Go to a state school in your home state, or one with an arrangement for in-state fees for out-of-state people from your state. Combine that with a needs-based loan or a merit-based scholarship and anyone who "deserves" to go to a decent school can do so without an excessive financial burden - federally backed college loans have got to be one of the best deals out there in terms of getting way more than what you pay.
In the USA banking laws are so massively tilted in favor of the banks it is unbelievable. If the average consumer knew what their bank could do to them with impunity (essentially seize all available funds because they think you look funny and NEVER return them with NO RECOURSE - try to sue, you'll lose and any good lawyer will tell you that) there would be a whole lot more money stuffed under people's matresses.
Using a small bank can help, but even they can suffer from the "our clients are not our customers" attitude of a big bank. So far, the best bet I've seen is to go with a credit union - credit unions are owned by their members, so they are ultimately responsible to their members, not a bunch of rich, nameless fat cats. Not to say that a credit union can't go bad and start acting like a bank (CEFCU - construction employees federal credit union, aka Caterpillar's CU is one example of a CU that started thinking it was a bank and sticking it to their poorer members with excessive fees, as a not-so-poor member I voted with my feet and that was ~5 years ago, I don't know if they've reformed since) - but for the most part even a so-so CU will beat a good bank for service AND interest rates.
Thing is that it doesn't cost a cent, but also it is not officially sanctioned either. I've done it in three states myself and each time I've had to claim that the bogus name was that of someone else living at the address. Telling them outright that I wanted to list it under a made-up name always gets me the run-around. Maybe the CSR's just aren't educated, but that's the functional equivalent to making the practice unsupported.
I'd like to submit lain - just watched it last night and they clearly said that it was development of the sixth gen protocol that made the creation of lain possible.
For those who have no idea wth I am talking about, go an google, "serial experiment lain" then watch it. Some acid might make it clearer on your first viewing too.
None of your "facts" have a citation. They certainly do not come from the settlement agreement, is that some sort of cut'n'paste from a pro-bush website? They sure do have a history of providing boilerplate for the converted to use as their own.
Furthermore, the settlement agreement is just that, a settlement. They wouldn't still be claiming discrimination in settlement, they'd be in court. As for why they aren't in court, as someone who has been to court and settled in a number of cases, there are all kinds of reasons unrelated to the truth of the matter than can make a settlement the "better" choice. In this case it easy to assume that getting the policy reversed was considered a reasonable trade-off given the intertia and costs to win out right in court. Or turn it around - why did Jeb 'n' co settle if they did nothing wrong?
No, only that at least 20% of them would have voted with at least a margin of ~500 votes for gore. Not much of a streth at all given how widely it was reported that these people were turned away from the polls at the time - at least widely reported to anyway paying attention.
Tell ya what -- let's just change our money this way:
1) Pennies will now say, "In rat-fink lawyers we trust." 2) Nickels will now say, "In Satan we trust." 3) Quarters will now say, "In oil we trust." 4) Sacajawea coins will now say, "In small pox we trust." 5) Dollars will now say, "In the Bush Dynasty we trust." 6) 5-spots will now say, "In nuclear war-heads we trust." 7) Saw-bucks will now say, "In Hegel and Kant we trust." 8) Twenties will say, "In evolution we trust." 9) Fifties will say, "Trust no one." 10) Hundreds will say, "In Kali-Ma we trust."
Then you tell all the free-speech lovin' - bible-thumpers we get coming out of the woodwork claiming constitutional violations that they should just not read the currency.
That interpretation only stands if you assume that all the shenanigans that Jeb and his underlings pulled to prevent people legally entitled to vote from voting would not have been reversed in court too, allowing those people to cast their votes - votes like to have been democratic given the demographics the repressed people in question.
Religious fanatics is right. Ever hear anything about the christian fundamentalist support for the jewish settlements in palestine? It is bad enough that some jewish whackos believe that their saviour can only show-up after they've "reclaimed the homeland" but the christian whackos believe that their armageddon (which will purge the earth of all non-fundies, including all jews) can only come after the jewish whackos get their saviour to show up.
So the result is that the christian fundies are knee-jerk supporters of the settlements and the settlers, ignorant as they are of christian fundisim accept the support willinginly!! Not realizing that fundies are only supporting them so that the fundie God will slaughter them.
We don't need some mad scientist in jersey to cook up funky chemicals that make bitter into sweet, mother nature already did it a long time ago with the miracle berry.
Not only did they announce both the 2-disc and the 4-disc version before either were published, they also announced that the 4-disc version would come with a mail in rebate for $5 (or maybe $10, I forget the details) if sent in with the proof of purchase of the first one and the 4-disc version came with a free pass for The Two Towers.
As a smart shopper I paid under $25 for both the 2 disc and the 4 disc after subtracting out the rebate and the cost of my ticket that I was going to buy anyway for the 2nd movie.
The sooner we stop treating corporations like full-fledged citizens with all of the rights but none of the responsibilities there-un, the sooner this country can start to reverse the problems like campaign-funding (bribes) that excessive corpratism has lead to.
Either corporations get treated like second-class (or third-class) citizens with respect to their "rights" or they have to start facing serious punishments like the death penalty (forced corporate disolution in cases where the "corporation" was directly responsible for human death).
Sorry to have to revise your revision but lots of COMPANIES paid for Netscape. We are talking site licenses for 10-100 thousand desktops - there are still a a good number of these megalocorps with netscape 3.x on the majority of their desktops. It didn't matter that the average home user didn't pay for netscape, because those corporations did and since corps rarely if ever buy plus-packs for windows, MS had to unbundle IE from that product anyway.
There are other choices, definitely stay away from the Hauppauge, their founder died and it seems that with his passing so has any passion for HDTV.
The MyHD card is an excellent choice though. It has active software development and currently has support for recording both ATSC (HDTV) and NTSC - most similar cards only do ATSC because it is easy - it is already in MPEG form off the air.
All cards, except the AccessTV are one-way only. You can either record/watch incoming HDTV or play recorded HDTV but not both at the same time. The Access card essentially has two cards in one and comes the closest to tivo-like functionality, but they are known for flakey software and taking up two slots and being hot.
All of the cards (except the WinTV-D, the predecessor to the WinTV-HD) are based on the Janus ATSC decoder chipset. Janus, recently purchased (by Oak Technologies?) has never been, and still isn't, interested in supporting linux driver development. Programming specs are only available under tight NDA...
Check out the HDTV forums and the Linux HTPC forum at avsforum for lots of talk about this kind of thing. Beware, avsforum has been growing by leaps and bounds and their server is in need of an upgrade (seems like they upgrade at least every 6 months), so it is probably a little slow and might come to a halt under the mighty gaze of slashdot...
Of course he will be around. He's probably in a cell in cheyenne mountain right now, probably been there for over a year. Our miltary-industrial complex hasn't had a poster-boy enemy since the wall came down and the USSR went back to being plain old Russia. Bin Laden is the perfect justification for all kinds of power grabbing. Even if he does die, he'll still be around because those that are in power and want more power need a boogeyman and he is boogeyman #1.
Why do you think it is now time to go to war against Iraq? Hussein was boogeyman #1 until 9-11, now they don't need him anymore so take him out!
One thing that is so often forgotten, or even presumed by all sides in discussions like this is that kids are stupid.
They aren't stupid. No more stupid as a class than adults are. As a class, their brain chemsitry is a bit different from adults and is still more flexible. But this doesn't mean that any old idea that comes along is going to inexorably pervade their thought processes until they dedicate their lives to slavishly carrying out some twisted schizophrenic directive.
Kids are perfectly capable of dealing with violence and sex in movies, games and books without becoming permanently drain-bamaged. Please, don't bother with the anecdotes about Columbine and the Menedez brothres and the like. If the adult population were so lucky as to have as few aberrant members as the anecdotal freaks are to the kid population our prisons system would be the size of just one hotel and the murder rate for the whole country would be less than that of just Los Angeles.
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SAAB does care about resale values because depreciation is the #1 factor in determining lease rates on new vehicles.
Go to a state school in your home state, or one with an arrangement for in-state fees for out-of-state people from your state. Combine that with a needs-based loan or a merit-based scholarship and anyone who "deserves" to go to a decent school can do so without an excessive financial burden - federally backed college loans have got to be one of the best deals out there in terms of getting way more than what you pay.
In the USA banking laws are so massively tilted in favor of the banks it is unbelievable. If the average consumer knew what their bank could do to them with impunity (essentially seize all available funds because they think you look funny and NEVER return them with NO RECOURSE - try to sue, you'll lose and any good lawyer will tell you that) there would be a whole lot more money stuffed under people's matresses.
Using a small bank can help, but even they can suffer from the "our clients are not our customers" attitude of a big bank. So far, the best bet I've seen is to go with a credit union - credit unions are owned by their members, so they are ultimately responsible to their members, not a bunch of rich, nameless fat cats. Not to say that a credit union can't go bad and start acting like a bank (CEFCU - construction employees federal credit union, aka Caterpillar's CU is one example of a CU that started thinking it was a bank and sticking it to their poorer members with excessive fees, as a not-so-poor member I voted with my feet and that was ~5 years ago, I don't know if they've reformed since) - but for the most part even a so-so CU will beat a good bank for service AND interest rates.
Thing is that it doesn't cost a cent, but also it is not officially sanctioned either. I've done it in three states myself and each time I've had to claim that the bogus name was that of someone else living at the address. Telling them outright that I wanted to list it under a made-up name always gets me the run-around. Maybe the CSR's just aren't educated, but that's the functional equivalent to making the practice unsupported.
I'd like to submit lain - just watched it last night and they clearly said that it was development of the sixth gen protocol that made the creation of lain possible.
For those who have no idea wth I am talking about, go an google, "serial experiment lain" then watch it. Some acid might make it clearer on your first viewing too.
None of your "facts" have a citation. They certainly do not come from the settlement agreement, is that some sort of cut'n'paste from a pro-bush website? They sure do have a history of providing boilerplate for the converted to use as their own.
Furthermore, the settlement agreement is just that, a settlement. They wouldn't still be claiming discrimination in settlement, they'd be in court. As for why they aren't in court, as someone who has been to court and settled in a number of cases, there are all kinds of reasons unrelated to the truth of the matter than can make a settlement the "better" choice. In this case it easy to assume that getting the policy reversed was considered a reasonable trade-off given the intertia and costs to win out right in court. Or turn it around - why did Jeb 'n' co settle if they did nothing wrong?
No, only that at least 20% of them would have voted with at least a margin of ~500 votes for gore. Not much of a streth at all given how widely it was reported that these people were turned away from the polls at the time - at least widely reported to anyway paying attention.
Tell ya what -- let's just change our money this way:
1) Pennies will now say, "In rat-fink lawyers we trust."
2) Nickels will now say, "In Satan we trust."
3) Quarters will now say, "In oil we trust."
4) Sacajawea coins will now say, "In small pox we trust."
5) Dollars will now say, "In the Bush Dynasty we trust."
6) 5-spots will now say, "In nuclear war-heads we trust."
7) Saw-bucks will now say, "In Hegel and Kant we trust."
8) Twenties will say, "In evolution we trust."
9) Fifties will say, "Trust no one."
10) Hundreds will say, "In Kali-Ma we trust."
Then you tell all the free-speech lovin' - bible-thumpers we get coming out of the woodwork claiming constitutional violations that they should just not read the currency.
That interpretation only stands if you assume that all the shenanigans that Jeb and his underlings pulled to prevent people legally entitled to vote from voting would not have been reversed in court too, allowing those people to cast their votes - votes like to have been democratic given the demographics the repressed people in question.
I'm talking about this
Religious fanatics is right. Ever hear anything about the christian fundamentalist support for the jewish settlements in palestine? It is bad enough that some jewish whackos believe that their saviour can only show-up after they've "reclaimed the homeland" but the christian whackos believe that their armageddon (which will purge the earth of all non-fundies, including all jews) can only come after the jewish whackos get their saviour to show up.
So the result is that the christian fundies are knee-jerk supporters of the settlements and the settlers, ignorant as they are of christian fundisim accept the support willinginly!! Not realizing that fundies are only supporting them so that the fundie God will slaughter them.
How freaking weird is that?
Won't mean a hill of beans if the lawyers are on staff instead of contracted out. You can bet the BSA has got their own private squad of attorneys.
Altoids have a well known, very interesting effect on "kissing" other, er, parts of the body.
I don't know where to get it from, a friend of mine at a former job grew it in her garden in Florida. She said it wasn't hard to grow in that climate.
It really works too, lemons and limes taste incredible -- way better than an orange, after you've eaten a berry.
We don't need some mad scientist in jersey to cook up funky chemicals that make bitter into sweet, mother nature already did it a long time ago with the miracle berry.
Not only did they announce both the 2-disc and the 4-disc version before either were published, they also announced that the 4-disc version would come with a mail in rebate for $5 (or maybe $10, I forget the details) if sent in with the proof of purchase of the first one and the 4-disc version came with a free pass for The Two Towers.
As a smart shopper I paid under $25 for both the 2 disc and the 4 disc after subtracting out the rebate and the cost of my ticket that I was going to buy anyway for the 2nd movie.
Don't know, congress keeps extending it...
Britta was pretty cute back in high school too. Married with kids now I think...
Intel acquired Alpha, not HP. Now it was clearly in order to prep decpaq for acquisition by HP, but that's beside the point.
The Alpha engineers were given the choice to work on Itanic for Intel or to hit the road. Kind of like their worst nightmare...
The sooner we stop treating corporations like full-fledged citizens with all of the rights but none of the responsibilities there-un, the sooner this country can start to reverse the problems like campaign-funding (bribes) that excessive corpratism has lead to.
Either corporations get treated like second-class (or third-class) citizens with respect to their "rights" or they have to start facing serious punishments like the death penalty (forced corporate disolution in cases where the "corporation" was directly responsible for human death).
Sorry to have to revise your revision but lots of COMPANIES paid for Netscape. We are talking site licenses for 10-100 thousand desktops - there are still a a good number of these megalocorps with netscape 3.x on the majority of their desktops. It didn't matter that the average home user didn't pay for netscape, because those corporations did and since corps rarely if ever buy plus-packs for windows, MS had to unbundle IE from that product anyway.
There are other choices, definitely stay away from the Hauppauge, their founder died and it seems that with his passing so has any passion for HDTV.
The MyHD card is an excellent choice though. It has active software development and currently has support for recording both ATSC (HDTV) and NTSC - most similar cards only do ATSC because it is easy - it is already in MPEG form off the air.
All cards, except the AccessTV are one-way only. You can either record/watch incoming HDTV or play recorded HDTV but not both at the same time. The Access card essentially has two cards in one and comes the closest to tivo-like functionality, but they are known for flakey software and taking up two slots and being hot.
All of the cards (except the WinTV-D, the predecessor to the WinTV-HD) are based on the Janus ATSC decoder chipset. Janus, recently purchased (by Oak Technologies?) has never been, and still isn't, interested in supporting linux driver development. Programming specs are only available under tight NDA...
Check out the HDTV forums and the Linux HTPC forum at avsforum for lots of talk about this kind of thing. Beware, avsforum has been growing by leaps and bounds and their server is in need of an upgrade (seems like they upgrade at least every 6 months), so it is probably a little slow and might come to a halt under the mighty gaze of slashdot...
You might find this thread about purchasing used textbooks from England at a substantial savings to be helpful:
Tip on buying textbooks...
Of course he will be around. He's probably in a cell in cheyenne mountain right now, probably been there for over a year. Our miltary-industrial complex hasn't had a poster-boy enemy since the wall came down and the USSR went back to being plain old Russia. Bin Laden is the perfect justification for all kinds of power grabbing. Even if he does die, he'll still be around because those that are in power and want more power need a boogeyman and he is boogeyman #1.
Why do you think it is now time to go to war against Iraq? Hussein was boogeyman #1 until 9-11, now they don't need him anymore so take him out!
One thing that is so often forgotten, or even presumed by all sides in discussions like this is that kids are stupid.
They aren't stupid. No more stupid as a class than adults are. As a class, their brain chemsitry is a bit different from adults and is still more flexible. But this doesn't mean that any old idea that comes along is going to inexorably pervade their thought processes until they dedicate their lives to slavishly carrying out some twisted schizophrenic directive.
Kids are perfectly capable of dealing with violence and sex in movies, games and books without becoming permanently drain-bamaged. Please, don't bother with the anecdotes about Columbine and the Menedez brothres and the like. If the adult population were so lucky as to have as few aberrant members as the anecdotal freaks are to the kid population our prisons system would be the size of just one hotel and the murder rate for the whole country would be less than that of just Los Angeles.
I am a sony vaio and I am offended by it.