Actually, I'm looking at my Consumers Report Year 2000 Buying Guide Book and only the Ford Escort from 1994 and the Ford Festiva from 1993 were recommended as reliable used cars for under $6,000. The Ford Escort from 1991, I take it, didn't make the list.
On the other hand, the Honda Civic from 1991 did make the list. But it's all a question of averages. May be the Honda Civic owner was unlucky, or may be he didn't take care of his car as much as other people. In either case, we'll never know.
It's not much of a gift. According to the article, you still have to get a license if you want to start one. I assume the license will still have a significant fee attached to it and the location, the frequency, and the amount of power will be regulated and have to be approved by the FCC.
If an idiot wants to start his own without a license, then it will be the same as always -- it will be considered a pirate radio station and the operator/owner will face a stiff fine and possible jail terms.
Just look out for RIAA vans driving round with full spectrum scanners and a few thugs in the back to 'persuade' people that their radio station is breaking copyright.
Actually, that too "might lead to increased free speech, creative ideas, and non-biased information." More original locally created content, that's we need. We don't need more Britney Spears and more O'Reilly on the air.
Well, the easiest way to stop annoying car alarms would be to ban the motion/proximity detection variety that go off if you touch/breath/look at a car with one installed.
Sometimes, the easiest way to ban something is not the best.
Case in point, your rule has already been implemented in a couple of cities, but if your rule had been in effect nationwide we would not have those cool extra-sensitive new silent alarms with motion sensors that page you when your car gets broken into. Sensitive silent alarms benefit everyone because thiefs will never be sure the car they're targetting has one or not, and obviously they will not be a nuisance to anyone because they're silent.
This is the reason, by the way, I oppose the banning of Kazaa. Ban the crime if you want, but you never know what kind of innovations you're blocking by banning the tool that's being used to commit the crime.
In Berkeley California, we don't have problems with noisy car alarms. If they're on for more than 15 minutes, the car gets towed. I only had the problem once, five years ago, and I called the cops and the car got towed. That's it. End of story. I never had a problem ever since.
In my town, there is a 15 minute rule. If a car alarm goes off for more than 15 minutes, it gets towed. The limit used to be 30 minutes, but they reduced it to 15. I once called to have a car towed around 5 am because of its alarm (it kept going off every 21 minutes for some reason). The car got towed and I'm sure the owner had to pay a nice fine to get it back.:)
On a side-note, there are some alarms that are silent, they just page you when they're getting stolen. I like that. If you get one of these, it means your neighbors won't tow your car when it's set off.:)
Then, I guess you would have a problem with the Journal of the American Medical Association, that supposedly prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal contains so many stupid pharmaceutical advertisements, it's almost as bad as Ms. Magazine.
If it means anything, when I was talking about the "healthy attitude" I was referring to the sibling post "...I'd volunteer to leave before anyone else, and I MEAN'T IT!!". I shouldn't have said parent post. It'd be nice if I stopped making mistakes when posting to Slashdot, but if I were you -- I wouldn't count on it.
ACTUALLY, this is not at all a crime. See the following summaries of two court cases which have upheld your right to verbally abuse a police officer as part of your constitutionally protected speech: (originally seen on the smoking gun some time ago in regards to this case.)
Yes, that is good to know, but does it really matter? If you insult a cop and if the cop has a thin skin, he can always take you in or fine you for some other *bogus* reason.
This is not to say that all cops are bad, I'm just pointing out what some people are thinking.
As to the guy who issued the death threat, he has some issues. He should also be aware that he can be tracked down for this. If a known spammer can be protected from death threats, I don't see why cops wouldn't be either. Cops probably have better things to do anyway, but it seems the guy is creating himself a self-fulfilling prophecy. Let's just hope he never gets pulled over.
I'll let you know when the benefits reach an apreciable fraction of the taxes I actually paid the year before I was canned.
Well, you're right and personally I am not going to hold my breath. Assuming you're not going to file for Welfare, your unemployment benefits are capped anyway, and in California they're just a measly fraction of the unemployment taxes you already contributed. And for all the non-US people or all the people in the US who may not know, in the US you do *not* qualify for unemployement unless you already contributed to it. I know this system doesn't make it any less coercive than it already is, but at least it's not as bad the other guy makes it sound.
And personally, if I saw a thief a week after he had stolen from me, I'd probably break his legs and try to recover a portion of the money he took from me. It's only natural. I swear, some Libertarians are so righteous, they'd throw common sense out the window.
- Stephan (a pragmatic Libertarian/Objectivist)
In fact, in most places, they don't even need "grounds" to fire you.
In most places, even if you're an "at will" employee, they need "grounds" if they don't want their unemployment premiums to go up, and sometimes they like to have "grounds" just in case you file a discrimination lawsuit or something.
But I'm with the parent poster on this one, volunteering to be fired before the trouble begins is a very healthy attitude.
I agree that tax is theft, but what are you going to do?
Not take your unemployment benefits when you're laid off? Not take the public highway? And not a buy a house unless you have 100% of the cash for it?
Remember, those last two items are heavily subsidized by the State. You may not have bought a house lately, but I'll assume you're using the public road infrastructure? Right? Doesn't that make you a parasite as well?
Be honest, tell the truth. I believe every employer appreciates a bit of honesty.
As a job-hunter, your goal is not to please *every* employer, it's to get the job you want.
And while I agree that honesty is the best policy *most* of the times and while I agree that it's good to share *some* of your flaws to build rapport and trust, there are some cases when you should hide the truth a little and there are some cases when you should make outright lies.
So I thought too. I was actually asked this in an interview: "So obviously the entire company was not laid off, so why were you laid off and not the next guy?". This kind of hit me by suprise, but fortunately I had a good answer for this one: Our entire team was let go due to cutbacks. What if I didn't have a good excuse?
Then tell them a version of the truth that doesn't give an excuse and that doesn't make it sound like you're bitter. For instance, you could have said "Then I guess I was not as valuable to my employer as some of my fellow coworkers."
Believe it or not, it takes guts to say something like this. If you deliver it with confidence, without bitterness, and without apologies, most people will respect you for it.
When an interviewer is trying to make you sing and dance, it's best to just take a stand and stop dancing. The interviewer will hire you, or not hire you. Either way, once you did the best you could do, it's outside of your control.
The same goes for women by the way. They'll test your confidence by asking all kinds of no-win questions. To pass those tests, all you need is a little bit of balls.
Less than %2 of all the people who could use a computer in their lives in some way (productively, I mean), actually do.
If I used my computer mostly for midget porn, wouldn't that be a niche market? I'm sorry, but I don't see what productive useage has to do with niche markets.
After all, I only use my car about two hours a day, my note pad paper about a dozen times a day (and I don't even use the same piece of paper twice -- can you believe it!), and my pens may be only.06% of the time (not to mention I may have a dozen pens waiting in my desk at anyone time, so if you divide my pen utilization time with the numbers of pens I have, the numbers are even more bleak -- what a waste? And please don't get me started on pencils!!!!).
Anyway, if asked seriously, in China the idea of "free knowledge exchange" is not exactly a popular one as it is regularly looked down-upon by the government (and is even used as a reason to prosecute people).
But it's also an ingrained cultural habit. Chinese philosophers and intellectuals have had a long tradition of writing books *anonymously* and *without* taking credit for them.
I'm not saying this is the right idea, but it's certainly an interesting way of doing things.
First of all this question reeks of racism. "They're" so good at computers? Much like asians are good at math, black people are good at sports and all Irish people like fighting?
Hey, I didn't write the parent post, but I thought I would chime in anyway.
The original poster didn't talk about race. You did.
The original poster was talking about different *nationalities*. Different nations have different educational systems and they are at different level of economic development. One would think that we could draw conclusions about programmers based on the nations they inhabit *without* talking about race.
The way they are sold in some countries is partly to blame, you get a phone for nearly nothing, which deceives many into thinking they are getting a bargain. I only know of UK practice, it may not be the same everywhere, but if it was made illegal to subsidise the phone from line rental and call charges, a lot of people would think again, if they had to pay the actual cost.
Here in the US, it's not as bad as in the UK, cell phones are still more expensive than land lines and the cell phone owner has to pay for the entire cost of receiving a phone call on his cell.
In a way, this kinda sucks too, because it means the cell phone owner has to pay for all the wrong numbers and all the calls from unwanted telemarketers (for those who don't know, our official "do not call" list doesn't apply to political/non-profit/survey-taking telemarketers).
Most religions are already as close to Open Source as you can get. (Except for "Mystery Religions"..
No, first the source to those religions had to be printed, the religious texts had to be translated, and the population had to be educated to be able to read it. Each one of those steps ended up being very bloody.
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On the other hand, the Honda Civic from 1991 did make the list. But it's all a question of averages. May be the Honda Civic owner was unlucky, or may be he didn't take care of his car as much as other people. In either case, we'll never know.
If an idiot wants to start his own without a license, then it will be the same as always -- it will be considered a pirate radio station and the operator/owner will face a stiff fine and possible jail terms.
You could be right. I don't know. All I know is that it worked for me in Berkeley.
Actually, that too "might lead to increased free speech, creative ideas, and non-biased information." More original locally created content, that's we need. We don't need more Britney Spears and more O'Reilly on the air.
Sometimes, the easiest way to ban something is not the best.
Case in point, your rule has already been implemented in a couple of cities, but if your rule had been in effect nationwide we would not have those cool extra-sensitive new silent alarms with motion sensors that page you when your car gets broken into. Sensitive silent alarms benefit everyone because thiefs will never be sure the car they're targetting has one or not, and obviously they will not be a nuisance to anyone because they're silent.
This is the reason, by the way, I oppose the banning of Kazaa. Ban the crime if you want, but you never know what kind of innovations you're blocking by banning the tool that's being used to commit the crime.
In Berkeley California, we don't have problems with noisy car alarms. If they're on for more than 15 minutes, the car gets towed. I only had the problem once, five years ago, and I called the cops and the car got towed. That's it. End of story. I never had a problem ever since.
On a side-note, there are some alarms that are silent, they just page you when they're getting stolen. I like that. If you get one of these, it means your neighbors won't tow your car when it's set off. :)
Then, I guess you would have a problem with the Journal of the American Medical Association, that supposedly prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal contains so many stupid pharmaceutical advertisements, it's almost as bad as Ms. Magazine.
If it means anything, when I was talking about the "healthy attitude" I was referring to the sibling post "...I'd volunteer to leave before anyone else, and I MEAN'T IT!!". I shouldn't have said parent post. It'd be nice if I stopped making mistakes when posting to Slashdot, but if I were you -- I wouldn't count on it.
Yes, that is good to know, but does it really matter? If you insult a cop and if the cop has a thin skin, he can always take you in or fine you for some other *bogus* reason. This is not to say that all cops are bad, I'm just pointing out what some people are thinking.
As to the guy who issued the death threat, he has some issues. He should also be aware that he can be tracked down for this. If a known spammer can be protected from death threats, I don't see why cops wouldn't be either. Cops probably have better things to do anyway, but it seems the guy is creating himself a self-fulfilling prophecy. Let's just hope he never gets pulled over.
Well, you're right and personally I am not going to hold my breath. Assuming you're not going to file for Welfare, your unemployment benefits are capped anyway, and in California they're just a measly fraction of the unemployment taxes you already contributed. And for all the non-US people or all the people in the US who may not know, in the US you do *not* qualify for unemployement unless you already contributed to it. I know this system doesn't make it any less coercive than it already is, but at least it's not as bad the other guy makes it sound.
And personally, if I saw a thief a week after he had stolen from me, I'd probably break his legs and try to recover a portion of the money he took from me. It's only natural. I swear, some Libertarians are so righteous, they'd throw common sense out the window.
- Stephan (a pragmatic Libertarian/Objectivist)
In most places, even if you're an "at will" employee, they need "grounds" if they don't want their unemployment premiums to go up, and sometimes they like to have "grounds" just in case you file a discrimination lawsuit or something.
But I'm with the parent poster on this one, volunteering to be fired before the trouble begins is a very healthy attitude.
Not take your unemployment benefits when you're laid off? Not take the public highway? And not a buy a house unless you have 100% of the cash for it?
Remember, those last two items are heavily subsidized by the State. You may not have bought a house lately, but I'll assume you're using the public road infrastructure? Right? Doesn't that make you a parasite as well?
As a job-hunter, your goal is not to please *every* employer, it's to get the job you want.
And while I agree that honesty is the best policy *most* of the times and while I agree that it's good to share *some* of your flaws to build rapport and trust, there are some cases when you should hide the truth a little and there are some cases when you should make outright lies.
Then tell them a version of the truth that doesn't give an excuse and that doesn't make it sound like you're bitter. For instance, you could have said "Then I guess I was not as valuable to my employer as some of my fellow coworkers."
Believe it or not, it takes guts to say something like this. If you deliver it with confidence, without bitterness, and without apologies, most people will respect you for it.
When an interviewer is trying to make you sing and dance, it's best to just take a stand and stop dancing. The interviewer will hire you, or not hire you. Either way, once you did the best you could do, it's outside of your control.
The same goes for women by the way. They'll test your confidence by asking all kinds of no-win questions. To pass those tests, all you need is a little bit of balls.
If I used my computer mostly for midget porn, wouldn't that be a niche market? I'm sorry, but I don't see what productive useage has to do with niche markets.
So is my car, my note pad paper, and my pens.
After all, I only use my car about two hours a day, my note pad paper about a dozen times a day (and I don't even use the same piece of paper twice -- can you believe it!), and my pens may be only .06% of the time (not to mention I may have a dozen pens waiting in my desk at anyone time, so if you divide my pen utilization time with the numbers of pens I have, the numbers are even more bleak -- what a waste? And please don't get me started on pencils!!!!).
A Burberry Flash designing firm? What's so special about that?
But it's also an ingrained cultural habit. Chinese philosophers and intellectuals have had a long tradition of writing books *anonymously* and *without* taking credit for them.
I'm not saying this is the right idea, but it's certainly an interesting way of doing things.
The size of Israel. I didn't read the article, but I'm assuming the story is just a repeat of last week's story based on a new slant.
Hey, I didn't write the parent post, but I thought I would chime in anyway.
The original poster didn't talk about race. You did.
The original poster was talking about different *nationalities*. Different nations have different educational systems and they are at different level of economic development. One would think that we could draw conclusions about programmers based on the nations they inhabit *without* talking about race.
There is only one true English accent and it will belong to whomever exports the most English-speaking television/movie programs. (-:
Here in the US, it's not as bad as in the UK, cell phones are still more expensive than land lines and the cell phone owner has to pay for the entire cost of receiving a phone call on his cell.
In a way, this kinda sucks too, because it means the cell phone owner has to pay for all the wrong numbers and all the calls from unwanted telemarketers (for those who don't know, our official "do not call" list doesn't apply to political/non-profit/survey-taking telemarketers).
Unless the jammer was stupid enough to warn you, how would you know anyway? How would you know it's just not your cell provider which is on the fritz?
No, first the source to those religions had to be printed, the religious texts had to be translated, and the population had to be educated to be able to read it. Each one of those steps ended up being very bloody.