Blame the registrars and the clueless computer users for the shortage of.com domains. I have a pair of friends, nice people but completely clueless when it comes to computers. When their daughter was borne, they bought a domain with her name so that they could put up a website about their infant daughter. Not only that, they bought DAUGHTER'SNAME.com, even though it had nothing to do with a business simply because they thought that all websites in the US ended in.com and the registrar let them. The request should have been refused because it's an improper use of the TLD, and they should have had to pick either.org or.us, with the latter being the best choice. If people weren't allowed to have.com domains unless they were for commercial use, there'd be a lot more of them available.
The have metabolisms that are inefficient. The only reason the are alive is because the modern western world created a situation of extreme abundance.
So this is your excuse for being morbidly obese? Why don't you just blame your mom for not making you get out of her basement and spend some time at the gym?
One of my friends back then was a Quartermaster's Mate, which is how I know this stuff. When we went from Pearl to Subic Bay, our last leg was from Guam, after refueling. For dead reckoning, they used 2000 yards per nautical mile (rounded down) and all turns were treated as point turns, ignoring the distance traveled in the turn itself. When we made landfall, our calculated position was off by less than 2 nmi. I wonder how many of today's navigators could do so well.
When I was in the Navy, I was assigned to After Steering, just above the rudder. If the connections from the bridge to the rudder failed, we could steer from there, and often did for practice. If the motors moving the rudder died, we could even turn it manually, although very slowly, and the ship would be brought down to a safe speed. (No, I never had to do it, but I know it was done during a combat drill once.) Of course, we only had one rudder and I hate to think of how many men it would take to turn an aircraft carrier that way.
I was in the Navy back in the early '70s, when LORAN was still king. Our ship not only had paper charts for the Quartermaster's Mates to track our position by dead reckoning, we took regular star sightings with a sextant for Celestial Navigation. And, we still had two mechanical chronometers that were kept wound, even though the ship's navigator had an Omega watch that was more accurate. The USN doesn't take chances with things like this and I'd bet that today's ships still use dead reckoning, hand-wound chronometers and sextants even with today's highly accurate GPS, just to keep in practice in case of an emergency.
My sister and I recently moved from California to Colorado to take advantage of the lower cost of living. However, we both kept our cell phone numbers to make it easier for friends and family to keep in touch. We often text each other to avoid distracting a driver, and since the area codes are in a different state, would this be recorded as interstate commerce?
Well, one thing for sure, I didn't watch Netfix, because I'm not a subscriber. I watched Cable TV. Thinking that it's a choice between Netfix and sleep with no other options is just another example of their hubris.
If it can recover from an interruption without starting over, it's already better than at least 95% of all telemarketers out there. Most of them have their pitches memorized and can't pick up where they left off. If you've got the time, try breaking in repeatedly and see how many times they'll start over before giving up.
I can't speak about Korea, but I do know that the only reason we pulled out of Vietnam is that the anti-war movement persuaded Congress that we couldn't win. Both Tet and the Easter offensive were absolute disasters for the Viet Cong and the NVA, respectively.
This dark fluid concept is clearly not in the same class. It was literally made up just to make the numbers add up and isn't based on any different claims or observations or evidence than we already had.
Yes. Exactly like the Luminiferous Aether was made up, and exactly like neutrinos were made up to make the numbers come out right. The only difference, of course, being that neutrinos actually exist. This "dark fluid" may exist, but I'm not planning to put any belief into it until there's some actual evidence to support it.
I just experimented by opening a terminal and using su - to become root. Then, I used su $USERNAME to see if I could su back to myself and which password I needed. Lo and behold, once you're root, you can su to anybody else without being prompted for a password. Live and learn. I sit corrected.
No, we don't. I have never had a Facebook account, I never plan to have one and I never visit their site. On rare occasions I will get emails from a friend passing on something from there that I may need to know, but that's as close as I'm willing to get. Just because you can't imagine life without Facebook, doesn't mean that there aren't millions of us out there happily ignoring it and laughing at all you sheep.
I'm sure this jerk is expecting that any more sentences he gets for this will be served concurrent with his original 13 years, meaning that this costs him little if any extra time in prison. If you really want to make him pay for what he's done, make all of his new sentences run consecutive, meaning that he doesn't even start on his first new one until after he's completely finished his current stir time, and he won't be eligible for parole until he's into his last one. With any luck, he'll be stuck in the graybar hotel for the next 40 to 50 years, without Internet access, so that any skills he might have will be completely obsolete if he's lucky enough to remember how he used to do things like this.
Not only that, but with most of the mainstream media solidly anti-Trump, it's going to be a three-ring circus no matter what the Democrats in Congress want.
For those of us who are still more comfortable with miles, that's slightly over 994.19 miles. You can't often find a donor organ that's close to where it's needed, so you generally have to send them cross country by plane. Having the test start that far from the destination simply made for more realistic conditions.
In The Industry, a producer oversees the production of a film, often including finding projects. An Executive Producer is only involved in top level management and usually provides at least part of the funding. That's why you sometimes see films with several Executive Producers listed; everybody who chipped in to get the project filmed expects screen credit. I predict that Apple plans to be an Executive Producer, funding projects that they like, or fit into their current agenda, but not getting involved with day-to-day operations. Of course, they'll also expect a hefty share of the profits.
My thought exactly. There are only so many college students with the right mind set to become a good programmer, developer or system administrator in any area, and I doubt that there are that many in and around Virginia who aren't already studying CS. Unless they can start pulling good candidates in from farther away, the only way they crank out that many CS degrees without lowering their standards and giving themselves a bad reputation as a diploma mill.
If Amazon isn't planning on hiring at least some of these new CS grads, why did they make it part of the deal in the first place? The only reason I can think of is getting access to a large pool of unskilled labor in the form of college students looking for part time jobs to supplement their income while they're in school and I don't find that idea particularly plausible.
...deflect/minimize questions as being advised not to answer them.
I don't know what protections against self-incrimination British Law provides or how broad they are. However, here in the USofA, they are only absolute in a court of law, or when being questioned during an investigation by law enforcement. That's why suspects must be read their rights before being formally questioned so that they don't incriminate themselves because they don't know enough about the law to know that they don't have to. (I gather that the police only have to read you your rights if they consider you a suspect, so if yoeu're ever questioned and thy don't, you can reasonably presume that you're currently not a suspect. And, if I read TFA correctly, this is not a formal judicial proceeding, the committee is not obligated in any way, shape or form to avoid taking his refusals into account which means that if he does have something to hide (and I'm sure he does) refusal to answer any questions ask just allow his questioners to assume that things are as bad as they want. And last, remember that IANAL so ICBW.
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Blame the registrars and the clueless computer users for the shortage of .com domains. I have a pair of friends, nice people but completely clueless when it comes to computers. When their daughter was borne, they bought a domain with her name so that they could put up a website about their infant daughter. Not only that, they bought DAUGHTER'SNAME.com, even though it had nothing to do with a business simply because they thought that all websites in the US ended in .com and the registrar let them. The request should have been refused because it's an improper use of the TLD, and they should have had to pick either .org or .us, with the latter being the best choice. If people weren't allowed to have .com domains unless they were for commercial use, there'd be a lot more of them available.
The have metabolisms that are inefficient. The only reason the are alive is because the modern western world created a situation of extreme abundance.
So this is your excuse for being morbidly obese? Why don't you just blame your mom for not making you get out of her basement and spend some time at the gym?
Even the ultra-rich can't justify it, even if they can afford it.
For the ultra-rich, bragging rights and/or conspicuous consumption are justification enough.
One of my friends back then was a Quartermaster's Mate, which is how I know this stuff. When we went from Pearl to Subic Bay, our last leg was from Guam, after refueling. For dead reckoning, they used 2000 yards per nautical mile (rounded down) and all turns were treated as point turns, ignoring the distance traveled in the turn itself. When we made landfall, our calculated position was off by less than 2 nmi. I wonder how many of today's navigators could do so well.
When I was in the Navy, I was assigned to After Steering, just above the rudder. If the connections from the bridge to the rudder failed, we could steer from there, and often did for practice. If the motors moving the rudder died, we could even turn it manually, although very slowly, and the ship would be brought down to a safe speed. (No, I never had to do it, but I know it was done during a combat drill once.) Of course, we only had one rudder and I hate to think of how many men it would take to turn an aircraft carrier that way.
I was in the Navy back in the early '70s, when LORAN was still king. Our ship not only had paper charts for the Quartermaster's Mates to track our position by dead reckoning, we took regular star sightings with a sextant for Celestial Navigation. And, we still had two mechanical chronometers that were kept wound, even though the ship's navigator had an Omega watch that was more accurate. The USN doesn't take chances with things like this and I'd bet that today's ships still use dead reckoning, hand-wound chronometers and sextants even with today's highly accurate GPS, just to keep in practice in case of an emergency.
My sister and I recently moved from California to Colorado to take advantage of the lower cost of living. However, we both kept our cell phone numbers to make it easier for friends and family to keep in touch. We often text each other to avoid distracting a driver, and since the area codes are in a different state, would this be recorded as interstate commerce?
The proper answer to that question of course is, "None of your business." The best might be, "Who counts?"
Well, one thing for sure, I didn't watch Netfix, because I'm not a subscriber. I watched Cable TV. Thinking that it's a choice between Netfix and sleep with no other options is just another example of their hubris.
If it can recover from an interruption without starting over, it's already better than at least 95% of all telemarketers out there. Most of them have their pitches memorized and can't pick up where they left off. If you've got the time, try breaking in repeatedly and see how many times they'll start over before giving up.
I can't speak about Korea, but I do know that the only reason we pulled out of Vietnam is that the anti-war movement persuaded Congress that we couldn't win. Both Tet and the Easter offensive were absolute disasters for the Viet Cong and the NVA, respectively.
This dark fluid concept is clearly not in the same class. It was literally made up just to make the numbers add up and isn't based on any different claims or observations or evidence than we already had.
Yes. Exactly like the Luminiferous Aether was made up, and exactly like neutrinos were made up to make the numbers come out right. The only difference, of course, being that neutrinos actually exist. This "dark fluid" may exist, but I'm not planning to put any belief into it until there's some actual evidence to support it.
Either that, or he may just be a shape-shifter, like a Zygon. Candidly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he were.
Yeah; I found that out by experiment later. Open mouth, exchange feet.
I just experimented by opening a terminal and using su - to become root. Then, I used su $USERNAME to see if I could su back to myself and which password I needed. Lo and behold, once you're root, you can su to anybody else without being prompted for a password. Live and learn. I sit corrected.
Actually, he still needed the other user's password. When you use su to become another user, you still have to supply that user's password.
I never said that the don't have any info on me,just that I have nothing to do with their site and never visit it.
Everyone uses Facebook, one way or another.
No, we don't. I have never had a Facebook account, I never plan to have one and I never visit their site. On rare occasions I will get emails from a friend passing on something from there that I may need to know, but that's as close as I'm willing to get. Just because you can't imagine life without Facebook, doesn't mean that there aren't millions of us out there happily ignoring it and laughing at all you sheep.
I'm sure this jerk is expecting that any more sentences he gets for this will be served concurrent with his original 13 years, meaning that this costs him little if any extra time in prison. If you really want to make him pay for what he's done, make all of his new sentences run consecutive, meaning that he doesn't even start on his first new one until after he's completely finished his current stir time, and he won't be eligible for parole until he's into his last one. With any luck, he'll be stuck in the graybar hotel for the next 40 to 50 years, without Internet access, so that any skills he might have will be completely obsolete if he's lucky enough to remember how he used to do things like this.
Not only that, but with most of the mainstream media solidly anti-Trump, it's going to be a three-ring circus no matter what the Democrats in Congress want.
For those of us who are still more comfortable with miles, that's slightly over 994.19 miles. You can't often find a donor organ that's close to where it's needed, so you generally have to send them cross country by plane. Having the test start that far from the destination simply made for more realistic conditions.
Then they're not a Producer.
In The Industry, a producer oversees the production of a film, often including finding projects. An Executive Producer is only involved in top level management and usually provides at least part of the funding. That's why you sometimes see films with several Executive Producers listed; everybody who chipped in to get the project filmed expects screen credit. I predict that Apple plans to be an Executive Producer, funding projects that they like, or fit into their current agenda, but not getting involved with day-to-day operations. Of course, they'll also expect a hefty share of the profits.
My thought exactly. There are only so many college students with the right mind set to become a good programmer, developer or system administrator in any area, and I doubt that there are that many in and around Virginia who aren't already studying CS. Unless they can start pulling good candidates in from farther away, the only way they crank out that many CS degrees without lowering their standards and giving themselves a bad reputation as a diploma mill.
If Amazon isn't planning on hiring at least some of these new CS grads, why did they make it part of the deal in the first place? The only reason I can think of is getting access to a large pool of unskilled labor in the form of college students looking for part time jobs to supplement their income while they're in school and I don't find that idea particularly plausible.
...deflect/minimize questions as being advised not to answer them.
I don't know what protections against self-incrimination British Law provides or how broad they are. However, here in the USofA, they are only absolute in a court of law, or when being questioned during an investigation by law enforcement. That's why suspects must be read their rights before being formally questioned so that they don't incriminate themselves because they don't know enough about the law to know that they don't have to. (I gather that the police only have to read you your rights if they consider you a suspect, so if yoeu're ever questioned and thy don't, you can reasonably presume that you're currently not a suspect. And, if I read TFA correctly, this is not a formal judicial proceeding, the committee is not obligated in any way, shape or form to avoid taking his refusals into account which means that if he does have something to hide (and I'm sure he does) refusal to answer any questions ask just allow his questioners to assume that things are as bad as they want. And last, remember that IANAL so ICBW.