Re:Does Vista have anything we need?
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Is Vista a Trap?
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The other one which user point to is Age of Conan a MMORPG. While they will have an DX9 version the graphics difference between the DX10 and DX9 is huge.
Radio shack use to have lots of them, also isn't there a store called Brainy Kids or something like that they would probably have a wide range of them.
Re:Just in time for us to migrate to Symantec
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A Bad Week for Symantec
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The corporate/enterprise versions of symantec and mcafee are great. They scan mail and scan the system and files so they do everything you want from a virus program.
In additon they take up alot less resources then the home versions, and are usally easy to uninstall. Even without the management software you can use them, and they will download info from the web sites of the appropriate company.
You need a search warrant when American citizens are involved.
This was not the state doing the searching it was private individual and in most states and under federal law I it perfectly legal to use information that they obtained. There have been a few cases where the private individual talked to the police and the police set up the equipment and trained the person, in thoses cases courts have ruled that the individual was acting for the police and a search warrant was needed.
If you break into someones house and see something illegal you can report it to the police and they will beable to use it, however in that case and with the cracker above you will still be guilty of another crime. In this case he is guilt of a crime but would not count on any district attorney bring the charges against him, based on what he did, that he is in a forgein country and who was caught it is probably an un winnable case.
Totally different.
Here the merchant made a mistake, I would only suspect Amazon of doing it on purpose if they had advertised that both were free and then changed you. Here they advertise advertise it at a higher price then what you were charged.
Your example is a known scam and the law in the US is that since you did not order it you get to keep it. This scam is more common with services, such as being included in a business phone books, since then they don't have to ship an actual product.
It would also accept that the mistake was done on purpose if they they had double shipped items and then required that you pay for it or pay for the shipping back to the company. Here they are shipping the products you ordered at the price displayed in the advertisements, when people clicked on the purchase they knew they what they would be paying.
So someone sets up a political site on second life, quotes himself and gets slashdot to advertise it for him.
It is not like this is the first time a political party or politician has setup a place on second life, and hey this is not even official.
Now it would be neat if he duplicated edwards new house
In the US libraries are funded at the local level by city or county taxes. You do have some colleges that allow public use and check out but they are a less common. Most libraries are members of the Interlibrary loan system, where you can request a book and they will get it from other library.
Not sure how the video system would work but I have access to two library that have audio book system similar to it. You can go to the library web site enter your library ID/passwprd and then download audio books with DRM which expire in 2-3 weeks. Both libraries use the same company(you get redirect to the main site after authentication) from there each library sets which kinds of books they allow to be checked out and how many copies of each audio book they have "purchased" for their patrons.
actually change the way your brain looks at the world.
I was sure I had heard something like this somewhere already, then it hit me like a baseball bat in the hands a schoolyard bully it was Jack Thompson. Who would of thought that he was actually ahead of the game.
And in the other cities they did not place them around support beams for bridges, and major infrastructure suppost location. They placed them around clubs and location where the small audience of that show would populate, and where that type of expected.
The city of Boston did the correct thing here, one of the few times, when they were alerted to boxes with wires and lights, no marking of contact point or owner and an image of something flipping them the bird and then found them in multiple locations.
This is not a national drivers license. It just tell the states what they need to collect and how it should be displayed. You would still have to get a new drivers license whenever you move to a new state.
As it is now whenever you move to a new state you are required to get a new drivers licenses, usally within 30 days of moving. The states handle who is authorized to have a drivers licenses(include at what age you are allowed to start driving), some allow anyone working in the state to get one (legal or illegally in the country) figuring it is better to have people who have gone through the training. There are a many items which are standard(picture,it contains your address,which type of vehicles you can drive,etc) but the location and format is not.
As for SSN legally places are forbidden to ask for it unless they have a financial need aka they report transactions to the federal or state tax services. The closest thing right now would be the passport however alot of places will not accept that as identification but the information is stored at the federal level.
Some of the biggest arguments against it is that it will cost the states alot of change all their systems and to re-issue all the licenses. Not to mention that there will be a single database containing all this information.
That whole apple is making money from selling the iPod not the music has been proven false by people who read the Apple stock report and did not number crunching.
Apple makes its money from iTune sales the iPod sales are nothing compared to the profit from iTunes.
Yea you would probably not get any money, but it would place it on record that they fired you and it would raise the rate that they pay to the state. Also if it was some stupid comment by the VP it would cause outside departments in the company, such as HR, to get officially involved.
They can fire you for any reason execpt race,relgion,etc. In other words you are out of luck, just take the week with a smile; or since they fired you go file for unemployment.
However you could possibly sue them if they broke the employee handbook, that is generally considered a contract and breaking that has lead to million dollar lawsuits. However most companies settle out of court because of the bad press relations with future employees; how would you feel if when researching a company you find a message about that company firing people when they have given thier leave notice? When companies don't want soon to be former employees hanging around they normally just pay them the money for the remaining weeks and escort them out the door.
As for the lawsuit, time to hire a lawyer. Unless you were some grand person in thier company they probably don't have much of a recourse. You should get a lawyer and see if in Texas you can sue the other company for preventing you from performing in another job and see if filing for unemployment will hurt your case(it may strengthen it since confirms with an outside source that they fired you).
But touch screen give one major advantage, you can change your mind or correct an answer.
With the bubbles or punch you run ballots that have bubbles not fully ereased or the infamous dimpled chads.
They knew what caused the problem. All he had to do was convince religious freaks that bacteria didn't spontaneously appear out of nowhere by an act of God.
Pasteur was a devote Christian and did his research into bacteria because of the Bible in that life was create by God and not from some spontaneous generation. Pasteurs biggest critics were some of the scientists following Darwin, who tried to get him fired for not embracing "modern scientific thinking".
Anytime you see America or Australia compared to fascism you should take the author as a joke.
Unfortunarly you have to pay income taxes in the US, we even have pay taxes if we earn the money in other countries.
You only need to look at all theses people to see that the US government will force you to pay taxes.
He and the pope where actually good friends. The thing that sealed Galileo's inprisonment was that we charged by the scientists of the time and then brought before the Pope and ordered to prove what he was saying was correct. When he could not the scientists won and off to inprisonment we went.
The last time I did an upgrade for Windows XP it just required that I insert the CD for the previous version when it asked for it. Did not have to have it installed.
Galileo was imprisoned by the scientist of the day because he could NOT prove what he was saying, it was not until Newton that it was proved that the Earth circled the Sun. If Galileo had worked with some other scientists of the day he could of proven what was saying but Galileo was noted for not listening to other scientists.
And it was not Plato it was Aristotle who held dominance with the scientists until the 1500s.
side note: Aristotle had people exiled(basically a death sentence) if they disagreed with him about the Sun circling the Earth.
Just went through something like this.
There is no law in all but a handfull of US state preventing them from firing you the moment you walk in the door or even right after you have signed the paper work to start working with them and just told your former employer you are leaving. Almost everyone works under "work at will" which means they can fire you at any time and you can leave at any time. Most employment contracts will mention that you are a work at will person.
Now you can usally get some money from the company if during the firing they broke the rules outlined in there employee handbook, most recent lawsuits in this area have awarded in the 1 million range for stuff.
Where you also see lawsuits is in the case when you moved for the job and then were fired, told you did not have the job once you showed up, or other situations where you payed money and had a hardship(moving) to get the job and had confirmation that you were starting the job. There are plenty cases of this(this is what happened to me) and courts have treated it like the work at will but have awarded money to cover costs like the move, but not lost salary. Pennselvania has a law which allows punnative damages; otherwise your only change of getting money above the move, some court costs,etc is if the employee handbook has been violated.
Watch out you may get it after all this is slashdot where people think they known where in the Constitution it grants the right of Habius Corpus instead of preventing Congress from removing it except in certain conditions.
The IDP is just a translation of your licenses into a common format and around 9 languages. There are a few countries that require that you carry one such as Austria, at least for US driver license holders.
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The other one which user point to is Age of Conan a MMORPG. While they will have an DX9 version the graphics difference between the DX10 and DX9 is huge.
Radio shack use to have lots of them, also isn't there a store called Brainy Kids or something like that they would probably have a wide range of them.
The corporate/enterprise versions of symantec and mcafee are great. They scan mail and scan the system and files so they do everything you want from a virus program.
In additon they take up alot less resources then the home versions, and are usally easy to uninstall. Even without the management software you can use them, and they will download info from the web sites of the appropriate company.
You need a search warrant when American citizens are involved.
This was not the state doing the searching it was private individual and in most states and under federal law I it perfectly legal to use information that they obtained. There have been a few cases where the private individual talked to the police and the police set up the equipment and trained the person, in thoses cases courts have ruled that the individual was acting for the police and a search warrant was needed.
If you break into someones house and see something illegal you can report it to the police and they will beable to use it, however in that case and with the cracker above you will still be guilty of another crime. In this case he is guilt of a crime but would not count on any district attorney bring the charges against him, based on what he did, that he is in a forgein country and who was caught it is probably an un winnable case.
Totally different.
Here the merchant made a mistake, I would only suspect Amazon of doing it on purpose if they had advertised that both were free and then changed you. Here they advertise advertise it at a higher price then what you were charged.
Your example is a known scam and the law in the US is that since you did not order it you get to keep it. This scam is more common with services, such as being included in a business phone books, since then they don't have to ship an actual product.
It would also accept that the mistake was done on purpose if they they had double shipped items and then required that you pay for it or pay for the shipping back to the company.
Here they are shipping the products you ordered at the price displayed in the advertisements, when people clicked on the purchase they knew they what they would be paying.
So someone sets up a political site on second life, quotes himself and gets slashdot to advertise it for him.
It is not like this is the first time a political party or politician has setup a place on second life, and hey this is not even official.
Now it would be neat if he duplicated edwards new house
In the US libraries are funded at the local level by city or county taxes. You do have some colleges that allow public use and check out but they are a less common. Most libraries are members of the Interlibrary loan system, where you can request a book and they will get it from other library.
Not sure how the video system would work but I have access to two library that have audio book system similar to it. You can go to the library web site enter your library ID/passwprd and then download audio books with DRM which expire in 2-3 weeks. Both libraries use the same company(you get redirect to the main site after authentication) from there each library sets which kinds of books they allow to be checked out and how many copies of each audio book they have "purchased" for their patrons.
actually change the way your brain looks at the world.
I was sure I had heard something like this somewhere already, then it hit me like a baseball bat in the hands a schoolyard bully it was Jack Thompson. Who would of thought that he was actually ahead of the game.
And in the other cities they did not place them around support beams for bridges, and major infrastructure suppost location. They placed them around clubs and location where the small audience of that show would populate, and where that type of expected.
The city of Boston did the correct thing here, one of the few times, when they were alerted to boxes with wires and lights, no marking of contact point or owner and an image of something flipping them the bird and then found them in multiple locations.
For Canada, Mexico and maybe a few other places there is/will be a cheaper card which will cost $50 or less. It is all part of the US PASS.
This is not a national drivers license. It just tell the states what they need to collect and how it should be displayed. You would still have to get a new drivers license whenever you move to a new state.
As it is now whenever you move to a new state you are required to get a new drivers licenses, usally within 30 days of moving. The states handle who is authorized to have a drivers licenses(include at what age you are allowed to start driving), some allow anyone working in the state to get one (legal or illegally in the country) figuring it is better to have people who have gone through the training. There are a many items which are standard(picture,it contains your address,which type of vehicles you can drive,etc) but the location and format is not.
As for SSN legally places are forbidden to ask for it unless they have a financial need aka they report transactions to the federal or state tax services. The closest thing right now would be the passport however alot of places will not accept that as identification but the information is stored at the federal level.
Some of the biggest arguments against it is that it will cost the states alot of change all their systems and to re-issue all the licenses. Not to mention that there will be a single database containing all this information.
That whole apple is making money from selling the iPod not the music has been proven false by people who read the Apple stock report and did not number crunching.
Apple makes its money from iTune sales the iPod sales are nothing compared to the profit from iTunes.
Yea you would probably not get any money, but it would place it on record that they fired you and it would raise the rate that they pay to the state. Also if it was some stupid comment by the VP it would cause outside departments in the company, such as HR, to get officially involved.
In most cases yes unless they do something stupid like put in in writing, and there have been plenty of people who have done that.
They can fire you for any reason execpt race,relgion,etc. In other words you are out of luck, just take the week with a smile; or since they fired you go file for unemployment.
However you could possibly sue them if they broke the employee handbook, that is generally considered a contract and breaking that has lead to million dollar lawsuits. However most companies settle out of court because of the bad press relations with future employees; how would you feel if when researching a company you find a message about that company firing people when they have given thier leave notice? When companies don't want soon to be former employees hanging around they normally just pay them the money for the remaining weeks and escort them out the door.
As for the lawsuit, time to hire a lawyer. Unless you were some grand person in thier company they probably don't have much of a recourse. You should get a lawyer and see if in Texas you can sue the other company for preventing you from performing in another job and see if filing for unemployment will hurt your case(it may strengthen it since confirms with an outside source that they fired you).
But touch screen give one major advantage, you can change your mind or correct an answer.
With the bubbles or punch you run ballots that have bubbles not fully ereased or the infamous dimpled chads.
They knew what caused the problem. All he had to do was convince religious freaks that bacteria didn't spontaneously appear out of nowhere by an act of God.
Pasteur was a devote Christian and did his research into bacteria because of the Bible in that life was create by God and not from some spontaneous generation. Pasteurs biggest critics were some of the scientists following Darwin, who tried to get him fired for not embracing "modern scientific thinking".
Anytime you see America or Australia compared to fascism you should take the author as a joke.
Unfortunarly you have to pay income taxes in the US, we even have pay taxes if we earn the money in other countries.
You only need to look at all theses people to see that the US government will force you to pay taxes.
Yes, however if he spend 330 days out in space then he would get the expat tax break.
He and the pope where actually good friends. The thing that sealed Galileo's inprisonment was that we charged by the scientists of the time and then brought before the Pope and ordered to prove what he was saying was correct. When he could not the scientists won and off to inprisonment we went.
The last time I did an upgrade for Windows XP it just required that I insert the CD for the previous version when it asked for it. Did not have to have it installed.
Galileo was imprisoned by the scientist of the day because he could NOT prove what he was saying, it was not until Newton that it was proved that the Earth circled the Sun. If Galileo had worked with some other scientists of the day he could of proven what was saying but Galileo was noted for not listening to other scientists.
And it was not Plato it was Aristotle who held dominance with the scientists until the 1500s.
side note: Aristotle had people exiled(basically a death sentence) if they disagreed with him about the Sun circling the Earth.
Just went through something like this.
There is no law in all but a handfull of US state preventing them from firing you the moment you walk in the door or even right after you have signed the paper work to start working with them and just told your former employer you are leaving. Almost everyone works under "work at will" which means they can fire you at any time and you can leave at any time. Most employment contracts will mention that you are a work at will person.
Now you can usally get some money from the company if during the firing they broke the rules outlined in there employee handbook, most recent lawsuits in this area have awarded in the 1 million range for stuff.
Where you also see lawsuits is in the case when you moved for the job and then were fired, told you did not have the job once you showed up, or other situations where you payed money and had a hardship(moving) to get the job and had confirmation that you were starting the job. There are plenty cases of this(this is what happened to me) and courts have treated it like the work at will but have awarded money to cover costs like the move, but not lost salary. Pennselvania has a law which allows punnative damages; otherwise your only change of getting money above the move, some court costs,etc is if the employee handbook has been violated.
Watch out you may get it after all this is slashdot where people think they known where in the Constitution it grants the right of Habius Corpus instead of preventing Congress from removing it except in certain conditions.
The IDP is just a translation of your licenses into a common format and around 9 languages. There are a few countries that require that you carry one such as Austria, at least for US driver license holders.