In my area, by the time the cop is behind you, he has already captured your speed. As such, around here, your story does not disprove the idea that speedometers are calibrated low.
There are many, many, places in this area now where "Your speed is.." signs have been permanantly installed. These include EZ-Pass toll lanes (with speed limits of 5 or 15 mph), and a few tricky highway ramps where trucks have been known to tip over for years (95 north -> 80 west, local lanes, for one). Temporary "Your speed is.." signs are moved around by the county police to various "trouble" locations where people routinely speed.
My point is that I frequently see my speed as measured by a device other than my speedometer, and in all cases I can recall, the speedometer always shows higher than the signs.
Yup. And that's why it is targetted, just like Napster was. RIAA and others couldn't care about the 50,000 people trading on IRC, BT, and other services. They know that you are smart enough to come up with a new way to avoid them, even if it means a lot more work for you. They care about the 10 million that use Kazaa, a program that a monkey can have up and downloading within 1 minute.
Most services like to provide you with a "Users Online" metric, so you can feel cool (and you get that sense of security that comes with breaking the law en masse). I wouldn't be surprised if these statistics are based on some guy logging onto Kazaa and writing down the number of Users and Bytes online. At least we know someone was working over the holiday weekend.
I didn't reply to this post when it was AC, but will now.
The example sounds great on its face, but ignores a major factor of Iran-Contra. President Reagan and Vice-President Bush narrowly escaped the affair unscathed. Iran-Contra wasn't something that people looked at and said "oh well." They were pissed! If you recall, there were televised hearings on the matters (Tower Commission).
Just as some of us may be naieve to believe there is no "off the books" spending (I did not mean to imply that I believe that), some of us are too paranoid to believe that the government learned its lesson the last time it tried something crazy, illegal and stupid for a little funding. Remember, North and Poindexter were indicted, and Poindexter was convicted on charges, but did not serve any time.
In short: The last time the Executive branch attempted to end-around Congress, Congress bitch-slapped them back. Saying that something like this "could happen again" is like saying "Hey, maybe this year Bush will break into the DNC headquarters, it happened before!" It won't happen again.
who really thinks that the DoD/CIA/NSA/FBI couldnt come up with the money
That's just it. For the most part, they can't do things like this because spending is allocated by Congress. Money isn't just thrown out as "400$ million for FBI" and that's it. The expenditures are broken down, and aside from some DoD/Military spending, mostly public. Note that Congress still maintains oversight of this spending, it is just not public, for security reasons. This is how many leaks about the F-117 and B-2 projects came out; through Congressional offices that had oversight on the project.
The Federal Budget is a law passed by Congress every year. Agencies cannot just reallocate the money as they see fit. This "Power of the Purse" is probably the greatest power that the Congress currently has. It has used this power to enact a national drinking age, by witholding highway funds to states that don't comply. I believe it was also used recently against states with medicinal marijuana laws, but could not find an article confirming this.
The people suggesting that this program will just "reappear" are misguided, not "insightful". No agency would attempt to piss off Congress like that. The TIA is dead for FY2004, assuming the bill passes unmodified. Whether it stays dead will remain to be seen.
No one is arguing that states and the people should be able to make ANY laws. The issues that are most frequently associated with states rights (gun control, drugs, abortion, asst. suicide, etc.) are all legal under the Constitution. The examples that some people come up with, such as segregation laws that were deemed unconstitutional, or hypothetical laws legalizing everything, are no longer legally realistic, and as such are not subject to be included in the debate.
(Not only that, but the average person born in the US probably doesn't realize how they are getting reamed due to their ignorance of the metric system -- but that's a slight tangent.)
Dunno about your office, but my company still uses Xerox for all document services. Our main office even has small Xerox store in the office for complex report preparation and other services, the cost of which then gets charged to clients, of course. Their name may have been rendered generic, but people still use them to make copies. Lots of people.
Awful. Utterly Awful. You invite the government to invade your privacy?
The problem with your argument of 'just don't do anything wrong' is that the idea of "wrong" can CHANGE. One day, sitting on the couch scratching your balls may become illegal, but because people like you 50 years ago said "I don't do anything wrong, search me all you want", random full-house searches became acceptable to society at large. All of the sudden the authorities knock down the door and spy you in the most unconscionable of acts. 'We must stop terrorism', you said. 'Surely if this doesn't bother me, it can't be bad', you said. Perhaps the founders of this country shouldn't have been breaking the law and then attempting to get out of it by making searches illegal. They should have just followed the law, and stayed British subjects under the great king!
"Get used to it"? Not on my life. And not on yours if you had a shred of sense.
The situation you talk about has nothing to do with MS. If DoD had contracted IBM for Linux services, IBM would also enjoy the same tax breaks that ALL CORPORATIONS recieve. You are combining two wholly separate issues, The gov't choosing MS, and the gov't paying a corporation half a billion. They need the software either way. (save me the linux is free argument)
1. The DoD isnt a software company
2. The DoD is a gigantic bureaucracy. It would take at least 10 years to do what you describe. By buying from a corporation, they can have it tomorrow.
3. If DoD took all the time to do this, they would probably not release it public. It's possible they would release a binary of it, but not a chance for source.
4. Why reinvent the wheel? I'm not saying Windows is the greatest thing ever, but there are plenty of OSes, and DoD doesn't need to add their own.
Yes, I know humans will make mistakes, but questionable/bad calls are part of the game. The small bit of randomness that can have a surprise effect.
Yeah I just love when that "surprise effect" is my team getting tossed out of the playoffs because of a bonehead official (NY Giants vs. SF Niners). Really helps out the game.
"Bad" calls must be reduced to zero. If this is done through electronic means, video replay, more officials, it doesn't matter. Bad calls are horrible for any sport when there are 6 angles on the TV showing how wrong the officials were.
"Questionable" calls, by their nature, are subjective, and will always exist. Attempts should be made to minimize them, but obviously this isn't possible in all cases.
Actually, IIRC, Volvo closed its NJ-based USA office, and moved to California. There was an issue of Volvo Magazine which detailed their drive across the country.
If you view the addresses at volvo.com, and at volvocars.com, you'll see they still have an extremely large Swedish presence. In fact, they still have (201) phone numbers listed, so perhaps they have kept some of the NJ operation around as well.
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In my area, by the time the cop is behind you, he has already captured your speed. As such, around here, your story does not disprove the idea that speedometers are calibrated low.
There are many, many, places in this area now where "Your speed is.." signs have been permanantly installed. These include EZ-Pass toll lanes (with speed limits of 5 or 15 mph), and a few tricky highway ramps where trucks have been known to tip over for years (95 north -> 80 west, local lanes, for one). Temporary "Your speed is.." signs are moved around by the county police to various "trouble" locations where people routinely speed.
My point is that I frequently see my speed as measured by a device other than my speedometer, and in all cases I can recall, the speedometer always shows higher than the signs.
"Enabling software" refers, I believe, to software which must put some language in a disclaimer to users. It does not mean the software is illegal.
Kazaa mostly applies to the ignorant public.
Yup. And that's why it is targetted, just like Napster was. RIAA and others couldn't care about the 50,000 people trading on IRC, BT, and other services. They know that you are smart enough to come up with a new way to avoid them, even if it means a lot more work for you. They care about the 10 million that use Kazaa, a program that a monkey can have up and downloading within 1 minute.
Most services like to provide you with a "Users Online" metric, so you can feel cool (and you get that sense of security that comes with breaking the law en masse). I wouldn't be surprised if these statistics are based on some guy logging onto Kazaa and writing down the number of Users and Bytes online. At least we know someone was working over the holiday weekend.
I didn't reply to this post when it was AC, but will now.
The example sounds great on its face, but ignores a major factor of Iran-Contra. President Reagan and Vice-President Bush narrowly escaped the affair unscathed. Iran-Contra wasn't something that people looked at and said "oh well." They were pissed! If you recall, there were televised hearings on the matters (Tower Commission).
Just as some of us may be naieve to believe there is no "off the books" spending (I did not mean to imply that I believe that), some of us are too paranoid to believe that the government learned its lesson the last time it tried something crazy, illegal and stupid for a little funding. Remember, North and Poindexter were indicted, and Poindexter was convicted on charges, but did not serve any time.
In short: The last time the Executive branch attempted to end-around Congress, Congress bitch-slapped them back. Saying that something like this "could happen again" is like saying "Hey, maybe this year Bush will break into the DNC headquarters, it happened before!" It won't happen again.
who really thinks that the DoD/CIA/NSA/FBI couldnt come up with the money
That's just it. For the most part, they can't do things like this because spending is allocated by Congress. Money isn't just thrown out as "400$ million for FBI" and that's it. The expenditures are broken down, and aside from some DoD/Military spending, mostly public. Note that Congress still maintains oversight of this spending, it is just not public, for security reasons. This is how many leaks about the F-117 and B-2 projects came out; through Congressional offices that had oversight on the project.
The Federal Budget is a law passed by Congress every year. Agencies cannot just reallocate the money as they see fit. This "Power of the Purse" is probably the greatest power that the Congress currently has. It has used this power to enact a national drinking age, by witholding highway funds to states that don't comply. I believe it was also used recently against states with medicinal marijuana laws, but could not find an article confirming this.
The people suggesting that this program will just "reappear" are misguided, not "insightful". No agency would attempt to piss off Congress like that. The TIA is dead for FY2004, assuming the bill passes unmodified. Whether it stays dead will remain to be seen.
I'm too lazy to do the work, but isn't this something that should already be publicly available?
Interestingly enough, Laura Bush, the First Lady, is a former Librarian. I wonder how she feels about PATRIOT...
No one is arguing that states and the people should be able to make ANY laws. The issues that are most frequently associated with states rights (gun control, drugs, abortion, asst. suicide, etc.) are all legal under the Constitution. The examples that some people come up with, such as segregation laws that were deemed unconstitutional, or hypothetical laws legalizing everything, are no longer legally realistic, and as such are not subject to be included in the debate.
(Not only that, but the average person born in the US probably doesn't realize how they are getting reamed due to their ignorance of the metric system -- but that's a slight tangent.)
Oh do tell.. I'd love to hear this one.
Dunno about your office, but my company still uses Xerox for all document services. Our main office even has small Xerox store in the office for complex report preparation and other services, the cost of which then gets charged to clients, of course. Their name may have been rendered generic, but people still use them to make copies. Lots of people.
Assuming it works on your system. I have dual monitors and using F11 only gets me a ~50x25 rectangle in the top left corner of my primary monitor.
Without using shift, the browser will still used cached images. Therein lies the difference.
Also, there's a slight chance that hitting F5 is the equivalent of shift+clicking reload.
1. I did realize that, but it's too late once you hit submit.
2. If you're going to insult brain function, do some proofreading.
psst, that was the point.
Awful. Utterly Awful. You invite the government to invade your privacy?
The problem with your argument of 'just don't do anything wrong' is that the idea of "wrong" can CHANGE. One day, sitting on the couch scratching your balls may become illegal, but because people like you 50 years ago said "I don't do anything wrong, search me all you want", random full-house searches became acceptable to society at large. All of the sudden the authorities knock down the door and spy you in the most unconscionable of acts. 'We must stop terrorism', you said. 'Surely if this doesn't bother me, it can't be bad', you said. Perhaps the founders of this country shouldn't have been breaking the law and then attempting to get out of it by making searches illegal. They should have just followed the law, and stayed British subjects under the great king!
"Get used to it"? Not on my life. And not on yours if you had a shred of sense.
READ, dammit! It is the same radiation as sunshine. Are you afraid to go outside too?
The Wired link is the AP story, just like the link you provide.
Okay, but a 486 isn't this size. Perhaps you missed the significance of this article...
The situation you talk about has nothing to do with MS. If DoD had contracted IBM for Linux services, IBM would also enjoy the same tax breaks that ALL CORPORATIONS recieve. You are combining two wholly separate issues, The gov't choosing MS, and the gov't paying a corporation half a billion. They need the software either way. (save me the linux is free argument)
1. The DoD isnt a software company
2. The DoD is a gigantic bureaucracy. It would take at least 10 years to do what you describe. By buying from a corporation, they can have it tomorrow.
3. If DoD took all the time to do this, they would probably not release it public. It's possible they would release a binary of it, but not a chance for source.
4. Why reinvent the wheel? I'm not saying Windows is the greatest thing ever, but there are plenty of OSes, and DoD doesn't need to add their own.
Here for your select all preference. As for the cursor "hovering", I cannot say I've had the same problem.
As well as Ctrl+L, Alt+D will also get you right to the address bar. This is originally an IE shortcut, where Ctrl+L is a netscape shortcut IIRC.
Yes, I know humans will make mistakes, but questionable/bad calls are part of the game. The small bit of randomness that can have a surprise effect.
Yeah I just love when that "surprise effect" is my team getting tossed out of the playoffs because of a bonehead official (NY Giants vs. SF Niners). Really helps out the game.
"Bad" calls must be reduced to zero. If this is done through electronic means, video replay, more officials, it doesn't matter. Bad calls are horrible for any sport when there are 6 angles on the TV showing how wrong the officials were.
"Questionable" calls, by their nature, are subjective, and will always exist. Attempts should be made to minimize them, but obviously this isn't possible in all cases.
Actually, IIRC, Volvo closed its NJ-based USA office, and moved to California. There was an issue of Volvo Magazine which detailed their drive across the country.
If you view the addresses at volvo.com, and at volvocars.com, you'll see they still have an extremely large Swedish presence. In fact, they still have (201) phone numbers listed, so perhaps they have kept some of the NJ operation around as well.