Sepp Blatter could use some company in the prison cell he fully deserves, but will likely never see. The smell of corruption and rot emanating from FIFA's upper management exceeds even that of the water in Rio, or the stench of greed from the Olympic committee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The 2018 & 2022 World Cup bids have been so dogged with rumors of bribery and corruption that several committee members have been removed already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Speaking of if you READ, the subject above does in fact read 1990's, but I have very low expectations of postings from AC's. Thank-you for confirming that opinion.
That would most certainly work if it was the Secret Service, but I think you might have to send small children and fuzzy animals to the FBI for it to work on them...
There were in fact California State Police, but they were rarely seen outside Sacramento, the state capitol, as their duty was to protect the state buildings, and our elected officials. The California Highway patrol are tasked with patrolling the freeways and highways that cross county jurisdictions, with the stated purpose of traffic enforcement and assisting with incidents that cross county lines. There are also California State park police, aka Rangers, who are full on police but generally limited to, guess what, state parks and some county park/open space areas that contract to the state for such services.
"...and ensuring that what consumers watch on television remains none of Google's business."
So says an AT&T rep, now owners of direcTV which already has access to that info. I firmly believe this is a step in the right direction, but more than anything I'd like ala-cart channel selection. I want my sports, which I can't get unless I pay for the upper tier package which include dozens of movie channels I never tune into, many music stations that again never see the like of day on my TV. The delivery service, content producer lines have been so blurred it only makes sense to open the market up wholesale.
for those who are challenged by the use of overly complex things like writing and speaking. How soon until the masses speak a different language on the street and can't even comprehend the language the laws are written in or business is conducted in. Makes controlling them much easier... This post brought to you by the letter:(
Just a *nix admin working on a giant TerribleData(Teradata) implementation here. But what DBAs do is sort of amazing sometimes, when it doesn't make me sick to death because of the venality behind it.
Note : Not blaming the DBAs, they are usually just implementing what the PHBs think they want...
WOW I have read your books, they were quite good. I did not make the connection until I saw your signature. Anything new on the horizon? Cheers mate, keep up the good work.
AC's posting here have raised trolling to an art, and often just post flame bait to try and lure someone into commenting back. The idea of the tech is sort of cool, the actual real world implementation was sadly lacking but it will get there, for better or worse. I personally think that for the most part the IoT is trendy and will likely fade into a niche market for a while yet, but heck I bought a Betamax and figured HDDVD was the way to go, so my track record is not good. As for Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, she has a great voice and is quite talented but could not make it in the music industry with out the flash and image, hence the train wreck named Lady Gaga.
Does the concept of designer babies include correcting faults or errors that lead to downs syndrome or other such debilitating diseases and conditions ? Not that I agree, but I can see some objections to purely cosmetic corrections or the introduction of 'new' features, i.e. gills or high/low pressure acclimatization, decorative skin or eye colors, etc., but correcting defects doesn't seem like it should be classed as 'designer'
"$300 million a year in electricity costs and reduce the carbon pollution that fuels dangerous climate change. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) projects that the new standards for external power supplies alone will cut nearly 47 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over 30 years, equivalent to the annual electricity use of 6.5 million homes." OR 1 day in the life of almost any industrial plant, that can profit from the carbon trading market.
Not saying it should be a one OR the other tradeoff but why does the burden seem to fall on the consumer for what is essentially a short-sighted purely greed driven choice by the manufacturers ?
My Dad and I both are gearheads, it is something as a much younger man I did not really get into, but as I got older I purposely made myself take an interest in as an excuse to find time to spend with the oldman. One of the networks (TV) is running a show about how a 'master' mechanic in Cuba keeps these so-called Frankencars running with scraps, bailing wire, and pure 'engine-nuity'. I think it would be so-cool to gather up a boatload of what we would call useless scrap parts and take them to Cuba for donation to those folks and see what they could produce. A Dodgsel, with a chevrolac rear end.
Not sure where you got ANY party distinction from my response. Based upon your response I'd guess you are sitting in SoCal in the F'n desert, drinking water that was piped down a canal that everyone in Norcal hates and voted against. Here's to giving LA back to Mexico:) Go get some more plastic surgery and maybe another Botox shot or 3...
Southern California, the LA area in general has a huge population when compared to the rest of the state, and whiles SF and Bezerkely are hubs of true strangeness. The rest of the state is a totally different place not truly represented by either of those groups. Northern Californians generally despise the LA/Hollywood set, and Hollywood is so self absorbed they hardly even acknowledge the rest of the world exists. There is strong support to break CA into at least 2 states but SoCal holds the hammer in votes and generally dictates the way California swings much to the rest of our dismay.
There is a difference between a debt and payment for services yet to be rendered. The legal tender argument is/was aimed primarily at taxes, tariffs, rent and such to prevent corrupt governmental bodies or landlords from demanding payment in land or other mediums. There is no federal statute that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in cents or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy. Another example is bridges or toll roads. Many have gone to a fast path or credit card ONLY scheme and that is totally legal.
That is the way the ratchet shifter worked. Click up a gear or down a gear but the actual position of the shifter remained in the center. If you were a real gearhead you had the indicator functioning correctly, but if you hacked it, the way most of my greasy friends and I did it, you had to always be aware of which gear you were in, kind of like a dirt bike or older motorcycle, forget where you were and things could get messy quickly.
Really ?? That's good to know I'll look into it. We've had them provide specific tools and in-house addons for email stuff, especially for large scale mailing list management and tools designed to manage PHB's 'distribution list' skills. A company wide reply all storm can be a killer on your mail structure and intranet in general when 2 or 3 levels of management decide to visibly 'concur' on a subject without regard to the scope of whom they are replying.
I work for one of M$'s largest enterprise customers. We had at one time the largest M$ email implementation in the world (that may have changed) and while they will bend over backwards adding special features and such for us, and provide excellent support, I've never seen one line of source code, nor have I ever heard of anyone who has at my place of business. Not that I'm saying it doesn't or hasn't happened...
In a word yes, although if you look even further back in the old days you'll find some of the most confusing mechanisms imaginable. I think most drivers today would throw up their hands in surrender at the way they did it back then.
For any of you 'gearheads' this is just a reincarnation of the old school ratchet shifter. I had a 'cuda when I was in HS, a loooong time ago, that had this type and a pistol grip shifting knob. It was cool then, not really sure what I think about it now...
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Sepp Blatter could use some company in the prison cell he fully deserves, but will likely never see. The smell of corruption and rot emanating from FIFA's upper management exceeds even that of the water in Rio, or the stench of greed from the Olympic committee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The 2018 & 2022 World Cup bids have been so dogged with rumors of bribery and corruption that several committee members have been removed already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That would make it sort of like this ??
http://www.rolandus.com/blog/2...
That is how the 'less' talented make up speed and flourishes and other bonus sounds are added to the traditional percussionists array.
Not to impugn anyone's' skills as I can't even manage the 2 arms I've got to produce a constant rhythm.
Speaking of if you READ, the subject above does in fact read 1990's, but I have very low expectations of postings from AC's. Thank-you for confirming that opinion.
That would most certainly work if it was the Secret Service, but I think you might have to send small children and fuzzy animals to the FBI for it to work on them...
There were in fact California State Police, but they were rarely seen outside Sacramento, the state capitol, as their duty was to protect the state buildings, and our elected officials. The California Highway patrol are tasked with patrolling the freeways and highways that cross county jurisdictions, with the stated purpose of traffic enforcement and assisting with incidents that cross county lines. There are also California State park police, aka Rangers, who are full on police but generally limited to, guess what, state parks and some county park/open space areas that contract to the state for such services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"...and ensuring that what consumers watch on television remains none of Google's business."
So says an AT&T rep, now owners of direcTV which already has access to that info.
I firmly believe this is a step in the right direction, but more than anything I'd like ala-cart channel selection. I want my sports, which I can't get unless I pay for the upper tier package which include dozens of movie channels I never tune into, many music stations that again never see the like of day on my TV. The delivery service, content producer lines have been so blurred it only makes sense to open the market up wholesale.
for those who are challenged by the use of overly complex things like writing and speaking. How soon until the masses speak a different language on the street and can't even comprehend the language the laws are written in or business is conducted in. Makes controlling them much easier... :(
This post brought to you by the letter
Just a *nix admin working on a giant TerribleData(Teradata) implementation here. But what DBAs do is sort of amazing sometimes, when it doesn't make me sick to death because of the venality behind it.
Note : Not blaming the DBAs, they are usually just implementing what the PHBs think they want...
WOW I have read your books, they were quite good. I did not make the connection until I saw your signature. Anything new on the horizon? Cheers mate, keep up the good work.
AC's posting here have raised trolling to an art, and often just post flame bait to try and lure someone into commenting back. The idea of the tech is sort of cool, the actual real world implementation was sadly lacking but it will get there, for better or worse. I personally think that for the most part the IoT is trendy and will likely fade into a niche market for a while yet, but heck I bought a Betamax and figured HDDVD was the way to go, so my track record is not good. As for Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, she has a great voice and is quite talented but could not make it in the music industry with out the flash and image, hence the train wreck named Lady Gaga.
Does the concept of designer babies include correcting faults or errors that lead to downs syndrome or other such debilitating diseases and conditions ? Not that I agree, but I can see some objections to purely cosmetic corrections or the introduction of 'new' features, i.e. gills or high/low pressure acclimatization, decorative skin or eye colors, etc., but correcting defects doesn't seem like it should be classed as 'designer'
"$300 million a year in electricity costs and reduce the carbon pollution that fuels dangerous climate change. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) projects that the new standards for external power supplies alone will cut nearly 47 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over 30 years, equivalent to the annual electricity use of 6.5 million homes." OR
1 day in the life of almost any industrial plant, that can profit from the carbon trading market.
Not saying it should be a one OR the other tradeoff but why does the burden seem to fall on the consumer for what is essentially a short-sighted purely greed driven choice by the manufacturers ?
My Dad and I both are gearheads, it is something as a much younger man I did not really get into, but as I got older I purposely made myself take an interest in as an excuse to find time to spend with the oldman. One of the networks (TV) is running a show about how a 'master' mechanic in Cuba keeps these so-called Frankencars running with scraps, bailing wire, and pure 'engine-nuity'. I think it would be so-cool to gather up a boatload of what we would call useless scrap parts and take them to Cuba for donation to those folks and see what they could produce. A Dodgsel, with a chevrolac rear end.
I've always found it disturbing that people somehow don't equate being human as an animal.
Not sure where you got ANY party distinction from my response. Based upon your response I'd guess you are sitting in SoCal in the F'n desert, drinking water that was piped down a canal that everyone in Norcal hates and voted against. Here's to giving LA back to Mexico :)
Go get some more plastic surgery and maybe another Botox shot or 3...
Southern California, the LA area in general has a huge population when compared to the rest of the state, and whiles SF and Bezerkely are hubs of true strangeness. The rest of the state is a totally different place not truly represented by either of those groups. Northern Californians generally despise the LA/Hollywood set, and Hollywood is so self absorbed they hardly even acknowledge the rest of the world exists.
There is strong support to break CA into at least 2 states but SoCal holds the hammer in votes and generally dictates the way California swings much to the rest of our dismay.
I'd like my smartphone shaken, not stirred :)
There is a difference between a debt and payment for services yet to be rendered. The legal tender argument is/was aimed primarily at taxes, tariffs, rent and such to prevent corrupt governmental bodies or landlords from demanding payment in land or other mediums. There is no federal statute that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in cents or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy. Another example is bridges or toll roads. Many have gone to a fast path or credit card ONLY scheme and that is totally legal.
Will the tiny forests have tiny herds of deer romping through them.
https://www.google.com/search?...
That is the way the ratchet shifter worked. Click up a gear or down a gear but the actual position of the shifter remained in the center. If you were a real gearhead you had the indicator functioning correctly, but if you hacked it, the way most of my greasy friends and I did it, you had to always be aware of which gear you were in, kind of like a dirt bike or older motorcycle, forget where you were and things could get messy quickly.
http://ls1tech.com/forums/gear...
Really ?? That's good to know I'll look into it. We've had them provide specific tools and in-house addons for email stuff, especially for large scale mailing list management and tools designed to manage PHB's 'distribution list' skills. A company wide reply all storm can be a killer on your mail structure and intranet in general when 2 or 3 levels of management decide to visibly 'concur' on a subject without regard to the scope of whom they are replying.
I work for one of M$'s largest enterprise customers. We had at one time the largest M$ email implementation in the world (that may have changed) and while they will bend over backwards adding special features and such for us, and provide excellent support, I've never seen one line of source code, nor have I ever heard of anyone who has at my place of business. Not that I'm saying it doesn't or hasn't happened...
In a word yes, although if you look even further back in the old days you'll find some of the most confusing mechanisms imaginable. I think most drivers today would throw up their hands in surrender at the way they did it back then.
http://www.classiccarstodayonl...
For any of you 'gearheads' this is just a reincarnation of the old school ratchet shifter. I had a 'cuda when I was in HS, a loooong time ago, that had this type and a pistol grip shifting knob. It was cool then, not really sure what I think about it now...
Does 6mbps actually qualify as high-speed anymore ? I thought Congress/FCC decided it had to be like 50 mbps to be called high speed ?