I would suggest that this gentleman contact his local congressman. This is the kind of issue that congressman know will win over a voter and everyone in their family for the rest of their lives (or the congressman's political career.)
I'm not saying that the issue will definitely get taken care of, but if he goes down to his congressman's office, they will know who to call to get the ball rolling. Likely this individual has only spoken to low ranking bureacrats. If he contacts his congressman he can quickly get to the top.
If you don't what the university seeing what you do with university property, go get your own damned ISP account!
That's all well and good, if it's even possible to get an outside high speed ISP. While dialup internet will work in the dorms, nothing else will. The university maintains a monopoly over high speed internet services.
If the university wanted to open up and allow outside high speed connections, then I'm all for it.
Of course if the parents would get rid of the guns at home this problem would be gone pretty quick, but that won't happen in cowboy land.
One of my PE teachers in middle school (less than 10 years ago) told us about how, when he was in school, students would come in and put their hunting rifles down on the table and pick them up at the end of class or the end of the day.
Actually, he wasn't a junkie, he was accused of dealing cocain but was aquitted on all charges because he was entrapped.
This guy is right. John DeLorean got teamed up with someone who he thought was going to fuse a large amount of cash into his company in order to save it (after his original loans by the royal family were spontaneously and unfairly called.) He had no idea that this guys plan was for him to sell coke in order to get the money.
DeLorean attempted to back out, but the man threatened his daughters life. With this in mind, he agreed to go through with the deal. Only at this point did the true facts come out. This gentlman was ACTUALLY a very over zealous cop who did all of this deliberately.
Entrapment.
DeLorean was (very appropriately) acquited of all charges.
Those things were heavy (1200kg/2700lb) and underpowered (130bhp), and the build quality was pretty poor.
There were problems with some of the original 1981 run that caused them to need extensive work. The kinks got very quickly worked out, however. While you are correct that the vehicle, from a sports car point of view, were overpowered, don't think for a second that the car is on the level of say, Toyota Tercel. The vehicle has a V6 built by Renault-Volvo, and my old Saturn weighed just shy of 2700 lbs. The Saturn also had equal horsepower. It could do 120mph without a problem (so I hear.... cough cough), and Saturns don't have gull wing doors, or a flux capacitor.
The problem is that no one will ever know how much money they need to carry. Considering that meters only accept coins, this further complicates the problem. Do you carry 4 dollars in quarters (or whatever they use in Canada)???
I typically have a few coins floating around my cupholders and the floor of my vehicle, and when I have to use metered parking, I use those. Those that have to regularly park at meters know how much to carry. If the amount changes on a continuing basis, this will only tick people off.
Doesn't work too well for classical or instrumental music.
What's that song that goes, like, A# G# F F F and then an A7 chord? With the timpani? You know the one I mean.
Believe it or not, I know people who have been in this situation before, and they posted to usenet, basically, notes, and or 'ba baaa bippity bippity doo doo doo', and amazingly, people posted THE CORRECT response. USENET is awesome.
Movie theaters are investing in metal detectors? If I have to go through a metal detector and take off my belt and my steel shanked shoes like I occasionally have to when I go to the airport just to see a movie, I won't ever go see a movie again.
Eh, the 1.50 theater near here won't have the stuff until 2045 anyway, so I guess I'm safe, so long as I only want to see films when they're second run.
If only I had thought of the 'Columbo method' before, I think it could have saved me much time with my own University's idiot IT department (and other idiots... they seem to populate the earth.)
The Columbo method will be my new problem solving manifesto.
Thankyou.
I'd like to see a special queue at Brussels airport where visiting American tourists are finger-printed, photographed, and generally treated like criminal suspects./me thinks the concept of "tolerance and personal liberty" would soon find a new meaning.
You've got the right idea, as did Brazil, when it started doing this. Amazingly, when they did, US Lawmakers started an uproar about how unfair it was.
Sigh.....
I don't understand why this is so horrible to so many people. When you watch movies on TV, they are cut for violence or sex or language, yet the MPAA doesn't want you to be able to do the same thing with movies that you own. I personally don't understand why they don't market DVD's currently with edited versions. It could be an option, just like foreign language version are on most discs.
I can tape the edited version of movies off of television legally, but according to the MPAA, I'm not allowed to buy the full version of a movie and edit it at home, to play at home. I think there is a bigger market than they realize for edited films.
That's a good point. I don't know why people have a problem with people receiving calls on cellphones when they're in restaurants, for example -- it's a public place, and there are all sorts of other potential irritants (screaming kids, cigarette smoke, someone yammering about the colonoscopy they had that morning) that there's simply no point in singling out the one irritant that could save a life in an emergency.
I finally figured out why people find cell phones so much more annoying in restaurants than say, other people talking and clinking dishes. First, in the case of a screaming kid or dropped plates, the noise is typically brief, which cannot be said for cell phone conversations.
The second problem is that people always talk louder on cell phones. I personally do not understand this, however, IDNHACP (I do not have a cell phone.) So, the restaurant is already loud, and people are trying to talk over the din, which leads to point 3.
It's only one side of the conversation. Don't get me wrong, I'm not evesdropping, but it is jarring for me (and many others) to hear half of a conversation in my perhipheral hearing. It's easy to block out people talking back and forth, even if they're being loud; however, blocking out someone who is loudly seemingly talking to themselves is much more jarring to your brains white noise filter.
the cost of collecting $1 of revenue--45 cents in 2002, the last year for which statistics are available--has not appreciably declined in two decades.
This is completely unfathomable to me. If they cut this number in half, the federal budget would increase by 25%!! Without raising taxes a single penny! The idea that half of the money you pay into the IRS goes simply to maintining their 4 decade old software is insane.
If only Scifi hadn't cancelled Mystery Science Theater, perhaps Lucas would fear that one day his movie would be lampooned and spend more than 3 minutes crapping out the script.
I don't know that this is neccessarily a good idea. Do you really want a corporation holding 5, 10, 20+ years of your email? What if you're under investigation? All the sudden everything you've said over the past 20 years is very easily accessiable.
"Well Mr. Jones, it seems as though you're awfully interested in increasing your penis size for some pre-teen lolitas.. What do you have to say for yourself?"
For most people, building from source is entirely not necessary. Most popular programs are available as binary packages for any given distribution (and 90% of the time binaries for another distribution will work.)
Building from source for most programs yields little to no optimization, and if you ever want to uninstall the program that was built from source, you have to save your build (or, as I have had to do in the past) build the program again only to uninstall it.
I'm going to guess that Apple probably legally can't license the Fairplay technology. I imagine that the RIAA probably has Apple locked into some super restrictive contract that makes it so only Apple can use Fairplay, even though they made it.
After all, (outside of Apple being Apple), why wouldn't they have done it already?
Could someone explain to me what G4 is? I can't view their homepage without turning on cookies and I find it rather strange that (what I presume to be) a technology website (which would in theory understand privacy) would force anyone to turn on cookies to do so much as view their main index page.
My grandpa worked as an RCA repairman for many years (I've been told stories about how every time a new computer was invented, he had to go to night school to learn how to fix it.)
Anyway, one day he brought home a box of parts and a picture tube from RCA and built their family a color television. My father remembers how every week neighbors would come over to watch the Wonderful World of Disney because it was one of the few color programs each week.
My childhood's claim to fame is a 386 Packard Bell and Prodigy.... sigh.
I didn't even know JSAC's Paint Shop Pro still existed until one of my friends started talking about how great it is (compared to Photoshop) a few months ago.
I've seen Star Trek IV one too many times recently. All I can picture is Scotty holding up the mouse to an apple II and asking for pr0n. I feel so wrong.
While I think this is a bogus lawsuit, I have a fairly good guess as to what he is refering to.
In google search results, the brief clip of information below the link is often snippets of 3 or 4 different sentences (to show you that all of your requested words did in fact show up."
I'm going to hazard a guess that Mr. Maughan's result looked something like "Mark... Maughan... And Associates have... not paid their taxes... practice without a license... eat babies."
If that's what this is about... hes god a point...
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I would suggest that this gentleman contact his local congressman. This is the kind of issue that congressman know will win over a voter and everyone in their family for the rest of their lives (or the congressman's political career.)
I'm not saying that the issue will definitely get taken care of, but if he goes down to his congressman's office, they will know who to call to get the ball rolling. Likely this individual has only spoken to low ranking bureacrats. If he contacts his congressman he can quickly get to the top.
If you don't what the university seeing what you do with university property, go get your own damned ISP account!
That's all well and good, if it's even possible to get an outside high speed ISP. While dialup internet will work in the dorms, nothing else will. The university maintains a monopoly over high speed internet services.
If the university wanted to open up and allow outside high speed connections, then I'm all for it.
Of course if the parents would get rid of the guns at home this problem would be gone pretty quick, but that won't happen in cowboy land.
One of my PE teachers in middle school (less than 10 years ago) told us about how, when he was in school, students would come in and put their hunting rifles down on the table and pick them up at the end of class or the end of the day.
My PE teacher was in his mid-30's.
There is nothing wrong with owning a gun.
Actually, he wasn't a junkie, he was accused of dealing cocain but was aquitted on all charges because he was entrapped.
This guy is right. John DeLorean got teamed up with someone who he thought was going to fuse a large amount of cash into his company in order to save it (after his original loans by the royal family were spontaneously and unfairly called.) He had no idea that this guys plan was for him to sell coke in order to get the money.
DeLorean attempted to back out, but the man threatened his daughters life. With this in mind, he agreed to go through with the deal. Only at this point did the true facts come out. This gentlman was ACTUALLY a very over zealous cop who did all of this deliberately.
Entrapment.
DeLorean was (very appropriately) acquited of all charges.
Those things were heavy (1200kg/2700lb) and underpowered (130bhp), and the build quality was pretty poor.
There were problems with some of the original 1981 run that caused them to need extensive work. The kinks got very quickly worked out, however. While you are correct that the vehicle, from a sports car point of view, were overpowered, don't think for a second that the car is on the level of say, Toyota Tercel. The vehicle has a V6 built by Renault-Volvo, and my old Saturn weighed just shy of 2700 lbs. The Saturn also had equal horsepower. It could do 120mph without a problem (so I hear.... cough cough), and Saturns don't have gull wing doors, or a flux capacitor.
The problem is that no one will ever know how much money they need to carry. Considering that meters only accept coins, this further complicates the problem. Do you carry 4 dollars in quarters (or whatever they use in Canada)???
I typically have a few coins floating around my cupholders and the floor of my vehicle, and when I have to use metered parking, I use those. Those that have to regularly park at meters know how much to carry. If the amount changes on a continuing basis, this will only tick people off.
How long before the porn industry capitalizes on this one?
The possibilities are endless.
Doesn't work too well for classical or instrumental music.
What's that song that goes, like, A# G# F F F and then an A7 chord? With the timpani? You know the one I mean.
Believe it or not, I know people who have been in this situation before, and they posted to usenet, basically, notes, and or 'ba baaa bippity bippity doo doo doo', and amazingly, people posted THE CORRECT response. USENET is awesome.
Movie theaters are investing in metal detectors? If I have to go through a metal detector and take off my belt and my steel shanked shoes like I occasionally have to when I go to the airport just to see a movie, I won't ever go see a movie again.
Eh, the 1.50 theater near here won't have the stuff until 2045 anyway, so I guess I'm safe, so long as I only want to see films when they're second run.
You, my friend, are a genius.
If only I had thought of the 'Columbo method' before, I think it could have saved me much time with my own University's idiot IT department (and other idiots... they seem to populate the earth.)
The Columbo method will be my new problem solving manifesto.
Thankyou.
I'd like to see a special queue at Brussels airport where visiting American tourists are finger-printed, photographed, and generally treated like criminal suspects. /me thinks the concept of "tolerance and personal liberty" would soon find a new meaning.
You've got the right idea, as did Brazil, when it started doing this. Amazingly, when they did, US Lawmakers started an uproar about how unfair it was.
Sigh.....
I don't understand why this is so horrible to so many people. When you watch movies on TV, they are cut for violence or sex or language, yet the MPAA doesn't want you to be able to do the same thing with movies that you own. I personally don't understand why they don't market DVD's currently with edited versions. It could be an option, just like foreign language version are on most discs.
I can tape the edited version of movies off of television legally, but according to the MPAA, I'm not allowed to buy the full version of a movie and edit it at home, to play at home. I think there is a bigger market than they realize for edited films.
That's a good point. I don't know why people have a problem with people receiving calls on cellphones when they're in restaurants, for example -- it's a public place, and there are all sorts of other potential irritants (screaming kids, cigarette smoke, someone yammering about the colonoscopy they had that morning) that there's simply no point in singling out the one irritant that could save a life in an emergency.
I finally figured out why people find cell phones so much more annoying in restaurants than say, other people talking and clinking dishes. First, in the case of a screaming kid or dropped plates, the noise is typically brief, which cannot be said for cell phone conversations.
The second problem is that people always talk louder on cell phones. I personally do not understand this, however, IDNHACP (I do not have a cell phone.) So, the restaurant is already loud, and people are trying to talk over the din, which leads to point 3.
It's only one side of the conversation. Don't get me wrong, I'm not evesdropping, but it is jarring for me (and many others) to hear half of a conversation in my perhipheral hearing. It's easy to block out people talking back and forth, even if they're being loud; however, blocking out someone who is loudly seemingly talking to themselves is much more jarring to your brains white noise filter.
the cost of collecting $1 of revenue--45 cents in 2002, the last year for which statistics are available--has not appreciably declined in two decades.
This is completely unfathomable to me. If they cut this number in half, the federal budget would increase by 25%!! Without raising taxes a single penny! The idea that half of the money you pay into the IRS goes simply to maintining their 4 decade old software is insane.
If only Scifi hadn't cancelled Mystery Science Theater, perhaps Lucas would fear that one day his movie would be lampooned and spend more than 3 minutes crapping out the script.
I don't know that this is neccessarily a good idea. Do you really want a corporation holding 5, 10, 20+ years of your email? What if you're under investigation? All the sudden everything you've said over the past 20 years is very easily accessiable.
"Well Mr. Jones, it seems as though you're awfully interested in increasing your penis size for some pre-teen lolitas.. What do you have to say for yourself?"
For most people, building from source is entirely not necessary. Most popular programs are available as binary packages for any given distribution (and 90% of the time binaries for another distribution will work.)
Building from source for most programs yields little to no optimization, and if you ever want to uninstall the program that was built from source, you have to save your build (or, as I have had to do in the past) build the program again only to uninstall it.
I'm going to guess that Apple probably legally can't license the Fairplay technology. I imagine that the RIAA probably has Apple locked into some super restrictive contract that makes it so only Apple can use Fairplay, even though they made it.
After all, (outside of Apple being Apple), why wouldn't they have done it already?
Could someone explain to me what G4 is? I can't view their homepage without turning on cookies and I find it rather strange that (what I presume to be) a technology website (which would in theory understand privacy) would force anyone to turn on cookies to do so much as view their main index page.
My grandpa worked as an RCA repairman for many years (I've been told stories about how every time a new computer was invented, he had to go to night school to learn how to fix it.)
Anyway, one day he brought home a box of parts and a picture tube from RCA and built their family a color television. My father remembers how every week neighbors would come over to watch the Wonderful World of Disney because it was one of the few color programs each week.
My childhood's claim to fame is a 386 Packard Bell and Prodigy.... sigh.
I didn't even know JSAC's Paint Shop Pro still existed until one of my friends started talking about how great it is (compared to Photoshop) a few months ago.
So that's at least 1 person.
I've seen Star Trek IV one too many times recently. All I can picture is Scotty holding up the mouse to an apple II and asking for pr0n. I feel so wrong.
Somehow the 28 years system worked for over 150 years.
I'm going to get modded down as a troll but,
Sounds like this AP reporter took a lesson from the same playbook Bush used when proposing his medicare expansion, and reversed it.
While I think this is a bogus lawsuit, I have a fairly good guess as to what he is refering to.
In google search results, the brief clip of information below the link is often snippets of 3 or 4 different sentences (to show you that all of your requested words did in fact show up."
I'm going to hazard a guess that Mr. Maughan's result looked something like "Mark... Maughan... And Associates have... not paid their taxes... practice without a license... eat babies."
If that's what this is about... hes god a point...