Unless of course, you're walking home and your concern is a public intoxication ticket. In which case may I suggest those handy little Listerine Breath Strips.
Which of course does absolutely nothing to change your staggering walk or your blood alcohol content. The cop can still give you a breath test on the spot if they think you're intoxicated and if you refuse, you still go to jail for a while for refusing a breath test.
Then again, with the way things are going, the cop might let you go because they didn't smell alcohol on your breath and didn't want to deal with the whole "You're violating my rights!" bullshit and as a result, you get run over by a passing car because you staggered into the lane of traffic which results in a lawsuit against the police for not giving a breath test even though they can claim they didn't smell alcohol on your breath because you used a breath strip.
And yes, that is a run-on sentence and no, I don't care.
if Nintendo had the balls to say, "Ok, file the lawsuit. We are hereby recalling all Wii systems and related products, including all games. Owners of systems must return all products to your nearest store by [insert date] after which anyone in possession of Wii products will be considered to have stolen the product."
*Sigh* Yes, I know that's not going to happen but just once I'd love to see a company which is financially secure take such action whenever lawsuits like this are filed.
I wonder it they'll ever reenable the docking tower at the top of the Empire State Building?
Having just taken my parents to the Empire State Building in late September, I can tell you that whomever thought of the idea of offloading people across a small platform, at that height, in the wind that was there on the day I went, really, really, REALLY, needs to get themselves on some meds.
Fortunately, the idea was scrapped (second paragraph) long ago for the very reasons I just mentioned.
I read the article and the author talks about the usual stuff: what cookies are, what they contain and how they track you. Then he goes on to say that since some of the cookies expire in 2009, a lot of information could be collected on you during this time.
As is said everytime the issue of cookies comes up, DELETE THEM! You don't need to keep them.
Once you delete them, you're a new, unique visitor to a web site. You screw with their statistics since they think you're someone new, thus increasing their advertising budgets because they think they have more visitors.
There is no reason to keep cookies. Delete them and laugh everytime you read stories like this.
You're mixing and matching. The Theory of Evolution is not, and will never be, proven. But evolution itself, is proven. We have the fossil record to show how various creatures have evolved over time. It is only the mechanism(s) that cause or influence this process that is not proven. The act itself is a fact.
Same thing with gravity. We know gravity is real. We can measure it, we can experience. However, the Theory of Gravity and the Theory of Relativity are not proven and will never be. All these theroies do, as the Wiki indicated, is lay out a testable, verifiable process which best explains how these facts come about.
As a creationist, I'd be content with a statement saying that evolution isn't proven,
Which is completely irrelevant since no theory is every proven (how many times does this need to be said?) See the Wiki on what a theory is. Pay particular attention to the first four sentences under the Science heading.
Pick a theory. Any theory. Newton's Theory of Gravity? Not proven. Einstein's Theory of Relativity? Not proven. The Big Bang Theory? Not proven. See the point?
Saying that Evolution is not proven shows a very basic lack of understanding of the scientific process. But hey, don't let me, or anyone else, stop you from continually making a fool of yourself everytime you say a theory isn't proven.
The teacher of the science class had apparently even taken the step of stating at the start of the school year that there were other theories on the origin of life."
Darwin's theory says nothing about how life got started. Darwin only talked about how life evolved once it got started.
I guess the teacher needs to go back to school to present the correct information.
Nitpick time. The last line of the synopsis is not what the teacher said. From the article:
"When starting the course on the matter, the biology teacher said that there are other versions of humanity's origin," she said.
That's different than saying how all life began, as the submitter suggested.
I know I've written it in a previous post but when documenting a procedure, installing a piece of software for instance, my documentation starts with "Insert CD" and ends with "Remove CD". Every step along the way, every instance of clicking Yes/OK/No/Cancel/whatever, is documented.
As far as the network itself is concerned, I'm in the process of physically visiting every pc and printer in our building, writing down its name and cable number then putting that information into a spreadsheet which also has what switch the equipment is on and what port, with each switch having its own tab. I also do updates to machines if people aren't at them.
CiscoWorks gives me the switch and port info so that is the easy part.
Before I left my previous job, I did a knowledge transfer for our SAN with the guy who would be dealing with it. I worked with him for two months so he understood how the physical connections worked, why they were connected to both sides of the SAN switch, the importance of keeping your cable numbers accurate, how to add devices to the SAN, creating LUNs, the whole works. He documented everything and expanded upon what I had already done, including screenshots, in a binder so (hopefully) anyone else who has to deal with it can follow the pictures. The best part was the physical layout of the SAN switch. All anyone had to do was have the printout, hold it up at arms length and they could see exactly what device was on what port and what adapter was on what side.
I also documented everything I did with printers so, as I told people, "When I get run over by cars who refuse to stop at the red light as I'm crossing the street, any idiot can pick up where I left off." Every printer, including model, IP, location, name, etc was kept in a spreadsheet as well. There were only 800 or so to deal with. I guess I could have memorized everything.
Sadly, I've found out that since I've left, things aren't anywhere near what they were when I was there so apparently the idiots that are still there can't follow simple directions.
So yes, documentation is critical. Everything, no matter how minute, must be written down, labeled, etc. I'm doing my best at this location to bring some of that mentality to bear but it's going to be a long and tedious process. Try doing a Visual Studio install on a machine and getting "Error code 103" or "The system cannot find _setup.dll which is necessary to complete the installation" without documentation on how to work around the messages. Of course, if the programmers who wrote the installation programs for Visual Studio would have known what they were doing, these messages wouldn't occur. But that's a different story.
One would presume that they would go in order from the first submission to the next and the next until they found one they liked.
As I had submitted the story via my journal about an hour after it was posted on CNN's site, it would make sense that if they followed the above procedure they would have seen mine first and not the person who did a copy and paste of my submission.
Yes I'm bitching but it's warranted. It's no different than people complaining that Microsoft keeps making the same mistakes even though people complain incessantly about them. Apparently not listening to ones customers applies here as well.
I've been using Earthlink for ten years now and with a very few exceptions where they specifically stated that they were having issues (web acces, email, etc), I have never had a single email which was sent to me get lost.
My original email account is the one I use for people to contact me if they stumble upon my web page (hosted by Earthlink also) and it got overrun with spam, even with max filtering, so I added a new email address just for parents and friends and it has never received one piece of spam. As the OP suggested, I have whitelisting turned on on my original email address so if someone really wants to contact me at that particular address, they will get a bounce message telling them they have to request that I allow them access.
A third email address I added has no spam filtering and it also has received no spam but every email sent to it goes through.
Like the OP, I only use Earthlink's web email.
Very satisfied Earthlink customer speaking from experience.
The biggest flaw in airport security is having large groups of people wait in closely packed lines to go through the check-in process.
I guess someone standing there with a rucksack full of explosives and going BOOM during a heavy traffic time, say the day before Thanksgiving, never occured to our overlords.
Being a theist isn't a barrier to accepting most of the scientific community's conclusions,
Absolutely correct. Being of a religious mind in no way prevents someone from working in an participating in the scientifice community. The key word, however, is most. People are willing to accept most scientific conclusions so long as they do not interfere with their religious beliefs.
The problem comes in when ones religious beliefs influence/guide/determine/whatever ones scientific views. To use the beaten horse example of Evolution, there are many persons of various faiths who have no problem with accepting that Evolution has and is occuring.
However, many of these same people go on to say (in so many words), "Evolution is merely Gods plan."
Huh? How can one claim to be a scientist and claim that an unknown, unseeable, untestable supreme being is responsible for a testable, documented, natural function? That's my point.
So no, my comment is not drivel. There are many people within the scientific community who shape their conclusions to fit their religious beliefs. Look at Michael Behe and the Dover Area High School Intelligent Design trial. Repeatedly Behe said that while he was a christian, he didn't let his religious beliefs influence his "scientific" analysis of cell structure and Evolution in general.
Yet, when pressed for an answer as to who this supposedly unknown being was, and could he provide a test to see if this being does or does not exist, he couldn't come up with anything other than, "It's what I believe."
Further, Behe has publicly said that anyone who shares his beliefs that ID is correct and Evolution is wrong, and is considering a career in the biological sciences, should keep their mouths shut until they get tenure as a professor so then they can continue their work.
Of course it's the government's responsibility to tell you what you can and cannot see/read/hear. It's those damn liberal Democrats who want to be Big Brother to everyone! All they want is a bigger, more intrusive government checking up on everyone and telling them how to live. It's liberals I tell ya. LIBERALS!!!!
I don't really think that there's anything particularly special or important about the W3C that makes their arbitary standards better than somebody else's arbitrary standards.
Too bad the standards aren't arbitrary. The W3C is an international consortium which holds meetings to try and get a consensus on what a web standard should be. Microsoft is part of this consortium but even after agreeing to the standards, chooses to ignore them.
So who's fault is it again for not following the standards?
liberal views start crying "Someone should have done something to prevent this".
Funny, I seem to recall a decade or so ago Clinton wanted to go after Al Qaeda and related folks but it was the Republicans who were whining that he was doing it to shunt attention away from the Lewinsky fiasco.
It was the Republicans who blocked every effort to go after the folks who were attacking us and even went so far as to criticize every attack that was launched against Al Qaeda as being self-serving.
Funny how Bill left a warning to W telling him to beware of Al Qaeda yet W ignored those warnings until a month before September 11th.
You might want to review the record on who did what and you'll be amazed at how all the people who are now so gung ho on occupying a foreign country, one which played no part in attacking us, were so quick to dismiss and ridicule someone who at least tried to do something to prevent further attacks after 1993.
Perhaps "racial" profiling is not the best term, since this will hunt out people based on Religion, which would be a much greater privacy concern in my mind.
Especially considering that jews and muslims have similar dietary requirements.
Wonder if the TSA will flag the folks from AIPAC or the JDL?
Slashdot Mirror
In Data's case, it was located on his right side, about midway down where your human rib cage would be.
Press the button and he's out cold.
Bah! Never underestimate the bandwidth capacity of a herd of Adelie penguins.
Which of course does absolutely nothing to change your staggering walk or your blood alcohol content. The cop can still give you a breath test on the spot if they think you're intoxicated and if you refuse, you still go to jail for a while for refusing a breath test.
Then again, with the way things are going, the cop might let you go because they didn't smell alcohol on your breath and didn't want to deal with the whole "You're violating my rights!" bullshit and as a result, you get run over by a passing car because you staggered into the lane of traffic which results in a lawsuit against the police for not giving a breath test even though they can claim they didn't smell alcohol on your breath because you used a breath strip.
And yes, that is a run-on sentence and no, I don't care.
to the movie, "The Animal" with Rob Schneider?
At least Colleen Haskell would be worth trying to track with your nose.
if Nintendo had the balls to say, "Ok, file the lawsuit. We are hereby recalling all Wii systems and related products, including all games. Owners of systems must return all products to your nearest store by [insert date] after which anyone in possession of Wii products will be considered to have stolen the product."
*Sigh* Yes, I know that's not going to happen but just once I'd love to see a company which is financially secure take such action whenever lawsuits like this are filed.
Having just taken my parents to the Empire State Building in late September, I can tell you that whomever thought of the idea of offloading people across a small platform, at that height, in the wind that was there on the day I went, really, really, REALLY, needs to get themselves on some meds.
Fortunately, the idea was scrapped (second paragraph) long ago for the very reasons I just mentioned.
I read the article and the author talks about the usual stuff: what cookies are, what they contain and how they track you. Then he goes on to say that since some of the cookies expire in 2009, a lot of information could be collected on you during this time.
As is said everytime the issue of cookies comes up, DELETE THEM! You don't need to keep them.
Once you delete them, you're a new, unique visitor to a web site. You screw with their statistics since they think you're someone new, thus increasing their advertising budgets because they think they have more visitors.
There is no reason to keep cookies. Delete them and laugh everytime you read stories like this.
You're mixing and matching. The Theory of Evolution is not, and will never be, proven. But evolution itself, is proven. We have the fossil record to show how various creatures have evolved over time. It is only the mechanism(s) that cause or influence this process that is not proven. The act itself is a fact.
Same thing with gravity. We know gravity is real. We can measure it, we can experience. However, the Theory of Gravity and the Theory of Relativity are not proven and will never be. All these theroies do, as the Wiki indicated, is lay out a testable, verifiable process which best explains how these facts come about.
Which is completely irrelevant since no theory is every proven (how many times does this need to be said?) See the Wiki on what a theory is. Pay particular attention to the first four sentences under the Science heading.
Pick a theory. Any theory. Newton's Theory of Gravity? Not proven. Einstein's Theory of Relativity? Not proven. The Big Bang Theory? Not proven. See the point?
Saying that Evolution is not proven shows a very basic lack of understanding of the scientific process. But hey, don't let me, or anyone else, stop you from continually making a fool of yourself everytime you say a theory isn't proven.
Darwin's theory says nothing about how life got started. Darwin only talked about how life evolved once it got started.
I guess the teacher needs to go back to school to present the correct information.
Nitpick time. The last line of the synopsis is not what the teacher said. From the article:
"When starting the course on the matter, the biology teacher said that there are other versions of humanity's origin," she said.
That's different than saying how all life began, as the submitter suggested.
I know I've written it in a previous post but when documenting a procedure, installing a piece of software for instance, my documentation starts with "Insert CD" and ends with "Remove CD". Every step along the way, every instance of clicking Yes/OK/No/Cancel/whatever, is documented.
As far as the network itself is concerned, I'm in the process of physically visiting every pc and printer in our building, writing down its name and cable number then putting that information into a spreadsheet which also has what switch the equipment is on and what port, with each switch having its own tab. I also do updates to machines if people aren't at them.
CiscoWorks gives me the switch and port info so that is the easy part.
Before I left my previous job, I did a knowledge transfer for our SAN with the guy who would be dealing with it. I worked with him for two months so he understood how the physical connections worked, why they were connected to both sides of the SAN switch, the importance of keeping your cable numbers accurate, how to add devices to the SAN, creating LUNs, the whole works. He documented everything and expanded upon what I had already done, including screenshots, in a binder so (hopefully) anyone else who has to deal with it can follow the pictures. The best part was the physical layout of the SAN switch. All anyone had to do was have the printout, hold it up at arms length and they could see exactly what device was on what port and what adapter was on what side.
I also documented everything I did with printers so, as I told people, "When I get run over by cars who refuse to stop at the red light as I'm crossing the street, any idiot can pick up where I left off." Every printer, including model, IP, location, name, etc was kept in a spreadsheet as well. There were only 800 or so to deal with. I guess I could have memorized everything.
Sadly, I've found out that since I've left, things aren't anywhere near what they were when I was there so apparently the idiots that are still there can't follow simple directions.
So yes, documentation is critical. Everything, no matter how minute, must be written down, labeled, etc. I'm doing my best at this location to bring some of that mentality to bear but it's going to be a long and tedious process. Try doing a Visual Studio install on a machine and getting "Error code 103" or "The system cannot find _setup.dll which is necessary to complete the installation" without documentation on how to work around the messages. Of course, if the programmers who wrote the installation programs for Visual Studio would have known what they were doing, these messages wouldn't occur. But that's a different story.
Even better, my brother's wife's mother works for a small AM radio station. She's in charge of figuring out who owes the station what for advertising.
She recently said that the most deadbeat non-payers are christian advertisers. Sometimes she has to practically fight with them to get them to pay.
Draw your own conclusions.
After all, Christianity is the religion of peace.
One would presume that they would go in order from the first submission to the next and the next until they found one they liked.
As I had submitted the story via my journal about an hour after it was posted on CNN's site, it would make sense that if they followed the above procedure they would have seen mine first and not the person who did a copy and paste of my submission.
Yes I'm bitching but it's warranted. It's no different than people complaining that Microsoft keeps making the same mistakes even though people complain incessantly about them. Apparently not listening to ones customers applies here as well.
It's the same freaking summary! Word for word. The anonymous poster simply copied and pasted. Go ahead and read.
First Zonk now ScuttleMonkey. Keep up the good work guys. Don't bother checking your submitted journal entry queue for stories.
How about having a first post modded as Redundant? Yup, it's happened to me.
Like you, I unintentionally got the first post and the first moderation was Redundant.
Go figure.
DING DING DING!!! We have a winner.
I've been using Earthlink for ten years now and with a very few exceptions where they specifically stated that they were having issues (web acces, email, etc), I have never had a single email which was sent to me get lost.
My original email account is the one I use for people to contact me if they stumble upon my web page (hosted by Earthlink also) and it got overrun with spam, even with max filtering, so I added a new email address just for parents and friends and it has never received one piece of spam. As the OP suggested, I have whitelisting turned on on my original email address so if someone really wants to contact me at that particular address, they will get a bounce message telling them they have to request that I allow them access.
A third email address I added has no spam filtering and it also has received no spam but every email sent to it goes through.
Like the OP, I only use Earthlink's web email.
Very satisfied Earthlink customer speaking from experience.
The biggest flaw in airport security is having large groups of people wait in closely packed lines to go through the check-in process.
I guess someone standing there with a rucksack full of explosives and going BOOM during a heavy traffic time, say the day before Thanksgiving, never occured to our overlords.
Absolutely correct. Being of a religious mind in no way prevents someone from working in an participating in the scientifice community. The key word, however, is most. People are willing to accept most scientific conclusions so long as they do not interfere with their religious beliefs.
The problem comes in when ones religious beliefs influence/guide/determine/whatever ones scientific views. To use the beaten horse example of Evolution, there are many persons of various faiths who have no problem with accepting that Evolution has and is occuring.
However, many of these same people go on to say (in so many words), "Evolution is merely Gods plan."
Huh? How can one claim to be a scientist and claim that an unknown, unseeable, untestable supreme being is responsible for a testable, documented, natural function? That's my point.
So no, my comment is not drivel. There are many people within the scientific community who shape their conclusions to fit their religious beliefs. Look at Michael Behe and the Dover Area High School Intelligent Design trial. Repeatedly Behe said that while he was a christian, he didn't let his religious beliefs influence his "scientific" analysis of cell structure and Evolution in general.
Yet, when pressed for an answer as to who this supposedly unknown being was, and could he provide a test to see if this being does or does not exist, he couldn't come up with anything other than, "It's what I believe."
Further, Behe has publicly said that anyone who shares his beliefs that ID is correct and Evolution is wrong, and is considering a career in the biological sciences, should keep their mouths shut until they get tenure as a professor so then they can continue their work.
Sorry, my comment still stands.
How about instead of using fairy tales and pseudoscience to explain to folks how the universe operates, we actually teach them the science.
I know, I know, giving people science instead of religious precepts is a wild and crazy idea but someone has to suggest it.
Of course it's the government's responsibility to tell you what you can and cannot see/read/hear. It's those damn liberal Democrats who want to be Big Brother to everyone! All they want is a bigger, more intrusive government checking up on everyone and telling them how to live. It's liberals I tell ya. LIBERALS!!!!
*psst* *psst* *mumble* *mumble*
Republicans? Really?
I hereby withdraw my previous comments.
Too bad the standards aren't arbitrary. The W3C is an international consortium which holds meetings to try and get a consensus on what a web standard should be. Microsoft is part of this consortium but even after agreeing to the standards, chooses to ignore them.
So who's fault is it again for not following the standards?
Funny, I seem to recall a decade or so ago Clinton wanted to go after Al Qaeda and related folks but it was the Republicans who were whining that he was doing it to shunt attention away from the Lewinsky fiasco.
It was the Republicans who blocked every effort to go after the folks who were attacking us and even went so far as to criticize every attack that was launched against Al Qaeda as being self-serving.
Funny how Bill left a warning to W telling him to beware of Al Qaeda yet W ignored those warnings until a month before September 11th.
You might want to review the record on who did what and you'll be amazed at how all the people who are now so gung ho on occupying a foreign country, one which played no part in attacking us, were so quick to dismiss and ridicule someone who at least tried to do something to prevent further attacks after 1993.
Especially considering that jews and muslims have similar dietary requirements.
Wonder if the TSA will flag the folks from AIPAC or the JDL?