that I happily did for less money. because I was really in to what the job was producing. pride can be worth a lot of money.
the thing about a job like that is that if you are reasonably sure that you can stay there if you want to, and you really enjoy the job, you don't have to spend all your time building up fuck-you money.
or at least not light plastic. the one I got warps from the heat of the laptop. unvarnished wood would be the best surface. (varnish may melt in heat.)
you should not ban the use of the cigarette, but you might ban the misleading marketing that leads to using a cigarette.
in the one case you are attempting to ban something that one does to oneself, in the latter, you are attempting to ban something someone does to another.
this is generally where I find the useful cutoff when considering any legislation. legislation should never be about preventing someone from doing something to themselves, only preventing someone from doing something to someone else.
personally I bike everywhere now, but most people that I know who commute with a car fill the tank once or twice a week.
at current prices, even for a small car, that's $35-$40 a tank. generously, that's $140 a month for gas.
$100 monthly fee for a battery? sign me up! there's flexcar or rentals for long hauls.
twice in the last 6 years I've had commutes of between 40 and 60 miles, which was costing me upwards of $80 a week, and that was at lower prices. this is well within the range of one of these cars.
I once had the curious experience of sitting next to a failure analyst on a plane. he had some rather interesting animations on his laptop which were a curious thing to watch while flying.
on contract with the military, his company had run simulations of what happened to a cargo plane when it hit a wall. here is the basic set of steps of what happens when a plane hits something head on. 1. nose hits wall, rest of plane keeps moving. everything forward of the wings is immediately flattened. 2. wing hits wall, plane stops 3. tail of plane crumples and tears off.
structurally there is very little in an airplane fuselage that prevents if from collapsing on impact. only the sudden spreading of that impact across the forward edge of the wings is enough to stop or slow the plane. more so on military cargo planes, as their wings (at least the ones in the tests he showed me,) are not as swept back as the average passenger plane.
conclusions, 1. if you are in front of the wing, you are a pancake. 2. if you are in the middle of the plane, around the wings, you will be eating that pancake. 3. if you are in the back, there is a chance you might survive...
however that is only impact damage, the fireball from the wings tends to swallow the rear of the plane.
usually in a government contract there is the cost price of an individual object in a project, and the cost of the fully completed project with overhead. government rules require a certain amount of itemization, and there are 2 ways to spread the overhead costs around. proportionally; so that each piece of the final product gets a percentage of the overhead cost, and flat rate; where a single percentage is applied to overhead costs, and spread equally across all pieces. the latter process is usually cheaper, but results in line items that at first glance look completely absurd.
(overhead generally means things like labor and assembly costs. so for a bomber, there are only so many separable components, like toilet seats, and a phenomenal amount of overhead. $40k overhead for a fuselage, not a big deal... $40k for a toilet seat and 'wtf?')
if you get down to the bottom, there are all the bits about how he violated international law, and the bit in article III section 4 where Kucinich quotes the constitution
`This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.'
While there is certainly some (a lot) of political posturing going on here, the points of the articles are valid, and in the case "hurts the country" qualifies as an amazing understatement. This vice president, (and the rest of the administration,) have broken international law, and by our own treaty, the 'Law of the Land.' Therefore, high crime and misdemeanor. And this is all after he publicly stated that we have to "live on the dark side" Harry Reid publicly stating the fact that "this war is lost" is not a constitutional offense. It is simple recognition of reality. There is no way to win a war in the way that we are currently fighting this one. Cheney trying to start another one, or expanding the current one, is political posturing at the cost of thousands+ lives.
I work at a company that licenses an SAP front end to its benefits program.
not only does it require IE6 (not 7) but also winXP. I can't even access my health benefits from Vista. Fortunately my job requires me to have one of each, (mac with tiger and leopard, and windows xp and vista) but there's no way that I can access anything from home...
How else do you think Hayden got away with interpreting the controlling measure of the 4th amendment to be the word "unreasonable" ? According to them, wiretapping is not an "unreasonable" search, and therefore not prevented by the clause "...unreasonable search and seizure"
There's talk of hoping Cheney may be forced to resign due the Libby trial. let's get that done just before impeaching the chimp.
so you can dock it an play it through your apple tv into your big screen! think synergy!;)
also, since itunes sells, not rents, getting the higher res for later playback might not be a bad thing if you buy it when you need it, (on the road for instance,) and can keep it (at full res) when you get home.
btw, a point not directed at you but everyone else who is complaining about the service provider in question, did anyone else notice the network support that would be necessary for the voicemail feature? seems that would entail a certain amount of hand shaking (to put it politely) for it to work at all. this may actually turn out to be the biggest feature really. I hate voice mail. given that with this feature they were going to have to choose and work with a particular service provider, I think they just picked the one with the biggest customer base and widest coverage. good business move. I'm actually impressed that they managed to get any service provider to allow this many features on a phone.
I have an old nokia on t-mobile now, and I'm unhappy with them. I'll happily move over to cingular. I haven't tried them yet.
called 'dashcode'. given some of the features shown in the sneak peeks of leopard regarding the easy making of widgets out of web pages and the like, and the iphone's capability of showing widgets as what appear to be first class apps, javascript might be the language to go with.
from wikipedia: His first term of office was served from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. His second term of office began January 20, 2001 under President George W. Bush.
don't know if they still do, but they recognized early on that macs in sound studios could blow your ears or speakers if you got that tone on startup. At one point they had a utility somewhere that would allow you to turn that off without having to mute the whole system.
I can't seem to find it, but It may be part of the Protools package.
I think he did it, and for crying out loud, if you can't get laid there, where can you? But so what? Of all the things that you can tar a president for, that is the least of all worries I can think of. Several thousand people haven't died due to that presidents decision to get a little in the oval office. (Possibly for other reasons, I don't let Clinton off any hooks easily,) but the original point was about whether and how the press treats the two presidents differently, not what they really did.
My point in using the word accused is that given the niceties of the current press corp, you would have to stick to what is legal and non-libelous, while still pressing the point, hence using the word 'accused' to convict in the public forum. Clinton was acquitted, hence the qualifier.
(mostly off topic...) my last car was totalled by some jackass who went looking for his walkie talkie in the footwell... took his foot of the brake and his truck went over my bumper and through my trunk. you don't have to be moving fast to cause a problem like that. this happened at a stop light.
annoyingly, cars *are* supposed to be rubber padded for these sorts of things, but it doesn't work when to support a trucks "rugged look" the rubber padding, (the bumper) is a foot higher than it ought to be...
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that I happily did for less money. because I was really in to what the job was producing. pride can be worth a lot of money.
the thing about a job like that is that if you are reasonably sure that you can stay there if you want to, and you really enjoy the job, you don't have to spend all your time building up fuck-you money.
Hate to be pedantic, but I think the word you're looking for is "steganography"
stenography == the action of taking dictation
I don't think the problem was with $4 gas, it was the fact that he appeared to be unaware of it. or at least pretended to be.
no question, best console I ever owned...
train tracks have switches/points in order to take one route or another.
which is about the same as my 500cc kawasaki. or at least it was before I go knocked over by a unseeing driver.
or at least not light plastic. the one I got warps from the heat of the laptop. unvarnished wood would be the best surface. (varnish may melt in heat.)
just to continue your experiment...
you should not ban the use of the cigarette, but you might ban the misleading marketing that leads to using a cigarette.
in the one case you are attempting to ban something that one does to oneself, in the latter, you are attempting to ban something someone does to another.
this is generally where I find the useful cutoff when considering any legislation. legislation should never be about preventing someone from doing something to themselves, only preventing someone from doing something to someone else.
was Libraries of Congress per fortnight?
personally I bike everywhere now, but most people that I know who commute with a car fill the tank once or twice a week.
at current prices, even for a small car, that's $35-$40 a tank. generously, that's $140 a month for gas.
$100 monthly fee for a battery? sign me up! there's flexcar or rentals for long hauls.
twice in the last 6 years I've had commutes of between 40 and 60 miles, which was costing me upwards of $80 a week, and that was at lower prices. this is well within the range of one of these cars.
I once had the curious experience of sitting next to a failure analyst on a plane. he had some rather interesting animations on his laptop which were a curious thing to watch while flying.
on contract with the military, his company had run simulations of what happened to a cargo plane when it hit a wall. here is the basic set of steps of what happens when a plane hits something head on.
1. nose hits wall, rest of plane keeps moving. everything forward of the wings is immediately flattened.
2. wing hits wall, plane stops
3. tail of plane crumples and tears off.
structurally there is very little in an airplane fuselage that prevents if from collapsing on impact. only the sudden spreading of that impact across the forward edge of the wings is enough to stop or slow the plane. more so on military cargo planes, as their wings (at least the ones in the tests he showed me,) are not as swept back as the average passenger plane.
conclusions,
1. if you are in front of the wing, you are a pancake.
2. if you are in the middle of the plane, around the wings, you will be eating that pancake.
3. if you are in the back, there is a chance you might survive...
however that is only impact damage, the fireball from the wings tends to swallow the rear of the plane.
there was a story about this yesterday somewhere...s sword-is-dottie-and-alpine.html
ah,http://launchr.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphones-pa
usually in a government contract there is the cost price of an individual object in a project, and the cost of the fully completed project with overhead. government rules require a certain amount of itemization, and there are 2 ways to spread the overhead costs around. proportionally; so that each piece of the final product gets a percentage of the overhead cost, and flat rate; where a single percentage is applied to overhead costs, and spread equally across all pieces. the latter process is usually cheaper, but results in line items that at first glance look completely absurd.
(overhead generally means things like labor and assembly costs. so for a bomber, there are only so many separable components, like toilet seats, and a phenomenal amount of overhead. $40k overhead for a fuselage, not a big deal... $40k for a toilet seat and 'wtf?')
Harry Reid publicly stating the fact that "this war is lost" is not a constitutional offense. It is simple recognition of reality. There is no way to win a war in the way that we are currently fighting this one. Cheney trying to start another one, or expanding the current one, is political posturing at the cost of thousands+ lives.
I work at a company that licenses an SAP front end to its benefits program.
not only does it require IE6 (not 7) but also winXP. I can't even access my health benefits from Vista. Fortunately my job requires me to have one of each, (mac with tiger and leopard, and windows xp and vista) but there's no way that I can access anything from home...
perhaps my sarcasm was not clear, but thank you for the book recommendations.
cheers
They are...
How else do you think Hayden got away with interpreting the controlling measure of the 4th amendment to be the word "unreasonable" ? According to them, wiretapping is not an "unreasonable" search, and therefore not prevented by the clause "...unreasonable search and seizure"
There's talk of hoping Cheney may be forced to resign due the Libby trial. let's get that done just before impeaching the chimp.
so you can dock it an play it through your apple tv into your big screen! think synergy! ;)
also, since itunes sells, not rents, getting the higher res for later playback might not be a bad thing if you buy it when you need it, (on the road for instance,) and can keep it (at full res) when you get home.
btw, a point not directed at you but everyone else who is complaining about the service provider in question, did anyone else notice the network support that would be necessary for the voicemail feature? seems that would entail a certain amount of hand shaking (to put it politely) for it to work at all. this may actually turn out to be the biggest feature really. I hate voice mail. given that with this feature they were going to have to choose and work with a particular service provider, I think they just picked the one with the biggest customer base and widest coverage. good business move. I'm actually impressed that they managed to get any service provider to allow this many features on a phone.
I have an old nokia on t-mobile now, and I'm unhappy with them. I'll happily move over to cingular. I haven't tried them yet.
called 'dashcode'. given some of the features shown in the sneak peeks of leopard regarding the easy making of widgets out of web pages and the like, and the iphone's capability of showing widgets as what appear to be first class apps, javascript might be the language to go with.
hitting enter (or return)? easier key to hit than F2...
from wikipedia:
His first term of office was served from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. His second term of office began January 20, 2001 under President George W. Bush.
don't know if they still do, but they recognized early on that macs in sound studios could blow your ears or speakers if you got that tone on startup. At one point they had a utility somewhere that would allow you to turn that off without having to mute the whole system.
I can't seem to find it, but It may be part of the Protools package.
I think he did it, and for crying out loud, if you can't get laid there, where can you? But so what? Of all the things that you can tar a president for, that is the least of all worries I can think of. Several thousand people haven't died due to that presidents decision to get a little in the oval office. (Possibly for other reasons, I don't let Clinton off any hooks easily,) but the original point was about whether and how the press treats the two presidents differently, not what they really did.
My point in using the word accused is that given the niceties of the current press corp, you would have to stick to what is legal and non-libelous, while still pressing the point, hence using the word 'accused' to convict in the public forum. Clinton was acquitted, hence the qualifier.
It would have read:
"Clinton, who has been accused of fraternizing with an intern..."
(mostly off topic...)
my last car was totalled by some jackass who went looking for his walkie talkie in the footwell... took his foot of the brake and his truck went over my bumper and through my trunk. you don't have to be moving fast to cause a problem like that. this happened at a stop light.
annoyingly, cars *are* supposed to be rubber padded for these sorts of things, but it doesn't work when to support a trucks "rugged look" the rubber padding, (the bumper) is a foot higher than it ought to be...