Being "anti-abortion" doesn't necessarily mean one advocates the criminalization of it. I personally think abortion is a disgusting cop-out and an affront to humanity in most cases, but I also realize there is enough of an argument over when life begins that it becomes essentially a moral/religious matter, and you run into all kinds of church/state issues if you attempt to criminalize it. So, until such time as that question can be definitively answered, I think it's something that needs to be allowed to be available. Let the doctor, the woman, and optionally whatever deity she worships sort the moral issues out among themselves.
Means if they were to sell you a 15mbps cable connection at "their rates" you'd be paying like a grand a month.
It really depends on who your provider is - Cogent has been offering a lot of folks $1.50/Mbps on a 1 gig commit lately. Sure, it's Cogent, but still, having a dedicated 1 gigabit pipe for $1500/month isn't anything to sneeze at if the quality of the routing/latency isn't that critical.
Banks and probably the major labels would be part of the group of "secured creditors", commonly referred to as "robber barons", and most likely will have already received most/all of any money received from MySpace.
Of course, that's "most/all of any money" after the IRS gets through with them. Back taxes are 1st priority in any BK proceeding, and being a secured creditor doesn't mean squat if they owe more to the IRS than they have in assets.
It only matters if you want to take on debt all the time.
Or if you want to get auto insurance, or want to open a utility account, or want to get a security clearance, and often, just if you want to get a job.
If it costs me half that to replace it because i own my own glass company, I don't have to give you a refund
Bet you will. All I have to do is make you whole again. If I can show the judge I can do that for half your estimate, then that's what I'll likely be held liable for. Similarly, you don't get to make a profit when you get into a fender-bender, and your cousin that owns a body shop inflates the value of his repair estimate and agrees to split the profit with you.
I don't have a car, but I don't need to walk to work. There are other options you know... Maybe not where you're from, but that's hardly normative. The point is that you're not *entitled* to a car, but you have a choice to spend your money on one. Something you can chose to pay for is more like a privilege than a right.
There are other options you know... Maybe not where you're from, but that's hardly normative
I live in a city with a metropolitan area population of about two million people, i.e. not some little backwoods town. The nearest city bus stop to my house is nearly four miles away, and walking or riding a bicycle to/from said bus stop, while possible, isn't really recommended if you want to be safe or not have your clothes sticking to you when you get there. From that stop to the stop nearest my job is almost two hours once I'm on the bus, and then another two miles from that stop to my job. My job is only about 25 miles away, so it's not like it's some huge distance.
Of course, I could spend a lot of money on a cab, or just walk the entire distance, or be *really* adventurous and try to bike the whole way. The point being, there are *plenty* places in the U.S. where cars are a practical necessity because mass transit isn't something that's taken seriously in the vast majority of places, and our cities and communities are so spread out that it takes a non-trivial amount of time to get from point A to point B.
In fairness though, Perot almost certainly would have done a lot better at the polls had he not dropped out of the race that summer and re-entered barely a month before the election.
Let them enforce the law on their own people first, instead of the bullshit "professional courtesy" that gets them out of speeding tickets and generally results in them refusing to charge any of their own people if they can avoid it *at all*.
Planes can be rented and friends/family can be pilots
Most definitely, and it usually makes for a much more pleasurable flight. It's usually far from cost-effective though. You have to rent the aircraft, pay for fuel, and then you might also be paying landing/parking fees on top of that if you're going to be staying overnight. Just going for the proverbial "$100 cheeseburger" at an airport an hour away actually costs closer to $300 nowadays. This is on top of your private ticket, which you'll probably spend upwards of $10,000 to get, including ground school, aircraft rental, etc.
GA is a wonderful alternative to commercial flights, but well out of the financial reach of most people, even when you have 2-4 people sharing the costs.
I misspoke on that last post - it's the A/C units that are driven off the inverters. The DC stuff is all run off a large battery that is constantly being charged.
I would guess you could get by with maybe half the total volt-amperes for a bus rather than a subway car. But maybe not as there is a lot less resistance to rolling a subway car on tracks than a bus with tires.
Nah, you won't need anywhere near 2K amps at 480 volts. The transit monorails that I've driven weigh about 150,000 pounds, and from a dead stop will draw around 1500 amps at 600 volts DC under substantial acceleration. Once they're rolling, they pull around a third of that current on a level beamway, and that's accounting for the resistance of 12 pneumatic load tires on concrete, plus another 52 guide tires that are held against the sides of the beam under considerable pressure, plus the mechanical losses from eight gearboxes. Also included in that power draw are a dozen large A/C units, a *huge* air compressor, and various other electronic gear being driven off of seven inverters, each of which will have their own non-trivial losses.
A typical transit bus weighs about 40-50K pounds, has *much* lower rolling resistance than one of my trains, and doesn't have all the other crap stuck on it drawing power either, with the exception of a single A/C unit and air compressor in most cases. Back-of-the-napkin guess would be that you could pretty easily get by with a couple hundred amps, assuming a 480 VDC system.
Not only did it have DMA, but cleverly the memory ran at 2x the speed of the CPU, with alternate cycles being given to the CPU and custom hardware. Often, the Amiga could be doing some fairly intense stuff without impacting the CPU *at all*, and when the Copper/Blitter did end up stealing cycles from the 68K, it was a fairly good bet they could do it more efficiently than the CPU. You could be updating the display (complete with sprite collision detection), playing four channels of sound (although audio via Paula was 8-bit, not 16), and formatting a floppy disk while the CPU sat totally idle.
Amiga viruses were rare? I've never experienced a platform with more viruses than the Amiga had
Really. Show me an Amiga user that didn't see the magic text, "Something wonderful has happened...Your AMIGA is alive !!!" at some point. I know I did.
It's also still relevant because there are still a lot of production systems that still use Z80s. One example - Walt Disney World's monorails. The vehicle on-board controller on each train consists of a pair of Z80s with some other glue circuitry. The local monitoring/control unit (i.e. driver's consoles and related gear) is a Windows 2000-based PC with a touch-screen interface, but what makes the train actually go is still a pair of ancient 8-bit chips.
That piece of paper that says they owe you money *can* really help though - if you have a judgment and can get a lien on the defendant's property, you're now a secured creditor, which is a far, far better situation to be in if the defendant declares bankruptcy since secured debts often aren't dischargeable, and secured creditors often aren't limited by the automatic stay in their attempts to recover what is owed them.
$4.43 for a single 50' Cat 5e cable at Monoprice. Markup on cables of all sorts is just ridiculous, and the vast majority of people have no idea how much they're getting ripped off.
A friend recently gave me a dead external USB drive to look at. The drive wasn't recognized at all by the system, but upon cracking the case open and mounting the bare drive via the IDE interface in my box, I found the drive itself was 100% functional, and it was just the USB interface in the enclosure that had failed. I called him up and told him the drive was fine and he could just plug it into his desktop to get what he needed from it.
Took 5 minutes, and I'd hate to think what he'd have been charged if he'd actually taken it someplace to have it looked at.
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Being "anti-abortion" doesn't necessarily mean one advocates the criminalization of it. I personally think abortion is a disgusting cop-out and an affront to humanity in most cases, but I also realize there is enough of an argument over when life begins that it becomes essentially a moral/religious matter, and you run into all kinds of church/state issues if you attempt to criminalize it. So, until such time as that question can be definitively answered, I think it's something that needs to be allowed to be available. Let the doctor, the woman, and optionally whatever deity she worships sort the moral issues out among themselves.
Yahoo, Gmail, MSN/Hotmail, and AOL pretty much require that you have DomainKeys implemented if you want to email their users
I don't have DomainKeys set up, and I've never had any difficulty getting mail to users of any of those services.
I use them for all of my domains, but I can't really see that it makes the first bit of difference.
Means if they were to sell you a 15mbps cable connection at "their rates" you'd be paying like a grand a month.
It really depends on who your provider is - Cogent has been offering a lot of folks $1.50/Mbps on a 1 gig commit lately. Sure, it's Cogent, but still, having a dedicated 1 gigabit pipe for $1500/month isn't anything to sneeze at if the quality of the routing/latency isn't that critical.
But now Imeem has money from the MySpace deal. The artists should get it.
Unless there are back taxes due and/or secured creditors that are owed money.
Banks and probably the major labels would be part of the group of "secured creditors", commonly referred to as "robber barons", and most likely will have already received most/all of any money received from MySpace.
Of course, that's "most/all of any money" after the IRS gets through with them. Back taxes are 1st priority in any BK proceeding, and being a secured creditor doesn't mean squat if they owe more to the IRS than they have in assets.
It only matters if you want to take on debt all the time.
Or if you want to get auto insurance, or want to open a utility account, or want to get a security clearance, and often, just if you want to get a job.
If it costs me half that to replace it because i own my own glass company, I don't have to give you a refund
Bet you will. All I have to do is make you whole again. If I can show the judge I can do that for half your estimate, then that's what I'll likely be held liable for. Similarly, you don't get to make a profit when you get into a fender-bender, and your cousin that owns a body shop inflates the value of his repair estimate and agrees to split the profit with you.
I don't have a car, but I don't need to walk to work. There are other options you know... Maybe not where you're from, but that's hardly normative. The point is that you're not *entitled* to a car, but you have a choice to spend your money on one. Something you can chose to pay for is more like a privilege than a right.
There are other options you know... Maybe not where you're from, but that's hardly normative
I live in a city with a metropolitan area population of about two million people, i.e. not some little backwoods town. The nearest city bus stop to my house is nearly four miles away, and walking or riding a bicycle to/from said bus stop, while possible, isn't really recommended if you want to be safe or not have your clothes sticking to you when you get there. From that stop to the stop nearest my job is almost two hours once I'm on the bus, and then another two miles from that stop to my job. My job is only about 25 miles away, so it's not like it's some huge distance.
Of course, I could spend a lot of money on a cab, or just walk the entire distance, or be *really* adventurous and try to bike the whole way. The point being, there are *plenty* places in the U.S. where cars are a practical necessity because mass transit isn't something that's taken seriously in the vast majority of places, and our cities and communities are so spread out that it takes a non-trivial amount of time to get from point A to point B.
In fairness though, Perot almost certainly would have done a lot better at the polls had he not dropped out of the race that summer and re-entered barely a month before the election.
Let them enforce the law on their own people first, instead of the bullshit "professional courtesy" that gets them out of speeding tickets and generally results in them refusing to charge any of their own people if they can avoid it *at all*.
Planes can be rented and friends/family can be pilots
Most definitely, and it usually makes for a much more pleasurable flight. It's usually far from cost-effective though. You have to rent the aircraft, pay for fuel, and then you might also be paying landing/parking fees on top of that if you're going to be staying overnight. Just going for the proverbial "$100 cheeseburger" at an airport an hour away actually costs closer to $300 nowadays. This is on top of your private ticket, which you'll probably spend upwards of $10,000 to get, including ground school, aircraft rental, etc.
GA is a wonderful alternative to commercial flights, but well out of the financial reach of most people, even when you have 2-4 people sharing the costs.
I misspoke on that last post - it's the A/C units that are driven off the inverters. The DC stuff is all run off a large battery that is constantly being charged.
I would guess you could get by with maybe half the total volt-amperes for a bus rather than a subway car. But maybe not as there is a lot less resistance to rolling a subway car on tracks than a bus with tires.
Nah, you won't need anywhere near 2K amps at 480 volts. The transit monorails that I've driven weigh about 150,000 pounds, and from a dead stop will draw around 1500 amps at 600 volts DC under substantial acceleration. Once they're rolling, they pull around a third of that current on a level beamway, and that's accounting for the resistance of 12 pneumatic load tires on concrete, plus another 52 guide tires that are held against the sides of the beam under considerable pressure, plus the mechanical losses from eight gearboxes. Also included in that power draw are a dozen large A/C units, a *huge* air compressor, and various other electronic gear being driven off of seven inverters, each of which will have their own non-trivial losses.
A typical transit bus weighs about 40-50K pounds, has *much* lower rolling resistance than one of my trains, and doesn't have all the other crap stuck on it drawing power either, with the exception of a single A/C unit and air compressor in most cases. Back-of-the-napkin guess would be that you could pretty easily get by with a couple hundred amps, assuming a 480 VDC system.
I *loved* working with the 68K - the register layout in particular just made things so damned easy, especially when compared to the x86.
If you've got a PC that's newer than 10 years old or so, you can also do it for $30, and save some desk space in the process. :-)
Not only did it have DMA, but cleverly the memory ran at 2x the speed of the CPU, with alternate cycles being given to the CPU and custom hardware. Often, the Amiga could be doing some fairly intense stuff without impacting the CPU *at all*, and when the Copper/Blitter did end up stealing cycles from the 68K, it was a fairly good bet they could do it more efficiently than the CPU. You could be updating the display (complete with sprite collision detection), playing four channels of sound (although audio via Paula was 8-bit, not 16), and formatting a floppy disk while the CPU sat totally idle.
Amiga viruses were rare? I've never experienced a platform with more viruses than the Amiga had
Really. Show me an Amiga user that didn't see the magic text, "Something wonderful has happened...Your AMIGA is alive !!!" at some point. I know I did.
It's also still relevant because there are still a lot of production systems that still use Z80s. One example - Walt Disney World's monorails. The vehicle on-board controller on each train consists of a pair of Z80s with some other glue circuitry. The local monitoring/control unit (i.e. driver's consoles and related gear) is a Windows 2000-based PC with a touch-screen interface, but what makes the train actually go is still a pair of ancient 8-bit chips.
That piece of paper that says they owe you money *can* really help though - if you have a judgment and can get a lien on the defendant's property, you're now a secured creditor, which is a far, far better situation to be in if the defendant declares bankruptcy since secured debts often aren't dischargeable, and secured creditors often aren't limited by the automatic stay in their attempts to recover what is owed them.
Hardware revisions are not intended to solve software issues. They are intended to solve failing hardware.
Sometimes, but the majority of hardware EC's are to lower the production cost.
$4.43 for a single 50' Cat 5e cable at Monoprice. Markup on cables of all sorts is just ridiculous, and the vast majority of people have no idea how much they're getting ripped off.
A friend recently gave me a dead external USB drive to look at. The drive wasn't recognized at all by the system, but upon cracking the case open and mounting the bare drive via the IDE interface in my box, I found the drive itself was 100% functional, and it was just the USB interface in the enclosure that had failed. I called him up and told him the drive was fine and he could just plug it into his desktop to get what he needed from it.
Took 5 minutes, and I'd hate to think what he'd have been charged if he'd actually taken it someplace to have it looked at.
That TruCoat, you don't get it and you get oxidization problems....
i.e., "Work to live, not live to work". Not a thing wrong with that outlook.