He's not claiming Amazon hacked his browser. It's been known for ages that if two sites both use the same ad company to display ads, that your activity on both sites can be linked. He's saying Amazon is using these data to target ads on their front page.
I'm as against the growing power of government as anyone. But I believe that it's the growth of federal power which is most destructive. Even if you believe in the doctrine of incorporation, all the federal constitution says is that there must be due process. There was due process in this case. For the federal justices to barge into Connecticut and say "We just don't like what you're doing, stop it or else" would have been a greater tragedy than what did happen.
It's completely a state matter. Those people's beef was with Connecticut, not with the feds. Notice how many states enacted laws severely limiting the power of eminent domain as this was happening. Competition for freedom can work between states in this country, if the feds would just back off...
There's nothing fuzzy about what's actually happening. I can ping any random string of garbage and get a response. That's no Web-proxy problem; it's a fundamental breakage of DNS.
Wouldn't the sending email server have continued to retry for four days or so? And wouldn't the sender have gotten a notification that the message failed if it had?
haha! I wondered about that when I first played the game as a kid, but I didn't have the attention span to try it out. I'll have to fire up ScummVM and give it a whirl.
I think not being able to die in Monkey Island (and other Lucas adventures) was a big part of this. It limits the problem domain. In some of the Sierra adventures, if you hadn't done just the right thing early, you could literally be trapped with no way to proceed and no way of even knowing this was the case.
Space Quest 2 was the worst offender that I can recall. In the first scene of the game, if you don't notice a particular item and grab it, then at the end of the game you're screwed, with no idea why. You have to start over. From the beginning.
The LucasArts adventures were just so well-written and well-executed. Solvable but challenging puzzles and not being able to die are both aspects of this.
"10 to 30 times lower." What exactly does this mean? One can only guess it means 1/10th to 1/30th of the norm, but I would think a professional writer would use more precise wording...
I think that's a great idea. Interestingly, under the Confederate Constitution, the President served a single six-year term and was not eligible for re-election, just as you describe.
This seems similar to "three strikes" proposals I've seen, wherein if three bills a Senator or Congressman voted for are declared unconstitutional, he is ineligible to hold office again.
The idea being to discourage a "throw whatever at the wall and see what sticks" approach, and actually encourage them to recognize limits on their own power.
You're right, Bob. I'm sorry. What can I say? I'm a miserable, worthless hunk of slime. Here, I want you to take this brick and... just bash my head right in. Really, go ahead, please, just bash it right in.
A lot of the time, at pretty much every news outlet, we hear the inflammatory first part of the story, and then when never find out what really happened, what the other side of the story was, or how it turned out. Thanks for following up!
It's just a shift to smaller companies or self-employment; we just don't hear about it. A company laying off 10,000 people is news. 1,000 different companies hiring those people the next day isn't.
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He's not claiming Amazon hacked his browser. It's been known for ages that if two sites both use the same ad company to display ads, that your activity on both sites can be linked. He's saying Amazon is using these data to target ads on their front page.
Actually I agreed with the Kelo decision.
I'm as against the growing power of government as anyone. But I believe that it's the growth of federal power which is most destructive. Even if you believe in the doctrine of incorporation, all the federal constitution says is that there must be due process. There was due process in this case. For the federal justices to barge into Connecticut and say "We just don't like what you're doing, stop it or else" would have been a greater tragedy than what did happen.
It's completely a state matter. Those people's beef was with Connecticut, not with the feds. Notice how many states enacted laws severely limiting the power of eminent domain as this was happening. Competition for freedom can work between states in this country, if the feds would just back off...
There's nothing fuzzy about what's actually happening. I can ping any random string of garbage and get a response. That's no Web-proxy problem; it's a fundamental breakage of DNS.
Well, no argument there. :-)
You may be shooting for sarcasm here, but just in case you're not: http://packages.debian.org/stable/
Wouldn't the sending email server have continued to retry for four days or so? And wouldn't the sender have gotten a notification that the message failed if it had?
I had no idea; that's pretty scary. At least it's got no chance of happening! ...right?
If you use LVM (which you should, it's great!), you can expand and contract your swap partition as needed.
Um, why? I even read the fine article and there isn't a hint of what would be good about this approach.
haha! I wondered about that when I first played the game as a kid, but I didn't have the attention span to try it out. I'll have to fire up ScummVM and give it a whirl.
I think not being able to die in Monkey Island (and other Lucas adventures) was a big part of this. It limits the problem domain. In some of the Sierra adventures, if you hadn't done just the right thing early, you could literally be trapped with no way to proceed and no way of even knowing this was the case.
Space Quest 2 was the worst offender that I can recall. In the first scene of the game, if you don't notice a particular item and grab it, then at the end of the game you're screwed, with no idea why. You have to start over. From the beginning.
The LucasArts adventures were just so well-written and well-executed. Solvable but challenging puzzles and not being able to die are both aspects of this.
Come on, LucasArts, give us more!
"10 to 30 times lower." What exactly does this mean? One can only guess it means 1/10th to 1/30th of the norm, but I would think a professional writer would use more precise wording...
Anyone who doesn't know the difference between a singular pronoun and a plural pronoun has proven he lacks a decent education.
You deserve one; you post here all the time!
While your post was nice, I wouldn't describe it as a "great blog post". Or did you miss a link? :-)
Hey c'mon! VB.NET and no Perl?
I'm sorry, are you from the past?
There's a real word for this. I'm pretty sure "incite" is what everybody's looking for.
I think that's a great idea. Interestingly, under the Confederate Constitution, the President served a single six-year term and was not eligible for re-election, just as you describe.
This seems similar to "three strikes" proposals I've seen, wherein if three bills a Senator or Congressman voted for are declared unconstitutional, he is ineligible to hold office again.
The idea being to discourage a "throw whatever at the wall and see what sticks" approach, and actually encourage them to recognize limits on their own power.
Rosie was perched atop a single roller skate, from what I can tell and remember.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/JetYou're right, Bob. I'm sorry. What can I say? I'm a miserable, worthless hunk of slime. Here, I want you to take this brick and... just bash my head right in. Really, go ahead, please, just bash it right in.
For the Weird Al impaired: the funniest movie ever made
...to test Firefox for massive memory leaks and general instability on Linux?
A lot of the time, at pretty much every news outlet, we hear the inflammatory first part of the story, and then when never find out what really happened, what the other side of the story was, or how it turned out. Thanks for following up!
It's just a shift to smaller companies or self-employment; we just don't hear about it. A company laying off 10,000 people is news. 1,000 different companies hiring those people the next day isn't.