Security questions also fail when they are case sensitive, so if you entered "Blue" instead of "blue" for your favorite color, it says "I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness."
My IT department was not even able to tell me what our password policy is. My password expired and I had to pick a new one. I could not get one to work that passed our policy. I had one with four symbols four upper case four lowercase and four numbers that I would never be able to remember and it still would not take it. Finally, in desperation I logged in as a domain administrator (which I happen to know and which the password never changes because the entire system would break) and set my password to something that has a reasonable complexity that no one would randomly figure out and that I can remember.
A lot of books that I have gotten recently have a digital copy on CD or DVD along with the print copy. Most of them have their own build in reader that works on PC platforms. I doubt if I will ever purchase a purely digital version of a book, but it is nice occasionally to be able to search for a term you are looking for. But it is not enough of a benefit to justify having only a digital version.
Do they really update the digital copy on the fly though? Somehow I find that unlikely. I suspect that the edition coincides with the print edition and does not change throughout the year.
I'm sure that high school texts vary by location. Mine were all in perfectly good shape.
I'm surprised that kids these days are having to haul a lot of books around. When I was in high school, I only took books home at all maybe two or three times a week, and never more than one or two. And we didn't even have study hall back then. If I couldn't finish my homework in class, I would take my book to the next class and if I got done with that classes homework, I would work on my other classes homework. Nowadays, they have one or sometimes even two hours of study hall, so I am surprised they EVER have homework, other than an essay or something.
This is what happens when we permit a strong federal government. The founding fathers somehow missed this,
The founding fathers put all kinds of checks in place to prevent the federal government from getting too much power, in fact the balance was tipped overwhelmingly in favor of the states. It took hundreds of years of using the constitution as federal toilet paper to reverse that.
I've got a rock that prevents tiger attacks. I have never once been attacked by a tiger in all of the time that I have owned this rock. Perhaps I could sell it to the government.
Bad analogy. TSA is more like a situation where every person who enters your house carries a fire extinguisher with them, and there are public organization designed to spot and put out fires, and yet you still force everyone who enters your house to go through an extensive search to make sure they don't have any matches, lighters, paper, or two sticks that could be rubbed together.
Not fuzzy at all. An associate advertises for products on their website. When someone clicks on it, the transaction is handled in entirety by Amazon. The associate holds no responsibility for the purchase, delivery, warranty or viability of the product. When the transaction takes place, Amazon pays a commission. Where the associate is located has no bearing on the sale. They could be in China. They could be like me. I live in Oklahoma, my hosting company is based in Illinois, but the servers are probably overseas or God-Knows-Where. So who gets the sales tax if I get commission on an advertised product. When Google advertises a product for sale from some company, and you go to that company and purchase that product, do you then have to pay sales tax based on Google's location? Didn't think so.
States, cities and counties make their own tax law, so they can also wheel and deal with an entity within their jurisdiction if they choose to. Wal-Mart moved into my town instead of a neighboring town because my town was willing to work them a tax deal that they liked, and on the whole it was better off for my city.
Bad manners to reply to yourself, but I was just looking into the sales tax districts in my state again, and it looks like it is even more complicated than I thought. Apparently, some tax districts don't collect use tax at all. So now you have different rates for every state, county, city and possibly zip code and also whether it is an in-state or out-of-state transaction.
50? My relatively non-populated state has more than 100,000 taxing districts. If that relationship is linear, there is potentially 5 million tax districts. What this will lead to is extra middlemen in the middle who will take a cut of your purchase in order to figure out the correct rate to charge (probably Paypal will get into this game). However, do note that state X has no jurisdiction to ask a company that has no business presence in that state to collect sales tax for them. It is the states' responsibility to collect the use tax from the individual.
Or fix it at the federal level by saying that states can't force retailers to do their dirty work for them. My state not only forces retailers such as myself to charge sales tax and submit it to them, but I also have to PAY them for the privilege of being forced to do so.
It's a shame you posted anonymous. I agree with you. I would be interested to see the statistics of how many people who are in jail for possessing child porn have ever had sex with a child. I would like to compare that statistic to people who are in jail for having sex with a child and see how many of them have ever looked at child pornography.
People can derive pleasure from things without wanting to participate in those things, or even being disgusted at the idea of doing those things. Some people like to look at incest porn, but ask them if they would have sex with their sibling or parent. No way.
Another fallacy of child porn is that it doesn't have to involve real children. It can be just drawings of children. No children were harmed. Still illegal.
Another fallacy of child porn is that it doesn't have to involve children at all. Two 17 year olds having sex on a web cam is considered child porn even though they were both consenting and the act itself is not illegal.
Another fallacy of child porn is that it doesn't have to involve young people at all. A person of legal age to perform in a pornographic movie that dresses up with pigtails and wearing a schoolgirl outfit has been considered in some jurisdictions to be attempting to portray underage sex and deemed child pornography.
I'm all for protecting children, but these laws are not to protect children. They are there to control people.
Yes, I am confused too. The car salesmen I know usually end up driving a dealer vehicle because they can't afford their own, yet this guy has spent probably $20 million on plane tickets.
When he did hand his tray to one stewardess, another stewardess pressed a button that set off a chime in the cockpit - within 5 seconds the pilot announced and started our descent into Amsterdam.
Ascending and descending is done based up on request by ATC, not at the pilot's discretion. The pilot can tell ATC they are unable, but the fact that a first class passenger has not finished eating is not going to be an acceptable reason to waive off a request.
I know anytime I go on vacation, it causes major headaches for those that try to prevent me from being completely buried by the time I get back
Well, that is nice that they try to do that for you. I suppose a true IT person probably has a large amount of "oh crap" work that definitely someone is going to have to fix while you are gone. Server builds, RFPs, scripting chores, etc will certainly be there waiting for you when you get back.
Development really sucks. If you really are just coding, then being gone is not a hassle for the company, but it is for you because nobody else is going to do your coding while you are gone. You have to work 60 hours a week normally, if you skip a week to go on vacation, then the next week you have to work 120 just to make up for it. You will end up needing a vacation more after you take one then you did before you left.
That's why smart companies pay you so little that you can't afford to actually go anywhere, so you will probably just sit around at home and probably log in and do your job to relieve the boredom.
We had one IT person who handled keeping about 50 servers up and running, 3 or 4 domains, multiple websites, 30 laptops, 3 different FTP servers, communications with the outside agencies that were sending us data, RFPs, customer support, and who knows what else. He quit for another company where he will probably have 1/4 of the job duties, will not have to work weekends, and will get paid more. Our company has not hired a replacement yet. The first IT related issue that came up was a failed backup that occurred about 12 hours after he quit (failed on a weekend). The next one occurred about 24 hours later when a client locked their FTP account because they can't remember their password, and nobody could figure out how to reset it. They eventually had to call him and ask. That debacle resulted in about 200 hours of unpaid overtime.
Supposedly, they are interviewing replacements, but so far I think they are patting themselves on the back for saving money (about half an IT person's salary, as a guess) and spreading around his work mostly to the overworked development group, including myself, who are now getting surprisingly little development done.
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Security questions also fail when they are case sensitive, so if you entered "Blue" instead of "blue" for your favorite color, it says "I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness."
My IT department was not even able to tell me what our password policy is. My password expired and I had to pick a new one. I could not get one to work that passed our policy. I had one with four symbols four upper case four lowercase and four numbers that I would never be able to remember and it still would not take it. Finally, in desperation I logged in as a domain administrator (which I happen to know and which the password never changes because the entire system would break) and set my password to something that has a reasonable complexity that no one would randomly figure out and that I can remember.
A lot of books that I have gotten recently have a digital copy on CD or DVD along with the print copy. Most of them have their own build in reader that works on PC platforms. I doubt if I will ever purchase a purely digital version of a book, but it is nice occasionally to be able to search for a term you are looking for. But it is not enough of a benefit to justify having only a digital version.
Do they really update the digital copy on the fly though? Somehow I find that unlikely. I suspect that the edition coincides with the print edition and does not change throughout the year.
According to the example provided by Amazon, you could save significantly by buying a used copy instead of renting their digital copy.
I'm sure that high school texts vary by location. Mine were all in perfectly good shape.
I'm surprised that kids these days are having to haul a lot of books around. When I was in high school, I only took books home at all maybe two or three times a week, and never more than one or two. And we didn't even have study hall back then. If I couldn't finish my homework in class, I would take my book to the next class and if I got done with that classes homework, I would work on my other classes homework. Nowadays, they have one or sometimes even two hours of study hall, so I am surprised they EVER have homework, other than an essay or something.
This is what happens when we permit a strong federal government. The founding fathers somehow missed this,
The founding fathers put all kinds of checks in place to prevent the federal government from getting too much power, in fact the balance was tipped overwhelmingly in favor of the states. It took hundreds of years of using the constitution as federal toilet paper to reverse that.
I've got a rock that prevents tiger attacks. I have never once been attacked by a tiger in all of the time that I have owned this rock. Perhaps I could sell it to the government.
Bad analogy. TSA is more like a situation where every person who enters your house carries a fire extinguisher with them, and there are public organization designed to spot and put out fires, and yet you still force everyone who enters your house to go through an extensive search to make sure they don't have any matches, lighters, paper, or two sticks that could be rubbed together.
$1000 would cover a development project to put a flag on her account to tell customer service to giver her that information when she calls.
You mean between the seat cushions in his Mercedes.
Not fuzzy at all. An associate advertises for products on their website. When someone clicks on it, the transaction is handled in entirety by Amazon. The associate holds no responsibility for the purchase, delivery, warranty or viability of the product. When the transaction takes place, Amazon pays a commission. Where the associate is located has no bearing on the sale. They could be in China. They could be like me. I live in Oklahoma, my hosting company is based in Illinois, but the servers are probably overseas or God-Knows-Where. So who gets the sales tax if I get commission on an advertised product. When Google advertises a product for sale from some company, and you go to that company and purchase that product, do you then have to pay sales tax based on Google's location? Didn't think so.
States, cities and counties make their own tax law, so they can also wheel and deal with an entity within their jurisdiction if they choose to. Wal-Mart moved into my town instead of a neighboring town because my town was willing to work them a tax deal that they liked, and on the whole it was better off for my city.
Bad manners to reply to yourself, but I was just looking into the sales tax districts in my state again, and it looks like it is even more complicated than I thought. Apparently, some tax districts don't collect use tax at all. So now you have different rates for every state, county, city and possibly zip code and also whether it is an in-state or out-of-state transaction.
It is not a competitive advantage to not collect tax. You still have to pay it, it is not Amazon's fault if you don't.
50? My relatively non-populated state has more than 100,000 taxing districts. If that relationship is linear, there is potentially 5 million tax districts. What this will lead to is extra middlemen in the middle who will take a cut of your purchase in order to figure out the correct rate to charge (probably Paypal will get into this game). However, do note that state X has no jurisdiction to ask a company that has no business presence in that state to collect sales tax for them. It is the states' responsibility to collect the use tax from the individual.
Or fix it at the federal level by saying that states can't force retailers to do their dirty work for them. My state not only forces retailers such as myself to charge sales tax and submit it to them, but I also have to PAY them for the privilege of being forced to do so.
It's a shame you posted anonymous. I agree with you. I would be interested to see the statistics of how many people who are in jail for possessing child porn have ever had sex with a child. I would like to compare that statistic to people who are in jail for having sex with a child and see how many of them have ever looked at child pornography.
People can derive pleasure from things without wanting to participate in those things, or even being disgusted at the idea of doing those things. Some people like to look at incest porn, but ask them if they would have sex with their sibling or parent. No way.
Another fallacy of child porn is that it doesn't have to involve real children. It can be just drawings of children. No children were harmed. Still illegal.
Another fallacy of child porn is that it doesn't have to involve children at all. Two 17 year olds having sex on a web cam is considered child porn even though they were both consenting and the act itself is not illegal.
Another fallacy of child porn is that it doesn't have to involve young people at all. A person of legal age to perform in a pornographic movie that dresses up with pigtails and wearing a schoolgirl outfit has been considered in some jurisdictions to be attempting to portray underage sex and deemed child pornography.
I'm all for protecting children, but these laws are not to protect children. They are there to control people.
Yes, I am confused too. The car salesmen I know usually end up driving a dealer vehicle because they can't afford their own, yet this guy has spent probably $20 million on plane tickets.
When he did hand his tray to one stewardess, another stewardess pressed a button that set off a chime in the cockpit - within 5 seconds the pilot announced and started our descent into Amsterdam.
Ascending and descending is done based up on request by ATC, not at the pilot's discretion. The pilot can tell ATC they are unable, but the fact that a first class passenger has not finished eating is not going to be an acceptable reason to waive off a request.
I have never in my life received a first class upgrade and I have flown at least a million miles.
But the true 'root' cause of these accidents is stupidity, not the device itself.
You can't outlaw stupidity. We don't have enough jails.
I know anytime I go on vacation, it causes major headaches for those that try to prevent me from being completely buried by the time I get back
Well, that is nice that they try to do that for you. I suppose a true IT person probably has a large amount of "oh crap" work that definitely someone is going to have to fix while you are gone. Server builds, RFPs, scripting chores, etc will certainly be there waiting for you when you get back.
Development really sucks. If you really are just coding, then being gone is not a hassle for the company, but it is for you because nobody else is going to do your coding while you are gone. You have to work 60 hours a week normally, if you skip a week to go on vacation, then the next week you have to work 120 just to make up for it. You will end up needing a vacation more after you take one then you did before you left.
That's why smart companies pay you so little that you can't afford to actually go anywhere, so you will probably just sit around at home and probably log in and do your job to relieve the boredom.
We had one IT person who handled keeping about 50 servers up and running, 3 or 4 domains, multiple websites, 30 laptops, 3 different FTP servers, communications with the outside agencies that were sending us data, RFPs, customer support, and who knows what else. He quit for another company where he will probably have 1/4 of the job duties, will not have to work weekends, and will get paid more. Our company has not hired a replacement yet. The first IT related issue that came up was a failed backup that occurred about 12 hours after he quit (failed on a weekend). The next one occurred about 24 hours later when a client locked their FTP account because they can't remember their password, and nobody could figure out how to reset it. They eventually had to call him and ask. That debacle resulted in about 200 hours of unpaid overtime.
Supposedly, they are interviewing replacements, but so far I think they are patting themselves on the back for saving money (about half an IT person's salary, as a guess) and spreading around his work mostly to the overworked development group, including myself, who are now getting surprisingly little development done.
Wallet believes that by the year 2015, no one will be using Paypal anymore.