"Why can't people just accept that when the U.S. steals your television show and does a knockoff, it's out of love?"
No we steal it because people in the TV industry are brain dead and can't come up with a new show more than once a decade.
If you ever get a chance to see a clip of the (pilot only thank God) American version of Red Dwarf, you will die laughing at how horrible it is. (American actors trying to deliver British wriing, wearing the same costumes... The clip I saw was absolutely horrid.)
"The government is specifically prohibited from preferentially supporting one religion over another."
No it isn't.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The federal government can not create a church (c.f. Church of England), or ban a religion or keep it from being practiced. There is nothing there that actually prohibits it from looking favorably upon a given religion.
If you think about it, if you didn't preferentially support one (or more) religions, it would pretty hard to have a government cafeteria. (Hint, think about keeping Kosher all the time. No cheese and meat allowed on the same plate. No cheeseburgers... Separate dishes, etc.) So in that case, the government plainly does discriminate against a religion.
Just as a data point for you, I use Pages for some work. It isn't as "feature rich" as Word, but the interface is a lot better. That said, you do need to be prepared to be totally dependant on the inspector palette to get anything done in Pages. It takes getting used to. I'm still not fully comfortable in it. (That said, I've despised MS Word since version 1.05.)
Output formats include Word (which seems to always work for me) or PDF (output files sizes may not be optimized), HTML (I haven't tried)
I think $71 for Keynote & Pages (on Amazon) is pretty decent, but I may skip this year's upgrade since there is no discount for previous users.
*Bzzt* Wikipedia is to be use as an entertainment device only. Any similarity between Wikipedia and real facts, living or dead, is strictly accidental.
After all, if they really were facts, you wouldn't be able to change them.:-)
Don't get me started on the evil's of the @##$% Apply button! That is the one of the worst buttons in an interface. You have a dialog with [Apply] [Cancel] [OK] buttons. Click Apply. Now click Cancel. Cancel doesn't do anything! You didn't cancel the MODAL dialog actions, because you clicked apply. But Cancel is still active. It does the exact same thing as OK at this point.
What kind of a moron dreamed up that interaction!?
And then you get the idiot windows that are modal-wannabe's. Apply/Cancel/OK, with a widget in the titlebar. Why? Are buttons too complicated for your user? What does closing a window with changes mean? Does it APPLY them? Does it lead to another dialog? (with another close button?)
Now I'm ranting about the evils of the Apply button. See, I told you not to get me started!
Oh come on. Threshold isn't that bad. Just because it's about a magical "probe" that alters DNA via sound... And super hackers. that can break into any compter, and...
But you are assuming that DHS 1) doesn't care about MS vulnerabilites, and/or 2) isn't trying to do anything about it. I have no information on either of these points one way or the other, but I would be surprised if MS wasn't a major concern at DHS.
But the best way to solve a problem isn't always (actually rarely is) in public. For all you know, DHS could have 100 security consultants busy debugging Bill's house right this minute.
Tell them you would be glad to buy whatever they are selling. Then when they tell you they need to record you for confirmation (or ask for your credit card) you say "Put me on your do not call list".
You can then be guaranteed that they won't be coughing over you and will have it recorded.:-)
I don't see anything in those two items to prevent private ownership though. (OK, I haven't read the whole UN Agreement. Like it really matters here on/. )
And if a person/coporation did lay claim to Mars (and held it by landing there), when they declared themselves an independant world, they (at that time) wouldn't be signatories to the agreement.
"Can't speak about the US here, but in Commie Canada, all citizens have the right to enter the country as they wish(see paragraph 6.1). Let me repeat - it is ILLEGAL for a Canadian citizen to be detained while entering Canada, unless there is an outstanding warrant for their arrest or they are contravening the Customs Act in some manner."
OK, I'll bite. How do you know somebody is a Canadian Citizen? Check their insurance card? Trust them to tell you the truth? National ID card? Ask them to say "Out and about from the house?"
I see the claim, but I see no reference to how you prove citizenship.
"I think that in order to be charged under the Patriot Act, the intent of committing terrorism should be proven."
Run that one by me again? I think you just said you need to prove motive before you can charge with a crime. So you do you have a pre-trial trial to decide if you are going to have the trial?
No, I think you are looking at this wrong. Options are Potential Energy sources. When they are issued they have 0 value to you because they 1) can't be traded (vesting time) and 2) are issued with a stock price set at the current stock price.
Now the price to the company is variable and impossible to determine. Why? When you exercise your options, the company takes some of the actual stock you hold and sells it to you for the strike price of your option. Until that event happens, the price the company paid for the stock is unknown. The stock could never have been issued ($0 cost) or it could have been re-purchased from the market (price could have been below your strike price or even above your strike price.)
The act of exercising your options converts the Potential Energy into Kinetic Energy. Now you can determine 1) How much the stock cost the company and 2) How much you have earned by selling that stock on the open market (if you chose to do so.)
If you expense an option when granted, what happens to that expense when the option expires worthless or the employee is no longer with the company (and the option isn't exercised)?
Does the company record that as income? For firing an employee?
The difference is between remote sensing and physically poking it with a stick. NASA found water ice on the lunar north pole area with an orbiting probe, but it isn't a big thing until we can actually poke it with a stick and "prove" that it is there.
The same principal applies to water on Mars. Besides, you guys got enough press when you managed to auger Beagle in.:-)
When did walls become one-dimesional?:-) I mean you could say a single wall was sort of two-dimensional, but this data-folding is getting out of hand...
You had 90 columns? Luxury! We only had 80 "columns", but the first and sevent were reserved for special information. And the last 8 were reserved for sequence number that nobdy bothered with.
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Sounds like the first 10 minutes of a horror movie... Next thing you know ghosts or zombies will be after you. Watch your six.
No we steal it because people in the TV industry are brain dead and can't come up with a new show more than once a decade.
If you ever get a chance to see a clip of the (pilot only thank God) American version of Red Dwarf, you will die laughing at how horrible it is. (American actors trying to deliver British wriing, wearing the same costumes... The clip I saw was absolutely horrid.)
No it isn't.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The federal government can not create a church (c.f. Church of England), or ban a religion or keep it from being practiced. There is nothing there that actually prohibits it from looking favorably upon a given religion.
If you think about it, if you didn't preferentially support one (or more) religions, it would pretty hard to have a government cafeteria. (Hint, think about keeping Kosher all the time. No cheese and meat allowed on the same plate. No cheeseburgers... Separate dishes, etc.) So in that case, the government plainly does discriminate against a religion.
Output formats include Word (which seems to always work for me) or PDF (output files sizes may not be optimized), HTML (I haven't tried)
I think $71 for Keynote & Pages (on Amazon) is pretty decent, but I may skip this year's upgrade since there is no discount for previous users.
After all, if they really were facts, you wouldn't be able to change them. :-)
That's already been done. It's called Yoko Ono,
"Do you think that's air you're breathing?" -- Morpheous
Spider assemblers, all linked via a wi-fi network, building stuff from a master plan? What could possible go wrong...?
What kind of a moron dreamed up that interaction!?
And then you get the idiot windows that are modal-wannabe's. Apply/Cancel/OK, with a widget in the titlebar. Why? Are buttons too complicated for your user? What does closing a window with changes mean? Does it APPLY them? Does it lead to another dialog? (with another close button?)
Now I'm ranting about the evils of the Apply button. See, I told you not to get me started!
Uh never mind...
(Yes, it did jump the shark in show 3 or 4...)
But the best way to solve a problem isn't always (actually rarely is) in public. For all you know, DHS could have 100 security consultants busy debugging Bill's house right this minute.
I'm sure the "P" was just too formal for his fans to handle. ;-)
You can then be guaranteed that they won't be coughing over you and will have it recorded. :-)
Well Duh. That's because the magic of 3 is coupled with the magic of multiple Xs.
And if a person/coporation did lay claim to Mars (and held it by landing there), when they declared themselves an independant world, they (at that time) wouldn't be signatories to the agreement.
OK, I'll bite. How do you know somebody is a Canadian Citizen? Check their insurance card? Trust them to tell you the truth? National ID card? Ask them to say "Out and about from the house?"
I see the claim, but I see no reference to how you prove citizenship.
I just thought that was satire!
Run that one by me again? I think you just said you need to prove motive before you can charge with a crime. So you do you have a pre-trial trial to decide if you are going to have the trial?
Now the price to the company is variable and impossible to determine. Why? When you exercise your options, the company takes some of the actual stock you hold and sells it to you for the strike price of your option. Until that event happens, the price the company paid for the stock is unknown. The stock could never have been issued ($0 cost) or it could have been re-purchased from the market (price could have been below your strike price or even above your strike price.)
The act of exercising your options converts the Potential Energy into Kinetic Energy. Now you can determine 1) How much the stock cost the company and 2) How much you have earned by selling that stock on the open market (if you chose to do so.)
If you expense an option when granted, what happens to that expense when the option expires worthless or the employee is no longer with the company (and the option isn't exercised)?
Does the company record that as income? For firing an employee?
The difference is between remote sensing and physically poking it with a stick. NASA found water ice on the lunar north pole area with an orbiting probe, but it isn't a big thing until we can actually poke it with a stick and "prove" that it is there.
The same principal applies to water on Mars. Besides, you guys got enough press when you managed to auger Beagle in. :-)
When did walls become one-dimesional? :-) I mean you could say a single wall was sort of two-dimensional, but this data-folding is getting out of hand...
So WE only had 70 columns.
90 column sissys!
Seriously, AAC sounds fine to me, but my minimum encoding quality at 160bps for AAC or 192 for MP3.
Interesting. I'd never though about where it came from. Thanks for the info. :-)
I tried that, but they wouldn't take my plane to a gate without a TV.