Mark Twain wrote an excellent piece roasting our belief that all this was created for us. Naturally, I'm damned if I can remember the title. It's a pity that Halleys comet had to come by again so soon....
... I really dislike the notion of eliminating any form of authentication to use the card. Admittedly, signatures are a poor form of authentication, since so few cashiers (on the order of something like 1/100) even bother to look at the signature on the card, but at least the onus is on the merchant to make a good-faith effort to compare the signature on the receipt against the signature on the card. I would much prefer requiring a keypad and a PIN, as is the case with debit cards.
Oh, well, if Chase attempts to force this on me, I'll have to go shopping for another card, or pay cash.
Several years ago, I decided I'd like to subscribe to Consumer Reports and tried to do it on their web site. It wouldn't work with the browser I was using (Opera, I think) because of some non-portable code in the site. When I attempted to find a way to contact them online to say their web site was costing them a sale, I couldn't. Now, three years later, they haven't improved.
1) It creates MORE government, not less. Republicans are supposed to be for smaller government, but this flies in the face of that policy.
2) It's unfunded. The states are supposed to work out for themselves how to comply with these regulations with NO federal funding.
3) Of course, states aren't required to comply, but then a state's citizens will be unable to make use of most interstate transportation (flying).
4) It provides few, if any, clear benefits. Maybe a bartender in Cali won't have to worry about knowing what Vermont's drivers licenses look like with a national ID card, but people with the money and determination will still be able to get fake IDs.
I would say that "policy" is not the right word to describe it. I would say it's marketing. Ten to twelve years ago, the GOP was for term limits, a balanced budget, the line item veto, no unfunded state mandates, and reduced government intrusion into citizens' lives. My "Contract with America" congressman is still in office, the budget deficit is back, states are having trouble keeping up with expenses resulting from federal legislation, and I have to produce a photo ID to get on a plane even though they've done everything short of a strip search to ensure I don't have a weapon. (Never mind that there is no way in hell anyone will be able to hijack a commercial airliner with knives again.)
No, GOP policy is "Elect Republicans". In fairness, the Democrats' policy is "Elect Democrats".
To get back on topic, what I've heard about Real ID is definitely controversial, but I can't seem to find anything about it on Congress' website. The GPO PDF I downloaded had all of the driver's license/identification card requirements stricken.
You can't leave this job on good terms. Your boss has already decided that question. You may still be able to leave on good terms with everyone else in the company by working to transition your tasks and knowledge, to ensure they aren't stuck cleaning up a train wreck. If your cow-orkers see that you are doing your utmost to ensure continuity and sanity for the company, then they will remember that when they leave -- which won't be long, IMHO. In a year or two, you may get a job or referral from them.
I am not a lawyer, but unless you have an employment contract that says you are responsible for finding your own replacement, the boss cannot hold your final paycheck for that. Play it clean and to the rule to the end, and document, document, document. If you aren't paid promptly and in full after you leave, check to see if there is either a state labor board, or an arm of the U.S. Dept. of Labor (I'm assuming you're in the U.S.) having to do with wage complaints. Failing that, just file suit in small claims court. I'm betting he cuts the check for you the day he gets the summons.
The dog doesn't make the decisions, the person does. I don't exactly know when one would choose to have a guide dog vs. relying solely on a cane, but typically a blind person who has a guide dog also owns a cane and knows how to use it as well.
I don't think the recipient is required to pay for return freight. (But I am not a lawyer.)
Years ago, my dad ordered several rolls of newsprint for his presses. The paper company shipped the wrong size. Dad contacted the shipper, and asked them to let him know the details as to what carrier would pick the stuff up, etc. The thing is, these rolls of paper weigh tons, being something like 1 meter in diameter and a meter or two wide. The paper company said, "Just send it to the dump, and we'll ship you the right size."
Dad doesn't throw stuff away, and he had the paper cut into letter-size sheets, scratch pads, etc., and used it for typing up news copy & whatnot. He finally exhausted the supply after about 20 years.
My wife ordered a cookbook from Southern Living under one of those subscription schemes, then exercised her option to cancel after she had received the free book they offered her. Books kept coming in the mail, she kept sending them back, and they were dunning us for one of the ones that eveidently was lost in the mail. I wasn't able to get them off our case until I got the Better Business Bureau involved.
One year in September, the national umbrella organization for Jewish men's groups sent me a box of Rosh Hashanah cards, and then began sending me bills. They eventually stopped after I wrote and explained that what they had done was both unethical and illegal.
Daughter, 7-8 years old at the time, finds a neat craft kit in the Scholastic Magazine flyer that she can afford on her allowance. She orders it. It turns out that it's a starter kit for a monthly "subscription", and they expected someone to be responsible for and pay for the merchandise even though the order was accepted without soliciting parents' approval. That one took a couple of letters and phone calls.
I remember that the thing that landed on the moon was called the L.E.M. (lunar excursion model), and the news reports at the time distinguished between the command module (the capsule that eventually splashed down into the ocean) and the service module, which had the engines, fuel, and whatnot to propel and reorient the command module. Maybe they called them LM and CSM and told the public something else.
30 year old? You've got it partly wrong. The 3rd party tax prep companies may stand to gain a lot from the tax industry, but they were latecomers. Politicians have been selling political favors in the form of tax breaks since before the ink was dry on the original legislation authorizing the income tax. It's a lucrative business, as can easily be seen from a stroll down the street in front of my office at lunchtime. I've never seen so many suits.
People may only see the complaint that wrongly says PDF has to be reverse-engineered, and not the multitude of answers that explain that the specification is available.
IMHO, the specification is well-written and easy to understand. If other companies wanting to make their file formats a standard were willing to make such good specifications freely available, I would quit calling them anti-competitive behemoths. (They know who they are.)
It has changed, indeed. We drove to Canada last summer. The Canadian border agent asked us if we had any knives, too.
Returning to the U.S. was interesting to me. I expected long lines and hassles. It was a snap, probably because the van was loaded to the gills with camping equipment and bicycles. We spent the night about an hour south of the border in Vermont. The next morning, about 100 miles into the state, we came to a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in the middle of the freaking interstate highway. I'd say U.S. security isn't quite as dumb as we sometimes think it is.
Recalling the Border Patrol checkpoint, it makes me wonder whatever happened to license checks. It used to be that the police would periodically set up along a relatively quiet road and check licenses and registration of every motor vehicle that came along. It seemed to be an effective way of catching people driving under suspension and so forth. But I haven't seen one for over 20 years.
Mapquest it was. I remember finding my house on it a year or so after I bought it, so that would be 1999 or 2000. Mysteriously -- or perhaps not -- Mapquest's maps disappeared after 2001. I blame Tom Ridge, but just out of my personal bias, not any real evidence.
Also, Microsoft had some kind of thing out around the same time frame that allowed interactive zooming and the like.
Well, I'm ticked. I finally caved in and installed Flashplayer because of one website I wanted to access that had no other way in. I'm ripping that sucker out right this instant!
It's interesting to me that one has to use a website to access the controls for the plugin. This means they can completely take away any control I have whatsoever. I agree -- Flash is EVIL.
I vote Republican because I can't stand the Democrats! Besides, it doesn't matter whether their actions are contrary to their stated principles -- they're saying all the right words except the ones I don't want to hear.
Okay, well, I don't, really, but I'll swear that seems to be the logic one of my Republican friends uses, as I watch him go through contortions to explain why he no longer supports something (like term limits) he vehemently supported a few years ago.
To be fair, I see Democrats who are the same way. My grandparents, for example, were yellow dog Democrats who supported the party even when it began to support principles they opposed.
Yes, I know it's off-topic, but sometimes flame bait begets flame bait.
It will really depend on the laws of the states in question. I think, for example, that Virginia allows residents to subtract wages earned in another state if they paid taxes on them to that state, but that's not to say they couldn't say, "You owe us tax, too, bud." There's nothing I have seen in the Constitution that prohibits double taxation. The brakes on double taxation are controlled from the ballot box and the occasional mob carrying tar and feathers.
We try to teach our kids morals. Then the kid down the street or on the school playground teaches them HIS version.
I guess, though, that I'm not so worried about that; if my kid's morals aren't strong enough to stand up to what she faces in life, then my wife and I have failed her somehow. What really worries me, though, is the malformed individual who may try to take his fantasy to a new level with my daughter when she is not able to adequately defend herself.
So, for the sake of my kid and all the others out there, if you like these games, then please treat them the same way you ought to treat firearms and those "special" videotapes, and keep them locked away from the kids.
BTW, one doesn't have to be a right-wing or left-wing zealot to agree with Sen. Clinton on some of these points.
Not a bad article, but I, too, got the sense that Microsoft invented virtual memory, paging, and swapping. Luckily, I distinctly remember monitoring the paging and swapping activity on my DG minis. Then there was the LRU (least-recently used) memory chain, and writing my programs to use the smallest amount of unshared memory as possible.... Boy, what a trip down memory lane!
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I looked on the MS Office box to see if the Linux 2.4 kernel was a supported configuration. It wasn't
I am wondering if you saw any reduction in pay as a result of reaming out the payroll person....
Mark Twain wrote an excellent piece roasting our belief that all this was created for us. Naturally, I'm damned if I can remember the title. It's a pity that Halleys comet had to come by again so soon....
Oh, well, if Chase attempts to force this on me, I'll have to go shopping for another card, or pay cash.
Several years ago, I decided I'd like to subscribe to Consumer Reports and tried to do it on their web site. It wouldn't work with the browser I was using (Opera, I think) because of some non-portable code in the site. When I attempted to find a way to contact them online to say their web site was costing them a sale, I couldn't. Now, three years later, they haven't improved.
1) It creates MORE government, not less. Republicans are supposed to be for smaller government, but this flies in the face of that policy.
2) It's unfunded. The states are supposed to work out for themselves how to comply with these regulations with NO federal funding.
3) Of course, states aren't required to comply, but then a state's citizens will be unable to make use of most interstate transportation (flying).
4) It provides few, if any, clear benefits. Maybe a bartender in Cali won't have to worry about knowing what Vermont's drivers licenses look like with a national ID card, but people with the money and determination will still be able to get fake IDs.
I would say that "policy" is not the right word to describe it. I would say it's marketing. Ten to twelve years ago, the GOP was for term limits, a balanced budget, the line item veto, no unfunded state mandates, and reduced government intrusion into citizens' lives. My "Contract with America" congressman is still in office, the budget deficit is back, states are having trouble keeping up with expenses resulting from federal legislation, and I have to produce a photo ID to get on a plane even though they've done everything short of a strip search to ensure I don't have a weapon. (Never mind that there is no way in hell anyone will be able to hijack a commercial airliner with knives again.)
No, GOP policy is "Elect Republicans". In fairness, the Democrats' policy is "Elect Democrats".
To get back on topic, what I've heard about Real ID is definitely controversial, but I can't seem to find anything about it on Congress' website. The GPO PDF I downloaded had all of the driver's license/identification card requirements stricken.
I am not a lawyer, but unless you have an employment contract that says you are responsible for finding your own replacement, the boss cannot hold your final paycheck for that. Play it clean and to the rule to the end, and document, document, document. If you aren't paid promptly and in full after you leave, check to see if there is either a state labor board, or an arm of the U.S. Dept. of Labor (I'm assuming you're in the U.S.) having to do with wage complaints. Failing that, just file suit in small claims court. I'm betting he cuts the check for you the day he gets the summons.
The dog doesn't make the decisions, the person does. I don't exactly know when one would choose to have a guide dog vs. relying solely on a cane, but typically a blind person who has a guide dog also owns a cane and knows how to use it as well.
... a clever sheep. He's realized that a sheep's life consists of standing around, waiting to be eaten, and he's hit upon the idea of escape.
Any word on whether they're using better glue than on the A300-600 and A310, or at a stronger vertical stabilizer?
Years ago, my dad ordered several rolls of newsprint for his presses. The paper company shipped the wrong size. Dad contacted the shipper, and asked them to let him know the details as to what carrier would pick the stuff up, etc. The thing is, these rolls of paper weigh tons, being something like 1 meter in diameter and a meter or two wide. The paper company said, "Just send it to the dump, and we'll ship you the right size."
Dad doesn't throw stuff away, and he had the paper cut into letter-size sheets, scratch pads, etc., and used it for typing up news copy & whatnot. He finally exhausted the supply after about 20 years.
35 years? Geeze! I'm getting old.
30 year old? You've got it partly wrong. The 3rd party tax prep companies may stand to gain a lot from the tax industry, but they were latecomers. Politicians have been selling political favors in the form of tax breaks since before the ink was dry on the original legislation authorizing the income tax. It's a lucrative business, as can easily be seen from a stroll down the street in front of my office at lunchtime. I've never seen so many suits.
IMHO, the specification is well-written and easy to understand. If other companies wanting to make their file formats a standard were willing to make such good specifications freely available, I would quit calling them anti-competitive behemoths. (They know who they are.)
Instead of turning apoplectic, I just mutter " spammers!"
Returning to the U.S. was interesting to me. I expected long lines and hassles. It was a snap, probably because the van was loaded to the gills with camping equipment and bicycles. We spent the night about an hour south of the border in Vermont. The next morning, about 100 miles into the state, we came to a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in the middle of the freaking interstate highway. I'd say U.S. security isn't quite as dumb as we sometimes think it is.
Recalling the Border Patrol checkpoint, it makes me wonder whatever happened to license checks. It used to be that the police would periodically set up along a relatively quiet road and check licenses and registration of every motor vehicle that came along. It seemed to be an effective way of catching people driving under suspension and so forth. But I haven't seen one for over 20 years.
Also, Microsoft had some kind of thing out around the same time frame that allowed interactive zooming and the like.
It's interesting to me that one has to use a website to access the controls for the plugin. This means they can completely take away any control I have whatsoever. I agree -- Flash is EVIL.
I don't need a plugin. If someone turns on my camera to have a look at me, they'll only do it once.
I vote Republican because I can't stand the Democrats! Besides, it doesn't matter whether their actions are contrary to their stated principles -- they're saying all the right words except the ones I don't want to hear.
Okay, well, I don't, really, but I'll swear that seems to be the logic one of my Republican friends uses, as I watch him go through contortions to explain why he no longer supports something (like term limits) he vehemently supported a few years ago.
To be fair, I see Democrats who are the same way. My grandparents, for example, were yellow dog Democrats who supported the party even when it began to support principles they opposed.
Yes, I know it's off-topic, but sometimes flame bait begets flame bait.
It will really depend on the laws of the states in question. I think, for example, that Virginia allows residents to subtract wages earned in another state if they paid taxes on them to that state, but that's not to say they couldn't say, "You owe us tax, too, bud." There's nothing I have seen in the Constitution that prohibits double taxation. The brakes on double taxation are controlled from the ballot box and the occasional mob carrying tar and feathers.
I guess, though, that I'm not so worried about that; if my kid's morals aren't strong enough to stand up to what she faces in life, then my wife and I have failed her somehow. What really worries me, though, is the malformed individual who may try to take his fantasy to a new level with my daughter when she is not able to adequately defend herself.
So, for the sake of my kid and all the others out there, if you like these games, then please treat them the same way you ought to treat firearms and those "special" videotapes, and keep them locked away from the kids.
BTW, one doesn't have to be a right-wing or left-wing zealot to agree with Sen. Clinton on some of these points.
Not a bad article, but I, too, got the sense that Microsoft invented virtual memory, paging, and swapping. Luckily, I distinctly remember monitoring the paging and swapping activity on my DG minis. Then there was the LRU (least-recently used) memory chain, and writing my programs to use the smallest amount of unshared memory as possible.... Boy, what a trip down memory lane!