Too many inquiries during too short a period of time tends to be interpreted as someone trying to max out their credit debt in a short period of time. Sadly, it's not uncommon for a person to try to scam a bunch of lenders all at once by taking out far more in loans than they ever intend to pay back. I've watched it happen, when I worked in lending and in sales.
Inquiries don't "hurt your credit rating" in the permanent sense, but if you are a lender and you see that someone has applied for a large number of loans during the same short amount of time that they are applying to your institution for a loan, it's definitely something you treat with suspicion.
>Thing is, we in Sweden both say and write what >corresponds to "11th September"
In addition to it being common usage in the USA to put the month first then the day, it is also important to realize that "911" is somewhat universal for "Emergency". So it conveniently made 9-11 into something of an icon. It is quite characteristic for Americans to adopt an icon to represent things that they would rather not deal with.
I have!! When I was growing up, my family had a farm, with horses. My family doctor, who had immigrated to Texas from China in 1954, frequently visited our farm. I've heard him say both "giddyap" and "yee-haw." Just thought I'd provide the exception that supports your rule, that's all.
"It's akin to a journalist withholding a murderer's name"
No it isn't. Murder is a violent crime, usually punishable by death or life in prison, and involves taking the life of a human being.
Copyright infringement is in a wholly different realm of law from murder, or even shoplifting. Please do not make apples-to-oranges comparisons and pretend that it supports your premise.
"Copyright violation is neither piracy nor theft. It is a civil matter, not a criminal one."
For the first 200 years of US Copyright law, you would be correct. I urge you to look carefully at the recent changes, particularly the DMCA of 1998, HR 2281. That law *replaced* and *superseded* the existing copyright law, and fully criminalized things that were either legal before, or else were only civil matters before.
Since 1998, copyright violation has been a criminal offense, and that's why so many people have been opposed to the DMCA.
You *can* go to jail for copyright violation. You don't even have to commit copyright violation if the work is in a digital format with any encryption... Merly making a tool to read the content can land you in jail.
"Of course there's a reason to buy a compact over an SUV still."
But, this is Oregon. It's very likely that if you live in Oregon, you actually have needs that justify a truck or SUV. You have to deal with weather extremes, all kinds of terrain, and going from anywhere to anywhere involves a long drive. This doesn't apply if you live in Portland and work in an office or something. Anywhere else in that State and you probably have some real terrain to deal with, and other issues where you need more than just a car.
"Then the pump will have to be changed so that it will give the user a different price depending on if he has a device or not."
That's a bit easier in Oregon than you might think. Oregon gas stations are all full service. You do not pump your own gas there. Anywhere in the whole State.
I note that our Congress has neither been removed from office via the ballot box, nor have the been expelled from the Capitol at the points of guns and/or pitchforks.
I further note that this indicates substantial consent of the governed.
Does she? And does it trump the guy's Constitutional right to free speech?
Where in the Constitution is your right to privacy codified, and what are the precise words? Contrast this with precise and clear unequivocal grant of the right to speech, and then explain how this ruling will stand up to judicial review.
People joke about slide rules, but they do convey certain types of information that calculators do not. For instance, there are all kinds of computations where a slide rule will present intermediate values, whereas a calculator will not, at least not in the same way. Now, this is not to say I'd trade my TI-83 for my K&E slide rule, but I will say there is a difference in how students see tools like logrithms today, than in the pre-calculator period. Logrithms weren't something you learned after algebra; you learned them as a tool to help you do multipication and division. Just an example.
Anyone who has ever lived in Garland Texas knows that there is absolutely no fiction in that dangol show. The characters are real, and the show is a damn good reflection of life in that dangol place.
I've met several people who survived the genocide when the Chinese annexed Tibet. And they certainly destroyed artifacts there, and murdered anyone who stood in their way.
I had Qwest DSL, and I must say, I never had a problem. At first, I used the USWest ISP too. They gave me static IP's, extremely good response whenever I called, and were basically the no-nonsense ISP that an ISP should be. When they changed to MSN, I just picked another ISP, just because I didn't want MSN, because they were MSN.
The POTS service is good. The online customer support stuff is as good as anything else I've seen.
They have a really useful online directory. Except for the overpriced DSL, which was my choice, the costs are as expected for a US phone service.
What's the problem with QWest? Do people just need a goat to whip, and the telco presents a universal target? Is there a telephone company that isn't villefied by its customers?
>I was under the impression that wind power was >pretty clean.
Clean, yes, but it takes thousands of acres of land. I'm glad Palm Springs has wind power, but I also think the windmills make a very unsightly landscape.
I thought it was something in the SSL negotiation. If there's hard crypto involved in the browser identification step, you won't be able to fake it. That's where I'd be going if I were Microsoft, for sure.
Then, even if you do have "clever people" circumventing your access controls, you can still keep industry from adopting the circumventions. (Individuals might not care about the legality of their actions, but nobody is going to write a business plan around an obvious DMCA violation).
Repeal the DMCA (at the ballot box or at the point of a gun, I don't care how you do it), or live with its consequences.
I'm just wondering, do you people do this on purpose? Or is it a second-language thing?
Do people learning French mix up leur with là or ils sont? How in the hell do native speakers of English make this error?
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Amen (to screen).
However, I do wish more people would discover the framebuffer console, and/or that SVGATextMode would support current video cards. I vastly prefer native consoles, say, 200 columns by 75 rows at 1600x1200, to any xterm and font that I can get at the same resolution. Trouble is, whenever I mention this, I get blank stares. People seem to think that "console" means 80x25.
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"The core idea is, if you don't like anyone, vote for change."
How about "Vote the status quo?" The idea being, "things need to get a LOT worse before they can get better!"
Too many inquiries during too short a period of time tends to be interpreted as someone trying to max out their credit debt in a short period of time. Sadly, it's not uncommon for a person to try to scam a bunch of lenders all at once by taking out far more in loans than they ever intend to pay back. I've watched it happen, when I worked in lending and in sales.
Inquiries don't "hurt your credit rating" in the permanent sense, but if you are a lender and you see that someone has applied for a large number of loans during the same short amount of time that they are applying to your institution for a loan, it's definitely something you treat with suspicion.
You seriously don't think 9/11 has extra value as a meme? You don't realize how many people place supernatural powers on numbers, do you?
>Thing is, we in Sweden both say and write what
>corresponds to "11th September"
In addition to it being common usage in the USA to put the month first then the day, it is also important to realize that "911" is somewhat universal for "Emergency". So it conveniently made 9-11 into something of an icon. It is quite characteristic for Americans to adopt an icon to represent things that they would rather not deal with.
>I've never head a Chinese man say "Yee Ha".
I have!! When I was growing up, my family had a farm, with horses. My family doctor, who had immigrated to Texas from China in 1954, frequently visited our farm. I've heard him say both "giddyap" and "yee-haw." Just thought I'd provide the exception that supports your rule, that's all.
Misattributed, and always with the context misunderstood.
Marie Antoinette never said it. And even if she had said it, it would carry anti-monopolistic implications against the bakers.
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"It's akin to a journalist withholding a murderer's name"
No it isn't. Murder is a violent crime, usually punishable by death or life in prison, and involves taking the life of a human being.
Copyright infringement is in a wholly different realm of law from murder, or even shoplifting.
Please do not make apples-to-oranges comparisons and pretend that it supports your premise.
"Copyright violation is neither piracy nor theft. It is a civil matter, not a criminal one."
For the first 200 years of US Copyright law, you would be correct. I urge you to look carefully at the recent changes, particularly the DMCA of 1998, HR 2281. That law *replaced* and *superseded* the existing copyright law, and fully criminalized things that were either legal before, or else were only civil matters before.
Since 1998, copyright violation has been a criminal offense, and that's why so many people have been opposed to the DMCA.
You *can* go to jail for copyright violation. You don't even have to commit copyright violation if the work is in a digital format with any encryption... Merly making a tool to read the content can land you in jail.
Everybody in Oregon does not live in Portland.
Lots of people have land and livestock. You really can't live that live and drive a Honda.
In Oregon, it is not at all uncommon for a town to consist of a store whose owner is the postmaster, the sherrif, and the gas station attendant.
"Of course there's a reason to buy a compact over an SUV still."
But, this is Oregon. It's very likely that if you live in Oregon, you actually have needs that justify a truck or SUV. You have to deal with weather extremes, all kinds of terrain, and going from anywhere to anywhere involves a long drive. This doesn't apply if you live in Portland and work in an office or something. Anywhere else in that State and you probably have some real terrain to deal with, and other issues where you need more than just a car.
"Then the pump will have to be changed so that it will give the user a different price depending on if he has a device or not."
That's a bit easier in Oregon than you might think. Oregon gas stations are all full service. You do not pump your own gas there. Anywhere in the whole State.
>Which our congress has shat upon.
I note that our Congress has neither been removed from office via the ballot box, nor have the been expelled from the Capitol at the points of guns and/or pitchforks.
I further note that this indicates substantial consent of the governed.
>She does have a right to privacy.
Does she? And does it trump the guy's Constitutional right to free speech?
Where in the Constitution is your right to privacy codified, and what are the precise words? Contrast this with precise and clear
unequivocal grant of the right to speech, and
then explain how this ruling will stand up to judicial review.
People joke about slide rules, but they do convey certain types of information that calculators do not. For instance, there are all kinds of computations where a slide rule will present intermediate values, whereas a calculator will not, at least not in the same way. Now, this is not to say I'd trade my TI-83 for my K&E slide rule, but I will say there is a difference in how students see tools like logrithms today, than in the pre-calculator period. Logrithms weren't something you learned after algebra; you learned them as a tool to help you do multipication and division. Just an example.
"King of the Hill"
Anyone who has ever lived in Garland Texas knows that there is absolutely no fiction in that dangol show.
The characters are real, and the show is a damn good reflection of life in that dangol place.
>China has not destroyed anyone elses artifacts.
I've met several people who survived the genocide when the Chinese annexed Tibet. And they certainly destroyed artifacts there, and murdered anyone who stood in their way.
I had Qwest DSL, and I must say, I never had a problem. At first, I used the USWest ISP too. They gave me static IP's, extremely good response whenever I called, and were basically the no-nonsense ISP that an ISP should be.
When they changed to MSN, I just picked another ISP, just because I didn't want MSN, because they were MSN.
The POTS service is good. The online customer support stuff is as good as anything else I've seen.
They have a really useful online directory. Except for the overpriced DSL, which was my choice, the costs are as expected for a US phone service.
What's the problem with QWest? Do people just need a goat to whip, and the telco presents a universal target? Is there a telephone company that isn't villefied by its customers?
>I was under the impression that wind power was
>pretty clean.
Clean, yes, but it takes thousands of acres of land. I'm glad Palm Springs has wind power, but I also think the windmills make a very unsightly landscape.
I don't think they kill birds though.
"Why don't the people that are so sick of flooding just stop living by the damn river!"
They live by farming and fishing, which pretty much requires them to be near the water.
I thought it was something in the SSL negotiation. If there's hard crypto involved in the browser identification step, you won't be able to fake it. That's where I'd be going if I were Microsoft, for sure.
Then, even if you do have "clever people" circumventing your access controls, you can still keep industry from adopting the circumventions. (Individuals might not care about the legality of their actions, but nobody is going to write a business plan around an obvious DMCA violation).
Repeal the DMCA (at the ballot box or at the point of a gun, I don't care how you do it), or live with its consequences.
"there boat"
"there screening force"
I'm just wondering, do you people do this on purpose? Or is it a second-language thing?
Do people learning French mix up leur with là or ils sont? How in the hell do native speakers of English make this error?
Amen (to screen).
However, I do wish more people would discover the framebuffer console, and/or that SVGATextMode would support current video cards. I vastly prefer native consoles, say, 200 columns by 75 rows at 1600x1200, to any xterm and font that I can get at the same resolution. Trouble is, whenever I mention this, I get blank stares. People seem to think that "console" means 80x25.
On a Cisco, "user friendly" means having a backspace key.
I have a model-M, missing a keycap though. The Left CTRL. Any source for keycaps?