He told me to make sure to pay taxes as if she was a contractor, and turned back to his work obviously not wanting to be disturbed again.
Ok, that made me laugh. You just heard it as "Oh, you're not going to sue him, you're just going to let him get away with it? And all you care about is taxes are being paid?" But when I read it, I heard a smart lawyer saying it wasn't worth his time to go after the embezzler... But by declaring it on the taxes, he'd be raising a flag that the IRS could very likely investigate causing all sorts of problems. (It's highly unlikely the embezzler declared his embezzled income.) In other words, the lawyer quickly found a zero cost, legal way to get his 'revenge'. Tell me that's not worthy of a chuckle.
But even a cynic like me sees this as a win. Seriously, this is what we've been fighting for. So in a world that manages to keep depressing me every time I turn on the news. I'm going to celebrate this little victory.
The "high quality" 4gb SSD that came with my first generation EEE 900 has been in nearly daily use since I obtained it and it's still working great. However, one of the first things I did was ensure there was no defragging, I removed the swap space and did a handful of other SSD friendly tweaks and of course it's been running Linux since day one. Not sure if that matters...
Heh, I tell people about the wonderful time we had in Vegas. The ask about the gambling and I say "Oh, we don't gamble". Red Rock Canyon, getting a tour of Hoover Dam... Now those were the reason to go. (That and seeing Penn & Teller live, then getting to talk to them after their show. Well worth the money.)
I'm married, living in a new city and didn't know anyone. Work is a horrible place to meet new friends. What happens if the friendship ends? Much better to take something you have an interest in, then go meet people who have that interest. People who think work is a good place to meet new friends are the same people who ask bartenders and waiter/waitresses out on dates because they seem nice...
If I have a co-worker who is competent, but a jerk... I can work with that. I might have to thicken my skin a bit, but in the long run, that's not asking much. I tend to view the office as the place I work, not the place I make friends. I have non-work friends who fill my social time very nicely, thank you so do your job and we'll get along.
Whereas if I have a nice guy who isn't competent, he will cause me endless extra work and effort bailing him out and dealing with his mess-ups. I don't care if you're Santa Claus nice, after a while, I'm gonna start to resent you. That's just a fact.
When I purchased my ASUS EEE 900, all I had to do was check the 'Linux' version and I got my laptop. (And the 20GB HD was nice compared to the 16GB HD on the Windows version.) Now, yes, I did the same thing I did with every other computer I own and wiped the installed OS (Xandros) and replaced it with Debian initially and EEEbuntu currently. But the point is that I didn't have to call anyone to get my money back. I didn't have to convince anyone of anything. I just had to check the "I'm not paying for Windows" button and I got my laptop for a Windows free price.
Why can't the vendors just put that back please? Stop making the consumer's life difficult!
Speaking as a Canadian who lives in North America, if someone who lives in Europe is 'European', someone who lives in Asia is 'Asian', how do you figure that I'm not 'American'?
Besides, I think 'United Statesians' has a nice ring to it.:)
Basically, he played the game (actually fighting villains) and was hated for it.
No, he did not. If he had actually fought villains and defeated them, there would be no upset. But instead he was teleporting them into defense drones, 'winning' easily but getting no credit.
This is like a police officer that shoots criminals without even trying to arrest them. Then he acts surprised when people get upset that he's shooting people. "I'm a police man. They are criminals! I'm supposed to defeat them! Shooting them is a way to defeat them."
Yes, Heroes are supposed to fight Villains. But society does define a right way to do so. And that's not what he was doing.
When my daughter first started school - many years ago - she caught impetigo. Now, I had had impetigo as a child myself, but I had completely forgotten the symptoms. Moral of the story: most diseases are actually well known - if you find a competent doctor. Unfortunately, most doctors are incompetent.
WAIT A MINUTE. Your daughter got a disease that you had... Now, most people will only get a handful of diseases in their lifetime, so you forgot a disease in a very small sample set. Whereas the doctor missed a disease among the thousands that he's responsible for diagnosing... And you have the gall to say the doctor was incompetent? You couldn't even recognize one disease in the maybe (being generous) dozen diseases you've had in your life, and you have the temerity to say the doctor failed because he didn't recognize it right away?
All I'm going to say is that if the doctor was 'incompetent', then as a parent, you must be worse than 'incompetent'.
Or maybe we could be logical for a moment and all agree that maybe the job isn't easy and that's why sometimes things are missed?
Because MS will set the specs. Since some customers will only buy Windows, all the hardware manufacturers will build within those specs. And those specs will be with us for the duration of Windows 7.
Why is it a big deal?
When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site so they must be US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) or 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.
I see, but why did the English build them like that?
Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Well, why did they use that gauge in England?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.
So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts?
The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.
So even though we could've designed a better Space Shuttle, because of the limitation of Roman war chariots, the boosters are not optimal. Win 7 vs. netbooks might not be so extreme, but it's still a force that's going to insure the hardware isn't designed the best it could be... It'll be designed towards the Win 7 specs.
(With thanks to http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html)
Its all a trade off really, you can live in a densely populated region with no space and have fast internet or live in the country side where there is plenty of space, cheap land and unpolluted air and put up with slow DSL or wireless
Hmm. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada. One of the least densely populated places on the planet with plenty of space, cheap land, unpolluted air, beautiful natural spaces and 100 Mbps with DOCSIS 3.0 (http://www.cedmagazine.com/Shaw-100-Mbps-with-DOCSIS-020409.aspx)
What's that bit about trade-offs? Some of us are quite happy having it all, you know.
Eventually I ditched my idea and instead focused on learning VBA (visual basic for applications) to write macros that would drastically reduce redundancy in our office.
Right... Because Cyber Warfare battles will be won with efficient VBA macros...
So you're telling me if an Umpire put up on his facebook "Man, I hate the Yankees. Bunch of smug bastards" the day before he was umpiring a Yankee game (translate that to a ref saying "AC Milan is a bunch of wankers" right before he was head ref for an AC Milan game for those of you on the far side of the pond) you would still trust his ability to be completely unbiased?
Really?
Truly?
So why should police be any different?
Sorry.. I honestly first saw Ponn Farr and my mind went "A relation of Jamie Farr?" (Klinger from M.A.S.H.)
And then the perceived sexiness of the scent took a complete nosedive...
When I finally grew tired of the stock Xandros that came pre-installed on my eeepc 900, I installed EEEbuntu (Netbook) and I was so impressed (wireless worked, sound worked) it's a keeper.
Installation was almost effortless (certainly easier than installing Windows) and with Wine, I'm currently running all the Linux and Windows software I ever wanted on my laptop.
Sounds like I'm not the only person who pirates stuff they own. I personally have purchased, on CD, the complete works of Pink Floyd. However, I have gone to pirate sites to download the ripped versions of all that music so I can play them on my home server, on my digital music player, etc.
Recently, I had a bunch of friends over for a movie night. Even though I owned the DVDs we were going to watch, I went to a pirate site and downloaded them all. (Yes, I could've ripped them myself, but it's often easier to just download them.) Why? No fiddling with disk swapping. Because it's just annoying to sit thru the FBI warning, wait for the menu to load up, etc. I wouldn't have to pirate at all if there was a way to just skip those bits, but with DRM, there isn't.
I know for a fact the RIAA counts me as a 'pirate' and a 'lost sale'. But come on over sometime. I'll show you the spot on my shelf with all my Pink Floyd CDs. I'll lead you over to my LotR collectors editions. Then I'll let you explain to me how I can steal something I already own.
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He told me to make sure to pay taxes as if she was a contractor, and turned back to his work obviously not wanting to be disturbed again.
Ok, that made me laugh. You just heard it as "Oh, you're not going to sue him, you're just going to let him get away with it? And all you care about is taxes are being paid?" But when I read it, I heard a smart lawyer saying it wasn't worth his time to go after the embezzler... But by declaring it on the taxes, he'd be raising a flag that the IRS could very likely investigate causing all sorts of problems. (It's highly unlikely the embezzler declared his embezzled income.) In other words, the lawyer quickly found a zero cost, legal way to get his 'revenge'. Tell me that's not worthy of a chuckle.
But even a cynic like me sees this as a win. Seriously, this is what we've been fighting for. So in a world that manages to keep depressing me every time I turn on the news. I'm going to celebrate this little victory.
The "high quality" 4gb SSD that came with my first generation EEE 900 has been in nearly daily use since I obtained it and it's still working great. However, one of the first things I did was ensure there was no defragging, I removed the swap space and did a handful of other SSD friendly tweaks and of course it's been running Linux since day one. Not sure if that matters...
Heh, I tell people about the wonderful time we had in Vegas. The ask about the gambling and I say "Oh, we don't gamble". Red Rock Canyon, getting a tour of Hoover Dam... Now those were the reason to go. (That and seeing Penn & Teller live, then getting to talk to them after their show. Well worth the money.)
I personally feel the American people should get the Nobel Peace Prize. They did more for peace by voting Bush out of power than Obama has done.
I just bought a Wii two weeks ago. So of course the price would drop...
I'm married, living in a new city and didn't know anyone. Work is a horrible place to meet new friends. What happens if the friendship ends? Much better to take something you have an interest in, then go meet people who have that interest.
People who think work is a good place to meet new friends are the same people who ask bartenders and waiter/waitresses out on dates because they seem nice...
If I have a co-worker who is competent, but a jerk... I can work with that. I might have to thicken my skin a bit, but in the long run, that's not asking much. I tend to view the office as the place I work, not the place I make friends. I have non-work friends who fill my social time very nicely, thank you so do your job and we'll get along. Whereas if I have a nice guy who isn't competent, he will cause me endless extra work and effort bailing him out and dealing with his mess-ups. I don't care if you're Santa Claus nice, after a while, I'm gonna start to resent you. That's just a fact.
Maybe his grandfather was Robert Heinlein, you insensitive clod?
When I purchased my ASUS EEE 900, all I had to do was check the 'Linux' version and I got my laptop. (And the 20GB HD was nice compared to the 16GB HD on the Windows version.) Now, yes, I did the same thing I did with every other computer I own and wiped the installed OS (Xandros) and replaced it with Debian initially and EEEbuntu currently. But the point is that I didn't have to call anyone to get my money back. I didn't have to convince anyone of anything. I just had to check the "I'm not paying for Windows" button and I got my laptop for a Windows free price. Why can't the vendors just put that back please? Stop making the consumer's life difficult!
Speaking as a Canadian who lives in North America, if someone who lives in Europe is 'European', someone who lives in Asia is 'Asian', how do you figure that I'm not 'American'? Besides, I think 'United Statesians' has a nice ring to it. :)
Basically, he played the game (actually fighting villains) and was hated for it.
No, he did not. If he had actually fought villains and defeated them, there would be no upset. But instead he was teleporting them into defense drones, 'winning' easily but getting no credit. This is like a police officer that shoots criminals without even trying to arrest them. Then he acts surprised when people get upset that he's shooting people. "I'm a police man. They are criminals! I'm supposed to defeat them! Shooting them is a way to defeat them." Yes, Heroes are supposed to fight Villains. But society does define a right way to do so. And that's not what he was doing.
When my daughter first started school - many years ago - she caught impetigo. Now, I had had impetigo as a child myself, but I had completely forgotten the symptoms. Moral of the story: most diseases are actually well known - if you find a competent doctor. Unfortunately, most doctors are incompetent.
WAIT A MINUTE. Your daughter got a disease that you had... Now, most people will only get a handful of diseases in their lifetime, so you forgot a disease in a very small sample set. Whereas the doctor missed a disease among the thousands that he's responsible for diagnosing... And you have the gall to say the doctor was incompetent? You couldn't even recognize one disease in the maybe (being generous) dozen diseases you've had in your life, and you have the temerity to say the doctor failed because he didn't recognize it right away?
All I'm going to say is that if the doctor was 'incompetent', then as a parent, you must be worse than 'incompetent'.
Or maybe we could be logical for a moment and all agree that maybe the job isn't easy and that's why sometimes things are missed?
That's an old story and likely apocryphal.
My question is, why stop at ancient Rome? They could have gone to, "and why did the Imperial Romans build their chariots that way?
That's easy. It's the width of two horses side by side attached to Roman harnesses.
I don't quite get the big deal here
Because MS will set the specs. Since some customers will only buy Windows, all the hardware manufacturers will build within those specs. And those specs will be with us for the duration of Windows 7.
Why is it a big deal?
When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site so they must be US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) or 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.
I see, but why did the English build them like that?
Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Well, why did they use that gauge in England?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.
So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts?
The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.
So even though we could've designed a better Space Shuttle, because of the limitation of Roman war chariots, the boosters are not optimal. Win 7 vs. netbooks might not be so extreme, but it's still a force that's going to insure the hardware isn't designed the best it could be... It'll be designed towards the Win 7 specs. (With thanks to http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html)
Its all a trade off really, you can live in a densely populated region with no space and have fast internet or live in the country side where there is plenty of space, cheap land and unpolluted air and put up with slow DSL or wireless
Hmm. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada. One of the least densely populated places on the planet with plenty of space, cheap land, unpolluted air, beautiful natural spaces and 100 Mbps with DOCSIS 3.0 (http://www.cedmagazine.com/Shaw-100-Mbps-with-DOCSIS-020409.aspx) What's that bit about trade-offs? Some of us are quite happy having it all, you know.
His doctor became agitated and informed the press "Listen bud! He's got radioactive blood!"
Press question: "Can he swing from a thread?"
Eventually I ditched my idea and instead focused on learning VBA (visual basic for applications) to write macros that would drastically reduce redundancy in our office.
Right... Because Cyber Warfare battles will be won with efficient VBA macros...
So you're telling me if an Umpire put up on his facebook "Man, I hate the Yankees. Bunch of smug bastards" the day before he was umpiring a Yankee game (translate that to a ref saying "AC Milan is a bunch of wankers" right before he was head ref for an AC Milan game for those of you on the far side of the pond) you would still trust his ability to be completely unbiased? Really? Truly? So why should police be any different?
Chico has a law on the books declaring a $500 fine for detonating a nuclear device within the city limits.
WHAT? Oh darn it... *Crosses Chico off his list* Now, where would be a good place to go instead...
Sorry.. I honestly first saw Ponn Farr and my mind went "A relation of Jamie Farr?" (Klinger from M.A.S.H.) And then the perceived sexiness of the scent took a complete nosedive...
When I finally grew tired of the stock Xandros that came pre-installed on my eeepc 900, I installed EEEbuntu (Netbook) and I was so impressed (wireless worked, sound worked) it's a keeper. Installation was almost effortless (certainly easier than installing Windows) and with Wine, I'm currently running all the Linux and Windows software I ever wanted on my laptop.
Sounds like I'm not the only person who pirates stuff they own. I personally have purchased, on CD, the complete works of Pink Floyd. However, I have gone to pirate sites to download the ripped versions of all that music so I can play them on my home server, on my digital music player, etc. Recently, I had a bunch of friends over for a movie night. Even though I owned the DVDs we were going to watch, I went to a pirate site and downloaded them all. (Yes, I could've ripped them myself, but it's often easier to just download them.) Why? No fiddling with disk swapping. Because it's just annoying to sit thru the FBI warning, wait for the menu to load up, etc. I wouldn't have to pirate at all if there was a way to just skip those bits, but with DRM, there isn't. I know for a fact the RIAA counts me as a 'pirate' and a 'lost sale'. But come on over sometime. I'll show you the spot on my shelf with all my Pink Floyd CDs. I'll lead you over to my LotR collectors editions. Then I'll let you explain to me how I can steal something I already own.
I thought the point of Ed was to look pretty ambiguous genderwise; Milla Jovovich is awesome, but I'm not sure how she could be mistaken for a guy.
Go watch 'The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'. That should answer all your questions on how Milla can look androgynous.
That's funny because, according to economists, it was impossible for open source to exist in the first place...