I bought one from him, though I could tell from my NTP-sync'ed mobile phone that his own watch was 2 minutes slow.
He'll have the last laugh when your mobile phone battery dies when you're hiking in B.F.E. BTW - does anyone make a wristwatch that syncs to a time source (cell net or whatever)?
Tumors are nasty. One of my close friends' mom had a tumor, and until it was removed she went completely nuts.
Lyme Disease, neurosyphilis, and other low-grade long-term brain infections can also be extremely evil. Mainly because they're subclinical and don't present with scary symptoms like high fever or unconsciousness, but they can cause a whole range of symptoms. Seizures, paralysis, behaviour changes, etc and so forth. I had chronic Lyme for a few years and it felt like my will to exist was stripped away. Hard to describe, but sort of like a continual case of the flu but moving through yellow shimmering molasses. Really fuckin wierd and unpleasant. Not to mention electrical shock-type sensations in my head, inability to focus my eye on text (but my vision itself was fine), wierd twitches, a propensity to get easily angry, and even prostate cramps with unknown (neurological?) cause. Thank g*d I got cured (more or less cured myself) of that shit - I don't think I'd be here now had I not researched it and recognized the symptoms!
This is why people who actually want to secure a wireless network use some combination of Radius and VPNs...
That's also one way to maintain an open network for casual surfers without compromising your home/business network. Put the wireless net on the Internet side of a firewall. Only VPN users get to cross the firewall and play on the company Intranet.
Sure he broke the law - he comissioned an illegal act.
Never said he didn't. I just said that more than a year in prison is a bit harsh. I think that the current punishment that'll ensue; loss of job and public ridicule, sounds to me to be just right!
Forced mental treatment because of a PROPENSITY for bad actions seems like an atrocity.
Also has a great danger for being misused. Remember that in the 70s/80s USSR, dissidents were often locked up in mental asylums because of their "anti-social tendencies" and basically drugged into being zombies. "Voluntary" confinement was seen to project a much better image to the world than just sending the gadflies to Siberia or giving them the firing squad as was done in past decades.
Any single one of them, is more than capable of being a good contributing member of society, if they work at it. But all of them have the same trait that lends them to addictive behavior.
But what if seeing their addictive behaviour influences someone else (say a close friend) to write a book that enlightens many people? You could say that they're being indirectly contributive to society by influencing others, whether negatively or positively. As long as they're not physically hurting anyone but themselves, let them be (or cure them if you're able to, but don't lock them up!) Society needs all kinds of people to work - it's a human ecosystem and extincting one "species" could have paradoxically far reaching effects.
someone with a genetic or medical condition that makes them dangerous
But you have to compare the likelihood of committing a dangerous act with the harm to society done by locking the person up. Also, what if the same genes that make a person a "go getter" in, say, a business or science environment make him a criminal under other circumstances? For all we know, we could end up imprisoning the best of our society as well as the worst.
And as far as "genetic conditions", if we know that a baby has a "predisposition" to violence at birth from DNA testing or whatever, should we just kill the child to spare society the cost of locking him up? If yes, are you willing to do so? Personally? What if we're killing someone who'd grow up to be the next Einstein or Mozart under the right circumstances?!
The pedophile cited in the article couldn't use it as a defense in his trial, because the legal system doesn't give a damn.
And, anyway, the legal system already accounts for physical disorders causing people to commit crimes. There's such a thing as a "not guilty by reason of insanity" - you get confined until you're declared "cured" - this guy obviously *was* cured. The level of compulsion required for a successful insanity defense varies by country and even by US state.
Some genetic makeups may make you *more likely* to make poor (or dangerous to others) choices, but they don't make it a certainty. You may have a quick temper, but you might be able to control it because you know you have a family and a good job, and if you snap that guy's neck in a bar fight, you'd go to jail and they'd be poor.
"Few years" - that's a bit harsh considering nothing illegal was actually accomplished. Keep in mind that for a lot of violent crimes short of murder, the prison time isn't even a "few years." More like *a* year. The best punishment is exposing this guy for a fraud and making sure that he'll lose his job and be a laughingstock boob.
One more thing: who's to say that this was actually him not a prank designed to discredit the guy? It's not like they check ID before you surf the 'net. Maybe the article has more info, but it's currently slashdotted!
It may not be perfect but the MS site is much better than many other sites. Have you ever tried downloading updates or drivers from IBM?
Or Novell. Shoot me now, please. Some parts of their site say that Groupwise 7 is compatible with SuSE 9. Others say SuSE 10. End result: it doesn't work right (if you can even get past install) with 10 unless you get a certain specific service pack that isn't mentioned in any obvious literature.
Well, with most credit cards, your pretty protected against fraudulent charges as it is, but that's pretty good advice
By "with a limit", I meant a CC that's not attached to a bank account, like a CheckCard. With a CheckCard, dishonest people could conceivably bleed your account dry and then some. If you had $20k on account, that would suck. Painfully.
I've bought plenty of stuff online, and I've never been burned. For sites that look dodgy, just transfer the payment through PayPal or something of the sort so your CC# isn't given out directly to the company. Only buy stuff on a credit card with a limit - they can't charge more than the limit to the card without the bank closing the card and notifying you. As far as phishing e-mails go, check the frickin' URL before you give out your data. If you're too stupid to do that and/or respond to e-mails that are obviously written in Engrish, then I'm surprised you aren't too stupid to keep breathing. Sheesh!
BTW, keep in mind that plenty of the dodgier brick-and-mortar stores can gank your CC # as well. And if you've made purchases in 50 stores in the last month, no one's gonna know which store was responsible for it.
To run a business in the usa, you file with the secretary of state of your state plus file for a federal employer ID. You do about as much for that as a Cert authorities(CA) has you do.
In most states, provided you don't have an actual storefront, you don't need to file anything to be a sole proprietorship. The only thing you may need to file in states that have sales tax (not all do!) is an app. for license to collect sales tax. All that takes is a valid address and possibly an SSN#, at least in NY state. I'd feel better if the governments were issuing certificates to actual *people* (with a valid SSN#) rather than corps. The owner of the cert. would be responsible for abuses, and the fee should not exceed some nominal value ($25?).
In other parts of the world being a sole trader is common and accepted you need do nothing to "get in business", no forms to fill, nothing to apply for, you just wake up one morning and start "in business".
BTDT, in the US. No big deal. The only forms I needed to fill out were tax returns and a sales tax license that allowed me to collect NY State sales tax on sales.
n this day and age of litigation, there is NO reason why if you're going into businses you should even consider sole proprietarship or general partnership agreement.
Registering as a corporation costs time and money. If you're just starting out, you may not have either to spare. Even $500 can be a big deal for some people, especially those who are young and in transition. Why should be impose one more artificial barrier to the success of the little guy?
That being said, I see a possible service in small business web hosting. For an extra $5/month, offer "green" certificates after talking to the business owner and looking at their site to see if it's legit.
Bingo! Right choice - do something that you'll love, not something that you *think* will bring you money. Especially if the latter isn't actually bringing in any valuta.
The newegg.com reviews seem to speak for themselves: while not perfect, this product is superior to the iPod, both aesthetically and functionally.
But unless it's very superior, Apple has a huge entrenched market share and a "name" in the business. This is kind of the reverse of the Vista vs OS X situation.
Don't worry - the windmills aren't actually that efficient, nor do they cover a large percentage of vertical cross-section. They're spaced quite a bit apart and aren't that tall, vertically speaking. Chances are they don't end up being more disruptive to air currents than, say, the skyscrapers in NYC. And the weather in Brooklyn isn't *that* different than in the rest of the region.
Without Microsoft, you would probably still be using MacOS Classic on a PowerPC, dreaming of the day you could smoothly run multiple tasks and not have one crashing program bring down the whole OS with it.
Remember that Jobs left Apple for a decade or so to found NeXT. If MS didn't exist, I suspect that NeXT would have filled the vacuum with cheaper systems running NeXTSTEP. So we might have all been running NeXTSTEP 11 in 2006 (kinda like OS X except for a much "cleaner" filesystem design, since no need exists to emulate the UI of OS 9).
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He'll have the last laugh when your mobile phone battery dies when you're hiking in B.F.E. BTW - does anyone make a wristwatch that syncs to a time source (cell net or whatever)?
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Since when do doctors still do house calls?
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Lyme Disease, neurosyphilis, and other low-grade long-term brain infections can also be extremely evil. Mainly because they're subclinical and don't present with scary symptoms like high fever or unconsciousness, but they can cause a whole range of symptoms. Seizures, paralysis, behaviour changes, etc and so forth. I had chronic Lyme for a few years and it felt like my will to exist was stripped away. Hard to describe, but sort of like a continual case of the flu but moving through yellow shimmering molasses. Really fuckin wierd and unpleasant. Not to mention electrical shock-type sensations in my head, inability to focus my eye on text (but my vision itself was fine), wierd twitches, a propensity to get easily angry, and even prostate cramps with unknown (neurological?) cause. Thank g*d I got cured (more or less cured myself) of that shit - I don't think I'd be here now had I not researched it and recognized the symptoms!
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That's also one way to maintain an open network for casual surfers without compromising your home/business network. Put the wireless net on the Internet side of a firewall. Only VPN users get to cross the firewall and play on the company Intranet.
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Never said he didn't. I just said that more than a year in prison is a bit harsh. I think that the current punishment that'll ensue; loss of job and public ridicule, sounds to me to be just right!
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Also has a great danger for being misused. Remember that in the 70s/80s USSR, dissidents were often locked up in mental asylums because of their "anti-social tendencies" and basically drugged into being zombies. "Voluntary" confinement was seen to project a much better image to the world than just sending the gadflies to Siberia or giving them the firing squad as was done in past decades.
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Could they have means of testing this? Maybe brainwave response while watching child pr0n as compared to over-18 porn. Or something...
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But what if seeing their addictive behaviour influences someone else (say a close friend) to write a book that enlightens many people? You could say that they're being indirectly contributive to society by influencing others, whether negatively or positively. As long as they're not physically hurting anyone but themselves, let them be (or cure them if you're able to, but don't lock them up!) Society needs all kinds of people to work - it's a human ecosystem and extincting one "species" could have paradoxically far reaching effects.
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But you have to compare the likelihood of committing a dangerous act with the harm to society done by locking the person up. Also, what if the same genes that make a person a "go getter" in, say, a business or science environment make him a criminal under other circumstances? For all we know, we could end up imprisoning the best of our society as well as the worst.
And as far as "genetic conditions", if we know that a baby has a "predisposition" to violence at birth from DNA testing or whatever, should we just kill the child to spare society the cost of locking him up? If yes, are you willing to do so? Personally? What if we're killing someone who'd grow up to be the next Einstein or Mozart under the right circumstances?!
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And, anyway, the legal system already accounts for physical disorders causing people to commit crimes. There's such a thing as a "not guilty by reason of insanity" - you get confined until you're declared "cured" - this guy obviously *was* cured. The level of compulsion required for a successful insanity defense varies by country and even by US state.
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Yep, approval voting, so that voters can select the dark-horse candidate without feeling that their votes are going to waste.
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"Few years" - that's a bit harsh considering nothing illegal was actually accomplished. Keep in mind that for a lot of violent crimes short of murder, the prison time isn't even a "few years." More like *a* year. The best punishment is exposing this guy for a fraud and making sure that he'll lose his job and be a laughingstock boob.
One more thing: who's to say that this was actually him not a prank designed to discredit the guy? It's not like they check ID before you surf the 'net. Maybe the article has more info, but it's currently slashdotted!
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Or Novell. Shoot me now, please. Some parts of their site say that Groupwise 7 is compatible with SuSE 9. Others say SuSE 10. End result: it doesn't work right (if you can even get past install) with 10 unless you get a certain specific service pack that isn't mentioned in any obvious literature.
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By "with a limit", I meant a CC that's not attached to a bank account, like a CheckCard. With a CheckCard, dishonest people could conceivably bleed your account dry and then some. If you had $20k on account, that would suck. Painfully.
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BTW, keep in mind that plenty of the dodgier brick-and-mortar stores can gank your CC # as well. And if you've made purchases in 50 stores in the last month, no one's gonna know which store was responsible for it.
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In most states, provided you don't have an actual storefront, you don't need to file anything to be a sole proprietorship. The only thing you may need to file in states that have sales tax (not all do!) is an app. for license to collect sales tax. All that takes is a valid address and possibly an SSN#, at least in NY state. I'd feel better if the governments were issuing certificates to actual *people* (with a valid SSN#) rather than corps. The owner of the cert. would be responsible for abuses, and the fee should not exceed some nominal value ($25?).
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BTDT, in the US. No big deal. The only forms I needed to fill out were tax returns and a sales tax license that allowed me to collect NY State sales tax on sales.
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Registering as a corporation costs time and money. If you're just starting out, you may not have either to spare. Even $500 can be a big deal for some people, especially those who are young and in transition. Why should be impose one more artificial barrier to the success of the little guy?
That being said, I see a possible service in small business web hosting. For an extra $5/month, offer "green" certificates after talking to the business owner and looking at their site to see if it's legit.
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Bingo! Right choice - do something that you'll love, not something that you *think* will bring you money. Especially if the latter isn't actually bringing in any valuta.
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But unless it's very superior, Apple has a huge entrenched market share and a "name" in the business. This is kind of the reverse of the Vista vs OS X situation.
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Don't worry - the windmills aren't actually that efficient, nor do they cover a large percentage of vertical cross-section. They're spaced quite a bit apart and aren't that tall, vertically speaking. Chances are they don't end up being more disruptive to air currents than, say, the skyscrapers in NYC. And the weather in Brooklyn isn't *that* different than in the rest of the region.
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And lock all other exits. If the MPs want to leave, it's through the blades. Arrrrr, matey!
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Just like Chevy is a joke and BMW is the current US sales leader :)
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Remember that Jobs left Apple for a decade or so to found NeXT. If MS didn't exist, I suspect that NeXT would have filled the vacuum with cheaper systems running NeXTSTEP. So we might have all been running NeXTSTEP 11 in 2006 (kinda like OS X except for a much "cleaner" filesystem design, since no need exists to emulate the UI of OS 9).
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