is no guarantee that everything else was working correctly. As to her Oregon Registered Nurse certification, I couldn't find any other registered nurse, even among the really old nurses, with as many probationary blemishes on their records as she's had.
The only sane one here seems to her deaf husband. Apparently, along with the FBI and the police, her husband was one of the ones who kept on telling her that this was just all a big scam, and yet, even after receiving all those warnings, the wife kept on going -- disobeying her husband -- disregarding the FBI -- disregarding the police, and investing/realizing the bulk of their loss even well after all the alarm bells had already gone well off.
That's why I'm thinking she really might have some sort of mental illness, and if I were her husband, I would be asking the courts -- to judge her incompetent -- and remove her rights to access/control their accounts, otherwise she might do it again, but just with a different scam the next time.
...and it only shows the two-faced attitude of the US towards capitalism/human rights.
That's not the root of the problem. Seeing sex as an obligation, a chore, is the exact problem most sexless married couples have. Reinforcing that point is only going to make that tendency worse.
If you're married and if you've stopped having sex, aside from any obvious physical/psychological/drug changes either of you may have had, you should also take a look at how your partner or yourself use sex to reward/punish/seek approval from each other. For instance, if your wife gives you sex because you took out the trash this morning, or because you gave her an expensive gift, or conversely, if your wife withholds sex anytime she doesn't get what she wants from you, then it means you have slowly conditioned her and she has slowly conditioned herself to only see sex as an obligation or a chore. This is the same problem that many prostitutes have, once they associate sex as a currency or a job, then it becomes ever more difficult to get any kind of intrinsic pleasure out of it.
And having a pastor telling you to have sex on a schedule, because that's your responsibility -- your obligation -- your duty -- then that's only going to turn you off even more and that's only going to make you lose even more respect for your marriage partner. Pastors should just stop making up rules for everyone. The World doesn't run on simple rules. The World can not just run on obligation and guilt.
It could possibly mean, that they will try to enforce this new policy only once their database has accumulated enough tainted records.
As it stands, there should be no tainted records in there right now. Right?
Are you sure you were a manager there? Most of the lawsuits I could find were about employees being labeled managers to screw them out of their overtime pay, or about employees being screwed out of their 401k plan.
Remote Server? Google Apps also works offline in your browser (just click on work offline, it explains it. it will download google gears to your computer, plus all your online files, and it will synchronize them whenever you happen to be back online).
By locking up your data locally, and only locally, I hope you're diligent enough to keep backups if your computer/laptop breaks down, or ever gets stolen. With google apps, I can keep my data both on the server and on the local machine, and if I'm ever traveling, or staying in a sketchy area, I can always keep my data only online if I chose to.
Proprietary format? Google Apps doesn't even have its own proprietary format to save to. Its default for its docs is a zipped folder with all of its files in HTML. Although, if you select each file individually, it will allow you to save each file in that same format plus OpenDocument, PDF, RTF, Text, and Word. And with its spreadsheets, its options are Excel, OpenOffice, and PDF (although, if you go inside a particular file, it has the additional capability of exporting/emailing to more formats).
Hey man, I'll trust google as much as much I trust my bank teller not to invade my privacy. A bank teller may very well be able to look at all my private account information, but as long as that bank teller is not my wife, my girlfriend, my mother, my ex, or anyone else I may have had a close personal relationship with, I'm not too worried or anything (It's not like I'm some famous person).
Also, I happen to have a paid account on google apps, which gives me an account with more space, no ads, a custom domain, and a Service Level Agreement that's decent.
No, don't let his job title fool you, this guy is a well known leader in the chip design community. And since Apple recently purchased PA Semi, it looks like Apple is now in direct competition against IBM. And so that guy may seem like he might just be helping Apple make the iPod chip smaller, but his technical know-how and the people he's going to attract, are definitely going to help the new (PA Semi) division of Apple.
Are you a successful land developer? a bank/insurance? a large defense/war contractor? a large Katrina contractor? a large farmer? a large utility? a television/radio station?
No, with $25 as your current investment, and a Probation/Parole Officer as you only government connection, your story is probably even more complicated than that. And the two parents were talking about "successful businesses", not any small business. I'm sure China has plenty of small businesses as well.
If you take a look at Google's stopbadware faq, this is clearly the type of software that falls within their category.
Read that one last sentence especially: "Terms like spyware or malware don't fully capture the violation of user choice that is key to our definition of badware." :-)
We all need to report them to google as a badware site.
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
Also, do report third party web sites that link directly to their trial download executables, those are badware sites as well if they fail to mention that those trials (1) contain DRM and (2) that this DRM will continue to hog live resources long after that game has been uninstalled through their uninstaller. However, if those third party web sites do disclose those two facts, please do not report them, full disclosure is what we want, those sites that are honest in their disclosures should go up in ranking, and the ones that are dishonest should go down in ranking (and should be blacklisted until they eventually correct their information).
You're forgetting the 'Total Cost of Ownership' of a playing a real guitar. It's the one year of private lessons, the two years of frustration, and the seven years of practice, that will cost you the most. This is like the Windows vs. Unix debate all over again. Only in this case, instead of pissing off all your Windows friends at parties, you're pissing off all your Guitar Hero/Rockband friends.
You can say that again, a bubble-search has got to be the geekiest way to find a wife.
There is no need to be nervous. Microsoft has a long history of peaceful cooperation with the open-source community.
Microsoft already did that to the University-sponsored Mosaic browser, and the Mosaic guys who were then working for Netscape, obviously didn't have a problem with it. Mosaic is a fond memory for them, that's probably why they chose a similar sounding name, Mozilla. I'm sure they'll be glad Microsoft takes their code, yet again.
I followed your links, they were all critiques of his science-fiction book, and none were critiques of his talk to Congress. Science-fiction books are supposed to be wrong on some accounts. Aren't they? Isn't there supposed to be a measure of fiction within them? Isn't fiction something that's made up? And isn't something that's made up -- something that's very likely to be wrong -- in some way -- somehow? Name me a couple of science-fiction books that haven't "botched" Science to some degree, I'd be curious to know what you'd find. These books probably exist, but I really doubt they would be considered "science-fiction" in the general sense of the term.
That's the thing, he never even claimed to be an expert on climate change. His talk to Congress was on "the politicization of Science", a pretty decent talk you're either unwilling to read, or unwilling to critique. The guy did a Post Fellowship on Public Policy. He's critiqued his own field, Medicine. Your implied assertion, that a published scientist in one or two scientific disciplines, and a Post-Fellow in Public Policy, shouldn't be allowed to do Public Policy critiques across other scientific disciplines, is scary. Sometimes, some of the best critiques come from outside the inner academic sanctum of a particular field (although that's not always the case, obviously).
And may be, if he had arrived at the committee hearing, and entered a copy of his science-fiction book -- as *his* testimony, then you'd have a point. That being said, he didn't do that. He gave a short talk on "the politicization of Science", a written copy of which I already gave you the link to.
Crichton predicted future warming at 0.8 degrees C.
So taking out that "irrefutable" phrase out of your statement since Michael Crichton (in his book or in real life) wasn't even trying to refute that part of it in the first place.
We're left with:
Michael Crichton spoke on "the politicization of Science". Here is the google-cached written reproduction of that talk (which I found on his site, but his site is currently down). And here is the educational background of Michael Crichton. That being said, don't just rely on his educational background. And don't rely on the fact that he was seen testify in front of an idiot. His talk speaks for itself. It's quite short, and to the point.
Crichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, researching public policy with Jacob Bronowski. He taught courses in anthropology at Cambridge University and writing at MIT. Crichton's 2004 bestseller, State of Fear, acknowledged the world was growing warmer, but challenged extreme anthropogenic warming scenarios. He predicted future warming at 0.8 degrees C. (His conclusions have been widely misstated.)
Crichton's interest in computer modeling went back forty years. His multiple-discriminant analysis of Egyptian crania, carried out on an IBM 7090 computer at Harvard, was published in the Papers of the Peabody Museum in 1966. His technical publications included a study of host factors in pituitary chromophobe adenoma, in Metabolism, and an essay on medical obfuscation in the New England Journal of Medicine.
I was going to say. It's nothing that a diamond head cement drill wouldn't solve. I'm just sorry you went for the easy invisible solution instead.
Nothing says "Fuck you HQ" like a bunch of cat wires dangling randomly from the ceiling.
I think he was talking about Dick 'Antichrist' Cheney and Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin. However, I'm not sure where your 'Kool-Aid' cult-suicide reference comes from. Obama doesn't claim god talks to him. He doesn't even test his people's loyalty like Barracuda does. It's the true zealouts, from the left or from the right, that you have to worry about.
Thanks for the heads up. .m4a files I can play just fine (at least on MediaMonkey). It's the .aac files I can't (unless I'm on VLC). And I have plenty of both .m4a files and .aac files (I just doubled-checked). The files with the .aac extension I have are all audiobooks (if that tells you anything). Are you saying the .aac extension/wrapper is not related to the (AAC) format everybody keeps on talking about? What is it then?
You mean Apple iPod or iPhone players? My two Creative mp3 players and my Krazor cell phone can not play .aac files. And the only thing on my computer that can play those files is the VLC player, and VLC can pretty much play anything -- anyway. .aac files are some of the most finicky media files I have. Almost all the other medias I have can be pretty much played on several of the players I have installed, .aac can not, it can only play on one software player, the VLC player (besides iTunes). And don't even get me started on the .aac quality, .aac files just sound awful.
Are you bombarded by TV in public libraries and during funerals, or are you simply irked when a bar-owner decides to show a football game on his TV in his bar?
I've been bombarded by TV in Japanese subways, by SUVs in front of me at night with built-in TVs, in Thai Air-conditioned Buses (for some reason, Thai people really love badly dubbed stupid American action movies, that's the only thing they'll show, and of course there is only one set of speakers for everyone), American Shell gas stations, newer diebold ATMs, American high end supermarkets produce sections/cashier's section, many elevators in modern buildings, reception areas, and freeway lighted super-bright jumbo signs and/or very large public squares lighted jumbo signs.
That being said, I very much doubt that gizmo would really work on any of those TVs. So I'll just wait until they can implant a computer into my optical nerves that will filter all that extra noise before it gets into my brain (no doubt, science fiction readers already know what I'm talking about). On second-thought, I think I'll just medicate myself to dull my senses and dull my brain cells until they get that computer thingy worked out, they seem to have some really nice psychometric drugs they're constantly advertising on American television.
You're assuming that if he could get into a partnership agreement with Best Buy, that he would be able to get all the same profits a large imitator could get. I say that's unlikely, big retailers are notorious for squeezing the profit margins out of their suppliers. And as an individual entrepreneur, it's very unlikely that he would have the same negotiating power that a larger supplier would get.
And after all is said and done, a small supplier selling stuff to Best Buy might very well lose lots of money on the deal. It's often the supplier who has to pay for shelf space, it's often the supplier who has to pay for the advertising/marketing/display cost, and it's often the supplier who has to eat the cost for distributing and returning opened/unsold merchandise -- even if there was nothing wrong with it -- in the first place.
If you're an individual entrepreneur, selling through Best Buy may be good for your ego and it may be good to brag to your family about (after all, it might be the only time your family acknowledges that you might not be a bum), but the real bulk of your profits will still be coming from your online/catalog sales and the smaller speciality shops. And through those other channels, it's very likely that your trademarked name, your domain name, your higher profit margin, and the fact that you were the first to market/first on the news/first in the google index/first in people's mind, that might give you that competitive edge you need.
Yeah, it's time to dump my shares of IBM. I don't have anything against tyranny itself. I just prefer to see tyranny applied to something marginally more useful, like a one-click button, or a two-click mouse, or stealing underwear, certainly not this nonsense...
The transsexuals, the transgenders, and the undecided, are going to have a fit about this.
That guy in Tennessee was me! That's the last time I try to inject single quotes and an AND into my address block. I was hoping for a different result.
What did he say? What did the group do to him? Did he go tell the principal? Or was it the group that went to the principal? Did he have marks on him? Or vice versa? Was there an age difference between him and the others? Does your son have an history of violence? Or an history at the school?
I'm sorry, but your story sounds incredibly one-sided. I've watched enough Judge Judy's or Jerry Springer's shows to know that many parents will often lie to others and lie to themselves, and/or omit large chunks of relevant information.
If it had been me, and assuming the story was really the way you say it was, I would have tried to get the police involved, and I would have moved heaven and earth to get my kid moved to another school/a different district. And may be you did that, I'm not saying you didn't.