The supreme irony of course is that the only reason the revolution succeeded was assistance from the French whose new ideals were of a republic and not dissimilar to the US of the time.
The French monarchy helped the United States fight the revolutionary war because of a common enemy, England. The French revolution followed America's, it didn't preceed it. And given how many people comment on how the US didn't enter WW I or WW II until it was 'late' in the war, I'm surprised you didn't mention how late the French were in joining the American revolutionary war.
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Any Mac program. If you have some text boxes, and some check boxes, you can't just tab to the check boxes...
As others have pointed out, you can enable this functionality in the disability section of the system, which as I've posted elsewhere, seems a strange place to put it.
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You're right, that does suck under Windows, I was (mentally) referring to non web based apps... We haven't had our Mac long enough to see the benefit side of it!
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Actually, I wasn't trolling. We just got an iMac for my girlfriend, and that's one of the biggest PITA's we've run into.
We'll take a look at the disabilities options. Seems strange to classify it that way.
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I didn't post the post in question, but I'll tell you one thing that sucks about the Mac UI: You cannot tab to controls other than textboxes.
If you are filling out a form that has anything other than textboxes, there is a constant switching between the keyboard and mouse, that a skilled user on Windows just doesn't have to do.
Just to quibble with your math, according to you, each nuclear weapon can destroy humanity 11 times over. Given that two weapons were dropped on Japan, I'm surprised there is anyone left over there (although to be fair, they were much less powerful than the modern city busters).
Of course, many nuclear weapons were tested in the 50s, 60s and 70s, and some of those were the monsters... and yet not only do I live, but I along with everyone else haven't been killed 11+ times over!
No, Bush did win, and that's why he got the Electoral votes. It's not like he got a thousand votes less than Gore, yet the state just decided to give it to Bush. Bush won the popular vote in Florida - period. You may not agree that it is right (I'm sure you don't), but in all the recounts that mattered, and even the ones done by the press, Bush won.
Seriously, worry about this election. Not the one that happened four years ago. You can make a difference in this one, but not the last one.
Isn't the point of the electoral college to get the politicians to pay attention to States that they might not otherwise if the election was based on a strictly popular vote?
If it was strictly popular votes, how many states wouldn't get any attention at all?
Your example above is a pretty interesting one , but as soon as you start applying 100% of the most populous state to one candidate, well, anything goes then! It's a pretty contrived situation that would never occur... I bet there are others that swing the other way.... Oh wait, just switch Bush and Gore!
Serious question - which laws were broken during 2000? The only one that I know of is when the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the date of 'validating' the votes (I forget the exact term) wasn't going to be the one in the lawbooks, but rather a date a few weeks later...
After that everything seemed to go downhill...
Are you intentionally being stupid? The United States doesn't elect the president with the popular vote, and you should know that (providing you're an American). If you don't know that, now you do, and you can stop being ignorant about it.
President Bush WON the electoral college vote count, and that is all that matters when it comes to figuring out who won the election.
If you're an American and don't like the electoral college, then start a movement to get rid of it.
One thing I don't get is why do people insist on bringing up the idea of a terrorist using a small plane to deliver a payload? It just won't work that well, and as a pilot, you know it. If a terrorist's goal was to blow up a building, just drive up a truck and blow it up. If your goal is to get into a highly secured area, chances are a puddle jumper will get taken out long before you get to your target (radar will be much better around a hardened target than just normal ATC. Better to just line up a couple of trucks and blow up roadblocks along the way. And a lot easier.
Finally, this small plane terrorist bomb can be done today. The idea of a flying car doesn't change that. Nor does it make it any easier. Someone can learn the basics of flying a small plane very easily - especially given that they don't expect to land it safely, and stealing a small plane is easier than stealing a modern car...
Care to mention any cases where a one million settlement was deemed less expensive than a vigorous legal defense?
Nope. Most settlements are sealed. But when a lawyer sues an auto manufacturer, doctor or a tobacco company, how many of the suits settle for chump change? John Edwards didn't get rich off of $5000 settlements.
corporation has been charged with intentional or grossly negligent violation
Note the 'charged with'. When you combine that with a settlement counting as a 'strike', then the reality is that they don't have to be proven negligent. In the context of this, 'charged with' does not mean criminal charges, simply that a suit 'charges' that they were negligent. Thus my examples still do work.
A settlement, consent decree, plea-bargain or similar arrangement in a criminal, civil or administrative case in which the corporation has been charged with intentional or grossly negligent violation of law in which the corporation is required to make a payment that meets or exceeds the monetary threshold in Section 40004. irrespective of whether the corporation admits or denies liability.
It isn't too hard to imagine that over the course of 10 years, 3 BS lawsuits could be brought against a company. The cases have no merit, but are settled out of court because it would be more expensive to fight them (happens all the time). If those settlements were over $1 million, bam, the company is dead.
For purposes of this title,"major violation of law" means the intentional or grossly negligent violation of any federal, state or local law in the United States that results in the imposition against the corporation of a fine, civil penalty, restitution, damages, or other monetary payment of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000) or results in the death of a person.
You have a company that manufacturers fighter jets... In the course of 10 years, you lose two test pilots and one person to a slip and fall accident. This company is now dead in California.
I am obviously not a lawyer or lawmaker, but if I can come up with these two scenarios where reponsible companies can be targeted and 'killed', I'm sure real lawyers could think of a 1,000 ways to get rid of companies that have environmental or political policies they don't like.
Oh yeah, every cigarette company would be banned too.
There was a hot spare. It took care of the first drive failure. The second drive failure was the knock out - while the array was rebuilding on the hot spare.
Hey AC Troll, do a little reading on the hoops that have to be jumped through just to get a drug approved by the FDA. A million dollars doesn't even begin to cover the costs of paperwork.
Seriously, it's not that hard to use a raid array on your server, copy the data to a backup array (or just mirror set, or even a stand alone drive), and also backup to tape. Take the tape offsite, keep the HD array onsite.
In 1999, we had a raid array with a ton of disks, and two failed within minutes of each other. Due to various mistakes, it cost about $20,000 to recover the data.
This is a troll right? Any product that sucks as badly as this one appears to deserves to be dumped on. I don't care if you gave it to me, if it sucks, it sucks.
I wonder if maybe they just had a bad unit. They didn't say anything about trying to get RoKu to replace the unit...
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The French monarchy helped the United States fight the revolutionary war because of a common enemy, England. The French revolution followed America's, it didn't preceed it. And given how many people comment on how the US didn't enter WW I or WW II until it was 'late' in the war, I'm surprised you didn't mention how late the French were in joining the American revolutionary war.
As others have pointed out, you can enable this functionality in the disability section of the system, which as I've posted elsewhere, seems a strange place to put it.
You're right, that does suck under Windows, I was (mentally) referring to non web based apps... We haven't had our Mac long enough to see the benefit side of it!
We'll take a look at the disabilities options. Seems strange to classify it that way.
If you are filling out a form that has anything other than textboxes, there is a constant switching between the keyboard and mouse, that a skilled user on Windows just doesn't have to do.
There different domains. One is speed of development and maintenance, one is speed of execution. I believe he was referring to speed of execution...
Yeah, I use a lot more than 64k of RAM. What's your point?
Just to quibble with your math, according to you, each nuclear weapon can destroy humanity 11 times over. Given that two weapons were dropped on Japan, I'm surprised there is anyone left over there (although to be fair, they were much less powerful than the modern city busters). Of course, many nuclear weapons were tested in the 50s, 60s and 70s, and some of those were the monsters... and yet not only do I live, but I along with everyone else haven't been killed 11+ times over!
Got some links to reliable sources on these things?
Seriously, worry about this election. Not the one that happened four years ago. You can make a difference in this one, but not the last one.
If it was strictly popular votes, how many states wouldn't get any attention at all?
Your example above is a pretty interesting one , but as soon as you start applying 100% of the most populous state to one candidate, well, anything goes then! It's a pretty contrived situation that would never occur... I bet there are others that swing the other way.... Oh wait, just switch Bush and Gore!
Serious question - which laws were broken during 2000? The only one that I know of is when the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the date of 'validating' the votes (I forget the exact term) wasn't going to be the one in the lawbooks, but rather a date a few weeks later... After that everything seemed to go downhill...
President Bush WON the electoral college vote count, and that is all that matters when it comes to figuring out who won the election.
If you're an American and don't like the electoral college, then start a movement to get rid of it.
You can obviously spell and type, so what's up with 'teh'?
Finally, this small plane terrorist bomb can be done today. The idea of a flying car doesn't change that. Nor does it make it any easier. Someone can learn the basics of flying a small plane very easily - especially given that they don't expect to land it safely, and stealing a small plane is easier than stealing a modern car...
The parachute is ejected from the airplane using a small rocket. It doesn't need that much altitude to work.
Nope. Most settlements are sealed. But when a lawyer sues an auto manufacturer, doctor or a tobacco company, how many of the suits settle for chump change? John Edwards didn't get rich off of $5000 settlements.
corporation has been charged with intentional or grossly negligent violation
Note the 'charged with'. When you combine that with a settlement counting as a 'strike', then the reality is that they don't have to be proven negligent. In the context of this, 'charged with' does not mean criminal charges, simply that a suit 'charges' that they were negligent. Thus my examples still do work.
It isn't too hard to imagine that over the course of 10 years, 3 BS lawsuits could be brought against a company. The cases have no merit, but are settled out of court because it would be more expensive to fight them (happens all the time). If those settlements were over $1 million, bam, the company is dead.
For purposes of this title,"major violation of law" means the intentional or grossly negligent violation of any federal, state or local law in the United States that results in the imposition against the corporation of a fine, civil penalty, restitution, damages, or other monetary payment of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000) or results in the death of a person.
You have a company that manufacturers fighter jets... In the course of 10 years, you lose two test pilots and one person to a slip and fall accident. This company is now dead in California.
I am obviously not a lawyer or lawmaker, but if I can come up with these two scenarios where reponsible companies can be targeted and 'killed', I'm sure real lawyers could think of a 1,000 ways to get rid of companies that have environmental or political policies they don't like. Oh yeah, every cigarette company would be banned too.
There was a hot spare. It took care of the first drive failure. The second drive failure was the knock out - while the array was rebuilding on the hot spare.
Hey AC Troll, do a little reading on the hoops that have to be jumped through just to get a drug approved by the FDA. A million dollars doesn't even begin to cover the costs of paperwork.
Seriously, it's not that hard to use a raid array on your server, copy the data to a backup array (or just mirror set, or even a stand alone drive), and also backup to tape. Take the tape offsite, keep the HD array onsite.
In 1999, we had a raid array with a ton of disks, and two failed within minutes of each other. Due to various mistakes, it cost about $20,000 to recover the data.
I wonder if maybe they just had a bad unit. They didn't say anything about trying to get RoKu to replace the unit...