Get the Casio G-SHOCK MTG900DA-8V - It's easy to read, the battery is charged by built-in solar cells, it automatically syncs to WWVB, it's resistant to water and most other drinkable liquids to a depth most geeks will never encounter, and it's damn near indestructible.
"We do our utmost to provide the public with the best possible service, and to act professionally and courteously at all times."
I beg to disagree with you. Have you read the nonsense on that replacement web page?
"... were stolen from the artists" - nothing was stolen. The authors and publishers still have possession of their property. They were only deprived of profits they had not yet earned. That is not a proper thing to do, but it is also not stealing. Change the text to read "were being distributed without the owners' permission".
"As a result of... young, emerging artists may have had their careers damaged. If you have... you will have damaged the future of the music industry." - The publishers have done far more to ruin or hinder the careers of young emerging artists than any illegal downloaders could have caused. Aim your sites in the right direction please.
Most of the Internet community already understand this. You apparently do not or do not want to. Do your credibility a favor and reword that page.
"Enough time" may be a very, very long time and if intelligent species develop at all, one of them will have to be the first one. That may be us and not enough time has passed for the next one.
These will last about a week in Afghanistan. Unlike the civilian targets the designers are used to living with, the Afghani's, and most anyone else in that region, will not hesitate to shoot back with non-non-lethal weapons.
There may be many worlds inhabited by those who fit our understanding of "intelligent". One of them has to be the oldest and/or most advanced. It may be us.
I call BS. This is just another blame article out to gather points. According to "popular" opinion" EVERYTHING causes global warming and it's "Going to Kill Us All" unless you happen to live in one of the increasing numerous areas where we're still freezing our butts off. As for being fat - it's none of anyone elses damned business what or how much I eat as long as I'm paying market price for it. I pay for my own health insurance too so take your "You're stealing from less privileged neighbor" mantra and shove it.
Certainly. Take a page from PHB 101. Start terminating sysadmins until the productivity of the systems users starts to drop. Of course, by then it's too late because the few sysadmins you have left will already be seriously overworked and looking for other employment, and the chances of re-hiring the trained and experienced people you let go are close to nil.
Somewhere down inside the quagmire that is AT&T's billing system, you'll probably still find an active tariff for leasing crank-style (think "Lassie") phones to customers. It has never been updated to intelligently handle more recent uses of their communications systems, and heaven forbid you should ever ask one of their people to explain a charge or how to lower the cost of your "service". That's one of several reasons I refuse to do business with them anymore.
The idiots who forgot that a robot does not enjoy the same legal and moral "shield" that a human police officer has. Shoot back (or first) at a human police officer and it's serious jail time or the needle. Do the same to a cop-bot and it's, at most, destruction of public property and illegal discharge of a firearm or explosive device in a prohibited place. I see a big market for RPGs.
That wouldn't be so bad if the people spending the tax money provided the same value-per-unit-of-local-currency performance as is expected from the people who provide the tax money.
Copyrights and patents are there to protect the ownership of, and distribution/licensing rights to, original works created or invented by people. They should belong solely to the creator(s) or inventor(s) of the works or ideas and be nontransferable and non-inheritable.
Code recycling, and that word was chosen specifically for this case, is a time-honored and proven concept. One just has to look at Microsoft's products to see that.
I believe "vermin" is the term you are wanting, except applying it to our "representatives" would probably get you sued by the Vermin Anti-Defamation League.
You have a marvelous grasp of the obvious. The point is what happened in Iran could happen anywhere and is a lesson that should be remembered by any government. Too many of them won't and will eventually wonder why they are no longer in power.
Maybe not New Texas but it sure looks a lot like Iran under the Shah. Small pockets of good economic growth while the rest of the country lived in abject poverty. It brought on a revolution which put the Islamic theocracy back into power.
The current group of fanatics we are fighting feels anyone who is not a member of their culture/religion is not worthy to live and must be killed. They would be trying to destroy us even if we stood in the corner with our hands in our pockets, and they are doing this even to people who sympathize with them. As for the government spending money on R&D and production, every penny of your money the government spends on R&D and production ends up in the paychecks of the employees and shareholders associated with the companies that got the contracts.
"only to those that provided responsible policies"
And who might that be? The responsible individuals who would make good leaders are smart enough not to even run for office much less get elected, so we get to chose from the leftovers. Every country with elected leaders is pretty much in the same boat on this one.
Do something like what? Vote them out? We try that every four years but still end up with Politicians (capitalized because it's a distinct subclass of humanity) in power and after the 24-hour warranty runs out, they all turn into the same evil, self-serving, corrupt muck as the rest of their kind. Overthrow them by force of arms? We did that a couple hundred years ago and it worked well until the very intelligent and respectable gentlemen who created our nation stepped down and the Politicians took over. We seem to be lacking in intelligent and respectable gentlemen, or ladies, these days who would be willing to step in and clean house so a revolution would not produce a change. So we'll muddle along with what we have and try to work around it.
All of that information is now available just about anywhere, which makes it pretty much useless for you because it gives me plausible deniability for any transaction.
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Get the Casio G-SHOCK MTG900DA-8V - It's easy to read, the battery is charged by built-in solar cells, it automatically syncs to WWVB, it's resistant to water and most other drinkable liquids to a depth most geeks will never encounter, and it's damn near indestructible.
"We do our utmost to provide the public with the best possible service, and to act professionally and courteously at all times."
I beg to disagree with you. Have you read the nonsense on that replacement web page?
"... were stolen from the artists" - nothing was stolen. The authors and publishers still have possession of their property. They were only deprived of profits they had not yet earned. That is not a proper thing to do, but it is also not stealing. Change the text to read "were being distributed without the owners' permission".
"As a result of ... young, emerging artists may have had their careers damaged. If you have ... you will have damaged the future of the music industry." - The publishers have done far more to ruin or hinder the careers of young emerging artists than any illegal downloaders could have caused. Aim your sites in the right direction please.
Most of the Internet community already understand this. You apparently do not or do not want to. Do your credibility a favor and reword that page.
"Enough time" may be a very, very long time and if intelligent species develop at all, one of them will have to be the first one. That may be us and not enough time has passed for the next one.
RIP in this case means "Rest In Pride" for a job well done.
These will last about a week in Afghanistan. Unlike the civilian targets the designers are used to living with, the Afghani's, and most anyone else in that region, will not hesitate to shoot back with non-non-lethal weapons.
There may be many worlds inhabited by those who fit our understanding of "intelligent". One of them has to be the oldest and/or most advanced. It may be us.
re: Ethanol - when you start burning your food as fuel, you're in trouble.
I call BS. This is just another blame article out to gather points. According to "popular" opinion" EVERYTHING causes global warming and it's "Going to Kill Us All" unless you happen to live in one of the increasing numerous areas where we're still freezing our butts off. As for being fat - it's none of anyone elses damned business what or how much I eat as long as I'm paying market price for it. I pay for my own health insurance too so take your "You're stealing from less privileged neighbor" mantra and shove it.
Certainly. Take a page from PHB 101. Start terminating sysadmins until the productivity of the systems users starts to drop. Of course, by then it's too late because the few sysadmins you have left will already be seriously overworked and looking for other employment, and the chances of re-hiring the trained and experienced people you let go are close to nil.
Somewhere down inside the quagmire that is AT&T's billing system, you'll probably still find an active tariff for leasing crank-style (think "Lassie") phones to customers. It has never been updated to intelligently handle more recent uses of their communications systems, and heaven forbid you should ever ask one of their people to explain a charge or how to lower the cost of your "service". That's one of several reasons I refuse to do business with them anymore.
In a combat situation, bright lights are often referred to as "targets".
The idiots who forgot that a robot does not enjoy the same legal and moral "shield" that a human police officer has. Shoot back (or first) at a human police officer and it's serious jail time or the needle. Do the same to a cop-bot and it's, at most, destruction of public property and illegal discharge of a firearm or explosive device in a prohibited place. I see a big market for RPGs.
That wouldn't be so bad if the people spending the tax money provided the same value-per-unit-of-local-currency performance as is expected from the people who provide the tax money.
Copyrights and patents are there to protect the ownership of, and distribution/licensing rights to, original works created or invented by people. They should belong solely to the creator(s) or inventor(s) of the works or ideas and be nontransferable and non-inheritable.
Code recycling, and that word was chosen specifically for this case, is a time-honored and proven concept. One just has to look at Microsoft's products to see that.
I believe "vermin" is the term you are wanting, except applying it to our "representatives" would probably get you sued by the Vermin Anti-Defamation League.
You have a marvelous grasp of the obvious. The point is what happened in Iran could happen anywhere and is a lesson that should be remembered by any government. Too many of them won't and will eventually wonder why they are no longer in power.
Maybe not New Texas but it sure looks a lot like Iran under the Shah. Small pockets of good economic growth while the rest of the country lived in abject poverty. It brought on a revolution which put the Islamic theocracy back into power.
And this explains the current wars in Africa, Indonesia, and anywhere else the followers of Islam are killing those who do not believe as they do?
The current group of fanatics we are fighting feels anyone who is not a member of their culture/religion is not worthy to live and must be killed. They would be trying to destroy us even if we stood in the corner with our hands in our pockets, and they are doing this even to people who sympathize with them. As for the government spending money on R&D and production, every penny of your money the government spends on R&D and production ends up in the paychecks of the employees and shareholders associated with the companies that got the contracts.
"only to those that provided responsible policies"
And who might that be? The responsible individuals who would make good leaders are smart enough not to even run for office much less get elected, so we get to chose from the leftovers. Every country with elected leaders is pretty much in the same boat on this one.
Do something like what? Vote them out? We try that every four years but still end up with Politicians (capitalized because it's a distinct subclass of humanity) in power and after the 24-hour warranty runs out, they all turn into the same evil, self-serving, corrupt muck as the rest of their kind. Overthrow them by force of arms? We did that a couple hundred years ago and it worked well until the very intelligent and respectable gentlemen who created our nation stepped down and the Politicians took over. We seem to be lacking in intelligent and respectable gentlemen, or ladies, these days who would be willing to step in and clean house so a revolution would not produce a change. So we'll muddle along with what we have and try to work around it.
All of that information is now available just about anywhere, which makes it pretty much useless for you because it gives me plausible deniability for any transaction.
It speaks volumes that Microsoft chose to call the position "Director of Standards Affairs" and not "Director of Standards Compliance".