WWI wasn't really a "Good vs. Bad" war. Austrian Duke Ferdinand gets assassinated by the Black Hand, Austria waits a few months before retaliating, resulting in defensive 'hidden treaties' between nearly most of Europe. Prussia and the Austrian empire team up, the rest of Europe says "we pretty much have to protect the Balkans because the retaliation took too long (and now the lay people see it as aggression instead of justice.)" Somehow the Ottomans see it as an opportunity to get back what they lost before, the US supplies arms to all sides of the war until the Zimmerman Telegram. Austria & Prussia go "Oh shit, we don't have enough people," keep fighting until they run out of resources, then get screwed over during the final negotiations (which then leads to an atmosphere where an insane Jew declares a war on Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, Gays, and pretty much anyone else he doesn't like)
So unlike WWII, WWI wasn't really a "Good vs. Bad", unless you consider the Black Hand the bad guys. Of course, my experiences may be a little biased since my heritage consists of growing up in what was considered the Little Germany of the US (and where the local papers were printed in German until the US began fighting in the war.) Also, having songs about "going after those Huns" couldn't possibly have been a form of racist propaganda.
What is it that you do for a living where you're doing all of those things for 12 hours a day? Even before I finished school, I never averaged those hours of internet usage. After finishing school and working full-time, those numbers become even more impossible.
Or, tell Intuit to fix it, as that's who actually made it. I submitted a tax return form on Monday, only to have it rejected with Error Code 0010, saying to correct the Following Form:
The biggest pain was that there was nothing after "the Following Form:", so I had no clue where to look. Turns out that I had to fill every line that was N/A for me (which I left blank) with zeros.
In addition, when tabbing through from one entry field to the next, the order jumps all the hell around the 1040 form and more than half of the tabbed fields are used as spacing!
E.g:
34 Tuition and fees deduction. Attach Form 8917.........
where the [.........] is its own entry field, yet a place where one is clearly NOT to input anything.
And regarding someone else's comment about "Just use Quicken:" it's the government's responsibility to collect taxes in a cost-effective manner. Expecting that a measurable percent of its population to purchase tax software every year is not being cost-effective. The government should be able to provide its own software at a similar level of quality for a lower overall cost to the citizens. (think: bargaining power & efficiencies of scale)
Even on smart phones, Opera Mini is useful sometimes if you need low bandwidth usage. But it's never intended to be a replacement browser for phones that already have a better browser.
How does Opera Mini compare to Opera Mobile with settting Opera Turbo and Mobile View on? I have both browsers installed on my phone, but have only used Opera Mobile
We have a password expiration policy at my work. Every time I change my password I have to memorize a new one. So I pick a password that's easy to remember, as such it's also easy to guess. If I could just memorize a password once, and keep it forever I'd be using a password that's essentially random. This policy is nonsense.
Password rotation doesn't help with hackers, but it helps when a coworker learns what your password is.
You can also count the flashes- typically they flash for 10 seconds (longer for larger intersections), so if you know that you have 13 seconds between the beginning of the flashes and the red light.
There's BILLIONS of dollars in potential earnings from manned space flight in the private sector. First it will be ventures like Space Ship Two that send people up for a couple hundred grand a pop. In a few years there will be the first private orbital manned private spaceflight. There's ideas for hotels, private moon missions and much, much more.
Couldn't be that a company as large as IBM might have multiple departments/divisions that don't really know what the other is doing. Nope just an evil corporation being hypercritical.
It shouldn't matter at this point- the employees who posted the instructions are agents of IBM and should have cleared the recommendations with one of their legal departments.
... and hand over the entire management of the Android Market to carriers, OEMs and trusted publishers.
Wait, is this guy implying that carriers are to be trusted publisher? They have tighter sphinxes than Apple does - how would this help consumers reach applications when phones purchased via said carriers disable functions on the phones they resell, just to charge extra money to re-enable them? (e.g. charging extra monthly fees so that their consumers can use GPS on their phones- which does not require any interaction with the cell towers, let alone the phone company!)
Moreover, traveling from Washington, D.C. to Kansas City (just to provide a proxy for traveling half-way across the country) would take 6 hours if traveling at 180mi/hr. This would be for a direct run. Add in any transfers (likely route would be DC>Chicago>Kansas City) adds even more time. The cost per trip would have to be substantially less than flying. Even then, I would never tolerate sitting within 6 feet of a crying 3-year-old for half the day.
The problem the US has with high-speed rail is that it's too spread-out of a country. It's unrealistic for the country to build any high-speed rail network that resembles the interstate highway. Anything less would defeat the purpose because any transfers to slower networks would result in a significantly longer travel time(taking a current Amtrak route from Chicago to Kansas City takes 7 hours on its own....)
Easiest solution I can think of is use 2 GSM carriers and avoid the data plan. Want internet capabilities? Make sure the phone can use WLAN. Want to use things like GPS? Then don't get a Blackberry or iPhone (Nokia's smartphones store map data on the phones, so there's no need for constant data connections or even any connection other than sat. links)
In order to get the $15/mo plan, you need to have a non-prepaid plan. I don't want to say "Contract" because I joined their Nation 450 plan without a contract. However, if any are 65+, they can get the $15/mo data plan with the 200min/mo voice plan. The $15 data plan is under:
Web, Text & More > Mobile Web Packages > Web Users
I recommend contacting their Sales call center- they gave me much better service than when I called their physical stores. The call center was more than happy to provide services without a fixed contract- physical store was not.
...Or, you could buy a smartphone from the manufacturer (e.g. Nokia 5800) and subscribe to the "Unlimited Data (=3GB/mo)" plan and tether without any additional fees. Total monthly cost for data+tethering: $15 before my corporate discount. Yes- I know that this likely does not conform to AT&T's TOS, but I see nothing wrong with me doing this when I don't even use 20% of the minutes quota I'm paying for (which is their smallest monthly plan.) Perhaps I could go after AT&T for age descrimination- I would like their 200min plan, but I'm not 65 years old....
Typing? Why not use OCR? I was able to convert the PDF to text in less than a minute (losing formatting.) If I wanted to preserve formatting, it would take maybe 20 minutes.
1) Reduces prison population -> reduces Government budget/deficit 2) Introduces new tax revenue -> increases government revenues & reduces deficit 3) Reduces crime rate - small-time marijuana dealers no longer have any customers as it's more convenient for smokers to buy from regulated sources, so small-time marijuana dealers move onto other things (some will move to harder drugs, but many who would move are already dealing those) 4) Whoever moves to legalize it first gains many votes from the millions of adults who regularly smoke it
People have all sorts of different reasons for keeping legislation secret until it is proposed ranging from strategically hiding it from your opposition thereby reducing their reaction time to simply not having a solid foundation built yet. If you've got a shaky idea of what all the players want out of this deal, you shouldn't be publishing the initial draft of the documentation. This leads to confusion and gives opponents fodder. Let's say the countries that came to the table eventually reject the international three strikes rule but later have problems passing a better version of ACTA that actually tries to achieve a solution without invading privacy.
That's exacty what corrupts democracy from an open discussion of ideas towards a power game more akin to chess playing. Entertaining, but missing the point.
It's also exactly a precurse for how 13 former British colonies came to an agreement to form articles of confederation, resulting in 13 democratic Republics./Devil's Advocate/
Gee, if only there were a public collection of media (such as books, magazines, music, and videos) whereby people could take in media for a handful of days/weeks. Perhaps this word could be based off of the Latin word of "Liber", or "Community"
Meego's website lists netbooks, pocketables, in-vehicle, connected TV and Media Phone, so it looks like they're looking at a much broader population than Android is
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WWI wasn't really a "Good vs. Bad" war. Austrian Duke Ferdinand gets assassinated by the Black Hand, Austria waits a few months before retaliating, resulting in defensive 'hidden treaties' between nearly most of Europe. Prussia and the Austrian empire team up, the rest of Europe says "we pretty much have to protect the Balkans because the retaliation took too long (and now the lay people see it as aggression instead of justice.)" Somehow the Ottomans see it as an opportunity to get back what they lost before, the US supplies arms to all sides of the war until the Zimmerman Telegram. Austria & Prussia go "Oh shit, we don't have enough people," keep fighting until they run out of resources, then get screwed over during the final negotiations (which then leads to an atmosphere where an insane Jew declares a war on Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, Gays, and pretty much anyone else he doesn't like)
So unlike WWII, WWI wasn't really a "Good vs. Bad", unless you consider the Black Hand the bad guys. Of course, my experiences may be a little biased since my heritage consists of growing up in what was considered the Little Germany of the US (and where the local papers were printed in German until the US began fighting in the war.) Also, having songs about "going after those Huns" couldn't possibly have been a form of racist propaganda.
What is it that you do for a living where you're doing all of those things for 12 hours a day? Even before I finished school, I never averaged those hours of internet usage. After finishing school and working full-time, those numbers become even more impossible.
Or, tell Intuit to fix it, as that's who actually made it. I submitted a tax return form on Monday, only to have it rejected with Error Code 0010, saying to correct the Following Form:
The biggest pain was that there was nothing after "the Following Form:", so I had no clue where to look. Turns out that I had to fill every line that was N/A for me (which I left blank) with zeros.
In addition, when tabbing through from one entry field to the next, the order jumps all the hell around the 1040 form and more than half of the tabbed fields are used as spacing!
E.g:
34 Tuition and fees deduction. Attach Form 8917.........
where the [.........] is its own entry field, yet a place where one is clearly NOT to input anything.
And regarding someone else's comment about "Just use Quicken:" it's the government's responsibility to collect taxes in a cost-effective manner. Expecting that a measurable percent of its population to purchase tax software every year is not being cost-effective. The government should be able to provide its own software at a similar level of quality for a lower overall cost to the citizens. (think: bargaining power & efficiencies of scale)
Even on smart phones, Opera Mini is useful sometimes if you need low bandwidth usage. But it's never intended to be a replacement browser for phones that already have a better browser.
How does Opera Mini compare to Opera Mobile with settting Opera Turbo and Mobile View on? I have both browsers installed on my phone, but have only used Opera Mobile
We have a password expiration policy at my work. Every time I change my password I have to memorize a new one. So I pick a password that's easy to remember, as such it's also easy to guess. If I could just memorize a password once, and keep it forever I'd be using a password that's essentially random. This policy is nonsense.
Password rotation doesn't help with hackers, but it helps when a coworker learns what your password is.
You can also count the flashes- typically they flash for 10 seconds (longer for larger intersections), so if you know that you have 13 seconds between the beginning of the flashes and the red light.
There's BILLIONS of dollars in potential earnings from manned space flight in the private sector. First it will be ventures like Space Ship Two that send people up for a couple hundred grand a pop. In a few years there will be the first private orbital manned private spaceflight. There's ideas for hotels, private moon missions and much, much more.
We've been telling ourselves that since the 60's
Joikuspot, works for nearly any phone that users can install apps on.
Dogpile and Excite still exist?
Some leaks out, but a very large chunk of the $450MM the government spends per launch comes right back in the form of taxes.
It goes back to the Government, yes, but very little of that goes back to NASA
Couldn't be that a company as large as IBM might have multiple departments/divisions that don't really know what the other is doing. Nope just an evil corporation being hypercritical.
It shouldn't matter at this point- the employees who posted the instructions are agents of IBM and should have cleared the recommendations with one of their legal departments.
That being said, the key word is "should"
... and hand over the entire management of the Android Market to carriers, OEMs and trusted publishers.
Wait, is this guy implying that carriers are to be trusted publisher? They have tighter sphinxes than Apple does - how would this help consumers reach applications when phones purchased via said carriers disable functions on the phones they resell, just to charge extra money to re-enable them? (e.g. charging extra monthly fees so that their consumers can use GPS on their phones- which does not require any interaction with the cell towers, let alone the phone company!)
Who is this Blocked person, and why does he keep calling me?
Moreover, traveling from Washington, D.C. to Kansas City (just to provide a proxy for traveling half-way across the country) would take 6 hours if traveling at 180mi/hr. This would be for a direct run. Add in any transfers (likely route would be DC>Chicago>Kansas City) adds even more time. The cost per trip would have to be substantially less than flying. Even then, I would never tolerate sitting within 6 feet of a crying 3-year-old for half the day.
The problem the US has with high-speed rail is that it's too spread-out of a country. It's unrealistic for the country to build any high-speed rail network that resembles the interstate highway. Anything less would defeat the purpose because any transfers to slower networks would result in a significantly longer travel time(taking a current Amtrak route from Chicago to Kansas City takes 7 hours on its own....)
Easiest solution I can think of is use 2 GSM carriers and avoid the data plan. Want internet capabilities? Make sure the phone can use WLAN. Want to use things like GPS? Then don't get a Blackberry or iPhone (Nokia's smartphones store map data on the phones, so there's no need for constant data connections or even any connection other than sat. links)
In order to get the $15/mo plan, you need to have a non-prepaid plan. I don't want to say "Contract" because I joined their Nation 450 plan without a contract. However, if any are 65+, they can get the $15/mo data plan with the 200min/mo voice plan. The $15 data plan is under:
Web, Text & More > Mobile Web Packages > Web Users
I recommend contacting their Sales call center- they gave me much better service than when I called their physical stores. The call center was more than happy to provide services without a fixed contract- physical store was not.
I have yet to hear anything resembling integrity on the radio.
Fixed that for you
"..the only problem is, the civ4 stacks of doom arrive thousands of years before aircraft are invented."
This is what catapults are for, and they come long before aircraft, did you even play Civ? Seriously?
Maybe he's still playing Civ II
...Or, you could buy a smartphone from the manufacturer (e.g. Nokia 5800) and subscribe to the "Unlimited Data (=3GB/mo)" plan and tether without any additional fees. Total monthly cost for data+tethering: $15 before my corporate discount. Yes- I know that this likely does not conform to AT&T's TOS, but I see nothing wrong with me doing this when I don't even use 20% of the minutes quota I'm paying for (which is their smallest monthly plan.) Perhaps I could go after AT&T for age descrimination- I would like their 200min plan, but I'm not 65 years old....
Typing? Why not use OCR? I was able to convert the PDF to text in less than a minute (losing formatting.) If I wanted to preserve formatting, it would take maybe 20 minutes.
If Virginia's IT overhaul is any indication, this is going to be a slow-motion cluster of a mess for the next 10-20 years
1) Reduces prison population -> reduces Government budget/deficit
2) Introduces new tax revenue -> increases government revenues & reduces deficit
3) Reduces crime rate - small-time marijuana dealers no longer have any customers as it's more convenient for smokers to buy from regulated sources, so small-time marijuana dealers move onto other things (some will move to harder drugs, but many who would move are already dealing those)
4) Whoever moves to legalize it first gains many votes from the millions of adults who regularly smoke it
I have to disagree with you in this:
People have all sorts of different reasons for keeping legislation secret until it is proposed ranging from strategically hiding it from your opposition thereby reducing their reaction time to simply not having a solid foundation built yet. If you've got a shaky idea of what all the players want out of this deal, you shouldn't be publishing the initial draft of the documentation. This leads to confusion and gives opponents fodder. Let's say the countries that came to the table eventually reject the international three strikes rule but later have problems passing a better version of ACTA that actually tries to achieve a solution without invading privacy.
That's exacty what corrupts democracy from an open discussion of ideas towards a power game more akin to chess playing. Entertaining, but missing the point.
It's also exactly a precurse for how 13 former British colonies came to an agreement to form articles of confederation, resulting in 13 democratic Republics. /Devil's Advocate/
Should be more along the lines of:
Gee, if only there were a public collection of media (such as books, magazines, music, and videos) whereby people could take in media for a handful of days/weeks. Perhaps this word could be based off of the Latin word of "Liber", or "Community"
Meego's website lists netbooks, pocketables, in-vehicle, connected TV and Media Phone, so it looks like they're looking at a much broader population than Android is