What they really need, for safety purposes, is some way to make sure that any humans in the area are aware that someone is getting ready to shoot so they can duck for cover.
How about a 150 db siren that must go off for one minute within two minutes prior to the shot?
Depending on where you live, you can often find a 7 or 8 pound ham on sale for less than $1 per pound. I've seem them as low as $0.49 per pound and often at $0.69 per pound in the last three years.
If you get them that low, buy two and put one in the freezer.
This does include bones, but it's still a good savings.
Forget about baking the whole hame at once.
Put it in the refrigerator and slice off what you need for a meal and fry it.
Put it in lettuce and you have a pretty tasty salad.
Mix (fried) with dry beans (pinto, anasazi,...) when nearly done.
Fried ham sandwiches are good.
Stir fry with other vegetables.
Mix with ramen noodles.
I've made a $5 ham last for well over a week without any trouble at all.
Or just put meta tags in your pages like they said.
You shouldn't have to mark each individual page.
That would be like requiring authors/publishing houses to insert a full notice on every page of a book telling the reader that they do not have permission to copy that page.
We outsorced our network management to the bozo that was our service provider. Without loss of generality, let's refer to him as Bozo.
I argued for a long time that we needed a firewall. Bozo argued that they were useless. A couple of years later, Bozo seems to have decided that firewalls were usefull and so decided that we needed a firewall.
Bozo then oursourced our firewall management to one of the better known computer security firms. At the time, I figured that was far better than letting Bozo handle it. I spent two hours on the telephone with someone from the security management firm identifying precisely what traffic should be permitted to and from each host.
But Bozo had them ignore all that and had them configure the firewall to his specification.
We ended up with a firewall that permitted just about everything either direction. The only exception was that it prohibited incoming traffic from spoofing local IP addresses.
One of Bozo's employees, let's call him Bozo Jr, came by to install it. He hooked it up backwards. The trusted side was hooked up to the Cisco router. The untrusted side was hooked up to our LAN. He then headed for the door without testing it. It was, after all, quitting time.
I stopped Bozo Jr before he left and made him wait while I tested it. Sure enough, it didn't work. So he unhooked the firewall and left. Neither Bozo nor Bozo Jr ever did hook it up. It was obvious what the problem was just from a quick look at the setup, but I was prohibited from reconfiguring their equipment.
I was completely amazed to find out that Bozo Jr considered Microsoft Windows of any flavor to be the most secure operating systems in the world.
When we finally got rid of Bozo. I was finally able to install a real firewall and we haven't had any problems since.
Sender ID handles nothing that DomainKeys cannot handle better.
One thing this could do would be to stop the flow of spam/worms from broadband customers.
To slow down the spread of viruses/worms, the service providers need to:
1) Block all outward SMTP connections that do not originate from their own mail servers.
2) Scan outbound e-mail through their mail servers for viruses/worms.
The ISP where I work already does the first. We were also one of the early ISPs to close our open relays. We also make sure our customers understand that spamming is forbidden.
As a result, we have never been able to identify even one spam originating from our network.
The problem that kills simple things like blacklists from working is that most mail comes forged, if you can kill the forged mail, blacklists become effective again.
The problem is that there is no global list of legitimate e-mail servers from which to accept e-mail. Creating and maintaining such a list would be a real nightmare. So instead, we have blacklists that try to identify e-mail servers that we can block.
One advantage to these schemes is that they create a kind of distributed list of apparently legitimate e-mail servers. In addition, we can blacklist by domain instead of IP address that can change quite easily.
For example, suppose example.com identifies their servers as mail1.example.com and mail2.example.com. If example.com has a spam problem, we can blacklist all example.com servers and not worry about which specific IP addresses are being used by those servers.
If one accepts e-mail only from servers on that list that are not also blacklisted, then the spam level should drop accordingly.
Increasing levels of H2S is the excuse the company is trying to use in their attempt to void the clause allowing us to use the gas.
It seems that the best approach is to ignore their letter and refuse to agree to modify the lease. While under the best of circumstances, you might be able to negotiate a really good deal, that takes two things that most individuals will not have: experience negotiating those types of agreements to get a really good deal and the necessary information about everything.
If you don't everything the oil company knows about the situation, it isn't possible to come out ahead by negotiation.
By the way, in case of an electrical power disruption, we have a large generator that can run everything in the houses. We just attach it to a tractor via a PTO (Power Take Off) and run the tractor until the electric power is restored.
A few years ago, there was a massive power outage throughout this area for about 12 hours. We were one of the few to have normal power throughout most of the outage because of that generator.
The lease dates back to the 1940s and at the time it wasn't uncommon for the leaseholder to be able to use all the gas they needed from the well for household use.
The oil and gas company that has the lease desperately wants to change those terms.
The only downsides are: 1) Occasionally the well will freeze up in the winter. That's not that much of a problem because my oldest brother who also lives on the farm is retired from that same oil and gas company and can thaw out the well. 2) There are no odorants added to the natural gas and so it has no smell to tell you that you have a gas leak. I ended up in the hospital once because of that when a natural gas heater went out and let the room fill with natural gas.
It just shot down the RIAA's interpretation of that portion of the DMCA.
The DMCA quite clearly states that the ISP is neither responsible nor liable for material stored on customer computers over which they exercise no control.
In other words, they are upholding what the DMCA says, not how the RIAA wants to interpret that section.
In my office, I have 9 computers including one MAC OSX machine. The rest are two Linux, three Windows 2000, one Windows NT, and two OpenBSD machines. I use the OSX machine the least of all even though most of the people here only use OSX.
However, if they did come out with an OSX version and I could try it out for free, I'd probably put it on one machine for a while to try it out. But considering the probability that I wouldn't use it much, I doubt that I'd be willing to pay much for a copy just to try it out.
Here's a Libertarian Party Press Release about thelawsuit:
WILL LIBERTARIANS SHUT BUSH AND KERRY OUT OF THE DEBATE? October 2
Lawsuit filed to stop presidential debate in Tempe
October 2, 2004 For Immediate Release Contact: Stephen P. Gordon Office: (512) 637-6867 Cell: (256) 227-8360 communications@badnarik.org
Phoenix - Arizona Libertarians filed a civil complaint yesterday seeking to shut down the third scheduled presidential debate between President Bush and Senator Kerry. This debate is scheduled for October 13 at the Arizona State University (ASU) campus in Tempe. Representatives of the Arizona Libertarian Party (AZLP) and of the Badnarik presidential campaign conducted a joint press conference after filing the complaint with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
When asked by reporters why the case was filed, AZLP Vice Chair Barry Hess responded, âThey have absolutely no right to use our tax dollars for what is effectively a very expensive television commercial for Bush and Kerry. This case is about equal protection of the law and specific violations of the Arizona Constitution.â
The complaint alleges that certain provisions of the Arizona Constitution are being violated as state resources are being used to carry out the debate. The Arizona Constitution prohibits making grants or donations to any individual, association, or corporation.
Libertarians also claim that by granting special privileges to Bush and Kerry, Arizona Libertarians are being denied their Fourteenth Amendment equal protection guarantee. ASU and the Commission for Presidential Debates were both named as defendants in the case.
The complaint names the AZLP as a plaintiff, representing over 17,000 party members in the state, as well as Warren Severin, ALZP treasurer, as an individual plaintiff. After verifying that the complaint had been filed, Severin stated, âWe will be continually checking on the disposition of the case, beginning on Monday morning.â
A spokesperson for the Libertarian presidential campaign flew in from the Badnarik headquarters in Austin, Texas for the event. When asked his take on the debate between Bush and Kerry the previous evening, spokesperson Stephen Gordon responded, âThe Bush â Kerry debate did not do what was reported by many members of the mainstream press, which was to highlight the differences between Bush and Kerry on foreign policy. The key difference I noted was that Bush seems pretty content with over 1,000 American deaths, while Kerry seems to prefer multinational deaths. Inclusion of Badnarik into the debate would have offered Americans a real alternative: a non-interventionist foreign policy, an anti-war president, and a plan of immediate withdrawal from Iraq.â ###
In a case where the making of the copies or phonorecords would have constituted an infringement of copyright if this title had been applicable, their importation is prohibited.
In a case where the copies or phonorecords were lawfully made, the United States Customs Service has no authority to prevent their importation unless the provisions of section 601 are applicable. In either case, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prescribe, by regulation, a procedure under which any person claiming an interest in the copyright in a particular work may, upon payment of a specified fee, be entitled to notification by the Customs Service of the importation of articles that appear to be copies or phonorecords of the work
So if the copies were legally made, the Customs service has no authority to prevent them from being imported unless section 601 applies. Section 601 deals with copies made prior to July 1, 1986.
If it was by majority vote and not electoral college, you cannot say what would have happened. Gore might have won, but he might also have lost big.
The campaigns of both candidates were shaped by the electoral college system. If the President was elected by majority vote instead of the electoral college, both would have campaigned differently.
For example, George Bush was sure to win Texas. As a result, both Gore and Bush spent their time in other states. If the election were decided by majority both, both would have campaigned in Texas.
One very important consequence of the electoral college is that the smaller, less populated states become more important. If the election were decided by majority vote, the candidates would focus most of their effort on large population centers where they would get the most votes for the effort. The less populated states would be pretty much ignored.
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How many of you city fellas ever get a chance to milk a cow? Or a goat?
Why not an on-line cow/goat milker?
And an attendant could collect the milk and send it to you?
Maybe I'd better be quiet. Microsoft might patent the idea and create a Milk The Cow xbox game. Would it be called Grand Milk Cow?
What they really need, for safety purposes, is some way to make sure that any humans in the area are aware that someone is getting ready to shoot so they can duck for cover.
How about a 150 db siren that must go off for one minute within two minutes prior to the shot?
When the work is piled up to the point I can't possibly handle it, I stop caring whether it gets handled.
I handle what I can and do it well and leave the rest until later. I don't feel that anyone can ask anything more.
If I get to it today, fine. If not, that's fine, too.
If you want me to care about whether everything gets done, then it has to be physically possible to get everything done.
Depending on where you live, you can often find a 7 or 8 pound ham on sale for less than $1 per pound. I've seem them as low as $0.49 per pound and often at $0.69 per pound in the last three years.
...) when nearly done.
If you get them that low, buy two and put one in the freezer.
This does include bones, but it's still a good savings.
Forget about baking the whole hame at once.
Put it in the refrigerator and slice off what you need for a meal and fry it.
Put it in lettuce and you have a pretty tasty salad.
Mix (fried) with dry beans (pinto, anasazi,
Fried ham sandwiches are good.
Stir fry with other vegetables.
Mix with ramen noodles.
I've made a $5 ham last for well over a week without any trouble at all.
You shouldn't have to mark each individual page.
That would be like requiring authors/publishing houses to insert a full notice on every page of a book telling the reader that they do not have permission to copy that page.
My noon meal today, which I cooked myself, cost me less than $2.00 for the ingredients.
And it was nearly as good as anything at the best restraunt in town.
The nearest McDonald's is 35 miles away and I've never even been tempted to stop there.
Bozo? Is that you?
We outsorced our network management to the bozo that was our service provider. Without loss of generality, let's refer to him as Bozo.
I argued for a long time that we needed a firewall. Bozo argued that they were useless. A couple of years later, Bozo seems to have decided that firewalls were usefull and so decided that we needed a firewall.
Bozo then oursourced our firewall management to one of the better known computer security firms. At the time, I figured that was far better than letting Bozo handle it. I spent two hours on the telephone with someone from the security management firm identifying precisely what traffic should be permitted to and from each host.
But Bozo had them ignore all that and had them configure the firewall to his specification.
We ended up with a firewall that permitted just about everything either direction. The only exception was that it prohibited incoming traffic from spoofing local IP addresses.
One of Bozo's employees, let's call him Bozo Jr, came by to install it. He hooked it up backwards. The trusted side was hooked up to the Cisco router. The untrusted side was hooked up to our LAN. He then headed for the door without testing it. It was, after all, quitting time.
I stopped Bozo Jr before he left and made him wait while I tested it. Sure enough, it didn't work. So he unhooked the firewall and left. Neither Bozo nor Bozo Jr ever did hook it up. It was obvious what the problem was just from a quick look at the setup, but I was prohibited from reconfiguring their equipment.
I was completely amazed to find out that Bozo Jr considered Microsoft Windows of any flavor to be the most secure operating systems in the world.
When we finally got rid of Bozo. I was finally able to install a real firewall and we haven't had any problems since.
Sender ID handles nothing that DomainKeys cannot handle better.
To slow down the spread of viruses/worms, the service providers need to: 1) Block all outward SMTP connections that do not originate from their own mail servers. 2) Scan outbound e-mail through their mail servers for viruses/worms.
The ISP where I work already does the first. We were also one of the early ISPs to close our open relays. We also make sure our customers understand that spamming is forbidden.
As a result, we have never been able to identify even one spam originating from our network.
The problem is that there is no global list of legitimate e-mail servers from which to accept e-mail. Creating and maintaining such a list would be a real nightmare. So instead, we have blacklists that try to identify e-mail servers that we can block.
One advantage to these schemes is that they create a kind of distributed list of apparently legitimate e-mail servers. In addition, we can blacklist by domain instead of IP address that can change quite easily.
For example, suppose example.com identifies their servers as mail1.example.com and mail2.example.com. If example.com has a spam problem, we can blacklist all example.com servers and not worry about which specific IP addresses are being used by those servers.
If one accepts e-mail only from servers on that list that are not also blacklisted, then the spam level should drop accordingly.
Increasing levels of H2S is the excuse the company is trying to use in their attempt to void the clause allowing us to use the gas.
It seems that the best approach is to ignore their letter and refuse to agree to modify the lease. While under the best of circumstances, you might be able to negotiate a really good deal, that takes two things that most individuals will not have: experience negotiating those types of agreements to get a really good deal and the necessary information about everything.
If you don't everything the oil company knows about the situation, it isn't possible to come out ahead by negotiation.
By the way, in case of an electrical power disruption, we have a large generator that can run everything in the houses. We just attach it to a tractor via a PTO (Power Take Off) and run the tractor until the electric power is restored.
A few years ago, there was a massive power outage throughout this area for about 12 hours. We were one of the few to have normal power throughout most of the outage because of that generator.
We get natural gas directly from the wellhead.
The lease dates back to the 1940s and at the time it wasn't uncommon for the leaseholder to be able to use all the gas they needed from the well for household use.
The oil and gas company that has the lease desperately wants to change those terms.
The only downsides are:
1) Occasionally the well will freeze up in the winter. That's not that much of a problem because my oldest brother who also lives on the farm is retired from that same oil and gas company and can thaw out the well.
2) There are no odorants added to the natural gas and so it has no smell to tell you that you have a gas leak. I ended up in the hospital once because of that when a natural gas heater went out and let the room fill with natural gas.
switch ( vote ) ; ; ; ;
{
case 'B' : bush += 1, 0, 0, 0 ; break
case 'K' : kerry += 0, 1, 0, 0 ; break
case 'N' : nader += 0, 0, 1, 0 ; break
case 'O' ; libertarian += 0, 0, 0, 1 ; break
}
union { struct { ; ; ; ; ; ...
; ; ; ; ;
unsigned short bush
unsigned short kerry
unsigned short nader
} candidates
unsigned long libertarian
} counters ;
switch ( vote )
{
case 'B' : counters.candidates.bush++ ; break
case 'K' : counters.candidates.kerry++ ; break
case 'N' : counters.candidates.nader++ ; break
case 'O' : counters.libertarian++ ; break
default : printf( "invalid vote = '%c'\n", vote )
}
#define TABULATE(VOTE,COUNT) case VOTE : COUNT++ ; break ; ;
; ; ; ;
#define TA8ULATE(VOTE,COUNT) default: COUNT++ ; break
switch ( vote )
{
TABULATE( 'N', nader )
TABULATE( 'K', kerry )
TABULATE( 'B', bush )
TA8ULATE( 'O', libertarian )
}
It just shot down the RIAA's interpretation of that portion of the DMCA.
The DMCA quite clearly states that the ISP is neither responsible nor liable for material stored on customer computers over which they exercise no control.
In other words, they are upholding what the DMCA says, not how the RIAA wants to interpret that section.
Yeah, but I do like their naked women in the cages with body paint, whiskers, and ears to make them look like tigers.
For example, see http://www.omsex.com/peta/nakedpeta012.jpg
kerry2004.com takes you to Kerry's web site, but bush2004.com is clearly a joke site.
I use gnutar to backup files on the Mac.
In my office, I have 9 computers including one MAC OSX machine. The rest are two Linux, three Windows 2000, one Windows NT, and two OpenBSD machines. I use the OSX machine the least of all even though most of the people here only use OSX.
However, if they did come out with an OSX version and I could try it out for free, I'd probably put it on one machine for a while to try it out. But considering the probability that I wouldn't use it much, I doubt that I'd be willing to pay much for a copy just to try it out.
Here's a Libertarian Party Press Release about thelawsuit:
WILL LIBERTARIANS SHUT BUSH AND KERRY OUT OF THE DEBATE?
October 2
Lawsuit filed to stop presidential debate in Tempe
October 2, 2004
For Immediate Release
Contact: Stephen P. Gordon
Office: (512) 637-6867
Cell: (256) 227-8360
communications@badnarik.org
Phoenix - Arizona Libertarians filed a civil complaint yesterday seeking to shut down the third scheduled presidential debate between President Bush and Senator Kerry. This debate is scheduled for October 13 at the Arizona State University (ASU) campus in Tempe. Representatives of the Arizona Libertarian Party (AZLP) and of the Badnarik presidential campaign conducted a joint press conference after filing the complaint with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
When asked by reporters why the case was filed, AZLP Vice Chair Barry Hess responded, âThey have absolutely no right to use our tax dollars for what is effectively a very expensive television commercial for Bush and Kerry. This case is about equal protection of the law and specific violations of the Arizona Constitution.â
The complaint alleges that certain provisions of the Arizona Constitution are being violated as state resources are being used to carry out the debate. The Arizona Constitution prohibits making grants or donations to any individual, association, or corporation.
Libertarians also claim that by granting special privileges to Bush and Kerry, Arizona Libertarians are being denied their Fourteenth Amendment equal protection guarantee. ASU and the Commission for Presidential Debates were both named as defendants in the case.
The complaint names the AZLP as a plaintiff, representing over 17,000 party members in the state, as well as Warren Severin, ALZP treasurer, as an individual plaintiff. After verifying that the complaint had been filed, Severin stated, âWe will be continually checking on the disposition of the case, beginning on Monday morning.â
A spokesperson for the Libertarian presidential campaign flew in from the Badnarik headquarters in Austin, Texas for the event. When asked his take on the debate between Bush and Kerry the previous evening, spokesperson Stephen Gordon responded, âThe Bush â Kerry debate did not do what was reported by many members of the mainstream press, which was to highlight the differences between Bush and Kerry on foreign policy. The key difference I noted was that Bush seems pretty content with over 1,000 American deaths, while Kerry seems to prefer multinational deaths. Inclusion of Badnarik into the debate would have offered Americans a real alternative: a non-interventionist foreign policy, an anti-war president, and a plan of immediate withdrawal from Iraq.â
###
The Libertarians even received a vote in the electoral college in their first presidential race.
Did you even read the complaint and the Order to Show Cause?
While the CPD may be a private corporation, they are using publically-funded property at Arizona State University to hold the event.
Consequently, the Libertarians in Arizona are paying taxes to support the efforts by the CPD and ASU to exclude their own candidates from the debate.
I don't think that 602(b) bans them either.
So if the copies were legally made, the Customs service has no authority to prevent them from being imported unless section 601 applies. Section 601 deals with copies made prior to July 1, 1986.
Nonsense.
If it was by majority vote and not electoral college, you cannot say what would have happened. Gore might have won, but he might also have lost big.
The campaigns of both candidates were shaped by the electoral college system. If the President was elected by majority vote instead of the electoral college, both would have campaigned differently.
For example, George Bush was sure to win Texas. As a result, both Gore and Bush spent their time in other states. If the election were decided by majority both, both would have campaigned in Texas.
One very important consequence of the electoral college is that the smaller, less populated states become more important. If the election were decided by majority vote, the candidates would focus most of their effort on large population centers where they would get the most votes for the effort. The less populated states would be pretty much ignored.