"Actually, at my high school we were censored as well and our paper was 100% advertising supported."
Doesn't matter! If I go out and start a newspaper, and it's 100% advertising supported, which means that I have no out of pocket cost, I still have full editorial control and rightfully so! It doesn't matter whether I'm making a profit, losing money, or breaking even,; it does't matter whether I want to charge my subscribers, whether I want to cover my costs with ads, or whether I want to do a George Soros and pull it out of my pocket for the public good: I still rightfully have frickin' full and totally legit editorial control. It also doesn't matter whether it is a private person (me) doing it or the gov.
Yeah, you're the tenth person to say that. The value in this thread is not in finding "_one_ answer." Matter of fact, finding "_one_ answer" isn't possible.
The value in this thread is a multitude of people who have done "a, b, and c" and require "d, e, and f" and would suggest "Linux Distro G" to me because I have those same requirements. If I don't require "d, e, and f", I will move on to the guy who needed "u, v, and w" and suggested "Linux Distro T." You have a point; this thread's value is not in finding "_one_ answer", but this is very valuable.
might otherwise distract you from the suspicion that the entire plotline to the prequel trilogy was written by Lucas's 4-year-old child in a single sitting some years ago in crayon on a napkin.
Annikin becomes Darth Vader!!
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He's just making it up as he goes along!
trying to figure out if that was all part of the message, or whether the part below the "--" was his sig. I hit reply and found that it was his sig. Congrats on a relevant sig!
I work for my Dad in the family business. We have our own piece of customer software that is coded in VBA in MS Access (I can see my karma dropping).ADP front-end for MS SQL server. It keeps track of nearly everything in our organization. All our customer's contact data. Their BTNs/WTNs (Billing & Working Telephone Numbers), their SSNs... We scan in all the paper applications and they are attached to customers' accounts. We have a reminder list. The whole system is tightly integrated with the various carriers we work with. With one carrier, a click of a button will automatically log the user onto the carrier site and one more click will pull up the current customer's record. With another carrier, I made an auto import feature from a CSV spreadsheet. It is, of course, only a click away. Recently we started our own calling card. I spent about 1.5 days and now we have a billing system. Recently I totally automated the commission report and commission checks process that we send to our sales reps. It used to take 4-5 hours by hand. It exports the checks to Quicken. I did all the coding in 2 days. I could go on and on.
I cannot imagine finding any off the self software that could do what our piece of software does. (I know it's MS based, but it gets the job done efficiently; the boss'd (my dad) never let me go to Linux for desktop environments. He resists the idea of using a Linux box for a firewall. We paid $700 for an industrial strength off the frickin shelf firewall which crashes all the time and disconnects our VPN users.) Whenever a new business opportunity or wrinkle comes up, we can implement it easily and efficiently. You must think at this point that we are a big corp. Nope. I am the sole full time employee. Dad works in Communications part time (he has multiple businesses) and we have another part time girl. We have a lot revenue/profit because of residual commissions from 15,000 customers.
If this were a poll, I would vote custom software.
I took the amount of pages in his latest book (a prequel, I think) and multiplied that by the amount of results for an Author search on Amazon. Hey! I said approximately.
Hey now! Don't act as if Dells don't come with lots of software. They do come with lot's of software!
AOL
MSN Internet
Branded version of Internet Explorer
Branded version of MusicMatch Jukebox
Non-updateable version of McAfee VirusScan (yay says home user! now I'm protected! don't have to do anything else!)
Crippled version of PaintShop
Lots of nice icons with Special Offers!
A program that tells me about important computer stuff (Dell Support Alerts)
Lots more I forgot to list
Yeah, thought so...
Humph! Well you thought wrong! Dell comes with lots of software! And think of it! All this stuff comes with a handy order form for the full version! How conveinient! How dare you say that Mac has a bunch of software and a Dell doesn't???!??!
On a serious note: It take me at least an hour to uninstall all the crap that comes with each new Dell system I have to configure.
Just pretend talking to your friend while on hold, discussing the option to switch to another competitor "if this call doesn't solve my problems", that might get you something.
Yeah, all except for the fact that it may not be listened to for months and it has only a 2% chance of getting listened too at all, not that most of these monitors would do anything in that situation anyway. RTFA, that's not their job.
Somebody once told me
The world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb
With her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead
So if I do this, will the FCC come knocking on my door?
In a word: No.
If you have a talk-show type program (who'd wanna listen to that? =) Seriously though, I know that some widely read bloggers would have an audience) it would obviously be totally and unarguably legal. If you played music, you're fine as long as you pay the royalty to the artist (7.1 cents per song per play) same as any other internet or AM/FM/XM radio station.
Now traditional radio stations have already tried challenging the 'net radios' rights to broadcast, and have tried to impose unworkable fees through lobbying and legislation. I would not be a bit surprised if they continue to try this. So if you would do something like this, keep up with the laws (I'm sure/. will carry it if/when this happens) that govern royalties for radios' playing of copyright materials.
1. The various flavors that the Cessna Citation (the jet that was being flown) come in have a cruising speedof between 397-489 mph. A little less than 600, huh? Also, that's cruising speed! Not flaps-all-the-way-out approach speed, which was what this pilot was doing.
2. Many other posters have pointed out that the beam gets bigger (forget the scientific terms; understand the concept) as it progresses. One poster said that at something like 100 ft, it would be half a meter across. So at three thousand feet, it wouldn't be grape sized. Also it would get all four eyes at once. It would also include the whole cockpit and reflections off of the interior of the cockpit. This would be heightened by diffraction off the windshield.
3. When it is dark your pupils dilate and are more sensitive to light. The laser doesn't have to hit long enough to make the person permanently blind. Just long enough to temporarily blind them. Think of being in a darkened room (just dim enough where you can see general shapes), looking at a darkened bulb and ever so briefly flicking it on and off. Think you can still see much of anything? Now think of using a laser.
Stop!! You're giving me a headache! I was just sick and am still recovering; I can't follow that logic, expecially since I haven't seen "Who's Your Daddy?" and don't know whether it is good or bad.
My teacher always told me that double-negatives were a real no-no. She also said that there are no double positives. I said, "Yeah right!"
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I don't frickin' want to be competitive! That's the whole point of this thread!
OTOH, If the students started their own newspaper and were responsible for publishing it, the principal could not censor it.
"Actually, at my high school we were censored as well and our paper was 100% advertising supported."
Doesn't matter! If I go out and start a newspaper, and it's 100% advertising supported, which means that I have no out of pocket cost, I still have full editorial control and rightfully so! It doesn't matter whether I'm making a profit, losing money, or breaking even,; it does't matter whether I want to charge my subscribers, whether I want to cover my costs with ads, or whether I want to do a George Soros and pull it out of my pocket for the public good: I still rightfully have frickin' full and totally legit editorial control. It also doesn't matter whether it is a private person (me) doing it or the gov.
Check out Germany and France. There's your answer. No.
The value in this thread is a multitude of people who have done "a, b, and c" and require "d, e, and f" and would suggest "Linux Distro G" to me because I have those same requirements. If I don't require "d, e, and f", I will move on to the guy who needed "u, v, and w" and suggested "Linux Distro T." You have a point; this thread's value is not in finding "_one_ answer", but this is very valuable.
See above post
trying to figure out if that was all part of the message, or whether the part below the "--" was his sig. I hit reply and found that it was his sig. Congrats on a relevant sig!
I work for my Dad in the family business. We have our own piece of customer software that is coded in VBA in MS Access (I can see my karma dropping) .ADP front-end for MS SQL server. It keeps track of nearly everything in our organization. All our customer's contact data. Their BTNs/WTNs (Billing & Working Telephone Numbers), their SSNs... We scan in all the paper applications and they are attached to customers' accounts. We have a reminder list. The whole system is tightly integrated with the various carriers we work with. With one carrier, a click of a button will automatically log the user onto the carrier site and one more click will pull up the current customer's record. With another carrier, I made an auto import feature from a CSV spreadsheet. It is, of course, only a click away. Recently we started our own calling card. I spent about 1.5 days and now we have a billing system. Recently I totally automated the commission report and commission checks process that we send to our sales reps. It used to take 4-5 hours by hand. It exports the checks to Quicken. I did all the coding in 2 days. I could go on and on.
I cannot imagine finding any off the self software that could do what our piece of software does. (I know it's MS based, but it gets the job done efficiently; the boss'd (my dad) never let me go to Linux for desktop environments. He resists the idea of using a Linux box for a firewall. We paid $700 for an industrial strength off the frickin shelf firewall which crashes all the time and disconnects our VPN users.) Whenever a new business opportunity or wrinkle comes up, we can implement it easily and efficiently. You must think at this point that we are a big corp. Nope. I am the sole full time employee. Dad works in Communications part time (he has multiple businesses) and we have another part time girl. We have a lot revenue/profit because of residual commissions from 15,000 customers.
If this were a poll, I would vote custom software.
I took the amount of pages in his latest book (a prequel, I think) and multiplied that by the amount of results for an Author search on Amazon. Hey! I said approximately.
Robert Jordan has written approximately 117,000 pages.
Hey now! Don't act as if Dells don't come with lots of software. They do come with lot's of software!
- AOL
- MSN Internet
- Branded version of Internet Explorer
- Branded version of MusicMatch Jukebox
- Non-updateable version of McAfee VirusScan (yay says home user! now I'm protected! don't have to do anything else!)
- Crippled version of PaintShop
- Lots of nice icons with Special Offers!
- A program that tells me about important computer stuff (Dell Support Alerts)
- Lots more I forgot to list
Humph! Well you thought wrong! Dell comes with lots of software! And think of it! All this stuff comes with a handy order form for the full version! How conveinient! How dare you say that Mac has a bunch of software and a Dell doesn't???!??!On a serious note: It take me at least an hour to uninstall all the crap that comes with each new Dell system I have to configure.
I also installed it right after it came out, but it wasn't useful to me, so I uninstalled it a couple of days later. It didn't search Thunderbird.
Yeah, all except for the fact that it may not be listened to for months and it has only a 2% chance of getting listened too at all, not that most of these monitors would do anything in that situation anyway. RTFA, that's not their job.
Oh great, next we'll have the iCan. Can't you see Steve Jobs introducing Apple's new porta-potty?
Wrong! A product can be Open Source and still be licensed for use in commercial products.
Yup, it is.
In a word: No.
If you have a talk-show type program (who'd wanna listen to that? =) Seriously though, I know that some widely read bloggers would have an audience) it would obviously be totally and unarguably legal. If you played music, you're fine as long as you pay the royalty to the artist (7.1 cents per song per play) same as any other internet or AM/FM/XM radio station.
Now traditional radio stations have already tried challenging the 'net radios' rights to broadcast, and have tried to impose unworkable fees through lobbying and legislation. I would not be a bit surprised if they continue to try this. So if you would do something like this, keep up with the laws (I'm sure /. will carry it if/when this happens) that govern royalties for radios' playing of copyright materials.
1. The various flavors that the Cessna Citation (the jet that was being flown) come in have a cruising speed of between 397-489 mph. A little less than 600, huh? Also, that's cruising speed! Not flaps-all-the-way-out approach speed, which was what this pilot was doing.
2. Many other posters have pointed out that the beam gets bigger (forget the scientific terms; understand the concept) as it progresses. One poster said that at something like 100 ft, it would be half a meter across. So at three thousand feet, it wouldn't be grape sized. Also it would get all four eyes at once. It would also include the whole cockpit and reflections off of the interior of the cockpit. This would be heightened by diffraction off the windshield.
3. When it is dark your pupils dilate and are more sensitive to light. The laser doesn't have to hit long enough to make the person permanently blind. Just long enough to temporarily blind them. Think of being in a darkened room (just dim enough where you can see general shapes), looking at a darkened bulb and ever so briefly flicking it on and off. Think you can still see much of anything? Now think of using a laser.
Uh huh.... and that explains why a few nights later he lit up a copper chopper cockpit.
Ok, I didn't word that right, the deal has been *finalized*, but the *transfer of ownership* *has not* occurred.
Being from America and having gone to a private institution, I can assure you that Manitoba is in Canada. Tsunami is in India.
My teacher always told me that double-negatives were a real no-no. She also said that there are no double positives. I said, "Yeah right!"