Doesn't Microsoft try and lock in some entities with guaranteed upgrade contracts or the like? I'm real fuzzy on that. Not sure how Texas does it but it seems they might have (or will have had) a bit of autonomy on making such deals.
If any agency already has a contract their law means diddly squat. The historical meaning of bill of attainder is to try and convict a person or group in the legislature. It may apply to a product if it can be seen as inflicting punishment on Microsoft.
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made.
Texas's constitution still has the post WWII eugenics provisions, how quaint.
I feel I was taught/programmed to not be able to acquire any other language but English. My nieces and nephews have a much better time with second languages as their parents are more open to it and they started at a young age.
I will agree that English is the predominant technical language for a couple of reasons. We're the driving force behind most technologies and are the biggest consumer and English is very good at coding complex concepts in a smaller space. Though some of the jargon may as well be considered another language like the language of medicine.
Google should cut them off. Not only should they cut off the 'news' outlet they should cut off anyone else linking to the news outlet. There should be no way for them to get back in the system. If google does this twice. The others will STFU. Google should have done this when the p0rn spewers were whining.
Well you might go back to Lincoln or a bit later to the national fireamrs in the 1930's act or the 1968 gun control act or the 1986 out ban on new NFA registries or the go back to the era of the NFA and the tax on hemp which became a ban because you can't pay the tax.
Governments are made of two kinds of people, those that really serve the people and those that serve the system. Those that serve the system end up running it. That's Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
"Since the article doesn't mention it, the people indicted were DEMOCRATS. Quite the conundrum, eh, SlashKos? On one hand, vote fraud is bad, but since it's your guys (Democrats) doing it is almost makes it ok, right?"
What is his labor cost. Is it pUnion scale? Is this SCAB keeping decent folk from valuable WORK?! My god that bastard should be jailed for interfering in a real workers job!!!
They offer cards and loans. Several US chains offer the cards but they can't offer loans easily or they'd do it. The card seems to have a reasonable rate and rules which is not the case with US store branded cards.
URL:
What bothers me about the site is the crap storm of IP addresses that have no reverse DNS listing. I think they're loading a bogus flash oject and doubleclick is buried in there.
Put a simple Linux distribution on them and a nice label that says "FREE USB stick: boot me". A picture of a white rabbit or a red pill is obligatory. Distribute as you see fit. I intend to do this at the next scifi convention and there are several technology conventions that will be coming up this summer.
I can get the tiny small capacity (512M) ones by the 100 count for cheap. They have enough room to easily run Kubuntu or other Linux distributions.
Back in my day we coded our porn in baudot on paper tape and printed it on a teletype.
When stationed at the Pentagon make sure you put the test tape back so that some poor fool doesn't plug your porn into the reader so they can send the midnight test message to test the teletype link to Norad.
Well the broke the current stable version, damaged my system to the point I had to upgrade. I'm not sure what configuration was broken to cause that. I ran out of room on/var and had to remount/var to another free partition because/var is now 94G and my root partition was full. I think I've got it fixed. I've not had time to gawk at the KDE's current idiocy so I don't know if I'll change it but I do know that firefox 3 in the guise of iceweasel is fast but the toobars are UGLY and TINY. Icedove seems to be ok.
They will receive UHF but won't do so efficiently. The better reception is with a bowtie and the best reception is with a yagi for any frequency though some of the bizarre gentic algorithm ones are interesting.
That is the hallmark of all propaganda. The really insidious propaganda is that which is 80 percent truth and the rest is carefully crafted misinformation. Jack the wonder popup is not subtle enough for that.
You want nothing touching it. A very effective very expensive method used by the military to seal electronics was to put them in a can and use an inert gas. I do not know the mixture but it would probably be bad to make it anhydrous in every case but good to keep out oxygen.
I've opened canned 1979 dated parts in 2005 and installed them and they passed the specifications from 1979 and passed government inspection.
But don't think the government specs are infallible. The plastic seal bad esd packaging they sealed parts in under various gasses seems great but the parts will get plastic from the heat released vapors on them and will not take solder easily if at all.
Electrolytics of all types will die with time. I'd recommend contacting a capacitor maker and asking them for advice. I'd remove them from the boards and package new ones separately. Include where they go. Fans and hard drives that may have lubricant should be in their own sealed containers.
Do all packaging with with full esd protection and only use esd packaging.
Include new fully tested replacement parts, use full esd protection during testing.
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Doesn't Microsoft try and lock in some entities with guaranteed upgrade contracts or the like? I'm real fuzzy on that. Not sure how Texas does it but it seems they might have (or will have had) a bit of autonomy on making such deals.
If any agency already has a contract their law means diddly squat. The historical meaning of bill of attainder is to try and convict a person or group in the legislature. It may apply to a product if it can be seen as inflicting punishment on Microsoft.
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made.
Texas's constitution still has the post WWII eugenics provisions, how quaint.
I feel I was taught/programmed to not be able to acquire any other language but English. My nieces and nephews have a much better time with second languages as their parents are more open to it and they started at a young age.
I will agree that English is the predominant technical language for a couple of reasons. We're the driving force behind most technologies and are the biggest consumer and English is very good at coding complex concepts in a smaller space.
Though some of the jargon may as well be considered another language like the language of medicine.
Google should cut them off. Not only should they cut off the 'news' outlet they should cut off anyone else linking to the news outlet. There should be no way for them to get back in the system. If google does this twice. The others will STFU. Google should have done this when the p0rn spewers were whining.
I've copyrighted the word plagolinthariastic you insensitive clod!
I've yet to see memtest86 find an error even though replacing the ram fixed the problem. This has been on several builds.
There is some work being done with laser stimulation of nerve endings which may have some application for that.
http://spie.org/x8731.xml
It would be a form of virtual reality.
CS degree
Psycology degree
MBA degree
Or variations on that. Be the person who can address your auspergers/autistic savant pool of drooling coders.
I do recommend you have whores, snacks and cots. It just WORKS.
Well you might go back to Lincoln or a bit later to the national fireamrs in the 1930's act or the 1968 gun control act or the 1986 out ban on new NFA registries or the go back to the era of the NFA and the tax on hemp which became a ban because you can't pay the tax.
Governments are made of two kinds of people, those that really serve the people and those that serve the system. Those that serve the system end up running it. That's Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2view/view408.html#Iron
You can't change it, you can't steer it with any precision and you can't make it go away easily.
From the song "Ninety Nine Crunch Berries"
Since some commie rated you troll:
"Since the article doesn't mention it, the people indicted were DEMOCRATS. Quite the conundrum, eh, SlashKos? On one hand, vote fraud is bad, but since it's your guys (Democrats) doing it is almost makes it ok, right?"
What is his labor cost. Is it pUnion scale? Is this SCAB keeping decent folk from valuable WORK?! My god that bastard should be jailed for interfering in a real workers job!!!
I have one of there 20 dollar dev kits. It fits on a USB stick. The processor is insanely small.
http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/ez430-f2013.html
Unfortunately the tiny add on boards that you can buy extra have a dumbed down version of the one included with the stick.
Unfortunately it does not play at all well with linux.
They offer cards and loans. Several US chains offer the cards but they can't offer loans easily or they'd do it. The card seems to have a reasonable rate and rules which is not the case with US store branded cards.
URL:
What bothers me about the site is the crap storm of IP addresses that have no reverse DNS listing. I think they're loading a bogus flash oject and doubleclick is buried in there.
Put a simple Linux distribution on them and a nice label that says "FREE USB stick: boot me". A picture of a white rabbit or a red pill is obligatory. Distribute as you see fit. I intend to do this at the next scifi convention and there are several technology conventions that will be coming up this summer.
I can get the tiny small capacity (512M) ones by the 100 count for cheap. They have enough room to easily run Kubuntu or other Linux distributions.
Back in my day we coded our porn in baudot on paper tape and printed it on a teletype.
When stationed at the Pentagon make sure you put the test tape back so that some poor fool doesn't plug your porn into the reader so they can send the midnight test message to test the teletype link to Norad.
Well the broke the current stable version, damaged my system to the point I had to upgrade. I'm not sure what configuration was broken to cause that. I ran out of room on /var and had to remount /var to another free partition because /var is now 94G and my root partition was full. I think I've got it fixed. I've not had time to gawk at the KDE's current idiocy so I don't know if I'll change it but I do know that firefox 3 in the guise of iceweasel is fast but the toobars are UGLY and TINY. Icedove seems to be ok.
They will receive UHF but won't do so efficiently. The better reception is with a bowtie and the best reception is with a yagi for any frequency though some of the bizarre gentic algorithm ones are interesting.
The HAMSTERS?
http://www.webhamster.com/
They won't open source any of it as it would reveal their bias.
That is the hallmark of all propaganda. The really insidious propaganda is that which is 80 percent truth and the rest is carefully crafted misinformation. Jack the wonder popup is not subtle enough for that.
You want nothing touching it. A very effective very expensive method used by the military to seal electronics was to put them in a can and use an inert gas. I do not know the mixture but it would probably be bad to make it anhydrous in every case but good to keep out oxygen.
I've opened canned 1979 dated parts in 2005 and installed them and they passed the specifications from 1979 and passed government inspection.
But don't think the government specs are infallible. The plastic seal bad esd packaging they sealed parts in under various gasses seems great but the parts will get plastic from the heat released vapors on them and will not take solder easily if at all.
Electrolytics of all types will die with time. I'd recommend contacting a capacitor maker and asking them for advice. I'd remove them from the boards and package new ones separately. Include where they go. Fans and hard drives that may have lubricant should be in their own sealed containers.
Do all packaging with with full esd protection and only use esd packaging.
Include new fully tested replacement parts, use full esd protection during testing.
you insensitive neo-geek!
Says it all doesn't it?
The earth and venus were fucking and made the stupid war and speedy communications and shit what do we DO!
"No worries I have my SUPERNOVA OF NATURAL SELECTION"!!!!