The Virginia Legislature considered this a couple of years ago. The day that the bill was considered by the House Committeee on Science and Technology, a pair of lobbyists (from a pretty high-power firm, at that) spent the day taking the head of True.com around meeting legislators. During the day, they met with a pretty good chunk of the committee, and most of the Leadership from both parties.
In the end though, the bill was very quickly, and very literally, laughed out of committee. I kind of felt bad for the True.com guy, because even though he was treated very politely, it was pretty clear that the agenda item was all about getting the bill killed in as little time as possible.
The sad thing was that before the bill made it to Sci-Tech, it was approved by the "Courts of Justice" committee, which considers general laws. CoJ is made up exclusively by attorneys, Sci-Tech has a pretty good number of engineers and technology people in its membership. Go figure.
The entire point of insurance is that everyone pays a more-or-less baseline amount and some people don't realize any of that value and some people realize more than they put in.
Wrong. The "entire point of insurance" is something called "shared risk" -- a concept that goes back a very long time. If you take shared risk concept out of the equation (as you describe), insurance is more of a lottery than anything else.
Think of it this way: If you send a ship into a war zone, you pay a heck of a lot more than someone sending a ship between, say, England and Europe. And that's as it should be, because if everybody else "pays a more-or-less baseline amount", the owner of the war zone ship isn't taking on his fair share of the risk.
1) Buy song on iTunes 2) Drop it in a playlist 3) Menu: File => Burn Playlist to Disk 4) Import... 5) Profit!
Or,
1) Buy song on iTunes 2) Menu: Advanced => Convert selection to.mp3
I'm sorry, this is only a problem for morons. Since this is coming from Norway, I'm guessing that living in the dark must make your brain shrink or something.
If you have an iPod, buy from iTunes. If you have a Zune (all 12 of you) buy from MS.
Or even better, buy the CD, avoid the DRM altogether, rip it at higher quality than you can buy online, and stash the CD in your closet.
Doubtful. Most high-power rifles shoot a projectile that leave the muzzle at supersonic velocity -- what you hear is essentially a mini sonic boom, especially at extended ranges. Even if silencers worked as well as they do in the movies (which they don't), silencers can't do anything about the supersonic crack. The round of choice in many a silenced weapon is a.22 short, since its a subsonic round. Guys I know say that that's great choice if you're doing "wet work" with a pistol, but it makes a pretty crappy sniper round...
Besides, most of the "snipers" from irregular forces in places like Iraq or Afganistan aren't trained as snipers, but are just guys with an AK who are reasonably good shots. No fancy equipment at all.
Maybe more like a pimped-up version of Google News Alerts. When I ran for the House in Virginia, I had News Alerts set up on me, my opponent, etc. It was a really useful tool to keep up with not only the press on us, but on interest groups that were involved in the elections that year.
Mr. Scantleberry had admitted that the infringer was his stepson
They can say that all they want, now that the only person who could confirm it is dead. If they really had the goods, they'd be all over the stepson with a lawsuit.
If all pieces of mail delivered to Congressmen went through such a procedure, the mail would be useless.
My point exactly.
Citations:
Is my mail is being irradiated? Currently only mail to the White House, Congressional offices, and federal government offices in the 202-205 Zip Code exchanges is being irradiated. Irradiation is taking place at facilities in Ohio and New Jersey.
From that source, it does look like the irradiation is being done in Ohio and New Jersey, now.
The irradiation of Congressional mail beginning in November 2001 followed the detection of anthrax spores in 16 Congressional offices. It represented the first use of the irradiation process to eradicate anthrax spores from the mail delivery system. Beginning in January 2002, when the United States Postal Service began delivering irradiated mail to Congressional offices, the Office of Compliance became aware of numerous employee complaints of adverse health symptoms apparently caused by contact with irradiated mail, including headaches, nausea, nose bleeds, rashes, eye and skin irritation and similar symptoms.
Of course, the best evidence for me is that when I asked a staffer last week about the best way to get a copy of an article to my Congressman, she gave me his home fax (I've got a pretty good relationship with him) and said, "Of course, you know that you never want to mail something, right?"
"Rather, posted letters to representatives (written on actual paper) are the best way to let politicians know your opinion -- the beliefs that they've been elected to represent."
This is just plain wrong. Due to the anthrax scare a few years ago, posted letters to Congress get shipped to a warehouse in Maryland, where they wait three or four months to be irradiated. Only then do they end up going to Capitol Hill. By then, most of them are so out of date that the issues referenced have come and gone. Letters are the WORST way to communicate with your Representative or Senator.
The best ways to let "politicians know your opinion" are: 1) Fax, 2) Phone call or personal visit to the closest regional office (the staffer there can get stuff directly to the appropriate person, especially if you've taken time to develop a relationship with the staffer), 3) Phone call to the appropriate staff person in the DC office.
Or, you can go one better, and set up a meeting. They're really not that hard for constituents to get, especially if you have the regional office staffer set it up. (Although you'll generally get only about 15 min or so...) If flying to DC is overkill, pretty much the whole Congress sets aside time to visit each of their regional office during breaks from Washington. Bonus tip: Congress starts "summer break" on Friday, so if you've got something to say, now's a good time to ask for a meeting.
And why does the type of home user who shuns opening his or her case need mind-blowing performance?
And why do you assume that an user who requires an external drive is a "home user who shuns opening his or her case"? Poppycock.
Scenario 1: All the drive bays in your machine are full, and Firewire's too slow because you move big files around.
Scenario 2: The data on the drive needs to go somewhere else.
My desktop drive bays are full, but for me, I see this as a great replacement for backup tape drives, w/o having to sacrifice throughput. Assuming that the enclosure will fit in a safety deposit box, a couple of these could replace my current network backup hardware.
Call AND fax your congressman and senators. Ask to speak to the staffer who deals with either telecommunications or consumer affairs issues. Tell them, nicely, that you have a problem with these regs, and they need to step up. Hard as it is to believe, for the most part, these people really try to listen to their constituents.
What next? Is Target, Inc. going to complain about the red target symbols for archers that you see in games like Dungeon Seige or WoW?
A couple of years ago, Ralph Lauren (the designer) sued the US Polo Association (est. 1890) over trademarked use of the word "Polo". Lauren, who launched the brand in 1967, won.
"who will occasionally allow us to burst to unlimited bandwidth"
Well, unless your provider has "unlimited bandwidth" themselves, you're basing your webcast on a lie. Pretty much no one has unlimited bandwidth; even a couple hundred broadband streams can saturate an OC-3 connection.
What you need to do is plan your webcasts a little better and ask a bunch of questions: What's the real bandwidth your ISP can provide (with redundancy)? What's the buffer size that your client apps are using? (Settable in some clients, like Flash.) Does your ISP (who promised you unlimited bandwidth) even know what the hell they're doing?
Without going to a dedicated CDN like Akamai, it's still pretty easy to design a distributed service network with colocated servers scattered across the country. You might want to consider finding someone who knows this kind of thing and paying them a few bucks to fix your problems...
Sorry, "paper receipt" is just a bad idea, despite how popular it is among some. Here's the next step: the paper receipt goes to a party boss so you can collect the payment for your vote, or to your boss or union rep to prove you voted the "right" way so you can keep your job.
Flame me if you want, but I've been a candidate, so I have a vested interest in the issue. As long as the machine doesn't say "Diebold", I'd rather take a chance on some totally improbable conspiracy to rig electronic ballots. That's way less risky than a return to old party machine politics.
I don't know where these guys picked their test subjects, but if they were pouring by eye, they were flat out poorly trained. One of the reasons most bars have pourers on the bottles is so you can consistently pour by count. In most places I worked, we poured a shot and a half, which was a six count. AFAIK, the shape of a glass doesn't change the nature of time. (Although enough of its contents sure will...)
In fact, one of the tests we used to give people before they could go behind the bar was to pour 20 drinks into all different sizes and shapes of glasses, which we then measured. If you couldn't pour the right amount, or worse, poured inconsistently, you got more practice and training.
The "article" is lame, partly because it's a rehashed press release, but mostly because there's no link to the actual product. (Or so buried that I couldn't find it in the midst of all the ads and sponsored links.)
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...that the next time they get a backup tape stolen, it'll have a post-it note stuck to the tape with the password on it?
The Virginia Legislature considered this a couple of years ago. The day that the bill was considered by the House Committeee on Science and Technology, a pair of lobbyists (from a pretty high-power firm, at that) spent the day taking the head of True.com around meeting legislators. During the day, they met with a pretty good chunk of the committee, and most of the Leadership from both parties.
In the end though, the bill was very quickly, and very literally, laughed out of committee. I kind of felt bad for the True.com guy, because even though he was treated very politely, it was pretty clear that the agenda item was all about getting the bill killed in as little time as possible.
The sad thing was that before the bill made it to Sci-Tech, it was approved by the "Courts of Justice" committee, which considers general laws. CoJ is made up exclusively by attorneys, Sci-Tech has a pretty good number of engineers and technology people in its membership. Go figure.
It's a movie. A movie. Ya know, fiction.
1) Buy song on iTunes ...
.mp3
2) Drop it in a playlist
3) Menu: File => Burn Playlist to Disk
4) Import
5) Profit!
Or,
1) Buy song on iTunes
2) Menu: Advanced => Convert selection to
I'm sorry, this is only a problem for morons. Since this is coming from Norway, I'm guessing that living in the dark must make your brain shrink or something.
If you have an iPod, buy from iTunes.
If you have a Zune (all 12 of you) buy from MS.
Or even better, buy the CD, avoid the DRM altogether, rip it at higher quality than you can buy online, and stash the CD in your closet.
Doubtful. Most high-power rifles shoot a projectile that leave the muzzle at supersonic velocity -- what you hear is essentially a mini sonic boom, especially at extended ranges. Even if silencers worked as well as they do in the movies (which they don't), silencers can't do anything about the supersonic crack. The round of choice in many a silenced weapon is a .22 short, since its a subsonic round. Guys I know say that that's great choice if you're doing "wet work" with a pistol, but it makes a pretty crappy sniper round...
Besides, most of the "snipers" from irregular forces in places like Iraq or Afganistan aren't trained as snipers, but are just guys with an AK who are reasonably good shots. No fancy equipment at all.
And a pony. Don't forget they want a pony, too.
If Santa brings them that, they'll own the Kentucky Derby, and will get to charge everyone a $499 "SCOSource Off Track Betting License".
The plaintiff's motive is:
But I guess people using the courts to destroy people they don't like is is just fine with her...
Maybe more like a pimped-up version of Google News Alerts. When I ran for the House in Virginia, I had News Alerts set up on me, my opponent, etc. It was a really useful tool to keep up with not only the press on us, but on interest groups that were involved in the elections that year.
In the next to last sentence: "the synthetic compound they created".
In the last sentence: "this natural drug".
Ummm, those two phrases are the complete opposite of each other...
From the F'ing article:
Mirror image of the "natural one". Sounds like a "synthetic compound" to me...
They can say that all they want, now that the only person who could confirm it is dead. If they really had the goods, they'd be all over the stepson with a lawsuit.
My point exactly.
Citations:
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/sources/mail_irrad.ht m
From that source, it does look like the irradiation is being done in Ohio and New Jersey, now.
http://www.compliance.gov/reports-studies/irradiat edmail/irradiatedmail_07-02.html
It would seem that Congressional Staff is less than thrilled...
The MSM ran some articles about mail irradiation a few years ago. For instance, Congress takes new steps to minimize mail risk or Irradiated Mail A Possible Health Risk.
Of course, the best evidence for me is that when I asked a staffer last week about the best way to get a copy of an article to my Congressman, she gave me his home fax (I've got a pretty good relationship with him) and said, "Of course, you know that you never want to mail something, right?"
This is just plain wrong. Due to the anthrax scare a few years ago, posted letters to Congress get shipped to a warehouse in Maryland, where they wait three or four months to be irradiated. Only then do they end up going to Capitol Hill. By then, most of them are so out of date that the issues referenced have come and gone. Letters are the WORST way to communicate with your Representative or Senator.
The best ways to let "politicians know your opinion" are: 1) Fax, 2) Phone call or personal visit to the closest regional office (the staffer there can get stuff directly to the appropriate person, especially if you've taken time to develop a relationship with the staffer), 3) Phone call to the appropriate staff person in the DC office.
Or, you can go one better, and set up a meeting. They're really not that hard for constituents to get, especially if you have the regional office staffer set it up. (Although you'll generally get only about 15 min or so...) If flying to DC is overkill, pretty much the whole Congress sets aside time to visit each of their regional office during breaks from Washington. Bonus tip: Congress starts "summer break" on Friday, so if you've got something to say, now's a good time to ask for a meeting.
For those who want to give it a listen, the trademarked THX sound is available on the USPTO's web site here.
They have a whole bunch of others here. It's kind of a fun page to click around on.
And why does the type of home user who shuns opening his or her case need mind-blowing performance?
And why do you assume that an user who requires an external drive is a "home user who shuns opening his or her case"? Poppycock.
Scenario 1: All the drive bays in your machine are full, and Firewire's too slow because you move big files around.
Scenario 2: The data on the drive needs to go somewhere else.
My desktop drive bays are full, but for me, I see this as a great replacement for backup tape drives, w/o having to sacrifice throughput. Assuming that the enclosure will fit in a safety deposit box, a couple of these could replace my current network backup hardware.
Maybe if advertisers stopped making commercials that are crap, they wouldn't need to lock us out of fast forward during commercials.
It can be done. How many Super Bowls have had commercials better than the game?
Call AND fax your congressman and senators. Ask to speak to the staffer who deals with either telecommunications or consumer affairs issues. Tell them, nicely, that you have a problem with these regs, and they need to step up. Hard as it is to believe, for the most part, these people really try to listen to their constituents.
House web site: http://www.house.gov/
Senate web site: http://www.senate.gov/
Don't bother mailing, because letters sit in a warehouse for months waiting to get checked for anthrax.
Enough CPU power that even Microsoft Office will run with a little pep!
What next? Is Target, Inc. going to complain about the red target symbols for archers that you see in games like Dungeon Seige or WoW?
A couple of years ago, Ralph Lauren (the designer) sued the US Polo Association (est. 1890) over trademarked use of the word "Polo". Lauren, who launched the brand in 1967, won.
"who will occasionally allow us to burst to unlimited bandwidth"
Well, unless your provider has "unlimited bandwidth" themselves, you're basing your webcast on a lie. Pretty much no one has unlimited bandwidth; even a couple hundred broadband streams can saturate an OC-3 connection.
What you need to do is plan your webcasts a little better and ask a bunch of questions: What's the real bandwidth your ISP can provide (with redundancy)? What's the buffer size that your client apps are using? (Settable in some clients, like Flash.) Does your ISP (who promised you unlimited bandwidth) even know what the hell they're doing?
Without going to a dedicated CDN like Akamai, it's still pretty easy to design a distributed service network with colocated servers scattered across the country. You might want to consider finding someone who knows this kind of thing and paying them a few bucks to fix your problems...
The main SM engine was gimballed. The RCS system wasn't.
Sorry, "paper receipt" is just a bad idea, despite how popular it is among some. Here's the next step: the paper receipt goes to a party boss so you can collect the payment for your vote, or to your boss or union rep to prove you voted the "right" way so you can keep your job.
Flame me if you want, but I've been a candidate, so I have a vested interest in the issue. As long as the machine doesn't say "Diebold", I'd rather take a chance on some totally improbable conspiracy to rig electronic ballots. That's way less risky than a return to old party machine politics.
I don't know where these guys picked their test subjects, but if they were pouring by eye, they were flat out poorly trained. One of the reasons most bars have pourers on the bottles is so you can consistently pour by count. In most places I worked, we poured a shot and a half, which was a six count. AFAIK, the shape of a glass doesn't change the nature of time. (Although enough of its contents sure will...)
In fact, one of the tests we used to give people before they could go behind the bar was to pour 20 drinks into all different sizes and shapes of glasses, which we then measured. If you couldn't pour the right amount, or worse, poured inconsistently, you got more practice and training.
The "article" is lame, partly because it's a rehashed press release, but mostly because there's no link to the actual product. (Or so buried that I couldn't find it in the midst of all the ads and sponsored links.)
Anyway, the actual product is here: http://gtweb.net/j3150.html
...when you can code that way?
"How to decrypt a DVD: in haiku form". It's quite elegant, really.