My car's been tuned up from 325 to 375 horsepower, yes, but that's well below yours, and as a convertible my car has additional weight in the lower chassis. And I had to buy a car with a back seat so there'd be space for a car seat.
That said, both of my Pontiacs cornered like shit. As you point out, pretty much any stock American car is garbage in the corners.
Of course, because I never, never speed, especially taking a curve recommend at 55 (regularly driven at 45) at a speed 40+ miles over the posted limit of 70. Never.
If I recall correctly, in Sweden the servers of political parties, served from their political offices, are immune to prosecution for a variety of offenses. It's intended to protect the freedom of independent parties. It just adds another layer of shielding on top of Sweden's other protections.
They would have no more political obligation to remove the material in response to an outside government's request than the Republican party in the U.S. would in response to a request from the Chinese government to remove documents from a GOP server.
Sort of like how Sinn Fein is/was separate from the IRA? Not trying to make some sort of stupid terrorist analogy, but many movements have a tangentially-associated legal, political wing.
My wife likes Gowalla because, at least at first, it was more of a geocaching game than a social networking application. She was one of their first users, starting with its premiere at SXSW two years ago. At the time you could go around creating sites everywhere (because none existed yet), collecting "items" that would be found at locations, and completing item sets. You could also create "trips" by linking together sites. She designed a trip to see the sights at a nearby university, and one to visit all the major public art installations in the city.
Now most places already have a Gowalla site, and she has most all of the items, so it's more about checking in to see who's been there. Believe it or not, when we were in Chicago last week for Lollapalooza, she found one of her Gowalla friends (another early adopter who she met because they kept noticing sites created by each other) had checked in at many of the same places we had the previous day, during an architecture tour. Turned out that he was in town, too, and when she thought she saw him on the street a few days before, she likely had. Oh, one of her old coworkers was there, too, and she saw his check-ins.
Meanwhile her tour of the university if one of the most followed public tours in the system. They now allow you to create private tours that only you and your friends can see, but if you're going somewhere new you can locate someone who lives there, temporarily get into their friend network, and see if there are any cool tours to visit. While in Chicago we really wanted to do the tour of Frank Lloyd Wright houses, all conveniently mapped out in Gowalla on her iPhone, but we didn't have a car.
Oh, you can also see what restaurants and businesses are nearby. You know all those small local restaurants that still don't have a web presence and thus still don't show up well in Google location searches? If they're good, someone has made a site for them on Gowalla, and you'll see them with reviews when you're nearby.
Anyway, that's why she uses it. Slashdot is as close as I get to social networking.
Foursquare, and its sister location-based social networking application Gowalla, were the darlings of this year's SXSW Interactive conference - the same conference where Twitter launched. I take it your not a web applications developer*, because if you were you would have followed SXSW and then you would have heard of Foursquare.
* Unlike most of Slashdot, which seem to be except when posting in this story. =p
The tire grip also differs from inside to out to handle corners, so I can't rotate the tires side-to-side by putting the inner surfaces out, either.
1. No rotate front to back. 2. No rotate side to side by flipping the direction the tires turn. 3. No rotate side to side by setting the tires inside-out.
I have a BMW, not a mini, but my car's tires (645ci) are completely different front-to-back, plus the tires are designed for single-direction turning only (i.e. grip works one way, not the other). Put those together and my car's tires can't rotate. They stay where installed until they wear out, which the rear tires already have done once in less than a year.
Then again, there's these really nice, sharp corners on the freeway that I can take at posted speed (though never higher, of course) when most people slow down to 45... $350 tires (each) is part of what I bought when I picked the car.
My rear tires have a static negative camber. I have no idea if it helps the abysmal fuel economy or not, nor does it really matter. I offset the carbon in other ways and I don't care about the cost.
That really depends on how you choose to spend your money though, right? My car has about the same base price as an A8, and I got it by saving money, such as by using a pre-paid phone (average cost $8 per month) instead of $120 a month or whatever that a lot of folks blindly shell out.
It really depends on priorities. I spend a lot of time in my bed, in my home office chair, and in my car, so I'm going to spend money to enjoy those places. I don't spend that much time wandering around looking for internet access in public, so it's not worth the cost. Others may make different choices.
People with an Audi A8 are most likely to be driven around by a driver, while sitting in the back with their laptop
No they aren't. It's a $76,000 (base price) car. I drive a $77,000 (base price; $95,000 as built) car, bought as second owner for $35,000, and I sure as hell couldn't afford someone to drive me around. http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2004/03/22/185936.html
For a car with a driver, you should be looking at the Rolls Royce Phantom or similar. Those start around $380,000.
I have a cooling plate that I set me laptop on when gaming (MacBook Pro 17", a generation old). Without it I saw a rare lockup during heavy use (raiding environment). With it I've never seen a problem.
With a plug in keyboard, wireless mouse, and second monitor, I'm actually pretty happy using my laptop for gaming. My SCII copy is still sitting unopened in its box though...
2) The next thing - is Contractors with high level security. I know they meant officials included in that, but why on Earth would you give a Contractor high level security clearance? I wouldn't trust them further than broom closet.
So you propose nationalizing Boeing, Bell, Lockheed Martin or indeed every one of the 200+ companies on this list?:
No, it just looks likes the Google Chrome team has discovered agile. If they use two-week sprints and have each feature broken up into three sets of user stories, they could complete and release a new feature every six weeks as planned.
The extent of the damages you are charged with causing likely wouldn't include the cost of implementing all the basic security that Mi6 should have, but failed to, implement on their own.
In McKinnon's case it's not just that he did or did not commit a crime, it's that the U.S. statues allow the crime and sentence to be elevated based on the damages caused, and the U.S. has chosen to include the cost of securing their servers against people guessing the default password in the damages McKinnon caused, to the tune of $800,000.
Why don't you save a personal copy of the story as you saw it (fair use)? Then, if the story changes, you can revise your own article to point out the changes, quoting both the relevant portions of the old and new text (also fair use).
I dunno, does the publisher arrange who gets to be interviewed on The Colbert Report? Honestly that's the only book marketing I've paid attention to in years.
Seems a little unfair to dump your publisher after you get the fame that they helped you achieve. It would be different if these authors has *started out* as indies.
Then why didn't the publisher insist on a contract that included all of the author's output for the rest of his or her life, published in any medium?
Are you trying to imply that the poor, defenseless publisher was roped into signing an inferior contract by a big, powerful no-name author? If the publisher helped make the author famous, then clearly the author was not famous when they signed their first contract with the publisher. In every case the publisher chose to promote them and their work knowing the contract would end.
Should the company that first hired you in your chosen field be able to prevent you from ever working again? It's very likely that you learned a lot in your first professional job, so you were learning and building your resume at the same time. Seems unfair to dump your employer after you get the experience that they helped you achieve.
Your post isn't the first time I've heard your argument. But it's a very, very anti-freedom argument.
Of course, not to be confused with the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009. Which is the actual net neutrality bill that asks the FCC to enact consumer protections.
Though neither bill is technically aptly named, since in both cases the "freedom" of one body is going to limit another. Consumers and corporations just have competing interests here. That's how it goes.
So in other words, McCain is pushing the Internet BSD Act, while Democrats are pushing the Internet GPL Act?
In both cases someone's freedom is limited to ensure the greatest freedom to someone else.
If you chose to not install locks on all your doors - and indeed, you just left all your doors and windows open all the time whether you were home or not - then someone who walked in without your permission could and should be charged with trespassing.
After that, though, if you decide that you "don't feel safe anymore" and have to spend $800,000 installing locks on your doors and windows, you don't get to claim that the trespasser caused $800,000 in damages to you. You should have and could have installed those locks and improved your security anyway.
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My car's been tuned up from 325 to 375 horsepower, yes, but that's well below yours, and as a convertible my car has additional weight in the lower chassis. And I had to buy a car with a back seat so there'd be space for a car seat.
That said, both of my Pontiacs cornered like shit. As you point out, pretty much any stock American car is garbage in the corners.
Next time I drive on a wet road at 100 MPH in reverse, I'll be sure to swap the direction of tire rotation first.
Of course, because I never, never speed, especially taking a curve recommend at 55 (regularly driven at 45) at a speed 40+ miles over the posted limit of 70. Never.
To each his own; I could say the same about your wife. =p
Sure, as long as he's in line behind all the people who did wrong and covered it up, only to be exposed later through Wikileaks.
If I recall correctly, in Sweden the servers of political parties, served from their political offices, are immune to prosecution for a variety of offenses. It's intended to protect the freedom of independent parties. It just adds another layer of shielding on top of Sweden's other protections.
They would have no more political obligation to remove the material in response to an outside government's request than the Republican party in the U.S. would in response to a request from the Chinese government to remove documents from a GOP server.
Sort of like how Sinn Fein is/was separate from the IRA? Not trying to make some sort of stupid terrorist analogy, but many movements have a tangentially-associated legal, political wing.
My wife likes Gowalla because, at least at first, it was more of a geocaching game than a social networking application. She was one of their first users, starting with its premiere at SXSW two years ago. At the time you could go around creating sites everywhere (because none existed yet), collecting "items" that would be found at locations, and completing item sets. You could also create "trips" by linking together sites. She designed a trip to see the sights at a nearby university, and one to visit all the major public art installations in the city.
Now most places already have a Gowalla site, and she has most all of the items, so it's more about checking in to see who's been there. Believe it or not, when we were in Chicago last week for Lollapalooza, she found one of her Gowalla friends (another early adopter who she met because they kept noticing sites created by each other) had checked in at many of the same places we had the previous day, during an architecture tour. Turned out that he was in town, too, and when she thought she saw him on the street a few days before, she likely had. Oh, one of her old coworkers was there, too, and she saw his check-ins.
Meanwhile her tour of the university if one of the most followed public tours in the system. They now allow you to create private tours that only you and your friends can see, but if you're going somewhere new you can locate someone who lives there, temporarily get into their friend network, and see if there are any cool tours to visit. While in Chicago we really wanted to do the tour of Frank Lloyd Wright houses, all conveniently mapped out in Gowalla on her iPhone, but we didn't have a car.
Oh, you can also see what restaurants and businesses are nearby. You know all those small local restaurants that still don't have a web presence and thus still don't show up well in Google location searches? If they're good, someone has made a site for them on Gowalla, and you'll see them with reviews when you're nearby.
Anyway, that's why she uses it. Slashdot is as close as I get to social networking.
Foursquare, and its sister location-based social networking application Gowalla, were the darlings of this year's SXSW Interactive conference - the same conference where Twitter launched. I take it your not a web applications developer*, because if you were you would have followed SXSW and then you would have heard of Foursquare.
* Unlike most of Slashdot, which seem to be except when posting in this story. =p
The tire grip also differs from inside to out to handle corners, so I can't rotate the tires side-to-side by putting the inner surfaces out, either.
1. No rotate front to back.
2. No rotate side to side by flipping the direction the tires turn.
3. No rotate side to side by setting the tires inside-out.
I have a BMW, not a mini, but my car's tires (645ci) are completely different front-to-back, plus the tires are designed for single-direction turning only (i.e. grip works one way, not the other). Put those together and my car's tires can't rotate. They stay where installed until they wear out, which the rear tires already have done once in less than a year.
Then again, there's these really nice, sharp corners on the freeway that I can take at posted speed (though never higher, of course) when most people slow down to 45... $350 tires (each) is part of what I bought when I picked the car.
My rear tires have a static negative camber. I have no idea if it helps the abysmal fuel economy or not, nor does it really matter. I offset the carbon in other ways and I don't care about the cost.
That really depends on how you choose to spend your money though, right? My car has about the same base price as an A8, and I got it by saving money, such as by using a pre-paid phone (average cost $8 per month) instead of $120 a month or whatever that a lot of folks blindly shell out.
It really depends on priorities. I spend a lot of time in my bed, in my home office chair, and in my car, so I'm going to spend money to enjoy those places. I don't spend that much time wandering around looking for internet access in public, so it's not worth the cost. Others may make different choices.
People with an Audi A8 are most likely to be driven around by a driver, while sitting in the back with their laptop
No they aren't. It's a $76,000 (base price) car. I drive a $77,000 (base price; $95,000 as built) car, bought as second owner for $35,000, and I sure as hell couldn't afford someone to drive me around. http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2004/03/22/185936.html
For a car with a driver, you should be looking at the Rolls Royce Phantom or similar. Those start around $380,000.
I have a cooling plate that I set me laptop on when gaming (MacBook Pro 17", a generation old). Without it I saw a rare lockup during heavy use (raiding environment). With it I've never seen a problem.
With a plug in keyboard, wireless mouse, and second monitor, I'm actually pretty happy using my laptop for gaming. My SCII copy is still sitting unopened in its box though...
2) The next thing - is Contractors with high level security. I know they meant officials included in that, but why on Earth would you give a Contractor high level security clearance? I wouldn't trust them further than broom closet.
So you propose nationalizing Boeing, Bell, Lockheed Martin or indeed every one of the 200+ companies on this list?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_defense_contractors
Any and every one of them likely has high level clearance for some employees for some field.
No, it just looks likes the Google Chrome team has discovered agile. If they use two-week sprints and have each feature broken up into three sets of user stories, they could complete and release a new feature every six weeks as planned.
The extent of the damages you are charged with causing likely wouldn't include the cost of implementing all the basic security that Mi6 should have, but failed to, implement on their own.
In McKinnon's case it's not just that he did or did not commit a crime, it's that the U.S. statues allow the crime and sentence to be elevated based on the damages caused, and the U.S. has chosen to include the cost of securing their servers against people guessing the default password in the damages McKinnon caused, to the tune of $800,000.
Why don't you save a personal copy of the story as you saw it (fair use)? Then, if the story changes, you can revise your own article to point out the changes, quoting both the relevant portions of the old and new text (also fair use).
How about you buy your music from Amazon and buy your books from Barnes & Noble? That way you're using an anti-aggressor for each medium?
The Colbert Report? Your local library? A forum for a genre of books you tend to like?
I dunno, does the publisher arrange who gets to be interviewed on The Colbert Report? Honestly that's the only book marketing I've paid attention to in years.
Seems a little unfair to dump your publisher after you get the fame that they helped you achieve. It would be different if these authors has *started out* as indies.
Then why didn't the publisher insist on a contract that included all of the author's output for the rest of his or her life, published in any medium?
Are you trying to imply that the poor, defenseless publisher was roped into signing an inferior contract by a big, powerful no-name author? If the publisher helped make the author famous, then clearly the author was not famous when they signed their first contract with the publisher. In every case the publisher chose to promote them and their work knowing the contract would end.
Should the company that first hired you in your chosen field be able to prevent you from ever working again? It's very likely that you learned a lot in your first professional job, so you were learning and building your resume at the same time. Seems unfair to dump your employer after you get the experience that they helped you achieve.
Your post isn't the first time I've heard your argument. But it's a very, very anti-freedom argument.
p>DeMint probably supports McCain's Internet Freedom Act of 2009. Which prohibits the FCC from placing any regulation over the internet.
Of course, not to be confused with the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009. Which is the actual net neutrality bill that asks the FCC to enact consumer protections.
Though neither bill is technically aptly named, since in both cases the "freedom" of one body is going to limit another. Consumers and corporations just have competing interests here. That's how it goes.
So in other words, McCain is pushing the Internet BSD Act, while Democrats are pushing the Internet GPL Act?
In both cases someone's freedom is limited to ensure the greatest freedom to someone else.
If you chose to not install locks on all your doors - and indeed, you just left all your doors and windows open all the time whether you were home or not - then someone who walked in without your permission could and should be charged with trespassing.
After that, though, if you decide that you "don't feel safe anymore" and have to spend $800,000 installing locks on your doors and windows, you don't get to claim that the trespasser caused $800,000 in damages to you. You should have and could have installed those locks and improved your security anyway.
So if you post a picture of Mohammad then you should be extradited and tried in Saudi Arabia, because that's where the victims of your crime* are?