I'll raise the bullshit flag on some these comments...I have had regular old CRT TVs my life and never once, even after 10 years of regular use, have I noticed any burn-in on any of my sets. Also, I have never had to recalibrate anything accept maybe the channel programming. Until you can get a Flat panel under $200 most people won't bother.
Contractors in FL are notoriously slow. Actually I am currently writing this from Hillsborough County, FL (Tampa). Just an example, they have been working on I-4 for 12 yaers and they are still not done (I-4 connects Tampa and Orlando, about 80 mils of highway).
2nd world was the soviet block/warsaw pact states. In case you missed it, the soviet union fell. Therefore, no more 2nd world. That is a very antiquate way to look at the world. The book, The Pentagon's New Map gives a great new view. Basically you have the world connected through commerce and the web. Then there those part of the wolrd that are not connected or that people in those place want to keep dis-connected (see much of the mid-east).
I am in Tampa, and I felt the effects myself. As long as your place of business is not in a mandatory evacuation zone, they can operate as normal. I luck out since my office is on the water (manadatory evacuation zone A) and my home is not in an evacuation zone.
Clearly no one responding thus far has actually worked in the government. The police have so many things to worry about and are so under-funded that the "black box" would be of little value. Even if it had the ability to transit location via gps think of how many cars are on the road in a big city. The computer in the police car (as some here see this going) would be flooded with too much information. I think providing them like they do for airplanes would be the best fit. Despite this I am still not in favor because of the potential for abuse. There is so much data floating around in the government today that they have no idea what to do with. It's still a bad idea.
In order to stem what the block voting seen in Congress there are several things that could be implemented to help undo what has been done and alluded to here in some of the other comments. First, there has to be away to make it so the members have to be there for 3/4 of the votes. Period. They are their to represent the people (remember the Declaration of Independence: WE THE PEOPLE), not to write books and eat at trendy restaurants in Georgetown. I have not really researched how to do this but there has to be a way. Second, change voting from majority wins (this plays more towards the 2 party system. Having to have 50% plus 1 to win is just quite working out like we though.) to a plurality (most votes wins). This would eventually allow the proliferation of political parties and force the members of Congress get along and actually build a coalition in the governement to actually get things done (novel frickin' idea). Last (begin op-ed portion) find a way to curtail the wildly liberal interpretations of the law. This is also hurting our counrty but in different way and for a different discussion. Just my thoughts.
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Apparently no one here has ever researched what Special Operations was created for. Try it out. This is right inline with their charter.
There is a SATA boot floppy http://slackware.at/data/slackware-current/bootdis ks/
And there is a SATA kernel selection.
I'll raise the bullshit flag on some these comments...I have had regular old CRT TVs my life and never once, even after 10 years of regular use, have I noticed any burn-in on any of my sets. Also, I have never had to recalibrate anything accept maybe the channel programming. Until you can get a Flat panel under $200 most people won't bother.
Contractors in FL are notoriously slow. Actually I am currently writing this from Hillsborough County, FL (Tampa). Just an example, they have been working on I-4 for 12 yaers and they are still not done (I-4 connects Tampa and Orlando, about 80 mils of highway).
2nd world was the soviet block/warsaw pact states. In case you missed it, the soviet union fell. Therefore, no more 2nd world. That is a very antiquate way to look at the world. The book, The Pentagon's New Map gives a great new view. Basically you have the world connected through commerce and the web. Then there those part of the wolrd that are not connected or that people in those place want to keep dis-connected (see much of the mid-east).
I am in Tampa, and I felt the effects myself. As long as your place of business is not in a mandatory evacuation zone, they can operate as normal. I luck out since my office is on the water (manadatory evacuation zone A) and my home is not in an evacuation zone.
They become psych majors to figure out what is wrong with themselves.
can you download the "network install" and burn it to a cd. That's what I did for my in-laws.
Clearly no one responding thus far has actually worked in the government. The police have so many things to worry about and are so under-funded that the "black box" would be of little value. Even if it had the ability to transit location via gps think of how many cars are on the road in a big city. The computer in the police car (as some here see this going) would be flooded with too much information. I think providing them like they do for airplanes would be the best fit. Despite this I am still not in favor because of the potential for abuse. There is so much data floating around in the government today that they have no idea what to do with. It's still a bad idea.
that's sooooooo insane. It's checks for now on.
In order to stem what the block voting seen in Congress there are several things that could be implemented to help undo what has been done and alluded to here in some of the other comments. First, there has to be away to make it so the members have to be there for 3/4 of the votes. Period. They are their to represent the people (remember the Declaration of Independence: WE THE PEOPLE), not to write books and eat at trendy restaurants in Georgetown. I have not really researched how to do this but there has to be a way. Second, change voting from majority wins (this plays more towards the 2 party system. Having to have 50% plus 1 to win is just quite working out like we though.) to a plurality (most votes wins). This would eventually allow the proliferation of political parties and force the members of Congress get along and actually build a coalition in the governement to actually get things done (novel frickin' idea). Last (begin op-ed portion) find a way to curtail the wildly liberal interpretations of the law. This is also hurting our counrty but in different way and for a different discussion. Just my thoughts.
Honestly, who has this much time to watch TV? Get outside, do something a little more exciting.