Yes, voting not to change the state constitution was a Very Good Thing. Now the State Reps need to get together and change N.H. REV. STAT. ANN 457:1 and N.H. REV. STAT. ANN 457:2 to allow gay people to marry.
I would supsect that in this case that there should be a large punative settlement or judgement. In most cases of police misconduct toward citizens, there are almost always two offenders; the individual police officers for their bad behavior, and the police department for allowing it's officers to mistreat citizens. Police departments need to properly train their officers in how to properly treat the citizens that are paying their salaries, and police supervisors need to be vigilant in finding and correcting "bad" acting police officers.
One sues the police department or the municipality rather than the police officer because the police departnemt or municipality has MUCH deeper pockets than the police officer has. I seriously doubt that the family can be properly compensated by the police officer, especially if he waas just fired from his job (which he should be). I would also say that the police dept or municipality is just as responsible as the police officer.
Perhaps people need to realize that computers are NOT like modern toasters or televisions, they are complex and potentially dangerous devices that can cause various forms of injury to the unwary. In this case the injury was the unintended release of information.
There are many new inventions that caused death or injury for quite some time after they were introduced. After engineering improvements and LOTS OF USER EDUCATION, most items gradually became easier and safer to use.
There was a reason that tube type televisions had cords that disconnected themselves when the back was removed from the television. Televisions weren't really that dangerous, they were complex to set up and to operate. It took a long time for televisions to loose the fine tuning, horiz hold, vert hold, color, and tint controls; and some of these controls are still there, they're just hidden behind menus. I remember a time when it was necessary to have a television repairman come out to install a new television.
Toasters have never been that complex, just dangerous. How many people have been shocked because they stuck a fork into a toaster slot? How many people have been burned because they grabbed a hot toaster? It took many years of toaster development and consumer education to make a toaster into a safe appliance.
In the late 1950's children were suffocating because people didn't know how to properly handle the newly introduced polyethylene dry cleaner bags (80 kids died of suffocation in 1959). After years of consumer education, few, if any children are suffocated by dry cleaner bags anymore.
It appears that at one time, that there must have been a number of people who were electrocuted by radios that fell into bathtubs. Most people now know not to allow a radio near the bathtub.
In the early 1980s, several people were electrocuted by the improper use of blow dyers. GFCI's were made mandatory and PEOPLE WERE EDUCATED; few if any people are electrocuted with blow dryers anymore.
Computers are the same as all of the previously dangerous technologies; it is going to take time to engineer safety into the product and to EDUCATE THE USERS how to safely use them.
It what way do you mean "free fall" when speaking of SCO's stock price?
SCO's stock is currently at $4.30, which is about where it has been since the the climax that occurred in 2004. Today's stock price is almost smack dab in the middle between the 52 week high and the 52 week low and today's trading volume so far has been 250 shares. Current price is the same as it was when it opened today. I would call this the doldrums rather than a "free fall". Large amounts of SCO's stock is held by a very few number of people and few outsiders want to buy any, which means that the stock trading volume is generally very low and the price is steady. I wonder if there is anything, short of losing two appeals after losing to IBM, that will significantly impact SCO's stock price.
I used to get groceries from Schwan's until they screwed me. When I did business with thm all they sold were frozen items and huge boxes of laundry detergent. The Schwan's truck was frozen food box on the back with lots of small doors. Schwan's frozen prepared foods were good, but I thought that they were very expensive. I stopped using them because theey raised prices without notice. Food was orderd a week in advance by filling out an order form and giving to the driver, I filled out the order form which showed the current prices and when they delivered it, I was charged the new prices which were higher than on the previoss week's order form. The driver refused to even listen to me, he just kept telling me that these are the new prices. I called the main office, they said that the order forms says that prices may change without notice.
It's not just the PS2 that is drawing power while being shut "off". Add the power being drawn by other devices that draw current when are also turned "off"; such as DVD player, TV, receiver, CD player, monitors, radios, computers, paper shredders, battery chargers, etc. My receiver has a power LED that turns ON to tell me that the unit is turned "off" and my DVD player has a power indicator LED that is always on, it changes color to indicate whether the unit is on or "off". Some video tape players even have heaters built into them to keep them warm while the unit is turned off.
I would hope that the electical comsumption figures used were actually for standby power usage and not for power consumed while actually playing a game.
Giving electrical consumption as the number of wind generators required to produce the power is a novel, and I believe effective, way to show a given amount of electrical power using a human understandable scale.. Instead of showing the impact is some huge number of some electical units, it shows how many of a particular piece of power generation equipment is required. It is common to show large quantities of electical consumption as how many average homes can be powered by the given amount of electrical power.
But dry ice / carbon dioxide doesn't make your clothes smell. I hate going to performances that use fog juice type fog machines because of the smell. I also wonder what the physiological effects of vaporized glycols are.
Even if one does know what Google cache and.edu proxies are, for most poeple those links are not links to articles. What is a Global Warming croud? If you weren't being such an asshole I would assume that you typo'ed and meant "crowd" rather than writing about Global Warming violins being Freedom Haters.
Electric cars can have quite good acceleration because electric motors have considerably more torque than internal combustion gasoline engines. Electic cars have limited range due to the limitations of using batteries as a power source, and charging batteries takes considerably more time than filling a liquid fuel tank. Elecric cars suck because batteries suck as an automotive power source.
The customers needn't have been pissed off, they should have been grateful that the company was sending them gifts. This sort of fraud used to not be that uncommon until laws were passed in the early 1970's that make it illegal to send a bill for unsolicited goods.
The UK and the US both have laws that say that unsolicited goods are gifts and that there is no obligation to pay for them.
Th UK law is called "Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971". In the US, the law was passed in 1970 and it is in Title 39, United States Code, Section 3009. This specific section of the US Code deals with mail sent via the US Post Office, but I understand that it applies to other delivery methods as well.
Social Security numbers should never have had any value to anybody except to track an individual's Social Security (not IRS) taxes and benefits.
There are only four entities that should have your Social Security number; Yourself, your spouse, your employer, and the US Social Security Administration. Nobody else should have your Social Security number; not the IRS, no state or local governments, and especially; not the banks, lenders or credit bureaus.
When Social Security numbers were introduced, many people resisted them because they feared that they would become national ID numbers. The US government appeased the US citizens by assuring them that Social Security numbers would and could never be used for identification -- that is why Social Security cards used to say "Not to be used for Identification." The long and short of it is that the US government lied to the citizens and Social Security numbers have become de-facto national identification numbers used and misused both by various government agencies and private entities.
I don't think that Atari's Tempest was ever ported to a wristwatch, which is a Good Thing.
Nelsonic's watch version of Frogger was sorta fun for it's time. The Pac-Man (Midway 1980) Nelsonic game watch was very popular for a little while - it was available with either a joystick or pushbutton controls and it was even available in a flip top presentation/display box.
I rather liked Tempest (Atari 1981) and Frogger (Sega/Gremlin 1981). The vector graphics of Tempest were pretty intense. The PS2 Tempest release does not work well because of controller issues and a TV display is just not the same as the original Wells-Gardner vector display. The PS2 version of Frogger works well.
How do you tell the scores of political candidates not to call you any more? The past few weeks have been hell, we have been getting about a half-dozen prerecorded "important messages" every night from political hopefuls. NONE of the messages that I listened through waiting for a do-not-call option had any provisions for telling them not to call again. I didn't keep track of who these people are, and if I did, I would probably vote against them because of their sleazy spamming tactics.
"we want to make sure that if customers are choosing Linux or other open-source-based products that we have ways of interoperating and working effectively with that."
OSS products are by definition "open", meaning that it is up to MS to make the next move by publishing its API's, stop changing API's, stop doing crappy things to the OSS community, and to change it's licensing to allow FOSS programmers to use suposedly "open" MS products.
Bribery of government officials used to be a serious offense in the US too, but that all changed when the country stopped being ran by the People and started being ran by the Corporations.
Ogg is not encrypted and it is only necessary to convert the format using an audio transcoder, it is not necessary to decrypt it. Audio Konverter and Audacity are two examples of transcoders that will convert ogg to mp3.
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Why do you ask that question? Do you disapprove of people having trailer hitches on their vehicles?
Complying with the directive by "allowing" people to jump through hoops to create inferior music files is not acceptable.
Yes, voting not to change the state constitution was a Very Good Thing. Now the State Reps need to get together and change N.H. REV. STAT. ANN 457:1 and N.H. REV. STAT. ANN 457:2 to allow gay people to marry.
I would supsect that in this case that there should be a large punative settlement or judgement. In most cases of police misconduct toward citizens, there are almost always two offenders; the individual police officers for their bad behavior, and the police department for allowing it's officers to mistreat citizens. Police departments need to properly train their officers in how to properly treat the citizens that are paying their salaries, and police supervisors need to be vigilant in finding and correcting "bad" acting police officers.
If New Hampshire is so Libertarian, why does New Hampshire still prohibit same-sex marriage?
Kudos to the New Hampshire House for voting against a proposed amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage.
One sues the police department or the municipality rather than the police officer because the police departnemt or municipality has MUCH deeper pockets than the police officer has. I seriously doubt that the family can be properly compensated by the police officer, especially if he waas just fired from his job (which he should be). I would also say that the police dept or municipality is just as responsible as the police officer.
Perhaps people need to realize that computers are NOT like modern toasters or televisions, they are complex and potentially dangerous devices that can cause various forms of injury to the unwary. In this case the injury was the unintended release of information.
There are many new inventions that caused death or injury for quite some time after they were introduced. After engineering improvements and LOTS OF USER EDUCATION, most items gradually became easier and safer to use.
There was a reason that tube type televisions had cords that disconnected themselves when the back was removed from the television. Televisions weren't really that dangerous, they were complex to set up and to operate. It took a long time for televisions to loose the fine tuning, horiz hold, vert hold, color, and tint controls; and some of these controls are still there, they're just hidden behind menus. I remember a time when it was necessary to have a television repairman come out to install a new television.
Toasters have never been that complex, just dangerous. How many people have been shocked because they stuck a fork into a toaster slot? How many people have been burned because they grabbed a hot toaster? It took many years of toaster development and consumer education to make a toaster into a safe appliance.
In the late 1950's children were suffocating because people didn't know how to properly handle the newly introduced polyethylene dry cleaner bags (80 kids died of suffocation in 1959). After years of consumer education, few, if any children are suffocated by dry cleaner bags anymore.
It appears that at one time, that there must have been a number of people who were electrocuted by radios that fell into bathtubs. Most people now know not to allow a radio near the bathtub.
In the early 1980s, several people were electrocuted by the improper use of blow dyers. GFCI's were made mandatory and PEOPLE WERE EDUCATED; few if any people are electrocuted with blow dryers anymore.
Computers are the same as all of the previously dangerous technologies; it is going to take time to engineer safety into the product and to EDUCATE THE USERS how to safely use them.
It what way do you mean "free fall" when speaking of SCO's stock price?
SCO's stock is currently at $4.30, which is about where it has been since the the climax that occurred in 2004. Today's stock price is almost smack dab in the middle between the 52 week high and the 52 week low and today's trading volume so far has been 250 shares. Current price is the same as it was when it opened today. I would call this the doldrums rather than a "free fall". Large amounts of SCO's stock is held by a very few number of people and few outsiders want to buy any, which means that the stock trading volume is generally very low and the price is steady. I wonder if there is anything, short of losing two appeals after losing to IBM, that will significantly impact SCO's stock price.
Shouldn't that be: "What possessed you to develop the idea of Cascading Style Sheets?"
I used to get groceries from Schwan's until they screwed me. When I did business with thm all they sold were frozen items and huge boxes of laundry detergent. The Schwan's truck was frozen food box on the back with lots of small doors. Schwan's frozen prepared foods were good, but I thought that they were very expensive. I stopped using them because theey raised prices without notice. Food was orderd a week in advance by filling out an order form and giving to the driver, I filled out the order form which showed the current prices and when they delivered it, I was charged the new prices which were higher than on the previoss week's order form. The driver refused to even listen to me, he just kept telling me that these are the new prices. I called the main office, they said that the order forms says that prices may change without notice.
It's not just the PS2 that is drawing power while being shut "off". Add the power being drawn by other devices that draw current when are also turned "off"; such as DVD player, TV, receiver, CD player, monitors, radios, computers, paper shredders, battery chargers, etc. My receiver has a power LED that turns ON to tell me that the unit is turned "off" and my DVD player has a power indicator LED that is always on, it changes color to indicate whether the unit is on or "off". Some video tape players even have heaters built into them to keep them warm while the unit is turned off.
I would hope that the electical comsumption figures used were actually for standby power usage and not for power consumed while actually playing a game.
Giving electrical consumption as the number of wind generators required to produce the power is a novel, and I believe effective, way to show a given amount of electrical power using a human understandable scale.. Instead of showing the impact is some huge number of some electical units, it shows how many of a particular piece of power generation equipment is required. It is common to show large quantities of electical consumption as how many average homes can be powered by the given amount of electrical power.
But dry ice / carbon dioxide doesn't make your clothes smell. I hate going to performances that use fog juice type fog machines because of the smell. I also wonder what the physiological effects of vaporized glycols are.
Even if one does know what Google cache and .edu proxies are, for most poeple those links are not links to articles. What is a Global Warming croud? If you weren't being such an asshole I would assume that you typo'ed and meant "crowd" rather than writing about Global Warming violins being Freedom Haters.
A link to a free article regarding the lost icecap sensors is at http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23640/ This article has several other FREE links in it.
Electric cars can have quite good acceleration because electric motors have considerably more torque than internal combustion gasoline engines. Electic cars have limited range due to the limitations of using batteries as a power source, and charging batteries takes considerably more time than filling a liquid fuel tank. Elecric cars suck because batteries suck as an automotive power source.
The customers needn't have been pissed off, they should have been grateful that the company was sending them gifts. This sort of fraud used to not be that uncommon until laws were passed in the early 1970's that make it illegal to send a bill for unsolicited goods.
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The UK and the US both have laws that say that unsolicited goods are gifts and that there is no obligation to pay for them.
Th UK law is called "Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971". In the US, the law was passed in 1970 and it is in Title 39, United States Code, Section 3009. This specific section of the US Code deals with mail sent via the US Post Office, but I understand that it applies to other delivery methods as well.
http://www.dti.gov.uk/consumers/buying-selling/un
http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/merch.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/products/unor
Dude, tone it down a bit. You really need to take the latest Astroturfing class, it teaches you how to be a bit more subtle.
Social Security numbers should never have had any value to anybody except to track an individual's Social Security (not IRS) taxes and benefits.
There are only four entities that should have your Social Security number; Yourself, your spouse, your employer, and the US Social Security Administration. Nobody else should have your Social Security number; not the IRS, no state or local governments, and especially; not the banks, lenders or credit bureaus.
When Social Security numbers were introduced, many people resisted them because they feared that they would become national ID numbers. The US government appeased the US citizens by assuring them that Social Security numbers would and could never be used for identification -- that is why Social Security cards used to say "Not to be used for Identification." The long and short of it is that the US government lied to the citizens and Social Security numbers have become de-facto national identification numbers used and misused both by various government agencies and private entities.
I don't think that Atari's Tempest was ever ported to a wristwatch, which is a Good Thing.
Nelsonic's watch version of Frogger was sorta fun for it's time. The Pac-Man (Midway 1980) Nelsonic game watch was very popular for a little while - it was available with either a joystick or pushbutton controls and it was even available in a flip top presentation/display box.
I rather liked Tempest (Atari 1981) and Frogger (Sega/Gremlin 1981). The vector graphics of Tempest were pretty intense. The PS2 Tempest release does not work well because of controller issues and a TV display is just not the same as the original Wells-Gardner vector display. The PS2 version of Frogger works well.
How do you tell the scores of political candidates not to call you any more? The past few weeks have been hell, we have been getting about a half-dozen prerecorded "important messages" every night from political hopefuls. NONE of the messages that I listened through waiting for a do-not-call option had any provisions for telling them not to call again. I didn't keep track of who these people are, and if I did, I would probably vote against them because of their sleazy spamming tactics.
"we want to make sure that if customers are choosing Linux or other open-source-based products that we have ways of interoperating and working effectively with that."
OSS products are by definition "open", meaning that it is up to MS to make the next move by publishing its API's, stop changing API's, stop doing crappy things to the OSS community, and to change it's licensing to allow FOSS programmers to use suposedly "open" MS products.
Bribery of government officials used to be a serious offense in the US too, but that all changed when the country stopped being ran by the People and started being ran by the Corporations.
Ogg is not encrypted and it is only necessary to convert the format using an audio transcoder, it is not necessary to decrypt it. Audio Konverter and Audacity are two examples of transcoders that will convert ogg to mp3.
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Apple's FairPlay DRM encrypts the file.
There is a description of Apple FairPlay DRM at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_AAC. There is some information regarding transcoders at http://www.free-codecs.com/Software/Audio_Encoder