You really shouldn't use personal cheques for anything. The routing numbers on the bottom are unlimited keys to your account. Unlimited and unchanging. Much safer to use a Bank Check or Money order for that stuff. Or credit card, if you're in a complex of any size that has a website.
I believe there are apps out there for a few banks that let you take picture of a check with your smartphone, and it registers it and deposits it.. I'm not sure if it works for personal checks, though, but who uses those any more?
True. Although I wish that the mobile safari browser supported at least the same set of gestures that the osx safari browser supports; e.g. the three-finger swipes for back/forward, and four-finger swipes for page-up/page-dn, etc. I don't think it's too much to ask, since Apple makes both products...
perhaps they should re-evaluate the effectiveness of Paracetamol on earth first.. That crap has never done squat for any of my headaches ever*. Curse the Reye Syndrome scare of my childhood making my parents think that Tylenol was the only safe pain reliever when I was a kid. Safe, perhaps, but useless. Also, from what I've read.. It's really not that safe, either...
*yes, I realize this has a sample size of one person (though many headaches...). Can anyone say it's worked for them?
Pfft. With CSI processing, you can take a picture of a spoon with a one-pixel camera, and get your detailed, holographic image of the moon from the reflection off the spoon....
You said you wanted proper sections, table of contents, authorities, etc. That is a domain where LaTeX is infinitely superior to Word, for several reasons, not the least of which the fact that LaTeX generates the ToC and section numbering when you run it, so it always gets the page numbers and section numbers right in the final document. You didn't say you wanted a powerpoint presentation. For which, Powerpoint actually is a pretty good choice.
Indeed. And they need to do a better job with the easements, too. I recall one operatator stating that they try to schedule their maintenance after roadwork is done because the asphalt is, apparently, softer and easier to cut through.
This was used as an argument *against* a scheme where all stakeholders would be required to schedule maintenance during roadwork, to minimize the rampant patching of highly variable quality across the state, as if, somehow, soft, fresh asphalt is easier to cut through than.. a huge gaping hole in the ground....
The government never had the authority to create the TSA, it's been a criminal act from the beginning, and the only thing that's keeping it from being struck down, dissolved, and everyone involved spending some time in prison is....
Y'know, I have no idea how something so blatant, unambiguously infringing, and immense in scale could go overlooked for so long.
It's not the federal government's job to "run" 310 milion people, or "oversee" the 13 trillion dollar economy. It's job is to protect us from getting our rights infringed upon by other countries, other parties (which may include unscrupulous companies..), or itself. Other than that, it should get out of the way.
I dunno. No nation has sent an invasion force or committed an act of war against us. I'd say that we're definitely getting some kind of return on our spending in defense.
Realistically, you cannot drop the military spending down to zero, or you will find that you have become a tempting target for someone else's military, and will end up paying for their army instead of your own... and a nation as geography and economically large as the US currently is, that is no small amount. Worse, many pieces of hardware and infrastructure take years to develop and produce, and you need to have a credible threat of rendering attacks ineffective and projecting force when those attacks occur. There are no "time out's" in war.
Further, The military is just about the only actual spending authorized by the Constitution at the federal level (and the Navy, at that. We're not supposed to have a standing army during peacetime....). So even if you think the military budget should be lower in terms of total dollars or percent gdp, it should be a much higher percentage of the federal budget....
It's not just short-term thinking. It actually makes sense not to be an omnibus company. Do the thing that you do, do it well, and pay other people do do the stuff that needs to be done to allow you to do the thing you do. The thing you're actually interested in.
No man is an island, entire of itself, and few companies are either.
you'd have the resources only a government can amass...
It's easy to get caught up thinking of things to spend the money on if we can only get hold of the great purse-strings of the nation, and that's what makes it easy to forget that the government doesn't have its own money. Nearly everything it has, it has taken from someone under the threat of violence.
If NASA wouldn't survive on its own, completely segregated from public funding and forced to support itself by selling services to scientists and others and accepting donations from interested parties, and any other voluntary means of support, then we should think long and hard about whether or not it should continue to exist at all.
And I don't mean to single out NASA by any means. They're just a typical example of a program that is immensely popular... or maybe not: if people won't vote for something with their own dollars, maybe they're not as interested as was thought.
They started making fun of it in the first few seasons.
SG-1 wasn't supposed to be a hard scifi show. It was about equal parts of "space-drama" and "making fun of sci-fi tropes" with a liberal helping of "watching macguyver slowly go grey"
In fact, iirc, the very first episode referred to MacGuyver.
They shouldn't need a whole new cinematography. They should just stop trying to paint the horses like wizard of Oz.
Let the 3d effect mostly be behind the screen, try not to have stuff coming so far out of the screen that the audience has to go cross-eyed to see the stupid thing, and never have stuff that comes out of the screen cross the edge of the screen on the "audience" side.
600 fps sounds about right, too. I remember reading somewhere that the threshold for detection in humans is likely somewhere around 500 frames per second.....
Slashdot Mirror
It's immensely safer than NSAIDs and fewer side effects that opioids
Well, sure. As long as you weren't using your liver for anything...
You really shouldn't use personal cheques for anything. The routing numbers on the bottom are unlimited keys to your account. Unlimited and unchanging. Much safer to use a Bank Check or Money order for that stuff. Or credit card, if you're in a complex of any size that has a website.
I believe there are apps out there for a few banks that let you take picture of a check with your smartphone, and it registers it and deposits it.. I'm not sure if it works for personal checks, though, but who uses those any more?
True. Although I wish that the mobile safari browser supported at least the same set of gestures that the osx safari browser supports; e.g. the three-finger swipes for back/forward, and four-finger swipes for page-up/page-dn, etc. I don't think it's too much to ask, since Apple makes both products...
perhaps they should re-evaluate the effectiveness of Paracetamol on earth first.. That crap has never done squat for any of my headaches ever*. Curse the Reye Syndrome scare of my childhood making my parents think that Tylenol was the only safe pain reliever when I was a kid. Safe, perhaps, but useless. Also, from what I've read.. It's really not that safe, either...
*yes, I realize this has a sample size of one person (though many headaches...). Can anyone say it's worked for them?
Pfft. With CSI processing, you can take a picture of a spoon with a one-pixel camera, and get your detailed, holographic image of the moon from the reflection off the spoon....
You said you wanted proper sections, table of contents, authorities, etc. That is a domain where LaTeX is infinitely superior to Word, for several reasons, not the least of which the fact that LaTeX generates the ToC and section numbering when you run it, so it always gets the page numbers and section numbers right in the final document. You didn't say you wanted a powerpoint presentation. For which, Powerpoint actually is a pretty good choice.
Aside from the fact that they're both frequently included in digital purchases, neither of those is music...
Also lacking in MS office. You need latex to do that stuff well. Or if a GUI is requied, LyX....
Indeed. And they need to do a better job with the easements, too. I recall one operatator stating that they try to schedule their maintenance after roadwork is done because the asphalt is, apparently, softer and easier to cut through.
This was used as an argument *against* a scheme where all stakeholders would be required to schedule maintenance during roadwork, to minimize the rampant patching of highly variable quality across the state, as if, somehow, soft, fresh asphalt is easier to cut through than.. a huge gaping hole in the ground....
So.. are you the husband or the fish in this fantasy of yours...
You could probably make a fortune on that rock if you sell it at the airport brookstone...
"TSA protects you from Terrorists, but they're not looking for Tigers. With this new-age talisman, ..."
The government never had the authority to create the TSA, it's been a criminal act from the beginning, and the only thing that's keeping it from being struck down, dissolved, and everyone involved spending some time in prison is....
Y'know, I have no idea how something so blatant, unambiguously infringing, and immense in scale could go overlooked for so long.
The hippies are in office right now and have been since the 90s. They've already won. Why the hell haven't they done anything?
It's not the federal government's job to "run" 310 milion people, or "oversee" the 13 trillion dollar economy. It's job is to protect us from getting our rights infringed upon by other countries, other parties (which may include unscrupulous companies..), or itself. Other than that, it should get out of the way.
First paragraph was supposed to have the qualifier "in the past year" ....
I dunno. No nation has sent an invasion force or committed an act of war against us. I'd say that we're definitely getting some kind of return on our spending in defense.
Realistically, you cannot drop the military spending down to zero, or you will find that you have become a tempting target for someone else's military, and will end up paying for their army instead of your own... and a nation as geography and economically large as the US currently is, that is no small amount. Worse, many pieces of hardware and infrastructure take years to develop and produce, and you need to have a credible threat of rendering attacks ineffective and projecting force when those attacks occur. There are no "time out's" in war.
Further, The military is just about the only actual spending authorized by the Constitution at the federal level (and the Navy, at that. We're not supposed to have a standing army during peacetime....). So even if you think the military budget should be lower in terms of total dollars or percent gdp, it should be a much higher percentage of the federal budget....
What a weird article. Somehow they find a way to impugn several radio hosts by saying they aren't doing the shady thing the article is about...
It's not just short-term thinking. It actually makes sense not to be an omnibus company. Do the thing that you do, do it well, and pay other people do do the stuff that needs to be done to allow you to do the thing you do. The thing you're actually interested in.
No man is an island, entire of itself, and few companies are either.
The problem is with the phrase,
you'd have the resources only a government can amass...
It's easy to get caught up thinking of things to spend the money on if we can only get hold of the great purse-strings of the nation, and that's what makes it easy to forget that the government doesn't have its own money. Nearly everything it has, it has taken from someone under the threat of violence.
If NASA wouldn't survive on its own, completely segregated from public funding and forced to support itself by selling services to scientists and others and accepting donations from interested parties, and any other voluntary means of support, then we should think long and hard about whether or not it should continue to exist at all.
And I don't mean to single out NASA by any means. They're just a typical example of a program that is immensely popular... or maybe not: if people won't vote for something with their own dollars, maybe they're not as interested as was thought.
Actually..
They started making fun of it in the first few seasons.
SG-1 wasn't supposed to be a hard scifi show. It was about equal parts of "space-drama" and "making fun of sci-fi tropes" with a liberal helping of "watching macguyver slowly go grey"
In fact, iirc, the very first episode referred to MacGuyver.
I'd say, take the most generous section and count the layers. ln(N)/ln(2) = number of folds.
AND came up with the idea of using toilet tissue, IIRC.
They shouldn't need a whole new cinematography. They should just stop trying to paint the horses like wizard of Oz.
Let the 3d effect mostly be behind the screen, try not to have stuff coming so far out of the screen that the audience has to go cross-eyed to see the stupid thing, and never have stuff that comes out of the screen cross the edge of the screen on the "audience" side.
600 fps sounds about right, too. I remember reading somewhere that the threshold for detection in humans is likely somewhere around 500 frames per second.....