A State's failure to protect an individual against private violence generally does not constitute a violation of the Due Process Clause, because the Clause imposes no duty on the State to provide members of the general public with adequate protective services. The Clause is phrased as a limitation on the State's power to act, not as a guarantee of certain minimal levels of safety and security[. ..]
Having done both I have to say I prefer working on site. Yes, people are weird, but it is WORLDS easier to just fix the fucking thing, even if they are "helping", than to talk 'em through it.
At the risk of sounding immodest, I was GOOD at talking people through things. I once had a call from an older woman who need me to explain "metal circle down, metal rectangle forward" when inserting a floppy disk. By the end of the call she had re-seated a DIMM.
The problem was just the teeth-grinding patience required to get anything done over the phone.
Of course, I was working for myself when I was doing house calls, and working for Dell on the phone. In the former position I suppose I was better off, since the weren't my machines.
I don't think that it is so much a matter of people being belligerent, as not wanting to be the guy left holding the bag.
Do you imagine that the person who makes this decision in a typical case is an MBA or a EE? Your argument about specs and silicon means little to this guy.
Unless and until there is a big, juicy piece of profit to be made there is little incentive to "give away" any of the companies property.
To the un-initiated it may seem counter-intuitive, but the amount of sex a man has is generally inversely proportionate to the number of wives he has. If you don't belive me, get married.
You might also want to note that "polygamous or plural marriages" are expressly forbidden by the Utah state constitution.
Pedantic means like a pedant -- a teacher. The Latin ped means both foot and small child. You seem to be referring to the former, but relevant root is the latter.
(Please note that I'm saying this only for the irony.)
Oops. Missed a couple of lines from the first letter:
May, 22, 2005 To Whom it May Concern:
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Julius. Caesar Via Appia 1 Rome, The Roman Empire May, 22, 2005 To Whom it May Concern: Alice Falbala fulfilled all the requirements of the Roman Empire intern position. She was excellent at translating roman into her gaul native language, learned very rapidly, and worked with considerable independence and confidence. Her basic work habits such as punctuality, interpersonal deportment, communication skills, and completing assigned and self-determined goals were all excellent. I recommend Alice for challenging positions in which creativity, reliability, and language skills are required. I highly recommend hiring her. If you'd like to discuss her attributes in more detail, please don't hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Julius Caesar
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Julius. Caesar Via Appia 1 Rome, The Roman Empire Alice Falbala fulfilled all the requirements of the Roman Empire intern position. She was excellent at translating roman into her gaul native language, learned very rapidly, and worked with considerable independence and confidence. Her basic work habits such as punctuality, interpersonal deportment, communication skills, and completing assigned and self-determined goals were all excellent. I recommend Alice for challenging positions in which creativity, reliability, and language skills are required. I highly recommend hiring her. If you'd like to discuss her attributes in more detail, please don't hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Julius Caesar
Julius. Caesar Via Appia 1 Rome, The Roman Empire May, 22, 2005 Order: Alice Falbala is given full access to all confidential and secret information about GAUL. Sincerely, Julius Caesar
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The Supreme Court disagrees with your analysis regarding police protection. See DESHANEY v. WINNEBAGO CTY. SOC. SERVS. DEPT., 489 U.S. 189 (1989).
I like the way you think, though!
-Peter
Having done both I have to say I prefer working on site. Yes, people are weird, but it is WORLDS easier to just fix the fucking thing, even if they are "helping", than to talk 'em through it.
At the risk of sounding immodest, I was GOOD at talking people through things. I once had a call from an older woman who need me to explain "metal circle down, metal rectangle forward" when inserting a floppy disk. By the end of the call she had re-seated a DIMM.
The problem was just the teeth-grinding patience required to get anything done over the phone.
Of course, I was working for myself when I was doing house calls, and working for Dell on the phone. In the former position I suppose I was better off, since the weren't my machines.
-Peter
That's no moon . . .
Damn. You really fucked me up with that one.
-Peter
You keep using that word . . .
But seriously, I think you mean "distributed under the terms of the GPL" (or just "GPLed" for short).
GNU is a project to create the core of a UNIX-compatible platform. I don't think that BibDesk ever fell under the auspices of that project.
They promulgate their license, but some random person or group distributing their software under the terms of the GPL doesn't make it GNU software.
-Peter
It was the pilot.
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I think you meant Richard Dean Anderson. Harry Dean Stanton hasn't done much TV since the 60's. I did just watch Red Dawn the other day, though . .
-Peter
It's in the works. I dug up a shot of an enginering prototype
Someone also seems to be working on a clock that's made from a piece of paper that's as thick as a clock
I hope this helps.
-Peter
Your statement brings up the important, and hiterto unanswered question: did anyone use "MacGyver" as a verb before Sam Carter?
(And on an almost totally unrelated note, did you konw that Don S. Davis was Dana Elcar's double on MacGyver?)
-Peter
I'm not sure what you mean by "BibDesk is GNU", but in any case it isn't. It is BSD licensed (according to its SF.net page, and is not a GNU project.
-Peter
Allot means to parcel out or assign. I think you meant "a lot". I guess you are to be congratulated for not writing "alot".
-Peter
So, by Nyquist, CD audio starts aliasing at 11.025kHz?
That can't be right.
-Peter
Yeah, you took quite a beating on that one. Good thing you have those brick balls, brickballs.
-Peter
Dude, shut up or his wife is going to get suspicious.
(BTW, he has a HUGE one.)
-Peter
You took the words right out of my mouth. I wish I had mod points!
-Peter
It is the position of the Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership that this is the foundation of genocide. See this article.
To summarize: Registration -> Confiscation -> Totalitarian Government (to "rescue" the country from the effects of confiscation) -> Genocide.
The JPFO is a great outfit. Their aim is to support "all of the Bill of Rights for everyone." How great is that?
-Peter
Are you saying his balls grew after the second movie?
-Peter
The Schumacher suit also has a substantially enhanced cod piece.
God those movies suck.
-Peter
I regularly record movies into .ogm containers. I always use ffmpeg's MPEG-4, and use either vorbis or AC3 for audio.
Only one of those codecs is from Xiph (a.k.a. "the ogg people").
-Peter
I don't think that it is so much a matter of people being belligerent, as not wanting to be the guy left holding the bag.
Do you imagine that the person who makes this decision in a typical case is an MBA or a EE? Your argument about specs and silicon means little to this guy.
Unless and until there is a big, juicy piece of profit to be made there is little incentive to "give away" any of the companies property.
-Peter
There can be no doubt of that, but let's not get sidetracked.
But out of curiosity, how long have you been married?
Are you using skewed data? I'm imagining something like:
Birth to age 25, had sex with current wife 50 times, then got married last month, and have had sex almost every day since!
Interesting in any case.
-Peter
PS: Do you have a single sister-in-law?
-P
I would advise them that spell checkers don't know nouns from verbs.
-Peter
That may very well be. I am neither a Mormon, nor a polygamist, so I have no direct experience to rely upon.
I am willing to offer documentary evidence of my assertion.
I'm anxious to see if you follow suit.
-Peter
To the un-initiated it may seem counter-intuitive, but the amount of sex a man has is generally inversely proportionate to the number of wives he has. If you don't belive me, get married.
You might also want to note that "polygamous or plural marriages" are expressly forbidden by the Utah state constitution.
-Peter
Pedantic means like a pedant -- a teacher. The Latin ped means both foot and small child. You seem to be referring to the former, but relevant root is the latter.
(Please note that I'm saying this only for the irony.)
-Peter
So it should read:
For those who can't convientently view PostScript files, the text of the two letters:
Julius. Caesar
Via Appia 1
Rome, The Roman Empire
Alice Falbala fulfilled all the requirements of the Roman Empire
intern position. She was excellent at translating roman into her gaul
native language, learned very rapidly, and worked with considerable
independence and confidence.
Her basic work habits such as punctuality, interpersonal deportment,
communication skills, and completing assigned and self-determined
goals were all excellent.
I recommend Alice for challenging positions in which creativity,
reliability, and language skills are required.
I highly recommend hiring her. If you'd like to discuss her attributes
in more detail, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Julius Caesar
Julius. Caesar
Via Appia 1
Rome, The Roman Empire
May, 22, 2005
Order:
Alice Falbala is given full access to all confidential and secret
information about GAUL.
Sincerely,
Julius Caesar