...it's obvious that not a lot of Americans will vote Republican again.
Sadly, I made the same prediction in 2004. "Surely, Americans aren't so stupid that we aren't going elect this same batch of bozos again."
Apparently, we are.
Looks like McCain is doing pretty good in the polls, now too. Even people I know who claim to regret voting for Bush are now planning to vote for McCain.
"Sure, he's got all the exact same policies, but he says he'll do them right this time!"
"The real dangerous stuff" is "...knives, chisels and bolt cutters..."
I have all of those in my home, too. Along with even more dangerous stuff like shovels, hedge clippers, wire cutters, electronics tools, chemicals, an axe, a lawnmower and a couple of rakes.
I also have a good deal of satirical materials, including a card game about Nuclear War.
And I've even been involved in "climate protests" - there are even pictures of me online before the Iraq invasion carrying a mass-made sign proclaiming "Go solar, not ballistic".
Yet, it's never even occurred to me to try to "break into and probably sabotage a power plant". Not even when I lived near one.
Does your employer have a charging station for electric cars? Mine doesn't. I doubt that many do.
Not many, probably, but some do.
My current company doesn't have any, but my last one had two, right next to the handicapped spots.
At least some of the BART parking garages in the SF Bay Area have them, as well.
And, the more people start driving electric cars, the more there will be.
Any place people park at for a while can put in a charging station and almost immediately start making a profit off of both charging people to charge there as well as the extra draw such places will have. I'm guessing Starbucks will be one of the first, followed very shortly by laundromats and movie theaters.
So it's not worth doing because it takes 7 years to pay for itself? (Assuming, of course, that the price of gasoline never goes up again, and not counting the DMV fees saved (no DEQ testing required for registration anymore), the time saved by now being able to use the HOV lanes in most cities and not having to ever stop at a gas station again, etc.)
This is also, of course, assuming that saving money is the only reason someone would have to do something like this...
Several years ago, when a meteor was discovered in Antarctica that may have evidence of life on Mars, I was watching the TV news coverage of it.
At one point, a reporter interviewed a Catholic priest and asked him what he thought the implications were, for his beliefs, Christianity, and the Bible, if it turns out that there was life on other planets.
I loved his response: "I guess it would mean that God is bigger than some people give him credit for."
Here's a guy with a proven attitude of wanting to learn. Undergrad student, but already has work experience in relevant fields.
He's willing to work hard, step outside his comfort zone, take a risk trying something different, and experience a new culture all at the same time.
I'd much rather have him here than you.
That said, though, check out the J-1 Visa. I have no idea how to actually go about getting one, but it's far, far easier to do than a H1B. It's specifically geared for international student workers/internships and thus focused on short term workers. Contacting the local US Embassy can get you started on what the requirements and expectations will be.
As for trying to find an actual job over here, try contacting the companies directly. Explain what you want and see if they have anything to offer. You might also try any international companies that have offices both in the U.S. and in your local area.
I've purchased software there a couple of times and returned it within a couple of days and got my money back. Once because after I got home I discovered the software won't run at all on the 64-bit version of XP, another was a game that I thought was an RPG but wasn't. Both times, entirely my fault (arguably, with the game - the box grossly misrepresented itself) but they still refunded the purchase when I returned the items.
John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan that will create millions of good American jobs, ensure our nation's energy security, get the government's budget and spending practices in order, and bring relief to American consumers.
no one logged into the computer... therefore, no unauthorized person has obtained any personal information.
So that's it? They don't even consider that there may be other ways of accessing the data aside from logging in to the computer?
The spokesman knows nothing about security at all. Perhaps he shouldn't have put forth this bit of speculation as fact. Or, perhaps nobody at the company really understands that logging in is not a necessary step, or even common, step in stealing the data.
It just kind of shows that Clear, however they try to sell it, has nothing to do with security at all. It's just a way to let people pay more to have their own special shorter lines at the airport.
Man, the "unsend" feature is my favorite part of Outlook.
Unfortunately, it only works right if everyone you sent the email to is also using outlook. Otherwise, you just get a second message saying the sender wants to recall the first.
But again, Cortez didn't conquer Mexico for religion, he did it for the gold.
Check out Bishop Diego de Landa some time.
Same time period, and he's the reason why, out of possibly tens of thousands of Mayan books, there are only four in existence today.
Slaughtering the people and gathering the gold may not have been a purely religious act (though Cortez certainly invoked religion frequently enough), but it's pretty hard to cast an auto de fe as anything but.
It's not just the Church of Scientology, or any other external group that might go through the courts to force Slashdot to remove content.
It's that Slashdot itself can, at any time, decide to delete posts and opinions they don't like.
Now, to my knowledge, they haven't ever done that. And perhaps, yeah, the current people running it are all great folks that we can trust completely not to ever do something like that. But the fact remains that they could.
And who could blame them if they did? After all, as numerous people like to point out every time some other forum starts censoring posts, "It's their servers, they can do what they like."
The nice thing about usenet is, it's not owned by anyone. No commercial entity can actually censor it. Sure, there's lots of ways to mess with the system to destroy posts you don't like, but there's equally as many ways to work around them.
And, as the article points out, due to its decentralized nature, as long as anyone wants to keep it going, it really can't be killed.
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I don't know about the alien.vampire thing, but the three-times repetition has its origins in the Muppet Show, with the Swedish Chef, who would end sentences with "bork bork bork". After alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork was created, many groups quickly emulated it.
Also, being alt.* groups, nobody proposed them, they just sent a create message, which could be carried or ignored by everybody else at will.
At least that was how I remember it, but I didn't get onto usenet until 1985, well after its creation.
I second (third? fiftieth? whatever) getting into martial arts.
For all the reasons mentioned above. I dropped gym memberships in the past because I could never get motivated to actually go. I've been doing Aikido for about nine months now and can heartily recommend it. We have scheduled classes, and I always end up being pushed a little farther than I really want to be, but so far, never too far. You really can work at about your own pace.
One of the things I really like about aikido specifically is that we don't actually spar - I could never really get into the constant competition of the arts where that's important. In most traditions of aikido there are no competitions at all.
Scope a place out a bit first to see if you like it. Most dojos should let you watch a class or two before deciding whether to join, and possibly participate in one as well. If, like me, you've never really gotten much exercise before, prepare for some pain in the beginning. But it is definitely worth it.
Paper trails can do more than "print it out and have you look at it."
And dismissing it as a "computers are scary" mentality is just silly when you're talking about the majority of Slashdot users.
The point of a paper trail is that the paper is kept. It is available. If, for example, pre-vote polling was showing candidates A, B, and C getting about 45%, 45%, and 5% of the votes respectively in one county, but the machines registered A=45%, B=5% and c=45% instead, you could, in theory, ask for a recount. If there's a paper trail, you can look at it to see what actually happened there (Database error? Or did all the Republicans really suddenly decide to vote for the Socialist candidate instead?) Without one, you will never know.
Open source is certainly a step in the right direction. But that alone isn't enough.
Which seems like it would be a great business model.
I don't think Hasbro could get a better deal then have somebody else do all the development work up front, and then they can make a decision to buy it or not based on the completed work, rather than pay someone up front for an uncertain product.
The second way is what they decided to do, and from the review it looks like they ended up spending more money for an inferior product. Not to mention the bad publicity.
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Sadly, I made the same prediction in 2004. "Surely, Americans aren't so stupid that we aren't going elect this same batch of bozos again."
Apparently, we are.
Looks like McCain is doing pretty good in the polls, now too. Even people I know who claim to regret voting for Bush are now planning to vote for McCain.
"Sure, he's got all the exact same policies, but he says he'll do them right this time!"
"The real dangerous stuff" is "...knives, chisels and bolt cutters..."
I have all of those in my home, too. Along with even more dangerous stuff like shovels, hedge clippers, wire cutters, electronics tools, chemicals, an axe, a lawnmower and a couple of rakes.
I also have a good deal of satirical materials, including a card game about Nuclear War.
And I've even been involved in "climate protests" - there are even pictures of me online before the Iraq invasion carrying a mass-made sign proclaiming "Go solar, not ballistic".
Yet, it's never even occurred to me to try to "break into and probably sabotage a power plant". Not even when I lived near one.
Perhaps I'm safe because I don't own a balaclava?
Not many, probably, but some do.
My current company doesn't have any, but my last one had two, right next to the handicapped spots.
At least some of the BART parking garages in the SF Bay Area have them, as well.
And, the more people start driving electric cars, the more there will be.
Any place people park at for a while can put in a charging station and almost immediately start making a profit off of both charging people to charge there as well as the extra draw such places will have. I'm guessing Starbucks will be one of the first, followed very shortly by laundromats and movie theaters.
So it's not worth doing because it takes 7 years to pay for itself? (Assuming, of course, that the price of gasoline never goes up again, and not counting the DMV fees saved (no DEQ testing required for registration anymore), the time saved by now being able to use the HOV lanes in most cities and not having to ever stop at a gas station again, etc.)
This is also, of course, assuming that saving money is the only reason someone would have to do something like this...
If it isn't now, it will be.
Several years ago, when a meteor was discovered in Antarctica that may have evidence of life on Mars, I was watching the TV news coverage of it.
At one point, a reporter interviewed a Catholic priest and asked him what he thought the implications were, for his beliefs, Christianity, and the Bible, if it turns out that there was life on other planets.
I loved his response: "I guess it would mean that God is bigger than some people give him credit for."
Speak for yourself.
Here's a guy with a proven attitude of wanting to learn. Undergrad student, but already has work experience in relevant fields.
He's willing to work hard, step outside his comfort zone, take a risk trying something different, and experience a new culture all at the same time.
I'd much rather have him here than you.
That said, though, check out the J-1 Visa. I have no idea how to actually go about getting one, but it's far, far easier to do than a H1B. It's specifically geared for international student workers/internships and thus focused on short term workers. Contacting the local US Embassy can get you started on what the requirements and expectations will be.
As for trying to find an actual job over here, try contacting the companies directly. Explain what you want and see if they have anything to offer. You might also try any international companies that have offices both in the U.S. and in your local area.
Good luck!
Fry's will do it for you.
I've purchased software there a couple of times and returned it within a couple of days and got my money back. Once because after I got home I discovered the software won't run at all on the 64-bit version of XP, another was a game that I thought was an RPG but wasn't. Both times, entirely my fault (arguably, with the game - the box grossly misrepresented itself) but they still refunded the purchase when I returned the items.
Just like Bush did! Yay!!
So that's it? They don't even consider that there may be other ways of accessing the data aside from logging in to the computer?
The spokesman knows nothing about security at all. Perhaps he shouldn't have put forth this bit of speculation as fact. Or, perhaps nobody at the company really understands that logging in is not a necessary step, or even common, step in stealing the data.
It just kind of shows that Clear, however they try to sell it, has nothing to do with security at all. It's just a way to let people pay more to have their own special shorter lines at the airport.
You had confidence in Clear to begin with?
Why?
Man, the "unsend" feature is my favorite part of Outlook.
Unfortunately, it only works right if everyone you sent the email to is also using outlook. Otherwise, you just get a second message saying the sender wants to recall the first.
They need a COBOL programmer to assign everybody's wages to minimum.
But when he's done, whatever he sets his own wages to, he'll apparently be the only one who can change it.
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I'm suing all y'all!
Check out Bishop Diego de Landa some time.
Same time period, and he's the reason why, out of possibly tens of thousands of Mayan books, there are only four in existence today.
Slaughtering the people and gathering the gold may not have been a purely religious act (though Cortez certainly invoked religion frequently enough), but it's pretty hard to cast an auto de fe as anything but.
It was either that, or he was shot trying to escape.
The report took a while to make sure.
The earliest "Imminent death of the net" posts I can remember are from 1985.
But that's probably only because I wasn't around before then. :)
It's not just the Church of Scientology, or any other external group that might go through the courts to force Slashdot to remove content.
It's that Slashdot itself can, at any time, decide to delete posts and opinions they don't like.
Now, to my knowledge, they haven't ever done that. And perhaps, yeah, the current people running it are all great folks that we can trust completely not to ever do something like that. But the fact remains that they could.
And who could blame them if they did? After all, as numerous people like to point out every time some other forum starts censoring posts, "It's their servers, they can do what they like."
The nice thing about usenet is, it's not owned by anyone. No commercial entity can actually censor it. Sure, there's lots of ways to mess with the system to destroy posts you don't like, but there's equally as many ways to work around them.
And, as the article points out, due to its decentralized nature, as long as anyone wants to keep it going, it really can't be killed.
I don't know about the alien.vampire thing, but the three-times repetition has its origins in the Muppet Show, with the Swedish Chef, who would end sentences with "bork bork bork". After alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork was created, many groups quickly emulated it.
Also, being alt.* groups, nobody proposed them, they just sent a create message, which could be carried or ignored by everybody else at will.
At least that was how I remember it, but I didn't get onto usenet until 1985, well after its creation.
I second (third? fiftieth? whatever) getting into martial arts.
For all the reasons mentioned above. I dropped gym memberships in the past because I could never get motivated to actually go. I've been doing Aikido for about nine months now and can heartily recommend it. We have scheduled classes, and I always end up being pushed a little farther than I really want to be, but so far, never too far. You really can work at about your own pace.
One of the things I really like about aikido specifically is that we don't actually spar - I could never really get into the constant competition of the arts where that's important. In most traditions of aikido there are no competitions at all.
Scope a place out a bit first to see if you like it. Most dojos should let you watch a class or two before deciding whether to join, and possibly participate in one as well. If, like me, you've never really gotten much exercise before, prepare for some pain in the beginning. But it is definitely worth it.
Just bike home from work, instead?
Paper trails can do more than "print it out and have you look at it."
And dismissing it as a "computers are scary" mentality is just silly when you're talking about the majority of Slashdot users.
The point of a paper trail is that the paper is kept. It is available. If, for example, pre-vote polling was showing candidates A, B, and C getting about 45%, 45%, and 5% of the votes respectively in one county, but the machines registered A=45%, B=5% and c=45% instead, you could, in theory, ask for a recount. If there's a paper trail, you can look at it to see what actually happened there (Database error? Or did all the Republicans really suddenly decide to vote for the Socialist candidate instead?) Without one, you will never know.
Open source is certainly a step in the right direction. But that alone isn't enough.
This attests more to your skill as a writer of ad copy than to the quality of the system.
I'd bet that close to 100% of them use Slashdot.
Which seems like it would be a great business model.
I don't think Hasbro could get a better deal then have somebody else do all the development work up front, and then they can make a decision to buy it or not based on the completed work, rather than pay someone up front for an uncertain product.
The second way is what they decided to do, and from the review it looks like they ended up spending more money for an inferior product. Not to mention the bad publicity.