I would hold off on _Oryx and Crake_.
While it is an excellent!!!! story the ending is just bad. Until she comes out with the sequal, to answer a bunch of questions that Oryx and Crake asks, advoid it unless you like unfinsihed stories.
Was listining to a comparision of the BBC version and the NBC version on the radio, and it looks like for the 6 episodes currently ordered and filmed they just took the dialog and "americanized" it.
For instance instead of using "rublish" to complain about someone they used "sucked".
They had someone from the BBC commenting about why they thought the problems came about and they pointed to american comedies having a crew of writers while the BBC comedies will primarily be written by one person. However with a standard season in the US being 18-22 episodes that is kind of hard for a single person to write that many.
If anyone can stick to reading thoses books using that system more power to them.
Anyone else who wanted to advoid paying for a nicely printed copy would of already been using the Project Gutenberg version which have been out for a long time.
Except intellegence for all over the world said thier was and it looks like they were correct. Most of the stuff was removed days before and while multi-nationalal troops where attempting to secure them.
Also don't forget the removal of 1.8 tons of enriched uranium.
But is the movie going to be based on the comic or the TV show. I presume they are doing it more because superhero comic movies are selling great(dardevil, catwoman excluded).
Besides the current writers of Wonder woman have would gain no value in promoting the old version of the character, it would be like if when the first Batman movie was released it had been based on the 60s batman TV show.
Like that way, and will have to remember it.
Currently I have the webdeveloper firefox plug-in, and just turn off all javascript/dhtml and save as normal.
Jose Padilla aka Abdullah al-Muhajir is not being held by use of the US patriot act. The US Patriot act does allow a non-US citizen, Jose Padilla is a US citizen, to be held for 7 days before being charged or released (as opposed to 1-3 days for US citizen this was existing law before us patriot act). If wanted the attorny general can make a requests to hold the non-citizen for 6 months, jose padilla does not apply to this.
He is being held in mainland US.
No only embassies are considered the territory of the country, and are internationally goverened and have international acceptance.
Military bases are covered by a seperate set of laws signed with with the country where they are located. This is allow covered by a set of laws called a SOFA(Status of forces agreement) which indicates what is allowed in that country with respect to the base and personnel assigned to it. Countries and cities in the US tend to cede authority to the base commander for minor crimes done on the base; ie speed on a base and the base police have the authority to fine you.
Actually the US patriot act allows the US to hold a non-citizen for up to 7 days before charging them with a crime. Previous law which applies to citizen and non-citizens was 1-3 days depending on different factors.
After the 7 days have passed the attrony general can goto a judge and request additional time upto 6 months each request.
Your whole post has basis in the actual world.
The abaility to request info from librarians existed before the patriot act, that law just extended it to terrorist activities. Also as of last year all requests for library info had happened under other laws not the patriot act.
Actually the US patriot act allows the US to hold a non-citizen for up to 7 days before charging them with a crime. Previous law which applies to citizen and non-citizens was 1-3 days depending on different factors.
After the 7 days have passed the attrony general can goto a judge and request additional time upto 6 months each request.
"National Security Letters" came from before the patriot act, that law just extended them to terrorism and updated them to handle current technology. they have also been struck down by a judge.
A quick search points to various people and the procedures that are needed to remove yourself if for some reason you appear on the list. Also why would you make public the list of known terrorist and thier known aliases?
They were guilty of association in that they went to training, provided money, provided supplies, and were planning to implement attacks in the name of the organization. That is far from being a group of wannabees who took on a name and played paintball. Also they were sent to prison for gun violations, which have a extermly sick jail time; and that was not done under the patriot act.
Jose Padilla aka Abdullah al-Muhajir is not being held by use of the US patriot act. The US Patriot act does allow a non-US citizen, Jose Padilla is a US citizen, to be held for 7 days before being charged or released (as opposed to 1-3 days for US citizen this was existing law before us patriot act). If wanted the attorny general can make a requests to hold the non-citizen for 6 months, jose padilla does not apply to this.
Boy are you off, granted alot of sites are off and most of thoses links you get from google lead to patriot act II which thankfully was killed.
The right to play the gag rule was in effect before the US PATRIOT act, that law just extended it in the use of terrorism(there are some problems with the wording on what is terrorism).
A judge is required to ok the use of the gag rule and thier are a huge amounts of rules which determine if they will be allowed, rarly do the judges not sign because people just don't ask for this capability except in at rare time.
they have to in the middle of an investigation and have a reason.
They have to state a time period for the length for the gag, it is usally limited to less then 30 days some times extentions have been allowed.
Living in Germany so other countries may vary.
While cost is a definate reason people go with the handy, another major reason I have noticed is that housing just does not have all the phone jacks that are usally available in the US. In the US your average house will have phone jacks all over the place(kitchen, living rooms, seperate bedrooms,etc) and they are usally all wired so that they can have a seperate number. In the housing I have seen here you will probably have 1 phone jack in the house, and if its a relativly new multi story housing you might get a second jack on the floor with the bed rooms, but it will be out in the halls.
Some of this could of been because of the push to ISDN and having multiple phones through that. But even with that the location of the plugs are still bad.
Also construction wise houses are brick with plaster over that, so unless the house is initially wired, you are not going to be adding much.
So with the cell phone(handy) you can give a phone to your children and have a phone that is easily accessible to the bed or most places in the house.
On another note, this also effects home computer networks. When I was hooking up my ASDL connection I went to the local media store(something like best buy in the US for comparison) and they had a wide selection of wireless ASDEL modems/hubs while the options for running a cable between the wall to the modem to your computer was limited.
The idea is to put in a 8-10 lane expressway under the city of Boston. They have a site at www.bigdig.com.
It has taken close to 20 year to do and has been extermly over run with greed, mismanagement, poor construction, and cost overruns.
They have made a bunch of mistakes, and have baned a bunch of legitamate players.
From what is being understood what they did was look for charactes for huge amounts of gold that was given to them and bane them and the people.
Well that also includes all the guildes that pool money to purchase mounts.
Not sure what the status of all them is,but from what I have heard the offical forums were down a good portion of last week and over the weekend.
Would of agreed with this, but the Post was doing business in the area where sued(granted only 1 person). With them doing direct business in the area they should fall under the local laws, IANAL.
Other wise I would consider it the same as if an airplane passigenr purchase the post in DC and then flew to canada. The paper did not have direct business in canada.
Alot of wrong numbers.
Box wise the developing company is only going to get around $15 for your average $50 box(more for collectors box). The game cost close to $20 mil to develop, salaries are ok but add 40% for retiurement,medical,vacaton,etc; don't forget office space, also don't forget phone support staff(figure 4-5 people for each 24/7 slot), also the overhead of running a business (HR,etc). Your prices for hardware is cheap(probably closer to $10,000 each(and they have more physical servers then world servers(88+) also don't forget the SAN costs.
SOE kind of hinted at prices for EQ1 last year, and it came out that after all costs they had a profit of a little below 1/3 of the monthly fee, and thoses were costs directly related to the game.
A rather nice profit but about the same for a company releaseing around 4 good selling games during a year. It will still take close to 2 years for them to make the same profit that Warcraft III made in just its first 6 months of sales.
Yep, and the numbers are increasing.
I was one of thoses who initally got WoW, played it got bored, though the consistance instance gratification was nice.
Switched over to EQ2 and am having a ball, a little slower in leveling and some stuff you have to plan on what you are going to do, but over all a lot more fun experience.
Cute but a lie, I would of considered it a mistake but some of the link you posted corrently said that it was not Diebold machines, so you knew the truth and deliberatly wrote something else in order to mislead.
Franklin County uses Danaher.
BTW, not sure there were were voting problems with Diebold machines, all the voting errors in 2004 that I have heard about were other manufacturers.
That is not a problem.
You are thinking that it was thier actual mother instead of Leia being given off to some other people like Luke was.
This also explains how Leia is from Alderan instead of Naboo, and why she has the name Organa.
The plot holes could come in that Darth did not know he had children(RTJ). If he chokes her while giving birth that kind of destroies that.
Before I am marked too high a geek, the only reason I know that is because I walked the movies over the weekend.
Nothing about secuirty at all.
A server that was going down at the end of next month is crashing and they are not going to rebuilt it.
No loss of data, no loss of anything unless you were also going to loose it next month.
BTW satellite positions (past and present), along with military ships, and surfaced subs is all unclassified. Granted they would prefer it is not widely known, but if you broadcast it not much they can or will do about it.
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I would hold off on _Oryx and Crake_.
While it is an excellent!!!! story the ending is just bad. Until she comes out with the sequal, to answer a bunch of questions that Oryx and Crake asks, advoid it unless you like unfinsihed stories.
Was listining to a comparision of the BBC version and the NBC version on the radio, and it looks like for the 6 episodes currently ordered and filmed they just took the dialog and "americanized" it.
For instance instead of using "rublish" to complain about someone they used "sucked".
They had someone from the BBC commenting about why they thought the problems came about and they pointed to american comedies having a crew of writers while the BBC comedies will primarily be written by one person. However with a standard season in the US being 18-22 episodes that is kind of hard for a single person to write that many.
If anyone can stick to reading thoses books using that system more power to them.
Anyone else who wanted to advoid paying for a nicely printed copy would of already been using the Project Gutenberg version which have been out for a long time.
Except intellegence for all over the world said thier was and it looks like they were correct. Most of the stuff was removed days before and while multi-nationalal troops where attempting to secure them.
Also don't forget the removal of 1.8 tons of enriched uranium.
But is the movie going to be based on the comic or the TV show. I presume they are doing it more because superhero comic movies are selling great(dardevil, catwoman excluded).
Besides the current writers of Wonder woman have would gain no value in promoting the old version of the character, it would be like if when the first Batman movie was released it had been based on the 60s batman TV show.
Like that way, and will have to remember it.
Currently I have the webdeveloper firefox plug-in, and just turn off all javascript/dhtml and save as normal.
Jose Padilla aka Abdullah al-Muhajir is not being held by use of the US patriot act. The US Patriot act does allow a non-US citizen, Jose Padilla is a US citizen, to be held for 7 days before being charged or released (as opposed to 1-3 days for US citizen this was existing law before us patriot act). If wanted the attorny general can make a requests to hold the non-citizen for 6 months, jose padilla does not apply to this.
He is being held in mainland US.
No only embassies are considered the territory of the country, and are internationally goverened and have international acceptance.
Military bases are covered by a seperate set of laws signed with with the country where they are located. This is allow covered by a set of laws called a SOFA(Status of forces agreement) which indicates what is allowed in that country with respect to the base and personnel assigned to it.
Countries and cities in the US tend to cede authority to the base commander for minor crimes done on the base; ie speed on a base and the base police have the authority to fine you.
Actually the US patriot act allows the US to hold a non-citizen for up to 7 days before charging them with a crime. Previous law which applies to citizen and non-citizens was 1-3 days depending on different factors.
After the 7 days have passed the attrony general can goto a judge and request additional time upto 6 months each request.
Your whole post has basis in the actual world.
The abaility to request info from librarians existed before the patriot act, that law just extended it to terrorist activities. Also as of last year all requests for library info had happened under other laws not the patriot act.
Actually the US patriot act allows the US to hold a non-citizen for up to 7 days before charging them with a crime. Previous law which applies to citizen and non-citizens was 1-3 days depending on different factors.
After the 7 days have passed the attrony general can goto a judge and request additional time upto 6 months each request.
"National Security Letters" came from before the patriot act, that law just extended them to terrorism and updated them to handle current technology. they have also been struck down by a judge.
A quick search points to various people and the procedures that are needed to remove yourself if for some reason you appear on the list. Also why would you make public the list of known terrorist and thier known aliases?
They were guilty of association in that they went to training, provided money, provided supplies, and were planning to implement attacks in the name of the organization. That is far from being a group of wannabees who took on a name and played paintball. Also they were sent to prison for gun violations, which have a extermly sick jail time; and that was not done under the patriot act.
Jose Padilla aka Abdullah al-Muhajir is not being held by use of the US patriot act. The US Patriot act does allow a non-US citizen, Jose Padilla is a US citizen, to be held for 7 days before being charged or released (as opposed to 1-3 days for US citizen this was existing law before us patriot act). If wanted the attorny general can make a requests to hold the non-citizen for 6 months, jose padilla does not apply to this.
Boy are you off, granted alot of sites are off and most of thoses links you get from google lead to patriot act II which thankfully was killed.
The right to play the gag rule was in effect before the US PATRIOT act, that law just extended it in the use of terrorism(there are some problems with the wording on what is terrorism).
A judge is required to ok the use of the gag rule and thier are a huge amounts of rules which determine if they will be allowed, rarly do the judges not sign because people just don't ask for this capability except in at rare time.
they have to in the middle of an investigation and have a reason.
They have to state a time period for the length for the gag, it is usally limited to less then 30 days some times extentions have been allowed.
None of that come from the US PATRIOT act, it is done under laws provided from the time of FDR.
Living in Germany so other countries may vary.
While cost is a definate reason people go with the handy, another major reason I have noticed is that housing just does not have all the phone jacks that are usally available in the US. In the US your average house will have phone jacks all over the place(kitchen, living rooms, seperate bedrooms,etc) and they are usally all wired so that they can have a seperate number. In the housing I have seen here you will probably have 1 phone jack in the house, and if its a relativly new multi story housing you might get a second jack on the floor with the bed rooms, but it will be out in the halls.
Some of this could of been because of the push to ISDN and having multiple phones through that. But even with that the location of the plugs are still bad.
Also construction wise houses are brick with plaster over that, so unless the house is initially wired, you are not going to be adding much.
So with the cell phone(handy) you can give a phone to your children and have a phone that is easily accessible to the bed or most places in the house.
On another note, this also effects home computer networks. When I was hooking up my ASDL connection I went to the local media store(something like best buy in the US for comparison) and they had a wide selection of wireless ASDEL modems/hubs while the options for running a cable between the wall to the modem to your computer was limited.
The idea is to put in a 8-10 lane expressway under the city of Boston. They have a site at www.bigdig.com.
It has taken close to 20 year to do and has been extermly over run with greed, mismanagement, poor construction, and cost overruns.
They have made a bunch of mistakes, and have baned a bunch of legitamate players.
From what is being understood what they did was look for charactes for huge amounts of gold that was given to them and bane them and the people. Well that also includes all the guildes that pool money to purchase mounts.
Not sure what the status of all them is,but from what I have heard the offical forums were down a good portion of last week and over the weekend.
Would of agreed with this, but the Post was doing business in the area where sued(granted only 1 person). With them doing direct business in the area they should fall under the local laws, IANAL.
Other wise I would consider it the same as if an airplane passigenr purchase the post in DC and then flew to canada. The paper did not have direct business in canada.
Freedom of Information Act is a request for information the US government and agencies has. It has no effect on non-government entities.
Alot of wrong numbers.
Box wise the developing company is only going to get around $15 for your average $50 box(more for collectors box). The game cost close to $20 mil to develop, salaries are ok but add 40% for retiurement,medical,vacaton,etc; don't forget office space, also don't forget phone support staff(figure 4-5 people for each 24/7 slot), also the overhead of running a business (HR,etc). Your prices for hardware is cheap(probably closer to $10,000 each(and they have more physical servers then world servers(88+) also don't forget the SAN costs.
SOE kind of hinted at prices for EQ1 last year, and it came out that after all costs they had a profit of a little below 1/3 of the monthly fee, and thoses were costs directly related to the game.
A rather nice profit but about the same for a company releaseing around 4 good selling games during a year. It will still take close to 2 years for them to make the same profit that Warcraft III made in just its first 6 months of sales.
Yep, and the numbers are increasing.
I was one of thoses who initally got WoW, played it got bored, though the consistance instance gratification was nice.
Switched over to EQ2 and am having a ball, a little slower in leveling and some stuff you have to plan on what you are going to do, but over all a lot more fun experience.
Cute but a lie, I would of considered it a mistake but some of the link you posted corrently said that it was not Diebold machines, so you knew the truth and deliberatly wrote something else in order to mislead.
Franklin County uses Danaher.
BTW, not sure there were were voting problems with Diebold machines, all the voting errors in 2004 that I have heard about were other manufacturers.
That is not a problem.
You are thinking that it was thier actual mother instead of Leia being given off to some other people like Luke was.
This also explains how Leia is from Alderan instead of Naboo, and why she has the name Organa.
The plot holes could come in that Darth did not know he had children(RTJ). If he chokes her while giving birth that kind of destroies that.
Before I am marked too high a geek, the only reason I know that is because I walked the movies over the weekend.
At a quick glance you are missing
Serbia 1999
China 1999
Nothing about secuirty at all.
A server that was going down at the end of next month is crashing and they are not going to rebuilt it.
No loss of data, no loss of anything unless you were also going to loose it next month.
BTW satellite positions (past and present), along with military ships, and surfaced subs is all unclassified. Granted they would prefer it is not widely known, but if you broadcast it not much they can or will do about it.