well, my suspicion at first was the photog kid, cuz we ate up all his ink, but realized that since he was in on it, it would be kinda stupid. He was there with us when the feds were there. and it wasn't a continuous basis, it was maybe 5 or 10 among the 3 of us over 5 days or so.
And to the idiot who said you're a moron if you think they can get fingerprints from paper - you're the moron. You can't get it with the aluminium powder one uses for other surfaces, but with chemical treatments, it can be found. Hell, you can even do it yourself.
Oh, trust me, we did get found out, and the SS did come "pay us a visit". They laid out what the consequences were, which i'm not afraid to admit scared the shit out of me, and we assured them it was just a one-time prank. They decided not to press charges since it was a small-time deal and we didn't seem to be serious about it. I never found out who squealed, though the little "talk" did discourage me from trying it again.
When I was a much younger person (about 5 years ago, heh) and i was in college, one of the guys on my same floor got a new, high-end printer. If i remember correctly, it was an HP. He was a photography major, so it made sense for him to have it. Well, my roomate and I, being the geeks that we were (and still are) were so impressed with it that we brought a bunch of paper over and were printing everything in sight. We got around to scanning money (we were college students, so it was $1s and $5s) and were so impressed on how accurately it lined up the two sides (it was a double-sided printer) that we decided to see if the coke machine down the hall accepted them. It did, and we got free coke (well, like 3 cents per page) for the next week, until for some reason the coke machine was removed and the rumor was that it was because someone had been giving it fake money. We really did it more for the fun and the satisfaction of knowing it could be done than the coke, however.
Now, those scenarios, I can see. BTW, the rule is 75% of the original size or smaller or 150% or larger (at least that's what it was 7 yrs ago). I only know this because I did a report on that subject for a civics class in high school.
or even (gasp!) make novelty bills with my picture in the center. All of these are completely legit uses for scanning and manipulating currency...
Actually, if you knew the law, you would know that just taking a bill "as is", putting your own photo in the middle and reprinting it is only legal when following certain guidelines.
You can't make true novelty money that's similar except for your photo, if you really wanted to, you would most likely want it double-sided. That's illegal in the US. Also, you'd have to make it a a certain degree larger or smaller than legal tender, so as it's not easily passable.
The problem is that it is hard for them to justify buying something when it is freely available.
I don't think that's necessarily true. I'm not saying it isn't true for most companies, I just think it's not true for all. Redhat has made a good run at it. The thing a purchaser has to look at is not the OS by itself, which one can get for free, but the features that the company adds on to it, such as Redhat's RPM service and the user-friendly Anaconda installation system, both of which are open, but are in limited use by other distros. (I believe Yellowdog, or whatever it's called, the Linux for Mac processors, is the only other distro to use Anaconda). That ease of installation alone made me pop out the $30 for the boxed version of RH 8.0 when I went hunting for my first Linux installation.
Other companies that incorporate Linux into their service offerings, such as IBM, use Linux as a baseline for their services, so that you're not paying for Linux, you're paying for IBM's services.
I would be led to think that Novell's main channel of pushing the SuSe product would be through Novell's own consulting business, where SuSe Linux would be a value-added service, not the main dish. So, in other words, you wouldn't be ordering Linux with a side of Novell, you'd be ordering Novell with a side of Linux.
Fidel Castro is quality rule? Oh yeah, that's why so many Cubans would rather sail across 90 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the shores of Florida in barely floating "boats" while being shot at by the Cuban coast guard than spend another day under his rule. That's why the number of people fleeing Cuba to the US is so great that we've had to basically give up on our immigration laws and say, "If you make it here, you can stay". That's why Cubans get locked up in a "hospital" (more like a prison) when it's found they have AIDS.
You can't compare a hideous monster that is even worse than Saddam Hussein to a small nation of peaceful rule.
Besides, the US will never invade Cuba under the current administration because there's nothing there worth Dubya's efforts. What do they have? Sugar? Well, as they say, "First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women."
You've been marked as my foe for a while now. Your blanket "all liberals suck" attitude doesn't get anyone anywhere. The problem is people take disagreements as personal attacks.
When was the last time you saw a crackwhore vote? By the way, as you can see here, your worn-out stereotypes ("welfare slag?" never heard slag used in that context before.) no longer apply.
According to your logic, you wouldn't need an amendment. If the person is that dumb, then they are UNABLE to cast a vote in the first place.
Also, who determines the definition of "basic intelligence"? It sounds to me like you want to go back to the days where people had to take a test in order to be able to vote.
I have a pol. sci. professor who's smart, and sat on some committees to decide voting machine laws here in Indiana. She admitted that she didn't understand some of the machines that were put before her - not because of her lack of intelligence - but instead because of poor UI design.
How does a voting machine proceed to the next voter if the previous one didn't push the "vote" button? That's what I don't understand. The company that made the machines in the Broward County case - I don't remember the name right now - said that a possibility is that the voters didn't push "vote" on the review screen. I did this recently, too, when I registered for my spring classes. I didn't confirm becasue I thought the review page was a confirmation page, so the classes didn't get recorded. It's a good thing I could go back and change it because I had a paper printout. I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I'm not a moron as your theory would suggest.
Usually something as simple as moving the case can make a significant difference.
It can make a difference in cooling as well.
Last month, while I was visiting a cousin upstate for the holidays, I asked if I could use his computer to check work email. While I was using it, he told me that he had to send it back to Dell twice in 3 months (he had only had it since July) due to a total failure to do anything upon powerup. He then started to go into a rant about how Dell sucks (he does that about every company that fails to meet his ridiculous level of expectations - while I was there, he refused the five large pizzas we ordered one night because the driver forgot the pizza sauce for the breadsticks.)
Anyway, I replied that I had no clue what he was talking about as I had 2 Dells myself and the entire environment at work was Dell and I had never heard of such accusations of bad service and poor quality. He stated that Dell "lied" that the computer was overheating and suggested he may have it in a bad location. I looked at where it was sitting - didn't seem so bad to me, under the desk by a window. Then the furnace kicked on. In between the wall and the computer was a vent for the furnace. He had it there to keep his feet toasty while he was using the computer. I knew my cousin was dumb, but I didn't know he was that stupid.
I felt like taking the computer into protective custody. I don't care if it's an emachines, at least give it a chance to work right before you abuse it.
It's an email-by-email thing. There's a large bar at the top of every email with images that tells you that downloading of the images was disabled. You can then choose to download them, have any email from that sender automatically download them from now on, or by domain. It's not fool-proof, but MS bashers will stop at nothing to find something wrong with it. I tried the latest Outlook (2003) when I got it from the university I work at, and it's actually very much improved over even XP. I liked it so much I even quit using Thunderbird in favor of it. Tell me, has thunderbird under linux ever figured out how to open a URL?
Who's talking about imports? There's nothing wrong with importing things. The problem is that manufacturing so-called "American" goods in other countries constitutes a "reimportation" of those goods. I have no problem with buying a Japanese or Chinese tv, but I do have a problem with RCA and GE tvs because they purposely send manufacturing to China and Mexico just for cheaper labor, then claim it lowers prices.
I don't know about GE, but two years after RCA moved its manufacturing to Mexico, I compared the price on a certain model that used to be manufactured in my state (It was a 27" tv) and the price went down about $50 in thos two years and was still higher than most all other brands. I attribute that $50 to better and bigger models coming out, not cheaper labor. That means that the company just kept the extra profits. If they're going to claim it's good for consumers, prove it and then pass the savings on to us. If you keep it, that's called being greedy and unethical.
It exploits the workers in those other countries too. A good way to control a population is to keep them poor. Just ask the Soviets.
And it's interesting that you mention comprehensive health care, as Dean and most other Democratic candidates are very much for comprehensive health care for all.
We already have guaranteed pensions for all, albeit not a very good system, in Social Security. And it's interesting to note that the same people that are all over the "free trade" movement actually want to destroy any form of guaranteed pensioning and comprehensive health care.
Why would I listen to a sci-fi writer talk about politics and what he calls the "petrocracy"? I might as well have Karl Rove give me a lecture on how a warp drive works or why a ship the size of the Enterprise doesn't mess with a planet's gravity when it orbits it.
Don't try to translate English to English. I'd be the first to admit that many people overseas could do my job, but while the quality would not be be an issue, logistics (getting things from here to there and there to here) and security (involves maintaining many many passwords and sensitive HIPAA-protected info) rules out outsourcing me overseas. So I have no reason to fear outsourcing. I'm just pointing out that outsourcing overseas is only a temporary band-aid to larger problems.
There's a difference there. Manufacturing does not require the attention to detail that designing the products does. Once a product is designed, it can be made virtually anywhere by an unskilled labor force. I'm talking about skilled labor, such as software (or even hardware) design. All I can say is, you get what you pay for.
Especially when shareholders realize that the long-term costs in quality, logistics, and security that working across the globe like this raises far outweigh any short-term benefits.
When one goes overseas for labor, one must also take into account the added costs of doing business in those countries, not just the salary savings.
Dean has often commented on this. One of his main slogans is, "We should be exporting American products, not American jobs." and has often stated that his plan of including workers' rights policies in trade pacts will stem the tide of the unethical offshoring of labor at pennies on the dollar.
Riots can't be compared to other forms of violence. There's other psychological factors at work, like groupthink and mob effects. Plus, here in the US, we don't have riots with firearms. The LA riots looked more like a midieval let's-go-burn-down-the-castle than a wild west shootout. Here in Indianapolis, a riot broke out after a 17-year old black kid died in police custody. Weapon of choice? Rocks. What's next? You want to outlaw sticks and fire, too?
And when we talk about mass shootings, we mean one or a small group killing many in a focused effort, like Columbine or the Texas clocktower dude (which was before video games, I might add).
I think people miss the point. Adults usually have reasons to shoot others, albeit really bad ones, barring mental deficiencies. Kids, on the other hand, are inherently stupid and irresponsible and answer the "Why did you do it?" query with I don't know. That's where parents come in.
You must have some punk-ass gangs, then. I live in a "gun culture" as you put it, and I have never known anyone who has shot at another person. The thing stressed most in "gun cultures" is safety. Meaning, a gun is not a toy. You don't point your weapon at anything you don't intend to shoot. You don't leave your gun in a spot where children could even remotely gain access. Trigger locks and gun cabinets, never transport a weapon loaded, etc. I am only 23 and currently have two.22 rifles and two.38 revolvers (though I've never shot the latter as they're quite old) in my apartment. I don't feel any more or less safe with them, as I only use them for recreation and hunting, and although I play GTA all the time, I don't have an iota of a compulsion to go grab them out of the cabinet and shoot someone.
I let my 13-year old cousins play GTA when they visit, because I trust them and know that they have good parents that pay attention to them. They seem more interested in doing cool stunts with the cars anyway.
People who shoot other people are not part of any "gun culture". If there were no guns, these people would find another way to kill others. That's just how it is. I don't think it has anything to do with poverty, either, as I grew up in a dirt poor family in the inner-city, and the thing I noticed about the patterns of violence and criminal behavior was the parenting. I have great parents and most of the other people in my neighborhood did too, and the ones that didn't were always in trouble. The issue of gun violence is too complicated to hang on one cause.
Would you really want to work for a company who looks so shallowly at candidates that they would raise questions just because you worked at SCO or Enron?
The only people who should have problems are Darl, the top execs, and the legal department. At Enron, I would only worry about Ken Lay, anyone in the financial depts. (CFO, accounting, etc.).
Having worked for a company that went down a less-than-reputable road before it imploded (a small investment firm that stopped investing in stocks and mutual funds and instead invested in the owner's Fla. vacation home), I've never found a problem, though that debacle was certainly lower-profile and in a different state than where I currently am.
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well, my suspicion at first was the photog kid, cuz we ate up all his ink, but realized that since he was in on it, it would be kinda stupid. He was there with us when the feds were there. and it wasn't a continuous basis, it was maybe 5 or 10 among the 3 of us over 5 days or so.
And to the idiot who said you're a moron if you think they can get fingerprints from paper - you're the moron. You can't get it with the aluminium powder one uses for other surfaces, but with chemical treatments, it can be found. Hell, you can even do it yourself.
Oh, trust me, we did get found out, and the SS did come "pay us a visit". They laid out what the consequences were, which i'm not afraid to admit scared the shit out of me, and we assured them it was just a one-time prank. They decided not to press charges since it was a small-time deal and we didn't seem to be serious about it. I never found out who squealed, though the little "talk" did discourage me from trying it again.
When I was a much younger person (about 5 years ago, heh) and i was in college, one of the guys on my same floor got a new, high-end printer. If i remember correctly, it was an HP. He was a photography major, so it made sense for him to have it. Well, my roomate and I, being the geeks that we were (and still are) were so impressed with it that we brought a bunch of paper over and were printing everything in sight. We got around to scanning money (we were college students, so it was $1s and $5s) and were so impressed on how accurately it lined up the two sides (it was a double-sided printer) that we decided to see if the coke machine down the hall accepted them. It did, and we got free coke (well, like 3 cents per page) for the next week, until for some reason the coke machine was removed and the rumor was that it was because someone had been giving it fake money. We really did it more for the fun and the satisfaction of knowing it could be done than the coke, however.
Now, those scenarios, I can see. BTW, the rule is 75% of the original size or smaller or 150% or larger (at least that's what it was 7 yrs ago). I only know this because I did a report on that subject for a civics class in high school.
or even (gasp!) make novelty bills with my picture in the center. All of these are completely legit uses for scanning and manipulating currency...
Actually, if you knew the law, you would know that just taking a bill "as is", putting your own photo in the middle and reprinting it is only legal when following certain guidelines.
You can't make true novelty money that's similar except for your photo, if you really wanted to, you would most likely want it double-sided. That's illegal in the US. Also, you'd have to make it a a certain degree larger or smaller than legal tender, so as it's not easily passable.
The problem is that it is hard for them to justify buying something when it is freely available.
I don't think that's necessarily true. I'm not saying it isn't true for most companies, I just think it's not true for all. Redhat has made a good run at it. The thing a purchaser has to look at is not the OS by itself, which one can get for free, but the features that the company adds on to it, such as Redhat's RPM service and the user-friendly Anaconda installation system, both of which are open, but are in limited use by other distros. (I believe Yellowdog, or whatever it's called, the Linux for Mac processors, is the only other distro to use Anaconda). That ease of installation alone made me pop out the $30 for the boxed version of RH 8.0 when I went hunting for my first Linux installation.
Other companies that incorporate Linux into their service offerings, such as IBM, use Linux as a baseline for their services, so that you're not paying for Linux, you're paying for IBM's services.
I would be led to think that Novell's main channel of pushing the SuSe product would be through Novell's own consulting business, where SuSe Linux would be a value-added service, not the main dish. So, in other words, you wouldn't be ordering Linux with a side of Novell, you'd be ordering Novell with a side of Linux.
Fidel Castro is quality rule? Oh yeah, that's why so many Cubans would rather sail across 90 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the shores of Florida in barely floating "boats" while being shot at by the Cuban coast guard than spend another day under his rule. That's why the number of people fleeing Cuba to the US is so great that we've had to basically give up on our immigration laws and say, "If you make it here, you can stay". That's why Cubans get locked up in a "hospital" (more like a prison) when it's found they have AIDS.
You can't compare a hideous monster that is even worse than Saddam Hussein to a small nation of peaceful rule.
Besides, the US will never invade Cuba under the current administration because there's nothing there worth Dubya's efforts. What do they have? Sugar? Well, as they say, "First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women."
You've been marked as my foe for a while now. Your blanket "all liberals suck" attitude doesn't get anyone anywhere. The problem is people take disagreements as personal attacks.
When was the last time you saw a crackwhore vote? By the way, as you can see here, your worn-out stereotypes ("welfare slag?" never heard slag used in that context before.) no longer apply.
That does not mean I do not value your opinion, it simply means that I don't agree with it.
According to your logic, you wouldn't need an amendment. If the person is that dumb, then they are UNABLE to cast a vote in the first place.
Also, who determines the definition of "basic intelligence"? It sounds to me like you want to go back to the days where people had to take a test in order to be able to vote.
I have a pol. sci. professor who's smart, and sat on some committees to decide voting machine laws here in Indiana. She admitted that she didn't understand some of the machines that were put before her - not because of her lack of intelligence - but instead because of poor UI design.
How does a voting machine proceed to the next voter if the previous one didn't push the "vote" button? That's what I don't understand. The company that made the machines in the Broward County case - I don't remember the name right now - said that a possibility is that the voters didn't push "vote" on the review screen. I did this recently, too, when I registered for my spring classes. I didn't confirm becasue I thought the review page was a confirmation page, so the classes didn't get recorded. It's a good thing I could go back and change it because I had a paper printout. I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I'm not a moron as your theory would suggest.
Thank you for your vote for the Democratic Party.
(Before people start flaming, that was a J-O-K-E.)
Usually something as simple as moving the case can make a significant difference.
It can make a difference in cooling as well.
Last month, while I was visiting a cousin upstate for the holidays, I asked if I could use his computer to check work email. While I was using it, he told me that he had to send it back to Dell twice in 3 months (he had only had it since July) due to a total failure to do anything upon powerup. He then started to go into a rant about how Dell sucks (he does that about every company that fails to meet his ridiculous level of expectations - while I was there, he refused the five large pizzas we ordered one night because the driver forgot the pizza sauce for the breadsticks.)
Anyway, I replied that I had no clue what he was talking about as I had 2 Dells myself and the entire environment at work was Dell and I had never heard of such accusations of bad service and poor quality. He stated that Dell "lied" that the computer was overheating and suggested he may have it in a bad location. I looked at where it was sitting - didn't seem so bad to me, under the desk by a window. Then the furnace kicked on. In between the wall and the computer was a vent for the furnace. He had it there to keep his feet toasty while he was using the computer. I knew my cousin was dumb, but I didn't know he was that stupid.
I felt like taking the computer into protective custody. I don't care if it's an emachines, at least give it a chance to work right before you abuse it.
It's an email-by-email thing. There's a large bar at the top of every email with images that tells you that downloading of the images was disabled. You can then choose to download them, have any email from that sender automatically download them from now on, or by domain. It's not fool-proof, but MS bashers will stop at nothing to find something wrong with it. I tried the latest Outlook (2003) when I got it from the university I work at, and it's actually very much improved over even XP. I liked it so much I even quit using Thunderbird in favor of it. Tell me, has thunderbird under linux ever figured out how to open a URL?
Who's talking about imports? There's nothing wrong with importing things. The problem is that manufacturing so-called "American" goods in other countries constitutes a "reimportation" of those goods. I have no problem with buying a Japanese or Chinese tv, but I do have a problem with RCA and GE tvs because they purposely send manufacturing to China and Mexico just for cheaper labor, then claim it lowers prices.
I don't know about GE, but two years after RCA moved its manufacturing to Mexico, I compared the price on a certain model that used to be manufactured in my state (It was a 27" tv) and the price went down about $50 in thos two years and was still higher than most all other brands. I attribute that $50 to better and bigger models coming out, not cheaper labor. That means that the company just kept the extra profits. If they're going to claim it's good for consumers, prove it and then pass the savings on to us. If you keep it, that's called being greedy and unethical.
It exploits the workers in those other countries too. A good way to control a population is to keep them poor. Just ask the Soviets.
And it's interesting that you mention comprehensive health care, as Dean and most other Democratic candidates are very much for comprehensive health care for all.
We already have guaranteed pensions for all, albeit not a very good system, in Social Security. And it's interesting to note that the same people that are all over the "free trade" movement actually want to destroy any form of guaranteed pensioning and comprehensive health care.
Why would I listen to a sci-fi writer talk about politics and what he calls the "petrocracy"? I might as well have Karl Rove give me a lecture on how a warp drive works or why a ship the size of the Enterprise doesn't mess with a planet's gravity when it orbits it.
Don't try to translate English to English. I'd be the first to admit that many people overseas could do my job, but while the quality would not be be an issue, logistics (getting things from here to there and there to here) and security (involves maintaining many many passwords and sensitive HIPAA-protected info) rules out outsourcing me overseas. So I have no reason to fear outsourcing. I'm just pointing out that outsourcing overseas is only a temporary band-aid to larger problems.
There's a difference there. Manufacturing does not require the attention to detail that designing the products does. Once a product is designed, it can be made virtually anywhere by an unskilled labor force. I'm talking about skilled labor, such as software (or even hardware) design. All I can say is, you get what you pay for.
Especially when shareholders realize that the long-term costs in quality, logistics, and security that working across the globe like this raises far outweigh any short-term benefits.
When one goes overseas for labor, one must also take into account the added costs of doing business in those countries, not just the salary savings.
Dean has often commented on this. One of his main slogans is, "We should be exporting American products, not American jobs." and has often stated that his plan of including workers' rights policies in trade pacts will stem the tide of the unethical offshoring of labor at pennies on the dollar.
Riots can't be compared to other forms of violence. There's other psychological factors at work, like groupthink and mob effects. Plus, here in the US, we don't have riots with firearms. The LA riots looked more like a midieval let's-go-burn-down-the-castle than a wild west shootout. Here in Indianapolis, a riot broke out after a 17-year old black kid died in police custody. Weapon of choice? Rocks. What's next? You want to outlaw sticks and fire, too?
And when we talk about mass shootings, we mean one or a small group killing many in a focused effort, like Columbine or the Texas clocktower dude (which was before video games, I might add).
I think people miss the point. Adults usually have reasons to shoot others, albeit really bad ones, barring mental deficiencies. Kids, on the other hand, are inherently stupid and irresponsible and answer the "Why did you do it?" query with I don't know. That's where parents come in.
You must have some punk-ass gangs, then. I live in a "gun culture" as you put it, and I have never known anyone who has shot at another person. The thing stressed most in "gun cultures" is safety. Meaning, a gun is not a toy. You don't point your weapon at anything you don't intend to shoot. You don't leave your gun in a spot where children could even remotely gain access. Trigger locks and gun cabinets, never transport a weapon loaded, etc. I am only 23 and currently have two .22 rifles and two .38 revolvers (though I've never shot the latter as they're quite old) in my apartment. I don't feel any more or less safe with them, as I only use them for recreation and hunting, and although I play GTA all the time, I don't have an iota of a compulsion to go grab them out of the cabinet and shoot someone.
I let my 13-year old cousins play GTA when they visit, because I trust them and know that they have good parents that pay attention to them. They seem more interested in doing cool stunts with the cars anyway.
People who shoot other people are not part of any "gun culture". If there were no guns, these people would find another way to kill others. That's just how it is. I don't think it has anything to do with poverty, either, as I grew up in a dirt poor family in the inner-city, and the thing I noticed about the patterns of violence and criminal behavior was the parenting. I have great parents and most of the other people in my neighborhood did too, and the ones that didn't were always in trouble. The issue of gun violence is too complicated to hang on one cause.
All Paperboy did to me was make me afraid of dogs and black houses.
My non-tech mother uses it as a verb, thus I know it has entered the mainstream vocabulary, though I think she picked up from me and sis.
Would you really want to work for a company who looks so shallowly at candidates that they would raise questions just because you worked at SCO or Enron?
The only people who should have problems are Darl, the top execs, and the legal department. At Enron, I would only worry about Ken Lay, anyone in the financial depts. (CFO, accounting, etc.).
Having worked for a company that went down a less-than-reputable road before it imploded (a small investment firm that stopped investing in stocks and mutual funds and instead invested in the owner's Fla. vacation home), I've never found a problem, though that debacle was certainly lower-profile and in a different state than where I currently am.