"And while you may pay a few extra cents for you(r) petrol, you probably pay less for other things because of this."
Gee, I had missed that correllation. Must. Pay. Attention.
You buy it by volume, and you burn it by weight. Buy Gas at dawn like I've been doing for years, and fight against the heating (cheating) that the oil sellers want to inflict on us. Do they need a break, or what?
I haven't ever (purposefully) opted into the credit world, for various reasons. I do have a direct deposit to a checking account. As usual I receive lots of waste paper with my statements each month, which is shredded and recycled with all the rest of the paper waste which our postman delivers. I usually glance through the boilerplate crap that is often included so I was vaguely aware when my account got (unsolicited) "overdraft protection". As I never pass checks except at the teller's window to withdraw my cash, I didn't really feel that it would apply to me. One time I showed up a week early and withdrew my cash, due to an inadvertant temporal displacement. The teller didn't notice the fact that my check was post-dated or mention the account balance to me, but handed over the cash with the usual alacrity. I could almost hear Nelson Muntz the next week when I got the overdraft notice. $25 plus five bucks a day. I know I should be scourged for suggesting this, but I think a Federal Law requiring deliberate acceptance of "services" rather than a stealthy "opting in" should be crafted. However, since I haven't paid for a share of the government, (and we ALL KNOW voting doesn't count) that will never happen.
Of course, You, I, and the majority of/. probably scoff at these absurd assertions. The police resources, however, have a long history of being expropriated for private enforcement of dubious business plans. A.M.A./D.E.A.-Big Pharm, anyone? How about all the money we saved when auto insurance became mandatory and the police were re-assigned to enforce Premium collection? How much did your rates go down then? It worked very well for the insurance industry, perhaps they should be telling us how much money we'll save on K-Fed's next album if we can start sending P2P users to our soon-to-be-built federal resort facilities. Where they CLEARLY belong.
As a citizen of the People's Republic of California, I don't have much familiarity with the salmon runs in that part of the world. Perhaps the Inuit have not found it practical to survive on an exclusively fish-based diet. My experiences traveling through the home land of the Navajo People sort of showed me that perhaps we gabachos should perhaps not be questioning local human solutions to survival problems as imposed by physical reality, when compounded by the standards of "Western Culture", and "economic reality".
A set of professional grade shears does the job nicely. Maybe the design allows for hand clearance, (think rosebush) but they do seem to keep the mitts out of harms way. I've done the bloody knuckle thing with kitchen shears and gyp-knives (known as box-cutters since 9/11), but no more. As an amateur gardener, I have a few pair by the back door so they are easy to access any time I am compelled to deal with that style of consumer-resistant-packaging. As a well-known-misanthropist I find this one of the stimuli that induces my medication reflex, and as a rule I endeavor to boycott the purveyors of this blight, but it don't come easy.
This feature has been the primary exploit hacked by our Fearless Leaders in all of my lifetime. The voters ARE a bit ubermensch, IMHO, hence they Tivo Jerry and arrive ready to do the bidding of their Corporate Masters. I have been a poll worker for many years, and you really do get a broad cross-section of the electorate. That means of course that the overwhelming majority know absolutely nothing about almost anything pertinent, but hold strong opinions of enough diversity to ensure that correctness has no bearing on any decision of consequence. This is why we must bring Democracy to the economically important regions of the world.
When I was a teen-age boy, we learned our driving skills from "The Dukes of Hazard" and a certain Steve McQueen movie. None of us died, oddly enough, and a little gaol time straghtened most of us out eventually. Anyway I don't recall any rookie blunders in the '70s or '80s remotely like the attempted stunt driving I have noticed in the last couple of years. Little teen-age girls too; NEVER saw that in the olden days. I have been attributing it to video games because these maneuvers seem born in ignorance of basic physical laws. The ones we learned VERY WELL during the Evel Kneivel period.
I was sitting in a club one night with a musician and the father of another musician once, and mentioned that I was sneaking 45's into the jukebox at my job. The dad was thrilled to get my address and his son sent along all three of his own singles, just for the thrill of the exposure and free promotion. And he thanked me for doing it. One of the songs was getting a lot of airplay on the radio then (and now). Once you get past the "middlemen", you often find an artist who just loves to have an audience, and realizes that free airplay does not hurt financially.
I thought it was all part of the "No child gets ahead" Act. When my son was promoted to the second grade (early on in his first grade year as he was already reading), he started doing homework right away. By the third grade, it was about three hours every night. In the sixth grade it was five hours a night and starting to cause real big problems. Interesting thing was most of the students seemed to be majoring in (and failing) remedial esteem and civility training. In the eighth grade we finally got to select an elective course, though still no foriegn languages offered. We chose Drama. It seemed good to finally get him into something other than drudging along with the slowest non-thinkers at the school. Alas, it turned out to be remedial reading course in disguise, only the students were reading through scenes from plays rather than the modern "Dick and Jane" stuff. I always suspected that high-achieving students were being mainstreamed in a feeble attempt to bring up the standardised test scores that their funding seems to depend upon. (Buy more Lotto tickets, chumps!) My son came to dread the phone calls from his apparently simple-minded "Study Buddy" and would beg me to say he was unavailable so that he could complete his own homework. Now he's a freshman at a private high school. (Long story, BTW, he went from tops in his class to near the bottom- but he's adapting.) Now, I generally have to to tell him to go to bed around midnight, sometimes I catch him still doing homework at 2AM. And weekends too.
Needless to say, all the song and dance was beaten out of him by the third grade, the drawings and paintings I found so delightful trickled to a halt by the fifth, and now I'm starting to worry about his health. I personally think that a lad of fifteen should be out after school doing the Tarzan/Huck Finn stuff that looms so large in my memories of youth. I'm not sure what the goal of all this is, but I think we may have found the dark side of "Democracy".
What I see distorted on television depictions of police is the relative competence and professionalism of the average police officer. Remember Abu Ghraib? Rodney King? The only atypical part of those stories is that photographic evidence made it out to the general public. This is just another instance of an American Taxpayer discovering where their money really goes. I realise that many competent professionals surely must work in Law Enforcement, unfortunately, it has seldom been my priviledge to be served by any of them. At present, I am enjoying a broken finger administered by one of our local heroes, due to his dissatisfaction with the adequacy of punishment legally available in the People's Republic of Califonia for marijuana posession. He felt that my Doctor's recommendation violated his right to kick my ass and send me to jail, I suppose. He stated that the compassionate use law was "stupid", though I suspect his reasons were different than mine. I will take action, that is, I'm writing a letter to his partner advising him that he should watch his ass before his psychotic tendencies get them both in trouble.
Sorry, IMHO you are unaware of the needs of the "gifted". In the People's Republic of California, at least in the olden days when I was in school, the "gifted" and the "special class" students both got extra funding. Of course, someone always thought of something useful to do with that money rather than waste it on "gifted" children who were already "pretty much set". My elementary school was able to re-landscape the grounds, and my high school filled a room with video equipment. As a "mentally gifted minor" I was allowed to attend a meeting for each of these events, to admire where the money went. Otherwise, I was on my own. I had to take the I.Q. test twice because they thought I must have cheated. When I went to A.P. classes my fakery was exposed as all I had going on was a ridiculouly high vocabulary and abnormal retention of what I read. School had little to offer besides a chance to get my ass kicked daily by my social betters. I learned to read before kindergarten, and basically wasted the time I was in school. A little one-on-one might have determined some useful or less-than-tedious course of study. Of course I accept responsibility for my own lack of ambition, but please don't knock my chosen career of ditch-digging.
This is another example of the fact that all of us are merely out on our "own recognizance" until some thug with a badge and a gun decides otherwise. I think most slashdot readers already know this. Our cultural mythology includes a document called "The Constitution of the United States" which is, as we all know, fictional. Appended to this work of fiction are amendments, the first ten of which we laughingly call "The Bill of Rights". This list of privileges provides employment for needy lawyers, primarily, as it certainly does not actually extend any "rights" to ordinary citizens. Anyway, perhaps I just don't know what the definition of "is" is, since I mistakenly believe that the fifth amendment extends the privilege of not being compelled to testify against one's self. As better qualified people interpret this, it does not prevent your blood or breath from being compelled to testify on one's behalf. Thanks to "democracy" we have only ourselves to blame.
Ya gotta watch the speed differential, it can kill ya. I go with the lowest-density lane, and cruise with the flow, lots of clearance all around, then signal and change to the lowest-density lane again whenever that changes. The speeding tailgaters disappear in the rear view a lot faster than you one-lane-for-life people, but seldom does any rare individual consistently keep up. The only people that actually leave me behind are strategic but less concerned with the speed differential. Better insured, and more reliance on their airbags, I guess.
I guess I have a liberal bias (cynical, actually, according to Peter Tork.) but I get most of my news through the Slashdot/Daily Show filter. It saves me a lot of time, and I am far more well-informed than my neighbors.
As I recall, Steven Jobs never disputed the fact that he took the name from Apple Corps., because he was a fan of the Beatles. I think that the terms of the original settlement were quite clear (and generous). I assumed when I first heard about the I-Pod things that surely there was some new arrangement. I find it shocking that no one took care of this a long time ago. There is no ambiguity here that I can see. Fucking Lawyers.
Yep, that does it for me. I am not a great big consumer, however Skype and Intel just decided not to get any more of MY money. Solves the platform question on this year's upgrade. Dual core Opteron- yesss!
Yes, more informative for me. I have been considering AMD for my new workstation due to the heat issue. I wish Intel had a more useable website for sorting out the product line. Off to see if AMD explains their range clearly. I for one may not have an Intel inside next year.
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"News at 11." God, this story is SO old, isn't it?
"And while you may pay a few extra cents for you(r) petrol, you probably pay less for other things because of this." Gee, I had missed that correllation. Must. Pay. Attention.
You buy it by volume, and you burn it by weight. Buy Gas at dawn like I've been doing for years, and fight against the heating (cheating) that the oil sellers want to inflict on us. Do they need a break, or what?
I haven't ever (purposefully) opted into the credit world, for various reasons. I do have a direct deposit to a checking account. As usual I receive lots of waste paper with my statements each month, which is shredded and recycled with all the rest of the paper waste which our postman delivers. I usually glance through the boilerplate crap that is often included so I was vaguely aware when my account got (unsolicited) "overdraft protection". As I never pass checks except at the teller's window to withdraw my cash, I didn't really feel that it would apply to me. One time I showed up a week early and withdrew my cash, due to an inadvertant temporal displacement. The teller didn't notice the fact that my check was post-dated or mention the account balance to me, but handed over the cash with the usual alacrity. I could almost hear Nelson Muntz the next week when I got the overdraft notice. $25 plus five bucks a day. I know I should be scourged for suggesting this, but I think a Federal Law requiring deliberate acceptance of "services" rather than a stealthy "opting in" should be crafted. However, since I haven't paid for a share of the government, (and we ALL KNOW voting doesn't count) that will never happen.
Of course, You, I, and the majority of /. probably scoff at these absurd assertions. The police resources, however, have a long history of being expropriated for private enforcement of dubious business plans. A.M.A./D.E.A.-Big Pharm, anyone? How about all the money we saved when auto insurance became mandatory and the police were re-assigned to enforce Premium collection? How much did your rates go down then? It worked very well for the insurance industry, perhaps they should be telling us how much money we'll save on K-Fed's next album if we can start sending P2P users to our soon-to-be-built federal resort facilities. Where they CLEARLY belong.
As a citizen of the People's Republic of California, I don't have much familiarity with the salmon runs in that part of the world. Perhaps the Inuit have not found it practical to survive on an exclusively fish-based diet. My experiences traveling through the home land of the Navajo People sort of showed me that perhaps we gabachos should perhaps not be questioning local human solutions to survival problems as imposed by physical reality, when compounded by the standards of "Western Culture", and "economic reality".
I, for one, welcome our new heartless overlords... oh, wait..
A set of professional grade shears does the job nicely. Maybe the design allows for hand clearance, (think rosebush) but they do seem to keep the mitts out of harms way. I've done the bloody knuckle thing with kitchen shears and gyp-knives (known as box-cutters since 9/11), but no more. As an amateur gardener, I have a few pair by the back door so they are easy to access any time I am compelled to deal with that style of consumer-resistant-packaging. As a well-known-misanthropist I find this one of the stimuli that induces my medication reflex, and as a rule I endeavor to boycott the purveyors of this blight, but it don't come easy.
Well, I am SURE that SOME branch of our government is not being run by incompetent losers. The FBI ain't it.
This feature has been the primary exploit hacked by our Fearless Leaders in all of my lifetime. The voters ARE a bit ubermensch, IMHO, hence they Tivo Jerry and arrive ready to do the bidding of their Corporate Masters. I have been a poll worker for many years, and you really do get a broad cross-section of the electorate. That means of course that the overwhelming majority know absolutely nothing about almost anything pertinent, but hold strong opinions of enough diversity to ensure that correctness has no bearing on any decision of consequence. This is why we must bring Democracy to the economically important regions of the world.
When I was a teen-age boy, we learned our driving skills from "The Dukes of Hazard" and a certain Steve McQueen movie. None of us died, oddly enough, and a little gaol time straghtened most of us out eventually.
Anyway I don't recall any rookie blunders in the '70s or '80s remotely like the attempted stunt driving I have noticed in the last couple of years. Little teen-age girls too; NEVER saw that in the olden days. I have been attributing it to video games because these maneuvers seem born in ignorance of basic physical laws. The ones we learned VERY WELL during the Evel Kneivel period.
I was sitting in a club one night with a musician and the father of another musician once, and mentioned that I was sneaking 45's into the jukebox at my job. The dad was thrilled to get my address and his son sent along all three of his own singles, just for the thrill of the exposure and free promotion. And he thanked me for doing it. One of the songs was getting a lot of airplay on the radio then (and now). Once you get past the "middlemen", you often find an artist who just loves to have an audience, and realizes that free airplay does not hurt financially.
Was this public school? Wow.
I thought it was all part of the "No child gets ahead" Act. When my son was promoted to the second grade (early on in his first grade year as he was already reading), he started doing homework right away. By the third grade, it was about three hours every night. In the sixth grade it was five hours a night and starting to cause real big problems. Interesting thing was most of the students seemed to be majoring in (and failing) remedial esteem and civility training. In the eighth grade we finally got to select an elective course, though still no foriegn languages offered. We chose Drama. It seemed good to finally get him into something other than drudging along with the slowest non-thinkers at the school. Alas, it turned out to be remedial reading course in disguise, only the students were reading through scenes from plays rather than the modern "Dick and Jane" stuff. I always suspected that high-achieving students were being mainstreamed in a feeble attempt to bring up the standardised test scores that their funding seems to depend upon. (Buy more Lotto tickets, chumps!) My son came to dread the phone calls from his apparently simple-minded "Study Buddy" and would beg me to say he was unavailable so that he could complete his own homework. Now he's a freshman at a private high school. (Long story, BTW, he went from tops in his class to near the bottom- but he's adapting.) Now, I generally have to to tell him to go to bed around midnight, sometimes I catch him still doing homework at 2AM. And weekends too. Needless to say, all the song and dance was beaten out of him by the third grade, the drawings and paintings I found so delightful trickled to a halt by the fifth, and now I'm starting to worry about his health. I personally think that a lad of fifteen should be out after school doing the Tarzan/Huck Finn stuff that looms so large in my memories of youth. I'm not sure what the goal of all this is, but I think we may have found the dark side of "Democracy".
What I see distorted on television depictions of police is the relative competence and professionalism of the average police officer. Remember Abu Ghraib? Rodney King? The only atypical part of those stories is that photographic evidence made it out to the general public. This is just another instance of an American Taxpayer discovering where their money really goes. I realise that many competent professionals surely must work in Law Enforcement, unfortunately, it has seldom been my priviledge to be served by any of them. At present, I am enjoying a broken finger administered by one of our local heroes, due to his dissatisfaction with the adequacy of punishment legally available in the People's Republic of Califonia for marijuana posession. He felt that my Doctor's recommendation violated his right to kick my ass and send me to jail, I suppose. He stated that the compassionate use law was "stupid", though I suspect his reasons were different than mine. I will take action, that is, I'm writing a letter to his partner advising him that he should watch his ass before his psychotic tendencies get them both in trouble.
Sorry, IMHO you are unaware of the needs of the "gifted". In the People's Republic of California, at least in the olden days when I was in school, the "gifted" and the "special class" students both got extra funding. Of course, someone always thought of something useful to do with that money rather than waste it on "gifted" children who were already "pretty much set". My elementary school was able to re-landscape the grounds, and my high school filled a room with video equipment. As a "mentally gifted minor" I was allowed to attend a meeting for each of these events, to admire where the money went. Otherwise, I was on my own. I had to take the I.Q. test twice because they thought I must have cheated. When I went to A.P. classes my fakery was exposed as all I had going on was a ridiculouly high vocabulary and abnormal retention of what I read. School had little to offer besides a chance to get my ass kicked daily by my social betters. I learned to read before kindergarten, and basically wasted the time I was in school. A little one-on-one might have determined some useful or less-than-tedious course of study. Of course I accept responsibility for my own lack of ambition, but please don't knock my chosen career of ditch-digging.
Kind of makes me want to rethink some of my tactics for dealing with electrical storms.
This is another example of the fact that all of us are merely out on our "own recognizance" until some thug with a badge and a gun decides otherwise. I think most slashdot readers already know this. Our cultural mythology includes a document called "The Constitution of the United States" which is, as we all know, fictional. Appended to this work of fiction are amendments, the first ten of which we laughingly call "The Bill of Rights". This list of privileges provides employment for needy lawyers, primarily, as it certainly does not actually extend any "rights" to ordinary citizens. Anyway, perhaps I just don't know what the definition of "is" is, since I mistakenly believe that the fifth amendment extends the privilege of not being compelled to testify against one's self. As better qualified people interpret this, it does not prevent your blood or breath from being compelled to testify on one's behalf. Thanks to "democracy" we have only ourselves to blame.
Ya gotta watch the speed differential, it can kill ya. I go with the lowest-density lane, and cruise with the flow, lots of clearance all around, then signal and change to the lowest-density lane again whenever that changes. The speeding tailgaters disappear in the rear view a lot faster than you one-lane-for-life people, but seldom does any rare individual consistently keep up. The only people that actually leave me behind are strategic but less concerned with the speed differential. Better insured, and more reliance on their airbags, I guess.
I guess I have a liberal bias (cynical, actually, according to Peter Tork.) but I get most of my news through the Slashdot/Daily Show filter. It saves me a lot of time, and I am far more well-informed than my neighbors.
WTF?
As I recall, Steven Jobs never disputed the fact that he took the name from Apple Corps., because he was a fan of the Beatles. I think that the terms of the original settlement were quite clear (and generous). I assumed when I first heard about the I-Pod things that surely there was some new arrangement. I find it shocking that no one took care of this a long time ago. There is no ambiguity here that I can see. Fucking Lawyers.
Yep, that does it for me. I am not a great big consumer, however Skype and Intel just decided not to get any more of MY money. Solves the platform question on this year's upgrade. Dual core Opteron- yesss!
Yes, more informative for me. I have been considering AMD for my new workstation due to the heat issue. I wish Intel had a more useable website for sorting out the product line. Off to see if AMD explains their range clearly. I for one may not have an Intel inside next year.
I didn't see the links.