It seems there was a guy up in North Dakota out ice fishing that locked his keys in his pickup. He had OnStar, so he called them up and asked that they unlock the truck so he could get in out of the cold.
The operator said "Uh. Do you know that you're in the middle of a lake?"
On Christmas Eve I was watching the ABC evening news (I think) and they were profiling a city in North Carolina where the local constabulary was taking to dressing as homeless people or as utility workers with radar guns.
That is nothing but a gotcha for city revenue - if they were looking to slow down traffic on a road they'd station a marked car there or do signs.
This is a case where law enforcement is not acting to enhance public safety. If this were going on in my county, I'd be very angry. While they may not have the problem in North Carolina, Iowa has a meth problem and I'd expect that solved before they started pulling these kind of stunts.
I guess that I'm saying that this kind of thing goes on at all levels - but that doesn't make it right.
PDC, BDC, a couple of application servers (Lord knows that vendors don't like to get along with one another on the same machine!), maybe a web server. They can add up without trying too hard.
Why doesn't showboating belong in the college games?
It's another debate, but college (and high school) sports are ametuer and as such, the participants should show some modicum of sportsmanship. I know that the meaning of the word is being lost amongst the "sports parents win-at-all-costs" crowd, but it still is an important part of sports.
As far as TD celebrations go - act like you've been there before and will be there again.
The IBA (or the CBA, the European leagues, or even Division A high school basketball) does not in any way threaten the NBA - but they are different versions of the same product - sports entertainment on the court.
Any time that you have two fairly evenly matched teams where the players actually care about the outcome playing, you'll have a good, entertaining game to watch. (Whether or not you get that with the NBA is another arguement)
The NBA, NHL (when they're playing!) and NFL are not monopolies - they're just seen as the best of the best. They have the resources to hire the best athletes, but that doesn't make them a monopoly. MLB actually has a federally allowed monopoly on baseball, but the other sports dont.
Now just because a league gets the best athletes doesn't mean that competing leagues (or in the case of football and basketball, the NCAA) can't put an entertaining and good brand of the sport on the field.
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if EA starts snatching up exclusive official league licenses, they can produce games that seem more "legitimate" than those of competitors, just by virtue of offering league content that their competitors lacked access to
I'd agree with that, but I'd also say that just because you can start Michael Vick instead of "Atlanta QB" doesn't make up for gameplay.
As a side note, one gripe I have with the EA college games is that there is way too much showboating in it - the college games should show more sportsmanship. The showboating is fine for the pro games, but it doesn't belong in the college games.
Dude - those NCAA games sell very well and do it without player names. They have licensed the college names, stadiums, logos, and uniforms, but the players are not named. Of course, anyone can figure out who WR#1 for Iowa State is by doing a quick search on the internet - and you can even edit the name to make it correct.
The names are not the big deal for sports games - it's getting the teams (which wouldn't be too tough to spoof with only 30 teams in the NFL - you could make a team called the "Minneapolis Norsemen" instead of the "Minnesota Vikings" and most people would get the picture) and prefilling the rosters with players whose statistics resemble reality - which you can still do with generic names.
Wells Fargo and Bank of America are both National Banks (federally chartered). As such, they have legitimate grounds to dispute any such rule.
I agree that Diebold could be replaced as a servicer if that is who a given bank is using, but by requiring that you're hurting local businesses (the state chartered banks) as much as Diebold.
I mean it's not like they do any improtant business with anyone like Bank of America, or Wells Fargo. Is it? Or American Express, E-Trade, or any other financial institution that uses ATM machines...
Are any of those state chartered institutions in California?
Granted that you'll put a hurt on smaller institutions in California (probably not Diebold though) by making them scramble to keep any Diebold ATMs under service during your ban on their business.
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It seems there was a guy up in North Dakota out ice fishing that locked his keys in his pickup. He had OnStar, so he called them up and asked that they unlock the truck so he could get in out of the cold.
The operator said "Uh. Do you know that you're in the middle of a lake?"
I figured that they could just go ahead and sing the "dad is great" song from Bill Cosby when they do that. That should be deterrence enough.
I'm starting to get this at home with the kids. All of the good leftovers (that I'll try to get for lunch!) are gone by the time I get home to eat.
No - that's what the NHL players are doing this season to keep in shape.
What good is that then?
My reply was to some smartass that asked if we had the internet in Iowa.
That is nothing but a gotcha for city revenue - if they were looking to slow down traffic on a road they'd station a marked car there or do signs.
This is a case where law enforcement is not acting to enhance public safety. If this were going on in my county, I'd be very angry. While they may not have the problem in North Carolina, Iowa has a meth problem and I'd expect that solved before they started pulling these kind of stunts.
I guess that I'm saying that this kind of thing goes on at all levels - but that doesn't make it right.
They also invented the electronic digital computer http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml
But if he can get away with getting the CALs for a single server instead of 6 servers, he is still way ahead!
PDC, BDC, a couple of application servers (Lord knows that vendors don't like to get along with one another on the same machine!), maybe a web server. They can add up without trying too hard.
The Free Software Foundation?
If you aim better, you'd put the bullet right through the hole in the center...
If you can untie businesses from Outlook, then there will be fewer reasons for them to use MS Office (which includes Outlook) instead of OpenOffice.
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It's another debate, but college (and high school) sports are ametuer and as such, the participants should show some modicum of sportsmanship. I know that the meaning of the word is being lost amongst the "sports parents win-at-all-costs" crowd, but it still is an important part of sports.
As far as TD celebrations go - act like you've been there before and will be there again.
Not necessarily worse than manufacturing votes...
Any time that you have two fairly evenly matched teams where the players actually care about the outcome playing, you'll have a good, entertaining game to watch. (Whether or not you get that with the NBA is another arguement)
The NBA, NHL (when they're playing!) and NFL are not monopolies - they're just seen as the best of the best. They have the resources to hire the best athletes, but that doesn't make them a monopoly. MLB actually has a federally allowed monopoly on baseball, but the other sports dont.
Now just because a league gets the best athletes doesn't mean that competing leagues (or in the case of football and basketball, the NCAA) can't put an entertaining and good brand of the sport on the field.
I'd agree with that, but I'd also say that just because you can start Michael Vick instead of "Atlanta QB" doesn't make up for gameplay.
As a side note, one gripe I have with the EA college games is that there is way too much showboating in it - the college games should show more sportsmanship. The showboating is fine for the pro games, but it doesn't belong in the college games.
The names are not the big deal for sports games - it's getting the teams (which wouldn't be too tough to spoof with only 30 teams in the NFL - you could make a team called the "Minneapolis Norsemen" instead of the "Minnesota Vikings" and most people would get the picture) and prefilling the rosters with players whose statistics resemble reality - which you can still do with generic names.
Since he stole something of value (he was able to sell it for a hefty price) from another, I would think that they could charge him with theft.
I agree that Diebold could be replaced as a servicer if that is who a given bank is using, but by requiring that you're hurting local businesses (the state chartered banks) as much as Diebold.
Are any of those state chartered institutions in California?
Granted that you'll put a hurt on smaller institutions in California (probably not Diebold though) by making them scramble to keep any Diebold ATMs under service during your ban on their business.
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