But wouldn't four of those run even faster and have four times the storage of one? I guess I don't need to have all that storage with me all the time so I will leave three of them at home on top of my desk and just carry one with me. Then we are back to a desktop / mobile model.
A lot of people seem to think that there is some kind of ultimate computer that everyone will want to use. But the reality is that a computer is just an appliance (and so are cameras, mp3 players, phones, etc), and it is great that we are getting so many different prices and models of appliances so we can get the one that we want. Every model does not have to be for every person.
Instead of filling your car with gas, you're using coal/oil power plants instead. I don't see what the true benefit really is.
I'm not sure if you are deliberately being obtuse, but in the US we get our electric power from the following (approximately, source: Wikipedia)
Coal: 49%
Natural gas: 20%
Nuclear: 19%
Hydroelectric: 7%
Other: 5%
You may not be American though, so in case you are French, you get your electric power from the following:
Nuclear: 78%
Hydroelectric: 11%
Coal: 4%
Natural gas: 4%
Other: 3%
Using a gasoline engine will never rid the US of dependency on foreign oil. Using a non gasoline engine, coupled with an energy program that emphasizes alternatives to fossil fuels has the possibility of ridding the US of dependency on foreign oil.
I don't think you are too far off the mark on this.
According to Wikipedia (which is always right) they found 8 previously unknown (but non Fossett) crash sites while they were looking for him. It seems like they don't look very hard if they guy isn't rich.
Presidential Records Act specifically excludes records regarding the election process
*snip* This would presumaly include election fundraising.
That is a pretty big presumption. I don't know it is cynical, or insightful, or both.
However, to get back to the OP, it is illegal for a religious group to hold a fund raiser since it conflicts with their tax free status.
So either Gore went to the temple event in an official / ceremonial capacity, in which case the records should have been kept (but weren't), or else he participated in an illegal fund raiser in which case it would be in his best interest to destroy as much of the evidence as possible to prevent prosecution.
Capitalism assumes that everyone wants to be compensated for their work. FOSS exists because there are people willing to give away their work for free.
Free is a type of compensation. Zero is a number.
I can't think of another industry that has a large group of participants handing away their work for free.
Artists donate their work, musicians perform in open venues for free, doctors run free clinics, even stinking lawyers do pro bono work.
Hey Einstein, you eat pork hot dogs and turkey hot dogs while I eat tofu hot dogs.
It isn't the hot dog that I object to it is the pork and turkey.
What's next? You use a knife and fork to eat your steak so you are going to wonder why vegans are always insisting on using knives and forks? Why are we pretending to eat the same way that we berate others for eating?
I can't comment on the merits of your case (I didn't even know that anyone at Penn State could read).
I think your comment shows that you don't understand that in the US we have a Federal court system, and that each of the 50 states has its own State court system.
You probably want to sue in Maryland State court. Good luck!
Just make sure that if a credit card company sends a card to your dog that you don't use it and sign the dog's name. Al found that one out the hard way. Stupid Marcie.
Maybe only alienating 98%. I would drop WOW in a second for a game like this, and I have no reason to believe (based on previous gaming experience) that I would be the "one in a hundred".
I feel like I understand the solution to the Monty Haul problem and I've experimented enough to assure myself that I should switch, but I have a small problem with the explanation that is typically given (the one that you extrapolated from).
Let's say we have the following situation:
9 people (8 psychologists and I) are having a drawing for $10,000. We've written "sorry" on 9 pieces of paper and "$10,000" on one piece of paper. The 10 pieces of paper are sealed into individual envelopes and all 10 envelopes are mixed up in a hat. Then the 9 of us each draw out an envelope (we've decided that if none of us wins the money will go to charity). Everybody else opens their envelope right away but I wait a few seconds to see what happens. All 8 psychologists get a "sorry". Since they don't know anything about math, they agree to let me swap my envelope for the one in the hat (they think each envelope has a 50/50 chance of being the winner). I do this because my envelope has a 10% chance of being the winner but the one in the hat has a 90% chance of being the winner.
I understand this, but what if we change the hat into a person named Hat.
From Hat's perspective, the envelope Hat chose has a 10% chance of being the winner and my envelope has a 90% chance of being the winner. We should both want to trade. But clearly neither of us is improving our positions by trading. What changed when hat went from being an inanimate object to being a person?
The Borings are rolling over, because although they made some noise about their privacy being violated, they were satisfied to have the photos removed (i.e. opting out).
If Google is violating people's privacy, then Google's policy of "we'll only violate people's privacy until they complain" is wrong. The GP probably felt that as long as the Borings had Google's attention the Borings should have convinced Google to remove all residential photos or something along those lines.
The obvious problem with this is that setting the price becomes a game, where I want to put it as low as possible to pay less tax, but put it as high as necessary to keep it from being bought from me.
This is not how property taxes currently work. Property has an appraised value, which is used to compute the tax, but it has no bearing on the price of the property in the market (except for the understanding that the new owner will be paying a certain amount to own the property each year).
Didn't you ever watch Hogan's Heroes? Newkirk had one in his sewing kit. The thread in the kit was actually wire. And the Germans never figured it out!
I think that your analogy is not correct. I think that if you are going to say that a cars from different vendors use the same roads and gas, then you have to say that game consoles from different vendors use the same electricity and plug into the same TV.
If you want to say that game consoles should have a unified playing format, then that would be like saying that cars should all use the same oil filter.
Which PATRIOT Act? The one signed by President Bush on 10/26/2001? On 10/26/2001 Obama was serving in the Illinois State Senate and as such did not vote for or against the PATRIOT Act.
You don't have to install their crap to see the archives (which consists of 3 comics).
I'm using Firefox (duh) and I clicked on the "sign up for the RSS feed" link (I wasn't really going to sign up) and the page it took me to had all 3 comics.
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I agree, thank you scuttlemonkey.
TFS says that it is the House that should be contacted (rather than the Senate) and they can be found here
But wouldn't four of those run even faster and have four times the storage of one? I guess I don't need to have all that storage with me all the time so I will leave three of them at home on top of my desk and just carry one with me. Then we are back to a desktop / mobile model.
A lot of people seem to think that there is some kind of ultimate computer that everyone will want to use. But the reality is that a computer is just an appliance (and so are cameras, mp3 players, phones, etc), and it is great that we are getting so many different prices and models of appliances so we can get the one that we want. Every model does not have to be for every person.
Instead of filling your car with gas, you're using coal/oil power plants instead. I don't see what the true benefit really is.
I'm not sure if you are deliberately being obtuse, but in the US we get our electric power from the following (approximately, source: Wikipedia)
Coal: 49%
Natural gas: 20%
Nuclear: 19%
Hydroelectric: 7%
Other: 5%
You may not be American though, so in case you are French, you get your electric power from the following:
Nuclear: 78%
Hydroelectric: 11%
Coal: 4%
Natural gas: 4%
Other: 3%
Using a gasoline engine will never rid the US of dependency on foreign oil. Using a non gasoline engine, coupled with an energy program that emphasizes alternatives to fossil fuels has the possibility of ridding the US of dependency on foreign oil.
That is a nice 60s feel good redefinition. But the reference is originally from the bible:
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
And it refers to physical discipline.
I don't think you are too far off the mark on this.
According to Wikipedia (which is always right) they found 8 previously unknown (but non Fossett) crash sites while they were looking for him. It seems like they don't look very hard if they guy isn't rich.
Presidential Records Act specifically excludes records regarding the election process
*snip*
This would presumaly include election fundraising.
That is a pretty big presumption. I don't know it is cynical, or insightful, or both.
However, to get back to the OP, it is illegal for a religious group to hold a fund raiser since it conflicts with their tax free status.
So either Gore went to the temple event in an official / ceremonial capacity, in which case the records should have been kept (but weren't), or else he participated in an illegal fund raiser in which case it would be in his best interest to destroy as much of the evidence as possible to prevent prosecution.
I guess we'll never know...
Google says that €1.47 = $8.83. But that is still more than double what we pay in the US (I think).
Capitalism assumes that everyone wants to be compensated for their work. FOSS exists because there are people willing to give away their work for free.
Free is a type of compensation. Zero is a number.
I can't think of another industry that has a large group of participants handing away their work for free.
Artists donate their work, musicians perform in open venues for free, doctors run free clinics, even stinking lawyers do pro bono work.
Hey Einstein, you eat pork hot dogs and turkey hot dogs while I eat tofu hot dogs.
It isn't the hot dog that I object to it is the pork and turkey.
What's next? You use a knife and fork to eat your steak so you are going to wonder why vegans are always insisting on using knives and forks? Why are we pretending to eat the same way that we berate others for eating?
I can't comment on the merits of your case (I didn't even know that anyone at Penn State could read).
I think your comment shows that you don't understand that in the US we have a Federal court system, and that each of the 50 states has its own State court system.
You probably want to sue in Maryland State court. Good luck!
That makes sense. Thanks!
That was an episode of Married With Children.
Just make sure that if a credit card company sends a card to your dog that you don't use it and sign the dog's name. Al found that one out the hard way. Stupid Marcie.
Maybe only alienating 98%. I would drop WOW in a second for a game like this, and I have no reason to believe (based on previous gaming experience) that I would be the "one in a hundred".
I feel like I understand the solution to the Monty Haul problem and I've experimented enough to assure myself that I should switch, but I have a small problem with the explanation that is typically given (the one that you extrapolated from).
Let's say we have the following situation:
9 people (8 psychologists and I) are having a drawing for $10,000. We've written "sorry" on 9 pieces of paper and "$10,000" on one piece of paper. The 10 pieces of paper are sealed into individual envelopes and all 10 envelopes are mixed up in a hat. Then the 9 of us each draw out an envelope (we've decided that if none of us wins the money will go to charity). Everybody else opens their envelope right away but I wait a few seconds to see what happens. All 8 psychologists get a "sorry". Since they don't know anything about math, they agree to let me swap my envelope for the one in the hat (they think each envelope has a 50/50 chance of being the winner). I do this because my envelope has a 10% chance of being the winner but the one in the hat has a 90% chance of being the winner.
I understand this, but what if we change the hat into a person named Hat.
From Hat's perspective, the envelope Hat chose has a 10% chance of being the winner and my envelope has a 90% chance of being the winner. We should both want to trade. But clearly neither of us is improving our positions by trading. What changed when hat went from being an inanimate object to being a person?
No, you misunderstood TFS or the GP post or both.
The Borings are rolling over, because although they made some noise about their privacy being violated, they were satisfied to have the photos removed (i.e. opting out).
If Google is violating people's privacy, then Google's policy of "we'll only violate people's privacy until they complain" is wrong. The GP probably felt that as long as the Borings had Google's attention the Borings should have convinced Google to remove all residential photos or something along those lines.
The obvious problem with this is that setting the price becomes a game, where I want to put it as low as possible to pay less tax, but put it as high as necessary to keep it from being bought from me.
This is not how property taxes currently work. Property has an appraised value, which is used to compute the tax, but it has no bearing on the price of the property in the market (except for the understanding that the new owner will be paying a certain amount to own the property each year).
Right.
And bank robbers are trying to prove a point about weak security at the bank. They are really public servants!
But three of those are the correct answer, so a kid that guessed would be right 75% of the time.
Here is what Wikipedia has to say:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recorder
Didn't you ever watch Hogan's Heroes? Newkirk had one in his sewing kit. The thread in the kit was actually wire. And the Germans never figured it out!
He tried that in 1988, and he got 0.5% of the vote (I was one of them). Not that any other Libertarian candidates have done any better since then.
I think that your analogy is not correct. I think that if you are going to say that a cars from different vendors use the same roads and gas, then you have to say that game consoles from different vendors use the same electricity and plug into the same TV.
If you want to say that game consoles should have a unified playing format, then that would be like saying that cars should all use the same oil filter.
Which PATRIOT Act? The one signed by President Bush on 10/26/2001? On 10/26/2001 Obama was serving in the Illinois State Senate and as such did not vote for or against the PATRIOT Act.
You don't have to install their crap to see the archives (which consists of 3 comics).
I'm using Firefox (duh) and I clicked on the "sign up for the RSS feed" link (I wasn't really going to sign up) and the page it took me to had all 3 comics.
Bleh.
IBM holds over 40,000 patents and adds 2,000 - 3,000 new patents each year.
IBM owns Tivoli, Lotus, Rational, and WebSphere.
IBM designed (or jointly designed) the chips used in the PS3, the Wii, and the XBOX 360.
It seems like every other day some government announces an X million dollar/pound/euro contract with IBM for storage or hardware.
And then they have their consulting gigs where they get paid a lot of money to outsource the work to India.
They are really a pretty profitable company.
The Clash said it a little differently:
You have the right to free speech
As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.