In Des Moines, Iowa, the regular parking meters are being replaced with new ones that can accept parking cards that you load up with money. You place the card into the meter and wait until the preferred amount of time is paid for, then remove the card. Now, here's the cool part: when you come back to your car, you insert your card and it refunds the unused time back to the card! No more paying for extra parking time!
"Mr Nott, from Fulham, west London, had just one pint of blood and an elementary operating theatre, but the operation, performed in October, was a success and the teenager made a full recovery."
The term "full recovery" for an amputation seems like a bit of dark humor when you think about it too long.
Seriously, if backward compatibility is important, then buy the higher-end system...they are still here (and it sounds like they're not going away), and they still have backward compatibility...so quit complaining...the lower end system just isn't for you. For some people, however, the backward compatibility might not be worth the extra money...for them, the new low-end system will be perfect. You get what you pay for.
Isn't Canada one of those countries that has extra royalties that consumers pay when buying storage devices, because they can be used to store pirated data? If so, than they really shouldn't be going after software/music/movie pirates, because all Canadians have already paid the "piracy tax." If they're still going to go after them, then they'd better stop charging said royalties, because that's tantamount to fraud.
...but.. Blu-Ray isn't DVD. Blu-Ray is Blu-Ray. Just like DVD isn't CD, it's DVD. That's like saying that this USB pen drive is the best CD-ROM format thus far.
You must be missing the point: Even thinking about loading up IE is likely enough to get your system infected by spyware...let alone actually running it...let alone actually visiting Wal-Mart's website with it. I think I'd probably be safer against spyware by visiting porn sites than I would visiting walmart.com. Of course, since Wal-Mart's dong the whole DRM thing, I wouldn't be interested anyway, so I guess it's a moot point in my case.
IANAL, and from a legal perspective this would be a bad idea...but seriously, if I got my computer repaired, and could not get XP reactivated, even after calling Microsoft, I'd just crack the damn thing.
...but minimum wages are a fairly recent (and slightly socialist-sounding) innovation which some people don't even support, and differences in living costs and suchlike make a global minimum wage an odd-sounding idea.
I agree. In some countries, $5 USD an hour would make those people into millionaires by their standards. Likewise, many things in London will cost the same number of pounds as they do in dollars over here in the US.. which means they cost twice as much over there. Also, their jobs tend to pay around the same number of pounds per hour as ours do dollars per hour...meaning they get paid twice as much.
So, if anyone gets to set a global minimum wage, I want it to be England.. 7-8 pounds per hour into USD doesn't sound too bad for a minimum..;)
"Nature magazine recently conducted a head-to-head competition between Wikipedia and Britannica, having experts compare 42 science-related articles. The result was that Wikipedia had about 4 errors per article, while Britannica had about 3. However, a pair of endevouring Wikipedians dug a little deeper and discovered that the Wikipedia articles in the sample were, on average, 2.6 times longer than Britannica's - meaning Wikipedia has an error rate far less than Britannica's."
Maybe teachers should do a little more research before assuming that Wikipedia is so inaccurate. After all, apparently Britannica shouldn't be used as a reference either in that case.
Way to go, China... always being a shining example of how not to run a country. Makes me wonder which will happen first, the US catching up with you, or you catching up with North Korea.
This just makes me sick. People should be able to speak out their grievances against their government without fearing for their lives or freedom.
From TFA:
Nina Reiser's body has not been found, but police believe she is dead.
Pressing murder charges when there's no body for evidence? How retarded are they?
1. No body found; no reasonable and rational way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that alleged victim is dead, let alone has been murdered.
2. No proof of person being dead = no proof beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant murdered alleged victim.
3. Defendant found not guilty (or court systems proven to be corrupt), and is from then on protected against double jeopardy in the event that a body does turn up.
I agree. Even something as simple as the phrase "When was the last time you upgraded your wireless phone?" will get you blank looks, but if you ask "When was the last time you upgraded your cell phone?", everyone will understand. I'm almost tempted to use the phrase "wireless communication device" and see what kind of reactions I can get.
4. Super Mario Bros. (the SNES remake though, so it alternates between levels)
5. Co-op Duke3d (especially great when played at highest difficulty and trying to explode all enemies so they can't respawn before finishing each level)
6. Deathmatching on regular Half-Life
7. Deathmatching: Action Half-Life
8. BF1942: Desert Combat mod (Slippery Slope applies, but comebacks not uncommon)
It'd be nice to see some of the cost cutting ideas carry over to computers sold over here; I'm by no means poor enough or remote enough (or young enough for that matter) to qualify for olpc, but at the same time, the idea of sufficiently upgrading my current system has been well outside my grasp for some time now.
I was just thinking that, now that the republican monopoly is over (for now anyway), a good step two would be to start trying to get rid of the pesky USA PATRIOT Act and Military Commissions Act.. but Rumsfeld stepping down works as well. Onward, to step three!
We keep allowing the government to slowly transform us into what our founding fathers started the country to get away from, and it needs to stop! Those of you who somehow believe that giving up our rights in the name of fighting terrorism, please go find another country to live in that better suits you, but don't ruin this one!
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In Des Moines, Iowa, the regular parking meters are being replaced with new ones that can accept parking cards that you load up with money. You place the card into the meter and wait until the preferred amount of time is paid for, then remove the card. Now, here's the cool part: when you come back to your car, you insert your card and it refunds the unused time back to the card! No more paying for extra parking time!
"Mr Nott, from Fulham, west London, had just one pint of blood and an elementary operating theatre, but the operation, performed in October, was a success and the teenager made a full recovery."
The term "full recovery" for an amputation seems like a bit of dark humor when you think about it too long.
Seriously, if backward compatibility is important, then buy the higher-end system...they are still here (and it sounds like they're not going away), and they still have backward compatibility...so quit complaining...the lower end system just isn't for you. For some people, however, the backward compatibility might not be worth the extra money...for them, the new low-end system will be perfect. You get what you pay for.
Isn't Canada one of those countries that has extra royalties that consumers pay when buying storage devices, because they can be used to store pirated data? If so, than they really shouldn't be going after software/music/movie pirates, because all Canadians have already paid the "piracy tax." If they're still going to go after them, then they'd better stop charging said royalties, because that's tantamount to fraud.
...but.. Blu-Ray isn't DVD. Blu-Ray is Blu-Ray. Just like DVD isn't CD, it's DVD. That's like saying that this USB pen drive is the best CD-ROM format thus far.
You must be missing the point: Even thinking about loading up IE is likely enough to get your system infected by spyware...let alone actually running it...let alone actually visiting Wal-Mart's website with it. I think I'd probably be safer against spyware by visiting porn sites than I would visiting walmart.com. Of course, since Wal-Mart's dong the whole DRM thing, I wouldn't be interested anyway, so I guess it's a moot point in my case.
IANAL, and from a legal perspective this would be a bad idea...but seriously, if I got my computer repaired, and could not get XP reactivated, even after calling Microsoft, I'd just crack the damn thing.
So, if anyone gets to set a global minimum wage, I want it to be England.. 7-8 pounds per hour into USD doesn't sound too bad for a minimum..
Maybe teachers should do a little more research before assuming that Wikipedia is so inaccurate. After all, apparently Britannica shouldn't be used as a reference either in that case.
Way to go, China... always being a shining example of how not to run a country. Makes me wonder which will happen first, the US catching up with you, or you catching up with North Korea.
This just makes me sick. People should be able to speak out their grievances against their government without fearing for their lives or freedom.
Pressing murder charges when there's no body for evidence? How retarded are they?
1. No body found; no reasonable and rational way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that alleged victim is dead, let alone has been murdered.
2. No proof of person being dead = no proof beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant murdered alleged victim.
3. Defendant found not guilty (or court systems proven to be corrupt), and is from then on protected against double jeopardy in the event that a body does turn up.
I agree. Even something as simple as the phrase "When was the last time you upgraded your wireless phone?" will get you blank looks, but if you ask "When was the last time you upgraded your cell phone?", everyone will understand. I'm almost tempted to use the phrase "wireless communication device" and see what kind of reactions I can get.
1. Most Bomberman games
2. Super Mario Bros. 3
3. Super Mario World
4. Super Mario Bros. (the SNES remake though, so it alternates between levels)
5. Co-op Duke3d (especially great when played at highest difficulty and trying to explode all enemies so they can't respawn before finishing each level)
6. Deathmatching on regular Half-Life
7. Deathmatching: Action Half-Life
8. BF1942: Desert Combat mod (Slippery Slope applies, but comebacks not uncommon)
9. Bushido Blade 2
It'd be nice to see some of the cost cutting ideas carry over to computers sold over here; I'm by no means poor enough or remote enough (or young enough for that matter) to qualify for olpc, but at the same time, the idea of sufficiently upgrading my current system has been well outside my grasp for some time now.
I was just thinking that, now that the republican monopoly is over (for now anyway), a good step two would be to start trying to get rid of the pesky USA PATRIOT Act and Military Commissions Act.. but Rumsfeld stepping down works as well. Onward, to step three!
We keep allowing the government to slowly transform us into what our founding fathers started the country to get away from, and it needs to stop! Those of you who somehow believe that giving up our rights in the name of fighting terrorism, please go find another country to live in that better suits you, but don't ruin this one!