If you are polite to the cops, then things tend to work out. If you are rude, they do so less so. Is it ideal from a moral standpoint? Probably not.
One thing that we could do to make the situation a little more ideal, would be to have a website where we could, oh, rate the professionalism of cops. I don't know why someone hasn't thought of that.
I want a site with all their pictures so I can rate them 1-10 based on looks alone.
American Indians, cowboys, construction workers, leathermen and military types everywhere respond with cries of "Unfair discrimination!" while the guy in the back wearing a trenchcoat says "Hey girlie, would you mind wearing this?"
You must appreciate the IT Director who demands (and I mean vehemently demands) that all 5000 computers deployed MUST HAVE FEET. Didn't everyone get the memo? All systems must be installed with LRF support!
Nope. They are both smart. The difference is only that cats are independent while dogs are loyal.
I'll agree with the smart, and throw in loving and affectionate, too. But my pets are mixed up on the personality thing. The dog's stubborn and hard-headed but the cats come when called! They all seem to make me feel better -- most of the time.
There's this great new technology called "Spaying," it prevents female cats from going into heat AND allows them to live longer. You should look into it!
You need to employ the "spaying" technology before they reach sexual maturity, though, to totally prevent the caterwauling. It's not fully retroactive.
I suspect black made a comeback partly because it provides several good alternative outfits for women
The black suit prohibition applies more to men, in my experience. OTOH, black suits on men are completely appropriate at formal worship services in an African American congregation, including -- but not limited to -- weddings and funerals.
And remember, contrary to the article's assertion, since owning an iPhone isn't mandatory, and we presumably have free will, no one is "forced" to do anything.
Rather than contrary, isn't that exactly the article's assertion? That no one is "forced" to buy an iPhone, and thus many who might buy it unlocked/unsubsidized don't because it isn't?
From TFA:
The message is that many and probably most iPhone buyers would like to be given a choice of carrier when they buy their iPhone. Some would be prepared to pay more as they do with other smartphones and buy their iPhone unattached to any subsidised carrier contract.
So that represents a lost opportunity cost. Maybe Apple ran those numbers, paid their money and made their choice, deciding the the gain from exclusivity was worth the unlocked instrument sales. If your $200 AT&T subsidy number is right, I supposed that approximates the premium that Apple expects a consumer would pay.
It doesn't matter how many people buy iPhones to unlock them.
Unless AT&T really didn't do their homework before signing the iPhone deal, I would guess that they only pay Apple the subsidy on activated instruments.
Take off my shoes? Wonderful. When you get an athlete's foot infection every two months, let me know how it goes.
Or worse. When that fungus gets in and under the tonenails, it's not just Lotramin time. No. You have to see the doctor and get a sample of tonenail sent to the toenail lab to confirm that your spongified nails aren't normal just to get insurance (if you have it) to cover the $200-$600/month, 2-6 month course of drug treatment needed to clear that up.
As a medical student, my wife has had to perform the sawing off a sample of toenail procedure on patients -- using gloves, mask and goggles, of course. She explained that to the TSA morons, and asked that since they wanted her shoes off, where were the booties? They told her that since she wasn't guaranteed to get foot or toenail infection from contact with the same carpet that thousands of bare- and sock-footed people walked over each day, they couldn't provide those. After all, they said, just a possibility of something happening isn't sufficient reason to take that kind of preventative measure.
If it were a cartoon, the entire security checkpoint, including all the guards, equipment, and nifty bins would have vanished at the moment that phrase was uttered, accompanied only by the "pop" as air rushed in to fill the now vacant space.
Let's test that by switching "company doesn't want to pay more" with "workers don't want to work more" and make the "you" in the sentence refer to employee instead of employer. If it remains true, then yes, it's the [Clouds and Choir Ahs] Free Market [/Clouds and Choir Ahs].
My guess is that many folks who try that won't be greeted with a manager who says: "Can't say I didn't try. Well played, employee".
He was raving, all right. But I don't think that's necessarily a reason not to mourn -- or at least note -- his passing. He did say crazy things, but then again, he was crazy. I even find it especially sad that passed away at a relatively young age, possibly a complication of his mental illness. Paranoid delusions and the like can make treatment more difficult for physical illness, too. Victims of mental illness can get some strange ideas of what's causing their physical symptoms, causing them to fail to seek or refuse treatment for serious conditions.
The hateful things he said are still hateful and offensive, but I think it's a mistake to take a crazy person's ravings at face value, rather than as symptoms of mental disease. Of course, he may very well have been a jerk, too -- mental state notwithstanding.
Despite his handicap, he was a great chess player, and it's sad that he died untreated and presumably in pain. He had a gift that the world couldn't benefit from since it was trapped in his mind.
The movie The Nude Bomb can be found on cable as "The Return of Maxwell Smart". I have it sitting on my TiVo recorded in HD waiting for me to do a capture of it downcoverted
THe fact that you watched Get Smart in the '80s and '90s doesn't change the fact that this was a '60s television show!
Sorry about that, Chief, I think he just meant that that was when he was a kid, not that he thought the show was produced in that era. It was syndicated a lot more heavily in those years than it is now, at least on any channel I have access to.
I was just about to type that the series still wasn't available on DVD, but I checked Amazon and I was wrong, it finally is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LXTPDY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top. Looks like in the near future I'm going to be staying up for over fifty hours straight, living on caffeine and snack foods, not bathing, not shaving, while my body slowly atrophies, enduring potential cardiac arrest just to watch all 138 episodes in a row . . . And loving it.
Another point worth mentioning here is that when all of those defense industry programmers were looking for work again they weren't considered entry level anymore.
Well, that was part of the problem then -- you had senior people willing to take entry-level pay just to put food on their families. Not just defense industry programmers, but engineers of all kinds and non-technical people too received the "peace dividend". Graduating with a BS just after the Berlin Wall came down told me that maybe staying in school for a Masters was a reasonable choice instead of entering the job market. I'm pretty sure I defended my decision to my Dad with some of the same arguments you've used here.
There's a really funny novel about this period titled A Shortage of Engineers by Robert Grosbach, who lived through that particular crash. It's a fun read.
Cui Bono? Perhaps the TSA got a grant from the makers of Lamasil to increase sales of their prescription medication for toenail fungus. A multi-month regimen of the drug (required to clear up an infection) can cost thousands of dollars.
Why the hell do you need Windows CE to count votes? Can't you just flash a chip and use basic hardware?
You don't. ES&S iVotronic machines (as of at least 2004) don't have an operating system. They consist of a custom system board with the embedded version of the 386 processor. I assume Diebold chose their path to jumpstart the development process, avoiding the need to work out a file system, hardware drivers, memory management and the rest that using an OS brings.
A lot of the ES&S iVotronic embedded code does things like system-level file operations that would be a system call if they'd used WinCE (or another OS). I had the task of porting the iVotronic code to Linux (except for boot code and system display -- that was the other guy's job). Most of my work boiled down to figuring what chunks of code corresponded to system file operations and removing pages of code, replacing them with one or two system-level functions. ES&S put a lot of time and money into all that low-level code, including hiring a contractor to complete most of the embedded work. That contractor didn't even have the manpower needed, so they had to hire temps like me.
None of this is meant to imply that ES&S machines are necessarily more secure than Diebold's because of that design choice. I'm just saying Diebold went they way they did to save time -- calendar time -- and money.
And as far as I know, ES&S never did finish the Linux-based iVotronic. My temp gig there ended when it got shelved.
The article describes the methods these officers will be using to control for normal levels of travel anxiety.
So they've got "normal levels of travel anxiety" all under control. Even if I believed that, there are plenty of people whose travel anxiety has been "Elevated" to orange (or even red) by the very people (and their bosses) who are looking for nervous behavior. What then? Show them your Xanax script ("for abnormal levels of travel anxiety")?
And why do they even think they know the emotions of someone contemplating "terrism" on a plane?
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No, I think he's talking about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If they succeed, you'll never get me out of the basement.
I think you're taking it a little too personally.
One thing that we could do to make the situation a little more ideal, would be to have a website where we could, oh, rate the professionalism of cops. I don't know why someone hasn't thought of that.
American Indians, cowboys, construction workers, leathermen and military types everywhere respond with cries of "Unfair discrimination!" while the guy in the back wearing a trenchcoat says "Hey girlie, would you mind wearing this?"
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Who cares? He/she likes disco!
You must appreciate the IT Director who demands (and I mean vehemently demands) that all 5000 computers deployed MUST HAVE FEET.
Didn't everyone get the memo? All systems must be installed with LRF support!
I'll agree with the smart, and throw in loving and affectionate, too. But my pets are mixed up on the personality thing. The dog's stubborn and hard-headed but the cats come when called! They all seem to make me feel better -- most of the time.
Good point -- it could be that the public's perceptions of science are causing bad science reporting . . .
You need to employ the "spaying" technology before they reach sexual maturity, though, to totally prevent the caterwauling. It's not fully retroactive.
I couldn't hear that over the snappy dealing of blackjack cards and whistled show tunes.
The black suit prohibition applies more to men, in my experience. OTOH, black suits on men are completely appropriate at formal worship services in an African American congregation, including -- but not limited to -- weddings and funerals.
Rather than contrary, isn't that exactly the article's assertion? That no one is "forced" to buy an iPhone, and thus many who might buy it unlocked/unsubsidized don't because it isn't?
From TFA:
So that represents a lost opportunity cost. Maybe Apple ran those numbers, paid their money and made their choice, deciding the the gain from exclusivity was worth the unlocked instrument sales. If your $200 AT&T subsidy number is right, I supposed that approximates the premium that Apple expects a consumer would pay.
Unless AT&T really didn't do their homework before signing the iPhone deal, I would guess that they only pay Apple the subsidy on activated instruments.
And BTW . .
Your smart-aleckness makes Baby Jesus cry.
Or worse. When that fungus gets in and under the tonenails, it's not just Lotramin time. No. You have to see the doctor and get a sample of tonenail sent to the toenail lab to confirm that your spongified nails aren't normal just to get insurance (if you have it) to cover the $200-$600/month, 2-6 month course of drug treatment needed to clear that up.
As a medical student, my wife has had to perform the sawing off a sample of toenail procedure on patients -- using gloves, mask and goggles, of course. She explained that to the TSA morons, and asked that since they wanted her shoes off, where were the booties? They told her that since she wasn't guaranteed to get foot or toenail infection from contact with the same carpet that thousands of bare- and sock-footed people walked over each day, they couldn't provide those. After all, they said, just a possibility of something happening isn't sufficient reason to take that kind of preventative measure.
If it were a cartoon, the entire security checkpoint, including all the guards, equipment, and nifty bins would have vanished at the moment that phrase was uttered, accompanied only by the "pop" as air rushed in to fill the now vacant space.
My guess is that many folks who try that won't be greeted with a manager who says: "Can't say I didn't try. Well played, employee".
The hateful things he said are still hateful and offensive, but I think it's a mistake to take a crazy person's ravings at face value, rather than as symptoms of mental disease. Of course, he may very well have been a jerk, too -- mental state notwithstanding.
Despite his handicap, he was a great chess player, and it's sad that he died untreated and presumably in pain. He had a gift that the world couldn't benefit from since it was trapped in his mind.
Completist or glutton for punishment? ;)
True. More of a googlewhack, really.
Sorry about that, Chief, I think he just meant that that was when he was a kid, not that he thought the show was produced in that era. It was syndicated a lot more heavily in those years than it is now, at least on any channel I have access to.
I was just about to type that the series still wasn't available on DVD, but I checked Amazon and I was wrong, it finally is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LXTPDY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top. Looks like in the near future I'm going to be staying up for over fifty hours straight, living on caffeine and snack foods, not bathing, not shaving, while my body slowly atrophies, enduring potential cardiac arrest just to watch all 138 episodes in a row . . . And loving it.
Let me guess -- you're not in sales, marketing, or management . . .
Well, that was part of the problem then -- you had senior people willing to take entry-level pay just to put food on their families. Not just defense industry programmers, but engineers of all kinds and non-technical people too received the "peace dividend". Graduating with a BS just after the Berlin Wall came down told me that maybe staying in school for a Masters was a reasonable choice instead of entering the job market. I'm pretty sure I defended my decision to my Dad with some of the same arguments you've used here.
There's a really funny novel about this period titled A Shortage of Engineers by Robert Grosbach, who lived through that particular crash. It's a fun read.
Cui Bono? Perhaps the TSA got a grant from the makers of Lamasil to increase sales of their prescription medication for toenail fungus. A multi-month regimen of the drug (required to clear up an infection) can cost thousands of dollars.
Except now we've apparently got secret laws and regulations, so you don't know what you don't know.
You don't. ES&S iVotronic machines (as of at least 2004) don't have an operating system. They consist of a custom system board with the embedded version of the 386 processor. I assume Diebold chose their path to jumpstart the development process, avoiding the need to work out a file system, hardware drivers, memory management and the rest that using an OS brings.
A lot of the ES&S iVotronic embedded code does things like system-level file operations that would be a system call if they'd used WinCE (or another OS). I had the task of porting the iVotronic code to Linux (except for boot code and system display -- that was the other guy's job). Most of my work boiled down to figuring what chunks of code corresponded to system file operations and removing pages of code, replacing them with one or two system-level functions. ES&S put a lot of time and money into all that low-level code, including hiring a contractor to complete most of the embedded work. That contractor didn't even have the manpower needed, so they had to hire temps like me.
None of this is meant to imply that ES&S machines are necessarily more secure than Diebold's because of that design choice. I'm just saying Diebold went they way they did to save time -- calendar time -- and money.
And as far as I know, ES&S never did finish the Linux-based iVotronic. My temp gig there ended when it got shelved.
Request denied.
So they've got "normal levels of travel anxiety" all under control. Even if I believed that, there are plenty of people whose travel anxiety has been "Elevated" to orange (or even red) by the very people (and their bosses) who are looking for nervous behavior. What then? Show them your Xanax script ("for abnormal levels of travel anxiety")?
And why do they even think they know the emotions of someone contemplating "terrism" on a plane?
Didn't you hear? Britney's "good" sister is pregnant!