Actually, it was the British who controlled Iraq. The British got Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. The French got Lebanon and Syria. Kuwait was a semi-independent sheikdom under the protection of the British, and Iran (then known as Persia) was an independent country.
There have also been programs to make artificial reefs with tires, making great fish habitats (if done properly that is).
Yes, indeed. Tire reefs do have to be done properly. I heard an interesting story about a month ago on National Public Radio about an artificial reef off the coast of Florida. Apparently the thing consists of over a million old tires and the geniuses who constructed it back in the 1960s used steel chains to tie bunches of them together. Over the years, the chains corroded and broke, and currents and storm surges caused the loose tires to roll all over the seafloor and wash up on Florida beaches.
Almost no coral has grown on these tires because they are moving around so much, and now there is now an expensive cleanup effort underway to clean up over a million tires scattered all over the sea floor. It was a good idea, but a very poor implementation. Steel chains don't exactly last forever under the ocean.
You may be doubtful, but it's true that Richmond is a really, really, bad place to be. I live as far away as Sacramento and Richmond is well-known for being a place where horrible violence and murder takes place daily. The really poor people in the Bay Area tend to end up in Richmond, because it's just too expensive anywhere else in the area. My wife used to know someone in Richmond, and she has told me some pretty horrible stories about what goes on there.
It may not have a national reputation, but it's really a bad place to be. It's definitely the worst area in Northern California, only to be rivaled by some areas of Los Angeles. It makes the bad areas of Sacramento look like Disneyland.
In the Bay Area, 55K is not that much, due to the cost of living being so high. It probably is just enough to pay for a small apartment, an older car, and food. There won't be much left over after that, particularly if a family is involved.
A job managing 20 people, however, can be good experience. If I were the grandparent poster, I might use that as a stepping stone to a better job: especially if jobs were hard to come by.
I think ordinary citizens are too busy playing SimCity to get involved with this. This software won't have a chance against SimCity until they implement some decent disasters (Tornado, Nuclear Meltdown, Godzilla) that the user can unleash upon the city while laughing.
I would fit into the category of people who are interested in this marathon. I've heard all the buzz about Firefly here on Slashdot, but I haven't got around to seeing it, mainly because it's not at the top of my list of things to do.
I am still interested in seeing it, and I don't know any Firefly fans who have the DVDs. So that makes this marathon very interesting to me.
If I remember when I get home, I'm going to set my Tivo to record all the episodes and watch them at my leisure. Then I will possibly go rent Serenity if I find the series interesting enough.
Ja..and did you know that Hungary is a nation wealthy in foodstuff.
Throughout history there has never been an extended period of hunger.
There was always plenty of food, and the weather was kind too.
Well, there was that period in the 1200s after the Mongols tore through Hungary and killed off something like a third of the population. Starvation was pretty common because the peasants were either dead or hiding in the woods, so no food was being produced. That, however, is pretty much ancient history.
That said, Hungary is quite a productive agricultural country. I spent six weeks there one summer traveling around, seeing the sights (and practicing my rudimentary Hungarian), and I fondly remember the good food. The juicy, sweet peaches left a lasting impression on me, and I sure would like to go back to Eger for the great wine. Once on a train, a few elderly women shared their pogacsa (little bread roll type thingies) with me, and I absolutely loved them.
In my opinion, Hungarian wine is quite underrated.
How ironic. Just this morning, I was attempting to clean one of their pieces of crap, ABetterInternet, off of my wife's computer. They have made it really difficult to find their stuff and clean it off. It was a few hours before I had even identified what exactly it was, and although Adaware was aware of its existence, it was unable to remove it.
Norton Antivirus was completely useless. I'm going to have to try a series of Spyware removal tools to get it off, I think. Maybe the kids will listen now when we tell them to use Firefox, and not IE.
There sure has been an uproar recently on Slashdot about the phrase "begging the question". I find it interesting that this phrase is used in another way. I had only heard of this phrase in association with philosophy and logic, where it involves a premise that assumes that the conclusion is true, and I have never heard it used in another sense.
I find the other usage to be quite a strange one, and I wonder if it has anything to do with a misunderstanding about what "begging the question" actually means.
When I was last at Cal Poly (back in 2002), they were beginning to issue non-SSN ID numbers to incoming students (it was a new CSU-wide policy as I recall). I got a notice saying that they would convert my SSN-based ID number to a non-SSN ID number should I choose to. I didn't take them up on the offer, since it was my last year there, but you could have them convert your ID number if you choose to.
I think a good reason it's commonly considered eastern Europe because is that many people don't consider Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine to be part of Europe.
Actually, yes. Target tends to attract more affluent customers who are willing to pay a bit more than the typical Wal-mart customer. Target does this by creating the perception that their products of higher quality, but still relatively cheap. (I have to admit that I certainly think that Target products, while not being of high quality, are on average better than what one finds at Wal-mart)
I can certainly see the difference in customers where I live. At Wal-mart, most of the customers look like they emerged from a nearby crack house, whereas at Target the customers tend to be more of a mix of lower- and middle-class shoppers.
I use a GeForce 6600 AGP, and that's good enough for my needs. I can run all modern games on at least medium settings. I figure by the time I'm playing anything that requires something more powerful, I might as well just upgrade my entire computer, which would mean a nice new PCI-E motherboard.
So I figure that there isn't a huge need for AGP in the latest, greatest video cards, since relatively few new AGP motherboards are being produced these days.
Stick with it. Google stock may not continue to rise at an astronomical pace, but it's still a growing, profitable company. In the long run, it will be worth it.
I find that as a stock investor as long as you invest in healthy, profitable companies, stocks may falter from time to time, but you will do well in the long run. Google stock may be out of fashion right now (good time to buy), but I have confidence that its continuing profitability will pay off in the long term. BTW, by "long term" I don't mean a year or two, but five years or a decade.
The time to bail is not when a stock price plummets, as that can be caused by undisciplined investors acting on whims, but when the entire company is in serious financial trouble (GM).
One good thing about living in California is that the property taxes are limited to the value of the home when you purchased it. I think the law allows some tiny increase every year, but in practice even a tiny increase rarely happens.
Of course, real estate here is insanely expensive, so any new buyers are paying quite a bit. Some retired person who bought their house back in the 1950s, however, is probably only paying about $150 a year in property taxes. That's generally a good thing, in my opinion, because the retired people living on social security would all be forced to sell their homes if they had to pay property taxes on current values.
Since this is only a Beta, I wouldn't worry too much about it for now. They're probably concentrating for now on the browser that the most people use, IE. Once the features have stabilized and it's closer to release, I imagine a Firefox version will probably be released.
Nope, I never even so much as seen a Blackberry and I didn't know what one was until about 6 months ago. Reading Slashdot is only reason I know what one is. All I know is that it's a portable device that interacts with your email account.
I simply don't know anyone who has one: surprising, considering I have some pretty geeky friends, and I work with bunch of programmers.
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Actually, it was the British who controlled Iraq. The British got Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. The French got Lebanon and Syria. Kuwait was a semi-independent sheikdom under the protection of the British, and Iran (then known as Persia) was an independent country.
There have also been programs to make artificial reefs with tires, making great fish habitats (if done properly that is).
Yes, indeed. Tire reefs do have to be done properly. I heard an interesting story about a month ago on National Public Radio about an artificial reef off the coast of Florida. Apparently the thing consists of over a million old tires and the geniuses who constructed it back in the 1960s used steel chains to tie bunches of them together. Over the years, the chains corroded and broke, and currents and storm surges caused the loose tires to roll all over the seafloor and wash up on Florida beaches.
Almost no coral has grown on these tires because they are moving around so much, and now there is now an expensive cleanup effort underway to clean up over a million tires scattered all over the sea floor. It was a good idea, but a very poor implementation. Steel chains don't exactly last forever under the ocean.
You may be doubtful, but it's true that Richmond is a really, really, bad place to be. I live as far away as Sacramento and Richmond is well-known for being a place where horrible violence and murder takes place daily. The really poor people in the Bay Area tend to end up in Richmond, because it's just too expensive anywhere else in the area. My wife used to know someone in Richmond, and she has told me some pretty horrible stories about what goes on there.
It may not have a national reputation, but it's really a bad place to be. It's definitely the worst area in Northern California, only to be rivaled by some areas of Los Angeles. It makes the bad areas of Sacramento look like Disneyland.
In the Bay Area, 55K is not that much, due to the cost of living being so high. It probably is just enough to pay for a small apartment, an older car, and food. There won't be much left over after that, particularly if a family is involved.
A job managing 20 people, however, can be good experience. If I were the grandparent poster, I might use that as a stepping stone to a better job: especially if jobs were hard to come by.
If aliens kidnap and then impersonate Steve Ballmer, is it a bad thing? It depends on the aliens...
Imagine alien spacecraft hovering above the planet bombarding us with millions of chairs, screaming that they will "fucking kill all humans"
I think that is a very bad thing
I think ordinary citizens are too busy playing SimCity to get involved with this. This software won't have a chance against SimCity until they implement some decent disasters (Tornado, Nuclear Meltdown, Godzilla) that the user can unleash upon the city while laughing.
Urban planning is simply too boring otherwise!
I would fit into the category of people who are interested in this marathon. I've heard all the buzz about Firefly here on Slashdot, but I haven't got around to seeing it, mainly because it's not at the top of my list of things to do.
I am still interested in seeing it, and I don't know any Firefly fans who have the DVDs. So that makes this marathon very interesting to me.
If I remember when I get home, I'm going to set my Tivo to record all the episodes and watch them at my leisure. Then I will possibly go rent Serenity if I find the series interesting enough.
Ja..and did you know that Hungary is a nation wealthy in foodstuff. Throughout history there has never been an extended period of hunger. There was always plenty of food, and the weather was kind too.
Well, there was that period in the 1200s after the Mongols tore through Hungary and killed off something like a third of the population. Starvation was pretty common because the peasants were either dead or hiding in the woods, so no food was being produced. That, however, is pretty much ancient history.
That said, Hungary is quite a productive agricultural country. I spent six weeks there one summer traveling around, seeing the sights (and practicing my rudimentary Hungarian), and I fondly remember the good food. The juicy, sweet peaches left a lasting impression on me, and I sure would like to go back to Eger for the great wine. Once on a train, a few elderly women shared their pogacsa (little bread roll type thingies) with me, and I absolutely loved them.
In my opinion, Hungarian wine is quite underrated.
How ironic. Just this morning, I was attempting to clean one of their pieces of crap, ABetterInternet, off of my wife's computer. They have made it really difficult to find their stuff and clean it off. It was a few hours before I had even identified what exactly it was, and although Adaware was aware of its existence, it was unable to remove it.
Norton Antivirus was completely useless. I'm going to have to try a series of Spyware removal tools to get it off, I think. Maybe the kids will listen now when we tell them to use Firefox, and not IE.
What are the odds that the weekend he'd take a dump of the records of 26M veterans home would be the weekend he got robbed?
I'd say that in the D.C. area, the odds are pretty good.
There sure has been an uproar recently on Slashdot about the phrase "begging the question". I find it interesting that this phrase is used in another way. I had only heard of this phrase in association with philosophy and logic, where it involves a premise that assumes that the conclusion is true, and I have never heard it used in another sense.
I find the other usage to be quite a strange one, and I wonder if it has anything to do with a misunderstanding about what "begging the question" actually means.
When I was last at Cal Poly (back in 2002), they were beginning to issue non-SSN ID numbers to incoming students (it was a new CSU-wide policy as I recall). I got a notice saying that they would convert my SSN-based ID number to a non-SSN ID number should I choose to. I didn't take them up on the offer, since it was my last year there, but you could have them convert your ID number if you choose to.
I think a good reason it's commonly considered eastern Europe because is that many people don't consider Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine to be part of Europe.
I think Slashdot has given about 8000 reasons why Dvorak is dead in the water.
Gihaaaaaaaaaaaan_Rippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!
Actually, yes. Target tends to attract more affluent customers who are willing to pay a bit more than the typical Wal-mart customer. Target does this by creating the perception that their products of higher quality, but still relatively cheap. (I have to admit that I certainly think that Target products, while not being of high quality, are on average better than what one finds at Wal-mart)
I can certainly see the difference in customers where I live. At Wal-mart, most of the customers look like they emerged from a nearby crack house, whereas at Target the customers tend to be more of a mix of lower- and middle-class shoppers.
It's the lifetime of the TiVo box.
I use a GeForce 6600 AGP, and that's good enough for my needs. I can run all modern games on at least medium settings. I figure by the time I'm playing anything that requires something more powerful, I might as well just upgrade my entire computer, which would mean a nice new PCI-E motherboard.
So I figure that there isn't a huge need for AGP in the latest, greatest video cards, since relatively few new AGP motherboards are being produced these days.
Ginger altoids would probably work well. They're pretty strong.
Stick with it. Google stock may not continue to rise at an astronomical pace, but it's still a growing, profitable company. In the long run, it will be worth it.
I find that as a stock investor as long as you invest in healthy, profitable companies, stocks may falter from time to time, but you will do well in the long run. Google stock may be out of fashion right now (good time to buy), but I have confidence that its continuing profitability will pay off in the long term. BTW, by "long term" I don't mean a year or two, but five years or a decade.
The time to bail is not when a stock price plummets, as that can be caused by undisciplined investors acting on whims, but when the entire company is in serious financial trouble (GM).
One good thing about living in California is that the property taxes are limited to the value of the home when you purchased it. I think the law allows some tiny increase every year, but in practice even a tiny increase rarely happens.
Of course, real estate here is insanely expensive, so any new buyers are paying quite a bit. Some retired person who bought their house back in the 1950s, however, is probably only paying about $150 a year in property taxes. That's generally a good thing, in my opinion, because the retired people living on social security would all be forced to sell their homes if they had to pay property taxes on current values.
I know in Battlefield 2 I always try to shoot the medics first. I don't need them reviving more people to come after me.
Unless I'm in a tank or something: then it's better to let the medic revive first and nail them both.
...with a herring?
Since this is only a Beta, I wouldn't worry too much about it for now. They're probably concentrating for now on the browser that the most people use, IE. Once the features have stabilized and it's closer to release, I imagine a Firefox version will probably be released.
Nope, I never even so much as seen a Blackberry and I didn't know what one was until about 6 months ago. Reading Slashdot is only reason I know what one is. All I know is that it's a portable device that interacts with your email account.
I simply don't know anyone who has one: surprising, considering I have some pretty geeky friends, and I work with bunch of programmers.