Actually, I noticed that homeowners' insurance rates in central texas tend to be higher than in the Chicago area. Turns out this is due to hail damage that also can occur yearly in parts. I also noticed that the deductible for hail damage is separate to the other, normal, deductible, and is fixed at 1% of the market value of the house as well. Now, I am not certain of the increased cost of insurance is limited to those counties typically affected by hail, or if it's spread out evenly amongst all owners in the state (not to mention that parts of TX get a lot of tornadoes, and the coastal parts are prone to hurricanes...).
Yes but you both failed. Both need to be accounted for in the calculation. The same car with two different sets of tire sizes will have two separate wear & tear outcomes on the surfaces they drive on. Otherwise, despite the weight differences, the fact that the Prius and the Hummer have different tire sizes could, in theory, still equate the same amount of wear & tear on the road for each. Other factors need to be taken into account, as you might only fit 3 Prius's in the same surface area as 2 Hummers. That would mean that for the same surface area of road, you have approximately a 3000 lb difference between these two scenarios.
This is all funny, so funny it makes me laugh. Since if you open up a business account in a different state than you are incorporated in, apparently nothing is required at all! About 1 1/2 years ago I received a bill for several hundred dollars for 3 handsets bought in my company's name in Indiana, and the person who opened up the account claimed his name was Chris [insert the name of my company here]. Funny, I didn't name the company after myself... I think they had an inside man at that Sprint store though too. Needless to say, they did drop the account and rescinded the bill for it as it was obviously fraudulent. I already had a personal Sprint account for a few years...
I still hate how all these companies still use such easy-to-obtain information as a method to verify a person's identity... Mother's maiden name? Probably not as hard as they think it is to find out. And last four digits of your social? Well it certainly wasn't hard if you were a student of College of DuPage when they initially rolled out student e-mail accounts in August of 2005. Somebody ever-so-wisely thought it was a great idea to use this convention for the e-mail addresses: familyname.firstname.XXXX@dupage.net, where XXXX was... lo and behold... the last 4 digits of your SSN... As soon as I received word of this (I was a student at the time), I contacted the business and computing department, who stepped in, pitched up a fit on my behalf (and on the behalf of all that is sane in the world), and fixed the situation with the department responsible for this.
I don't see why this is listed as YRO. This has nothing to do with a gov't agency or a corporation or anybody *forcing* anybody else to do anything with their possessions and data. This seems to fall more into the "Ask Slashdot" category.
Wake up and smell the coffee, if they are asking you too often it's a sign that they are abusing you. If they assign guilt to your refusals, it's a sign that they are just manipulative. Human/group interaction does not mean that it's alright for others to leech off of you.
I'm not sure about firewalls not supporting sctp... I seem to have a file named "nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.ko" and another named "xt_sctp.ko" on my system. Perhaps you meant cheap POS firewalls for grandma. But I'm not sure how SCTP solves the underlying issue of sockets... SCTP still uses sockets.
And I thought that Firefox was already multithreaded, and thus already multi-processor supported... this would just simply be a different approach to the same scenario - how to split up the tasks over multiple cpus...
I guess you never read the EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT file which lists other licenses that you can link your software to if you happen to use one of the listed licenses.
I'm just guessing here on the exact meaning of "dreist", but perhaps the ballsy/gutsy connotation could mean that Hutspah (somewhat common term in North American English nowadays) is a fitting equivalent?
The explanation of the term Hutspah is this: A 10 year old child murders his parents, and is arrested and put on trial. He is found guilty. Just prior to the judge pronouncing sentence, the child pleads to the court, "Take pity on me please, for I am an orphan." That's Hutspah.
Finally, a word of advice to the kiddies: the law might be stupid, but you should probably follow it. To the letter. Many on/. will probably revile the idea that we ought to follow such stupid laws, but you have to chose your battles (something the DA ought to learn) and this one just doesn't seem worth taking a stand for.
Perhaps some of the "kiddies" (since you seem to think of teenagers as little children who should be talked down to in such a manner) are staging protest to the idiocracy established by their parents...
It never ceases to bother me how teens are constantly referred to as children. If everybody wasn't going around treating them like children, maybe they wouldn't act so "childish" (in the eyes of those who consider them children and not young adults who lack experience).
Additionally, can't we just make the test a simple one of "does she have boobs? does she have pubic hair (or the ability to grow it if she currently shaves)? If so, she's not a child therefore not childporn, move along, nothing to see here." It's not like users can request ID of the girl whose pictures they're downloading on the Internet unless they know the girl in person. If I'm not mistaken, there was even a well-known porn actress in the mid-to-late 1980s who lied about her age (she started at 16), though I can't remember her name at the moment.
I'm sure there's a reason why in some cultures/religions there are "coming of age" ceremonies at ages around 12-13 instead of at 18... Where did our modern concept of 18 come from (other than perhaps Hebrew numerology, being that the word for "life" is the number 18)?
Remember this: In Chicago, when Mayor Daley announces that city government will be downsizing, and therefore laying off or firing from various departments, there is one office that never downsizes: The Dept. of Revenue (notorious as the issuers and collectors of many forms of tickets/citations).
My recommendation if you're visiting Chi and are not familiar with the city: if in downtown, park in a garage, forget about parking on the street. Also, read every sign on the same side of the street within a block of where you park.
When it comes to the extended warranties, part of it is about the price involved. Once I bought a $400 LCD screen from CompUSA. The salesman was pushing me hard for a nearly $100 extended warranty on it. So my comment was "If the warranty equals 1/4 of the purchase price of the product, from my standpoint that means that 1 in 4 can be expected to fail during the term of the warranty (2 years in this case). Why would I buy an LCD screen with this level of expected failure in the first place then?". That basically shut him up very quickly.
On the other hand, when I purchase equipment at Sam's Club, they are less annoying about the warranties and the cost is much much more reasonable. I normally do not buy them anyway, but in the case of an HP LJ 1300 that I bought there once, I spent $15 (on a $330 printer at the time) for a 3 year extended warranty.
This is the part that confuses me. How on earth can something that deals with copyright be considered a matter of national security? How can anybody in the gov't say that with a straight face even? It's appalling, and it should be challenged in court NOW.
I have read of extreme cases where a man can. The scenario basically follows a couple with a newborn in a remote area that was not modernized. The woman died somehow, and the baby wasn't old enough to ingest regular food.
Although many guys have joked about how they'd never leave home if they had girl boobs on them, I doubt any of them would ever want to lactate...
LawyerLandtm... That must be one of those amusement parks for lawyers where they get to ride around all sorts of rides and roller coasters based on trials and precedents, but in a fun surrealistic way like with a mouse, a duck, and a dog. I'd rather guys like Harris go to LawyerLandtm more often and stay away from our Reality.
I wonder what the Lawyers of the Caribbean ride is like...
I beg to differ. You can own intangible representation of value in a company (shares). The value (usually in monetary units and/or voting rights) are really worth no more than the paper they are written on. You also cannot say "see, my 200 shares represents these physical components of the company (akin to an arm or a leg)".
You do not own a company like you own a person, but a company itself is still not a tangible entity. Perhaps you are mistakenly thinking about tangible assets owned by a company.
A company is considered a non-natural person for more than just the purposes of taxation. Remember all those patents that *companies* own? Well, turns out companies can own tangible and intangible items... that's not just a matter of taxation, that's a matter of ownership.
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Actually, I noticed that homeowners' insurance rates in central texas tend to be higher than in the Chicago area. Turns out this is due to hail damage that also can occur yearly in parts. I also noticed that the deductible for hail damage is separate to the other, normal, deductible, and is fixed at 1% of the market value of the house as well. Now, I am not certain of the increased cost of insurance is limited to those counties typically affected by hail, or if it's spread out evenly amongst all owners in the state (not to mention that parts of TX get a lot of tornadoes, and the coastal parts are prone to hurricanes...).
The sky has detected a General Protection Fault in module yourlife.dll at address 0x00000000. Terminating the process, running dumprep.exe...
Yes but you both failed. Both need to be accounted for in the calculation. The same car with two different sets of tire sizes will have two separate wear & tear outcomes on the surfaces they drive on. Otherwise, despite the weight differences, the fact that the Prius and the Hummer have different tire sizes could, in theory, still equate the same amount of wear & tear on the road for each. Other factors need to be taken into account, as you might only fit 3 Prius's in the same surface area as 2 Hummers. That would mean that for the same surface area of road, you have approximately a 3000 lb difference between these two scenarios.
How much is one supposed to tip a cow when served milk? Does is the usual 15% sufficient?
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This is all funny, so funny it makes me laugh. Since if you open up a business account in a different state than you are incorporated in, apparently nothing is required at all! About 1 1/2 years ago I received a bill for several hundred dollars for 3 handsets bought in my company's name in Indiana, and the person who opened up the account claimed his name was Chris [insert the name of my company here]. Funny, I didn't name the company after myself... I think they had an inside man at that Sprint store though too. Needless to say, they did drop the account and rescinded the bill for it as it was obviously fraudulent. I already had a personal Sprint account for a few years...
I still hate how all these companies still use such easy-to-obtain information as a method to verify a person's identity... Mother's maiden name? Probably not as hard as they think it is to find out. And last four digits of your social? Well it certainly wasn't hard if you were a student of College of DuPage when they initially rolled out student e-mail accounts in August of 2005. Somebody ever-so-wisely thought it was a great idea to use this convention for the e-mail addresses: familyname.firstname.XXXX@dupage.net, where XXXX was... lo and behold... the last 4 digits of your SSN... As soon as I received word of this (I was a student at the time), I contacted the business and computing department, who stepped in, pitched up a fit on my behalf (and on the behalf of all that is sane in the world), and fixed the situation with the department responsible for this.
I don't see why this is listed as YRO. This has nothing to do with a gov't agency or a corporation or anybody *forcing* anybody else to do anything with their possessions and data. This seems to fall more into the "Ask Slashdot" category.
Wake up and smell the coffee, if they are asking you too often it's a sign that they are abusing you. If they assign guilt to your refusals, it's a sign that they are just manipulative. Human/group interaction does not mean that it's alright for others to leech off of you.
They probably tried, but as they are jocks, they couldn't find the computer. Only this weird box they kept referring to as the "hard drive"...
My favorite tech acronym: PCMCIA
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.
Hmmm... Is this thing manufactured by the infamous ACME company?
I'm not sure about firewalls not supporting sctp... I seem to have a file named "nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.ko" and another named "xt_sctp.ko" on my system. Perhaps you meant cheap POS firewalls for grandma. But I'm not sure how SCTP solves the underlying issue of sockets... SCTP still uses sockets.
And I thought that Firefox was already multithreaded, and thus already multi-processor supported... this would just simply be a different approach to the same scenario - how to split up the tasks over multiple cpus...
or am I wrong about it being multithreaded?
I guess you never read the EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT file which lists other licenses that you can link your software to if you happen to use one of the listed licenses.
I'm just guessing here on the exact meaning of "dreist", but perhaps the ballsy/gutsy connotation could mean that Hutspah (somewhat common term in North American English nowadays) is a fitting equivalent?
The explanation of the term Hutspah is this: A 10 year old child murders his parents, and is arrested and put on trial. He is found guilty. Just prior to the judge pronouncing sentence, the child pleads to the court, "Take pity on me please, for I am an orphan." That's Hutspah.
And yet they think that stupid octomom is so newsworthy...
Finally, a word of advice to the kiddies: the law might be stupid, but you should probably follow it. To the letter. Many on /. will probably revile the idea that we ought to follow such stupid laws, but you have to chose your battles (something the DA ought to learn) and this one just doesn't seem worth taking a stand for.
Perhaps some of the "kiddies" (since you seem to think of teenagers as little children who should be talked down to in such a manner) are staging protest to the idiocracy established by their parents...
It never ceases to bother me how teens are constantly referred to as children. If everybody wasn't going around treating them like children, maybe they wouldn't act so "childish" (in the eyes of those who consider them children and not young adults who lack experience).
Additionally, can't we just make the test a simple one of "does she have boobs? does she have pubic hair (or the ability to grow it if she currently shaves)? If so, she's not a child therefore not childporn, move along, nothing to see here." It's not like users can request ID of the girl whose pictures they're downloading on the Internet unless they know the girl in person. If I'm not mistaken, there was even a well-known porn actress in the mid-to-late 1980s who lied about her age (she started at 16), though I can't remember her name at the moment.
I'm sure there's a reason why in some cultures/religions there are "coming of age" ceremonies at ages around 12-13 instead of at 18... Where did our modern concept of 18 come from (other than perhaps Hebrew numerology, being that the word for "life" is the number 18)?
Parrots work too, especially if you want some of that booty! ARRRRRRGH *grin*
Actually, the bully does NOT play the flute. He simply wants to be the only one on the block selling recordings of other people playing the flute...
Remember this: In Chicago, when Mayor Daley announces that city government will be downsizing, and therefore laying off or firing from various departments, there is one office that never downsizes: The Dept. of Revenue (notorious as the issuers and collectors of many forms of tickets/citations).
My recommendation if you're visiting Chi and are not familiar with the city: if in downtown, park in a garage, forget about parking on the street. Also, read every sign on the same side of the street within a block of where you park.
When it comes to the extended warranties, part of it is about the price involved. Once I bought a $400 LCD screen from CompUSA. The salesman was pushing me hard for a nearly $100 extended warranty on it. So my comment was "If the warranty equals 1/4 of the purchase price of the product, from my standpoint that means that 1 in 4 can be expected to fail during the term of the warranty (2 years in this case). Why would I buy an LCD screen with this level of expected failure in the first place then?". That basically shut him up very quickly.
On the other hand, when I purchase equipment at Sam's Club, they are less annoying about the warranties and the cost is much much more reasonable. I normally do not buy them anyway, but in the case of an HP LJ 1300 that I bought there once, I spent $15 (on a $330 printer at the time) for a 3 year extended warranty.
This is the part that confuses me. How on earth can something that deals with copyright be considered a matter of national security? How can anybody in the gov't say that with a straight face even? It's appalling, and it should be challenged in court NOW.
I have read of extreme cases where a man can. The scenario basically follows a couple with a newborn in a remote area that was not modernized. The woman died somehow, and the baby wasn't old enough to ingest regular food.
Although many guys have joked about how they'd never leave home if they had girl boobs on them, I doubt any of them would ever want to lactate...
I don't see what his income has to do with his choice. Perhaps he's not in it to become the next nysnc.
LawyerLandtm... That must be one of those amusement parks for lawyers where they get to ride around all sorts of rides and roller coasters based on trials and precedents, but in a fun surrealistic way like with a mouse, a duck, and a dog. I'd rather guys like Harris go to LawyerLandtm more often and stay away from our Reality.
I wonder what the Lawyers of the Caribbean ride is like...
I beg to differ. You can own intangible representation of value in a company (shares). The value (usually in monetary units and/or voting rights) are really worth no more than the paper they are written on. You also cannot say "see, my 200 shares represents these physical components of the company (akin to an arm or a leg)".
You do not own a company like you own a person, but a company itself is still not a tangible entity. Perhaps you are mistakenly thinking about tangible assets owned by a company.
A company is considered a non-natural person for more than just the purposes of taxation. Remember all those patents that *companies* own? Well, turns out companies can own tangible and intangible items... that's not just a matter of taxation, that's a matter of ownership.