Also, killing a rape victim defeats the biological purpose of rape, which is reproduction.
B.S. There is no biological purpose behind rape because does not serve to propagate the the species. Rape is about one thing and one thing only. Rape is about power.
The same people that brought you the Iraq are still in office (in the Executive, at least). The electorate had a chance to vote them out of office in 2004. They didn't.
This works when you have a bunch of standalone applications, but when they have to all interoperate not only with themselves but with third-party applications, especially industry-specific ones that don't have a wide audience, you start having problems.
Large companies like software monocultures because all of the pieces are designed to work together right out of the box and most of the third parties will work within that structure because they have to. It also means that you can pretty much roll up all of support in one place.
Yes, that means that you sometimes have to upgrade components that are working just fine when one of the other pieces has a new feature that you want, but, on the whole, it makes life a lot easier.
He absolutely did have security. The following is excerpted from the White House security review after an airplane landed in the White House grounds in 1994 (the whole report: http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/ustreas/usss/t1pubrp t.html).
By 1860, the bitter atmosphere arising from the discord between the northern and southern states had greatly increased the danger of political violence. As soon as Abraham Lincoln was chosen to be the Republican candidate for President that year, he began to receive numerous death threats. During the campaign, he was constantly surrounded by a phalanx of bodyguards. In at least one instance, one of these bodyguards was Alan Pinkerton, the founder of the celebrated detective agency.
Lincoln's security detail grew after he assumed the Presidency. He chafed under this protection and worried that it made him appear unmanly, but he ultimately conceded its necessity. Numerous Metropolitan Police were detailed to the Executive Mansion to serve as guards. Because Lincoln did not want the Executive Mansion to take on the characteristics of an armed camp, the guards inside the Mansion (the doormen) dressed in civilian clothes and concealed their firearms. Uniformed, armed sentries were posted at the gates to the grounds and at the doors to the Executive Mansion itself.
During the Civil War, the military helped protect the Mansion. When the conflict started, soldiers actually camped inside the Executive Mansion until Washington was adequately fortified. Even after the city was deemed secure, military units were often assigned to serve as guards there.
Troops also frequently accompanied Lincoln during his travels. Indeed, throughout the Civil War, no member of Lincoln's family left the White House grounds unescorted. Thus, they were the first White House occupants to receive extensive personal protection. An armed, plainclothes member of the Metropolitan Police regularly accompanied Mrs. Lincoln on her outings. Moreover, the White House doormen never lost sight of the Lincolns' son Tad, who was considered a target for kidnappers. By 1864, four Metropolitan Policemen were assigned to serve as President Lincoln's personal bodyguards. One of these men, responsible for protecting Lincoln at Ford Theater on the evening of April 14, 1865, was having a drink at a nearby saloon when John Wilkes Booth fatally wounded the President with a shot to the head.
Not necessarily. Words have meaning outside of their dictionary meaning or even outside of a euphemism. They're also used to emphasize other words or show the state of mind of the speaker. So asking someone if there equally offended by "poo" as they are by "shit" doesn't take context into account.
Otherwise does "look a the fucking snow" mean the same as "observe the snow, it fornicates" or "gee, there's sure a bunch of snow out there" or "there's too much snow out there for me to get to my car?"?
Broadband is a signaling method - as long as the Congress is deciding what speed of Internet connectivity is appropriate, can they also legislate a more appropriate term?
You're obviously not a Californian. Post Proposition 13, improvements to your house that increase its value don't make your property tax go up. Only the homeowner by voting a special assessment, the local government State Legislature can and only then with a super-majority vote. If you sell the house, however, the next buyer's tax bill will get the full benefit of your improvements. Remodeling the kitchen has the same effect. Which one has a better possibility of lowering your electric bill?
Environmental fuzzy save the birds you're killing from the reflection of your solar panels tax.2%
Does this happen? A quick google seems to indicate that birds have a better chance of getting killed by chasing light on the other side of glass windows than being par-cooked by reflected light. The neighborhood cat kills more birds than the solar panels ever will.
"Thank you for your business. As you chose not to comply with our request you are now in violation of our existing contract, which shall be terminated immediately. Also be advised that you will be removed from the GSA's approved vendor list, meaning that no governmental agency will be permitted to contract for services from you. In other words, we hope that the millions of dollars you have gotten from us have been invested well as you will see no more. Have a nice day."
You can copy the backup (you *are* backing up iTunes, right?) to another computer and import them. You'll need to authorize the computer to play iTunes-purchased music (iTunes will prompt you) - but it's pretty painless.
Perhaps it has changed, but the whole issue of swapping music was a response to the insane prices of media without the accompanying quality ($15-20 for a CD with perhaps 2 decent songs), coupled with the availability of technology to correct same
It has nothing to do with the price of CDs and has everything to do with the ease of duplication.
Records and tapes had the same mix of decent/bad songs as CDs do, it was just harder and more time-consuming to make mix tapes of the "good stuff" or record your album to cassette - or, if you're old enough, 8-track - so you could listen to it in your car. You could give it to a friend, too, but then you'd just have to make another one.
If the media industry concentrated more on quality and fair price instead of targeting their customers (remember that someone had to buy the CD/DVD in the first place), then both profits and satisfaction would be there.
"Fair price" is relative. There's still enough people that think that $15 per CD is fair enough to make a market.
Instead, you have a model where customers (not consumers) are expected to buy the same product multiple times in a situation where utilizing the product (in each format) simultaneously is impossible.
I think that part of the problem is this is the first time in history that the consumer has really had a call in the format and has the expectation of easily being able to move between the different ones. Sure, there were records, reel-to-reel, 8-track and, then, cassettes, but that was mostly evolutionary. There was no easy way to convert between the formats, so you were pretty much stuck with whatever you bought - the early 8-tracks didn't record, so if you wanted a copy of your favorite Beach Boys album, you were forced to go out and buy another copy.
I think the other difference is generational. My parents wouldn't think of making a copy of a song to give to someone else, just as it would mostly never occur to them to ask for it. Of course, it was just about impossible to create a copy of an LP... My generation, the ones that made copies of Grateful Dead concerts and distributed them freely, had less problem. But copying was expensive (you had to buy tapes) and, unless you had expensive tape-duplicating equipment, time-consuming. Now copying is free and easy and the "ok to copy" ethos has been passed on to another generation, so we are where we are.
We kids knew about the Cold War and all that, but the threat was never any near as real to us as the reality of the pictures of the moon that flashed back during the Ranger program, or the grainy videos we saw on our TV during the Gemini and Apollo missions. We were actually going into outer space and just about every one of us thought we could go there too.
Maybe I'm getting old and a bit cynical, but I just don't see that spark in children today. Maybe it's that we were blissfully naive when I was a kid or maybe it's because it seems that the world that's presented to kids today is cold and gray and full of troubles.
I really feel sorry for them - very few of them will ever have the chance to be a witness to a feat that is truly beyond their imagination.
Either way, are/.'ers better economically better or worse off with the current political leadership?
What does that have to do with anything? Do you honestly think that IBM cares whether a Republican or Democrat is in the White House? Did outsourcing become dramatically smaller during the Clinton administration than it was when Bush senior was in office?
It also leads me to wonder what valuable service do most middle-americans offer each other and the world that can't be had anywhere else?
Um, plumbing and electrical work, bricklaying, finish carpentry, automobile work (Would you ship a Volkswagen to Wolfsburg to get the steering fixed or a dent pulled?) or any one of a number of tasks that have to be done locally or require interpersonal skills.
Completely aside from the question of whether the new key, the old key or any other key assists me in "enjoying my protected content", your response covers seems to cover only software-driven players.
What about hardware-only players?
Assuming that the old key was imbedded in the the player firmware, and that the existing crop of HD-DVD/BluRay players are as locked down as their DVD brethren, how do you plan to "update" standalone players to work with newly-released content? A recall?
Candidates aren't involved in day-to-day operations - that's why they have staffers.
I sincerely doubt that Sen. Obama was involved in the decision to do this. The people who run political campaigns (the high-level well-paid ones, not the volunteers) want to have complete control over how their candidate is portrayed and having a well-visited site that they can't control would tend to make them very uncomfortable.
I've known people who have worked in political campaigns and what happened here doesn't seem at all odd. I can't imagine that political consultants have a very high opinion of bloggers or anybody else who isn't "professional" media, so the price that they offered and the strong-arm tactics that they used are seems pretty much consistent with the way that they do things. It's the way that they deal with all media - if you don't play ball, you get shut out.
The difference here is that for every blogger that they shut out, there are hundreds more that will take their place. And they're not terribly worried about the Nielsen ratings...
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Then you may have to wait a while - at least in the case of the company that I work for. Line managers here aren't permitted to accept changes to contracts or agreements and your changes would have to be reviewed by our contracts group and our lawyers. At the speed things work here, you may get the revised paperwork back in, say, a month...
Editing Office files? On a PDA? Sorry, I've tried that on both a Palm (with Graffiti) and a Treo (with a keyboard) and I never want to repeat the experience. The screen's just too small and the tools aren't there yet. Viewing is fine but for editing, I'll wait until I get back to the office...
Look at it this way: It's Mr. Wizard or Bill Nye the Science Guy with explosions.
Their science isn't as rigorous as it might be, and yes, sometimes they go for the impressive rather than the interesting, but it's the closest thing to someone using a systematic method to solve a problem on TV. Contrast this with the let's-use-the-latest-whiz-bang-techno-babble-thing a la CSI. If the result of their program is one more person taking up the sciences, Myth Busters sometimes playing fast and loose with the scientific method can be lived with.
They've also been quite good about revisiting old myths when people point out that they may be wrong. It shows that some people are actually thinking about what they see on TV and aren't just taking everything they see there as the ultimate truth.
That's what I meant. If they lose, they deduct the lawyer's cost from their taxes and move on to the next patent that they purchased from some now-defunct company. If Apple settles, they don't have the precedent, but they've got the money and a sort of a precedent - Apple settled, so the suit must have had some validity. If they win, they get the money and the precedent.
It's win/win for them, lose/lose for everybody else and the stock market goes up and up...
I'm too lazy to find this out, but I wonder if the US requires that stabilizers or other non-chocolate things are added? Or are they just added to make sure that the chocolates survive the trip from wherever they were originally are made?
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B.S. There is no biological purpose behind rape because does not serve to propagate the the species. Rape is about one thing and one thing only. Rape is about power.
The same people that brought you the Iraq are still in office (in the Executive, at least). The electorate had a chance to vote them out of office in 2004. They didn't.
Large companies like software monocultures because all of the pieces are designed to work together right out of the box and most of the third parties will work within that structure because they have to. It also means that you can pretty much roll up all of support in one place.
Yes, that means that you sometimes have to upgrade components that are working just fine when one of the other pieces has a new feature that you want, but, on the whole, it makes life a lot easier.
By 1860, the bitter atmosphere arising from the discord between the northern and southern states had greatly increased the danger of political violence. As soon as Abraham Lincoln was chosen to be the Republican candidate for President that year, he began to receive numerous death threats. During the campaign, he was constantly surrounded by a phalanx of bodyguards. In at least one instance, one of these bodyguards was Alan Pinkerton, the founder of the celebrated detective agency.
Lincoln's security detail grew after he assumed the Presidency. He chafed under this protection and worried that it made him appear unmanly, but he ultimately conceded its necessity. Numerous Metropolitan Police were detailed to the Executive Mansion to serve as guards. Because Lincoln did not want the Executive Mansion to take on the characteristics of an armed camp, the guards inside the Mansion (the doormen) dressed in civilian clothes and concealed their firearms. Uniformed, armed sentries were posted at the gates to the grounds and at the doors to the Executive Mansion itself.
During the Civil War, the military helped protect the Mansion. When the conflict started, soldiers actually camped inside the Executive Mansion until Washington was adequately fortified. Even after the city was deemed secure, military units were often assigned to serve as guards there.
Troops also frequently accompanied Lincoln during his travels. Indeed, throughout the Civil War, no member of Lincoln's family left the White House grounds unescorted. Thus, they were the first White House occupants to receive extensive personal protection. An armed, plainclothes member of the Metropolitan Police regularly accompanied Mrs. Lincoln on her outings. Moreover, the White House doormen never lost sight of the Lincolns' son Tad, who was considered a target for kidnappers. By 1864, four Metropolitan Policemen were assigned to serve as President Lincoln's personal bodyguards. One of these men, responsible for protecting Lincoln at Ford Theater on the evening of April 14, 1865, was having a drink at a nearby saloon when John Wilkes Booth fatally wounded the President with a shot to the head.
Otherwise does "look a the fucking snow" mean the same as "observe the snow, it fornicates" or "gee, there's sure a bunch of snow out there" or "there's too much snow out there for me to get to my car?"?
Broadband is a signaling method - as long as the Congress is deciding what speed of Internet connectivity is appropriate, can they also legislate a more appropriate term?
You're obviously not a Californian. Post Proposition 13, improvements to your house that increase its value don't make your property tax go up. Only the homeowner by voting a special assessment, the local government State Legislature can and only then with a super-majority vote. If you sell the house, however, the next buyer's tax bill will get the full benefit of your improvements. Remodeling the kitchen has the same effect. Which one has a better possibility of lowering your electric bill?
Environmental fuzzy save the birds you're killing from the reflection of your solar panels tax .2%
Does this happen? A quick google seems to indicate that birds have a better chance of getting killed by chasing light on the other side of glass windows than being par-cooked by reflected light. The neighborhood cat kills more birds than the solar panels ever will.
They really don't even have to go that far.
"Thank you for your business. As you chose not to comply with our request you are now in violation of our existing contract, which shall be terminated immediately. Also be advised that you will be removed from the GSA's approved vendor list, meaning that no governmental agency will be permitted to contract for services from you. In other words, we hope that the millions of dollars you have gotten from us have been invested well as you will see no more. Have a nice day."
So long as you haven't done this five other times, you're in... More info: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=930 14
It has nothing to do with the price of CDs and has everything to do with the ease of duplication.
Records and tapes had the same mix of decent/bad songs as CDs do, it was just harder and more time-consuming to make mix tapes of the "good stuff" or record your album to cassette - or, if you're old enough, 8-track - so you could listen to it in your car. You could give it to a friend, too, but then you'd just have to make another one.
If the media industry concentrated more on quality and fair price instead of targeting their customers (remember that someone had to buy the CD/DVD in the first place), then both profits and satisfaction would be there.
"Fair price" is relative. There's still enough people that think that $15 per CD is fair enough to make a market.
Instead, you have a model where customers (not consumers) are expected to buy the same product multiple times in a situation where utilizing the product (in each format) simultaneously is impossible.
I think that part of the problem is this is the first time in history that the consumer has really had a call in the format and has the expectation of easily being able to move between the different ones. Sure, there were records, reel-to-reel, 8-track and, then, cassettes, but that was mostly evolutionary. There was no easy way to convert between the formats, so you were pretty much stuck with whatever you bought - the early 8-tracks didn't record, so if you wanted a copy of your favorite Beach Boys album, you were forced to go out and buy another copy.
I think the other difference is generational. My parents wouldn't think of making a copy of a song to give to someone else, just as it would mostly never occur to them to ask for it. Of course, it was just about impossible to create a copy of an LP... My generation, the ones that made copies of Grateful Dead concerts and distributed them freely, had less problem. But copying was expensive (you had to buy tapes) and, unless you had expensive tape-duplicating equipment, time-consuming. Now copying is free and easy and the "ok to copy" ethos has been passed on to another generation, so we are where we are.
So it goes...
We kids knew about the Cold War and all that, but the threat was never any near as real to us as the reality of the pictures of the moon that flashed back during the Ranger program, or the grainy videos we saw on our TV during the Gemini and Apollo missions. We were actually going into outer space and just about every one of us thought we could go there too.
Maybe I'm getting old and a bit cynical, but I just don't see that spark in children today. Maybe it's that we were blissfully naive when I was a kid or maybe it's because it seems that the world that's presented to kids today is cold and gray and full of troubles.
I really feel sorry for them - very few of them will ever have the chance to be a witness to a feat that is truly beyond their imagination.
What does that have to do with anything? Do you honestly think that IBM cares whether a Republican or Democrat is in the White House? Did outsourcing become dramatically smaller during the Clinton administration than it was when Bush senior was in office?
It also leads me to wonder what valuable service do most middle-americans offer each other and the world that can't be had anywhere else?
Um, plumbing and electrical work, bricklaying, finish carpentry, automobile work (Would you ship a Volkswagen to Wolfsburg to get the steering fixed or a dent pulled?) or any one of a number of tasks that have to be done locally or require interpersonal skills.
Because natural selection, unfortunately, seems to favor the stupid.
What about hardware-only players?
Assuming that the old key was imbedded in the the player firmware, and that the existing crop of HD-DVD/BluRay players are as locked down as their DVD brethren, how do you plan to "update" standalone players to work with newly-released content? A recall?
I sincerely doubt that Sen. Obama was involved in the decision to do this. The people who run political campaigns (the high-level well-paid ones, not the volunteers) want to have complete control over how their candidate is portrayed and having a well-visited site that they can't control would tend to make them very uncomfortable.
I've known people who have worked in political campaigns and what happened here doesn't seem at all odd. I can't imagine that political consultants have a very high opinion of bloggers or anybody else who isn't "professional" media, so the price that they offered and the strong-arm tactics that they used are seems pretty much consistent with the way that they do things. It's the way that they deal with all media - if you don't play ball, you get shut out.
The difference here is that for every blogger that they shut out, there are hundreds more that will take their place. And they're not terribly worried about the Nielsen ratings...
Then you may have to wait a while - at least in the case of the company that I work for. Line managers here aren't permitted to accept changes to contracts or agreements and your changes would have to be reviewed by our contracts group and our lawyers. At the speed things work here, you may get the revised paperwork back in, say, a month...
The foam and bags, at least, can be recycled. My iPod came in a cardboard box with a couple of bags and a thin plastic holder - all were recyclable.
Are these friends voters? Will they contribute either time or effort to the Obama campaign? If they are neither, 30 cents is a waste of money.
If the brush that they're using is a Sonicare, there aren't any contacts - it uses inductance.
Editing Office files? On a PDA? Sorry, I've tried that on both a Palm (with Graffiti) and a Treo (with a keyboard) and I never want to repeat the experience. The screen's just too small and the tools aren't there yet. Viewing is fine but for editing, I'll wait until I get back to the office...
The Human Race has applied considerable energy to war. We're much better at it than we used to be.
Their science isn't as rigorous as it might be, and yes, sometimes they go for the impressive rather than the interesting, but it's the closest thing to someone using a systematic method to solve a problem on TV. Contrast this with the let's-use-the-latest-whiz-bang-techno-babble-thing a la CSI. If the result of their program is one more person taking up the sciences, Myth Busters sometimes playing fast and loose with the scientific method can be lived with.
They've also been quite good about revisiting old myths when people point out that they may be wrong. It shows that some people are actually thinking about what they see on TV and aren't just taking everything they see there as the ultimate truth.
It's win/win for them, lose/lose for everybody else and the stock market goes up and up...
I'm too lazy to find this out, but I wonder if the US requires that stabilizers or other non-chocolate things are added? Or are they just added to make sure that the chocolates survive the trip from wherever they were originally are made?
It may not set a precedent, but it may give them a large enough war chest to go after a bigger company...