I'm wondering when the government will cut off dealings with Halliburton because they're now a foreign company and are no longer eligible for many of the security clearances that they've had in the past...
Probably January 20, 2009 or slightly thereafter...
The Navajo Nation isn't even close to 20%. They're closer to other states' financial spheres of influence and municipalities than they are to much of what's going on in Arizona, so it's not a particularly big deal.
"peener" sounds more accurate for pronounciation of "P'neer"...
In context in a Walter Cronkite-esque voice: "Today, the culmination of NASA's billion dollar project occured when our own Pioneer 11 returned to us, as an artificial life forn calling itself 'peener'. Peener has indicated it's seeking the never-launched probe, 'V'Ger-NA"...'"
It would actually make sense to look for a single condition in the myriad of possible known phenomena. That's basically what Occam's Razor says. There's no sense in looking for a complex or radical solution until all of the simple possibilities have been exhausted.
This doesn't mean that I'm advocating ignoring re-investigating things from fairly basic principles, but at the same time I think that it would be foolish to immediately assume that something that we haven't yet had any notion of is the culprit. It would be pretty neat if the effect was something new, but you can't assume it's new until you've eliminated all of the other possibilities.
Ozzie, who has only made a few appearances since his promotion last June to replace Bill Gates as CSA, told analysts and investors that he has been laying the groundwork for programmers across the company to build Internet-based software.
You mean, ActiveX-based software, right? It's not like these applications are going to really function on any platform other than Internet Explorer (and even then, probably 6.0 MINIMALLY) and Windows XP, and there will be no support for Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows 2000, etc...
Google offers a great opportunity for those who want to break themselves of the Microsoft habit. Cross-platform, functional on multiple OSes, web browsers, and with minimal requirements.
Maybe there really is something to all of those science fiction movies that show space ports opening like a clamshell a few minutes before the spacecraft lifts off, especially if the air inside was temperature and humidity controlled. That kind of thing might have prevented Challenger's destruction and would keep any craft free from weather-related damage before takeoff...
There are (I'm getting married, had to go through a class that does call sex during marriage as "a renewal of the sacrament of marriage"), but most don't acknowledge pre-marital sex, whether for pleasure or for procreation, as being acceptable.
While Amazon.com did make a mistake, the advertised price was buy one get one free. Even though the checkout stated $0.00, it can be argued that the customer agreed to pay for one of those boxed sets.
While it sucks that a mistake was made, I think these customers are being a bit greedy expecting to get "something for nothing." While Amazon represents the "big corporation" and people love to screw with big companies (and some probably deserve it), I think its morally wrong for people to expect to not have to pay for the merchandise received.
If Amazon has a fairly-involved checkout process (where one has to put in the credit card, view the subtotal and total charges, agree to them, and submit them), the Amazon is totally at fault if they don't have a human being on the other end of the transaction verifying that the prices are correct. The entire purpose of a receipt is that the seller acknowledges selling the item(s) for the price on the receipt, and the buyer agrees to pay for them. If the buyer doesn't have credit with the seller (note: NOT the credit card) then the seller is responsible to ensure that their books are kept accurate and are processed properly. If Amazon doesn't do that and doesn't test their system, the fault and responsibility are on them and the employee or employees who made the mistake, not on the buyer. Once the transaction is completed (and Amazon generating a receipt and shipping the product is the final act of completing it) then the buyer is no longer responsible.
If Amazon did this to me, I'd let the charge appear, and then call fraud with my credit card processor. I'd submit copies of my receipts. I'd probably also forward to the appropriate Attorneys General of the states involved.
I stopped using Windows because they made me use their web browser, which, if you remember the hardware that we had at the time, reduced the available resources for other programs. It also was steaming pile of crap. When Microsoft decided that the web browser was the next hot thing I decided that Linux was the next hot thing, as my Linux machines had uptimes significantly longer than those running Windows, and I got tired of a little thing called a Blue Screen of Death. The browser was, as another poster put it, the straw that broke the camel's back.
About ten years ago I switched from Windows to Linux. I was prompted to make this change by Microsoft's bundling IE 3.0 with Windows 95 OSR2.1 where it would start an installation of IE after the Windows installation concluded. It could be fairly easily cancelled by Ctrl-Alt-Del/End Task, but that one had to so was ridiculous.
Ditching Windows was a little hard as I used to play games, but I was reaching the point where gaming held little appeal for me anyway. Switching to a platform that ran for literally years on end without major crashes demonstrated the value of Linux, and obviously, the lack of worth to Windows.
Microsoft only holds its place because people are too timid to try something else. Apple's OS is slick. Linux has had windowmanagers that mimic the windows shell for many years. For people who don't play computer games it shouldn't be a big deal to switch.
It's not really surprising to have Detectives on a campus police force. There are rapes, burglaries, drug deals, prostitutes, assaults, and even the occasional murder on large college campuses, and the cities that the colleges are located in usually don't have the resources to direct that much attention to that area. Also since much of the in-residence populace is temporary the city's funding wouldn't be as stable for covering that segment of the population. The campus police force is paid for ultimately by tuition and/or state money based on enrollment and need.
Also, campus-exclusive cops would have a much better feel for what's going on around them and would probably also know where to look when there's a problem due to experience. While a Constable on Patrol would be able to address most of what's going on, higher-profile cases would require detectives just like a normal municipal police force, and if a particular kind of crime (rape, assault, and the like) is reasonably common then an internal investigator would remove the need for an outside inspector to attempt to conduct an investigation in a microcosm that is unfamiliar. Obviously crimes like murder would use the municipality's law enforcement, but that kind of crime is also reasonably rare.
I will agree that Campus Traffic Police suck though.
"I note that China has invaded fewer countries in the last 50 years than the USA has... so what is the answer to the question ?"
Uh, while the U.S. has invaded countries since World War II (if the list is accurate: Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, *slavia, Panama, Iraq/Kuwait, Afganistan, Iraq) we've not staked any permanent/annexation claims on any of them. Yes, we're still in Korea, but at the request of the South Korean government. We left Vietnam and Cambodia. We left Grenada and the Grenadans apparently appreciated our help. NATO and the UN were with us for the Balkans. We completed operations in Panama and left. We went into Iraq and Kuwait the first time at the request of the Kuwaiti government, with help from Kuwait's non-hostile neighbors. So that means that the only post WWII invasions that we still are working on are Afganistan (which has a lot of international support) and the current Iraq situation, which stated plans call for leaving it for them somehow, some day. We've even returned territory when the inhabitants wanted us out, like Panama, and our presence in Germany is diminshing every year.
China invaded Tibet and annexed it, without any real challenge. They're changing the culture to match their own, despite the fact that Tibet wasn't a military or seditious threat to China's way of life or to the world.
We're no saints by any stretch, but we're not extending our permanent borders by force in the modern era either.
Probably because there are several different groups that are fighting/targeting different other groups, and some of these groups are killing Iraqis more than they're attacking U.S. troops. Doesn't help that many of those aren't Iraqis either.
Honestly the problems with the cable provider have little to do with the technology and more to do with the cable provider having a de-facto monopoly on the distribution grid. Competition does wonderful things for forcing companies to provide what consumers want and to keep them in line, as consumers have the option of still getting similar services from someone else.
If too many people change to another provider as you have done then that provider might eventually take on the attitude that your old provider had. When that happens, assuming that there is another option then people will switch to that provider instead.
When a large number of people of a given racial makeup decorate their motor vehicles with bad stick-on pinstriping, RWD-offset wheels on a FWD car, and pictures of Our Lady of Guadalupe, they marginalize themselves and draw attention to characteristics that make them different. And honestly, I'm a little tired of seeing these vehicles with Sonora or Chihuahua-issued license plates being driven badly and causing traffic problems.
Cell Phones are a universal problem that cross racial and economic lines around here. I saw a guy who looked like he was competing against Sanford and Son, complete with beat up old truck, who broke down on a freeway offramp and got out his cell phone. It was the weirdest thing.
I do field service for a living. I can tell you that it's really, REALLY frustrating when you're petering along at 45MPH and some blue-hair pulls out in front of you and goes 30 in the left lane.
I don't agree with the principle of stereotypes, but there are lots of groups that seem to have disproportionate number of slow drivers who remain in the left lane. I've always treated the road where, traffic permitting, slower traffic keeps to the right and faster traffic keeps to the left. Living in Phoenix, it seems that soccer moms, poor Mexicans, and seniors routinely don't follow these basic tenents. Contrast to that, young males and most people driving a brand-new, expensive truck or a lifted truck fall into the category of chronic tailgaters.
Can you permanently change your skin color through only your own biological processes?
Would you be able to determine the skin color of your offspring without consideration for whom you'd breed with?
I'd say that it's an evolutionary trait. I can't say specifically why pale people are pale, dark people are dark, or the like, but given the regions that people live in, there are more dark-skinned people where the sun strikes the planet more squarely and there are more pale people where the sun strikes more angularly...
I can tell you that as a pale person in a fairly low latitude that based on the amount of time before I sunburn (about fifteen minutes of solid, continuous exposure) I'm not well suited to my environment if I'm outdoors uncovered...
...then this might be a pretty good idea. For every NicoMac Computing (creators of WinZip) there are a dozen Cott Langs (Renegade BBS), Front Doors, and other shareware creators that never saw real money despite the widespread use of their shareware. Yes, Apple is making money on these people, but these people are making money from an opportunity that they very well might not otherwise have.
A door is a physical thing. The analogy doesn't really apply.
It's a public server running a daemon designed to share publicly all of the content in a certain set of sub directories. The management of the server chooses what is shared and what isn't. It was in a shared location.
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...but it's still a pig, and you're still not going to want to kiss it.
Unless you're in to that sort of thing...
I'm wondering when the government will cut off dealings with Halliburton because they're now a foreign company and are no longer eligible for many of the security clearances that they've had in the past...
Probably January 20, 2009 or slightly thereafter...
The Navajo Nation isn't even close to 20%. They're closer to other states' financial spheres of influence and municipalities than they are to much of what's going on in Arizona, so it's not a particularly big deal.
Or move to Arizona, as we don't observe Daylight Savings Time at all... It's nice not having to deal with that BS...
"peener" sounds more accurate for pronounciation of "P'neer"... In context in a Walter Cronkite-esque voice: "Today, the culmination of NASA's billion dollar project occured when our own Pioneer 11 returned to us, as an artificial life forn calling itself 'peener'. Peener has indicated it's seeking the never-launched probe, 'V'Ger-NA"...'"
It would actually make sense to look for a single condition in the myriad of possible known phenomena. That's basically what Occam's Razor says. There's no sense in looking for a complex or radical solution until all of the simple possibilities have been exhausted.
This doesn't mean that I'm advocating ignoring re-investigating things from fairly basic principles, but at the same time I think that it would be foolish to immediately assume that something that we haven't yet had any notion of is the culprit. It would be pretty neat if the effect was something new, but you can't assume it's new until you've eliminated all of the other possibilities.
Google offers a great opportunity for those who want to break themselves of the Microsoft habit. Cross-platform, functional on multiple OSes, web browsers, and with minimal requirements.
Maybe there really is something to all of those science fiction movies that show space ports opening like a clamshell a few minutes before the spacecraft lifts off, especially if the air inside was temperature and humidity controlled. That kind of thing might have prevented Challenger's destruction and would keep any craft free from weather-related damage before takeoff...
That's pretty much my conclusion too. I think that it's all kind of stupid, really.
There are (I'm getting married, had to go through a class that does call sex during marriage as "a renewal of the sacrament of marriage"), but most don't acknowledge pre-marital sex, whether for pleasure or for procreation, as being acceptable.
If Amazon did this to me, I'd let the charge appear, and then call fraud with my credit card processor. I'd submit copies of my receipts. I'd probably also forward to the appropriate Attorneys General of the states involved.
Yeah, I was thinking that. As long as their spacewalks can take, I'd want something that's power-assist, not power-robbing...
I stopped using Windows because they made me use their web browser, which, if you remember the hardware that we had at the time, reduced the available resources for other programs. It also was steaming pile of crap. When Microsoft decided that the web browser was the next hot thing I decided that Linux was the next hot thing, as my Linux machines had uptimes significantly longer than those running Windows, and I got tired of a little thing called a Blue Screen of Death. The browser was, as another poster put it, the straw that broke the camel's back.
About ten years ago I switched from Windows to Linux. I was prompted to make this change by Microsoft's bundling IE 3.0 with Windows 95 OSR2.1 where it would start an installation of IE after the Windows installation concluded. It could be fairly easily cancelled by Ctrl-Alt-Del/End Task, but that one had to so was ridiculous.
Ditching Windows was a little hard as I used to play games, but I was reaching the point where gaming held little appeal for me anyway. Switching to a platform that ran for literally years on end without major crashes demonstrated the value of Linux, and obviously, the lack of worth to Windows.
Microsoft only holds its place because people are too timid to try something else. Apple's OS is slick. Linux has had windowmanagers that mimic the windows shell for many years. For people who don't play computer games it shouldn't be a big deal to switch.
It's not really surprising to have Detectives on a campus police force. There are rapes, burglaries, drug deals, prostitutes, assaults, and even the occasional murder on large college campuses, and the cities that the colleges are located in usually don't have the resources to direct that much attention to that area. Also since much of the in-residence populace is temporary the city's funding wouldn't be as stable for covering that segment of the population. The campus police force is paid for ultimately by tuition and/or state money based on enrollment and need.
Also, campus-exclusive cops would have a much better feel for what's going on around them and would probably also know where to look when there's a problem due to experience. While a Constable on Patrol would be able to address most of what's going on, higher-profile cases would require detectives just like a normal municipal police force, and if a particular kind of crime (rape, assault, and the like) is reasonably common then an internal investigator would remove the need for an outside inspector to attempt to conduct an investigation in a microcosm that is unfamiliar. Obviously crimes like murder would use the municipality's law enforcement, but that kind of crime is also reasonably rare.
I will agree that Campus Traffic Police suck though.
"I note that China has invaded fewer countries in the last 50 years than the USA has ... so what is the answer to the question ?"
Uh, while the U.S. has invaded countries since World War II (if the list is accurate: Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, *slavia, Panama, Iraq/Kuwait, Afganistan, Iraq) we've not staked any permanent/annexation claims on any of them. Yes, we're still in Korea, but at the request of the South Korean government. We left Vietnam and Cambodia. We left Grenada and the Grenadans apparently appreciated our help. NATO and the UN were with us for the Balkans. We completed operations in Panama and left. We went into Iraq and Kuwait the first time at the request of the Kuwaiti government, with help from Kuwait's non-hostile neighbors. So that means that the only post WWII invasions that we still are working on are Afganistan (which has a lot of international support) and the current Iraq situation, which stated plans call for leaving it for them somehow, some day. We've even returned territory when the inhabitants wanted us out, like Panama, and our presence in Germany is diminshing every year.
China invaded Tibet and annexed it, without any real challenge. They're changing the culture to match their own, despite the fact that Tibet wasn't a military or seditious threat to China's way of life or to the world.
We're no saints by any stretch, but we're not extending our permanent borders by force in the modern era either.
"Become informed of the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide before it's too late!" Welcome to 1992...
Probably because there are several different groups that are fighting/targeting different other groups, and some of these groups are killing Iraqis more than they're attacking U.S. troops. Doesn't help that many of those aren't Iraqis either.
Stop misunderestimating him!
Honestly the problems with the cable provider have little to do with the technology and more to do with the cable provider having a de-facto monopoly on the distribution grid. Competition does wonderful things for forcing companies to provide what consumers want and to keep them in line, as consumers have the option of still getting similar services from someone else.
If too many people change to another provider as you have done then that provider might eventually take on the attitude that your old provider had. When that happens, assuming that there is another option then people will switch to that provider instead.
When a large number of people of a given racial makeup decorate their motor vehicles with bad stick-on pinstriping, RWD-offset wheels on a FWD car, and pictures of Our Lady of Guadalupe, they marginalize themselves and draw attention to characteristics that make them different. And honestly, I'm a little tired of seeing these vehicles with Sonora or Chihuahua-issued license plates being driven badly and causing traffic problems.
Cell Phones are a universal problem that cross racial and economic lines around here. I saw a guy who looked like he was competing against Sanford and Son, complete with beat up old truck, who broke down on a freeway offramp and got out his cell phone. It was the weirdest thing.
Why do people tailgate though?
I do field service for a living. I can tell you that it's really, REALLY frustrating when you're petering along at 45MPH and some blue-hair pulls out in front of you and goes 30 in the left lane.
I don't agree with the principle of stereotypes, but there are lots of groups that seem to have disproportionate number of slow drivers who remain in the left lane. I've always treated the road where, traffic permitting, slower traffic keeps to the right and faster traffic keeps to the left. Living in Phoenix, it seems that soccer moms, poor Mexicans, and seniors routinely don't follow these basic tenents. Contrast to that, young males and most people driving a brand-new, expensive truck or a lifted truck fall into the category of chronic tailgaters.
Can you permanently change your skin color through only your own biological processes? Would you be able to determine the skin color of your offspring without consideration for whom you'd breed with? I'd say that it's an evolutionary trait. I can't say specifically why pale people are pale, dark people are dark, or the like, but given the regions that people live in, there are more dark-skinned people where the sun strikes the planet more squarely and there are more pale people where the sun strikes more angularly... I can tell you that as a pale person in a fairly low latitude that based on the amount of time before I sunburn (about fifteen minutes of solid, continuous exposure) I'm not well suited to my environment if I'm outdoors uncovered...
...then this might be a pretty good idea. For every NicoMac Computing (creators of WinZip) there are a dozen Cott Langs (Renegade BBS), Front Doors, and other shareware creators that never saw real money despite the widespread use of their shareware. Yes, Apple is making money on these people, but these people are making money from an opportunity that they very well might not otherwise have.
A door is a physical thing. The analogy doesn't really apply.
It's a public server running a daemon designed to share publicly all of the content in a certain set of sub directories. The management of the server chooses what is shared and what isn't. It was in a shared location.