You mean, like when they find a marijuana roach in your car and take your car and keep it until you go to court to get it back? Or, like when they find you with a (determined by them) "large amount" of cash and take your cash and keep it until you go to court to get it back? What due process?
if you sit on the glass of a regular copies, you get a pressed ham. with the google-scanner you will have to lie face down so that you scan your buttcheeks from above...
my old national geographic magazines from 50 years ago still work. even the old ads are still there... NEAT!
seriously, in a hundred years there is going to be a huge history gap. it's great to read old magazines and books and newspapers. what is anyone in the year 2100 going to read from 2009? nothing will be printed out or compatible with whatever brain-link stuff they use in the future...
all you will have is old shaky-cam JJ Abrams videos as a record of the early 21st century... sad.
My wife is from the UK and I have been through the green card process. We had to hire a lawyer because the rules are so arcane and complex, one little slip-up and you're toast.
Case in point - our lawyer told us to delay her "final interview", because it would come before our two year wedding anniversary. Why is that important? If you get your green card before your two year wedding anniversary, your green card is only good for three years, and then you have to go through an expensive renewal process.
If your final interview is after your two year wedding anniversary, your green card is good for ten years.
Our lawyer changed the interview date, but INS lost the letter. Apparently, this is very common. However, we received a letter in the mail saying that because we did not show up for the interview, my wife had 30 days to leave the country.
Our lawyer processes hundreds of applications every month, so he personally knows the director of the Immigration services in Norfolk and intervened on our behalf.
We paid $4000 for the lawyer and $2800 more in application fees and supporting documentational effort.
If they took all the billions of dollars they are spending on stupid techno-junk to watch the border and instead used it to bolster the infrastructure of the application and review process, and to hire more office workers and inspectors, an immigration application would take four weeks instead of 28 months.
When it takes 28 months instead of four weeks, it is because someone is profiting from such an arrangement. In this case it is Boeing, and the companies who exploit illegal labor.
if they offer paid subscriptions with NO ADS. really, it's like paying $10 to see a movie and sitting through 30 minutes of crappy Coke and Snickers ads...
the NYT tried paid content and it reduced their traffic.
I asked them at the time if they would offer no ads with paid subs and got no answer. now I just use privoxy and never see ads anyway...
ban fire! yes, outlaw all uses of fire without a license - using the same logic:
arsonists use it to burn stuff smokers use fire to smoke crack, tobacco and marijuana fat people use fire to light grills and eat food which is unhealthy
oh, sure, there are so-called legitimate uses for fire, like keeping from freezing to death, but it is mostly homeless people who use fire for that.
so see, there is really no good reason not to outlaw fire - when fire is outlawed, only outlaws will have fire. hey - ban sticks - they make fire!
Excellent point - I also discovered this when I actually used those $40 FCC coupons to buy a couple of digital tuners to hook up to my 35" and 14" Trinitrons.
Fuck LCD or plasma displays - it's CRT for me, baby! I have all the crap I need to connect HD/PC to old school video screens, and I can buy obsolete tech on Craigslist for under $75 today that cost $4000 eight years ago and still looks great. If it breaks, I toss it out and spend another $50 for some other obsolete tech that works just as well as it ever did in the past.
Beautiful pictures with all the news or sports that I might need to see, and everything else (Netflix / Hulu / P2P-commercial free!) via internet or in the mail.
Take everything you said here, subtract commercials, and apply it to P2P torrents. P2P torrents (via Vuze/Azureus or whatever flavor you prefer) supplemented with Netflix and Hulu, mean that you don't even need cable TV.
The Netflix business model is the future of video entertainment - one low price for all you can watch, using either physical media or internet delivery.
If the xxAA were smart, they would buy The Pirate Bay and charge a $14.95/month subscription fee for private torrents.
At that price, piracy goes away, quality goes up, artists make money and everyone accepts the inevitable.
Oh, and for what it's worth, Apple (iTunes Music/Video store) would be majorly annoyed...
My employer offers a dental plan which covers 2 exams a year for me and my wife fully paid, and almost 90% paid coverage for everything else. It costs me nothing extra. I would call that a very good value.
"The suicide rate was significantly lower in those areas with the highest levels of lithium"
The consciousness rate was probably significantly lower too.
"Similar studies to the one in this story have been done in Texas where lithium levels in the water supply are significantly above average compared to other states and the hospitalizations and suicide rate of bipolar people are less in Texas than other states."
This could explain a lot about the last eight years:
Apple will release a carrier-subsidized touchscreen netbook running the locked down OS X iPhone variant. This device will have a mini PCIe slot so that Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, et al, can offer plug-in access to their networks and offer data plans with the ersatz iNetPhoneBook.
The netbook will be nearly free; the price of the data plans will make your eyes water like a three-day-old onion.
making ignorant comments. i work with some talented web designers (that's what WE call them) and they make the software developers' jobs much easier when they know their shit (which ours do).
really, what an elitist bunch of pricks you all are. in our firm, at least, there is mutual respect between the software developers and the web designers. glad i don't work with you fuckheads...
go take your dilantin and lie down for a while, ok? code monkeys, anyone?
prosecutors will explain it as the manipulation of a series of tubes, and the rhubarbs on the jury will go "uh-huh, guilty, I saw the same thing on CSI when they hacked Second Life..."
this has been a subject of much discussion on the greenkeys listserv. greenkeys are radio teletype operators using ham radios to send text messages - the original IM system. a number of posters there have noted the extremely high RFI coming out of these cheaply manufactured devices, which interfere with telecommunications devices like ham radios, remote controls, cellphones, etc. given the number of people sensitive to electromagnetic interference, aren't we trading one problem for another?
Slashdot Mirror
I think we need a little animated paperclip to pop up and say "it looks like you've got a shitload of tabs open - would you like some help with that?"
that's a feature, not a bug. defective by design...
You mean, like when they find a marijuana roach in your car and take your car and keep it until you go to court to get it back? Or, like when they find you with a (determined by them) "large amount" of cash and take your cash and keep it until you go to court to get it back? What due process?
I'm not all that impressed by The Guardian. Try http://www.independent.co.uk/ - some of the best reporting anywhere is done by those guys...
if you sit on the glass of a regular copies, you get a pressed ham. with the google-scanner you will have to lie face down so that you scan your buttcheeks from above...
my old national geographic magazines from 50 years ago still work. even the old ads are still there... NEAT!
seriously, in a hundred years there is going to be a huge history gap. it's great to read old magazines and books and newspapers. what is anyone in the year 2100 going to read from 2009? nothing will be printed out or compatible with whatever brain-link stuff they use in the future...
all you will have is old shaky-cam JJ Abrams videos as a record of the early 21st century... sad.
I can assure you that the lawyer sent EVERYTHING registered mail. they lost it after they got it.
it really doesn't matter with immigration. even when you're right, you're wrong...
I remember those too - you could access CompuServe and GEnie with them - so I would say yes, that was definitely the netbook of its day...
Your comment about proper channels is uninformed.
My wife is from the UK and I have been through the green card process. We had to hire a lawyer because the rules are so arcane and complex, one little slip-up and you're toast.
Case in point - our lawyer told us to delay her "final interview", because it would come before our two year wedding anniversary. Why is that important? If you get your green card before your two year wedding anniversary, your green card is only good for three years, and then you have to go through an expensive renewal process.
If your final interview is after your two year wedding anniversary, your green card is good for ten years.
Our lawyer changed the interview date, but INS lost the letter. Apparently, this is very common. However, we received a letter in the mail saying that because we did not show up for the interview, my wife had 30 days to leave the country.
Our lawyer processes hundreds of applications every month, so he personally knows the director of the Immigration services in Norfolk and intervened on our behalf.
We paid $4000 for the lawyer and $2800 more in application fees and supporting documentational effort.
If they took all the billions of dollars they are spending on stupid techno-junk to watch the border and instead used it to bolster the infrastructure of the application and review process, and to hire more office workers and inspectors, an immigration application would take four weeks instead of 28 months.
When it takes 28 months instead of four weeks, it is because someone is profiting from such an arrangement. In this case it is Boeing, and the companies who exploit illegal labor.
if they offer paid subscriptions with NO ADS. really, it's like paying $10 to see a movie and sitting through 30 minutes of crappy Coke and Snickers ads... the NYT tried paid content and it reduced their traffic. I asked them at the time if they would offer no ads with paid subs and got no answer. now I just use privoxy and never see ads anyway...
ban fire! yes, outlaw all uses of fire without a license - using the same logic:
arsonists use it to burn stuff
smokers use fire to smoke crack, tobacco and marijuana
fat people use fire to light grills and eat food which is unhealthy
oh, sure, there are so-called legitimate uses for fire, like keeping from freezing to death, but it is mostly homeless people who use fire for that.
so see, there is really no good reason not to outlaw fire - when fire is outlawed, only outlaws will have fire. hey - ban sticks - they make fire!
Excellent point - I also discovered this when I actually used those $40 FCC coupons to buy a couple of digital tuners to hook up to my 35" and 14" Trinitrons.
Fuck LCD or plasma displays - it's CRT for me, baby! I have all the crap I need to connect HD/PC to old school video screens, and I can buy obsolete tech on Craigslist for under $75 today that cost $4000 eight years ago and still looks great. If it breaks, I toss it out and spend another $50 for some other obsolete tech that works just as well as it ever did in the past.
Beautiful pictures with all the news or sports that I might need to see, and everything else (Netflix / Hulu / P2P-commercial free!) via internet or in the mail.
Take everything you said here, subtract commercials, and apply it to P2P torrents. P2P torrents (via Vuze/Azureus or whatever flavor you prefer) supplemented with Netflix and Hulu, mean that you don't even need cable TV.
The Netflix business model is the future of video entertainment - one low price for all you can watch, using either physical media or internet delivery.
If the xxAA were smart, they would buy The Pirate Bay and charge a $14.95/month subscription fee for private torrents.
At that price, piracy goes away, quality goes up, artists make money and everyone accepts the inevitable.
Oh, and for what it's worth, Apple (iTunes Music/Video store) would be majorly annoyed...
My employer offers a dental plan which covers 2 exams a year for me and my wife fully paid, and almost 90% paid coverage for everything else. It costs me nothing extra. I would call that a very good value.
"The suicide rate was significantly lower in those areas with the highest levels of lithium"
The consciousness rate was probably significantly lower too.
"Similar studies to the one in this story have been done in Texas where lithium levels in the water supply are significantly above average compared to other states and the hospitalizations and suicide rate of bipolar people are less in Texas than other states."
This could explain a lot about the last eight years:
"BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO ATTACK U.S." - "so...? wha? Uhhhh, huh?"
FTFA: "We started to put discipline into what people were fielding in the way of applications," Gilligan said.
"Little Buddy, what are you doing with the Professor's radio?" the Skipper said...
to quote Orwell: "Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head..."
Right about this point, the ladder smashes through the window and the Thought Police start beating you...
The ad says "Only 2 left in stock--order soon (more on the way)."
How about "Only 2 ever in stock--order soon (sucker born every minute)."
Apple will release a carrier-subsidized touchscreen netbook running the locked down OS X iPhone variant. This device will have a mini PCIe slot so that Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, et al, can offer plug-in access to their networks and offer data plans with the ersatz iNetPhoneBook.
The netbook will be nearly free; the price of the data plans will make your eyes water like a three-day-old onion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad this is the decision that started the whole mess...
making ignorant comments. i work with some talented web designers (that's what WE call them) and they make the software developers' jobs much easier when they know their shit (which ours do). really, what an elitist bunch of pricks you all are. in our firm, at least, there is mutual respect between the software developers and the web designers. glad i don't work with you fuckheads... go take your dilantin and lie down for a while, ok? code monkeys, anyone?
prosecutors will explain it as the manipulation of a series of tubes, and the rhubarbs on the jury will go "uh-huh, guilty, I saw the same thing on CSI when they hacked Second Life..."
"twitted"
I saw ST:TMP when it first came out, and believe me, nobody in that theatre applauded.
this has been a subject of much discussion on the greenkeys listserv. greenkeys are radio teletype operators using ham radios to send text messages - the original IM system.
a number of posters there have noted the extremely high RFI coming out of these cheaply manufactured devices, which interfere with telecommunications devices like ham radios, remote controls, cellphones, etc.
given the number of people sensitive to electromagnetic interference, aren't we trading one problem for another?