You are too stupid to be a part of this conversation. If you had reading comprehension beyond the 2nd grade you would have understood that...
I tried to move to CFLs early on, and had to go back to incandescent UNTIL RECENTLY. The problem WAS that the IR the CFLs would produce would cause so much noise that remote controls frequently didn't work, and even worse, sometimes the bulbs would issue commands on their own.
is in the past tense, and thus it acknowledges that the problem was already resolved, and thus is no longer a problem. And, having a table saw that looks like it is turned off when in fact the blade is spinning is a very serious problem that can cost people their lives, if not just their fingers. The fact that you live in an apartment, and get all your furniture in particle board kits, doesn't meant that the grown ups don't like to keep their fingers.
Sounds like his mother was a bitch and a criminal to boot. His correct action should have been to report her to the police, and take all of the difficult, but doable steps necessary for identity theft. Now, I can understand that he may have made the choice to assume this criminal mother's debt to keep her out of jail, and I'm not going to say that he made the wrong choice. But, he did agree to assume her debt, so the OP's point still stands.
That being said, the same thing happened to my wife. She moved out at 16, and at 17 her mother opened a credit card under her name. We found when she was 25 when we tried to buy our first house, and the card showed up as bad debt. Her mother had run it up and then declared bankruptcy. Cleaning that was pretty easy, as the card was issued in her name when she was not legally able to get a credit card. She did offer to help the credit card company in any criminal prosecution they wanted to push on her mother. Funny thing is, as soon as they saw her age at the time the card was issued, they cleared it from her credit report, and refused to discuss the matter any further with her. They were totally uninterested in prosecuting.
That depends. If this is considered Wire Fraud, then the authorities can just get the phone data from the phone company via a warrant. Of course, it seems that any company doing spoofing now is already committing wire fraud.
I'm not sure why a different circuit helps. I just chalked it up to different noise or resistance on another leg throwing the 60hz frequency just enough out of phase between the two so that the effect doesn't happen. A quick look on the web makes it appear that the problem is that the magnetic ballasts would be in sync with the spin of the blade. So, it may be that the CFLs don't exhibit this with their electric ballasts. As with most technologies, things just keep getting better.
Yes, my son learned to read just before turning 3 due to video games. I still remember him coming in to the room and reading "Bomb Jack" on the screen of the TV. It was the first time I knew that he wasn't just seeing them as a graphic that meant a word, because I had just gotten the game system that day, it was the first time that game had been loaded, and Bomb Jack was old enough that there was no way he saw commercials on TV or heard people talking about it in stores.
The interesting challenge that comes from a child learning to read that young though is that they learn lots of words by reading them first, and often don't hear the words for years later. This leads to them pronouncing words the way they are spelled. We consistently have to listen for words that he might have read, but never heard pronounced properly so that we can correct the pronunciation before it gets ingrained. We had a heck of a time getting him to pronounce 'bronze' with a short o instead of a long one.
Actually, it shows that he is so good at it that he can use local slang properly instead of having to stick classroom English. In fact, the apostrophe at the beginning shows that the writer did know what they were writing.
CFLs are strobe lights. That is just what they do. I cannot perceive it in most bulbs, but there is a good reason that they tell you not to plug in the florescent lights in you garage to the same circuit as your table saw. In theory they strobe fast enough that humans cannot see them, but given that florescent lights can trick your eyes if they are in sync with your table saw, it is clear that the strobing is not 100% outside of human perception.
I tried to move to CFLs early on, and had to go back to incandescent until recently. The problem was that the IR the CFLs would produce would cause so much noise that remote controls frequently didn't work, and even worse, sometimes the bulbs would issue commands on their own. The first time that I was sitting at home alone with the curtains closed, and the TV started changing channels on it's own, I got a bit freaked out. After searching the house for whoever was screwing with me, I eventually figured out it was the CFLs changing the channels and volume.
I am 95% CFL now, and this seems to be a problem that has been resolved.
Yes, California is a different place. Yes, most of what you see about it is movie fiction. No, we are not all blond. In fact, you have a full six weeks to get your hair bleached before the local municipalities start fining you for having dark hair.
More seriously, keeping track of your credit card balance is exactly the same act as keeping track of your checking account balance. Neither is easier nor harder than the other. Either you write down your purchases or you do not. On top of that, even in the far off land of Ohio, they have this think called...The Internet. Virtually all credit card issuers will let you log on and check your purchases, so even if you don't write down how much you spent, you can easily go online and see how much you have spent up to a couple of days prior.
Claiming that credit cards are bad because dumb people use them dumbly is a pretty serious fallacy. Either a person spends more than they make, or they don't. For people so irresponsible that they are incapable of living within their means, having a bank who will slap their hands and say no, might be helpful, but for any reasonably intellegent person, the fact that you COULD overspend doesn't mean you WILL overspend. In fact, people bounce checks all the time because they spend more than they make.
Of course, financially responsible people don't *need* credit cards anymore than they *need* checks. Financially responsible people understand what credit cards are, and use them to be MORE financially responsible. For example, every person you give a check to, now has access to everything they need to withdraw from your account. The same is true of credit cards. The difference is that when someone commits fraud on your checking account, your mortgage, utilities, and various other payments bounce, and you end up paying large fees, and are pretty much screwed until you get it sorted out. With a credit card, you just submit a form contesting the charges, and you good to go.
The worst choice is a "check card" it is all the weaknesses of a credit card combined with all of the weaknesses of a checking account.
A few groceries (mainly the larger ones, particularly chains such as Meijer) have started to take credit cards
Wow. I guess that just puts a spot light on the diversity of the U.S. Here in California, I haven't seen a grocery store, restaurant, bakery, or even convenience store that didn't take credit cards in years. Heck, even the fast food places take credit cards here.
but buying everyday stuff like groceries on credit is not fiscally responsible and will quickly land you hip-deep in debt
No, there is nothing irresponsible about using a credit card for every day stuff like groceries. What is irresponsible is to use a credit card for long term debt., and to spend more money than you have. This is no different than with a paper check. People don't seem to understand that a check IS A LOAN. It is not money. It is a promise that your agent will hand over money on your behalf if they take that piece of paper to them. There is nothing about buying everyday items with a credit card that leads to being hip deep in debt. Not understanding what money and not being able to do simple math leads to people being hip deep in debt.
This is a great way to further put the wealthy in a winning position in our courts. Obviously, once the DNA is collected, it will become as restricted in it's use as our social security numbers. Well, for us regular folks, the chance of a collision is 1 in a million, and to counter that, a jury will have to be convinced through math that this doesn't really prove what the prosecution says it does. Where as the wealthy will just hire a PI to find a half dozen other people with the same sequence. They will then subpoena them into the court, and present real physical people who also match the same DNA.
Poor person: There are at least 100 other people with the same DNA sequence.
Prosecutor: 100 people? In what geographical area?
Poor person: Well... The world...
Prosecutor: What are the chances that a match is living in this city?
Poor person: 1 in 1 billion...
Rich person: There are tons of other people with the same DNA sequence.
Prosecutor: Tones huh? In what geographical area?
Rich person: Near by.
Prosecutor: What are the chances that a match is living in this city?
Rich person: I don't know, but half that front row in over there matches my DNA sequence! There everywhere!
There is also the problem of some technologies always being bleeding edge. CPUs being the most obvious example. If you waited until CPUs stopped becoming obsolete in a few years, you might just now be considering your first computer. Display screens...Not so much of a problem. Although, that will depend on how much they scale. If the manufacture scales as well as CPUs have...
You can skip the black and white while waiting for color.
You can skip newspaper quality color waiting for magazine quality color.
You can skip the single screen magazine quality color waiting for the dual screen clam shell color.
You can skip the clam shell screens waiting for the six screen 'book'.
You can skip the six page screen waiting for the 12 page book.
You can skip the 12 first gen book waiting for the book that has sub 5ms refresh times.
If there is ~18 months between releases, you could be looking at another decade before you get any kind of e-book reader.
I don't think that most people have really thought out what they will do with this kind of tech. Books have been their selling point because it was the best that the tech could do in it's crude state. Future e-ink will be as similar to the Kindal as the Vic-20 is to Windows 7 connected to the internet.
Even before they work on refresh rates, magazine quality color will wipe out the much of the non-"fine" art industry. When you can buy a poster size sheet of this, and it can maintain a poster quality picture without using any electricity, people will start reconsidering buying print. When you can buy a poster sized sheet for $50, you will see people considering it for use as wallpaper. When you can get this quality with sub 5ms refresh times, you will not only see people wallpapering with it, you will see it replacing TVs and computer monitors. Why bother mounting a fixed size TV to your wall when any or all of your walls can become TVs dynamically.
I don't know how well this tech will scale in size and price, but I would suggest treating it like any other tech. If it does what you want at a price you are happy with, buy it now, and accept that things will bet better and cheaper in the future.
I don't know what your talking about. At 10 years old, I recognized that the Shuttle didn't live up to it's hype on it's first launch when I saw that it was just a plane shaped space ship attached to a rocket for take off. The hype before the shuttle went into service was that it would take off and land like an airplane. I don't know if that was what NASA intended or not, but that was certainly how it was presented to much of the public at the time. Your statement about the shuttle only being questioned when the Challenger blew up reminds me of all the people that realized Aids was "no longer a gay disease" when Magic Johnson got it.
It seems to me that if the school were using GPL software, then it doesn't matter if they lock down the computer. They still have to supply the source code.
Not to mention farming in California. The myth that food would not be grown if Mexicans did not come across the boarder is absurd. There are already plenty of machines that could take over for most of their work. The reason immigrant workers are used is because it is cheaper in the short run. Whether that is good or bad is an entirely different discussion, but it is clear that cheap human labor today is successfully winning over the long term investment in automation (if automation could ever be as cheap as the immigrant labor) when it comes to farming.
So, we have to hope that if this goes through, the children of the UK will take up action, seek out politicians on sites that implement this, and mark them all as child molesters. They should then immediately report to the nearest and most scandalous paper that the accusation was made.
As long as the same standards are set for every parent who lets their kid watch Bob the Builder, and then leaves any kind of power tool in their home without it being in a safe.
It always gets me that because a group of people think guns are 'evil', they get treated as a completely different class than every other tool. There is no indication that this child 'thought the gun was a Wii controller'. This story is a case of 'guns are evil', 'video games are evil' so, put together, they become evil squared!
No doubt, leaving the gun loaded on the kitchen table is a poor choice if your 3 year old hasn't been properly raised, but does anyone think that if it were a hand held circular saw that was left plugged in that the child killed themselves with, that there would be nearly the uproar?
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The irony I live with every day is that I work for one of those mythical good managers. The ironic part is that his name is Peter.
I sure as hell hope that every educated person knows the basic foundations of physics.
I hate to break the news to you, but your hopes are unfulfilled.
I tried to move to CFLs early on, and had to go back to incandescent UNTIL RECENTLY. The problem WAS that the IR the CFLs would produce would cause so much noise that remote controls frequently didn't work, and even worse, sometimes the bulbs would issue commands on their own.
is in the past tense, and thus it acknowledges that the problem was already resolved, and thus is no longer a problem. And, having a table saw that looks like it is turned off when in fact the blade is spinning is a very serious problem that can cost people their lives, if not just their fingers. The fact that you live in an apartment, and get all your furniture in particle board kits, doesn't meant that the grown ups don't like to keep their fingers.
Of course, perhaps you are just a troll...
Ahh... Well, I guess if you've never seen it, it must not exist. That explains it.
Sounds like his mother was a bitch and a criminal to boot. His correct action should have been to report her to the police, and take all of the difficult, but doable steps necessary for identity theft. Now, I can understand that he may have made the choice to assume this criminal mother's debt to keep her out of jail, and I'm not going to say that he made the wrong choice. But, he did agree to assume her debt, so the OP's point still stands.
That being said, the same thing happened to my wife. She moved out at 16, and at 17 her mother opened a credit card under her name. We found when she was 25 when we tried to buy our first house, and the card showed up as bad debt. Her mother had run it up and then declared bankruptcy. Cleaning that was pretty easy, as the card was issued in her name when she was not legally able to get a credit card. She did offer to help the credit card company in any criminal prosecution they wanted to push on her mother. Funny thing is, as soon as they saw her age at the time the card was issued, they cleared it from her credit report, and refused to discuss the matter any further with her. They were totally uninterested in prosecuting.
That depends. If this is considered Wire Fraud, then the authorities can just get the phone data from the phone company via a warrant. Of course, it seems that any company doing spoofing now is already committing wire fraud.
I'm not sure why a different circuit helps. I just chalked it up to different noise or resistance on another leg throwing the 60hz frequency just enough out of phase between the two so that the effect doesn't happen. A quick look on the web makes it appear that the problem is that the magnetic ballasts would be in sync with the spin of the blade. So, it may be that the CFLs don't exhibit this with their electric ballasts. As with most technologies, things just keep getting better.
Sir, you are aware that this film is shown is Feel-Around?
I've did some work on lathes on colege workshop some years ago, and all the lights there were regular fluorescent tubes. had no problem with strobing.
Strobing is a pretty well known effect with florecents. The fact that someone set up a shop properly for you in college doesn't negate the effect.
that's plain bullshit you just made up, OR your remote is busted. buy another one.
Well, both NEMA and Consumer Reports say that you don't know what you are talking about. Where are your citations showing that CFL does not interfere with IR?
That is a very good point, and should be part of the question whether you agree with targeted killing or not.
Yes, my son learned to read just before turning 3 due to video games. I still remember him coming in to the room and reading "Bomb Jack" on the screen of the TV. It was the first time I knew that he wasn't just seeing them as a graphic that meant a word, because I had just gotten the game system that day, it was the first time that game had been loaded, and Bomb Jack was old enough that there was no way he saw commercials on TV or heard people talking about it in stores.
The interesting challenge that comes from a child learning to read that young though is that they learn lots of words by reading them first, and often don't hear the words for years later. This leads to them pronouncing words the way they are spelled. We consistently have to listen for words that he might have read, but never heard pronounced properly so that we can correct the pronunciation before it gets ingrained. We had a heck of a time getting him to pronounce 'bronze' with a short o instead of a long one.
Actually, it shows that he is so good at it that he can use local slang properly instead of having to stick classroom English. In fact, the apostrophe at the beginning shows that the writer did know what they were writing.
CFLs are strobe lights. That is just what they do. I cannot perceive it in most bulbs, but there is a good reason that they tell you not to plug in the florescent lights in you garage to the same circuit as your table saw. In theory they strobe fast enough that humans cannot see them, but given that florescent lights can trick your eyes if they are in sync with your table saw, it is clear that the strobing is not 100% outside of human perception.
I tried to move to CFLs early on, and had to go back to incandescent until recently. The problem was that the IR the CFLs would produce would cause so much noise that remote controls frequently didn't work, and even worse, sometimes the bulbs would issue commands on their own. The first time that I was sitting at home alone with the curtains closed, and the TV started changing channels on it's own, I got a bit freaked out. After searching the house for whoever was screwing with me, I eventually figured out it was the CFLs changing the channels and volume.
I am 95% CFL now, and this seems to be a problem that has been resolved.
Yes, California is a different place. Yes, most of what you see about it is movie fiction. No, we are not all blond. In fact, you have a full six weeks to get your hair bleached before the local municipalities start fining you for having dark hair.
More seriously, keeping track of your credit card balance is exactly the same act as keeping track of your checking account balance. Neither is easier nor harder than the other. Either you write down your purchases or you do not. On top of that, even in the far off land of Ohio, they have this think called...The Internet. Virtually all credit card issuers will let you log on and check your purchases, so even if you don't write down how much you spent, you can easily go online and see how much you have spent up to a couple of days prior.
Claiming that credit cards are bad because dumb people use them dumbly is a pretty serious fallacy. Either a person spends more than they make, or they don't. For people so irresponsible that they are incapable of living within their means, having a bank who will slap their hands and say no, might be helpful, but for any reasonably intellegent person, the fact that you COULD overspend doesn't mean you WILL overspend. In fact, people bounce checks all the time because they spend more than they make.
Of course, financially responsible people don't *need* credit cards anymore than they *need* checks. Financially responsible people understand what credit cards are, and use them to be MORE financially responsible. For example, every person you give a check to, now has access to everything they need to withdraw from your account. The same is true of credit cards. The difference is that when someone commits fraud on your checking account, your mortgage, utilities, and various other payments bounce, and you end up paying large fees, and are pretty much screwed until you get it sorted out. With a credit card, you just submit a form contesting the charges, and you good to go.
The worst choice is a "check card" it is all the weaknesses of a credit card combined with all of the weaknesses of a checking account.
With a standard format for the entire battery pack, you could also replace it with ANY power source that fit the dimensions and connector.
A few groceries (mainly the larger ones, particularly chains such as Meijer) have started to take credit cards
Wow. I guess that just puts a spot light on the diversity of the U.S. Here in California, I haven't seen a grocery store, restaurant, bakery, or even convenience store that didn't take credit cards in years. Heck, even the fast food places take credit cards here.
but buying everyday stuff like groceries on credit is not fiscally responsible and will quickly land you hip-deep in debt
No, there is nothing irresponsible about using a credit card for every day stuff like groceries. What is irresponsible is to use a credit card for long term debt., and to spend more money than you have. This is no different than with a paper check. People don't seem to understand that a check IS A LOAN. It is not money. It is a promise that your agent will hand over money on your behalf if they take that piece of paper to them. There is nothing about buying everyday items with a credit card that leads to being hip deep in debt. Not understanding what money and not being able to do simple math leads to people being hip deep in debt.
iTunes ain't done till the Palm won't run!
This is a great way to further put the wealthy in a winning position in our courts. Obviously, once the DNA is collected, it will become as restricted in it's use as our social security numbers. Well, for us regular folks, the chance of a collision is 1 in a million, and to counter that, a jury will have to be convinced through math that this doesn't really prove what the prosecution says it does. Where as the wealthy will just hire a PI to find a half dozen other people with the same sequence. They will then subpoena them into the court, and present real physical people who also match the same DNA.
Poor person: There are at least 100 other people with the same DNA sequence.
Prosecutor: 100 people? In what geographical area?
Poor person: Well... The world...
Prosecutor: What are the chances that a match is living in this city?
Poor person: 1 in 1 billion...
Rich person: There are tons of other people with the same DNA sequence.
Prosecutor: Tones huh? In what geographical area?
Rich person: Near by.
Prosecutor: What are the chances that a match is living in this city?
Rich person: I don't know, but half that front row in over there matches my DNA sequence! There everywhere!
There is also the problem of some technologies always being bleeding edge. CPUs being the most obvious example. If you waited until CPUs stopped becoming obsolete in a few years, you might just now be considering your first computer. Display screens...Not so much of a problem. Although, that will depend on how much they scale. If the manufacture scales as well as CPUs have...
You can skip the black and white while waiting for color.
You can skip newspaper quality color waiting for magazine quality color.
You can skip the single screen magazine quality color waiting for the dual screen clam shell color.
You can skip the clam shell screens waiting for the six screen 'book'.
You can skip the six page screen waiting for the 12 page book.
You can skip the 12 first gen book waiting for the book that has sub 5ms refresh times.
If there is ~18 months between releases, you could be looking at another decade before you get any kind of e-book reader.
I don't think that most people have really thought out what they will do with this kind of tech. Books have been their selling point because it was the best that the tech could do in it's crude state. Future e-ink will be as similar to the Kindal as the Vic-20 is to Windows 7 connected to the internet.
Even before they work on refresh rates, magazine quality color will wipe out the much of the non-"fine" art industry. When you can buy a poster size sheet of this, and it can maintain a poster quality picture without using any electricity, people will start reconsidering buying print. When you can buy a poster sized sheet for $50, you will see people considering it for use as wallpaper. When you can get this quality with sub 5ms refresh times, you will not only see people wallpapering with it, you will see it replacing TVs and computer monitors. Why bother mounting a fixed size TV to your wall when any or all of your walls can become TVs dynamically.
I don't know how well this tech will scale in size and price, but I would suggest treating it like any other tech. If it does what you want at a price you are happy with, buy it now, and accept that things will bet better and cheaper in the future.
I don't know what your talking about. At 10 years old, I recognized that the Shuttle didn't live up to it's hype on it's first launch when I saw that it was just a plane shaped space ship attached to a rocket for take off. The hype before the shuttle went into service was that it would take off and land like an airplane. I don't know if that was what NASA intended or not, but that was certainly how it was presented to much of the public at the time. Your statement about the shuttle only being questioned when the Challenger blew up reminds me of all the people that realized Aids was "no longer a gay disease" when Magic Johnson got it.
It seems to me that if the school were using GPL software, then it doesn't matter if they lock down the computer. They still have to supply the source code.
Not to mention farming in California. The myth that food would not be grown if Mexicans did not come across the boarder is absurd. There are already plenty of machines that could take over for most of their work. The reason immigrant workers are used is because it is cheaper in the short run. Whether that is good or bad is an entirely different discussion, but it is clear that cheap human labor today is successfully winning over the long term investment in automation (if automation could ever be as cheap as the immigrant labor) when it comes to farming.
So, we have to hope that if this goes through, the children of the UK will take up action, seek out politicians on sites that implement this, and mark them all as child molesters. They should then immediately report to the nearest and most scandalous paper that the accusation was made.
He eats salt. The restaurant staff just lies to him.
As long as the same standards are set for every parent who lets their kid watch Bob the Builder, and then leaves any kind of power tool in their home without it being in a safe.
It always gets me that because a group of people think guns are 'evil', they get treated as a completely different class than every other tool. There is no indication that this child 'thought the gun was a Wii controller'. This story is a case of 'guns are evil', 'video games are evil' so, put together, they become evil squared!
No doubt, leaving the gun loaded on the kitchen table is a poor choice if your 3 year old hasn't been properly raised, but does anyone think that if it were a hand held circular saw that was left plugged in that the child killed themselves with, that there would be nearly the uproar?