The only exception that I know of are the food defamation laws that the agricultural industry has persuaded about a dozen states to pass. These which create civil liability for claiming that a perishable food product or commodity is unsafe for human consumption.
You mean, like if some group said that eating tomatoes would make you sick?
Holy cow. I can remember when my HARD DISK was 480Mb. And that was 10 times bigger than the first hard disk I bought. And even THAT was an upgrade that cost nearly 25% of the computer again. My first HD was a 20 MB Seagate (ST-225, I believe). I think I paid $500 for it in 1985, but that included the controller card. I did a quick search and you can still buy them for $125. One place lists it as 0.02 GB.
While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.
These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.
"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."
"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said coauthor Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar.
Pay me for on-call time. 1/4 time for merely being on call, 2x time if I get called in for off hours work.
If I'm on salary, don't require that I work 40 hours a week, as long as I'm getting my assignments done and being productive for the company (ie, returning more value than I cost the company).
What's the color of the sky on your planet?
I don't get paid for the first six hours of my constant overtime. If my base salary were about $8000/year more I wouldn't get paid for any of it. Modern management theory is that if you can get your work done in 30 hours then you obviously need 20 hours more work. Unless it can be shipped overseas, of course. Then you'll just get Globalized.
The OS is secondary to the goal of providing functionality to the user. It's dumb to break off the media player and the browser, because that's what they are trying to sell to the public, a solution and not an OS.
<irony> Long, long ago (mid 90's), on an investment BBS far, far away, a Sun rep was arguing that Microsoft's product (the OS) was a commodity and that they shouldn't be able to charge for it, while Solaris was part of a "solution" and therefore was worth buying. Now the Solaris OS is free and the Windows solution is still sold... </irony>
I'm currently running WinXP Pro. I've played with Red Hat and Mandrake in the past, but in order to move to Linux I need to be able to:
1) run Microsoft Money 2004
2) run Outlook 2002 or fully equivalent
3) sync the above (all of it: Notes, Tasks, Contacts, Calendar, and Inbox) with Axim Pocket PC running Pocket PC OS 4.20 (not interested in reflashing to Linux).
I already run Open Office 1.1 since I can save in Office-format and use the files on my Pocket PC. Aside from the above there's nothing that's really keeping me from running Linux. Until Doom 3 comes out.
I'm not telling it like it ought to be. I'm telling it like it is. I've dabbled in options with three different discount brokers: Olde (a long time ago), Schwab, and E*Trade. Read the "Characteristics" pamphlet or ask your broker about being approved to trade options if you wish.
Also, it is probably easier to get approval from a broker to trade puts. Shorting stock basically means him lending you stock. Buying puts avoids that aspect of it.
Actually, anyone with a margin account can short stock (if the broker can find it to loan to you). Being approved to trade options is a more difficult proposition.
Usually options approval is split into different levels:
1. Selling covered calls. 2. Buying puts and calls. 3. Selling naked puts and calls. 4. Spreads, straddles, and other more complex strategies.
One of the things that I've been waiting for is minature power cells, a la Star Trek. It was always really cool to me how equipment could be lugged around from here to there, apparently never needing recharged.
Didn't you know? They just save the fully-charged configuration of the battery during the teleportation process and replace the partially-drained battery with a full one when beaming.
I know you meant to be funny, but some of the same environmentalists who believe that any Fossil Fuel is Satan's own invention are screaming about an idea of placing these off the east coast because of so-called visual pollution. This proves that the only thing that will satisfy them is the Stone Age or Twelve Monkeys.
I bought two Maxtor 30 GB DiamondMax Plus 60 drives a little over a year ago. One failed within a couple of months. The other failed within six months. The first replacement failed last month. I'm nervously watching the second replacement and I'm only using the third replacement now as a backup disk to ghost a couple of partitions to.
The first failure was a hard failure. The second and third were S.M.A.R.T. warnings that the drive was ready to fail with Maxtor's diagnostic utilities confirming the condition.
I won't buy a Maxtor drive with only a one year warranty.
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We'll just store the waste in big dumps. If put Commander Koenig, Dr. Russell, and Professor Bergman in charge, what could possibly go wrong?
The only exception that I know of are the food defamation laws that the agricultural industry has persuaded about a dozen states to pass. These which create civil liability for claiming that a perishable food product or commodity is unsafe for human consumption.
You mean, like if some group said that eating tomatoes would make you sick?
They're making it difficult for mediocre companies to compete, damn it!
Here, that's a joke. In the EU, that's the law.
When do we get the Equalization of Opportunity Bill?
What do you think Anti-Trust is?
Darn. I wanted to see if there would be a port to the Android phone.
Most Chinese dictionaries actually sort characters first by the radical and then by stoke count within each group of radicals.
Fool! Look at the government sanctioned sites! There are NO radicals in China!
Haven't you heard? Astronomers got so tired of that joke that they renamed the planet. It's call "Urectum" now.
The Immortal
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064475/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065303/
This book? http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.seymour1/ukbookg Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater
Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664
While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.
These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.
"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."
"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said coauthor Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar.
-- more at the link --
What's the color of the sky on your planet?
I don't get paid for the first six hours of my constant overtime. If my base salary were about $8000/year more I wouldn't get paid for any of it. Modern management theory is that if you can get your work done in 30 hours then you obviously need 20 hours more work. Unless it can be shipped overseas, of course. Then you'll just get Globalized.
As for actual laws being repealed...about the only one I can think of in the US is the amendments for prohibition. Anything else repealed since then?
The so-called Assault Rifle ban.
The OS is secondary to the goal of providing functionality to the user. It's dumb to break off the media player and the browser, because that's what they are trying to sell to the public, a solution and not an OS.
<irony>
Long, long ago (mid 90's), on an investment BBS far, far away, a Sun rep was arguing that Microsoft's product (the OS) was a commodity and that they shouldn't be able to charge for it, while Solaris was part of a "solution" and therefore was worth buying. Now the Solaris OS is free and the Windows solution is still sold...
</irony>
What's Netscape ?
Netscape is this neat OS-independent platform that's going to replace Microsoft Windows on the desktop for launching programs. Or so I was told once.
I'm currently running WinXP Pro. I've played with Red Hat and Mandrake in the past, but in order to move to Linux I need to be able to:
1) run Microsoft Money 2004
2) run Outlook 2002 or fully equivalent
3) sync the above (all of it: Notes, Tasks, Contacts, Calendar, and Inbox) with Axim Pocket PC running Pocket PC OS 4.20 (not interested in reflashing to Linux).
I already run Open Office 1.1 since I can save in Office-format and use the files on my Pocket PC. Aside from the above there's nothing that's really keeping me from running Linux. Until Doom 3 comes out.
Any luck?
Do you have to think in Russian and fit the suit?
A bad early-80's disaster flick's already been done about this: Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
I'm not telling it like it ought to be. I'm telling it like it is. I've dabbled in options with three different discount brokers: Olde (a long time ago), Schwab, and E*Trade. Read the "Characteristics" pamphlet or ask your broker about being approved to trade options if you wish.
Here's E*Trade's Margin/Option Account Upgrade form. You will note in the margin section that it specifies three levels of options activity.
On page 2 of Schwab's 12-page form you will see four levels of options activity.
Ameritrade/Datek has the following (can't link to it):
"Currently, we offer the purchase and sale of long calls and puts, put writing, spreads and covered and uncovered call writing.*
Level I: Covered call writing.
Level II: Covered call writing and purchasing calls and puts.
Level III: Covered call writing, purchasing calls and puts, trading qualified spreads.
Level IV: Covered call writing, purchasing calls and puts, trading qualified spreads, uncovered call and put writing.**"
Also, it is probably easier to get approval from a broker to trade puts. Shorting stock basically means him lending you stock. Buying puts avoids that aspect of it.
Actually, anyone with a margin account can short stock (if the broker can find it to loan to you). Being approved to trade options is a more difficult proposition.
Usually options approval is split into different levels:
1. Selling covered calls.
2. Buying puts and calls.
3. Selling naked puts and calls.
4. Spreads, straddles, and other more complex strategies.
Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options
is this the 3rd, or 4th 'security' initiative?
Since versions 1 and 2 of all Microsoft products are crap and version 3 is the one that takes over, maybe it'll really happen this time...
Funny that no one complains when Microsoft asks for a delay and doesn't get it.
One of the things that I've been waiting for is minature power cells, a la Star Trek. It was always really cool to me how equipment could be lugged around from here to there, apparently never needing recharged.
Didn't you know? They just save the fully-charged configuration of the battery during the teleportation process and replace the partially-drained battery with a full one when beaming.
I haven't tried it but I think it would work...
I know you meant to be funny, but some of the same environmentalists who believe that any Fossil Fuel is Satan's own invention are screaming about an idea of placing these off the east coast because of so-called visual pollution. This proves that the only thing that will satisfy them is the Stone Age or Twelve Monkeys.
I no longer trust Maxtor.
I bought two Maxtor 30 GB DiamondMax Plus 60 drives a little over a year ago. One failed within a couple of months. The other failed within six months. The first replacement failed last month. I'm nervously watching the second replacement and I'm only using the third replacement now as a backup disk to ghost a couple of partitions to.
The first failure was a hard failure. The second and third were S.M.A.R.T. warnings that the drive was ready to fail with Maxtor's diagnostic utilities confirming the condition.
I won't buy a Maxtor drive with only a one year warranty.