ALL the responses I've received to whitehouse.gov petitions have been useless, just blowing us off. I had hopes of that site (like many hopes I had with Obama in general), but that's not going to happen. It's just an outlet to vent; it will make no difference.
And DHS will just continue to do what the hell it wants to do, laws notwithstanding.
This is not good. Haven't the Ubuntu boys been watching how so many Windows applications [cough]Adobe[/cough] have tried to take over the world, do all things, and opened HUGE vulnerabilities for viruses, malware, exploitation? Yeah, the browsers too. Why do you think I have NoScript running on my Firefox browser even as we speak. And why NO Adobe programs are on my PC whatsoever (outside of Flash, which I haven't found a substitute for.. yet)?
Good idea to provide more hot spots, to provide alternatives to phone towers, that sort of thing. But why free? You don't want to have a pay phone type money slot, too vulnerable to robberies (a major problem with the traditional pay phone that always showed signs of pilfering damage). But how about, the first transaction your phone or tablet or laptop makes after making a wifi connection with that "public hot spot" is a debit, a charge? The electronic equivalent to "Deposit 25 cents please" ? You don't make the transaction, permit the mini-billing? You don't get your connection. Bidda bing...
And the user pays for his instant gratification and convenience instead of us taxpayers, thanka verra much.
I know the gang has put a lot of work into their aircraft. But I submit they need to do a test between the rotary crank they're using for their arm power.. and one or preferably two levers driving a pushrod to a wheel (a la steam locomotive / engine design). I believe a straight fore-aft motion would get much more power out of a human's arms than that clumsy-looking rotary crank motion. And you could coordinate arm and leg motions, so a push with one leg would be countered with a push with the opposite arm (and vice versa, of course).
Just saying... no, that's okay, no need to rename the aircraft after me.. or the engineering building either. I just want them to fly well.
Everything I've been reading strongly suggests that such "microsecond transaction time" trading be negated, that mandatory (and large) delays be placed in all such transactions, that they even be limited to x number per day!
And the Aussies go and encourage this crap? Shame on you, Oz.. you're usually more level-headed than that. Well, it's your market. Go ahead and screw it up, see if I care.
Actually, I'm damned near TOTALLY insensitive to damned fools who build or move into residences directly in line with hugely active military runways.
Oceana NAS has been there since 1940, LONG before Virginia Beach was.
Screw 'em.
Besides, the "shiny pictures" have nothing to do with the casualties. Not ONE casualty shot there. I suppose you, o sensitive one, are hugely disappointed at something else you can't rant about?
If I had enough truly mad money.. I'd tow her in, get her serviced, fuel her up, and sail her back to Japan.
To give back to her owners with a big red bow and a US flag:-)
I don't know if that kind of trawler (a squid trawler, probably purely coastal) has that kind of range, but I'd sure give it a shot! Hell, that must be the most seaworthy ship in all the oceans!
"The trick is that anyone who gives even a few dollars to the Obama campaign is asked if they want to keep their credit cards on file to participate in what the campaign calls 'Quick Donate.' Now donors just need to write '25,' or '10,' and that amount of dollars is immediately drawn from their credit cards. "
Neat idea! What could possibly go wrong with that?
Your email account password? That's coming, chum. If they get away with demanding Facebook, they're going to demand everything else they can get away with.
Tell them to go f*ck themselves and look for another job. If you can afford that kind of freedom. But wait! This is America! You shouldn't have to do that, right?
Riii-ight.
Damn, I know I should've saved that nice brown shirt and Sam Browne belt.
Great, so you can compare the weights of two samples to the almost infinitesimal. But how do you ensure the two samples are the same "size" ? I'm afraid your kitchen teaspoon just isn't going to hack it:-( For two finished products (e.g., those rotor blades in one of the other comments), fine. But a sample from nature?
Think of the wide range in something as simple as "eye of newt"!
If a poorly designed airbag (no matter WHERE it's installed) maims me or mine, that company will be subject to the Lawsuit From Hell.
There's no reason why a car company can't design a driver's airbag that won't maim you when you're using the most effective (repeat, MOST EFFECTIVE) steering wheel position. If they fail.. they pay for their bad engineering.
I informally suggested something very similar to this years ago, to solve a problem with local retirement and "assisted living facility" homes in the area. They were (and still are) having big problems with residents wandering out and away, missing for days, dying of exposure in nearby fields and woods, that sort of thing. And apparently no solution, since the staffs are overworked, underpaid, and often basically useless or irresponsible.
I suggested RFID tags (which is what they're talking about here, not computer chips) and an alarm or at least monitoring system. But nooooo.. too expensive, too hard to understand, too likely to put responsibility back on the home for the well-being of their residents. It never flew. Figures.
Good for the Brazzies. Kids have no expectations of privacy or freedom anyway; that's why they want to grow up.
That pub might've been operated under the name "The Hobbit" for 20 years.. but I'll bet dollars (or pounds) to donuts (or hashers) that the sign with the blatant movie character ripoffs is not nearly that old. THERE is the copyright infringement, and the owners were damned fools to put up that sign.
Take down the sign, put up something elfish or wizardry, anything that isn't readily identifiable from the LOTR movie, and THEN fight the greedy movie lawyer bastiges.
Remember the old adage (American, I do believe): "Millions for defense, not one penny for tribute." Tell those generous actors thank you very much, but we'll use your money to defend in court, not to pay tribute in the form of licensing.
Netflix, and anyone else trying to sneak or extort a forced arbitration out of me can kiss my shiny metal butt. (I lost it over Macho Grande, but never mind that for now.) If the company has a compelling reason (fair and good for both of us) to suggest arbitration, fine, let's hear it then and there. But I plan to keep my options open.
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ALL the responses I've received to whitehouse.gov petitions have been useless, just blowing us off. I had hopes of that site (like many hopes I had with Obama in general), but that's not going to happen. It's just an outlet to vent; it will make no difference.
And DHS will just continue to do what the hell it wants to do, laws notwithstanding.
This is not good. Haven't the Ubuntu boys been watching how so many Windows applications [cough]Adobe[/cough] have tried to take over the world, do all things, and opened HUGE vulnerabilities for viruses, malware, exploitation? Yeah, the browsers too. Why do you think I have NoScript running on my Firefox browser even as we speak. And why NO Adobe programs are on my PC whatsoever (outside of Flash, which I haven't found a substitute for .. yet)?
But noooo ...
Morons.
Burn 'im!
Good idea to provide more hot spots, to provide alternatives to phone towers, that sort of thing. But why free? You don't want to have a pay phone type money slot, too vulnerable to robberies (a major problem with the traditional pay phone that always showed signs of pilfering damage). But how about, the first transaction your phone or tablet or laptop makes after making a wifi connection with that "public hot spot" is a debit, a charge? The electronic equivalent to "Deposit 25 cents please" ? You don't make the transaction, permit the mini-billing? You don't get your connection. Bidda bing ...
And the user pays for his instant gratification and convenience instead of us taxpayers, thanka verra much.
"World of Warcraft" for the blind .. I can see it now. No, wait, I can't! I'M BLIND! Where's my lawyer?
Toad
I know the gang has put a lot of work into their aircraft. But I submit they need to do a test between the rotary crank they're using for their arm power .. and one or preferably two levers driving a pushrod to a wheel (a la steam locomotive / engine design). I believe a straight fore-aft motion would get much more power out of a human's arms than that clumsy-looking rotary crank motion. And you could coordinate arm and leg motions, so a push with one leg would be countered with a push with the opposite arm (and vice versa, of course).
Just saying ... no, that's okay, no need to rename the aircraft after me .. or the engineering building either. I just want them to fly well.
Everything I've been reading strongly suggests that such "microsecond transaction time" trading be negated, that mandatory (and large) delays be placed in all such transactions, that they even be limited to x number per day!
And the Aussies go and encourage this crap? Shame on you, Oz .. you're usually more level-headed than that. Well, it's your market. Go ahead and screw it up, see if I care.
Correct. Reversed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jun/15/school-meals-blogger-council-ban?newsfeed=true
That her last blog gave a score of 10 out of 10 and a very favorable review didn't hurt either.
Morons. What's come to the UK, that the knee-jerk reaction is to censor, arrest, shut down?
Go try to find that video.
Yeah .. sucker is _gone_.
It took a while, but I finally located the Sandbox Flash for Firefox and updated my Firefox.
Now I have no flash on Wired, I have no flash on Youtube, I have no flash on my forums.
Thanks a lot, Adobe, you useless shits.
"It carries 1,200 pounds of supplies for the people aboard the ISS,"
I hope that includes a large wheel of cheese.
And has anyone else noticed that the "portal" (well, the link anyway) is down?
http://skype-ip-finder.tk/abused#66677:43676:216.34.181.45:/
"Thank you for visiting
SKYPE-IP-FINDER.TK
This domain and website have been suspended because of abuse or copyright reasons."
I see. And the stalker who's actually doing all the spamming? Gets away free, right?
Oh yeah, that's fair.
Screw kickstarters and go somewhere else, or assume an alias.
Actually, I'm damned near TOTALLY insensitive to damned fools who build or move into residences directly in line with hugely active military runways.
Oceana NAS has been there since 1940, LONG before Virginia Beach was.
Screw 'em.
Besides, the "shiny pictures" have nothing to do with the casualties. Not ONE casualty shot there. I suppose you, o sensitive one, are hugely disappointed at something else you can't rant about?
[ptui]
If I had enough truly mad money .. I'd tow her in, get her serviced, fuel her up, and sail her back to Japan.
To give back to her owners with a big red bow and a US flag :-)
I don't know if that kind of trawler (a squid trawler, probably purely coastal) has that kind of range, but I'd sure give it a shot! Hell, that must be the most seaworthy ship in all the oceans!
than your beloved political party!
"The trick is that anyone who gives even a few dollars to the Obama campaign is asked if they want to keep their credit cards on file to participate in what the campaign calls 'Quick Donate.' Now donors just need to write '25,' or '10,' and that amount of dollars is immediately drawn from their credit cards. "
Neat idea! What could possibly go wrong with that?
Your email account password? That's coming, chum. If they get away with demanding Facebook, they're going to demand everything else they can get away with.
Tell them to go f*ck themselves and look for another job. If you can afford that kind of freedom. But wait! This is America! You shouldn't have to do that, right?
Riii-ight.
Damn, I know I should've saved that nice brown shirt and Sam Browne belt.
I've created mine. Any future employers are NOT going to be happy with good old Toaderix Vandalrix.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003681319432
Well, if they demand my account information, they deserve what they get. [ptui, may they rot in hell]
Great, so you can compare the weights of two samples to the almost infinitesimal. But how do you ensure the two samples are the same "size" ? I'm afraid your kitchen teaspoon just isn't going to hack it :-( For two finished products (e.g., those rotor blades in one of the other comments), fine. But a sample from nature?
Think of the wide range in something as simple as "eye of newt"!
If a poorly designed airbag (no matter WHERE it's installed) maims me or mine, that company will be subject to the Lawsuit From Hell.
There's no reason why a car company can't design a driver's airbag that won't maim you when you're using the most effective (repeat, MOST EFFECTIVE) steering wheel position. If they fail .. they pay for their bad engineering.
I informally suggested something very similar to this years ago, to solve a problem with local retirement and "assisted living facility" homes in the area. They were (and still are) having big problems with residents wandering out and away, missing for days, dying of exposure in nearby fields and woods, that sort of thing. And apparently no solution, since the staffs are overworked, underpaid, and often basically useless or irresponsible.
I suggested RFID tags (which is what they're talking about here, not computer chips) and an alarm or at least monitoring system. But nooooo .. too expensive, too hard to understand, too likely to put responsibility back on the home for the well-being of their residents. It never flew. Figures.
Good for the Brazzies. Kids have no expectations of privacy or freedom anyway; that's why they want to grow up.
That pub might've been operated under the name "The Hobbit" for 20 years .. but I'll bet dollars (or pounds) to donuts (or hashers) that the sign with the blatant movie character ripoffs is not nearly that old. THERE is the copyright infringement, and the owners were damned fools to put up that sign.
Take down the sign, put up something elfish or wizardry, anything that isn't readily identifiable from the LOTR movie, and THEN fight the greedy movie lawyer bastiges.
Remember the old adage (American, I do believe): "Millions for defense, not one penny for tribute." Tell those generous actors thank you very much, but we'll use your money to defend in court, not to pay tribute in the form of licensing.
Toad
Netflix, and anyone else trying to sneak or extort a forced arbitration out of me can kiss my shiny metal butt. (I lost it over Macho Grande, but never mind that for now.) If the company has a compelling reason (fair and good for both of us) to suggest arbitration, fine, let's hear it then and there. But I plan to keep my options open.
Yeah, but do you want to be the guy who has to sit there counting that neutron going past?
A guy could ruin his eyes with that sort of fine work.
CmdrTaco has a mainstream job, The End Is Near ... and you all are raving on about Apples and iPods! Focus, people, focus!
I think the above comment is most appropriate:
"I for one welcome our new Washington Post Overlords!"