That was quite a while ago... sort of proves his point!
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I was at Uni back in 94/95 and they did a student offer, I got OS/2 Warp for about £20 (with a free t-shirt!). I really liked it, but switched over to Windows 95 as Visual Basic & Visual C++ didn't run very happily on it.
I now work in IT in the banking/insurance world and there was quite a bit of software developed on OS/2 back then. Some of it still in use (though very little).
You see, most weed groweries bypass the meter so they don't have to pay gargantuan energy bills.
I doubt that; I've known several people who grew pot, and none of them bypassed the meter.
I think what the OP was talking about was the more commercial end of the market, rather than an individual growing for their own use.
What tends to happen is people take over (rent) a property and remove the internal walls, black out the windows and set up large growing operations, bypassing the meter. There was a disused shop near me (in the UK) where this happened... twice in six months!
It's stories like this that make it so obvious why the American system was completely broken and wrong.
Here in the UK we pay income tax and national insurance (basically a second income tax). The more we earn, the more we pay.
If someone, anyone, gets sick or injured, they get treated. The state of the NHS is pretty fantastic (despite what gets reported, particularly in America recently - ask anyone who has had to make use of their services and the VAST majority will have nothing but praise).
Granted, there are those in society who are lazy and refuse to work, spending what benefits they get on fags and booze, and we treat them too. That's the point really, healthcare for all, free at the point of use.
I, and I suspect the vast majority of the UK population, wouldn't have it any other way.
It seems to me that the American public has been brainwashed by those who stand to loose out having the money to push their agenda through the news media in America where you can buy news time as easily as advertising time. It also seems that in order to get this through it has been watered down. Hope it works out for you all. Glad we have the NHS and the BBC.
There is no duty to warn the intruder or use less than lethal force
Bonkers.
Pretty much every British person is proud of their National Health Service and their unarmed police.
A significant amount of Americans foam at the mouth at the thought of not being able to take a gun into Starbucks or the thought of providing health care to someone unable to pay.
We waltzed in here with guns ablazing intending to conquer this land and make it our own. We succeeded. This is our land now, and nobody has the right to be here but people we say have the right to be here. And that will be the case until another people do the same to us, which is not likely to happen.
Help me out here, is this a joke or a serious post?
Honest question, I'm really not sure, but I have a nasty feeling that it's not a joke...
No, you idiot , element 118 would be in the noble group and not reactive. No sir, not with oxygen.
Radon is also a noble element, but is reactive. Many predictions suggest that 118 would be more reactive, but as only three or four atoms have been detected I wouldn't expect proof any time soon.
It's bad luck to throw words like "idiot" around...
if by civilisation you mean economy, and even then it may very well have.
I think the point that was being made was that gold had an agreed-upon value and could be transported from place to place, country to country. It allowed the growth of commerce and the construction of the current free-market world, for better or worse.
I don't think the original poster necessarily meant gold as such, it could well have been something else rare (but not too rare), durable and relatively easy to identify as genuine.
It really amazes me how Apple can act like total pricks and so many here trip over their own feet rushing to defend them. Is the shiny THAT damned blinding?
Maybe people read the story (OK, the summary), had a think about it and regardless of who was involved, came to a decision.
I'm not saying that's what happened, but you have to admit, it's a possibility. In the real world most people aren't rabid fanboys who have a default opinion based on who makes something.
Apple is abusing the ID in an attempt to stifle competition. Palm is working around that despicable behavior.
Or maybe Palm is faking the ID so that its owners can use the iTunes software that Apple spends significant money developing, rather than develop its own software. Apple is preventing that despicable behavior.
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Is there a jewtube.com?
That was quite a while ago... sort of proves his point!
I was at Uni back in 94/95 and they did a student offer, I got OS/2 Warp for about £20 (with a free t-shirt!). I really liked it, but switched over to Windows 95 as Visual Basic & Visual C++ didn't run very happily on it.
I now work in IT in the banking/insurance world and there was quite a bit of software developed on OS/2 back then. Some of it still in use (though very little).
Have an test before each poll
For example, a test on the correct use of the indefinite article.
If I had $50M I would buy a rocket ship and go to the moon and Mars and take a bunch of Victoria's Secret models with me.
Lord British might have something to say about that.
flood the EU with low cost French and English culture
Like Michael Bublé, Bryan Adams & Céline Dion...
Harsh!
You see, most weed groweries bypass the meter so they don't have to pay gargantuan energy bills.
I doubt that; I've known several people who grew pot, and none of them bypassed the meter.
I think what the OP was talking about was the more commercial end of the market, rather than an individual growing for their own use.
What tends to happen is people take over (rent) a property and remove the internal walls, black out the windows and set up large growing operations, bypassing the meter. There was a disused shop near me (in the UK) where this happened... twice in six months!
"Any attempt at upselling will automatically cancel any interest I have in purchasing from your store."
If he persists you say "You are now harassing me and I will call the police if you do not stop."
Captain Asperger saves the world once again!
It's stories like this that make it so obvious why the American system was completely broken and wrong.
Here in the UK we pay income tax and national insurance (basically a second income tax). The more we earn, the more we pay.
If someone, anyone, gets sick or injured, they get treated. The state of the NHS is pretty fantastic (despite what gets reported, particularly in America recently - ask anyone who has had to make use of their services and the VAST majority will have nothing but praise).
Granted, there are those in society who are lazy and refuse to work, spending what benefits they get on fags and booze, and we treat them too. That's the point really, healthcare for all, free at the point of use.
I, and I suspect the vast majority of the UK population, wouldn't have it any other way.
It seems to me that the American public has been brainwashed by those who stand to loose out having the money to push their agenda through the news media in America where you can buy news time as easily as advertising time. It also seems that in order to get this through it has been watered down. Hope it works out for you all. Glad we have the NHS and the BBC.
There is no duty to warn the intruder or use less than lethal force
Bonkers.
Pretty much every British person is proud of their National Health Service and their unarmed police.
A significant amount of Americans foam at the mouth at the thought of not being able to take a gun into Starbucks or the thought of providing health care to someone unable to pay.
Bonkers.
We waltzed in here with guns ablazing intending to conquer this land and make it our own. We succeeded. This is our land now, and nobody has the right to be here but people we say have the right to be here. And that will be the case until another people do the same to us, which is not likely to happen.
Help me out here, is this a joke or a serious post?
Honest question, I'm really not sure, but I have a nasty feeling that it's not a joke...
Your choice.
That man is contradictory just to get a reaction.
No he's not.
i for one don't like the idea of something fragile containing mercury
Ever suck on a thermometer?
What's the possibility of being able to read with it?
I saw a TV report on this and it showd him "reading" the word CAT in 4" high black on white letters.
Really quite amazing, but similar in a way to Braille.
a healthcare proposal to regulate the health insurance into oblivion
So much worse than treating the sick, regardless of wealth.
Excuse me if I don't shed a tear.
Or I could just write it down on a napkin, and claim to be a Jedi prophet with new information given to me by The Force.
Ah, you'll be a Latter Day Jedi then.
I don't think there's going to be any good stuff...
From TFA,
Jobs: If we moved forward to commercialize it, "I'll just sue you."
Schwartz: And that was the last I heard on the topic. Although we ended up abandoning Looking Glass
As in life, bluster and threat are commonplace in business
It seems unfair to call it "bluster and threat" when the reason that Jobs didn't go through with his promised action was that there was no need to...
This reads like a lot of bull to me.
Radon is also a noble element, but is reactive. Many predictions suggest that 118 would be more reactive, but as only three or four atoms have been detected I wouldn't expect proof any time soon.
It's bad luck to throw words like "idiot" around...
I think the point that was being made was that gold had an agreed-upon value and could be transported from place to place, country to country. It allowed the growth of commerce and the construction of the current free-market world, for better or worse.
I don't think the original poster necessarily meant gold as such, it could well have been something else rare (but not too rare), durable and relatively easy to identify as genuine.
Maybe people read the story (OK, the summary), had a think about it and regardless of who was involved, came to a decision.
I'm not saying that's what happened, but you have to admit, it's a possibility. In the real world most people aren't rabid fanboys who have a default opinion based on who makes something.
Well, they sort of do... in order to use it with a portable music player you have to buy an iPod.
Nobody want to see that.
They turn into brass monkeys.
Or maybe Palm is faking the ID so that its owners can use the iTunes software that Apple spends significant money developing, rather than develop its own software. Apple is preventing that despicable behavior.