I call bluff. No cop would do that if you had a valid registration sticky label on your windscreen. If you post a cheque, or pay online at the last minute, so your disc is in the mail when your current disc expires, that's your problem. (Canberra, Australia)
But really, you do trust other companies to protect your data. Their names are Seagate, Western digital, etc. At a higher level, HP, Dell, etc. At a higher level still, you trust that Microsoft will support the doc format on a current version of Windows and Office... Granted, there are workarounds for the last (rendering doc files into a open format)
Which is better known by the Movie title, an post-movie release book re-release title of: Blade Runner.
An? Oh, forget it, the whole sentence was confusing, probably the pee was silent.
One of those odd connections between a book and a movie. The plot was different, the title was different... But i liked them both, as opposed to the movie iRobot.
I don't suppose his frequent use of off-list pharmaceuticals and other fun-seeking drugs during his youth would have had anything to do with his poor health. While 60 isn't old, it seems like a lot of people his age who "lived too hard" are now suffering the consequences through odd early/uneven aging, hormonal issues, cancer, auto-immune diseases, and other odd things we've not seen before.
Always pisses me off when people use the argument of "'blah' diseases that we've never seen before" - all we've done is improved diagnostics so we can tell "what" is killing you, and in some cases, "why" you got it.
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
If you are going to be deterred from coming to the US over the requirement that you register online and cough up some fingerprints I suppose you really didn't care that much about coming in the first place anyway, did you?
I think this program is security theater more than anything else but our entry/exit requirements still aren't that onerous compared to other countries I can think of. In the end you'll have to weigh them against your reason for coming here. I'm in love with Italy and Italian culture -- I'd cough up my prints if that was the requirement to go there. New York State already has them anyway.....
So you'd be happy as a US citizen to put your fingerprints/address/digital photo/ etc in a database of any other country you're visiting? Knowing that you have no control over how that database is used? Yeah, I thought not.
It's their country, I'd let them call themselves what they like, without getting caught up in grammar. There are many similar exceptions around the world, I'll let you do the googling to find them. Xerox[1] me a copy when you do:^)
[1] a related example.
An interesting workaround for companies in that situation we all know it the USian patent system is broken and hopefully will get rebuilt sensibly in the near future, the patent in question is so broad it should never have been granted.
Please stop saying "USian". American will do nicely, thank you.
Unless you're using the ugly constructs USian and THEMian, I agree. I'd like to see an endian of such abuse.
Oprah scares me. If it doesn't go well for her, I can imagine her saying to the studio audience "Everybody reach under your seat, there you should find a gift. Unwrap it. NOW LETS TAKE THIS FIGHT TO THESE PEOPLE!!"
Everyone would do it too, she's scary.
the truthy ones like the Law of Gravity, the Big Bang, Piltdown Man.
You din't have the nerve to include evolution, did you? You were probably right because the minute some idiot mentions it there'll be a long offtopic flamewar.
That's what you jerks like to do - call us who know the truth jerks.
Tell me smart guy - why hasn't the "missing link" ever been found? Prehistoric people have been found, dinosaurs have been found, but where is the infamous missing link?
FFS! If it was found, it wouldn't be a missing link! Sheesh.
What's convenient about trying to read a broadsheet newspaper in a car, bus, train, plane? Even a tabloid format is challenging on a plane.
As opposed to somebody opening a laptop and trying to read an article, only to discover that the battery wasn't fully charged for a 4-hour flight?
I'm not a big fan of using laptops on planes - I'm thinking more of PDA sized computers, which can handle that kind of flight time without trouble.
While I find reading printed material to be nauseating (literally, I do get motion sickness reading them) in private automobiles and busses, I don't have so much of a problem on larger vehicles like trains or commercial aviation transport. It certainly isn't the format which is the issue, but rather the issues related to motion sickness that is for me the major problem.
Reading a "broadsheet newspaper" on a commuter rail trip certainly isn't all that difficult, and you certainly don't have to be hunting for the A/C receptacles to plug in your "reader".
Your commuter rail/bus systems must be less crowded. I doubt that you could even open a broadsheet newspaper when they are. Reading a PDA, no problem. Why would I need a AC receptacle? Laptops are *not* what this is all about.
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Then let them put hardware patches on the web, like routers, motherboards, etc.
Drinking is an inalienable right? (pursuit of happiness? :)
I call bluff. No cop would do that if you had a valid registration sticky label on your windscreen. If you post a cheque, or pay online at the last minute, so your disc is in the mail when your current disc expires, that's your problem. (Canberra, Australia)
Vanity license plates.
But really, you do trust other companies to protect your data. Their names are Seagate, Western digital, etc. At a higher level, HP, Dell, etc. At a higher level still, you trust that Microsoft will support the doc format on a current version of Windows and Office... Granted, there are workarounds for the last (rendering doc files into a open format)
Which is better known by the Movie title, an post-movie release book re-release title of: Blade Runner.
An? Oh, forget it, the whole sentence was confusing, probably the pee was silent.
One of those odd connections between a book and a movie. The plot was different, the title was different... But i liked them both, as opposed to the movie iRobot.
I don't suppose his frequent use of off-list pharmaceuticals and other fun-seeking drugs during his youth would have had anything to do with his poor health. While 60 isn't old, it seems like a lot of people his age who "lived too hard" are now suffering the consequences through odd early/uneven aging, hormonal issues, cancer, auto-immune diseases, and other odd things we've not seen before.
Always pisses me off when people use the argument of "'blah' diseases that we've never seen before" - all we've done is improved diagnostics so we can tell "what" is killing you, and in some cases, "why" you got it.
Hey, not all religion is bad. As a devout frisbeetarianist, let me be the first to say:
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits.
[Warcraft] Reported [/Warcraft]
Bloody carebears
No, it wont get passed *as such* it will get attached as a rider to some more important bill for this senator's support.
Whilst you allow this 'stealth passage' to occur, you will get laws you don't want.
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
If you are going to be deterred from coming to the US over the requirement that you register online and cough up some fingerprints I suppose you really didn't care that much about coming in the first place anyway, did you?
I think this program is security theater more than anything else but our entry/exit requirements still aren't that onerous compared to other countries I can think of. In the end you'll have to weigh them against your reason for coming here. I'm in love with Italy and Italian culture -- I'd cough up my prints if that was the requirement to go there. New York State already has them anyway.....
So you'd be happy as a US citizen to put your fingerprints/address/digital photo/ etc in a database of any other country you're visiting? Knowing that you have no control over how that database is used? Yeah, I thought not.
Is this the /. equivalent of those bayesian poisoning emails I keep getting?
Back to a rotary dial. How retro.
And by then, Job's obit will be published, and it will be SEP.
'WARNING: Excessive exposure to politics and the media has been linked to mental disease.'
Dammit, you made me wonder if rabies could even be transmitted that way! TMI.
We have very large chickens in Australia. ;)
And we spell them E-Em-You EMU
http://www.roadkillcafe.com.au/public/index.php?pageid=10073
I accidentally an entire Coca-cola bottle.
And then cast it to VOID
And of course, it's a database engine par excellence. :^)
It's their country, I'd let them call themselves what they like, without getting caught up in grammar. There are many similar exceptions around the world, I'll let you do the googling to find them. Xerox[1] me a copy when you do :^)
[1] a related example.
An interesting workaround for companies in that situation we all know it the USian patent system is broken and hopefully will get rebuilt sensibly in the near future, the patent in question is so broad it should never have been granted.
Please stop saying "USian". American will do nicely, thank you.
Unless you're using the ugly constructs USian and THEMian, I agree. I'd like to see an endian of such abuse.
I'm thinking of SCO here.
Oprah scares me. If it doesn't go well for her, I can imagine her saying to the studio audience "Everybody reach under your seat, there you should find a gift. Unwrap it. NOW LETS TAKE THIS FIGHT TO THESE PEOPLE!!"
Everyone would do it too, she's scary.
Fixed it.
You din't have the nerve to include evolution, did you? You were probably right because the minute some idiot mentions it there'll be a long offtopic flamewar.
That's what you jerks like to do - call us who know the truth jerks.
Tell me smart guy - why hasn't the "missing link" ever been found? Prehistoric people have been found, dinosaurs have been found, but where is the infamous missing link?
FFS! If it was found, it wouldn't be a missing link! Sheesh.
Oprah touched and felt! Oh, the humanity!
What's convenient about trying to read a broadsheet newspaper in a car, bus, train, plane? Even a tabloid format is challenging on a plane.
As opposed to somebody opening a laptop and trying to read an article, only to discover that the battery wasn't fully charged for a 4-hour flight?
I'm not a big fan of using laptops on planes - I'm thinking more of PDA sized computers, which can handle that kind of flight time without trouble.
While I find reading printed material to be nauseating (literally, I do get motion sickness reading them) in private automobiles and busses, I don't have so much of a problem on larger vehicles like trains or commercial aviation transport. It certainly isn't the format which is the issue, but rather the issues related to motion sickness that is for me the major problem.
Reading a "broadsheet newspaper" on a commuter rail trip certainly isn't all that difficult, and you certainly don't have to be hunting for the A/C receptacles to plug in your "reader".
Your commuter rail/bus systems must be less crowded. I doubt that you could even open a broadsheet newspaper when they are. Reading a PDA, no problem. Why would I need a AC receptacle? Laptops are *not* what this is all about.