...on any realistic scale. The station you pointed to, and so many other "conservative" talkers (Limbaugh, Hannity, etc...) are more accurately termed extreme right-wing.
I recently had an eight hour layover in Frankfurt. I went to the lounge, thought I'd get online a little while and play. T-Mobile signs everywhere saying it was a hotspot, cool. Until I logged on and saw the rates.
Eight Euros. PER HOUR.
This is what these guys are exposed to. And they can charge it off to their expense accounts. (So could I, but I refuse to.) They really don't have a clue how the rest of us live when they call these rates "reasonable."
The Personal Jukebox (also known as PJB-100 or Music Compressor) was the first commercially sold hard disk digital audio player. Introduced late in 1999, it preceded the Apple iPod and similar players. The original design was developed by Compaq Research (SRC and PAAD groups) starting in May 1998. Compaq did not release the player themselves, but licensed the design to HanGo Electronics Co., Ltd. of South Korea.
The fact that the iPhone is the "most open" platform say it all.
You are kidding, right? I'm running a Treo 680 GPS which I purchased from ATT Wireless (EVIL!!! OH NOES!!!!!1one) that will run any Palm software I throw at it, including running Opera Mini currently. WITHOUT being hacked. Same thing with my Treo 650 before it. $30 to a phone shop in S.F., and the SIM card was unlocked, so I can use it anywhere in the world there's a GSM network. If you don't do any research into the phone and carrier you're using BEFORE you sign the contract, you've effectively reached out and guided the dick straight up your own ass.
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that. Inspectors from the AAZA (American Association of Zoos and Aquariums) were out two years ago and measured the walls of the enclosure, calling them adequate according to their standards. And they're the ones who write the book on these matters.
Still, it's a damned shame. For the tiger, that is. Not for the drunken nimrod who was teasing her, going so far as to pass the barriers erected to keep the public back from the animals, according to the evidence found at the scene.
Oh, please. Show me anyone current with the creativity and originality and just plain fucking weirdness of a Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, or Zoogz Rift who has a snowball's chance in hell of being signed by a major label in 2008.
I know a lot of religious nutters, but not one of them will claim that the bible was originally written in English. You've never been to Texas or Oklahoma, have you?
Sorry, this was mid-1980s, and I don't have a cite for you. I do remember that the Supremes in Calif at the time ruled that whoever was paying for the treatment (by session or treatment) was the actual client, and had the right to access the records. And given the reaction from the management at the time, I have to think it's the case. It's not that their is no privilege, but that the client has the same access rights as the patient.
I went through a somewhat similar situation while working for an agency of the State of California. Morale was in the toilet due to management being exactly the kind of clueless, pompous buffoons that management so typically is. So they brought in a psychiatrist and set up mandatory meetings for every department. At the first meeting he made a very big show of assuring everyone that this was all confidential and he was bound by law and professional ethics not to divulge anything said in these sessions to anyone. When I brought up immediately that the state Supreme Court had recently ruled that, contrary to his assertions, whoever was PAYING for the service was considered to be the client, and therefore entitled to have the information divulged to them, and that his misleading statements really didn't reflect well on his professional ethics, he tried to deflect it in every possible way... WITHOUT actually denying it. The point was made, however. The sessions were abruptly ended about a month later when it became clear that no one was talking to him. The bottom line is that the Doctor - Patient relationship isn't nearly as sacrosanct as people make it out to be.
Death is inevitable. (Or so I'm told - still working on that one.) We can either laugh at it or weep for our fate.
I prefer to laugh. Particularly given some of the spectacularly stupid ways some people figure out to die.
If you got it from ATT with your contract, it's heavily subsidized. (My Treo 680 from ATT was $79.99 with a 2 year contract.) You are, of course, free to pay full price for an unlocked phone, and relieve yourself from the unbearable burden of having to ask nicely.
...saying much the same thing during the 2000 election. Well, things have gotten worse than most of us could have imagined, and the populace hasn't risen up en masse to hang the bastards from lightposts yet. This will barely register on Joe Citizen's radar, because, if this bill passes, either universities will challenge it in court, or roll over immediately. They won't let that kind of money get away.
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...on any realistic scale. The station you pointed to, and so many other "conservative" talkers (Limbaugh, Hannity, etc...) are more accurately termed extreme right-wing.
I thought the poster was referring to fine whiskeys.
Eight Euros. PER HOUR.
This is what these guys are exposed to. And they can charge it off to their expense accounts. (So could I, but I refuse to.) They really don't have a clue how the rest of us live when they call these rates "reasonable."
The Personal Jukebox (also known as PJB-100 or Music Compressor) was the first commercially sold hard disk digital audio player. Introduced late in 1999, it preceded the Apple iPod and similar players. The original design was developed by Compaq Research (SRC and PAAD groups) starting in May 1998. Compaq did not release the player themselves, but licensed the design to HanGo Electronics Co., Ltd. of South Korea.
You are kidding, right? I'm running a Treo 680 GPS which I purchased from ATT Wireless (EVIL!!! OH NOES!!!!!1one) that will run any Palm software I throw at it, including running Opera Mini currently. WITHOUT being hacked. Same thing with my Treo 650 before it. $30 to a phone shop in S.F., and the SIM card was unlocked, so I can use it anywhere in the world there's a GSM network. If you don't do any research into the phone and carrier you're using BEFORE you sign the contract, you've effectively reached out and guided the dick straight up your own ass.
...you Brits invented the language.
We Americans perfected it.
*ducks*
Damn kids...
And how long does it take to do a windows install, find all the drivers, add all of the updates and patches, etc...? If you're lucky, two hours.
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that. Inspectors from the AAZA (American Association of Zoos and Aquariums) were out two years ago and measured the walls of the enclosure, calling them adequate according to their standards. And they're the ones who write the book on these matters.
Still, it's a damned shame. For the tiger, that is. Not for the drunken nimrod who was teasing her, going so far as to pass the barriers erected to keep the public back from the animals, according to the evidence found at the scene.
Oh, please. Show me anyone current with the creativity and originality and just plain fucking weirdness of a Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, or Zoogz Rift who has a snowball's chance in hell of being signed by a major label in 2008.
Never heard of them?
;)
You must be new here.
I subscribe to Fortean Times. It questions both. ;)
...you're completely unclear on the concept of enlightened self-interest.
And yes, I'm entirely serious.
Sorry, this was mid-1980s, and I don't have a cite for you. I do remember that the Supremes in Calif at the time ruled that whoever was paying for the treatment (by session or treatment) was the actual client, and had the right to access the records. And given the reaction from the management at the time, I have to think it's the case. It's not that their is no privilege, but that the client has the same access rights as the patient.
I went through a somewhat similar situation while working for an agency of the State of California. Morale was in the toilet due to management being exactly the kind of clueless, pompous buffoons that management so typically is. So they brought in a psychiatrist and set up mandatory meetings for every department. At the first meeting he made a very big show of assuring everyone that this was all confidential and he was bound by law and professional ethics not to divulge anything said in these sessions to anyone. When I brought up immediately that the state Supreme Court had recently ruled that, contrary to his assertions, whoever was PAYING for the service was considered to be the client, and therefore entitled to have the information divulged to them, and that his misleading statements really didn't reflect well on his professional ethics, he tried to deflect it in every possible way... WITHOUT actually denying it. The point was made, however. The sessions were abruptly ended about a month later when it became clear that no one was talking to him. The bottom line is that the Doctor - Patient relationship isn't nearly as sacrosanct as people make it out to be.
Great. Now what do I do about all these corpses smelling up my basement?
Death is inevitable. (Or so I'm told - still working on that one.) We can either laugh at it or weep for our fate. I prefer to laugh. Particularly given some of the spectacularly stupid ways some people figure out to die.
Please try to keep posts on topic...
This is simply the US trying to protect the tax revenue generated by the domestic gambling industry.
There, fixed that for you.
If you got it from ATT with your contract, it's heavily subsidized. (My Treo 680 from ATT was $79.99 with a 2 year contract.) You are, of course, free to pay full price for an unlocked phone, and relieve yourself from the unbearable burden of having to ask nicely.
...saying much the same thing during the 2000 election. Well, things have gotten worse than most of us could have imagined, and the populace hasn't risen up en masse to hang the bastards from lightposts yet. This will barely register on Joe Citizen's radar, because, if this bill passes, either universities will challenge it in court, or roll over immediately. They won't let that kind of money get away.
20/20 and 60 Minutes are using the "in Soviet Russia" meme now?