Since replacing the screws has nothing to do with service requested by the customer, this is simply vandalism. It looks to me like Apple is just asking to be sued. It's as if you took your car in to the dealer for service and they added a lock on the hood to which only they had the key.
Many vehicles just won't charge up the battery if driven that way in really cold weather. I've sometimes had to make a point of taking mine for a longer drive to charge up the battery. One alternative might be walking some or all of the time. Another is to buy a battery charger and charge your vehicle from house current at night.
Wear a mask that covers your mouth and nose and breathe through your nose as much as possible. Seriously. It is of course a good idea to get the defrost going properly, but if you're in a rush or it isn't working well, you can reduce the amount of water vapor that you exhale.
No, the use of anonymous informants for investigation does not violate the right to confront the witnesses against you, which applies at trial. There is no right to confront accusers before trial. This is well established law, and conforms to the founders' intentions.
Anonymous informants are useful to police in any situation in which criminal behavior occurs in private and in which the witness fears retaliation by the criminal or has some other reason not to come forward. They are certainly common in drug cases, but legalizing drugs (which I favor) and other victimless crimes would not elminate the usefulness of anonymous informants because there are plenty of other crimes that meet these conditions. Consider, for example, a white collar worker who learns of some kind of business fraud, or the person who happens to witness a killing in a secluded place.
One hint is the fact that Chavez is a virulent anti-Semite. That has nothing to do with US pressure for free enterprise. He's an opportunistic authoritarian demagogue of a type we've seen many times before.
Hunh? Some US wars have been imperialistic or pointless, but the idea that all US wars have been imperialistic in nature is ridiculous. To take the most prominent recent examples, the US saved the European democracies from the Nazis in WWII, and prevented South Korea from falling to the North Korean Communists, one of the world's worst regimes, in the Korean War. And the intervention in Bosnia kept a lot of innocent people (mostly Muslim, by the way) from being massacred.
Another service provided by publishers that can be important is book design. It takes some expertise and talent to make a book attractive and readable. A good designer can make a noticeable improvement in the work of a decent writer, but most important, he or she can prevent the utter disaster that a fair percentage of authors will produce. The wrong fonts, too much boldface, poorly chosen margins, poor placement of illustrations, etc. can make a book unattractive and even difficult to read. Many good writers have little sense of this. Unless you are pretty sure that you are good at book design, it is a very good idea to have someone else who is go over the book. This doesn't have to be someone who works for a traditional publisher - you can hire a freelancer or get a friend to do it - but it is an aspect of publishing that do-it-yourselfers not infrequently miss.
While the general point that terrorists often evoke disproportionate responses is valid, the example of Israel is factually wrong. Many Israelis, mostly civilians, have been injured and killed by the rockets that Hamas launches into Israeli, rockets that are not extremely accurate but are aimed at civilian targets. Moreover, Israel has been put to considerable trouble and expense in order to prevent the casualty figures from being much higher. Israel has not tried to starve Gazans. Basic food supplies have never been subject to the blockade. Gaza has had a perfectly adequate food supply. International organizations report no evidence of starvation. This of course belies the claim about the "humanitarian aid" ship. There was no need for such "aid", and in any case Israel had offered to allow any such aid to enter Gaza after inspection for contraband, as it in fact did after seizing the ship. (If you believe that there was a pressing need for such supplies, try to explain why there was no effort to move such supplies into Gaza when Egypt opened its crossing into Gaza the day after the raid. The Egyptian Red Crescent moved a small amount of non-food supplies (tents and so forth) through the crossing. That was it.) The casualties were not innocent humanitarians but terrorists who attacked Israeli soldiers. Read the interviews with the families in Turkey who speak proudly of their jihadist sons and of the survivors who regret that they were forced to release the Israeli soldier whom they had captured and intended to use as a hostage, "another Shalit" as they called him.
Actually, no evidence whatever that Israel was behind the assassination has been made public nor is there any reason to believe that Dubai has such evidence. There's been a lot of hot air, but no evidence. Israel certainly had motive, but so did any number of Arab factions, such as Al-Fatah. Really the only thing that points at Israel is that Israeli intelligence is so much more competent than Arab terrorist organizations and intelligence services. That hardly constitutes proof. And of course Dubai wouldn't have to worry about such assassinations if it didn't extend a warm welcome to known war criminals. (As a senior official of an organization that openly engages in daily attacks on civilian targets, there is no question whatever that the "murder victim" was guilty of war crimes.)
In any case, this was pretty much a one-shot deal. There's no reason for either Israel or US intelligence to spy on Dubai, which is not a military threat to either, and it is only on rare occasions that someone they care enough to assassinate on hostile territory would be present. Even if Israel was responsible for the elimination of Al-Mabhouh, this was not an attack on Dubai. Dubai was simply where they could get at him. It isn't really plausible that Dubai wants access for counter-intelligence purposes. What is much more likely is that they are concerned with internal dissent.
There's no evidence that the parent blames all terrorism on Muslims. He was talking about a particular terrorist attack, which was in fact carried out by Muslim terrorists. And I fail to see how identifying the type of terrorist makes him part of the problem.
True. North Koreans don't get much real news from the outside, but a fair number have at least been to China, or have contact with people who have been to China. Quite a few North Korean school teachers, for example, were trained in China. Of course they don't dare contradict the orthodox view in class, but little things get out to friends and neighbors. Furthermore, some North Koreans get information about the outside world as part of their jobs. Such people are chosen from those considered politically reliable, but even such people let things slip sometimes.
I have an Iranian friend critical of the current administration who actually refers to Ahmadinejad et al. as "Arabs" due to their fetish for the use of Arabic.
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What's the evidence for this?
The designer of NT came from a VMS background but NT was not based on VMS code.
Since replacing the screws has nothing to do with service requested by the customer, this is simply vandalism. It looks to me like Apple is just asking to be sued. It's as if you took your car in to the dealer for service and they added a lock on the hood to which only they had the key.
Kind of like Alien vs. Predator...
Many vehicles just won't charge up the battery if driven that way in really cold weather. I've sometimes had to make a point of taking mine for a longer drive to charge up the battery. One alternative might be walking some or all of the time. Another is to buy a battery charger and charge your vehicle from house current at night.
Wear a mask that covers your mouth and nose and breathe through your nose as much as possible. Seriously. It is of course a good idea to get the defrost going properly, but if you're in a rush or it isn't working well, you can reduce the amount of water vapor that you exhale.
Not to mention the time to melt the ice on the windshield if you live where I do.
No, the use of anonymous informants for investigation does not violate the right to confront the witnesses against you, which applies at trial. There is no right to confront accusers before trial. This is well established law, and conforms to the founders' intentions.
Anonymous informants are useful to police in any situation in which criminal behavior occurs in private and in which the witness fears retaliation by the criminal or has some other reason not to come forward. They are certainly common in drug cases, but legalizing drugs (which I favor) and other victimless crimes would not elminate the usefulness of anonymous informants because there are plenty of other crimes that meet these conditions. Consider, for example, a white collar worker who learns of some kind of business fraud, or the person who happens to witness a killing in a secluded place.
One hint is the fact that Chavez is a virulent anti-Semite. That has nothing to do with US pressure for free enterprise. He's an opportunistic authoritarian demagogue of a type we've seen many times before.
Providing such documents is not considered providing legal services and does not require a law license. He can do it in any jurisdiction.
Well, grade-six plutonium at any rate.
The Kuwaiti security forces whisk people away to Saudi Arabian prisons? Who knew?
True. I've started a vehicle in such temperatures without a block heater.
Hunh? Some US wars have been imperialistic or pointless, but the idea that all US wars have been imperialistic in nature is ridiculous. To take the most prominent recent examples, the US saved the European democracies from the Nazis in WWII, and prevented South Korea from falling to the North Korean Communists, one of the world's worst regimes, in the Korean War. And the intervention in Bosnia kept a lot of innocent people (mostly Muslim, by the way) from being massacred.
For me the main downside to Dillo is the lack of Unicode support.
Another service provided by publishers that can be important is book design. It takes some expertise and talent to make a book attractive and readable. A good designer can make a noticeable improvement in the work of a decent writer, but most important, he or she can prevent the utter disaster that a fair percentage of authors will produce. The wrong fonts, too much boldface, poorly chosen margins, poor placement of illustrations, etc. can make a book unattractive and even difficult to read. Many good writers have little sense of this. Unless you are pretty sure that you are good at book design, it is a very good idea to have someone else who is go over the book. This doesn't have to be someone who works for a traditional publisher - you can hire a freelancer or get a friend to do it - but it is an aspect of publishing that do-it-yourselfers not infrequently miss.
While the general point that terrorists often evoke disproportionate responses is valid, the example of Israel is factually wrong. Many Israelis, mostly civilians, have been injured and killed by the rockets that Hamas launches into Israeli, rockets that are not extremely accurate but are aimed at civilian targets. Moreover, Israel has been put to considerable trouble and expense in order to prevent the casualty figures from being much higher. Israel has not tried to starve Gazans. Basic food supplies have never been subject to the blockade. Gaza has had a perfectly adequate food supply. International organizations report no evidence of starvation. This of course belies the claim about the "humanitarian aid" ship. There was no need for such "aid", and in any case Israel had offered to allow any such aid to enter Gaza after inspection for contraband, as it in fact did after seizing the ship. (If you believe that there was a pressing need for such supplies, try to explain why there was no effort to move such supplies into Gaza when Egypt opened its crossing into Gaza the day after the raid. The Egyptian Red Crescent moved a small amount of non-food supplies (tents and so forth) through the crossing. That was it.) The casualties were not innocent humanitarians but terrorists who attacked Israeli soldiers. Read the interviews with the families in Turkey who speak proudly of their jihadist sons and of the survivors who regret that they were forced to release the Israeli soldier whom they had captured and intended to use as a hostage, "another Shalit" as they called him.
Actually, no evidence whatever that Israel was behind the assassination has been made public nor is there any reason to believe that Dubai has such evidence. There's been a lot of hot air, but no evidence. Israel certainly had motive, but so did any number of Arab factions, such as Al-Fatah. Really the only thing that points at Israel is that Israeli intelligence is so much more competent than Arab terrorist organizations and intelligence services. That hardly constitutes proof. And of course Dubai wouldn't have to worry about such assassinations if it didn't extend a warm welcome to known war criminals. (As a senior official of an organization that openly engages in daily attacks on civilian targets, there is no question whatever that the "murder victim" was guilty of war crimes.)
In any case, this was pretty much a one-shot deal. There's no reason for either Israel or US intelligence to spy on Dubai, which is not a military threat to either, and it is only on rare occasions that someone they care enough to assassinate on hostile territory would be present. Even if Israel was responsible for the elimination of Al-Mabhouh, this was not an attack on Dubai. Dubai was simply where they could get at him. It isn't really plausible that Dubai wants access for counter-intelligence purposes. What is much more likely is that they are concerned with internal dissent.
There's no evidence that the parent blames all terrorism on Muslims. He was talking about a particular terrorist attack, which was in fact carried out by Muslim terrorists. And I fail to see how identifying the type of terrorist makes him part of the problem.
The Czechs are as much Slavs as other Slavic peoples. Their language is Slavic and their culture is Slavic.
SCO actually did hire a consultant to audit the code. Then they ignored his report that there was no infringement.
Simply providing a place for communication appears not to fall under the US trade restrictions. There are Iranians living in Iran with FB accounts.
True. North Koreans don't get much real news from the outside, but a fair number have at least been to China, or have contact with people who have been to China. Quite a few North Korean school teachers, for example, were trained in China. Of course they don't dare contradict the orthodox view in class, but little things get out to friends and neighbors. Furthermore, some North Koreans get information about the outside world as part of their jobs. Such people are chosen from those considered politically reliable, but even such people let things slip sometimes.
I have an Iranian friend critical of the current administration who actually refers to Ahmadinejad et al. as "Arabs" due to their fetish for the use of Arabic.
Under Ahmadinejad, Iran is supposed to be privatizing again. Has that helped the auto industry at all?