When my wife's old college-era printer died, I bought a LaserJet 4M+ from Discount Electronics in Austin. This was in 2003 or 2004, and for $99 I got a printer with 10baseT JetDirect card and all the toner in its cartridge.
Six or seven years later, I haven't spent a dime more on anything besides paper, and I still have a durable, fully-functional, networked printer. I'd be hard-pressed to believe that printers made in 2003 or 2004 would be in such good shape today.
If "Scruffles" is the name of your favorite male cat-dresser/entertainer at the local strip joint, and you're a politician, someone will be able to A) see the name of the person who took the photo (you!), and B) see where you were when you took it.
So much for anonymously uploading your photos to furryfun.com.
Or the argument that the amendment was written to ensure that every citizen had the right to own a breech-loading musket, which I strongly support, while not written to ensure that every citizen had the right to own any and all types of weapons every made (up to and including nuclear warheads).
The concept of such a weapon would be so insane in the 19th century that no one thought to write it down, but I'm quite certain that, were such weapons to exist back then, the amendment would have been written to clearly exclude them.
...like, as is pointed out above, the lower risk of hitting the squishy pedestrian instead of swerving to avoid him and hitting the hard telephone pole.
The guy firing it is braced to absorb the force of the recoil. You may not be braced to absorb an impact from the exact orientation of the incoming bullet.
What you said is like claiming that it's impossible for a(n American) football player to knock another one down unless the first one falls down, too.
There is still no excuse for Toyota not coding the ECU to cut throttle when it senses that the driver has BOTH the throttle and the brakes on simultaneously. All drive by wire VW/Audis are setup this way.
Plus this would solve the problem of the drivers that like to ride with their left foot on the brake pedal - accelerating with their brakes on, cruising with their brakes on, braking with their brakes on (but who can tell?).
Just need to solve hills where the driver may need throttle and brake simultaneously to start moving, and it should work.
When Obama said he'll cancel Constellation, he crushed the dreams and hopes of MY generation.
The deficit has already crushed the dreams and hopes of our generation. The best we can do is hope to have the debt paid off by the time we die, so the next generation can have the luxury to utilize their government funds for things like exploration.
(I'm an Obama support, I think we should raise taxes more than cut spending, etc., but the deficit and staggering debt are crushing.)
With javascript disabled my profile was a mere one in 143, but when I enabled javascript and let them run it again, I became a unique flower.
While having javascript disabled does bin me somewhat (perhaps to 1-2%), telling them about my LabVIEW 8.6 Plugin for Netscape 32 and my Mentor Graphics Veribest Gerber 0 fonts made me completely unique.
It's that stupid 5 dollars a month to Pandora, or wherever, for "premium" content.
I've found that I can switch to last.fm when my Pandora time runs out each month, so there's no need to pay Pandora. (Or I *gasp* listen to my bought music.) I like Pandora for the music they've brought me, sure, and I show that by giving them referrer credit on every Amazon MP3 purchase.
I've asked them to find a way to track referrer credits, but they don't have the capability to do so right now.
My next door neighbor asked me to not let my kids use computers between 7pm and 8pm because she doesn't want them to be able to watch her in the bath (wtf?).
Did you check your computer room for an unobstructed view of her bathroom? Perhaps she should install better curtains.
Microsoft didn't driver browsers out of the market, Opera was "in the market" the entire time you're referring to.
That's the "If" in "If Microsoft had succeeded".
Netscape gave up because their business model was completely undercut by the fact that Microsoft made IE mandatory on every computer sold. Opera survived as a niche, and Mozilla was born from Netscape's ashes, both of which are signs that Microsoft didn't succeed.
Ok, I guess if a post is marked "Informative", but it is factually incorrect, I would consider "Overrated" as the correct moderation if I did not believe that the poster was spreading misinformation to be a troll or as flamebait.
Of course, all these posts should be modded "Off-Topic". C'est la vie.
There is a "Disagree" tag - it's "Overrated". But it only works if a post is modded "Insightful".
insightful/'nsatfl/ If you describe a person or their remarks as insightful, you mean that they show a very good understanding of people and situations.
So if someone thinks a comment shows an good understanding of the situation, that person can moderate the post "Insightful". Later, if someone else comes along and thinks the comment is wrong, reflecting no insight, the correct moderation would be "not insightful" - a.k.a. "Overrated".
It's no different than using "Overrated" to down-rate a post modded "Funny", if you don't think it's as funny as others did. I've never done this, but this and my first point are the only uses of "Overrated" I can think of, so I have to guess that they are its intended application.
A government is geographically limited. A big business can set up wherever it wants and, if sufficiently powerful, have its rules supersede the local laws. In many places in the world, corporations are more overtly powerful than governments.
Err, well, for counter point see United States re: Iraq.
"A government can set up wherever it wants and, if sufficiently powerful, have its rules supersede local laws." That's usually known as "nation building" and we do it all the time.
He tried to change Texas law so that the water supply corporation he owned in the Texas panhandle would be able to use eminent domain to take land on a corridor to Dallas/Fort Worth, so as to convey the wind power. Oh, and he could use the same corridor to convey water from the panhandle to DFW as well.
In all those wind power ads and interviews you saw, he never did mention the fact that he owned significant water rights in the Texas panhandle, and just needed a route to pipe that water to major cities to sell it. Do you recall that part?
When Texas balked about letting him pump the panhandle dry and flood (literally) the DFW market with his water, he stopped his ruse of caring about the environment.
There's no such racial overtones for catching stupid criminals. Stupidity is universal.
If you're looking for cops applying subtle procedures to effect racial discrimination without overtly discriminating, consider how Texas seems to patrol its highways around major holidays. I tend to see twice as many cops patrolling south-bound sides of freeways before the holidays, and north-bound sides of freeways after the holidays. While my observations are just one data point (and most certainly incomplete), a few police sheriffs could easily set up such assignments for their patrol officers, and thereby increase the chance of catching Mexican immigrants in traffic violations. Very subtle.
That's still only true if 100% of the heat is useful. An LED + heater light could turn on when the temperature hits 33, and heat the light just enough to keep the temperature at 36 or so, cycling the heater on and off as required.
An incandescent light cycles on and off for the requirements of traffic, and thus could (at least for the red light) heat up much higher than required to keep the snow melted. In other words, not all of the heat biproduct is being useful, and thus the bulb is still not as efficient as it could be.
I replied to a blanket claim that the government could and should only take action where there was direct (i.e. immediate and measurable) benefit to the public. I strongly disagree with that claim, and used a wide swath of examples to show how that claim is utterly wrong.
The OP didn't limit his claim to FOSS, and I didn't either.
I'm forced to conclude you didn't read the whole thread.
It's a good thing then that we aren't required to pay property taxes on things besides real estate, then (and perhaps on cars in some areas), since we all have stuff we "own" but couldn't sell for its perceived value.
How about we open some of those weight stations that I rarely, if ever, see open, and start charging truckers directly for the damage they do to the roads? Charge enough and we'll build an incentive to increase and expand rail routes and cargo.
How about we start charging for auto registration proportional to the vehicles weight? While I was driving a Miata for 7+ years, it pissed me off that a Hummer did 10+ times more damage to a road than my car but they only paid 3x more in fuel taxes (and identical rates on the toll roads around here).
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I came here to post about the same thing.
When my wife's old college-era printer died, I bought a LaserJet 4M+ from Discount Electronics in Austin. This was in 2003 or 2004, and for $99 I got a printer with 10baseT JetDirect card and all the toner in its cartridge.
Six or seven years later, I haven't spent a dime more on anything besides paper, and I still have a durable, fully-functional, networked printer. I'd be hard-pressed to believe that printers made in 2003 or 2004 would be in such good shape today.
If "Scruffles" is the name of your favorite male cat-dresser/entertainer at the local strip joint, and you're a politician, someone will be able to A) see the name of the person who took the photo (you!), and B) see where you were when you took it.
So much for anonymously uploading your photos to furryfun.com.
Or the argument that the amendment was written to ensure that every citizen had the right to own a breech-loading musket, which I strongly support, while not written to ensure that every citizen had the right to own any and all types of weapons every made (up to and including nuclear warheads).
The concept of such a weapon would be so insane in the 19th century that no one thought to write it down, but I'm quite certain that, were such weapons to exist back then, the amendment would have been written to clearly exclude them.
...like, as is pointed out above, the lower risk of hitting the squishy pedestrian instead of swerving to avoid him and hitting the hard telephone pole.
The guy firing it is braced to absorb the force of the recoil. You may not be braced to absorb an impact from the exact orientation of the incoming bullet.
What you said is like claiming that it's impossible for a(n American) football player to knock another one down unless the first one falls down, too.
There is still no excuse for Toyota not coding the ECU to cut throttle when it senses that the driver has BOTH the throttle and the brakes on simultaneously. All drive by wire VW/Audis are setup this way.
Plus this would solve the problem of the drivers that like to ride with their left foot on the brake pedal - accelerating with their brakes on, cruising with their brakes on, braking with their brakes on (but who can tell?).
Just need to solve hills where the driver may need throttle and brake simultaneously to start moving, and it should work.
When Obama said he'll cancel Constellation, he crushed the dreams and hopes of MY generation.
The deficit has already crushed the dreams and hopes of our generation. The best we can do is hope to have the debt paid off by the time we die, so the next generation can have the luxury to utilize their government funds for things like exploration.
(I'm an Obama support, I think we should raise taxes more than cut spending, etc., but the deficit and staggering debt are crushing.)
With javascript disabled my profile was a mere one in 143, but when I enabled javascript and let them run it again, I became a unique flower.
While having javascript disabled does bin me somewhat (perhaps to 1-2%), telling them about my LabVIEW 8.6 Plugin for Netscape 32 and my Mentor Graphics Veribest Gerber 0 fonts made me completely unique.
So yeah, javascript disabled totally helps.
And if you use Kosher salt at home, or sea salt, you don't get any iodine there either.
It's that stupid 5 dollars a month to Pandora, or wherever, for "premium" content.
I've found that I can switch to last.fm when my Pandora time runs out each month, so there's no need to pay Pandora. (Or I *gasp* listen to my bought music.) I like Pandora for the music they've brought me, sure, and I show that by giving them referrer credit on every Amazon MP3 purchase.
I've asked them to find a way to track referrer credits, but they don't have the capability to do so right now.
They have a fiscal responsibility to their long-term shareholders, too, not just those looking to cash out after a few quarters of artificial pumping.
My next door neighbor asked me to not let my kids use computers between 7pm and 8pm because she doesn't want them to be able to watch her in the bath (wtf?).
Did you check your computer room for an unobstructed view of her bathroom? Perhaps she should install better curtains.
Yours was the anti-correlated part of the singlet.
Somehow this sounds so much better than "-1 Redundant".
Microsoft didn't driver browsers out of the market, Opera was "in the market" the entire time you're referring to.
That's the "If" in "If Microsoft had succeeded".
Netscape gave up because their business model was completely undercut by the fact that Microsoft made IE mandatory on every computer sold. Opera survived as a niche, and Mozilla was born from Netscape's ashes, both of which are signs that Microsoft didn't succeed.
Ok, I guess if a post is marked "Informative", but it is factually incorrect, I would consider "Overrated" as the correct moderation if I did not believe that the poster was spreading misinformation to be a troll or as flamebait.
Of course, all these posts should be modded "Off-Topic". C'est la vie.
There is a "Disagree" tag - it's "Overrated". But it only works if a post is modded "Insightful".
insightful /'nsatfl/
If you describe a person or their remarks as insightful, you mean that they show a very good understanding of people and situations.
So if someone thinks a comment shows an good understanding of the situation, that person can moderate the post "Insightful". Later, if someone else comes along and thinks the comment is wrong, reflecting no insight, the correct moderation would be "not insightful" - a.k.a. "Overrated".
It's no different than using "Overrated" to down-rate a post modded "Funny", if you don't think it's as funny as others did. I've never done this, but this and my first point are the only uses of "Overrated" I can think of, so I have to guess that they are its intended application.
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/10/47552
1st hit on google "RIAA wants to hack computers". Stop being so lazy :p
Careful, Wired wants to steal your copy buffer.
Be sure to use safe browsing practices.
Mod up for kickass game reference. One of my favorites on the Commodore 64.
A government is geographically limited. A big business can set up wherever it wants and, if sufficiently powerful, have its rules supersede the local laws. In many places in the world, corporations are more overtly powerful than governments.
Err, well, for counter point see United States re: Iraq.
"A government can set up wherever it wants and, if sufficiently powerful, have its rules supersede local laws." That's usually known as "nation building" and we do it all the time.
T. Boone Pickens demonstrated someone getting in too far over their head too fast in this market. I really wish he would explain to everyone what went wrong with his plans. Who knows? The cement for the bases could get too expensive?
He tried to change Texas law so that the water supply corporation he owned in the Texas panhandle would be able to use eminent domain to take land on a corridor to Dallas/Fort Worth, so as to convey the wind power. Oh, and he could use the same corridor to convey water from the panhandle to DFW as well.
In all those wind power ads and interviews you saw, he never did mention the fact that he owned significant water rights in the Texas panhandle, and just needed a route to pipe that water to major cities to sell it. Do you recall that part?
When Texas balked about letting him pump the panhandle dry and flood (literally) the DFW market with his water, he stopped his ruse of caring about the environment.
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/071008/loc_302185743.shtml
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4275059.html
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/TimothyCarney/T_Boone_Pickens_wants_your_water.html
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089040017753.htm
There's no such racial overtones for catching stupid criminals. Stupidity is universal.
If you're looking for cops applying subtle procedures to effect racial discrimination without overtly discriminating, consider how Texas seems to patrol its highways around major holidays. I tend to see twice as many cops patrolling south-bound sides of freeways before the holidays, and north-bound sides of freeways after the holidays. While my observations are just one data point (and most certainly incomplete), a few police sheriffs could easily set up such assignments for their patrol officers, and thereby increase the chance of catching Mexican immigrants in traffic violations. Very subtle.
That's still only true if 100% of the heat is useful. An LED + heater light could turn on when the temperature hits 33, and heat the light just enough to keep the temperature at 36 or so, cycling the heater on and off as required.
An incandescent light cycles on and off for the requirements of traffic, and thus could (at least for the red light) heat up much higher than required to keep the snow melted. In other words, not all of the heat biproduct is being useful, and thus the bulb is still not as efficient as it could be.
I replied to a blanket claim that the government could and should only take action where there was direct (i.e. immediate and measurable) benefit to the public. I strongly disagree with that claim, and used a wide swath of examples to show how that claim is utterly wrong.
The OP didn't limit his claim to FOSS, and I didn't either.
I'm forced to conclude you didn't read the whole thread.
It's a good thing then that we aren't required to pay property taxes on things besides real estate, then (and perhaps on cars in some areas), since we all have stuff we "own" but couldn't sell for its perceived value.
How about we open some of those weight stations that I rarely, if ever, see open, and start charging truckers directly for the damage they do to the roads? Charge enough and we'll build an incentive to increase and expand rail routes and cargo.
How about we start charging for auto registration proportional to the vehicles weight? While I was driving a Miata for 7+ years, it pissed me off that a Hummer did 10+ times more damage to a road than my car but they only paid 3x more in fuel taxes (and identical rates on the toll roads around here).