But, there is no national US fingerprint database I know of....
Were you fingerprinted as a grade schooler? You know, so law enforcement could identify you if you were ever abducted? I was. I shudder now to think of the database they've built with that information.
I'm sure the administration can figure out a way to gain access to that for "national security", if they haven't already.
Yay, HD radio . . . wait, why do we want this again?
You got me. Commercial radio is a complete waste of time. Someone needs to get rid of the 30 minutes of commercials every hour, and force ClearChannel to release its death grip on the major markets.
The only radio I listen to is NPR, and I don't need HD for that.
I've always wanted to try one of these. The gradual light is supposed to wake you up in a more natural fashion. However, I don't know anyone who's actually tried one.
Considering that DSL wasn't even available in my neighborhood until a few months ago (years after other parts of the cities), I don't think VOIP will be available to me either, even though I ostensibly live in the "Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro".
However, I wouldn't switch to Qwest DSL just to get VOIP. I don't know if that's a requirement or not - the Qwest site is sorely lacking in details.
I would agree with that. My main machine is an emachines emonster 550 (refurb from compgeeks). It's been a great little machine. I've upgraded the heck out of it - currently 512MB RAM, 128MB video card, 40 gig HD, 52X CDRW. I've been able to play SWG and the new Dark Age of Camelot expansion with good results.
What can I say...I'm a broke geek and I can't afford a shiny new machine.
My mom (no technophile) was able to use the webcam that came with her computer to have a video call with my brother last Xmas - no broadband involved. Sure, video quality was not the greatest, but she was really happy with how it turned out.
However, she already had the hardware, and was willing to try setting it up.
My dad, on the other hand, won't touch a computer. If the parents in question are like him, then a videophone is probably a better option.
I was trying to find personal accounts of side effects of a particular drug that I was taking. I wanted to know if other people were having the same experience as me, not what the drug's manufacturer said the side effects were. Any search containing the drug name produced hundreds of links to online pharmacies, making it very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Does this mean I think they should ban these advertisers from the Adwords program? Not really - if they want to pay to advertise, then fine. But I do think that something needs to be done about the overloading of search results like I experienced.
...is what happened to the classical forms of education. Young stundents in their mid-teens could do complex mathetmatics in their heads, and knew classical Greek and Latin fluently in some upper-scale schools in the 1800s.
That kind of classical education was only available to the upper-class. Everyone else had primary-school education, if they went to school at all. Of course, history remembers the well-educated for their accomplishments.
There are young people today who are receiving excellent educations and who will be the noteworthy of their generation. At least the rest can probably read, which more that you could say about their counterparts two hundred years ago.
My last apartment was in a early 20th century duplex with some of the original loop wiring. We had 2 circuits for an entire floor of the house. There was only one outlet in each room. How we didn't burn down the place I'll never know. My favorite moment was blowing a fuse while the air conditioner was running merely by opening the refrigerator door and having the fridge light come on. Oh, and did I mention that none of the outlets were grounded?
All the same I bet it's a fun ride.
I think it looks like it would be hell on the back, since doesn't have back support, and the handrests are kinda puny.
Then again, maybe it's a good workout for the abs!
That's interesting...when I've sent letters to Coleman disagreeing with his positions, I've received only terse three or four sentence form letters in response. "Thank you but my view is the right one", essentially. Of course, one time I was writing to him about the Patriot Act when it was first passed, and I doubt there was any way of changing his mind on that. Still, it would have been nice if it seemed like he was paying attention.
I take his letters out and laugh at them sometimes.
Dayton, on the other hand, has sent me several lengthy responses.
Sometimes, though, Remedy is just too big for what you need to do. I do tech support for a single software program at a large corporation. Remedy works very well for the regular IT folks because they can see open requests, open trouble tickets, etc. However, most of the calls my team gets are handled on the spot and require no followup. In this case, Remedy acts as a call log only - and is really too cumbersome for that function. In addition, we can't see our own archived requests anymore, because corporate IT has that form hidden. We've stopped using it completely at this point.
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Were you fingerprinted as a grade schooler? You know, so law enforcement could identify you if you were ever abducted? I was. I shudder now to think of the database they've built with that information.
I'm sure the administration can figure out a way to gain access to that for "national security", if they haven't already.
You got me. Commercial radio is a complete waste of time. Someone needs to get rid of the 30 minutes of commercials every hour, and force ClearChannel to release its death grip on the major markets.
The only radio I listen to is NPR, and I don't need HD for that.
I used to work at a "convenience store", and an awful lot of builders/plumbers/roofers/etc. also drink tons of coffee.
I don't know how they do it...my stomach starts hurting if I drink a cup three mornings in a row.
However, I wouldn't switch to Qwest DSL just to get VOIP. I don't know if that's a requirement or not - the Qwest site is sorely lacking in details.
I would agree with that. My main machine is an emachines emonster 550 (refurb from compgeeks). It's been a great little machine. I've upgraded the heck out of it - currently 512MB RAM, 128MB video card, 40 gig HD, 52X CDRW. I've been able to play SWG and the new Dark Age of Camelot expansion with good results.
What can I say...I'm a broke geek and I can't afford a shiny new machine.
However, she already had the hardware, and was willing to try setting it up.
My dad, on the other hand, won't touch a computer. If the parents in question are like him, then a videophone is probably a better option.
To demonstrate, here's the result for the search you suggest. First 10 are all vendor sites.
Google search for 'Vicodin sleepiness blurred vision rash'
I was trying to find personal accounts of side effects of a particular drug that I was taking. I wanted to know if other people were having the same experience as me, not what the drug's manufacturer said the side effects were. Any search containing the drug name produced hundreds of links to online pharmacies, making it very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Does this mean I think they should ban these advertisers from the Adwords program? Not really - if they want to pay to advertise, then fine. But I do think that something needs to be done about the overloading of search results like I experienced.
That kind of classical education was only available to the upper-class. Everyone else had primary-school education, if they went to school at all. Of course, history remembers the well-educated for their accomplishments.
There are young people today who are receiving excellent educations and who will be the noteworthy of their generation. At least the rest can probably read, which more that you could say about their counterparts two hundred years ago.
But, yea, we used 10-outlet power strips anyway.
All the same I bet it's a fun ride. I think it looks like it would be hell on the back, since doesn't have back support, and the handrests are kinda puny. Then again, maybe it's a good workout for the abs!
I love MT, but to be fair, it's really called Movable Type. There's even a FAQ about it.
I take his letters out and laugh at them sometimes.
Dayton, on the other hand, has sent me several lengthy responses.
Sometimes, though, Remedy is just too big for what you need to do. I do tech support for a single software program at a large corporation. Remedy works very well for the regular IT folks because they can see open requests, open trouble tickets, etc. However, most of the calls my team gets are handled on the spot and require no followup. In this case, Remedy acts as a call log only - and is really too cumbersome for that function. In addition, we can't see our own archived requests anymore, because corporate IT has that form hidden. We've stopped using it completely at this point.