The main one she was concerned with being animal cruelty laws. Her horses lived for about 25-30 years in general. The Amish horses were 'lucky' to make 15. The Amish literally used them up and threw them away, because horses can always make more horses.
Part of that could be because they actually use draft horses as draft animals for "real work" (TM). Horses that are not used to pull plows or other implements have an easier life and should be expected to live longer than those whose sole purpose in life is to walk through parades or to look pretty.
Where are you at? Where I work, we've got a branch in a town served by Iowa Telecom (they suck!). But we also have the county RTA that moved into town as a CLEC and they do give better service - like night and day.
We placed an ATM in town and Shazam orders the lines and defaults to the ILEC (Iowa Telecom) - with similar results.
The RTA's and (in Iowa at least) the independent local telephone companies are worth their weight in gold - you can actually call someone to get something done - and it does!
I was at a meeting this fall and one of the speakers was talking about how the Amish use technology. I thought we'd find out about those cutting edge things like blacksmithing and such, but it wasn't quite that. Apparently, as long as the technology doesn't get in the way of their religious life, it's ok.
Land line telephones = bad; cell phones (or telephones kept "out of the house") = good.
Utility power = bad; small portable generators = good
Computers = bad; Palm Pilots/Pocket PCs = good (no word on the Zaurus though - maybe that just gets you into Purgatory)
John Deere = bad; draft horses = good (and with that they're able to make a larger profit per acre farming than the typical farm in the country).
There's probably something to learn from them about not letting technology drive your life, but I don't have time to think about that now - back to Slashdot!
Deliver the game with generic logos and names and such, and give the players random names but ratings based upon the real players (Quarterback Michael Smith of the Atlanta ChickenHawks has an overall rating of 95). Make everything editable and the really anal fans can rename the players to what they really are.
EA Sports does this (with players, not with the team names) in it's college football game.
Debit cards are usually issued either with the Visa or MasterCard logo - meaning that you are (or at least used to be) able to use them like a credit card at any merchant that would accept a Visa or MasterCard credit card.
The Walmart lawsuit changed that and places like Walmart will not accept your debit card as a credit card.
I think that they have a big database of "BINS" (account number prefixes) in the sky that will tell them if a card is a credit card or a debit card and will handle the transaction appropriately.
Why require it? Given the state of taxes and power generation in California, give a tax credit equal to the cost of those solar panels and you should have no problems getting those installed all over the place.
Sometimes you can be amazed at what is being done in places that you least expect. You wouldn't think Iowa to be the third largest wind power generating state, but it is.
You'd only think that if you've never lived there:)
We've got a couple of good sized wind farms near Clear Lake and in Worth county as well.
But passphrases can actually mean something to a user in such a way that they should have an easier time remembering them - and not writing them down. "I am your father, luke" might not be such a good one, but if you combine that with capitalization and different punctuation, it is made much more difficult to crack and much easier to remember - which is what we should be after.
Pass phrases are at least easier to remember than long passwords (compare "I am the walrus, koo-koo-kachoo!" to your example) and are long enough to be more problematic for passowrd cracking programs.
By the way, I'm not trying to say that illegals are all a drain on society, and nothing but that. I grew up in an area where kids mowed lawns, delivered papers, and bussed tables for pocket money. Where I live now, none of the local kids would dream of having such a menial job.
Which is a sad statement about the youth of America. These kinds of jobs give kids a perspective about what "real" work is.
If someone (whether here legally or illegally) is here to get ahead and is willing to work hard to do so - more power to them. Give them amnesty (or whatever) - those are the kinds of people that work to make themselves and their communities better places.
In all seriousness, I tend to ignore advertisements and didn't even install adblock until a couple of weeks ago. It's nice and I think that it speeds up the loading of complicated pages (laden with advertising) so it's nice there, but it's not something that I can't live without.
Garage north of the mason-dixon during the winter usually have temperatures much, much less than 50F. In northern Iowa, the temperature inside the garage can get down to 0F (don't even think about how cold it is outside!)
1) The US led the world in creating true, workable, enforceable environmental legislation and regulation at every governmental level. Ya think someone would ask us how to figure out what is doable and what isn't?
If you think that, then you don't know how the US government works (at any level). If it is legislated, it must be doable - they said so!
When I do that, I hand out a "weekly computer maintenance" document that shows the users how to run Spybot and AdAware. At that point, it is up to them to keep their computer clean and free of the pests.
Some companies will 1099 you and report what they paid you, some companies won't. It is illegal, AFAIK, to receive money for work and not report it as income.
It's only illegal if you don't report it. Keep good records, keep track of your mileage, pay your tax estimates and expense everything that you ethically can to your business and you'll be fine.
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Part of that could be because they actually use draft horses as draft animals for "real work" (TM). Horses that are not used to pull plows or other implements have an easier life and should be expected to live longer than those whose sole purpose in life is to walk through parades or to look pretty.
We placed an ATM in town and Shazam orders the lines and defaults to the ILEC (Iowa Telecom) - with similar results.
The RTA's and (in Iowa at least) the independent local telephone companies are worth their weight in gold - you can actually call someone to get something done - and it does!
Or how many have had it decided for them (nonpayment of bills and such)
Land line telephones = bad; cell phones (or telephones kept "out of the house") = good.
Utility power = bad; small portable generators = good
Computers = bad; Palm Pilots/Pocket PCs = good (no word on the Zaurus though - maybe that just gets you into Purgatory)
John Deere = bad; draft horses = good (and with that they're able to make a larger profit per acre farming than the typical farm in the country).
There's probably something to learn from them about not letting technology drive your life, but I don't have time to think about that now - back to Slashdot!
EA Sports does this (with players, not with the team names) in it's college football game.
The Walmart lawsuit changed that and places like Walmart will not accept your debit card as a credit card.
I think that they have a big database of "BINS" (account number prefixes) in the sky that will tell them if a card is a credit card or a debit card and will handle the transaction appropriately.
Out here in snowy Iowa on the other hand...
You'd only think that if you've never lived there :)
We've got a couple of good sized wind farms near Clear Lake and in Worth county as well.
But passphrases can actually mean something to a user in such a way that they should have an easier time remembering them - and not writing them down. "I am your father, luke" might not be such a good one, but if you combine that with capitalization and different punctuation, it is made much more difficult to crack and much easier to remember - which is what we should be after.
Pass phrases are at least easier to remember than long passwords (compare "I am the walrus, koo-koo-kachoo!" to your example) and are long enough to be more problematic for passowrd cracking programs.
Which is a sad statement about the youth of America. These kinds of jobs give kids a perspective about what "real" work is.
If someone (whether here legally or illegally) is here to get ahead and is willing to work hard to do so - more power to them. Give them amnesty (or whatever) - those are the kinds of people that work to make themselves and their communities better places.
Or just not tax small businesses at such a high level.
You must be in advertising to say that!
In all seriousness, I tend to ignore advertisements and didn't even install adblock until a couple of weeks ago. It's nice and I think that it speeds up the loading of complicated pages (laden with advertising) so it's nice there, but it's not something that I can't live without.
We could use it as a jobs program for monks. Their predecessors wrote the manuscripts, and now they could transcribe them into digital form...
You must have been able to keep the garage fairly warm with that too :)
Garage north of the mason-dixon during the winter usually have temperatures much, much less than 50F. In northern Iowa, the temperature inside the garage can get down to 0F (don't even think about how cold it is outside!)
What kind of sport would that be - they move slowly and don't hide well. That would kind of be like hunting cattle - in a feed yard.
If you think that, then you don't know how the US government works (at any level). If it is legislated, it must be doable - they said so!
When I do that, I hand out a "weekly computer maintenance" document that shows the users how to run Spybot and AdAware. At that point, it is up to them to keep their computer clean and free of the pests.
That's what I was (inelegantly) attempting to say.
If it did, then it might cut down on the number of lawsuits.
Reset passwords, create login problems...
It's only illegal if you don't report it. Keep good records, keep track of your mileage, pay your tax estimates and expense everything that you ethically can to your business and you'll be fine.
I keep plenty busy without advertising.
Which is the big deal about it. Why not let the states fund it - California is doing so already and other states may soon follow.