People don't realize that $15 a month adds up. If you have a 36 month loan on your car, that's $540 down the drain. That could be a new set of tires depending on how much you drive by the end of the 3 years.
Pushing the slide back may work in an XD or the squared polymer pistols but I don't think you would be able to hit on the right part of a 1911-A1.
As you mentioned in your own post, if the guy is holding his gun sideways he also may not be exercising proper trigger discipline. Do you really want to hit the pistol when he's got his finger in the trigger guard? I don't.
Be a good Samaritan and explain to him what the consequences are for not having locked down WIFI. I've secured friends networks for free (60 minute jobs) and not always been paid, but I usually get referrals to other people to do paid jobs or I get goodies (baked goods, beer, etc.) in return.
I was just telling my friend the other day - a giant picture of Jimmy or 'random blogger' is pretty much the same as an advertisment.
If they put ads, they should do them themselves (no giving it out to other companies who will track me) - and they should instead sell spaces in articles. So you look up "mopping" and you get an ad of a mopping company.
What's funny is that I e-mailed Jimmy Wales about this on Monday night. I said pretty much what you just said -- I just hope he reads it and that it might do something.
SomethingAwful.com has their own advertising internally and they approve of the banner ads. Wikipedia could do something similar only more targeted based on the content of the page with keywords.
The difference is that Civ III is a game. Farmville is a drug. Zynga employs full-time psychologists and their "games" serve one purpose: Make you return and return and return.
If it's anywhere near Chernobyl, bears & wolves won't be much problem. The trees, though...
Yeah, the Red Forest can be rather treacherous with that whole radioactivity thing.
Interestingly enough, there is a lot of wildlife that is repopulating around the accident site, I'm not sure of how close they wander to the sarcophagus though. If it's anything like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you want to stay far away though unless you have a good supply of bolts to check for anomalies.
The only reason I buy the monster cables or other high end ones for my guitar is the lifetime warranty. I can abuse the hell out of these cables and bring them in to Guitar Center where I got them and swap them out, no receipt or box needed.
At most I'd spend $50 on one cable, any more is overkill.
The linked page of former HP CEOs is one of the most pathetic web pages I've ever seen from a company of the stature of HP. The horrible, unflattering thumbnail-sized photos. The description of their careers, which basically amounts to "this person lived for a period of time and worked for HP." What the hell kind of company puts this material on their website?
If you click on them, you get some details on their tenure at HP. Interestingly, Hurd's is a 404.
I always see that claim that a hosts file works on every OS and every browser. People always seem to forget that if you are using a proxy server (for example at work), the hosts file is ignored. The proxy server controls what the address is. So the hosts file thing works perfectly (and I use it) at home where I don't have to go through a proxy. But it is useless at work (and yes, there are things I would like to block there too - and random facebook and twitter buttons on pages are indeed some of them).
> What about camp or daycare? The elementary schools in the district also have daycare and summer classes. They also have classes for the mentally handicapped over the summer.
OK, can we just say that I know my local area better than you? I know, this might stretch things very far as this is/., but things are starting to get ridiculous.
You're getting very defensive when all I am doing is being inquisitive in a non-malicious manner. I'm merely trying to make sure that you realize the implications of speeding in a school zone when there may or may not be kids present. Rule of thumb should be as long as that sign is flashing you should slow down.
Don't chance the life of another just because you are in a hurry. It's irresponsible.
What about camp or daycare? The elementary schools in the district also have daycare and summer classes. They also have classes for the mentally handicapped over the summer.
Was it wrong to go through those 50 meters at 50 km/h, which is the normal inner city speed? Especially since they removed the signs during this holiday season and in the ones before?
Depends if you can prove in court that the school was no longer open and no classes were in session during this day of the holiday season. Schools sometimes do have extracurricular activities that go on during the 1-2 weeks that they have off, public especially. The past two I worked in the IT department for it was not unusual to see students come and go during the holiday breaks for band practice or any other number of things.
These are the people we're supposed to respect who supposedly are worthy to handle our economy and profit handsomely by doing so.
Never mind locker searches at the high schools, let the drug dogs loose on the trading floor.
High School kids don't pay huge amounts of taxes into the system studying and doing homework, but traders do. That's why you'll never see a narc raid on a trading floor.
What's interesting to me is that we've been seeing very similar behavior in MMOs that offer robust auction systems, especially within the past few months.
Except that is enforced. Manipulate the in game economy too much and you'll get banned, at least in WoW you will.
When I went to the Montgomery Courthouse in PA all the attorneys and other employees there just showed their ID and were able to pass through the line, meanwhile I was being shaken down for carrying a small toolkit with screwdrivers and tin snips when all I wanted to do was turn in my paperwork for a passport. They also did a thorough inspection on my ballpoint pen that was in a silver brushed metal casing -- it looks like the pen bomb from Goldeneye.
Slashdot Mirror
That's only if they are ceramic, which few platters are.
If you don't want to get into pyrotechnics but you have firearms: A .308 will do the trick.
If Microsoft were pretending to be Vince McMahon, it's blogging policy would read:
YOU'RE FIRED!
ftfy
People don't realize that $15 a month adds up. If you have a 36 month loan on your car, that's $540 down the drain. That could be a new set of tires depending on how much you drive by the end of the 3 years.
Pushing the slide back may work in an XD or the squared polymer pistols but I don't think you would be able to hit on the right part of a 1911-A1.
As you mentioned in your own post, if the guy is holding his gun sideways he also may not be exercising proper trigger discipline. Do you really want to hit the pistol when he's got his finger in the trigger guard? I don't.
That depends on what you mean by "now".
*head explodes*
Why wouldn't used copies count?
There's no plentiful supply of them.
Be a good Samaritan and explain to him what the consequences are for not having locked down WIFI. I've secured friends networks for free (60 minute jobs) and not always been paid, but I usually get referrals to other people to do paid jobs or I get goodies (baked goods, beer, etc.) in return.
A spectacularly worthless summary.
And even in TFA you have to click through three different links just to download the white paper.
I was just telling my friend the other day - a giant picture of Jimmy or 'random blogger' is pretty much the same as an advertisment.
If they put ads, they should do them themselves (no giving it out to other companies who will track me) - and they should instead sell spaces in articles. So you look up "mopping" and you get an ad of a mopping company.
What's funny is that I e-mailed Jimmy Wales about this on Monday night. I said pretty much what you just said -- I just hope he reads it and that it might do something.
SomethingAwful.com has their own advertising internally and they approve of the banner ads. Wikipedia could do something similar only more targeted based on the content of the page with keywords.
Even if this was years ago, why would you keep something so important on a CD? Don't you have a network?
Comcast is blocking access to any websites reporting wikileaks related stories.
This is exactly what I would suspect they would do.
What can you expect from a big corporate interest?
This is a pretty outrageous claim without any proof. I'm a work so I can't verify this, so can you give some?
The difference is that Civ III is a game. Farmville is a drug. Zynga employs full-time psychologists and their "games" serve one purpose: Make you return and return and return.
And WoW isn't?
If it's anywhere near Chernobyl, bears & wolves won't be much problem. The trees, though...
Yeah, the Red Forest can be rather treacherous with that whole radioactivity thing.
Interestingly enough, there is a lot of wildlife that is repopulating around the accident site, I'm not sure of how close they wander to the sarcophagus though. If it's anything like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you want to stay far away though unless you have a good supply of bolts to check for anomalies.
The only reason I buy the monster cables or other high end ones for my guitar is the lifetime warranty. I can abuse the hell out of these cables and bring them in to Guitar Center where I got them and swap them out, no receipt or box needed.
At most I'd spend $50 on one cable, any more is overkill.
Taco,
That would be 5 billion fingers.
Sincerely,
Spazztastic
The linked page of former HP CEOs is one of the most pathetic web pages I've ever seen from a company of the stature of HP. The horrible, unflattering thumbnail-sized photos. The description of their careers, which basically amounts to "this person lived for a period of time and worked for HP." What the hell kind of company puts this material on their website?
If you click on them, you get some details on their tenure at HP. Interestingly, Hurd's is a 404.
It was pretty much the same as when I went to a recording of the original American version - The Jerry Springer Show.
Or when you see Steve Balmer do a speech...
I always see that claim that a hosts file works on every OS and every browser. People always seem to forget that if you are using a proxy server (for example at work), the hosts file is ignored. The proxy server controls what the address is. So the hosts file thing works perfectly (and I use it) at home where I don't have to go through a proxy. But it is useless at work (and yes, there are things I would like to block there too - and random facebook and twitter buttons on pages are indeed some of them).
Use NoScript and block Facebook/Twitter.
> What about camp or daycare? The elementary schools in the district also have daycare and summer classes. They also have classes for the mentally handicapped over the summer.
OK, can we just say that I know my local area better than you? I know, this might stretch things very far as this is /., but things are starting to get ridiculous.
You're getting very defensive when all I am doing is being inquisitive in a non-malicious manner. I'm merely trying to make sure that you realize the implications of speeding in a school zone when there may or may not be kids present. Rule of thumb should be as long as that sign is flashing you should slow down.
Don't chance the life of another just because you are in a hurry. It's irresponsible.
What about camp or daycare? The elementary schools in the district also have daycare and summer classes. They also have classes for the mentally handicapped over the summer.
Was it wrong to go through those 50 meters at 50 km/h, which is the normal inner city speed? Especially since they removed the signs during this holiday season and in the ones before?
Depends if you can prove in court that the school was no longer open and no classes were in session during this day of the holiday season. Schools sometimes do have extracurricular activities that go on during the 1-2 weeks that they have off, public especially. The past two I worked in the IT department for it was not unusual to see students come and go during the holiday breaks for band practice or any other number of things.
These are the people we're supposed to respect who supposedly are worthy to handle our economy and profit handsomely by doing so.
Never mind locker searches at the high schools, let the drug dogs loose on the trading floor.
High School kids don't pay huge amounts of taxes into the system studying and doing homework, but traders do. That's why you'll never see a narc raid on a trading floor.
What's interesting to me is that we've been seeing very similar behavior in MMOs that offer robust auction systems, especially within the past few months.
Except that is enforced. Manipulate the in game economy too much and you'll get banned, at least in WoW you will.
When I went to the Montgomery Courthouse in PA all the attorneys and other employees there just showed their ID and were able to pass through the line, meanwhile I was being shaken down for carrying a small toolkit with screwdrivers and tin snips when all I wanted to do was turn in my paperwork for a passport. They also did a thorough inspection on my ballpoint pen that was in a silver brushed metal casing -- it looks like the pen bomb from Goldeneye.