Never in my life was I in better shape when I was writing graffiti. Walking to spots, running away from the cops, going to out of way places to take photos. Heck, I was probably doing 50-60 miles on foot every week.
there is no reason why people shouldn't have access to this information to be able to produce fully legal tax returns without being harassed.
Looking for tax cheats is sort of like searching for black holes - you can't find black holes directly, you can only look around them. See filing abnormalities? See changes in returns? etc... Nobody worth their salt is going to give you an illegal tax return.
It's like a book telling criminals what to say to not get arrested.
VW is: Audi, VW, Skoda (all of these have the same VW "look"), Seat, Bugatti, Lamborghinii, Bentley Fiat is: Fiat, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati BMW is: BMW, Mini, Rolls Royce Daimler-Chrysler is: Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Dodge, Jeep, Smart
4 companies, 20 brands.
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I totally agree with you, and this is especially prevalent in the eastern and central, post-Soviet Bloc, parts of Europe. To this day - and it's been almost 60 years since the end of hostilities in Europe - you can find bullet holes in buildings in the poorer parts of Warsaw. It's also not uncommon to see bomb squads called in when a construction crew finds an unexploded bomb or artillery shell buried in the ground. Or to hear about some kid getting their hand blown off after finding an unexploded grenade while playing in the woods.
World War II also left us with a lot of burial grounds and mass graves, both the Nazis and the Soviets were fast and lose with mass murders. In 1940 the Soviets slaughtered 25 thousand members of Poland's intelectual elite, then blamed it on the Nazis. Their remains weren't exhumed until the mid 1990s, and if it hadn't been for people actively working to find out the truth and getting the bodies exhumed and properly buried, they remains would still be in the ground, buried under a couple of feed of dirt in the middle of a forest.
There is one factual error in your post - while Belarus did recieve a huge part of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, the reactor itself is in the Ukraine.
Wait, you don't have enough money to hire an artist, but you have enough money for Photoshop, Lightwave AND Maya? These packages cost... oh... a couple GRAND together? Hell, just PS (not studio) is $300-400.
I often find them dead after the first 10 shots or so
I am currently on my 4th digital camera, a Canon 20D. The 3 previous - Fuji 4700, Fuji 6800 and Ixus SD-10 took 150+ photos (a full card) on their rechargable batteries (I used 2100mA AAs in the 4700). The 20D's battery is rated at 1000 shots w/o Flash. I charged the battery when I bought it - a week and a half ago - and have taken, viewed, dumped, etc over 700 photos so far. The battery is still going strong.
On the other hand, when I went to a kiosk and put two alkaline AA batteries into my 4700, it was good for all of 15 photos.
So, what models are you using that kill their rechargable batteries so quickly, while running forever on disposables?
When I went to work in '97, I decided to set up a bank account to store all the money I was getting each month. So I went to a new and hip bank, HandloBank. HandloBank was a retail operation by one of Poland's largest commercial banks. They offered phone access to your account, etc. You could pretty much have an account and never go to the bank itself, which is exactly what I wanted. It was a great bank and I was very happy there, especially with the needs I had at the moment.
In 2001, Citibank bought Handlobank and decided to merge their systems. Over the next three or four days, HandloBanks customers had *NO* access to their money - ATMs didn't work, the cards weren't being verified and cash payout at the teller window was impossible. Banks crash, even the largest of them (Citibank).
Bomb the fuck out of the North Korean military and invade.
The problem, of course, isn't one of a vietnam-style conflict, it's one of the North leveling Seoul to the ground via conventional arms. In every single conventional-arms scenario, Seoul is lost before the war is won.
In the summer of '99 I moved to a flat in central Warsaw for about 4 months. During that time, the celeron 333 running Win NT 4 (sp4a? don't remember) went down ONCE - and that was when I turned it off to help a friend with a bios problem over the phone. I did some development and a lot of photoshop work on that box, took many a licking and never stopped ticking.
I does game, it does do graphics and Motion. It also requires less space than either my 17" monitor or the main case, runs the slickest UNIX-based system ever created and includes a 17" wide-screen LCD. That's what the extra grand is for.
I think you should call 'joke' - I don't remember seeing a floppy drive in a Mac since the original iMacs dropped. Hell, I haven't had a floppy drive working in any of my computers since '01.
In otherwords, Apple can't give people what they want (midrange desktop box), because they are too busy gouging someone else (low-end pros).
Gouging? Where? Show me another pre-assembled, pre-configured 1.8ghz 64-bit machine with a similar form factor, 17" widescreen LCD, running at 20-30db - all for $1299. The truth is, this machine is all most "Photoshop types" need - it's more than enough (after a memory upgrade) for anything other than large print projects.
I think Apple flat out doesn't want to dilute its brand. They sell expensive, great looking computers with excellent customer service. They're not Dell, they're not HP, they're Apple, plain and simple. Remember when they used to license clones? Remember how big of a flop it was? They're nto going back there, at least not until they have to, and they may never have to.
I've been a Mac hater since '88, but this a really, really nice machine at a great price. I'm actually getting one right now and if OSX is as good as people have been saying, I'm getting one for my mom next year.
It always cracks me up when I see Americans cracking Canadian currency jokes while the US dollar is worth something like 20% less (v the Euro) than it was 4 years ago. 1.20USD will get you a euro, 1.30CDN will get you a dollar.
Actually English is the most difficult major language for a non-native to learn on the planet.
Utter and total crap. English is a very easy english to learn, because your english doesn't need to be perfect for you to be considered proficient. For normal, day-to-day communication you need something like 1000 words. One thousand words, and you can get by in any place in America.
On the other hand, take Polish. In English you conjugate verbs, in Polish you conjugate verbs, nouns, adjectives, proper nouns, etc. You need to have a much larger vocabulary - adjectives aren't as descriptive (eg. blue is niebieski, light blue is blekit, dark blue is granat). You have similar spelling problems as with English, words written in different ways are pronounced exactly the same. Hell, you even have a often used construction, in which the pronoun is implied, based on the conjugation of the verbs or pronouns.
After living in the states for 2-3 years most of my Polish friends spoke passable English, but I know Americans who have lived in Poland for 6+ years and barely speak the native tounge.
In regards to a mouse whose batteries only stay charged about 7-8 hours under continuous use.
This totally surprised me, I've used my MX700 for 14-16 hours during hardcore work sessions and it never skipped a beat. Maybe you should change your batteries?
While the grandparent posts reads like a load of shit, the poster has a point. Open Office is still pretty crap. Function-wise, it's fine - stability-wise... I can leave any program minimized on my desktop for 3-4 days without any problems. If I minimize OpenOffice Spreadsheet or Text Document and when I come back to it after going out, I can pretty much be sure that I will not be able to open it again.
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Never in my life was I in better shape when I was writing graffiti. Walking to spots, running away from the cops, going to out of way places to take photos. Heck, I was probably doing 50-60 miles on foot every week.
there is no reason why people shouldn't have access to this information to be able to produce fully legal tax returns without being harassed.
Looking for tax cheats is sort of like searching for black holes - you can't find black holes directly, you can only look around them. See filing abnormalities? See changes in returns? etc... Nobody worth their salt is going to give you an illegal tax return.
It's like a book telling criminals what to say to not get arrested.
low bandwidth
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of me handing you the keys to a van full of hard drives.
They are actually 'Holden' in Australia.
True, but the auto industry is VERY consolidated:
VW is: Audi, VW, Skoda (all of these have the same VW "look"), Seat, Bugatti, Lamborghinii, Bentley
Fiat is: Fiat, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati
BMW is: BMW, Mini, Rolls Royce
Daimler-Chrysler is: Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Dodge, Jeep, Smart
4 companies, 20 brands.
I totally agree with you, and this is especially prevalent in the eastern and central, post-Soviet Bloc, parts of Europe. To this day - and it's been almost 60 years since the end of hostilities in Europe - you can find bullet holes in buildings in the poorer parts of Warsaw. It's also not uncommon to see bomb squads called in when a construction crew finds an unexploded bomb or artillery shell buried in the ground. Or to hear about some kid getting their hand blown off after finding an unexploded grenade while playing in the woods.
World War II also left us with a lot of burial grounds and mass graves, both the Nazis and the Soviets were fast and lose with mass murders. In 1940 the Soviets slaughtered 25 thousand members of Poland's intelectual elite, then blamed it on the Nazis. Their remains weren't exhumed until the mid 1990s, and if it hadn't been for people actively working to find out the truth and getting the bodies exhumed and properly buried, they remains would still be in the ground, buried under a couple of feed of dirt in the middle of a forest.
There is one factual error in your post - while Belarus did recieve a huge part of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, the reactor itself is in the Ukraine.
The free version of Maya does not produce output suitable for anything but learning (it is watermarked).
Wait, you don't have enough money to hire an artist, but you have enough money for Photoshop, Lightwave AND Maya? These packages cost... oh... a couple GRAND together? Hell, just PS (not studio) is $300-400.
Well, it's not about how it looks, but how it works... Have you actually used Gmail?
iPhoto and Photoshop have maybe a 2-3% feature coverage.
How about just having the order delivered for a buck or two?
This is where I do 80% of my food shopping now: http://www.hipernet24.pl (polish language website)
Hmmm...
I often find them dead after the first 10 shots or so
I am currently on my 4th digital camera, a Canon 20D. The 3 previous - Fuji 4700, Fuji 6800 and Ixus SD-10 took 150+ photos (a full card) on their rechargable batteries (I used 2100mA AAs in the 4700). The 20D's battery is rated at 1000 shots w/o Flash. I charged the battery when I bought it - a week and a half ago - and have taken, viewed, dumped, etc over 700 photos so far. The battery is still going strong.
On the other hand, when I went to a kiosk and put two alkaline AA batteries into my 4700, it was good for all of 15 photos.
So, what models are you using that kill their rechargable batteries so quickly, while running forever on disposables?
"See, we're not a bank...banks don't crash"
When I went to work in '97, I decided to set up a bank account to store all the money I was getting each month. So I went to a new and hip bank, HandloBank. HandloBank was a retail operation by one of Poland's largest commercial banks. They offered phone access to your account, etc. You could pretty much have an account and never go to the bank itself, which is exactly what I wanted. It was a great bank and I was very happy there, especially with the needs I had at the moment.
In 2001, Citibank bought Handlobank and decided to merge their systems. Over the next three or four days, HandloBanks customers had *NO* access to their money - ATMs didn't work, the cards weren't being verified and cash payout at the teller window was impossible. Banks crash, even the largest of them (Citibank).
Bomb the fuck out of the North Korean military and invade.
The problem, of course, isn't one of a vietnam-style conflict, it's one of the North leveling Seoul to the ground via conventional arms. In every single conventional-arms scenario, Seoul is lost before the war is won.
roughly 19,000 messages [...] 3500 messages
Since 1997?
I've gotten 16000 spams and viruses since *APRIL*. That doesn't count the accounts I've cut off because I was getting nothing but spam.
In the summer of '99 I moved to a flat in central Warsaw for about 4 months. During that time, the celeron 333 running Win NT 4 (sp4a? don't remember) went down ONCE - and that was when I turned it off to help a friend with a bios problem over the phone. I did some development and a lot of photoshop work on that box, took many a licking and never stopped ticking.
Now... is that a Linux kernel from 1998?
I does game, it does do graphics and Motion. It also requires less space than either my 17" monitor or the main case, runs the slickest UNIX-based system ever created and includes a 17" wide-screen LCD. That's what the extra grand is for.
I think you should call 'joke' - I don't remember seeing a floppy drive in a Mac since the original iMacs dropped. Hell, I haven't had a floppy drive working in any of my computers since '01.
In otherwords, Apple can't give people what they want (midrange desktop box), because they are too busy gouging someone else (low-end pros).
Gouging? Where? Show me another pre-assembled, pre-configured 1.8ghz 64-bit machine with a similar form factor, 17" widescreen LCD, running at 20-30db - all for $1299. The truth is, this machine is all most "Photoshop types" need - it's more than enough (after a memory upgrade) for anything other than large print projects.
I think Apple flat out doesn't want to dilute its brand. They sell expensive, great looking computers with excellent customer service. They're not Dell, they're not HP, they're Apple, plain and simple. Remember when they used to license clones? Remember how big of a flop it was? They're nto going back there, at least not until they have to, and they may never have to.
I've been a Mac hater since '88, but this a really, really nice machine at a great price. I'm actually getting one right now and if OSX is as good as people have been saying, I'm getting one for my mom next year.
It always cracks me up when I see Americans cracking Canadian currency jokes while the US dollar is worth something like 20% less (v the Euro) than it was 4 years ago. 1.20USD will get you a euro, 1.30CDN will get you a dollar.
Actually English is the most difficult major language for a non-native to learn on the planet.
Utter and total crap. English is a very easy english to learn, because your english doesn't need to be perfect for you to be considered proficient. For normal, day-to-day communication you need something like 1000 words. One thousand words, and you can get by in any place in America.
On the other hand, take Polish. In English you conjugate verbs, in Polish you conjugate verbs, nouns, adjectives, proper nouns, etc. You need to have a much larger vocabulary - adjectives aren't as descriptive (eg. blue is niebieski, light blue is blekit, dark blue is granat). You have similar spelling problems as with English, words written in different ways are pronounced exactly the same. Hell, you even have a often used construction, in which the pronoun is implied, based on the conjugation of the verbs or pronouns.
After living in the states for 2-3 years most of my Polish friends spoke passable English, but I know Americans who have lived in Poland for 6+ years and barely speak the native tounge.
In regards to a mouse whose batteries only stay charged about 7-8 hours under continuous use.
This totally surprised me, I've used my MX700 for 14-16 hours during hardcore work sessions and it never skipped a beat. Maybe you should change your batteries?
http://www.mamastudio.biz/
While the grandparent posts reads like a load of shit, the poster has a point. Open Office is still pretty crap. Function-wise, it's fine - stability-wise... I can leave any program minimized on my desktop for 3-4 days without any problems. If I minimize OpenOffice Spreadsheet or Text Document and when I come back to it after going out, I can pretty much be sure that I will not be able to open it again.
Athlon 1800 + 1gb ram + WinXP (SP1, SP2).