The lids of pressure cookers are all transparent as far as I know, so you should be able to see if it's empty...
Surely they would not have blown up a clearly empty pressure cooker... right? Right??
You're thinking of slow cookers they tend to have glass lids. Every pressure cooker that I've owned has had a metal lid. I don't remember seeing any glass topped pressure cookers, not saying they don't exist, but I haven't seen any.
The most reliable research available indicates that there are only 100-130 cases of stranger abductions a year in the United States. The F.B.I. handled 93 cases of stranger abductions cases in 2001. That figure is actually a decrease from years past, especially during the 1980s when the average per year hovered around 200 incidents a year.
There are only 12 states (Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming) where Felons may permanently lose the right to vote. I say may, because some of these 12 states have provisions where some Felons may apply for restoration of their voting rights. Further some only permanently restrict voting rights based the type of felony.
For more information look here: http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=286
My first thought was 'how are they going to cut off the Somali pirate's Internet connection from Europe,' then I remembered this is Slashdot, where not all pirates are real pirates.
The court finds that the degree of Plaintiffs' counsel's culpability weighs heavily in favor
of sanctioning the Plaintiffs' counsel, Kevin Elwell ("Elwell"). Elwell is a competent attorney
who knew or should have known with the most basic research that his actions were improper. In
addition, after Smith moved to strike the lis pendens, Elwell argued in court that the lis pendens
was proper. Elwell had no basis to support his position. (Mem. Regarding Sanctions 2.)
Further, the court finds that Smith has been prejudiced by the filing of the lis pendens.
The title to his property was clouded for over six months. Smith alleges that during that time he
was attempting to sell his property. Moreover, the public interest in preventing legal counsel
from filing improper lis pendens and encumbering property is great. A lis pendens is a very
powerful document and the statute is strictly applied because a lis pendens clouds the title to
property. There is no evidence that Elwell's client is responsible for Elwell's wrongful conduct.
However, taking into account the facts and the factors listed above, the court finds that based on Elwell's grossly improper conduct, he should be sanctioned in the amount of $1,000.00 payable
immediately to the Defendant.
The domain was registered less than a month ago. I concur, this is a hoax of some sort.
Domain Name: HWSTUSA.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com/
Name Server: DNS01.GPN.REGISTER.COM
Name Server: DNS02.GPN.REGISTER.COM
Name Server: DNS03.GPN.REGISTER.COM
Name Server: DNS04.GPN.REGISTER.COM
Name Server: DNS05.GPN.REGISTER.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 26-may-2007
Creation Date: 25-may-2007
Expiration Date: 25-may-2009
Can anyone suggest a good explanations for this seemingly dubious election-eve transfer?" I have a few explainations, but none that would be legal, ethical or moral.
I am certain that the SCO Group (SCOX) sued IBM in hopes of a quick settlement. They remind IBM that litigation will cost IBM $10 million, but they could be convinced to settle for say $3 million, of course bound by a non-disclosure agreement. Then they can go hog-wild suing every Linux company they can find. Who would want to fight the battle that IBM didn't want to fight. The companies that could afford to settle with SCOX would, the rest they would drain as much as they could in court and then settle without a trial.
SCOX knew from the beginning that they had no case. They counted on IBM doing the math and quickly settling, but IBM didn't. Along the way SCOX stumbled into the pipe fairy and made the best of the cards they were dealt. Bluff, bluff, raise, but never fold. For SCOX it is all in and now it appears they didn't even have a pair.
Now the best they can do is try and make it look like they thought they had a case.
Of course this is just my little theory, I could be wrong.
I live in the area about half way between Seatle and SF and I can tell you that not only would a high speed train need to slow down for several cities, but there are about 250 miles of the 800+ miles are in steep, rugged mountains. The cascades and the siskiyou mountain ranges are considerable deterents to speed. Not only do you have to deal with climbing and descending, but there are many places where the corners require a much slower speed.
The road distance between Seattle and SF might be just over 800 miles, but because trains had have different requirements for corners and climbing and descending, the track distance is probably more in the range of 900 to 950 miles.
It would be very expensive to straighten out the tracks enough to average 90 km/h in this area. There is no way you could do enough straightening to average 300 km/h, short of a 300 km tunnel through two mountain ranges. Did I mention that there are several fault lines that pass through this area?
Each theory, evolution and intelligent design, try to predict what we will find in the realm of biology.
The Theory of evolution is a scientific theory and intelligent design is a theory dreamed up to replace creationism, after creationism was tossed aside by the Supreme Court as crossing the church-state boundary. Please note the upper case T in Theory, this has scientific meaning.
Though his donor had been anonymous, his mother had been told the man's date and place of birth and his college degree. Using another online service, Omnitrace.com, he purchased the names of everyone that had been born in the same place on the same day. Only one man had the surname he was looking for, and within 10 days he had made contact.
Knowing the place and date of birth of the father would narrow the search considerably. Even in a large city it could narrow the search to a few dozen.
-Old7
I am currently using an old laptop w/Win98SE, browsing with Firefox. I can't remember the last virus I had. Oh, I have other computers, about 7 others, including two 3.0 Ghz beasts.
The laptop is great because I can take it where I want it and connect wirelessly to my network.
MythTV has an XMLTV plugin to download and give you a tv guide. http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv
for some reason the orignal site [membled.com] is not responding as i post this.
Good not will it find every movie by your favorite actor or director. Let me know when it does. Then we'll talk about Season Passes and suggestions.
Slashdot Mirror
Biggest time suck? There has to be 101 better ways to word that.
The appropriate number of days since your last login, is 42.
The lids of pressure cookers are all transparent as far as I know, so you should be able to see if it's empty...
Surely they would not have blown up a clearly empty pressure cooker... right? Right??
You're thinking of slow cookers they tend to have glass lids. Every pressure cooker that I've owned has had a metal lid. I don't remember seeing any glass topped pressure cookers, not saying they don't exist, but I haven't seen any.
Unfortunately, we have done so much to militarize the police that sometimes they forget they are civilians.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/cr...
The most reliable research available indicates that there are only 100-130 cases of stranger abductions a year in the United States. The F.B.I. handled 93 cases of stranger abductions cases in 2001. That figure is actually a decrease from years past, especially during the 1980s when the average per year hovered around 200 incidents a year.
There are only 12 states (Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming) where Felons may permanently lose the right to vote. I say may, because some of these 12 states have provisions where some Felons may apply for restoration of their voting rights. Further some only permanently restrict voting rights based the type of felony. For more information look here: http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=286
My first thought was 'how are they going to cut off the Somali pirate's Internet connection from Europe,' then I remembered this is Slashdot, where not all pirates are real pirates.
Their web server must be a cell phone.
Opinion in pdf format as "Opinion & Order on Summary Judgment (10-22-2007)"
The domain was registered less than a month ago. I concur, this is a hoax of some sort. Domain Name: HWSTUSA.COM Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.register.com Referral URL: http://www.register.com/ Name Server: DNS01.GPN.REGISTER.COM Name Server: DNS02.GPN.REGISTER.COM Name Server: DNS03.GPN.REGISTER.COM Name Server: DNS04.GPN.REGISTER.COM Name Server: DNS05.GPN.REGISTER.COM Status: clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 26-may-2007 Creation Date: 25-may-2007 Expiration Date: 25-may-2009
I am certain that the SCO Group (SCOX) sued IBM in hopes of a quick settlement. They remind IBM that litigation will cost IBM $10 million, but they could be convinced to settle for say $3 million, of course bound by a non-disclosure agreement. Then they can go hog-wild suing every Linux company they can find. Who would want to fight the battle that IBM didn't want to fight. The companies that could afford to settle with SCOX would, the rest they would drain as much as they could in court and then settle without a trial.
SCOX knew from the beginning that they had no case. They counted on IBM doing the math and quickly settling, but IBM didn't. Along the way SCOX stumbled into the pipe fairy and made the best of the cards they were dealt. Bluff, bluff, raise, but never fold. For SCOX it is all in and now it appears they didn't even have a pair.
Now the best they can do is try and make it look like they thought they had a case.
Of course this is just my little theory, I could be wrong.
because here comes the Slashdotting.
I live in the area about half way between Seatle and SF and I can tell you that not only would a high speed train need to slow down for several cities, but there are about 250 miles of the 800+ miles are in steep, rugged mountains. The cascades and the siskiyou mountain ranges are considerable deterents to speed. Not only do you have to deal with climbing and descending, but there are many places where the corners require a much slower speed. The road distance between Seattle and SF might be just over 800 miles, but because trains had have different requirements for corners and climbing and descending, the track distance is probably more in the range of 900 to 950 miles. It would be very expensive to straighten out the tracks enough to average 90 km/h in this area. There is no way you could do enough straightening to average 300 km/h, short of a 300 km tunnel through two mountain ranges. Did I mention that there are several fault lines that pass through this area?
Because they were just testing the water.
Oh, wait Oregon doesn't have a sales tax.
I am currently using an old laptop w/Win98SE, browsing with Firefox. I can't remember the last virus I had. Oh, I have other computers, about 7 others, including two 3.0 Ghz beasts.
The laptop is great because I can take it where I want it and connect wirelessly to my network.
And the second, too.
Yes, but what if one of them takes you out of the race?
-Old7
However, the executives in the company do own stock and/or have stock options. When the price goes up the value of their holdings increases.
Article has been up 10 minutes and we've /.ed Groklaw.
See, it is only funny to those with asthma. Everyone else assumes that it is offensive. What a world we live in.
-Old7