not saying a DUI is trivial, but jail time isn't the proper punishment, unless they've been convicted of it multiple times and just don't seem to get it. appropriate punishments would be license suspension and keeping a closer eye on him to ensure he isn't driving without it.
though technically it wouldn't/shouldn't be chargeable as murder, as it lacks intent. the appropriate charge would be manslaughter.
What was the name of that Internet "law" (more like an observation) that once you reach a point far enough to the political right, your viewpoint becomes indistinguishable from satire?
i believe you're refering to Poe's law:
"Without the use of a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to make a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
i dunno, ubuntu's installer is pretty friendly. it skated through the Aunt Tillie test for me.
it's certainly better than the dos holdover that is the XP installer, though the vista installer looks to be pretty nice, though i haven't personally used that yet.
this is a universal problem with pretty much any 64-bit desktop OS. driver and software issues are abound and it's stuck in a catch-22 for the time being, in addition to the fact that about 99% of desktop users have no use for the benefits of 64-bit yet.
when people actually start to need more than 4GB of ram (the main benefit), then 64-bit will pick up steam.
Mixing with Diesel #1 or Diesel #2 with an anti-gel component will keep you safe well below freezing. BD80 for sub-freezing climates, and BD50 for the 'OMG my nuts froze to the car seat' climates
which was what i was saying is necessary. not a major issue, but BD isn't really an end-all-be-all solution, but it makes a very good fill in until we get something better (fuel cells, fusion, et all).
BS is only really optimal in warn climates. BD has trouble with turning to wax at colder temperatures (below 5C i think), necessitating either fuel tank/fuel line heating or mixing it with petro diesel (i think 50% petro/BD mix is the magic number to prevent this).
still, cutting oil use/emissions by 50% is very considerable.
far as im concerned they should require someone to/actually drive/ the damn car through an/actual city/ and average the results to get the fuel rating.
which raises the issue of repeatability. city traffic is not gonna be the same every day.
a good idea would be to create an average model of city and highway driving, created from a few days/weeks of actual driving by a number of people (average joes. pay them $500 or something to monitor their driving habits for a month or so), then run everything through that model, along with mathmatical correction to account for the wind resistance, based on numbers from wind tunnel testing.
Except they aren't becoming more prevalent. Worldwide, there have been around 5 shootings per year, and the number appears to be holding steady, at least for the last decade. I know that's not a very long record to plot a trend, but it's better than nothing.
well, how many serious school fires are there yearly? they don't seem particularly common either, but we see fit to prepare for those.
There's no good reason to have a process whose sole purpose is to do nothing. If your system is 95% idle, then Windows should just say so, and not use a phantom process to get the point across.
IIRC, that process is supposed to be doing background/maintainance tasks.
though i think what he's talking about is an annoying bug i've found where the idle process won't give up the cpu time. it just stays there hogging the cpu. it seems to only happen when windows has gone a long time (3+ weeks) without a reboot. (i use hibrenate a lot, as this old laptop takes forever to boot up normally)
1. kick it into neutral. gives the same effect as the clutch. i use it all the time during the winter.
2. brakes work fine on ice, so long as you have decent winter tires and either good braking skill or good anti-lock brakes, which do work quite fine on ice.
3. 4wd definetly gives more traction than fwd, though the extent that it improves it is variable and it cuts into the milage a bit
i perfer FWD. it puts all that engine weight to use and gives me more traction. i've lost count of the number of times my old caprise would spin the tires at idle, with good winter tires. then again, that old thing had a lot of torque.
As for the 60 inch chest, that is not healthy, you really should consider liposuction or gastric bypass(Diet and exercise is much better, but I'm sure you've already tried that.)
chest, not waist. a chest that size is pretty much solid muscle, usually from long-term heavy lifting (stacking hay bales, for instance).
What I'm subtly alluding to is vote buying/intimidation being possible if you take an official record of your voting behaviours home with you.
scratch that part of the plan then. it doesn't exist with current paper ballots, which i have reasonable confidance in, so i don't feel it is absolutely nessesary for it.
the obvious solution to me is to use a voting machine to generate the voting record, which is then used to count votes.
basically, you go in, make your selections on the machine, then when you're done, hit print. out comes 2 copies of your votes, which you can check against what is on screen, then drop one of them in the ballot box and take one home with you. the vote paper would be machine-and-human-readable (ala scantron), allowing for quick tabulation (not as fast as pure electronic voting, but fast enough to make the morning news, which is plenty fast IMO.) and also is completely verifiable.
the problem with paper ballots is the way the US system works and how many choices are made in the voting booth.
with canadian voting, it works quite fine, as you're only deciding on one person (your MP or MLA, for federal and provincial elections respectively), but when you're deciding on the presidant, the judges, the schoolboard, etc. it gets more than slightly confusing and becomes difficult to keep the ballot to a reasonable size and have it remain usable by the visually impaired.
though scantron would be a good idea. they use a vaugely similar system for the local munisipal elections. the ballots are semi-identical to the federal put-an-X-in-the-circle ballots, but are computer scanned and counted, giving fast results, and easy verifiablity (IIRC, they visually check 2% of the ballots and compare them to the total results. if the percentages are off more than some number (5%, i think), a full recount is automatic)
I've come to the conclusion in the last 5 years or so that just because something works well in the US doesn't mean it isn't stupid.
stupid depends on context.
by the definition i'm using, "smart" is a manner that achieves the desired end(s) via the most expedient/cost-effective/efficient/simplest means.
in short, it works, doesn't take too long, doesn't cost too much, and is suitablely simple. their tactics fit these qualifiers to some degree.
"costs too much" would be a non-factor, as this is hollywood we're talking about. as for the "take too long", they don't nessesarily want to rush things, ala boiling the frogs slowly (yes i know that analogy has been debunked, but i can't think of a suitable substitute for it)
stupid though, would be assuming that since this tactic works in the US, it will work everywhere, which remains to be seen, though it remains a good idea to first try something you know has worked previously before spending time coming up with a completely new tactic.
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i would consider the 3rd one to be highly relevant as this is a financial position she's applying for.
not saying a DUI is trivial, but jail time isn't the proper punishment, unless they've been convicted of it multiple times and just don't seem to get it. appropriate punishments would be license suspension and keeping a closer eye on him to ensure he isn't driving without it.
though technically it wouldn't/shouldn't be chargeable as murder, as it lacks intent. the appropriate charge would be manslaughter.
well, i dunno about my PC, that that'd power my laptop running full-tilt more than twice over.
What was the name of that Internet "law" (more like an observation) that once you reach a point far enough to the political right, your viewpoint becomes indistinguishable from satire?
i believe you're refering to Poe's law:
"Without the use of a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to make a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
I think home building a box disqualifies you immediately from newbie status.
i think she's intending to portray a linux newbie, not computer newbie.
IIRC, 4GB total physical address space. basically, maximum ram is 4GB - video ram - CPU cache.
though i think that some mobos/chipsets won't work with more than 3GB for whatever reason, but it isn't the 32-bit limit causing that.
The problem is installation
i dunno, ubuntu's installer is pretty friendly. it skated through the Aunt Tillie test for me.
it's certainly better than the dos holdover that is the XP installer, though the vista installer looks to be pretty nice, though i haven't personally used that yet.
this is a universal problem with pretty much any 64-bit desktop OS. driver and software issues are abound and it's stuck in a catch-22 for the time being, in addition to the fact that about 99% of desktop users have no use for the benefits of 64-bit yet.
when people actually start to need more than 4GB of ram (the main benefit), then 64-bit will pick up steam.
Mixing with Diesel #1 or Diesel #2 with an anti-gel component will keep you safe well below freezing. BD80 for sub-freezing climates, and BD50 for the 'OMG my nuts froze to the car seat' climates
which was what i was saying is necessary. not a major issue, but BD isn't really an end-all-be-all solution, but it makes a very good fill in until we get something better (fuel cells, fusion, et all).
BS is only really optimal in warn climates. BD has trouble with turning to wax at colder temperatures (below 5C i think), necessitating either fuel tank/fuel line heating or mixing it with petro diesel (i think 50% petro/BD mix is the magic number to prevent this).
still, cutting oil use/emissions by 50% is very considerable.
far as im concerned they should require someone to /actually drive/ the damn car through an /actual city/ and average the results to get the fuel rating.
which raises the issue of repeatability. city traffic is not gonna be the same every day.
a good idea would be to create an average model of city and highway driving, created from a few days/weeks of actual driving by a number of people (average joes. pay them $500 or something to monitor their driving habits for a month or so), then run everything through that model, along with mathmatical correction to account for the wind resistance, based on numbers from wind tunnel testing.
Except they aren't becoming more prevalent. Worldwide, there have been around 5 shootings per year, and the number appears to be holding steady, at least for the last decade. I know that's not a very long record to plot a trend, but it's better than nothing.
well, how many serious school fires are there yearly? they don't seem particularly common either, but we see fit to prepare for those.
There's no good reason to have a process whose sole purpose is to do nothing. If your system is 95% idle, then Windows should just say so, and not use a phantom process to get the point across.
IIRC, that process is supposed to be doing background/maintainance tasks.
though i think what he's talking about is an annoying bug i've found where the idle process won't give up the cpu time. it just stays there hogging the cpu. it seems to only happen when windows has gone a long time (3+ weeks) without a reboot. (i use hibrenate a lot, as this old laptop takes forever to boot up normally)
1. kick it into neutral. gives the same effect as the clutch. i use it all the time during the winter.
2. brakes work fine on ice, so long as you have decent winter tires and either good braking skill or good anti-lock brakes, which do work quite fine on ice.
3. 4wd definetly gives more traction than fwd, though the extent that it improves it is variable and it cuts into the milage a bit
i perfer FWD. it puts all that engine weight to use and gives me more traction. i've lost count of the number of times my old caprise would spin the tires at idle, with good winter tires. then again, that old thing had a lot of torque.
As for the 60 inch chest, that is not healthy, you really should consider liposuction or gastric bypass(Diet and exercise is much better, but I'm sure you've already tried that.)
chest, not waist. a chest that size is pretty much solid muscle, usually from long-term heavy lifting (stacking hay bales, for instance).
That's like saying there are too many cracks in a large damn so you might as well give up on trying to patch them.
more like patch them as they're found rather than wait until "dam repair tuesday"
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here's where your thinking diverges from reality.
how bad could the result have been?
convincing threats that "you'll never get out of jail alive" tend to illustrate the answer to your question.
So, if there's no actual child involved, how is it kiddie porn?
according to TFA, both of them were also swapping actual CP images, along with others.
The difference is, one is a cult, and one is a religion.
a religion is merely a cult that has grown too large to be called a cult.
i imagine Christianity was regarded as a cult 2,000 odd years ago, now look at it.
What I'm subtly alluding to is vote buying/intimidation being possible if you take an official record of your voting behaviours home with you.
scratch that part of the plan then. it doesn't exist with current paper ballots, which i have reasonable confidance in, so i don't feel it is absolutely nessesary for it.
the obvious solution to me is to use a voting machine to generate the voting record, which is then used to count votes.
basically, you go in, make your selections on the machine, then when you're done, hit print. out comes 2 copies of your votes, which you can check against what is on screen, then drop one of them in the ballot box and take one home with you. the vote paper would be machine-and-human-readable (ala scantron), allowing for quick tabulation (not as fast as pure electronic voting, but fast enough to make the morning news, which is plenty fast IMO.) and also is completely verifiable.
best of both worlds.
the problem with paper ballots is the way the US system works and how many choices are made in the voting booth.
with canadian voting, it works quite fine, as you're only deciding on one person (your MP or MLA, for federal and provincial elections respectively), but when you're deciding on the presidant, the judges, the schoolboard, etc. it gets more than slightly confusing and becomes difficult to keep the ballot to a reasonable size and have it remain usable by the visually impaired.
though scantron would be a good idea. they use a vaugely similar system for the local munisipal elections. the ballots are semi-identical to the federal put-an-X-in-the-circle ballots, but are computer scanned and counted, giving fast results, and easy verifiablity (IIRC, they visually check 2% of the ballots and compare them to the total results. if the percentages are off more than some number (5%, i think), a full recount is automatic)
I've come to the conclusion in the last 5 years or so that just because something works well in the US doesn't mean it isn't stupid.
stupid depends on context.
by the definition i'm using, "smart" is a manner that achieves the desired end(s) via the most expedient/cost-effective/efficient/simplest means.
in short, it works, doesn't take too long, doesn't cost too much, and is suitablely simple. their tactics fit these qualifiers to some degree.
"costs too much" would be a non-factor, as this is hollywood we're talking about. as for the "take too long", they don't nessesarily want to rush things, ala boiling the frogs slowly (yes i know that analogy has been debunked, but i can't think of a suitable substitute for it)
stupid though, would be assuming that since this tactic works in the US, it will work everywhere, which remains to be seen, though it remains a good idea to first try something you know has worked previously before spending time coming up with a completely new tactic.