You're so right. I should be thrilled that my medical insurance premiums continue to go up far faster than the increase in the cost of medical care, so that the CEOs of the insurance companies can continue to get multi-million dollar bonuses. Maybe they'll hire a second pool man.
I for one propose the Trickle-Up theory of economics. Let's raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour. With this boost in disposable income of consumers everywhere, the rich and the corporations will soon benefit from the effects of increased spending.
That makes just as much sense as the Trickle-Down theory, but of course they'd never go for it. Each of these approaches benefit one group of people far more than the other.
They don't need to put any information on the card other than a random number that's different than all other Disney card keys. The card readers in the fast-pass machines, at the store cashiers counter, etc., are networked back to the database that contains the real information, like whether or not you've already gotten a fast-pass ticket for this ride.
People didn't just own the houses that got flooded, they also owned the land underneath. Is the government just going trade everyone, acre-for-acre, some developable land that they just happen to have sitting around? This isn't like the national petroleum reserve; you can't just stockpile habitable land for some day when you may need to move a city there.
An excellent writeup of this situation can be found in The Control of Nature, by John McPhee. I reread this book just about a month ago, and kept thinking about as the storm was progressing on Sunday. New Orleans wasn't always below sea level, it only became that way from mans insistance that the Mississippi river never change course. Even if all the flood water gets pumped out this time, and all the homes and businesses get rebuilt, it will only be a matter of years before another hurricane hits the city. The next time, the city will be even further below sea level, and the river and the levees will be even higher and more prone to failure. The city is destined to dissappear in our lifetimes or in our children's lifetimes, it's only a matter of when.
On professional Audio-Video gear, BNC connectors have been replacing XLR connectors for a while now for digital AES audio. BNC's aren't balanced, but since the signal is digital it won't matter in 99.9% of cases. I'm guessing the change was done for pure economics; BNCs are simpler to terminate than XLR's, and the connectors take up less space on the back of the equipment.
Walmart's central data warehouse has a consumer's entire transaction, including credit card number, within 15 minutes of the POS transaction. I went to Home Depot to make a return without a receipt and with a swipe of my cc the cashier had the transaction on screen in just a couple of seconds. Scary! Cash at HD from now on for me!
They may only actually keep a hash of your credit card number & expiration date. When they swipe your card the second time they just search for a matching hash, which means that back office employees can't get access to your actual CC number. Of course I don't know that they actually do it that way, so I may be completely wrong.
From http://www.vi-improved.org/wiki/index.php/VimGpg,
change your.vimrc file to allow Vi to edit GPG encrypted files. It automatically asks for the password, decrypts the file, re-encryptes it when you're done, and it doesn't cache the plaintext.
Works well for me, since I can access my passwords from anyplace that allows me secure shell access, and I'm not carrying around a thumb drive that can get lost, broken, or lose it's data.
A radio program this morning on NPR discussed how the movie industry was losing money on opening day box office receipts...
I think you mean they're losing money on total box office receipts. Or are they expecting to pay for all the production & distribution costs and then some from a single day's ticket sales?
So you believe in the event of an emergency all the Hams will spring to life and use their radio gear now that BPL is down. You honestly believe people are going to spend money on gear, set it up, and wait for a day when it might be usable. Do you want the first "test" of this gear to be during an emergency?
Well, actually, that is what they do. A quick google search brings a story about their response during the Nisqually Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. Living here in the San Fernando Valley, I remember their actions after the Northridge Quake as well. Many HAM operators have annual events at which they practice setting up & operating emergency field stations. Yes, that is exactly what they do.
Small children required to stand at attention, swearing oaths they don't understand. Small children learning obedience to elders, to an organisation out of their parents control.
Which is exactly what they do every day that they're in school. That's a problem how exactly?
Sure, the organisation is benign and all nice and stuff now, but will it stay that way?
They've barely changed in the 90-something years that they've been in existance in the U.S., what makes you think they're going to suddenly turn into the Young Fascist Party of America? Obviously you have no children.
Certain TLA's simply shred their hard drives, but then money's no object for them.
Here's a company that'll do it for you. Boy could I have fun with one of those.
If a show costs zero dollars to produce and air, then ir will turn a profit even if it only got one viewer.
I'm 47, so I spent my high school & college Saturday nights watching Saturday Night Live. It was good then. Thirty years later the show sucks, and has sucked immensely for at least the last 15 years. Why is it still on? Because it still gets high enough ratings in relation to it's production costs, and bacause there's nothing else on in that time slot that really competes with it. If Jay Leno ever decided to do a show on Saturday nights, the 30 year reign of Saturday Night Live would quickly grind to a halt.
TLC used to stand for 'The Learning Channel'; not too much profit in that. Then they discovered bored housewives. Now when I flip through the guide I see them playing, in order, 'The Makeover Show', 'The Wedding Show', and 'The Baby Show'. That pretty much encapsulates everything that too many women aspire too; attract a man, get him to marry you, and have his baby (though not necessarily in that order.)
As opposed to public schools, which would have you believe evolution is infallible, and anything that teaches otherwise is automatically false
infallible (n-fl'-bl) pronunciation
adj.
1. Incapable of erring: ....
Evolution isn't infallible, and nobody with half a brain ever claimed it was. Evolution makes mistakes, witness all the genetic mutations that don't survive.
Evolution isn't good or evil, right or wrong; it just is. Anyone that teaches otherwise needs to pull their narrow mind out of their fsckin bible.
Even when not doing an image search, Google now seems to return images when that would be a better response than just a URL.
I stumbled upon this new behavious when searching for an image of a protractor
They do when it's convenient. Look at the corner newstand. If I feel like reading today's paper, I drop a few coins on the counter and walk way with a copy. I'm not obliged to answer any questions, sign an EULA, or subscribe for the next 30 days.
If it were only so simple to give $.05 to the New York Times in exchange for a copy of a single article, people would do it. Ultimately, people want to pay using whatever method requires the least amount of work on their part.
TRUE.COM's only advantage in the marketplace is the fact that they do background checks. Once this law passes, all online dating services will do background checks, and TRUE.COM will have lost whatever meager advantage they once had.
Having a bunch of self-proclaimed "experts" write the encyclopedia...
Which is exactly how every encyclopedia ever written was created. The writers of the Encyclopedia Brittanica weren't voted into office, They were simply the self-proclaimed "experts" of the time. Also, Wikipedia does go through many editorial reviews by its users.
I don't see Wikipedia as being any better or any worse then printed encyclopedias. I wouldn't necessarily trust the very first version of any given Wikipedia page, just like I wouldn't trust a printed encyclopedia until it's been given a once-over by editors.
The argument that only paid writers should be trusted to give credible information sounds too much like a similar creed that only paid programmers, working on closed source, can be trusted to write secure software.
Microsoft could be forced to change Internet Explorer and make it incompatible with some web pages.
Since Microsoft has the defacto standard for web browsers, right or wrong as it might be, then the no-longer-working web pages will be looked upon as the ones that are broken. Their owners will have to make them compatible with the new "standard".
I think your calculations were wrong. I remember the original event, it was all over the TV news.
Also, sounding baloons are launched routinely. They rise until their expansion causes their weight to equal that of the air that they displace. They then tend to hover at that altitude until the helium leaks out.
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Who defines "unreasonable". You can bet it will be them, and not you.
You're so right. I should be thrilled that my medical insurance premiums continue to go up far faster than the increase in the cost of medical care, so that the CEOs of the insurance companies can continue to get multi-million dollar bonuses. Maybe they'll hire a second pool man.
I for one propose the Trickle-Up theory of economics. Let's raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour. With this boost in disposable income of consumers everywhere, the rich and the corporations will soon benefit from the effects of increased spending.
That makes just as much sense as the Trickle-Down theory, but of course they'd never go for it. Each of these approaches benefit one group of people far more than the other.
They don't need to put any information on the card other than a random number that's different than all other Disney card keys. The card readers in the fast-pass machines, at the store cashiers counter, etc., are networked back to the database that contains the real information, like whether or not you've already gotten a fast-pass ticket for this ride.
People didn't just own the houses that got flooded, they also owned the land underneath. Is the government just going trade everyone, acre-for-acre, some developable land that they just happen to have sitting around? This isn't like the national petroleum reserve; you can't just stockpile habitable land for some day when you may need to move a city there.
An excellent writeup of this situation can be found in The Control of Nature, by John McPhee. I reread this book just about a month ago, and kept thinking about as the storm was progressing on Sunday.
New Orleans wasn't always below sea level, it only became that way from mans insistance that the Mississippi river never change course. Even if all the flood water gets pumped out this time, and all the homes and businesses get rebuilt, it will only be a matter of years before another hurricane hits the city. The next time, the city will be even further below sea level, and the river and the levees will be even higher and more prone to failure. The city is destined to dissappear in our lifetimes or in our children's lifetimes, it's only a matter of when.
On professional Audio-Video gear, BNC connectors have been replacing XLR connectors for a while now for digital AES audio. BNC's aren't balanced, but since the signal is digital it won't matter in 99.9% of cases. I'm guessing the change was done for pure economics; BNCs are simpler to terminate than XLR's, and the connectors take up less space on the back of the equipment.
They may only actually keep a hash of your credit card number & expiration date. When they swipe your card the second time they just search for a matching hash, which means that back office employees can't get access to your actual CC number. Of course I don't know that they actually do it that way, so I may be completely wrong.
From http://www.vi-improved.org/wiki/index.php/VimGpg, change your .vimrc file to allow Vi to edit GPG encrypted files. It automatically asks for the password, decrypts the file, re-encryptes it when you're done, and it doesn't cache the plaintext.
Works well for me, since I can access my passwords from anyplace that allows me secure shell access, and I'm not carrying around a thumb drive that can get lost, broken, or lose it's data.
I think you mean they're losing money on total box office receipts. Or are they expecting to pay for all the production & distribution costs and then some from a single day's ticket sales?
Well, actually, that is what they do. A quick google search brings a story about their response during the Nisqually Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. Living here in the San Fernando Valley, I remember their actions after the Northridge Quake as well. Many HAM operators have annual events at which they practice setting up & operating emergency field stations. Yes, that is exactly what they do.
Which is exactly what they do every day that they're in school. That's a problem how exactly?
Sure, the organisation is benign and all nice and stuff now, but will it stay that way?
They've barely changed in the 90-something years that they've been in existance in the U.S., what makes you think they're going to suddenly turn into the Young Fascist Party of America? Obviously you have no children.
Certain TLA's simply shred their hard drives, but then money's no object for them. Here's a company that'll do it for you. Boy could I have fun with one of those.
Oh......right. Never mind then.
I'm 47, so I spent my high school & college Saturday nights watching Saturday Night Live. It was good then. Thirty years later the show sucks, and has sucked immensely for at least the last 15 years. Why is it still on? Because it still gets high enough ratings in relation to it's production costs, and bacause there's nothing else on in that time slot that really competes with it. If Jay Leno ever decided to do a show on Saturday nights, the 30 year reign of Saturday Night Live would quickly grind to a halt.
TLC used to stand for 'The Learning Channel'; not too much profit in that. Then they discovered bored housewives. Now when I flip through the guide I see them playing, in order, 'The Makeover Show', 'The Wedding Show', and 'The Baby Show'. That pretty much encapsulates everything that too many women aspire too; attract a man, get him to marry you, and have his baby (though not necessarily in that order.)
infallible (n-fl'-bl) pronunciation adj.
....
1. Incapable of erring:
Evolution isn't infallible, and nobody with half a brain ever claimed it was. Evolution makes mistakes, witness all the genetic mutations that don't survive.
Evolution isn't good or evil, right or wrong; it just is. Anyone that teaches otherwise needs to pull their narrow mind out of their fsckin bible.
Even when not doing an image search, Google now seems to return images when that would be a better response than just a URL. I stumbled upon this new behavious when searching for an image of a protractor
There's a very simple solution for this: Don't buy anything from Adaptec, ever. They'll be out of business; problem solved.
They do when it's convenient. Look at the corner newstand. If I feel like reading today's paper, I drop a few coins on the counter and walk way with a copy. I'm not obliged to answer any questions, sign an EULA, or subscribe for the next 30 days.
If it were only so simple to give $.05 to the New York Times in exchange for a copy of a single article, people would do it.
Ultimately, people want to pay using whatever method requires the least amount of work on their part.
TRUE.COM's only advantage in the marketplace is the fact that they do background checks. Once this law passes, all online dating services will do background checks, and TRUE.COM will have lost whatever meager advantage they once had.
Which is exactly how every encyclopedia ever written was created. The writers of the Encyclopedia Brittanica weren't voted into office, They were simply the self-proclaimed "experts" of the time. Also, Wikipedia does go through many editorial reviews by its users.
I don't see Wikipedia as being any better or any worse then printed encyclopedias. I wouldn't necessarily trust the very first version of any given Wikipedia page, just like I wouldn't trust a printed encyclopedia until it's been given a once-over by editors.
The argument that only paid writers should be trusted to give credible information sounds too much like a similar creed that only paid programmers, working on closed source, can be trusted to write secure software.
Since Microsoft has the defacto standard for web browsers, right or wrong as it might be, then the no-longer-working web pages will be looked upon as the ones that are broken. Their owners will have to make them compatible with the new "standard".
I think your calculations were wrong. I remember the original event, it was all over the TV news. Also, sounding baloons are launched routinely. They rise until their expansion causes their weight to equal that of the air that they displace. They then tend to hover at that altitude until the helium leaks out.
Kona-2 card, by AJA
http://www.aja.com/
Works on a Apple G5