No need to be snarky about spelling, BTW. Plenty of people who went to "elite" schools spell worse than the OP, plus typing (and spellcheck) mistakes can easily be made.
I'd say, mod parent down, but the rest of the post is actually of decent quality and makes some valid points.
So rather than saying "I won't vote to convict someone for medical marijuana" you can say "there is reasonable doubt."
You can refuse to talk to the press at all. And, BTW, you have no legal obligation to disclose why you voted for a given verdict. Jury deliberations ARE supposed to be secret after all.
Most jurors are asked at some point during this process, sometimes en masse by the judge, whether their personal beliefs would prevent you from rendering a verdict of guilty or a verdict of not guilty on the charges alleged, and since the question is answered under oath, they conceivably could be charged with perjury if they answer untruthfully.
"Could conceivably" -- the State would have a hell of a time proving it, though, thankfully. If you really think that a law is unjust, hold your nose, lie through your teeth, and vote to acquit. It's not worth a year or more of someone else's life!
Let's say that your house smelled like ammonia and the neighbors called the cops. The cops got a search warrant and found a meth lab operating in your garage. Your defense was, "but... I always left the door unlocked!" Do you think that would fly in court?
Maybe if you were on vacation and the place was closed for the summer, but not if you were living there at the time.
And both defense contractors and oil companies have made grotesque profits through it all, so it appears to be working after all.
Fine, though I humbly do suggest that said contractors be required to hire a certain number of people who come back crippled (either physically, emotionally, or mentally) from Iraq or Iran if we go in there. Call it their way of repaying society for the opportunity to make fuck-you money.
Sure, he shouldn't have had access anymore. But how much more secure would that have been. If you're employed there, you can download it. And you would still have it after your employment ends.
This wasn't on a company server. This was on the servers of a vendor that SOLD TO the utility company. Possibly one login/password combination for the entire company, and it was considered too much trouble to change it (OR someone just didn't think of it) when one employee left. The software not being classified and all...
at least he didn't download training manuals from the Chernobyl power plant!
I know that you're joking, but it's actually interesting to note that the engineers at Chornobyl violated a lot of operating and safety procedures that were considered critical to safety in order to run a certain test (how long the turbines would provide power to the plant if the reactor were shut down and outside power were knocked out).
The software is non-classified & publically available, as reported on PBS.
So are some cryptographic systems, metals, chemicals, etc. No problem getting them within the US, but if you try to export them, they may be subject to Federal export control laws.
Also, even though the Iran is pretty much sitting on a sea of oil, it won't last forever and they have to find something to do after the flow of the black gold dies to a dribble.
Furthermore, oil used domestically doesn't give them foreign money. So it's actually in their interest to find other sources of energy to use domestically.
a person who has left for some time still has active certificates in the database?
Probably the IT people were not informed that said person had left. Someone in personnel messed up/did not submit some paperwork, and the user account and keys were never deleted from the database. Security required the cooperation and diligence of ALL parties, and it would be disingenuous to only blame IT.
an actual, genuine, clearly defined theocracy, where a bunch of grumpy old men, who claim to speak for god himself, decide who runs for office, and who wield final power on all issues
BTW, how is this description different from the USSR of the 1950s and 1960s? Except that their "God" was Marxian ideals, international socialism, or whatever. But, otherwise, they were just as blinded and narrow minded.
Ahmadinejad was elected, the Iranian parliament is elected, now they don't have the final say in government and candidates need to be approved to run for office, but from what I can tell the Iranian elections themselves are fair.
IMHO, Iran has the largest chance of becoming a true democracy (possibly with Islamic overtones) out of all the Middle Eastern nations in the next 20-30 years. Educated population and expats, the fact that the monarchy got overthrown a few decades ago, etc. The ingredients are all there. Let's not meddle too much in Iran - we may harm their people and ultimately ourselves a lot by doing so.
I do believe the ME correspondent of the Economist in the late fifties turned out to be a KGB spy who did massive damage to US and UK interests,and led to numerous individuals deaths, a woman by the name of Kim Philby of the Cambridge Five. Buried with the honors of a KGB general in Russia, she was. So
First of all, Philby was a man. Secondly, the Arabist in the family was actually his father, Harry St. John Philby.
The Chornobyl incident was as much due to bad design as anything else, and almost certainly can't happen in a Western reactor. Large quantities of hot graphite in close proximity to live steam at 700C or so is just asking for trouble if a steam pipe bursts. You get the following reaction:
C + H20 = C0 + H2
And both CO and H2 are quite explosive when combined in the right (wrong?) quantities with air. Not to mention that the graphite is in itself flammable at a high enough temperature.
Western water- or heavy-water moderated reactors are a much better technology - the RBMK (Chernobyl type) reactors were essentially evolutions of military, plutonium-production designs not noted for their safety.
People don't own something just because they were born within 300 miles of it. Before the Western oil companies sank hundreds of millions of dollars into the area in order to develop that oil, it didn't exist -- not in any meaningful way.
That's a problem to be solved by international arbitration, NOT by deposing democratically elected leaders and putting thuggish princelings back in power. Not just from a humanitarian standpoint, but from a pragmatic one as well -- the coup against Mossadegh lead to the 1979 revolution, which lead to the 80s Iran-Iraq war in which we armed Hussein's Iraq, which lead to a strong Iraq that could bully Kuwait... etc. And now it's 2007 and we're mired in the Iraqi situation.
Finally, regarding the quest for a prospective partner: I believe it unwise to date someone at work. Think in terms of consequences if things go awry.
Meh: it depends on the circumstance entirely. Think of it this way -- you spend around 1/2 of your waking life at work. There's a good chance that you'll meet a compatible person there, especially if you're working at the right place. Should you write a potential lover/partner off just because she happens to work at the same place as you do?
Besides, it's generally easier to find a new job if things go awry than the right partner if you pass up someone who's really cool.
I've had a Canon 4200, Epson 880 and now a Brother 420cn, All using these new, sealed cartridges bought off of ebay for around 2.00 each including shipping.
My concern with third party ink is that, if I wanted to top of my HP cartridges with it, will it mess up the mechanisms in the print cartridge? Will that cause further damage to the printer itself?
Why would it damage the printer? The ink-squirting part of the cartridge is part of the cartridge - in the worst case, you'll be out the cost of a refill and cartridge.
... like the 4/5/6 series are reliable, cheap used, and will likely outlive most of the posters on here. Don't have a parallel port on your PC? Just use a JetDirect hooked up to Ethernet. And for color work, get a cheap inkjet.
The worry with third-party ink is mainly that it will clog up your printer, not that the first few pages won't look good.
With printers that have an integrated head/cartridge, then you just replace the cartridge if it clogs. But the cartridges usually last at least 3 refills (at under $5 a pop) before they get beyond help.
And FWIW, I got an assoc and had a couple calls for a networking tech positions.... part-time hours, and on call at times--like evenings and weekends.
Ummm,,,,,, no thanks.
Stuck trying to live off an $8/hr job with no way to even well consider a second job? Nope, forget it.
$8/hr for a networking tech job? When you can make easily 3x or more as much doing the same thing freelance? No wonder you didn't take it. BTW- where are you so I can avoid your area? - $8/hr for any sort of computer job is awful, sorry to say.
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No need to be snarky about spelling, BTW. Plenty of people who went to "elite" schools spell worse than the OP, plus typing (and spellcheck) mistakes can easily be made.
I'd say, mod parent down, but the rest of the post is actually of decent quality and makes some valid points.
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You can refuse to talk to the press at all. And, BTW, you have no legal obligation to disclose why you voted for a given verdict. Jury deliberations ARE supposed to be secret after all.
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"Could conceivably" -- the State would have a hell of a time proving it, though, thankfully. If you really think that a law is unjust, hold your nose, lie through your teeth, and vote to acquit. It's not worth a year or more of someone else's life!
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The "smell" is the IM's, packets to child porn sites, and whatever else is "tracable." That's why it's an analogy!
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Maybe if you were on vacation and the place was closed for the summer, but not if you were living there at the time.
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Fine, though I humbly do suggest that said contractors be required to hire a certain number of people who come back crippled (either physically, emotionally, or mentally) from Iraq or Iran if we go in there. Call it their way of repaying society for the opportunity to make fuck-you money.
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This wasn't on a company server. This was on the servers of a vendor that SOLD TO the utility company. Possibly one login/password combination for the entire company, and it was considered too much trouble to change it (OR someone just didn't think of it) when one employee left. The software not being classified and all...
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This wasn't the power company's server. This was a vendor FOR the power company. They may well have foreign clients that need the software as well.
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I know that you're joking, but it's actually interesting to note that the engineers at Chornobyl violated a lot of operating and safety procedures that were considered critical to safety in order to run a certain test (how long the turbines would provide power to the plant if the reactor were shut down and outside power were knocked out).
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So are some cryptographic systems, metals, chemicals, etc. No problem getting them within the US, but if you try to export them, they may be subject to Federal export control laws.
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Furthermore, oil used domestically doesn't give them foreign money. So it's actually in their interest to find other sources of energy to use domestically.
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Probably the IT people were not informed that said person had left. Someone in personnel messed up/did not submit some paperwork, and the user account and keys were never deleted from the database. Security required the cooperation and diligence of ALL parties, and it would be disingenuous to only blame IT.
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BTW, how is this description different from the USSR of the 1950s and 1960s? Except that their "God" was Marxian ideals, international socialism, or whatever. But, otherwise, they were just as blinded and narrow minded.
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IMHO, Iran has the largest chance of becoming a true democracy (possibly with Islamic overtones) out of all the Middle Eastern nations in the next 20-30 years. Educated population and expats, the fact that the monarchy got overthrown a few decades ago, etc. The ingredients are all there. Let's not meddle too much in Iran - we may harm their people and ultimately ourselves a lot by doing so.
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First of all, Philby was a man. Secondly, the Arabist in the family was actually his father, Harry St. John Philby.
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C + H20 = C0 + H2
And both CO and H2 are quite explosive when combined in the right (wrong?) quantities with air. Not to mention that the graphite is in itself flammable at a high enough temperature.
Western water- or heavy-water moderated reactors are a much better technology - the RBMK (Chernobyl type) reactors were essentially evolutions of military, plutonium-production designs not noted for their safety.
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That's a problem to be solved by international arbitration, NOT by deposing democratically elected leaders and putting thuggish princelings back in power. Not just from a humanitarian standpoint, but from a pragmatic one as well -- the coup against Mossadegh lead to the 1979 revolution, which lead to the 80s Iran-Iraq war in which we armed Hussein's Iraq, which lead to a strong Iraq that could bully Kuwait... etc. And now it's 2007 and we're mired in the Iraqi situation.
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Yep, same here. I hope that their paying customers are treated better than that!
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Meh: it depends on the circumstance entirely. Think of it this way -- you spend around 1/2 of your waking life at work. There's a good chance that you'll meet a compatible person there, especially if you're working at the right place. Should you write a potential lover/partner off just because she happens to work at the same place as you do?
Besides, it's generally easier to find a new job if things go awry than the right partner if you pass up someone who's really cool.
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Sure is, but then again, any computer that didn't come with an Ethernet card is probably going to have a parallel port since it'll be > 5 yrs old.
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Ah, ya, zey fell from ze truck. :P
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Why would it damage the printer? The ink-squirting part of the cartridge is part of the cartridge - in the worst case, you'll be out the cost of a refill and cartridge.
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With printers that have an integrated head/cartridge, then you just replace the cartridge if it clogs. But the cartridges usually last at least 3 refills (at under $5 a pop) before they get beyond help.
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Ummm,,,,,, no thanks.
Stuck trying to live off an $8/hr job with no way to even well consider a second job? Nope, forget it.
$8/hr for a networking tech job? When you can make easily 3x or more as much doing the same thing freelance? No wonder you didn't take it. BTW- where are you so I can avoid your area? - $8/hr for any sort of computer job is awful, sorry to say.
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