They're still called "gender benders" AFAIK. We have dozens of serial cable gender benders at work, although I never heard the term until working here.
It depends on what you mean by 'talk'. If he simply claims to work for the mafia legally, they couldn't care less. For instance, my step-father worked as one of the IT department managers directly below an exec who was a member of a mafia family (over at Waste Management, a fortune 500 company). These people don't exactly hide the fact that they are in the mafia (that, by itself, isn't illegal)--the local police already know who's in the mafia as do the FBI, so it isn't like you're spilling the beans (unless you describe some illegal activities, which I would HIGHLY recommend not doing).
Well, as I said it went to court. If they hadn't been able to defend themselves, I'm sure the outcome would have been different. Probably the guy that owned the MacDonald's Cafe didn't have the resources for a possibly extended court battle.
There's really no problem here. If you can prove you were using the name before they received their trade mark, you're not in trouble (although, I believe, you can't force the trade mark owner to relinquish the trade mark, unless you have tons of bucks and can prove that it was a common word at the time of the trade mark application).
For instance, there was a restaurant in Colorado that had "Vail" as part of its name. A year or so ago, the company that owns the Vail ski resort tried to force the restaurant to change its name. However, since the restaurant had been in business for about 40 years (a couple of years longer than the resort itself), the name remained the same, although I think it went to court before it was all over.
Maybe your brother bought a bad batch of MiniDiscs. I've been reusing the same 10 MiniDiscs for the past couple of years without any troubles at all (made by Memorex and Sony).
I guess I poorly phrased the sentence. What I meant was that the article wasn't trying to find carbon copies of the iPod, but alternative products for specific areas where the iPod doesn't perform well. I agree, though, that the article seemed like an advertising blitz, one NOT sponsored by Sony apparently.
I agree with everything you said, but the point of the article wasn't to find substitutes for the iPod but pointing out its weaknesses. It seems that for the portable recording niche, it falls flat where the MiniDisc excels. Just seemed like a conspicuous absence to me. Also, if you care about cheap replaceable/rechargeable batteries and extra long play, it fills that niche rather nicely too (not to mention that you can pick one of these things up for $100 at Walmart nowadays + about $1 per disc).
Out of the possible solutions, he doesn't mention MiniDisc (which uses Sony's proprietary format). It's great for doing portable recordings (so long as you get a model with a mic jack) and has extroardinary battery life, with the extra bonus of only neading 1 cheap AA battery.
As for your implied suggestion that people who are on welfare really are prospering, I find this to be preposterous. Welfare, of the sort that you imagine, is nowhere near as wide spread as you suggest.
You certainly don't have to be prospering to reproduce. Just look at the Palestinians, who are reproducing at a phenomenal rate in one of the poorest, highest population density areas in the world.
I'm tired of people personifying the government. The government is not, and I repeat, is NOT a living thing! Most of the people with real power in the federal government move out every few years. The ones to stay are some senators, many lobbyists (who may as well be part of the government), and the appeal court justices (for the sake of brevity I'm stopping my list here). While I agree that agencies within the government tend not to dissapear (which implies that there's some sort of self preseveration instinct of the agency--another personification), it is only due to the fact that there are rigid protocals for firing people within the government, making it extremely difficult to axe entire departments.
The device should be able to detect other nasties designed to kill people as well, such as neurotoxins, etc. Perhaps if they can speed up the scanning process, they could be used to detect biological weapons travelling in the mail.
I have the very distinct impression that you are trolling based on your first sentence, "The government doesn't care about children, it (only) cares about power." PLEASE! Do you know any people in the federal or state government? The great majority of them are very lethargic and only care about the benefits they are and will continue receiving. A very few people at the top care about power, which is why they are there (just like any corporation or other large group of individuals). There are thousands of people in the various parts of the government focused solely on the wellfare of children, many of which honestly feel that the best way to keep children off of drugs is to keep it out of their hands through prohibition. Many have doubts about the efficacy of the current solution, but can't bring themselves to believe that there is a better solution. Rather than writing them off as a group of power-hungry, callous people, perhaps you should switch gears and actually try to convince them!
Rather than making an infinite number of questions, it would be trivial (though extremely tedious) to make a rather large number of questions, using a combination of several question databases. For example:
Is a [some noun] bigger than a [another noun]?, using some database for the nouns (such as 'cat' and 'house'). Simply ask enough questions (say 20 or so) and it should prevent spammers from harvesting e-mail addresses (or at least quickly, esp. if there is a 1-2 second delay before accepting another attempt from the same IP).
Having to pay a fee every month to the BBC would annoy me even more (much more). As it is, I watch broadcast TV from time to time and if I choose to, leave it off for weeks at a time. At least I don't have to pay for stuff I'm not even watching.
Login to heavens-above.com . After you're logged in, click on "Shenzhou 5". It will show you visibility times for your location and its current position (unfortunately for me, it won't be visible before it de-orbits).
The guy hasn't been convicted yet, much less sentenced!! This is only the maximum possible penalty that can be applied. This does not mean that it will be applied, and even if it were there is a very lengthy appeal process that would lower the penalty or be ruled invalid altogether. The only reason the potential penalty is so high is because they are essentially multiplying a relatively minor crime by a huge number of offenses. The judge will keep in mind that the spammer commited most of the infractions simultaneously, so won't be penalized over and over again for the same crime, presuming of course that he even gets convicted at all.
The same sort of potential penalties could be applied to fax broadcasters or even telemarketers if they were brazen enough to get the attention of the district attorneys. Usually the victim would settle with the broadcaster out of court for some lesser penalty or the DA and defense will negotiate a plea-bargain (the courts are very busy and trials are expensive, so the DA always has a good incentive to plea-bargain to prevent a case like this from going to court).
come to think of it, none of that happens in England, France, Germany, Iran, Saudi Ariabia, Japan......
You don't seem to get the news from those countries. For instance, in Germany on April 26, 2002 a student executed 13 teachers, the principal, a cop and 2 students! (see this for example). If I recal correctly, he used a legal gun.
In Saudi Arabia, 15 school girls were forced to burn to death at a school since they weren't 'decent' (they didn't have a head scarf on) to go outside!! (see this article for details) I could go on...
In America, it's more or less assumed that you save up at least two months worth of salary in case you get laid off (if you are fiscally responsible or older, up that to at least 1 year). Due to the high wages and low taxes (and generally low cost of living), this isn't hard to do. Unfortunately, most people here are quite irresponsible with their money and are pretty much screwed when they get laid off or fired (this past year had a record number of bankruptcies, at least for Colorado). At least there aren't deptors' prisons.
The passage came at about 2300 GMT, only 10 hours after a bright fireball streaked over the Orissa region of India. Indian villagers have found pieces of the meteorite, which reportedly cause two house fires.
However, this event was not connected to the fly past of 2003 SQ222, says Marsden.
I'm not sure if you're refering to this asteroid that went over India, but JIC.
construct a powered, heavier than air, flying machine, without knowing how to do so
You underestimate the Wright brothers. As a matter of fact, they were the first to use a wind tunnel to test various air foils, forming tables of lift vs. drag for each air foil. They were among the first to aproach flying as a scientific endevour rather than a hit-or-miss purely intuitive approach like nearly every other person at the time.
If they had a better power plant and adjusted the weight distribution of the plane (it was originally aft-heavy, causing it to be unstable), it really wasn't that bad of a flying machine.
Noise is only a factor for intra-national flights. The real problem is fuel economy. Supersonic flight causes much more drag than subsonic flight. So even with a very well designed aircraft like the Concord, the amount of fuel per passanger-mile is about 3-4 times as much as for a Boeing 747.
At best, this will allow corporate execs to travel in small jets supersonically as they'll be the only ones who can afford it.
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Does Texas count?
They're still called "gender benders" AFAIK. We have dozens of serial cable gender benders at work, although I never heard the term until working here.
It depends on what you mean by 'talk'. If he simply claims to work for the mafia legally, they couldn't care less. For instance, my step-father worked as one of the IT department managers directly below an exec who was a member of a mafia family (over at Waste Management, a fortune 500 company). These people don't exactly hide the fact that they are in the mafia (that, by itself, isn't illegal)--the local police already know who's in the mafia as do the FBI, so it isn't like you're spilling the beans (unless you describe some illegal activities, which I would HIGHLY recommend not doing).
Well, as I said it went to court. If they hadn't been able to defend themselves, I'm sure the outcome would have been different. Probably the guy that owned the MacDonald's Cafe didn't have the resources for a possibly extended court battle.
For instance, there was a restaurant in Colorado that had "Vail" as part of its name. A year or so ago, the company that owns the Vail ski resort tried to force the restaurant to change its name. However, since the restaurant had been in business for about 40 years (a couple of years longer than the resort itself), the name remained the same, although I think it went to court before it was all over.
Maybe your brother bought a bad batch of MiniDiscs. I've been reusing the same 10 MiniDiscs for the past couple of years without any troubles at all (made by Memorex and Sony).
I guess I poorly phrased the sentence. What I meant was that the article wasn't trying to find carbon copies of the iPod, but alternative products for specific areas where the iPod doesn't perform well. I agree, though, that the article seemed like an advertising blitz, one NOT sponsored by Sony apparently.
I agree with everything you said, but the point of the article wasn't to find substitutes for the iPod but pointing out its weaknesses. It seems that for the portable recording niche, it falls flat where the MiniDisc excels. Just seemed like a conspicuous absence to me. Also, if you care about cheap replaceable/rechargeable batteries and extra long play, it fills that niche rather nicely too (not to mention that you can pick one of these things up for $100 at Walmart nowadays + about $1 per disc).
Out of the possible solutions, he doesn't mention MiniDisc (which uses Sony's proprietary format). It's great for doing portable recordings (so long as you get a model with a mic jack) and has extroardinary battery life, with the extra bonus of only neading 1 cheap AA battery.
You certainly don't have to be prospering to reproduce. Just look at the Palestinians, who are reproducing at a phenomenal rate in one of the poorest, highest population density areas in the world.
I'm tired of people personifying the government. The government is not, and I repeat, is NOT a living thing! Most of the people with real power in the federal government move out every few years. The ones to stay are some senators, many lobbyists (who may as well be part of the government), and the appeal court justices (for the sake of brevity I'm stopping my list here). While I agree that agencies within the government tend not to dissapear (which implies that there's some sort of self preseveration instinct of the agency--another personification), it is only due to the fact that there are rigid protocals for firing people within the government, making it extremely difficult to axe entire departments.
I didn't claim it was a cure all. Just that it might help.
The device should be able to detect other nasties designed to kill people as well, such as neurotoxins, etc. Perhaps if they can speed up the scanning process, they could be used to detect biological weapons travelling in the mail.
I have the very distinct impression that you are trolling based on your first sentence, "The government doesn't care about children, it (only) cares about power." PLEASE! Do you know any people in the federal or state government? The great majority of them are very lethargic and only care about the benefits they are and will continue receiving. A very few people at the top care about power, which is why they are there (just like any corporation or other large group of individuals). There are thousands of people in the various parts of the government focused solely on the wellfare of children, many of which honestly feel that the best way to keep children off of drugs is to keep it out of their hands through prohibition. Many have doubts about the efficacy of the current solution, but can't bring themselves to believe that there is a better solution. Rather than writing them off as a group of power-hungry, callous people, perhaps you should switch gears and actually try to convince them!
I'm not to sure; Slashdot:
slashdot is run and populated by people who are smart
Rather than making an infinite number of questions, it would be trivial (though extremely tedious) to make a rather large number of questions, using a combination of several question databases. For example:
Is a [some noun] bigger than a [another noun]?, using some database for the nouns (such as 'cat' and 'house'). Simply ask enough questions (say 20 or so) and it should prevent spammers from harvesting e-mail addresses (or at least quickly, esp. if there is a 1-2 second delay before accepting another attempt from the same IP).
Having to pay a fee every month to the BBC would annoy me even more (much more). As it is, I watch broadcast TV from time to time and if I choose to, leave it off for weeks at a time. At least I don't have to pay for stuff I'm not even watching.
Login to heavens-above.com . After you're logged in, click on "Shenzhou 5". It will show you visibility times for your location and its current position (unfortunately for me, it won't be visible before it de-orbits).
But the big problem with laser power beaming is stuff like clouds, and fog...
, people...
The same sort of potential penalties could be applied to fax broadcasters or even telemarketers if they were brazen enough to get the attention of the district attorneys. Usually the victim would settle with the broadcaster out of court for some lesser penalty or the DA and defense will negotiate a plea-bargain (the courts are very busy and trials are expensive, so the DA always has a good incentive to plea-bargain to prevent a case like this from going to court).
You don't seem to get the news from those countries. For instance, in Germany on April 26, 2002 a student executed 13 teachers, the principal, a cop and 2 students! (see this for example). If I recal correctly, he used a legal gun.
In Saudi Arabia, 15 school girls were forced to burn to death at a school since they weren't 'decent' (they didn't have a head scarf on) to go outside!! (see this article for details) I could go on...
In America, it's more or less assumed that you save up at least two months worth of salary in case you get laid off (if you are fiscally responsible or older, up that to at least 1 year). Due to the high wages and low taxes (and generally low cost of living), this isn't hard to do. Unfortunately, most people here are quite irresponsible with their money and are pretty much screwed when they get laid off or fired (this past year had a record number of bankruptcies, at least for Colorado). At least there aren't deptors' prisons.
I'm not sure if you're refering to this asteroid that went over India, but JIC.
You underestimate the Wright brothers. As a matter of fact, they were the first to use a wind tunnel to test various air foils, forming tables of lift vs. drag for each air foil. They were among the first to aproach flying as a scientific endevour rather than a hit-or-miss purely intuitive approach like nearly every other person at the time.
If they had a better power plant and adjusted the weight distribution of the plane (it was originally aft-heavy, causing it to be unstable), it really wasn't that bad of a flying machine.
At best, this will allow corporate execs to travel in small jets supersonically as they'll be the only ones who can afford it.