The funny thing about fiat currencies is that the money is based upon pure faith of the religious kind. Indeed it seems funny that people have far more faith in the value of the U.S. Dollar and the Euro than they do even in Jesus of Nazareth, yet historically at least the objective validity of the existence of Jesus is on a much more firm ground philosophically than the value of the U.S. Dollar.
The current monetary policy of the Federal Reserve seems to suppose that this faith is going to be broken soon, which is the only thing that seems to explain what it is that they are doing.
Equivocate much? Having faith that Jesus of Nazareth existed and having a religious belief that he is the son of God are not the same thing.
I have to say that the bagless vacuum cleaner was the stupidest invention of all time. Instead of replacing bags,you have to replace filters. Big fucking whoop. And when you empty the vacuum, you get to breath a giant cloud dust - way to go. The guy is second in my mind to whoever invented those hard plastic cases you have to use a boxcutter to open. That guy deserves the chair for his crimes against humanity.
To do that they would have to either defeat a highly sophisticated military grade encryption system, or somehow be able to answer secret recovery questions that only the maker of the car would know.
"What year was this car's engine block assembled?"
Very likely to be the model year of the car
"What was the name of the first dealership that this car was sent to?"
90% of the time, this information is on the car's rear trim or license-plate frame.
"If I tell you the last four digits of the credit card number used to purchase this car, can you tell me the two that come before them in under 100 guesses?">
The keyboard was horrible, yes, but that was fixed within months (I think people could swap the keyboards for free?).
But for the money you got a lot more than the other home computers: a floppy drive, a computer that had a real
operating system, 128K of RAM!, compatibility with most PC applications, etc. Plus this was the computer that made
the Sierra Adventure games shine! (the enhanced graphics and sound made Leisure suit larry a lot better looking than its PC counterpart).
The BIOS interrupt changes may have caused some problems (the keyboard was mapped to the NMI, so you couldn't
touch it while transfering files f.i.) or compatibility issues, but that was only of minor concern at the time.
I still don't consider the PCjr a poorly engineered machine. There were better contenders in that category (some of the Franklin PCs, for instance)
Are you seriously saying that most home computers didn't have a floppy drive? Really? My Apple II+ came with one and it predated the PCjr by many years. Oh, and the IIe had 128K RAM (also predates PCjr).
Defanged? This was just the shot over the bow. If Issa wants him out Congress will investigate Clapper right through the 2016 elections, whether or not he resigns before then.
Issa has a very long history of investigating everything up to the direction Obama wipes his ass. He will continue this approach for as long as Obama is in office. Issa's work is nothing but pure partisan politics. He should be ignored in whole.
one of the two men known to have been targeted is presently serving an 8-month prison term.
I'm having some trouble ascertaining exactly what this guy went to prison for. Several news stories repeat the above while failing to specify that the charges were , as best as I can tell, "obstruction and wire fraud." Was the obstruction charge specifically to do with the polygraph training? Other news sites say things like "Lie Detector Fraud" which suggests it's the fraud that got him jailed, rather than the lie detector part.
So, was the obstruction charge actually because he obstructed justice by teaching others to beat the system (not that polygraphs are admissable in court) or was it something else entirely?
If polygraphs are bullshit, aren't all polygraphers committing wire fraud? After all, they involve wires.
Pretty much every "rule" of grammar that people get angry over has no factual basis. Starting a sentence with "and" or "but" dates back to the equivalent of a miss manners column, and the "split infinitive" is based on a combination of self-righteousness and total ignorance of the fact that infinitives were one word in latin but already split in english.
Anyone who objects to starting a sentence with and should be given this fine example of a sentence:
Nevermind the fact that 9/11 happened just in time to keep Bush from getting impeached (does anybody remember what his approval rating were looking like pre-9/11?
You may not be aware, but low approval ratings are not an impeachable offense.
In the Thomas Drake case, the administration retroactively marked documents as classified,...
Going back retroactively to MAKE someone a criminal is an act of corruption and injustice.
Son of bitch. I hated Bush and now Obama. Will there ever be a President that I can respect?
While retroactive marking sounds horrible, it may be far more rational than you think. I, like you, read no further than the summary. Perhaps Thomas Drake created some documents that included classified information and failed to mark them as classified.
As I recall, it's not food in the eyes of the FDA. It's a dietary supplement. Muchlike Slimfast shakes don't fall under the same privy of the FDA as, say, that box of Kraft Mac & Cheese. As such, there's different regulations.
Note, I'm not extremely knowledgeable about that topic, I merely am recollecting off of what I read in my research last time this topic came up on/.
Lucky Apple and schools, because it isn't moving to tablets but specifically iPads
Nice try TrollstonButterbeans, but there's been in excess of 300% year-on-year growth in the use of Android in education. Apple may have a first-to-market lead, but it won't last long.
Do you really think the telcos would be able to charge full monthly fees for each car despite it sending a few dozen kB a month? Most likely something like the kindle model - where I'm guessing Amazon pay the telcos 20c a month or something, because while the total data amount is huge, the amount of data per device is so small and only the aggregate so large. Same with FROD. 50M extra data streams, once a day spread country-wide? Noise to the telco's existing data streams. Frod and all the others will negotiate the rates down to SFA, they get the data, the telcos get more revenue/profit and the only loser is you, the consumer.
If you're going to assume that Frod [sic] is sticking a GPS+phone home on every car (regardless of whether I buy a nav system), you should buy a backyard bunker, huddle down in it, and just wait for the end.
And the really dumb thing about shutting down iGoogle is that threw away some of their search business as a result. Like many other former iGooglers, I switched to MyYahoo. So now, instead of generally always having a Google search page at the ready, I have a Yahoo search page at the ready.
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The funny thing about fiat currencies is that the money is based upon pure faith of the religious kind. Indeed it seems funny that people have far more faith in the value of the U.S. Dollar and the Euro than they do even in Jesus of Nazareth, yet historically at least the objective validity of the existence of Jesus is on a much more firm ground philosophically than the value of the U.S. Dollar.
The current monetary policy of the Federal Reserve seems to suppose that this faith is going to be broken soon, which is the only thing that seems to explain what it is that they are doing.
Equivocate much? Having faith that Jesus of Nazareth existed and having a religious belief that he is the son of God are not the same thing.
When I was there, I thought that a "No Parking" sign meant "within 3 inches."
The European design wastes a lot less petrol than the American design
Um, no. We waste absolutely no petrol; we waste gas here in America.
I have to say that the bagless vacuum cleaner was the stupidest invention of all time. Instead of replacing bags,you have to replace filters. Big fucking whoop. And when you empty the vacuum, you get to breath a giant cloud dust - way to go. The guy is second in my mind to whoever invented those hard plastic cases you have to use a boxcutter to open. That guy deserves the chair for his crimes against humanity.
To do that they would have to either defeat a highly sophisticated military grade encryption system, or somehow be able to answer secret recovery questions that only the maker of the car would know.
"What year was this car's engine block assembled?"
Very likely to be the model year of the car
"What was the name of the first dealership that this car was sent to?"
90% of the time, this information is on the car's rear trim or license-plate frame.
"If I tell you the last four digits of the credit card number used to purchase this car, can you tell me the two that come before them in under 100 guesses?">
I have a 99% chance of being successful at that.
The keyboard was horrible, yes, but that was fixed within months (I think people could swap the keyboards for free?). But for the money you got a lot more than the other home computers: a floppy drive, a computer that had a real operating system, 128K of RAM!, compatibility with most PC applications, etc. Plus this was the computer that made the Sierra Adventure games shine! (the enhanced graphics and sound made Leisure suit larry a lot better looking than its PC counterpart). The BIOS interrupt changes may have caused some problems (the keyboard was mapped to the NMI, so you couldn't touch it while transfering files f.i.) or compatibility issues, but that was only of minor concern at the time. I still don't consider the PCjr a poorly engineered machine. There were better contenders in that category (some of the Franklin PCs, for instance)
Are you seriously saying that most home computers didn't have a floppy drive? Really? My Apple II+ came with one and it predated the PCjr by many years. Oh, and the IIe had 128K RAM (also predates PCjr).
Actually, I prefer my Heckler & Koch Brothers MP7, which can penetrate the body armor of Big Oil enemies and also be used for fracking.
It was used by James Earl Ray Jones, who shot MLK and starred in "Conan, the Barbarian" with Lou Ferrigno.
Good lord, are you serious? You got it all wrong - I cannot believe what some people post here on Slashdot...
It was Lou FERRAGAMO, the guy who designs leather shoes. Sheesh, n00bs...
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I think you're confusing him with a former quarterback for the Rams.
So I guess you were promoting the impeachment of Bush II for lying about Saddam?
Defanged? This was just the shot over the bow. If Issa wants him out Congress will investigate Clapper right through the 2016 elections, whether or not he resigns before then.
Issa has a very long history of investigating everything up to the direction Obama wipes his ass. He will continue this approach for as long as Obama is in office. Issa's work is nothing but pure partisan politics. He should be ignored in whole.
one of the two men known to have been targeted is presently serving an 8-month prison term.
I'm having some trouble ascertaining exactly what this guy went to prison for. Several news stories repeat the above while failing to specify that the charges were , as best as I can tell, "obstruction and wire fraud." Was the obstruction charge specifically to do with the polygraph training? Other news sites say things like "Lie Detector Fraud" which suggests it's the fraud that got him jailed, rather than the lie detector part.
So, was the obstruction charge actually because he obstructed justice by teaching others to beat the system (not that polygraphs are admissable in court) or was it something else entirely?
If polygraphs are bullshit, aren't all polygraphers committing wire fraud? After all, they involve wires.
Pretty much every "rule" of grammar that people get angry over has no factual basis. Starting a sentence with "and" or "but" dates back to the equivalent of a miss manners column, and the "split infinitive" is based on a combination of self-righteousness and total ignorance of the fact that infinitives were one word in latin but already split in english.
Anyone who objects to starting a sentence with and should be given this fine example of a sentence:
And is a conjunction.
Do you know who financed the invasion of Iraq ?
The Saudis.
Really? So all that massive debt we built up during that war is being paid by them? Sweet. the GOP can quit their attempts to gut the social programs.
Nevermind the fact that 9/11 happened just in time to keep Bush from getting impeached (does anybody remember what his approval rating were looking like pre-9/11?
You may not be aware, but low approval ratings are not an impeachable offense.
In the Thomas Drake case, the administration retroactively marked documents as classified, ...
Going back retroactively to MAKE someone a criminal is an act of corruption and injustice.
Son of bitch. I hated Bush and now Obama. Will there ever be a President that I can respect?
While retroactive marking sounds horrible, it may be far more rational than you think. I, like you, read no further than the summary. Perhaps Thomas Drake created some documents that included classified information and failed to mark them as classified.
I look forward to a cure for sleep.
And miss out on my active dream life? Not me.
As I recall, it's not food in the eyes of the FDA. It's a dietary supplement. Muchlike Slimfast shakes don't fall under the same privy of the FDA as, say, that box of Kraft Mac & Cheese. As such, there's different regulations.
Note, I'm not extremely knowledgeable about that topic, I merely am recollecting off of what I read in my research last time this topic came up on /.
Are you calling Kraft Mac & Cheese food?
Lucky Apple and schools, because it isn't moving to tablets but specifically iPads
Nice try TrollstonButterbeans, but there's been in excess of 300% year-on-year growth in the use of Android in education. Apple may have a first-to-market lead, but it won't last long.
So three more teachers bought Android tablets?
Do you really think the telcos would be able to charge full monthly fees for each car despite it sending a few dozen kB a month? Most likely something like the kindle model - where I'm guessing Amazon pay the telcos 20c a month or something, because while the total data amount is huge, the amount of data per device is so small and only the aggregate so large. Same with FROD. 50M extra data streams, once a day spread country-wide? Noise to the telco's existing data streams. Frod and all the others will negotiate the rates down to SFA, they get the data, the telcos get more revenue/profit and the only loser is you, the consumer.
If you're going to assume that Frod [sic] is sticking a GPS+phone home on every car (regardless of whether I buy a nav system), you should buy a backyard bunker, huddle down in it, and just wait for the end.
You being a luddite is fine. Its your right. Just don't whine when your Landlord in 2025 does only take BTC.
LMFAO! What kind of crackhouse do you plan on living in that the landlord would only accept BTC??
He has a pretty big name here in Virginia. He could easily end up on the national stage, but the OP was stretching with his predictions.
11 years ago and apparently it did make the news, as shown in the link you provided.
Perhaps the increase in Mac sales is because the users are clueless idiot hipster fanboys with money? That's what I'd peg the answer as.
That's because in your blind rage against Apple, you can't possible accept a more logical answer.
I'm assuming you have some evidence that your car was towed, right? Like a receipt, or testimony from the driver of the tow truck?
Of course. I have this hand written receipt; oh, so sorry that the writing is illegible.
And the really dumb thing about shutting down iGoogle is that threw away some of their search business as a result. Like many other former iGooglers, I switched to MyYahoo. So now, instead of generally always having a Google search page at the ready, I have a Yahoo search page at the ready.
Not helping costs more than giving them money.
"Conservatives" don't care about saving money, especially if saving money accidentally helps the poor.
In fact, putting them in prison takes more tax money and gives it to owners of private prisons - even better in a "conservative" view.