"assuming the cop in question actually does maintain a fitness regime commensurate with a job where being grossly unfit would be a severe hindrance"
You know, I've often wondered if Police depts around the country actually have minimum physical standards that all street cops have to pass. If they do, how freakin' low are these minimums?
I mean, I see a LOT of officers that could not run a block without heart failure, and with guts so large, they have a hard time fitting under a steering wheel of a car.
I think if anything, we might want more cops walking a beat again....to keep them in good physical condition.
"These pods look cute and all, but do they really do anything that trains and buses don't? The trains at SFO and SeaTac do a great job."
I dunno about that, but, one thing they do have in common, is that neither will get you door-to-door travel, and won't generally be as fast or on your schedule.
Man..I hope I don't live to see the day when this kind of thing is forced on us where I live. I like my independence to come and go exactly when I please.
And if it is a nice day...I like taking my motorcycle.
I read this headline and I originally through it said he was hiring "Miss Hathaway".
I started picturing in my mind...Mr. Drysdale yelling at her that she's spending too much money on her projects while she trys to garner Jethro's romantic insterests....and getting invited that evening for some of Granny's possum stew.
Oh well...it sure made thinking about the next 4 years more entertaining, that's for sure...
"Outlook Web Access has a lot more functionality under IE flavors than it does under Firefox. I know there's a right-click context menu that's missing, and I think some other menu items are gone, too. It sucks..."
So, why not just use the Outlook client, rather than the web interface?
"Exactly. I end up using IE at work because all of the users log into their email wich is run on an exchange server. So when they are logged into their email account they loose some features if they are using firefox compared to using IE"
You lost me there sport. What does MS email (assuming Exchange and Outlook) have to do with what browser you use?
"print? very rarely - only if I need to file a record (e.g. tax). if the information isn't accessible through free text search, it might as well not exist!"
REally?
I guess maybe I'm old fashioned. I mean, I read and study a LOT online, but, for things I want to really remember, to use as reference, I really like to have dead tree copies.
I often mark them up, highlight passages, doodle in the margins...etc.
I find that by doing this...I can remember and even find information faster than I could doing a web or local directory search. When I was in school, I'd often do the doodles and markings in my books and notes, and during tests...I could 'see' those pages in my head...even turn the pages in my head to find where the information was. I find I can't do that as readily on a computer screen....
I've met a number of people who are extremely picky eaters. You find that people like this, who are very limited in what they like to eat...get this way. They find a place out that has something that they absolutely love. This is a big deal to them, because of their limited appetites for variety in food, leaves them VERY few choices, especially for dining out. When something can eat...is dropped or changed, it does blow their minds a bit.
I can understand it a little...when I was growing up, I was a bit of a picky eater, that is, until I came to Louisiana for college...and discovered that people down here would eat anything that didn't eat them first....and make it taste good.
Thankfully ever since then, I'm game to try just about any food, and I find there's honestly not much I don't like.
My battle with the waistline can attest to that at times.
"Yeah, but this isn't even remotely the same thing -- to add this functionality to Ubuntu takes a few clicks and downloads, all free, all easy, and with no limits on how many apps you can run, etc. You want CUPS or some other component that you consider a basic OS requirement? Click, wait while download and install completes, and you have 'em. This is simply an initially "lite" OS install, offered as a matter of convenience to the end user. "
It struck me as kind of strange that they'd strip out something like CUPS...I mean, don't even most normal users like to print documents?!?!
""Apple is neither a hardware nor a software company. They are a total solutions company. They focus on providing vertically integrated products that meet the customer's needs from the hardware all the way up to the software. That's why Mac laptops have incredible hardware features like magnetic clasps, incredible software features like appfolders, AND incredible features like instant sleep on close/hibernate on low power that require support from both software and hardware."
"Apple is neither a hardware nor a software company. They are a total solutions company. They focus on providing vertically integrated products that meet the customer's needs from the hardware all the way up to the software. That's why Mac laptops have incredible hardware features like magnetic clasps, incredible software features like appfolders, AND incredible features like instant sleep on close/hibernate on low power that require support from both software and hardware."
"Carrie Fisher just released her autobiography "Wishful Drinking" [amazon.com]. The cover shows her, as Princess Leia, nearly passed out with martini glass in hand and pills nearby."
Man...kinda wish I could have hooked up with her 'back in the day'.....lots of partying, before her looks went to hell, and ease of getting Leia'ed with her all tanked up.
Ah...I remember the early days of my introduction to the 'internet'.
I found a local dial up isp....I found Trumpet Winsock for windows...got that installed, then learned command line ftp, to get this cool new browser I'd seen at school, "Netscape 1.0".
Wow...was that ever fun. Then came the exciting times when I could actually find a friend of mine that also knew what the 'internet' was...and had a working email address!!
"But I don't get your point, if your government didn't took any tax on your payroll for a year wouldn't they like run really short of money then? I guess you meant they wasn't needed but.."
Well, no more so than with the passage of this so called stimulus bill. They don't really have the money for it either...will be deficit spending on a grand scale. My thoughts were, rather than having the govt. try to dole money back to the citizens on a deficit manner, why not just let the citizens KEEP their tax monies for a year on a deficit manner to the feds.
They're are determinted to try to jumpstart the economy, it will be done in a deficit manner, so all I"m saying they way to do it would be not to collect taxes for a period, rather than have the govt. spend future tax dollars.
"If the infrastructure and science initiatives get stripped, then Obama needs to say no. The primary purpose of this stimulus is to give the new administration the money it needs to rebuild America."
Funny, I thought the primary purpose of a 'stimulus' was to get an almost immediate injection of money into the economy to pull it out of the downward spin, and to also try to get people back to work asap.
Anything not pertaining directly to that goal...needs to be stripped out, and debated for another day.
Thing is, we don't create jobs by taxing corporations. We already have some of the highest corp. taxes in the western world.
If you actually cut corp taxes, more business would come to the US...give them credits for every US citizen given a job....stuff like that.
If they really wanted to get money into the economy quickly, why not just cut out the government middleman, and just declare a tax holiday on ALL payroll taxes.
I know if I could keep 15%-30% of my pay extra for a year, I'd have plenty of cash to spend.
"makes the point. In the UK I don't need to present a driving licence to buy alcohol, I can buy it from a supermarket 24/7 rather than from a state monopoly liquor store...The US also led the UK in banning smoking in bars."
The drinking laws there sound like the ones in New Orleans. And you can still smoke in most bars in the US. They've banned it in lots of places...and amazingly enough they passed bans in southern LA, but, for the most part...if it is a real bar..you can smoke, but, if it is a restaurant with a bar, and they make more $$ from food than drinks...you can't smoke there. Strange I know....but, at least we're still trying to hold onto letting Adults act like adults down here, and make their own choices...
"So your complaint isn't about swiping, it's about storage."
Well, you can't have one without the other.
You might argue you 'can' swipe with no storage, but, that won't settle well with the govt. Even if they start without collecting the info, at a later date, they'll find a reason to start storing it. So, in light of that...one requires the other.
"Is this true? I swear, whenever I think of going to a different OS for non-gaming stuff it seems to be more of a hassle in some way that directly affects me than I'd care for. Its almost as if Windows isn't all THAT bad..."
I dunno where AC gets his information, I haven't found this to be the case with my mac.
For one...you can turn the software updater off.
2nd, I have set it to auto check and prompt me for what updates I want...when I accept, it downloads and installs them. And at the installation phase, I have to give it a password with authority to install..so, that is also a place you can stop the process.
I've not come across the problem with them sneaking software on my computer without my knowledge yet...
Where the hell do you live where it is so strict and stringent?
I live in New Orleans, where we are the complete opposite....very relaxed laws: alcohol sales pretty much 24/7, no special alcohol shops (wine, beer, booze sold in grocery stores, convenience stores, drug stores, etc), the to-go cup (yes, you are allowed to leave your establishment WITH your drink in tact, they just give you a plastic cup to carry it out with), drive through daquiri shops (yes, they really put booze in them), if you are under age, you can drink still in a bar/restaurant if you parent is with you...etc.
And heck, go to the quarter...if you are old enough to reach up to the bar and have cash, they'll server you.
If you feel too oppressed, then c'mon down here for a vist. Don't forget, Mardi Gras is Feb.24th this year, we're partying fully 2 weeks before that with parades and the like. Temps this weekend are sunny and in the low 70's.
"That's what I see. Obama is on the record as being pro net neutrality. I wonder if he'll bind both the content providers and ISPs to net neutrality agreements."
If memory serves me correctly, he used to be a proponent of net neutrality, but, I think he started distancing himself from that stance even before the election was over.
This is much in the way he was against giving the telco's immunity before he was for it (and voted FOR it).
"Vancouver BC has something like this called BarWatch. The police and bar owners are behind it for obvious reasons (jackboot thug power and advertising profiles, respectively), and they sell it to the public by claiming they need it to cut down on thuggery and gang violence. It's currently before the Privacy Commissioner."
You know...I never thought that once I made it past the age of 21.....that I'd want or need a fake ID for the purpose of buying alcohol again....
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You know, I've often wondered if Police depts around the country actually have minimum physical standards that all street cops have to pass. If they do, how freakin' low are these minimums?
I mean, I see a LOT of officers that could not run a block without heart failure, and with guts so large, they have a hard time fitting under a steering wheel of a car.
I think if anything, we might want more cops walking a beat again....to keep them in good physical condition.
I dunno about that, but, one thing they do have in common, is that neither will get you door-to-door travel, and won't generally be as fast or on your schedule.
Man..I hope I don't live to see the day when this kind of thing is forced on us where I live. I like my independence to come and go exactly when I please.
And if it is a nice day...I like taking my motorcycle.
Will we have to have versions for the West Coast, East Coast, down South...Ebonics?
I can see it now "Yo Yo Yo...show me the mother fuckin' U.I. site...Word!"
I started picturing in my mind...Mr. Drysdale yelling at her that she's spending too much money on her projects while she trys to garner Jethro's romantic insterests....and getting invited that evening for some of Granny's possum stew.
Oh well...it sure made thinking about the next 4 years more entertaining, that's for sure...
So, why not just use the Outlook client, rather than the web interface?
Wow...was 1994-95 THAT long ago?
I didn't discover slashdot right off to bat...and was on it awhile before deciding that registering was worthwhile.
7K + posts later....I'm still wondering if I made the right decision...
You lost me there sport. What does MS email (assuming Exchange and Outlook) have to do with what browser you use?
REally?
I guess maybe I'm old fashioned. I mean, I read and study a LOT online, but, for things I want to really remember, to use as reference, I really like to have dead tree copies.
I often mark them up, highlight passages, doodle in the margins...etc.
I find that by doing this...I can remember and even find information faster than I could doing a web or local directory search. When I was in school, I'd often do the doodles and markings in my books and notes, and during tests...I could 'see' those pages in my head...even turn the pages in my head to find where the information was. I find I can't do that as readily on a computer screen....
I dunno if I'd call it insane.
I've met a number of people who are extremely picky eaters. You find that people like this, who are very limited in what they like to eat...get this way. They find a place out that has something that they absolutely love. This is a big deal to them, because of their limited appetites for variety in food, leaves them VERY few choices, especially for dining out. When something can eat...is dropped or changed, it does blow their minds a bit.
I can understand it a little...when I was growing up, I was a bit of a picky eater, that is, until I came to Louisiana for college...and discovered that people down here would eat anything that didn't eat them first....and make it taste good.
Thankfully ever since then, I'm game to try just about any food, and I find there's honestly not much I don't like.
My battle with the waistline can attest to that at times.
It struck me as kind of strange that they'd strip out something like CUPS...I mean, don't even most normal users like to print documents?!?!
BINGO!!"
Redundant? Perhaps I was being a bit too subtle??
BINGO!!
Man...kinda wish I could have hooked up with her 'back in the day'.....lots of partying, before her looks went to hell, and ease of getting Leia'ed with her all tanked up.
I found a local dial up isp....I found Trumpet Winsock for windows...got that installed, then learned command line ftp, to get this cool new browser I'd seen at school, "Netscape 1.0".
Wow...was that ever fun. Then came the exciting times when I could actually find a friend of mine that also knew what the 'internet' was...and had a working email address!!
Well, no more so than with the passage of this so called stimulus bill. They don't really have the money for it either...will be deficit spending on a grand scale. My thoughts were, rather than having the govt. try to dole money back to the citizens on a deficit manner, why not just let the citizens KEEP their tax monies for a year on a deficit manner to the feds.
They're are determinted to try to jumpstart the economy, it will be done in a deficit manner, so all I"m saying they way to do it would be not to collect taxes for a period, rather than have the govt. spend future tax dollars.
Funny, I thought the primary purpose of a 'stimulus' was to get an almost immediate injection of money into the economy to pull it out of the downward spin, and to also try to get people back to work asap.
Anything not pertaining directly to that goal...needs to be stripped out, and debated for another day.
If you actually cut corp taxes, more business would come to the US...give them credits for every US citizen given a job....stuff like that.
If they really wanted to get money into the economy quickly, why not just cut out the government middleman, and just declare a tax holiday on ALL payroll taxes.
I know if I could keep 15%-30% of my pay extra for a year, I'd have plenty of cash to spend.
The drinking laws there sound like the ones in New Orleans. And you can still smoke in most bars in the US. They've banned it in lots of places...and amazingly enough they passed bans in southern LA, but, for the most part...if it is a real bar..you can smoke, but, if it is a restaurant with a bar, and they make more $$ from food than drinks...you can't smoke there. Strange I know....but, at least we're still trying to hold onto letting Adults act like adults down here, and make their own choices...
Well, you can't have one without the other.
You might argue you 'can' swipe with no storage, but, that won't settle well with the govt. Even if they start without collecting the info, at a later date, they'll find a reason to start storing it. So, in light of that...one requires the other.
$35/month is a lot of money to you to spend??? Are you in college still?
I dunno where AC gets his information, I haven't found this to be the case with my mac.
For one...you can turn the software updater off.
2nd, I have set it to auto check and prompt me for what updates I want...when I accept, it downloads and installs them. And at the installation phase, I have to give it a password with authority to install..so, that is also a place you can stop the process.
I've not come across the problem with them sneaking software on my computer without my knowledge yet...
Where the hell do you live where it is so strict and stringent?
I live in New Orleans, where we are the complete opposite....very relaxed laws: alcohol sales pretty much 24/7, no special alcohol shops (wine, beer, booze sold in grocery stores, convenience stores, drug stores, etc), the to-go cup (yes, you are allowed to leave your establishment WITH your drink in tact, they just give you a plastic cup to carry it out with), drive through daquiri shops (yes, they really put booze in them), if you are under age, you can drink still in a bar/restaurant if you parent is with you...etc.
And heck, go to the quarter...if you are old enough to reach up to the bar and have cash, they'll server you.
If you feel too oppressed, then c'mon down here for a vist. Don't forget, Mardi Gras is Feb.24th this year, we're partying fully 2 weeks before that with parades and the like. Temps this weekend are sunny and in the low 70's.
If memory serves me correctly, he used to be a proponent of net neutrality, but, I think he started distancing himself from that stance even before the election was over.
This is much in the way he was against giving the telco's immunity before he was for it (and voted FOR it).
You know, the internet was SO much more fun before companies and money found a way to use it.
You know...I never thought that once I made it past the age of 21.....that I'd want or need a fake ID for the purpose of buying alcohol again....
*SIGH*