Interestingly, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" didn't raise an eyebrow in 1903, even with the coarse language. It was, however, heavily "challenged" or banned in the 1990's because of a character named 'Nigger Jim'. I would suppose that it is still banned in some libraries.
A more accurate anology is where a bunch of kids (or grandmas) copies music CDs (or embroidery patterns) and trades them around. The grandparent post indicated that this sort of trading of embroidery patterns is not considered to be a big problem by at least one embroidery pattern maker.
The grandparent post indicated that there is a problem when an embroidery store [or music store] copies embroidery patterns [or music CDs] and then distributes them for commercial purposes in violation of the license [bootlegging]. I do not know of very many people who would consider it defensible for a music store to copy and distribute bootleg CDs.
I do not agree that Jerry Brown "felt sorry" for criminals. What he has been doing to fight crime may not have been as effective as many people would like, but there certainly is no indication that he is soft on criminals. If Jerry Brown had "felt sorry" for criminals, the Police Chiefs of California would not have endorsed Jerry Brown for Attorney General.
It appears that a major part of the problem is that there are too few police officers in Oakland.
According to an article in the Nov 20, 2005 Oakland Tribune; San Francisco has 2,400 police officers, while Oakland has 697 officers (and forty of them are on disability). San Francisco has just under twice the population of Oakland.
The crime rate is not an issue for most people who live or work in DC. I know of several people who live in DC who feel that it is safe to walk in the areas where they live, eat, and shop. The people I know who work in DC feel safe in the areas that they work. I frequently visit DC and I feel safe in the areas that I frequent, mostly Northwest and Near Northeast. There are areas of DC where it is generally regarded to not be safe to go, such as areas of Southeast -- and much of the middle class has evacuated those areas. There are some reasonably safe areas in Southeast, such as the areas near the Capitol Building and Eastern Market.
If Oakland is that bad, and you feel powerless to fix things, why do you still live there?
I wouldn't set foot in Oakland or Newark after dark, the same reason for both places. I understand that some portions of society feel that they cannot afford to move and there is one part of society (Jerry Brown, aka "Governor Moonbeam") who seems to like living there.
If the middle class people would just totally evacuate decaying cities such as Oakland and Newark, those cities will either have to give up and consider themselves a write off (which is where Oakland may already be) or they will have to clean up their acts to stop the loss and re-attract the middle class. Washington, DC used to be almost as bad as Oakland, it got itself out of the situation that it was in and today it is generally as safe as any city.
For some reason this reminds me of a natural gas powered TV I saw MANY years ago at the Minnesota State Fair. It used some sort of humumgous early generation fuel cell to power a 7" b&w TV (or it was fake and actually used mains power).
Except for servers, for all generations of PCs, PC games were the major driver for increased PC processor speed and video display requirements. New versions of Windows helped cause the increase in processor speed and memory requirements, but new versions of Windows were introduced must less often than games were introduced. Most PCs and video cards released in the past 5 years will run Windows 2000 or XP and normal user applications just fine, and there has been no reason to upgrade hardware -- unless you wanted to play recent games on the PC. If PC gaming becomes a niche market, the main reason for upgrading and replacing home PCs will be gone. Video and audio on PCs has caused dramatic increases in hard drive space, but I doubt that it will ever be as big of a reason for hardware upgrades that PC games had been.
Maybe you'll luck out and your batteries are included in the recall. I lucked out that way with the tires on my pickup - they were recalled just as they wore out.
It's not the personalization data that is necessarily a problem, a person can identify themselves simply as a nym. The problem comes in when searches and all of the other information is warehoused and can be tied together along originating IP addresses, cookies, email, and nyms.
Google's habit of logging EVERYTHING is starting to get a bit scary. EVERYTHING that a person has EVER done with ANY of Google's services has been warehoused and is subject to subpoena.
I have found that so-called "Christians" believe that if there is no penalty for doing something that it is OK to do it. They must perceive that taking somebody else's food does not come with a penalty, so it's OK. Must have something to do with the "thou shall -- or else" mentality that they are taught. Non-theists and other people who do not believe in heaven/hell tend to do the right thing simply because it's the right thing, not because there is an "or else".
A born again "Christian" co-worker was once asked why he kept parking his car in a marked motorcycle parking area, he responded that he didn't have a problem parking there because there was no penalty for violating the parking regulations. There was plenty of automobile parking available and the motorcycle parking area is heavily used.
He is 21 and not a minor. I didn't see that court requires that his parents participate in his supervision as a condition of his release. If his parents allow him to live in their house, the conditions under which he would be allowed to live there would be a decision that his parents would make.
All this guy got was "supervised release", which is essentially probation. "... offenders placed on supervised release are allowed to remain in the community; they are supervised by officers of the court and are required to observe certain conditions of their release." His sentenece is in line with other people who were convicted of various forms of fraud.
The 2006 DOE Oak Ridge Facilities Public Tour continues through Friday, Sept. 29. The 2 ½-hour tour begins and ends at the American Museum of Science and Energy, 300 S. Tulane, Ave., Oak Ridge. The tour is open to U.S. citizens 10 years of age and older. Charge is $3-$5 and registration is conducted the morning of each tour at the museum. The route focuses on DOE missions and the history of Oak Ridge. The program highlights all three DOE Oak Ridge facilities - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Y-12 National Security Complex, and the East Tennessee Technology Park -- and includes an off-the-bus stop at ORNL's Graphite Reactor Museum, the New Bethel Baptist Church and the East Tennessee Technology Park Visitors Overlook. The Friday tour stops at the new Spallation Neutron Source.
Nearly 20,000 people from 50 states have taken the public tour since its inception. The program is offered primarily for visitors who have a nontechnical interest in the DOE facilities. For more information, contact Fred Strohl (strohlhf [add an at sign here] ornl [add a dot here] gov, 865.574.4165). "
Do you have any figures to back that up? How many more "low quality" Li-Ion batteries have exploded or caught fire than brand name Li-Ion batteries (on a percentage basis)? There have been exploding cell phones where the phone manufacturer has claimed that it was caused by after-market batteries. What was the actual percentage of cell phone fires caused by after market batteries vs brand name batteries? The laptop manufacturers have not been able to blame their flaming laptops on after market batteries.
Magnetic attachable sideburns (pat. pend.) are MUCH better anyway, except the magnetic capsules embedded under the skin on my face keep setting off the metal detectors at airports.
My point was that the Democratic party is not the entity that decides which voting machines are used, all they can do is suggest. My unknown was whether Alaska primary elections are held by government agencies or by the political party themselves. Depending upon which government entity makes the decision, such as happened in Ohio, Florida, and Georgia; political parties and individuals can directly influence which voting machines are used.
One American political party (the one who currently controls the country) likes Diebold voting machines and likes the CEO of Diebold.
An Aug. 14, 2003 fund-raising letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold sent to the Ohio Republican party said that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." The letter coincidentally went out the day before Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (a Republican) was set to qualify Diebold as one of three firms eligible to sell upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio counties in time for the 2004 election.
In the old tube days, manufacturers bought tube bases that had only the exact number of pins that were actually used by the tube in order to save a penny per radio. If a particular octal (8 pin) based tube only used 5 pins, only 5 of the 8 holes in the socket had pins. It adds up, 5 tube sockets per radio x 1 cents per socket x 1,000 radios = $50.00. Then there was the 5 cents saved by using cardboard on the back of the radio instead of masonite, which saved another $50.00 per radio. Pinch pennies, count beans, save money.
I won't be buying one of these things; but if I did buy one, I would expect that it would have a database that would provide speed limit information for the given location.
I showed that EIA/RETMA was not an international standards body. EIA provides standards to ANSI, which as a member of ISO is an international standards body. Not all EIA standards become international standards. RETMA, the predecessor of the EIA, was not an international standards body, the standards that it set were not widely adopted outside of North America and parts of Asia.
Organizations don't have to be an international standards body in order for people to respect their standards. There are many organizations, such as the ARRL and EIA/RETMA, that work this way, and some eventually gain status as an international standards body. Many engineering associations, such as the IEEE and SAE; and equipment manufacturers associations, such as ECMA, have gained international standards body recognition. If enough of the right people respect OSI standards, the OSI could also become an international standards body.
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Interestingly, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" didn't raise an eyebrow in 1903, even with the coarse language. It was, however, heavily "challenged" or banned in the 1990's because of a character named 'Nigger Jim'. I would suppose that it is still banned in some libraries.
A more accurate anology is where a bunch of kids (or grandmas) copies music CDs (or embroidery patterns) and trades them around. The grandparent post indicated that this sort of trading of embroidery patterns is not considered to be a big problem by at least one embroidery pattern maker.
The grandparent post indicated that there is a problem when an embroidery store [or music store] copies embroidery patterns [or music CDs] and then distributes them for commercial purposes in violation of the license [bootlegging]. I do not know of very many people who would consider it defensible for a music store to copy and distribute bootleg CDs.
I do not agree that Jerry Brown "felt sorry" for criminals. What he has been doing to fight crime may not have been as effective as many people would like, but there certainly is no indication that he is soft on criminals. If Jerry Brown had "felt sorry" for criminals, the Police Chiefs of California would not have endorsed Jerry Brown for Attorney General.
It appears that a major part of the problem is that there are too few police officers in Oakland.
According to an article in the Nov 20, 2005 Oakland Tribune; San Francisco has 2,400 police officers, while Oakland has 697 officers (and forty of them are on disability). San Francisco has just under twice the population of Oakland.
The crime rate is not an issue for most people who live or work in DC. I know of several people who live in DC who feel that it is safe to walk in the areas where they live, eat, and shop. The people I know who work in DC feel safe in the areas that they work. I frequently visit DC and I feel safe in the areas that I frequent, mostly Northwest and Near Northeast. There are areas of DC where it is generally regarded to not be safe to go, such as areas of Southeast -- and much of the middle class has evacuated those areas. There are some reasonably safe areas in Southeast, such as the areas near the Capitol Building and Eastern Market.
If Oakland is that bad, and you feel powerless to fix things, why do you still live there?
I wouldn't set foot in Oakland or Newark after dark, the same reason for both places. I understand that some portions of society feel that they cannot afford to move and there is one part of society (Jerry Brown, aka "Governor Moonbeam") who seems to like living there.
If the middle class people would just totally evacuate decaying cities such as Oakland and Newark, those cities will either have to give up and consider themselves a write off (which is where Oakland may already be) or they will have to clean up their acts to stop the loss and re-attract the middle class. Washington, DC used to be almost as bad as Oakland, it got itself out of the situation that it was in and today it is generally as safe as any city.
For some reason this reminds me of a natural gas powered TV I saw MANY years ago at the Minnesota State Fair. It used some sort of humumgous early generation fuel cell to power a 7" b&w TV (or it was fake and actually used mains power).
Except for servers, for all generations of PCs, PC games were the major driver for increased PC processor speed and video display requirements. New versions of Windows helped cause the increase in processor speed and memory requirements, but new versions of Windows were introduced must less often than games were introduced. Most PCs and video cards released in the past 5 years will run Windows 2000 or XP and normal user applications just fine, and there has been no reason to upgrade hardware -- unless you wanted to play recent games on the PC. If PC gaming becomes a niche market, the main reason for upgrading and replacing home PCs will be gone. Video and audio on PCs has caused dramatic increases in hard drive space, but I doubt that it will ever be as big of a reason for hardware upgrades that PC games had been.
Maybe you'll luck out and your batteries are included in the recall. I lucked out that way with the tires on my pickup - they were recalled just as they wore out.
Gmail is TRULY scary to me.
It's not the personalization data that is necessarily a problem, a person can identify themselves simply as a nym. The problem comes in when searches and all of the other information is warehoused and can be tied together along originating IP addresses, cookies, email, and nyms.
Google's habit of logging EVERYTHING is starting to get a bit scary. EVERYTHING that a person has EVER done with ANY of Google's services has been warehoused and is subject to subpoena.
I have found that so-called "Christians" believe that if there is no penalty for doing something that it is OK to do it. They must perceive that taking somebody else's food does not come with a penalty, so it's OK. Must have something to do with the "thou shall -- or else" mentality that they are taught. Non-theists and other people who do not believe in heaven/hell tend to do the right thing simply because it's the right thing, not because there is an "or else".
A born again "Christian" co-worker was once asked why he kept parking his car in a marked motorcycle parking area, he responded that he didn't have a problem parking there because there was no penalty for violating the parking regulations. There was plenty of automobile parking available and the motorcycle parking area is heavily used.
He is 21 and not a minor. I didn't see that court requires that his parents participate in his supervision as a condition of his release. If his parents allow him to live in their house, the conditions under which he would be allowed to live there would be a decision that his parents would make.
All this guy got was "supervised release", which is essentially probation. "... offenders placed on supervised release are allowed to remain in the community; they are supervised by officers of the court and are required to observe certain conditions of their release." His sentenece is in line with other people who were convicted of various forms of fraud.
From http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/visiting.shtml#public
"Public Tours
The 2006 DOE Oak Ridge Facilities Public Tour continues through Friday, Sept. 29. The 2 ½-hour tour begins and ends at the American Museum of Science and Energy, 300 S. Tulane, Ave., Oak Ridge. The tour is open to U.S. citizens 10 years of age and older. Charge is $3-$5 and registration is conducted the morning of each tour at the museum. The route focuses on DOE missions and the history of Oak Ridge. The program highlights all three DOE Oak Ridge facilities - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Y-12 National Security Complex, and the East Tennessee Technology Park -- and includes an off-the-bus stop at ORNL's Graphite Reactor Museum, the New Bethel Baptist Church and the East Tennessee Technology Park Visitors Overlook. The Friday tour stops at the new Spallation Neutron Source.
Nearly 20,000 people from 50 states have taken the public tour since its inception. The program is offered primarily for visitors who have a nontechnical interest in the DOE facilities. For more information, contact Fred Strohl (strohlhf [add an at sign here] ornl [add a dot here] gov, 865.574.4165). "
Do you have any figures to back that up? How many more "low quality" Li-Ion batteries have exploded or caught fire than brand name Li-Ion batteries (on a percentage basis)? There have been exploding cell phones where the phone manufacturer has claimed that it was caused by after-market batteries. What was the actual percentage of cell phone fires caused by after market batteries vs brand name batteries? The laptop manufacturers have not been able to blame their flaming laptops on after market batteries.
Magnetic attachable sideburns (pat. pend.) are MUCH better anyway, except the magnetic capsules embedded under the skin on my face keep setting off the metal detectors at airports.
Linux lacks the secure media data paths technology that's required to implement AACS ...
... for now.
My point was that the Democratic party is not the entity that decides which voting machines are used, all they can do is suggest. My unknown was whether Alaska primary elections are held by government agencies or by the political party themselves. Depending upon which government entity makes the decision, such as happened in Ohio, Florida, and Georgia; political parties and individuals can directly influence which voting machines are used.
One American political party (the one who currently controls the country) likes Diebold voting machines and likes the CEO of Diebold.
An Aug. 14, 2003 fund-raising letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold sent to the Ohio Republican party said that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." The letter coincidentally went out the day before Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (a Republican) was set to qualify Diebold as one of three firms eligible to sell upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio counties in time for the 2004 election.
http://www.bradblog.com/DieboldContributions.htm
I may be wrong, but don't government juristictions choose which voting machines are used?
In the old tube days, manufacturers bought tube bases that had only the exact number of pins that were actually used by the tube in order to save a penny per radio. If a particular octal (8 pin) based tube only used 5 pins, only 5 of the 8 holes in the socket had pins. It adds up, 5 tube sockets per radio x 1 cents per socket x 1,000 radios = $50.00. Then there was the 5 cents saved by using cardboard on the back of the radio instead of masonite, which saved another $50.00 per radio. Pinch pennies, count beans, save money.
I won't be buying one of these things; but if I did buy one, I would expect that it would have a database that would provide speed limit information for the given location.
Hello 12 volt tracking device, meet 120 volt house current.
I showed that EIA/RETMA was not an international standards body. EIA provides standards to ANSI, which as a member of ISO is an international standards body. Not all EIA standards become international standards. RETMA, the predecessor of the EIA, was not an international standards body, the standards that it set were not widely adopted outside of North America and parts of Asia.
Organizations don't have to be an international standards body in order for people to respect their standards. There are many organizations, such as the ARRL and EIA/RETMA, that work this way, and some eventually gain status as an international standards body. Many engineering associations, such as the IEEE and SAE; and equipment manufacturers associations, such as ECMA, have gained international standards body recognition. If enough of the right people respect OSI standards, the OSI could also become an international standards body.