Agreed. For instance, the Californian DMV seem unable to process a driver's licence (or renewal of such) without one. The claimed they needed it and, when speaking with Social Security about getting the number to comply with the DMV demand, DSS pretty much said, "No they don't. Good bye"
As an identifier for Social Security it's fine. As a unique public ID that is corralled into systems it was never designed to be in, that's a dumb idea and one does not find it surprising that identify theft is so high in the US.
Always Innovating has something very similar shipping already. ARM-based with 10 hours of battery life when you include the keyboard section -- plus it's open source.
Perhaps the Always Innovating Touch Book fits your bill of requirements the best? http://alwaysinnovating.com/ It's founded on open source, uses an ARM processor for very long battery life and there are a few demo videos showing it doing some cool stuff.
While watching the latest Batman movie the screen went dark and stayed that way for about 20 minutes. Speaking to the attendants afterward, they said their projectors had lost the internet link which authorized the movies to be shown. All projectors in the cineplex went down since all were digital (theatre was in Riverside, CA).
Oh I wish I had some mod points because that post needs to go up. The parent cited the performance of other countries with similar or heavier restrictions and then blamed the US's problem on teacher unions as if those other countries also do not have teacher unions imposing similar restrictions.
The attitude towards education -- from parents, children and teachers -- needs an overhaul in the US if it hopes to match the academic performance of other countries.
I've been thinking almost the same thing for a little while now. One of the solutions I think might work is an IronKey. While remembering passwords isn't so much of an issue for me it will be for my wife if, heaven forbid, something should happen to me.I'd very much like her to have easy access to important information -- things like banking passwords, insurance and retirement accounts come to mind. I'd also probably put scans of important documents on there -- not that you could use a printed copy -- but more of a database to make ordering new documents easier if there was an emergency and those documents were lost.
It is also important that it be as cross-platform as possible, since I may not be around to get it to work.:\ I haven't really come across a software-only solution that fulfills most of these criteria.
The overuse of stop signs in southern California is unbelievable. Even on streets that one would naturally expect to flow through there are many 3- and 4-way stops. Having grown up with Australian traffic infrastructure and driven extensively in Europe the multitude of unnecessary stops in California is maddening -- not to mention environmentally unfriendly and inefficient. It may be ego but by sheer numbers of rolling stops being done here the title is not undeserved.
As an aside, is anyone else thinking that 78MPG is just terrible for a diesel hybrid? The British Top Gear show tested three diesels, driving about 700-800 miles. The largest diesel car, a Jaguar, averaged about 65MPG with the A/C blasting and all the comfort of a Jaguar. A small car like the Insight should be on the high side of 90MPG surely?
British or US miles per gallon? More correctly, miles per British gallon or US gallon? 1 US gallon = 0.83267384 Imperial gallons so miles per British gallon are 1.2 times higher than miles per US gallon. Thus the Jag at 65mpg(Imp) is equivalent to approximately 54mpg(US).
Gotta love the non-metric stuff. How quaint.
You don't have to die waiting for surgery in countries with socialised health care.
Nevertheless, THOUSANDS do, each and every year. Far more than die under the US semi-free market system.
Mostly because the onerous taxes, regulations and laws required to support such a "great" system leave the bulk of the population so impoverished that they can't AFFORD to seek medical care outside the government system.
I won't ask for citations on those statements but will restate my opinion that most people, "impoverished" or not, could accumulate large debts paying for it privately -- just as the original poster stated he did under the US system.
You don't have to die waiting for surgery in countries with socialised health care. In fact, there is no difference between a nationalised health care system and what-ever-it-that-the-US-has in the situation described. The option to pay outright for the medical procedure is, I believe, always available. At least it has been in the three countries I've lived significant lengths of time in (Australia, Germany and the US). You can always rack up a large debt and file for bankruptcy in nationalised systems too. It's just not the number one reason for personal bankruptcies in those countries.
For sports car enthusiasts, its not that great. For people with average sized genitalia, it's more than sufficient.
I agree completely both with the opinion that that time is not so great and that I've always felt sports car enthusiasts were compensating for something.
Market-based solutions like cap and trade have been effective in other areas, and are probably the most reasonable precautionary measure with regard to CO2.
I wish I could mod them up as well. And while the US isn't alone, I think they are well out in front. Of the four countries I've lived in, the US tax code is the most complicated by far. Admittedly I pay much less tax here but then it shows in the services received from government.
Mod parent up. No OS can protect you from deliberately installing malware. Getting your software from an untrusted source and then giving that software install and admin rights on your machine is not a sign of a defective OS. Just a defective user.
That's what I love about the Brits. Yes, we Yanks/Americans get all the crap for not speaking English properly. Yet somehow our Canadian friends to the north, who except for a few odd British spellings (colour) and a few strange words (ever sat on a Winchester? It's not a gun.) say almost the same thing as we do with an accent that's close to ours, yet they escape condemnation.
I believe there is less residual animosity since they didn't flip the bird to the Poms when they went (mostly) independent.
And don't get me started on the Aussies, who would probably say some crap like this:
Apfo pan
Yeah, us Aussies hate superfluous syllables.
April Fools' is tired (note the apostrophe because the day is April Fools' Day with an apostrophe)
After the 's'? If it meant the 'Day of the Fool in April' it would be April Fool's Day.
they have to tell us that "it's pants", which somehow we non-Brits will all magically know.
For shizzle my nizzle.
Obviously, it works both ways! Nizzle?! Gotta love that cross-culture clash.
Upon moving to the US from Europe and when filing my first tax return here I was explicitly told by the tax agent to not declare foreign income earnt in that financial year while still working in Europe. I said, "They have no claim on it". "Doesn't matter," he replied, "they'll tax you on it anyway."
Didn't have the same problem when shifting to Europe from Australia though. No problem honouring their tax treaties.
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No version for linux is a good thing.
Regarding the demise of light rail and government intervention: http://culturechange.org/issue10/taken-for-a-ride.htm
Agreed. For instance, the Californian DMV seem unable to process a driver's licence (or renewal of such) without one. The claimed they needed it and, when speaking with Social Security about getting the number to comply with the DMV demand, DSS pretty much said, "No they don't. Good bye" As an identifier for Social Security it's fine. As a unique public ID that is corralled into systems it was never designed to be in, that's a dumb idea and one does not find it surprising that identify theft is so high in the US.
Always Innovating has something very similar shipping already. ARM-based with 10 hours of battery life when you include the keyboard section -- plus it's open source.
Perhaps the Always Innovating Touch Book fits your bill of requirements the best? http://alwaysinnovating.com/ It's founded on open source, uses an ARM processor for very long battery life and there are a few demo videos showing it doing some cool stuff.
While watching the latest Batman movie the screen went dark and stayed that way for about 20 minutes. Speaking to the attendants afterward, they said their projectors had lost the internet link which authorized the movies to be shown. All projectors in the cineplex went down since all were digital (theatre was in Riverside, CA).
"Are 1 in 4 children really sexually abused by the Internet?" Err NO, exactly ZERO (0) children have ever been sexually abused by the internet.
The word "by" here could also be interpreted as "via", meaning that claim matches with your statement that the internet is a tool.
Oh I wish I had some mod points because that post needs to go up. The parent cited the performance of other countries with similar or heavier restrictions and then blamed the US's problem on teacher unions as if those other countries also do not have teacher unions imposing similar restrictions. The attitude towards education -- from parents, children and teachers -- needs an overhaul in the US if it hopes to match the academic performance of other countries.
I've been thinking almost the same thing for a little while now. One of the solutions I think might work is an IronKey. While remembering passwords isn't so much of an issue for me it will be for my wife if, heaven forbid, something should happen to me.I'd very much like her to have easy access to important information -- things like banking passwords, insurance and retirement accounts come to mind. I'd also probably put scans of important documents on there -- not that you could use a printed copy -- but more of a database to make ordering new documents easier if there was an emergency and those documents were lost. It is also important that it be as cross-platform as possible, since I may not be around to get it to work. :\ I haven't really come across a software-only solution that fulfills most of these criteria.
The overuse of stop signs in southern California is unbelievable. Even on streets that one would naturally expect to flow through there are many 3- and 4-way stops. Having grown up with Australian traffic infrastructure and driven extensively in Europe the multitude of unnecessary stops in California is maddening -- not to mention environmentally unfriendly and inefficient. It may be ego but by sheer numbers of rolling stops being done here the title is not undeserved.
3% == Americans who *want* health insurance but are not covered. 86% == Number happy with what they've got (TIME Aug 10)
Slightly off-topic: I couldn't find this information on the Time website. Do you have a link or more exact reference please?
As an aside, is anyone else thinking that 78MPG is just terrible for a diesel hybrid? The British Top Gear show tested three diesels, driving about 700-800 miles. The largest diesel car, a Jaguar, averaged about 65MPG with the A/C blasting and all the comfort of a Jaguar. A small car like the Insight should be on the high side of 90MPG surely?
British or US miles per gallon? More correctly, miles per British gallon or US gallon? 1 US gallon = 0.83267384 Imperial gallons so miles per British gallon are 1.2 times higher than miles per US gallon. Thus the Jag at 65mpg(Imp) is equivalent to approximately 54mpg(US). Gotta love the non-metric stuff. How quaint.
You don't have to die waiting for surgery in countries with socialised health care.
Nevertheless, THOUSANDS do, each and every year. Far more than die under the US semi-free market system.
Mostly because the onerous taxes, regulations and laws required to support such a "great" system leave the bulk of the population so impoverished that they can't AFFORD to seek medical care outside the government system.
I won't ask for citations on those statements but will restate my opinion that most people, "impoverished" or not, could accumulate large debts paying for it privately -- just as the original poster stated he did under the US system.
You don't have to die waiting for surgery in countries with socialised health care. In fact, there is no difference between a nationalised health care system and what-ever-it-that-the-US-has in the situation described. The option to pay outright for the medical procedure is, I believe, always available. At least it has been in the three countries I've lived significant lengths of time in (Australia, Germany and the US). You can always rack up a large debt and file for bankruptcy in nationalised systems too. It's just not the number one reason for personal bankruptcies in those countries.
I mean, 70% of the surface is trivially described as smooth and blue.
No, they actually mean as much as a Toyota Corporation. It's all in the sly marketing!
For sports car enthusiasts, its not that great. For people with average sized genitalia, it's more than sufficient.
I agree completely both with the opinion that that time is not so great and that I've always felt sports car enthusiasts were compensating for something.
Market-based solutions like cap and trade have been effective in other areas, and are probably the most reasonable precautionary measure with regard to CO2.
I'm not so sure about your first assertion. Wind Turbines in Europe Do Nothing for Emissions-Reduction Goals -- see about halfway through the article for the way 'cap and trade' has been working out.
Of course we are assuming here a wet gallon not a dry gallon. Yaaay four kinds of gallons!
I wish I could mod them up as well. And while the US isn't alone, I think they are well out in front. Of the four countries I've lived in, the US tax code is the most complicated by far. Admittedly I pay much less tax here but then it shows in the services received from government.
Mod parent up. No OS can protect you from deliberately installing malware. Getting your software from an untrusted source and then giving that software install and admin rights on your machine is not a sign of a defective OS. Just a defective user.
I say all that just to get to this: They still don't understand the Internet. They want to have their cake and eat it too*;
* Stupidest expression ever? I think so.
I always thought it made more sense to say it as "Eat your cake and have it too."
That's what I love about the Brits. Yes, we Yanks/Americans get all the crap for not speaking English properly. Yet somehow our Canadian friends to the north, who except for a few odd British spellings (colour) and a few strange words (ever sat on a Winchester? It's not a gun.) say almost the same thing as we do with an accent that's close to ours, yet they escape condemnation.
I believe there is less residual animosity since they didn't flip the bird to the Poms when they went (mostly) independent.
And don't get me started on the Aussies, who would probably say some crap like this: Apfo pan
Yeah, us Aussies hate superfluous syllables.
April Fools' is tired (note the apostrophe because the day is April Fools' Day with an apostrophe)
After the 's'? If it meant the 'Day of the Fool in April' it would be April Fool's Day.
they have to tell us that "it's pants", which somehow we non-Brits will all magically know. For shizzle my nizzle.
Obviously, it works both ways! Nizzle?! Gotta love that cross-culture clash.
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Upon moving to the US from Europe and when filing my first tax return here I was explicitly told by the tax agent to not declare foreign income earnt in that financial year while still working in Europe. I said, "They have no claim on it". "Doesn't matter," he replied, "they'll tax you on it anyway." Didn't have the same problem when shifting to Europe from Australia though. No problem honouring their tax treaties.