VLC plays anything and everything. (Well, OK, not Windows 7 Media Center files...but nothing plays those.) I have no idea if you're really having issues with it but nobody I know does. It would suck serious rocks if VLC were abandoned on the Mac.
Happy now? This is what you all wanted... For the past decade I've read post after post after post about Bush spending too much or having too tight an iron fist on privacy issues.
Well, you all voted for change... Now you have the highest spending EVER.
And just how many times did you object to Bush's spending? Be honest. Because if you never did, then your post here is nothing more than more partisanism, and has little-to-nothing to do with actually objecting to gov't spending.
Hmmm, using that logic we could also clear Bush of many of the accusations layed on him.Thus, it must be false logic.
If you don't see a difference between Obama's team objecting to disallowing a mouse scroll and Bush going before the world claiming there were absolutely WMD's in Iraq, then there is no hope of anyone ever talking any shred of logic to or with you.
McCain would have done the same thing; try to expand and/or maintain gov't power all in the name of combating terrorism, without regard for the veracity of the claim. (Though, to McCain's credit, at least you would have expected that of him, for that's the GOP platform. Here, Obama is pretty much giving the finger to his supporters who expected him to respect civil liberties.)
You'd think they'd take their foot off the pedal and slow down a bit to address the #1 issue voters have right now, unemployment.
Yeah, that's exactly what you need - increased government employment!
Actually, you do. Go research the New Deal and how many people the gov't employed in the 30's to ease the depression, and how many great public works projects got accomplished, and then get back to us about how "bad" it would be for the government to put people to work.
You're obligated to comply with a lawful order from a police officer.
Of course you are; that is not the question. The question is whether this order was lawful.
Let's say the officer decided that the best way to disperse the mob was to order the executive to pay the people cash to leave the premises. Would the executive then be worthy of arrest for not complying? Almost everyone would say no, but then the onus is on anyone supporting his non-Tweeting-arrest to describe the difference between the two situations. That is, why is an officer, wanting to disperse a crowd, allowed to order someone to Tweet but not allowed to order them to pay the crowd off (assuming both actions would have equal efficacy.)
(And, in fact, it seems to me the monetary order is less of an intrusion on a person's civil rights than forcing speech they would not have uttered. Let's say his Tweet unexpectedly caused a stampede; he could be sued for that Tweet. Further, his 1st amendment rights to speak [or NOT speak] have been trampled here.)
You can hate them for their poor business practice, but their 3G coverage is undeniably superb!
I deny it. First of all, their maps are misleading at best. Secondly, their use of the term "3G" stretches the definition.
While I have had coverage issues with my AT&T iPhone, I also have had service several times when Verizon-using friends have not. It's been basically a wash. So I do *not* plan to switch next year when my AT&T contract runs out, even if Apple has a Verizon iPhone by then. (Especially if their Verizon iPhone is Verizon-only, as the rumor mill is now saying. I travel enough that I need a world phone, not a U.S. phone.)
...that Obama is really a conservative, not a liberal. A liberal would have spent money on space exploration without a second thought. I really wish we would someday get a leader who is interested in science and the future of our species.
I wish there was a "-1, pathetically paranoid party pooper" mod..
I'm glad there's not, because this really is a dangerous thing. If one of these rats escapes we will be in for some hurting. Rats are already rather smart--they know what traps are and how to avoid them, for example. Go live in a rat-infested portion of a city and then tell us again anyone objecting to this experiment is "paranoid".
An honest mistake?! Seriously? Completely disregarding flight procedures (on various levels) for personal "training" is blatant misconduct and at the absolute minimum they should be fired. There's a reason there are two pilots in a cockpit and they violated several standing rules of commercial flight. I'll be surprised if they can ever fly commercial planes again.
So you're OK throwing away 25 years of unblemished flight records for their very first mistake on the job. I hope your boss is a bit less strict given that I'm sure you've not been 100% correct your entire career.
You don't think that a 1-year suspension without pay would be sufficient?!? Or are you just a hard-ass that believes in one strike and you're out?
and see the nice little FAQ they have.
http://www.arb.ca.gov/html/coolcarsfaq.pdf...placing the GPS device or the
external antenna within the deletion window allows the device to operate as effectively as in a car
with no reflective glass.
You read the parent article and even went so far as to read its linked articles? Turn in your Slashdot card, sir. You don't fit in here!
Right. This proves that government would be the solution if we had absolutely superhuman, omniscient lawmakers. When that happens, I'll gladly support them. Until then, the less power they have, the better.
Oh really? So you would remove government's power to enforce safe food laws, safe drug laws, clean air laws, clean water laws, safe nuclear power regulations, etc? That's "better" to you?!? If so, I wouldn't want to live in a country where you had the ability to revoke all of the government's power.
No, the real difference is that because of their profit motive, corporations are always going to do what's in their best interest. Government, not being for profit, will at least occasionally try to do things that are in your best interest (clean water, national parks, safe drugs, tracking flu outbreaks, national weather service, air traffic control, plowing your streets, etc.)
5 years ago my wife was diagnosed with an incurable but non-debilitating illness...I tried to go from medicare to the same companies paid healthcare and was told my wifes illness was a pre-existing condition
Sorry to hear. Your type of story is why we need reform now. But in the meantime, usually if you work for a large enough employer, their might will be able to get your wife covered. They want you to work for them enough that they force whatever insurance company they choose to cover preexisting conditions. Apparently you found a job where they either don't provide coverage (you're buying yourself) or they're too small to use such leverage. I suppose your only option is to continue your job search, specifically aimed at a large employer (while also heavily advocating your elected officials to support health care reform.)
Oh and if you have already emigrated then there is no "we" anymore from your perspective.
You obviously don't know how it works. I'm still a citizen of the USA and will be for the rest of my life (including a requirement to file with the IRS and pay taxes in the US every year for the rest of my life, even if I have no financial activities inside the US). So I'm still an American. The people here think so, and so does Uncle Sam.
Then you didn't emigrate. You're simply an American abroad.
An essay is a shitty way to select engineering students
A lack of an essay is an even shittier way of selecting engineering students. An engineer who can communicate is incalculably more useful than one who can't. Engineers must be able to interact with others--no man is an island, especially in today's interconnected world. When I'm interviewing candidates, ones who cannot write are among the first eliminated from consideration. Want to get hired? Know how to write, regardless of your profession.
What if an editor who received one of those checks just cashed it and immediately ceased writing about any EA product? Forever? (S)he would enjoy monetary benefit and would avoid conflict of interest. Meanwhile, EA would have screwed themselves.
Since the very first page of the questionnaire has radio buttons that overwrite each other in every browser but IE, any thinking user should conclude if Symantec can't even author a website you shouldn't trust them with your PC's internet security.
If you RTA, there was more to the story. The woman (allegedly) had a history of confrontation with her coworkers. But she was never reprimanded for those; just summarily fired with no warning and the only "evidence" the employer could dig up was this single e-mail. Basically the employer blatantly mishandled the entire situation and was left grasping at straws, trying to use an e-mail as justification.
In short, she wasn't just fired for the caps in the e-mail; it was simply claimed she was.
The question now becomes: Can you teach this concept of self discipline to kids or are they born with it?
Whether or not you can teach it, it's definitely possible to be born with it. I recall in 7th or 8th grade I took my Halloween candy plunderings and divvied them up among a dozen lunchbags, each labeled with week's date from then until Christmas. I delayed/stretched the sugar gratification from that one holiday through Thanksgiving until Christmas. My parents were flabbergasted, as they'd certainly never even considered such a thing, let alone taught it. To this day, I'm a hoarder of money and other assets. I actually feel guilt when I enjoy instant gratification. It's in my genes, no question.
Whether this always leads to success is another question, but I'm doing pretty well.
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VLC plays anything and everything. (Well, OK, not Windows 7 Media Center files...but nothing plays those.) I have no idea if you're really having issues with it but nobody I know does. It would suck serious rocks if VLC were abandoned on the Mac.
You are kidding, right?
Happy now? This is what you all wanted... For the past decade I've read post after post after post about Bush spending too much or having too tight an iron fist on privacy issues.
Well, you all voted for change... Now you have the highest spending EVER.
And just how many times did you object to Bush's spending? Be honest. Because if you never did, then your post here is nothing more than more partisanism, and has little-to-nothing to do with actually objecting to gov't spending.
Hmmm, using that logic we could also clear Bush of many of the accusations layed on him.Thus, it must be false logic.
If you don't see a difference between Obama's team objecting to disallowing a mouse scroll and Bush going before the world claiming there were absolutely WMD's in Iraq, then there is no hope of anyone ever talking any shred of logic to or with you.
I voted McCain.
McCain would have done the same thing; try to expand and/or maintain gov't power all in the name of combating terrorism, without regard for the veracity of the claim. (Though, to McCain's credit, at least you would have expected that of him, for that's the GOP platform. Here, Obama is pretty much giving the finger to his supporters who expected him to respect civil liberties.)
You'd think they'd take their foot off the pedal and slow down a bit to address the #1 issue voters have right now, unemployment.
Yeah, that's exactly what you need - increased government employment!
Actually, you do. Go research the New Deal and how many people the gov't employed in the 30's to ease the depression, and how many great public works projects got accomplished, and then get back to us about how "bad" it would be for the government to put people to work.
You're obligated to comply with a lawful order from a police officer.
Of course you are; that is not the question. The question is whether this order was lawful.
Let's say the officer decided that the best way to disperse the mob was to order the executive to pay the people cash to leave the premises. Would the executive then be worthy of arrest for not complying? Almost everyone would say no, but then the onus is on anyone supporting his non-Tweeting-arrest to describe the difference between the two situations. That is, why is an officer, wanting to disperse a crowd, allowed to order someone to Tweet but not allowed to order them to pay the crowd off (assuming both actions would have equal efficacy.)
(And, in fact, it seems to me the monetary order is less of an intrusion on a person's civil rights than forcing speech they would not have uttered. Let's say his Tweet unexpectedly caused a stampede; he could be sued for that Tweet. Further, his 1st amendment rights to speak [or NOT speak] have been trampled here.)
No, that's a link to a torrent of "The Cage", not "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
You can hate them for their poor business practice, but their 3G coverage is undeniably superb!
I deny it. First of all, their maps are misleading at best. Secondly, their use of the term "3G" stretches the definition.
While I have had coverage issues with my AT&T iPhone, I also have had service several times when Verizon-using friends have not. It's been basically a wash. So I do *not* plan to switch next year when my AT&T contract runs out, even if Apple has a Verizon iPhone by then. (Especially if their Verizon iPhone is Verizon-only, as the rumor mill is now saying. I travel enough that I need a world phone, not a U.S. phone.)
...that Obama is really a conservative, not a liberal. A liberal would have spent money on space exploration without a second thought. I really wish we would someday get a leader who is interested in science and the future of our species.
If ever a post needed modding up, this would be it.
I wish there was a "-1, pathetically paranoid party pooper" mod..
I'm glad there's not, because this really is a dangerous thing. If one of these rats escapes we will be in for some hurting. Rats are already rather smart--they know what traps are and how to avoid them, for example. Go live in a rat-infested portion of a city and then tell us again anyone objecting to this experiment is "paranoid".
An honest mistake?! Seriously? Completely disregarding flight procedures (on various levels) for personal "training" is blatant misconduct and at the absolute minimum they should be fired. There's a reason there are two pilots in a cockpit and they violated several standing rules of commercial flight. I'll be surprised if they can ever fly commercial planes again.
So you're OK throwing away 25 years of unblemished flight records for their very first mistake on the job. I hope your boss is a bit less strict given that I'm sure you've not been 100% correct your entire career.
You don't think that a 1-year suspension without pay would be sufficient?!? Or are you just a hard-ass that believes in one strike and you're out?
and see the nice little FAQ they have. http://www.arb.ca.gov/html/coolcarsfaq.pdf ...placing the GPS device or the
external antenna within the deletion window allows the device to operate as effectively as in a car
with no reflective glass.
You read the parent article and even went so far as to read its linked articles? Turn in your Slashdot card, sir. You don't fit in here!
Also, I don't know about you, but I like to listen to the radio while driving.
Every car radio I have ever seen had an EXTERNAL antanna.
Someone's still living in the 70's.....
Right. This proves that government would be the solution if we had absolutely superhuman, omniscient lawmakers. When that happens, I'll gladly support them. Until then, the less power they have, the better.
Oh really? So you would remove government's power to enforce safe food laws, safe drug laws, clean air laws, clean water laws, safe nuclear power regulations, etc? That's "better" to you?!? If so, I wouldn't want to live in a country where you had the ability to revoke all of the government's power.
No, the real difference is that because of their profit motive, corporations are always going to do what's in their best interest. Government, not being for profit, will at least occasionally try to do things that are in your best interest (clean water, national parks, safe drugs, tracking flu outbreaks, national weather service, air traffic control, plowing your streets, etc.)
5 years ago my wife was diagnosed with an incurable but non-debilitating illness...I tried to go from medicare to the same companies paid healthcare and was told my wifes illness was a pre-existing condition
Sorry to hear. Your type of story is why we need reform now. But in the meantime, usually if you work for a large enough employer, their might will be able to get your wife covered. They want you to work for them enough that they force whatever insurance company they choose to cover preexisting conditions. Apparently you found a job where they either don't provide coverage (you're buying yourself) or they're too small to use such leverage. I suppose your only option is to continue your job search, specifically aimed at a large employer (while also heavily advocating your elected officials to support health care reform.)
Oh and if you have already emigrated then there is no "we" anymore from your perspective. You obviously don't know how it works. I'm still a citizen of the USA and will be for the rest of my life (including a requirement to file with the IRS and pay taxes in the US every year for the rest of my life, even if I have no financial activities inside the US). So I'm still an American. The people here think so, and so does Uncle Sam.
Then you didn't emigrate. You're simply an American abroad.
An essay is a shitty way to select engineering students
A lack of an essay is an even shittier way of selecting engineering students. An engineer who can communicate is incalculably more useful than one who can't. Engineers must be able to interact with others--no man is an island, especially in today's interconnected world. When I'm interviewing candidates, ones who cannot write are among the first eliminated from consideration. Want to get hired? Know how to write, regardless of your profession.
And you're not using online banking to both pay and track those payments because.....?
What if an editor who received one of those checks just cashed it and immediately ceased writing about any EA product? Forever? (S)he would enjoy monetary benefit and would avoid conflict of interest. Meanwhile, EA would have screwed themselves.
Since the very first page of the questionnaire has radio buttons that overwrite each other in every browser but IE, any thinking user should conclude if Symantec can't even author a website you shouldn't trust them with your PC's internet security.
In short, she wasn't just fired for the caps in the e-mail; it was simply claimed she was.
The question now becomes: Can you teach this concept of self discipline to kids or are they born with it?
Whether or not you can teach it, it's definitely possible to be born with it. I recall in 7th or 8th grade I took my Halloween candy plunderings and divvied them up among a dozen lunchbags, each labeled with week's date from then until Christmas. I delayed/stretched the sugar gratification from that one holiday through Thanksgiving until Christmas. My parents were flabbergasted, as they'd certainly never even considered such a thing, let alone taught it. To this day, I'm a hoarder of money and other assets. I actually feel guilt when I enjoy instant gratification. It's in my genes, no question.
Whether this always leads to success is another question, but I'm doing pretty well.