I can't speak for anybody but myself, but I'd have a lot more respect for them if they'd stuck it out and fought for their principles, even though they knew it was a lost cause. What they did, essentially, was give up without even trying, leaving the impression that they didn't consider their principles worth fighting for.
Americans didn't worry about fitness until JFK started talking about it, and it took years to catch on. Today's adults are far more fit than their parents were and have more muscle mass. That's going to make them heavier, but not fatter. Yes, there are probably more tubs of lard out there now, but the fitness freaks and body builders are helping bring the average up as well. (And, as the BMI doesn't take muscle mass into account, most of them are considered obese even though they have very little body fat.)
Covering over black so that it doesn't show isn't easy. It can take a surprising number of coats to do the job. Sometimes you can strip all of the paint off the wall and start fresh; other times you're better off going with wallpaper. Still, I agree with you that the father deserves an A++ for understanding that it was an accident.
...or I would walk across the building and we would talk in person, with the understanding that...
Every time I do so, your performance evaluation goes down because you're being an uncooperative asshole. And, every time that happens the odds that I'll decide it's not worth the bother and fire you instead go up.
If nothing else, this shows just how bad an idea it is to put too much trust in computer models. There are always factors that we either don't know about or don't know how to include properly and getting even one of them wrong can throw the whole model off. Yes, computer simulations and models can be very, very useful but you have to take the results with a grain of salt and remember that they're only approximations at best.
No where else in the world do people expect "Free" things to also mean that they then own the copyright.
This is why so many of us talk about software being FOSS: Free and Open Source. The graphics drivers that nVidia provides are free to use, but they're only provided as binary blobs and the company has never made their hardware specs or programming interface public so that anybody who wants to create an OSS version has to start out by reverse engineering the binary driver and hoping that they haven't missed anything important. Some people don't care, some don't like it but accept it because the OSS versions work well enough for them and some simply avoid using any graphics adapters that don't have Properly Open Drivers.
I don't use Ubuntu, I use Fedora. Fedora has very strict rules about licensing and any package that doesn't meet those guidelines can't be offered in their official repositories. There is, however a third-party set of repositories, known collectively as rpmfusion, that hold those packages, including things like codecs and binary-blob video drivers, that can't be directly offered and most of the Fedora help forums either contain instructions on how to install the repositories or links to those instructions. Once you've installed them, the only way to know if a package isn't offered directly by Fedora is by checking to see where it's hosted. When you come right down to it, the only difference between how Ubuntu and Fedora handle the issue is the fact that Ubuntu automates the process and Fedora doesn't.
If you can show, somehow, that the defendant was not in the habit of clearing his browser history or cache, but did it minutes after he learned that he might be under investigation, you've probably got a good case. But unless you can show something that blatant and obvious, a good defense lawyer will eat you alive if it ever gets to court.
Even better, don't use the recycle bin; if you don't need or want a file any more, just delete it. Gone is gone. If you're not sure, just rename it, then delete it once you're sure it isn't needed.
Glucose tests cost $1/test strip, and even mildly rigorous control takes roughly 5 strips/day.
That depends on how well controlled your diabetes is. My Endocrinologist has me checking before breakfast and at bed time, only. The only time he wants more is the four days before he sees me, and then he wants before each meal plus bed time. Of course, my readings are well controlled and my Ha1C has been within acceptable limits for the last several years. YMMV, and if you're having trouble with your numbers, I can easily understand needing to take four or five readings a day. Of course, I'm Type II, diagnosed about 13 years ago, but I can understand just how tired of the constant monitoring you can get.
I trust my sister not to abuse my ATM card, just as she trusts me. And, I'd trust a few of my friends the same way in an emergency. If you don't know anybody you'd trust that way, you might want to ask yourself why they're your friends.
I don't know if it's a good thing or bad; it all depends, I'd guess, on how often people need to do things like that. I just wanted to point out that there can be times that the facial recognition can cause problems, even without the issue of false negatives.
Let's say that I want to loan a trusted friend some money. I give him (or her) my ATM card and PIN. They get the cash they need and bring me back the card and receipt. For some people, that's not at all unusual, if they're right about who to trust. Even so, this facial recognition is going to make this kind of routine transaction impossible.
I've never made any secret out of which county I live in, and in this case that tells you my area code. What's interesting is that even if you know my real name, if you look me up on Google, you'd have to go through several pages before you found the first link to me, although at least one of he images on the first page is mine, and it's over a decade old and I've changed considerably since then. No, I don't want you to publish everything you know about me because I'd consider it just as unwise as I do. And, I never said that there were over 20 Glendales in Ventura County; I said that there are over 20 in the US. Last, I know how you learned my name; if I'd wanted to keep that a secret, it would have been trivial to do so, meaning that I probably wasn't concerned in hiding it.
I've mentioned what part of the country I live in on Slashdot, more than one time. Alas, just telling me that something like this is happening in Glendale doesn't make it clear where I live, considering that there are over twenty Glendales in the USA.
I guess the question is how do they determine location?
I connect by ADSL. I've checked with various websites that claim to show where you are based only on your IP address and what they show is where the DSLAM is located, over three miles away. Unless you're using a static IP, that's about as good as they're going to get.
There are eight different Orange Counties in the US, in different states, along with one in China, about an hour north of Beijing. I'm glad to know that this is the one in Florida, not the one near where I live.
Kids are forced to pay for aged baby boomers who didn't save their money to pay doctors to guess at extending their lives another month or two. Old people are gonna die, don't make kids pay for doctors who can't change that.
I'm a retired boomer, and a 'Nam vet. I get all of my medical care from the VA, meaning that some of what you pay in taxes goes to keeping people like me alive. If you feel so strongly about not paying for other people's medical expenses, I'd be glad to have you exempted from having your taxes used this way, provided only that you also accept the fact that when you retire, you won't be eligible for Medicare, Obamacare or any other government assistance program other than Social Security and that only because you've probably spent your working life paying into the system. And no, I didn't vote for BO, I voted against him; twice.
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I can't speak for anybody but myself, but I'd have a lot more respect for them if they'd stuck it out and fought for their principles, even though they knew it was a lost cause. What they did, essentially, was give up without even trying, leaving the impression that they didn't consider their principles worth fighting for.
Americans didn't worry about fitness until JFK started talking about it, and it took years to catch on. Today's adults are far more fit than their parents were and have more muscle mass. That's going to make them heavier, but not fatter. Yes, there are probably more tubs of lard out there now, but the fitness freaks and body builders are helping bring the average up as well. (And, as the BMI doesn't take muscle mass into account, most of them are considered obese even though they have very little body fat.)
Well, for starters, this site is devoted to petitions, although very, very few of them get any response.
Covering over black so that it doesn't show isn't easy. It can take a surprising number of coats to do the job. Sometimes you can strip all of the paint off the wall and start fresh; other times you're better off going with wallpaper. Still, I agree with you that the father deserves an A++ for understanding that it was an accident.
...or I would walk across the building and we would talk in person, with the understanding that...
Every time I do so, your performance evaluation goes down because you're being an uncooperative asshole. And, every time that happens the odds that I'll decide it's not worth the bother and fire you instead go up.
Think of it this way: most of today's malware probably wouldn't run on it anyway.
If nothing else, this shows just how bad an idea it is to put too much trust in computer models. There are always factors that we either don't know about or don't know how to include properly and getting even one of them wrong can throw the whole model off. Yes, computer simulations and models can be very, very useful but you have to take the results with a grain of salt and remember that they're only approximations at best.
No where else in the world do people expect "Free" things to also mean that they then own the copyright.
This is why so many of us talk about software being FOSS: Free and Open Source. The graphics drivers that nVidia provides are free to use, but they're only provided as binary blobs and the company has never made their hardware specs or programming interface public so that anybody who wants to create an OSS version has to start out by reverse engineering the binary driver and hoping that they haven't missed anything important. Some people don't care, some don't like it but accept it because the OSS versions work well enough for them and some simply avoid using any graphics adapters that don't have Properly Open Drivers.
I don't use Ubuntu, I use Fedora. Fedora has very strict rules about licensing and any package that doesn't meet those guidelines can't be offered in their official repositories. There is, however a third-party set of repositories, known collectively as rpmfusion, that hold those packages, including things like codecs and binary-blob video drivers, that can't be directly offered and most of the Fedora help forums either contain instructions on how to install the repositories or links to those instructions. Once you've installed them, the only way to know if a package isn't offered directly by Fedora is by checking to see where it's hosted. When you come right down to it, the only difference between how Ubuntu and Fedora handle the issue is the fact that Ubuntu automates the process and Fedora doesn't.
If you can show, somehow, that the defendant was not in the habit of clearing his browser history or cache, but did it minutes after he learned that he might be under investigation, you've probably got a good case. But unless you can show something that blatant and obvious, a good defense lawyer will eat you alive if it ever gets to court.
...empty recycle bins...
Even better, don't use the recycle bin; if you don't need or want a file any more, just delete it. Gone is gone. If you're not sure, just rename it, then delete it once you're sure it isn't needed.
Glucose tests cost $1/test strip, and even mildly rigorous control takes roughly 5 strips/day.
That depends on how well controlled your diabetes is. My Endocrinologist has me checking before breakfast and at bed time, only. The only time he wants more is the four days before he sees me, and then he wants before each meal plus bed time. Of course, my readings are well controlled and my Ha1C has been within acceptable limits for the last several years. YMMV, and if you're having trouble with your numbers, I can easily understand needing to take four or five readings a day. Of course, I'm Type II, diagnosed about 13 years ago, but I can understand just how tired of the constant monitoring you can get.
That's an interesting idea and might just work. Of course, that also means that it won't ever get implemented.
I trust my sister not to abuse my ATM card, just as she trusts me. And, I'd trust a few of my friends the same way in an emergency. If you don't know anybody you'd trust that way, you might want to ask yourself why they're your friends.
On the other hand, maybe that is a good thing.
I don't know if it's a good thing or bad; it all depends, I'd guess, on how often people need to do things like that. I just wanted to point out that there can be times that the facial recognition can cause problems, even without the issue of false negatives.
I'm fairly sure that they have Personal Identification Number numbers in China because they love redundancies there just as much as you do.
Let's say that I want to loan a trusted friend some money. I give him (or her) my ATM card and PIN. They get the cash they need and bring me back the card and receipt. For some people, that's not at all unusual, if they're right about who to trust. Even so, this facial recognition is going to make this kind of routine transaction impossible.
Well, I suppose that it would be a tad easier if I'd ever had a Facebook account.
805 should mean something to you as should 484.
I've never made any secret out of which county I live in, and in this case that tells you my area code. What's interesting is that even if you know my real name, if you look me up on Google, you'd have to go through several pages before you found the first link to me, although at least one of he images on the first page is mine, and it's over a decade old and I've changed considerably since then. No, I don't want you to publish everything you know about me because I'd consider it just as unwise as I do. And, I never said that there were over 20 Glendales in Ventura County; I said that there are over 20 in the US. Last, I know how you learned my name; if I'd wanted to keep that a secret, it would have been trivial to do so, meaning that I probably wasn't concerned in hiding it.
I've mentioned what part of the country I live in on Slashdot, more than one time. Alas, just telling me that something like this is happening in Glendale doesn't make it clear where I live, considering that there are over twenty Glendales in the USA.
And yet, we all know that the Mona Lisa that we all know and love is a fake, but that doesn't stop millions of people from admiring it every year.
If that's your opinion of Steve Albini and what he's saying about the Music Industry and Copyright, I have no choice but to agree with you.
I guess the question is how do they determine location?
I connect by ADSL. I've checked with various websites that claim to show where you are based only on your IP address and what they show is where the DSLAM is located, over three miles away. Unless you're using a static IP, that's about as good as they're going to get.
There are eight different Orange Counties in the US, in different states, along with one in China, about an hour north of Beijing. I'm glad to know that this is the one in Florida, not the one near where I live.
Kids are forced to pay for aged baby boomers who didn't save their money to pay doctors to guess at extending their lives another month or two. Old people are gonna die, don't make kids pay for doctors who can't change that.
I'm a retired boomer, and a 'Nam vet. I get all of my medical care from the VA, meaning that some of what you pay in taxes goes to keeping people like me alive. If you feel so strongly about not paying for other people's medical expenses, I'd be glad to have you exempted from having your taxes used this way, provided only that you also accept the fact that when you retire, you won't be eligible for Medicare, Obamacare or any other government assistance program other than Social Security and that only because you've probably spent your working life paying into the system. And no, I didn't vote for BO, I voted against him; twice.