Sitting 2 feet away from a 42" display makes you a moron unqualified to continue this conversation.
Admit it, you're one of those people who refuse to sit in the front rows of a cinema, and prefers sitting at the back where the screen looks as tiny as your TV seen from your couch.
I'll admit it. My insurance doesn't cover Chiropractic, and I don't want to try it anyway.
Can someone tell me why the TSA would need to check Tax Identification numbers in order for someone to get on a plane?
For an individual, your "Tax Identification Number" is your Social Security Number. For a US citizen or resident, it's your GUID, the key by which everything is indexed, tax-related or otherwise.
Can't comment on the England having more terrorist issues than the US, but I'll take your word for it.
It's always weird when I hear young folks claiming no knowledge of stuff that was front-page news in my youth. It's not their fault -- kids who weren't born until after I reached adulthood may never know about this stuff, since it'll fall in the 30-ish year history gap in school -- too recent to be in books, too old to be remembered. My grand-kids will learn it as ancient history. Me, I guess I'd know nothing about Korea and Vietnam except for M*A*S*H, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, etc. My wife's young enough to have learned everything she knows about the Iran Hostage Crisis from the movie Argo.
Hopefully the cops went back and charged the individual who call in the hit and run with making a false police report.
I hope so too, but I doubt it. My friend didn't put two and two together for several days after the visit from the constabulary. And it was his local police department, acting on behalf of the police in the city where the drive-by shaming occurred, who investigated. Since he never reported his suspicions, and the Phelpsies were vague enough in their description of the car to provide plausible deniability -- but accurate enough to narrow it down to just one guy -- they probably got away with it.
...that the NSA managed to intercept more calls of French citizens.......than the French government.
The French government, among other parties, will be really enraged if it's revealed that they were willing accomplices. Or even if they just knew about it and kept it quiet based on some "understanding" with the US and British.
WBC are mostly harmless. Much as I hate to defend them, they have always been non-violent protesters - and to keep their cool is quite an achievement given the type of (well-earned) abuse that has been directed at them. I think it helps that they have a real persecution complex going, so the more hated they are the more they feel justified in their beliefs.
They do have some more subtle (but quite illegal) tactics up their sleeves. A friend of mine got investigated by the cops after an encounter with the Phelpsies. His sister was riding shotgun and shouted some of that well-earned abuse at them. They took down his (partial) license number and (mostly correct) paint color and reported him for a hit-and-run. The cops paid a visit and examined his car. Luckily, he didn't have any body damage, so that was the extent of the investigation . ..
You can see the model of aircraft that will you will be flying on, so yes, you do know the equipment.
Maybe this is more of a hub to hub kind of thing. I see a lot of flights where the equipment isn't specified (Delta) or listed as some kind of unspecified Dash-8 variant (US Airways). Perhaps in those cases it doesn't really matter what kind of mini-plane your regional affiliate carrier is using, it's not gonna be comfy if you can't even stand upright in the aisle.
Several years ago, I used to fly to Milwaukee on a regular basis. Midwest Express had a hub there, and I was happy to pay the extra $10 - $15 per round trip to enjoy their wide, comfy, leather seats and hot chocolate chip cookies.
Oh yeah. Midwest Express in the days of champagne and cookies was the way to fly, at least into larger airports. That leg into Madison or Moline on twin-engine, bug-smackin', Buddy Holly plane, not quite so much.
I didn't even mind a layover in MKE to fly Midwest Express. They had the best (only?) used bookstore in any US airport. Found my copy of Abramowitz and Stegun there.
I do - as a consequence I only fly Lufthansa or Austrian. Any others are too painful.
Ya, but they don't fly from Cincinnati to LA. You gotta fly to Frankfurt to get a flight to LA. That's in Germany. Capital is Berlin. Population: 80.3 million. Very nice forests.
If people just go to their favorite travel website and sort flights by cost this will continue to happen. Consumers are giving the signal they care about nothing other than cost. If it becomes uncomfortable enough that people select airlines based on comfort over price the airlines will respond. They just want the money. If they could get away with charging more for bean bag seats they would respond.
Is there even a way to sort flights by leg room (or other seat size parameter) on any travel website? Even if one knew the seat pitches in the aircraft that a given airline uses from external sources, one doesn't necessarily know what "equipment" is being used for any given flight. And even then, they're not all necessarily furnished identically. And your plane could change any time between booking and boarding. If you know of a way to do it, I want to know.
And besides, even wishing for this sort of thing will surely prompt some Slashdot griefer to call me "entitled" for stating my product and service preferences.
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Yeah, it's a typo. The privacy report says in the last full paragraph on page 13:
As it can't be ruled out that the published Windows executable of TrueCrypt 7.0a is compiled from a different source code than the code published in “TrueCrypt 7.0a Source.zip” we however can't preclude that the binary Windows package uses the header bytes after the key for a back door.
Seems the author retyped the statement themselves rather than just copying and pasting then the summary carried it over.
As I can't make sense of this sentence even as corrected, I however can't preclude that there is still a typo.
"...a fragile mess."
What are you people doing to your phones?
For me: tripping over the cable when getting out of bed if I didn't get it tucked in neatly the night before. Not broken yet, but getting looser and looser.
The solution is to include a uHDMI port on phones which need it. Most phones don't, so the cost issue is a non-issue.
DLNA may be making that obsolete. At least when you have access from your portable device to the network that the video display is also connected to. In my house, on my TV on my network, it's much more convenient for me. YMMV*.
*Pedant note: there are many situations where it won't work for various reasons stated and not stated here. I look forward to reading them all.
And they live longer with arthritis, osteoporosis, a failing immune system and dementia. Yeah, sounds like fun.
The Torchwood mini-series "Miracle Day" springs to mind.
It's not the first heart attack that kills you, it's the last.
Or to be less snarky, heart disease quite often results in significant extended morbidity before death. Few of us are so lucky to clutch our chests one minute and cut to a graveside service in the rain after the commercial break. And you can have the other stuff you mentioned concurrently, too. Death sucks, but the dying can suck even more.
If you want to prevent heart disease, stop eating saturted fat and cholesterol and stick with a low-fat whole-plant-based diet. This knowledge is not new; this stuff has been known for almost a hundred years now, yet we're still spending money dancing around the fact that eating animals and their byproducts leads to heart disease.
For me, becoming a vegetarian actually resulted in significant weight gain, increased blood pressure, higher blood glucose and higher cholesterol. My fat consumption, particularly saturated fats, decreased dramatically but I got the opposite effect that orthodox nutrition says I should. Increasing fat consumption, including milk and egg fats brought all those numbers back to normal -- I'm guessing the milk and eggs are what you're calling "animal byproducts".
I guess I practice a "low carb" vegetarian diet. Not "low carb" in the Atkins sense, by any means, though.
I am a single data point. I point that out so that anyone responding thusly is being redundant.
I don't expect any real results from this study for many years, but I think it's a very important study to do.
Great. Then you pay for it. I don't share your enthusiasm, so why should I have to share your bill?
Cool. I pay for my share of the heart disease thing -- that killed a thousand or two people on 9/11, and every other day before and after that -- and you get "terrorism". Deal?
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Sitting 2 feet away from a 42" display makes you a moron unqualified to continue this conversation.
Admit it, you're one of those people who refuse to sit in the front rows of a cinema, and prefers sitting at the back where the screen looks as tiny as your TV seen from your couch.
I'll admit it. My insurance doesn't cover Chiropractic, and I don't want to try it anyway.
Can someone tell me why the TSA would need to check Tax Identification numbers in order for someone to get on a plane?
For an individual, your "Tax Identification Number" is your Social Security Number. For a US citizen or resident, it's your GUID, the key by which everything is indexed, tax-related or otherwise.
Can't comment on the England having more terrorist issues than the US, but I'll take your word for it.
It's always weird when I hear young folks claiming no knowledge of stuff that was front-page news in my youth. It's not their fault -- kids who weren't born until after I reached adulthood may never know about this stuff, since it'll fall in the 30-ish year history gap in school -- too recent to be in books, too old to be remembered. My grand-kids will learn it as ancient history. Me, I guess I'd know nothing about Korea and Vietnam except for M*A*S*H, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, etc. My wife's young enough to have learned everything she knows about the Iran Hostage Crisis from the movie Argo.
Hopefully the cops went back and charged the individual who call in the hit and run with making a false police report.
I hope so too, but I doubt it. My friend didn't put two and two together for several days after the visit from the constabulary. And it was his local police department, acting on behalf of the police in the city where the drive-by shaming occurred, who investigated. Since he never reported his suspicions, and the Phelpsies were vague enough in their description of the car to provide plausible deniability -- but accurate enough to narrow it down to just one guy -- they probably got away with it.
Why would he dye it?
Grey never stopped him from getting girls.
But then, I've only worked on malaria, TB, Parkinson's, TBIs, and now Alzheimer's ...
You know, serious things.
We have a world that provides consumers with "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo". In that context, curing baldness is moral imperative.
"hair protects your head from sunburn"
You know what works even better for that?
A hat.
When I had my hair I never forgot to bring it with me. Now I end up with a new hat every vacation. Luckily, I don't travel much.
...that the NSA managed to intercept more calls of French citizens.... ...than the French government.
The French government, among other parties, will be really enraged if it's revealed that they were willing accomplices. Or even if they just knew about it and kept it quiet based on some "understanding" with the US and British.
WBC are mostly harmless. Much as I hate to defend them, they have always been non-violent protesters - and to keep their cool is quite an achievement given the type of (well-earned) abuse that has been directed at them. I think it helps that they have a real persecution complex going, so the more hated they are the more they feel justified in their beliefs.
They do have some more subtle (but quite illegal) tactics up their sleeves. A friend of mine got investigated by the cops after an encounter with the Phelpsies. His sister was riding shotgun and shouted some of that well-earned abuse at them. They took down his (partial) license number and (mostly correct) paint color and reported him for a hit-and-run. The cops paid a visit and examined his car. Luckily, he didn't have any body damage, so that was the extent of the investigation . . .
That's very stupid. If you don't vote at all, to the politicians you literally don't count.
If you don't donate you don't count. And you count in proportion to your donation.
And that's a federal offense.
I think it has to be a legal instruction from the stewardess, not "give me your stuff" or "come in the lav with me right now, you stud."
...you also win one (1) free head right in front of your face. Ah, modern technology. :)
Pro tip: Aim your air vent right at their head when they do that. It annoys the hell out of them.
That's a "cool" idea, if I may make a little pun there. And it's all within your rights, since the vent is designed to be directed that way.
You can see the model of aircraft that will you will be flying on, so yes, you do know the equipment.
Maybe this is more of a hub to hub kind of thing. I see a lot of flights where the equipment isn't specified (Delta) or listed as some kind of unspecified Dash-8 variant (US Airways). Perhaps in those cases it doesn't really matter what kind of mini-plane your regional affiliate carrier is using, it's not gonna be comfy if you can't even stand upright in the aisle.
Several years ago, I used to fly to Milwaukee on a regular basis. Midwest Express had a hub there, and I was happy to pay the extra $10 - $15 per round trip to enjoy their wide, comfy, leather seats and hot chocolate chip cookies.
Oh yeah. Midwest Express in the days of champagne and cookies was the way to fly, at least into larger airports. That leg into Madison or Moline on twin-engine, bug-smackin', Buddy Holly plane, not quite so much.
I didn't even mind a layover in MKE to fly Midwest Express. They had the best (only?) used bookstore in any US airport. Found my copy of Abramowitz and Stegun there.
I do - as a consequence I only fly Lufthansa or Austrian. Any others are too painful.
Ya, but they don't fly from Cincinnati to LA. You gotta fly to Frankfurt to get a flight to LA. That's in Germany. Capital is Berlin. Population: 80.3 million. Very nice forests.
If people just go to their favorite travel website and sort flights by cost this will continue to happen. Consumers are giving the signal they care about nothing other than cost. If it becomes uncomfortable enough that people select airlines based on comfort over price the airlines will respond. They just want the money. If they could get away with charging more for bean bag seats they would respond.
Is there even a way to sort flights by leg room (or other seat size parameter) on any travel website? Even if one knew the seat pitches in the aircraft that a given airline uses from external sources, one doesn't necessarily know what "equipment" is being used for any given flight. And even then, they're not all necessarily furnished identically. And your plane could change any time between booking and boarding. If you know of a way to do it, I want to know.
And besides, even wishing for this sort of thing will surely prompt some Slashdot griefer to call me "entitled" for stating my product and service preferences.
Except copyright law doesn't work that way.
How does copyright work in the case of anonymous authorship? I found this info which I make no attempt to explain . . .
In the US, there's this:)
(c) Anonymous Works, Pseudonymous Works, and Works Made for Hire. — In the case of an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication, or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. If, before the end of such term, the identity of one or more of the authors of an anonymous or pseudonymous work is revealed in the records of a registration made for that work under subsections (a) or (d) of section 408, or in the records provided by this subsection, the copyright in the work endures for the term specified by subsection (a) or (b), based on the life of the author or authors whose identity has been revealed. Any person having an interest in the copyright in an anonymous or pseudonymous work may at any time record, in records to be maintained by the Copyright Office for that purpose, a statement identifying one or more authors of the work; the statement shall also identify the person filing it, the nature of that person's interest, the source of the information recorded, and the particular work affected, and shall comply in form and content with requirements that the Register of Copyrights shall prescribe by regulation.
And this
Anonymous Work
An author's contribution to a work is “anonymous” if that author is not identified on the copies or phonorecords of the work. If the contribution is anonymous, you may:
* reveal the author's identity even though the work is anonymous, or
* leave the author fields blank, or
* give “Anonymous” in the last name field.
Note that if a work is “made for hire,” you must name the employer as author. In any case, you should check the anonymous box.
And internationally, there's this advice from wikipedia.
Yeah, it's a typo. The privacy report says in the last full paragraph on page 13:
As it can't be ruled out that the published Windows executable of TrueCrypt 7.0a is compiled from a different source code than the code published in “TrueCrypt 7.0a Source.zip” we however can't preclude that the binary Windows package uses the header bytes after the key for a back door.
Seems the author retyped the statement themselves rather than just copying and pasting then the summary carried it over.
As I can't make sense of this sentence even as corrected, I however can't preclude that there is still a typo.
Why don't they standardize the audio jacks? Very confusing with the American 1/8 inch thing while we in Europe have a 3,5mm version
Is this sarcastic? I can't tell for sure.
"...a fragile mess." What are you people doing to your phones?
For me: tripping over the cable when getting out of bed if I didn't get it tucked in neatly the night before. Not broken yet, but getting looser and looser.
The solution is to include a uHDMI port on phones which need it. Most phones don't, so the cost issue is a non-issue.
DLNA may be making that obsolete. At least when you have access from your portable device to the network that the video display is also connected to. In my house, on my TV on my network, it's much more convenient for me. YMMV*.
*Pedant note: there are many situations where it won't work for various reasons stated and not stated here. I look forward to reading them all.
....or cancer
And they live longer with arthritis, osteoporosis, a failing immune system and dementia. Yeah, sounds like fun.
The Torchwood mini-series "Miracle Day" springs to mind.
It's not the first heart attack that kills you, it's the last.
Or to be less snarky, heart disease quite often results in significant extended morbidity before death. Few of us are so lucky to clutch our chests one minute and cut to a graveside service in the rain after the commercial break. And you can have the other stuff you mentioned concurrently, too. Death sucks, but the dying can suck even more.
If you want to prevent heart disease, stop eating saturted fat and cholesterol and stick with a low-fat whole-plant-based diet. This knowledge is not new; this stuff has been known for almost a hundred years now, yet we're still spending money dancing around the fact that eating animals and their byproducts leads to heart disease.
Source: http://www.plantpositive.com/
For me, becoming a vegetarian actually resulted in significant weight gain, increased blood pressure, higher blood glucose and higher cholesterol. My fat consumption, particularly saturated fats, decreased dramatically but I got the opposite effect that orthodox nutrition says I should. Increasing fat consumption, including milk and egg fats brought all those numbers back to normal -- I'm guessing the milk and eggs are what you're calling "animal byproducts".
I guess I practice a "low carb" vegetarian diet. Not "low carb" in the Atkins sense, by any means, though.
I am a single data point. I point that out so that anyone responding thusly is being redundant.
I have mod points and it took every ounce of my being to not abuse them on this post. There is no '-1 Disagree"...
There is "Overrated." It's generally considered "close enough."
I agree! Not only that, the number one killer is accidents. Typical /. all wrong all the time.
Not even remotely close. Typical AC. Just typing "causes of death in us" in google would've got this answer in the number one slot.
I don't expect any real results from this study for many years, but I think it's a very important study to do.
Great. Then you pay for it. I don't share your enthusiasm, so why should I have to share your bill?
Cool. I pay for my share of the heart disease thing -- that killed a thousand or two people on 9/11, and every other day before and after that -- and you get "terrorism". Deal?