The last time Ford had to import cars from Europe to become competitive, back in 1978, they used the Fiesta at that time also. From 1978 - 1980 you could buy a made in Germany Fiesta, as my family did, and that was one of the only ways to get a fuel efficient vehicle from Ford. I drove the shit out of that car and learned a heck of a lot about front wheel drive handling. I looked longlingly across the pond at all the cool upgrades and performance parts available for it.
As will likely happen, the car will become Americanized at some point after Ford-US/Canada/Mexico gets tooled up and we'll end up with a modern version of the Ford Escort. That Escort was never as good as the Fiesta, but it was one of Ford's best selling vehicles for many many years. I suspect that will happen again, where we will end up with a watered down, soft, lower mileage vehicle.
Use tax only applies when you haven't paid sales tax on an item. So it is not additive where you are going to pay both, it is an either/or situation now. In the case of the federal law, you just won't have to bother with use taxes any more cause the either/or doesn't apply any more.
I think the amount of sun you guys get in Ft. Meyers is mitigated by the incredible thunderstorms that roll from there down through Alligator Alley toward Ft. Lauderdale. My parents live full time in Naples, FL (about 20 minutes south of Ft. Meyers for those not familiar) and virtually every time we have visited it has been sunny and really hot in the morning, and then incredibly cloudy and eventually stormy in the afternoon. You can almost set your watch that there will be a storm sometime between 2 pm and 5 pm with torrential downpours. The only time of the year this doesn't happen is when it is slightly cooler during the winter - which also happens to be their busy tourist season.
I like it down there, just not sure I could take not being able to swim in my pool after work every day because it is storming outside. Oh, and the streets that all look the same with a Pulbix or Walgreens on every other corner, and there are no curves to be found anywhere - no wonder Harleys are so popular.
Sig P226 in 9mm and.22LR (conversion kit). I have been shooting the.22LR exclusively simply because I cannot justify shooting my small supply of 9mm. It is still a lot of fun. At least I seem to be able to find.22 easily enough - some places are sold out, but my closest Walmart and a nearby Cabelas seem to have them every time I have visited. I think I have stockpiled 3000 rounds of.22 since I buy a box of 100 CCI Mini Mags each time I drive past.
You joke, but I'll have you know that ammunition and the components that make cartridges are getting ridiculously expensive and in short supply. I can't find 9mm anywhere locally, and all the Internet shops are completely sold out. So I thought about making my own, and the one component that is hard to find is the smallest one - primers. The price of these things has doubled since the election.
Whether they intended to or not, the Democrats have succeeded in curtailing ammunition purchases. Some folks have stocked up with thousands of rounds while the rest of us have to scrounge all the WalMarts locally for the occasional box of 50 rounds. It is probably due to all the new gun owners (myself included) that bought one after the election.
As I used to tell my kids before they put the snow pants on, "are you sure you don't need to go to the bathroom?!?". That is just so funny that an adult wouldn't think to go to the bathroom one last time before entering a clean area.
You know, I hate it when my fingers feel sticky, even if they really aren't "sticky" in that stuff that I pick up stays stuck. You touch the backside of a post-it, and then for a little while they are sticky afterward. Or you touch scotch tape, and same thing - the fingers are just tacky and it feels weird in a fingers-down-the-blackboard sort of way.
There is no way I'd want to be in Space and have to touch this stuff, and then not be able to get it off by washing my hands. I prefer to get my fingers sticky another way, thank you very much!
I have mod points, but decided I didn't like being ordered what to do. So I decided to f*ck it and post so I'd be under no obligation to follow your order.:-P
I use a GreaseMonkey script to remove all those freakin' quizzes. It was making Facebook unusable. Now I am back to where I can use it again, unfortunately something in the javascript is causing my browser to slow wayy down. Unfortunately Facebook doesn't work with Javascript disabled via noscript. (you also have to include both facebook.com and some fbscnt-something or another)
Who says we need TLDs to begin with? Before the search engines, we had to enter website addresses by hand, and typically shared "good" websites with each other. I remember buying a magazine especially for the website listing in the back.
The thing is, this could be a good business opportunity. Instead of cataloging websites by TLD, search engines like Google could catalog them in a different way. The thing is, until Yahoo, Altavista and eventually Google came along we didn't know what it was like to surf the web any other way. There is probably some entrepreneur out there who has a great idea about how to organize the web in such a TLD manner, and he will be the next Sergey or Larry.
Experiments like these are like putting people next to a jet engine to see if their hearing gets damaged. I am no PETA freak, but putting 200+ decibels is bound to do permanent damage. I know they said it is temporary, but that might be like my "temporary" hearing loss from the Boston show a few months back. Yes, I could hear fine afterward* but I wonder what incremental loss I might have had from all that loudness.
*I have higher pitch loss that apparently came from shooting a lot many years ago without hearing protection.
If you replace the word "caffeine" in your entire post with "sugar" or "sweets" that would accurately describe me. Unfortunately I have fallen off the wagon and am seriously addicted to it again. Time to go cold turkey as the weight is starting to creep back up.
You know when they say "citations please"? This is a perfect example when one would be useful. Do you have any links that prove conclusively that soda/cola/pop is diabetes in a bottle? According to my research, high fructose corn syrup is very closely linked with increases in weight or BMI. I have found some broad linkages to increases in insulin resistance, but nothing that says you will get diabetes from drinking HFCS or anything else high in sugar.
Now that you have switched to bottled water and gotten used to it, it is time to consider non-bottled water... either out of a Brita filter or straight out of the tap. Do you live in a place where this is possible? For long drives that you mention I just use a refillable, insulated bicycling water bottle or one of those glass lined aluminum thingies. I drink straight out of the tap most of the time, or out of the water dispenser on the fridge the rest of the time. But I don't live in Malawi or any other backwoods place with unsafe water.
Set up a policy if you really have to but wanting to block services is just a waste of time and doesn't add anything to your security unless you have totally incompetent personnel or fully locked down computers. Otherwise they'll start using web clients or simply work around firewall blocks or the like - which at the end might cause more security issues than the usage of the service in the first place.
Perhaps this is an indication of how smart the security guys are where I work, but we have an internal IM client/server (we are also subject to HIPAA) and there is no way to get around getting to an outside server or client. You mention fully locked down computers... ours are XP and no one has administrative rights, but that is as locked down as they get (apart from a regular software scan). The Web has most of java/javascript disabled.
So I think your statement is either ignorance of smart but useable Internet policies or laziness in suggesting "it is a waste of time". There is a happy medium that exists between full blockage and wide open usage.
Agreed. I got a FON when they were giving them away with a commitment to run a hotspot for a while. I never got an active connection, despite keeping the heartbeat alive for months. So I flashed it to DD-WRT, eventually bricking it when I tried to use it as a client instead of a router.
Anyway, it was a cool concept and I really like the small piece of hardware. It is just unfortunate that it never took off here, I was really happy to run the router but when I saw zero connections realized I was just wasting electricity.
Yes, well many of us move into communities with home owners agreements specifically because there are rules against X, Y and Z. I personally would not have purchased my home had I known the HOA was as lax as it was about rules enforcement. I don't consider myself particularly agressive or petty, I just know that I expected some enforcement of the bylaws. The fact that these bylaws are also typically written into deed restrictions means they have some legal teeth.
I have a neighbor 2 doors down that has violated 5 of the rules. He has 1) put up a shed on a.2 acre property, 2) parked his camper alongside his garage, 3) erected a 6 foot fence around his 4) above ground pool and 5) strung up a clothesline. It is in my best interest, and those of my other neighbors, to ask the HOA to sue him and get him to resolve these issues if he doesn't do so after asking politely because it has a detrimental effect on the value/selling prices of our homes.
Don't bother! I was being totally serious. You see, from a business/MBA standpoint (yes, I know there are very very few of us here on Slashdot.. I think we might be outnumbered by the women) it all looks like stonewalling. And the thing is, the project architect is going to get blamed, probably when he is long gone from the first project, when it takes $500K to add a table to a data warehouse.
Here is the problem. The MBA type guys don't have a clue what works or doesn't work from an IT perspective. We can only make suggestions of what we want, and encourage folks to seek acceptable alternatives. But if we say we have $5M to do a project, and you say it can't be done for less than $10M we have to trust you. Since we only have $5M you get to recommend either doing the project half-assed, with half the functionality required, or you don't get *any* work and the funding goes to some other project. So what ends up happening is a "multi-year" project is born. "We'll build the foundation and some of the features required and do the rest next year when more funding is available" the project manager will say. And yet, when next year rolls around then there is no funding 'cause a 100 other projects are requesting priority instead. It is a maddening circle. The MBA types, like myself, blame the IT team for incompetence and failure to deliver when they promise a certain feature set. The IT types blame the MBAs for being inflexible and unrealistic. Finally everyone blames the customer for being too demanding.
No, trust me, the freakin' programmers and IT people make it impossible. All us MBAs want to do is output a freakin graph, and you put us through all kinds of process steps, and gates and usability testing, and then decide it will cost $1Million just to make a simple change. No wonder nothing gets done without a multi million dollar budget.
Been there, done that. A few years ago I got first post and a +5 (w/o karma bonus) interesting. I don't see it listed on my achievements list, but I was pretty proud of it at the time. I think a few of the following comments even said that it was the first time they had seen such a beast, and this of course was when "first post" was an interesting challenge and something noteworthy to attain. Nowadays, meh!
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The last time Ford had to import cars from Europe to become competitive, back in 1978, they used the Fiesta at that time also. From 1978 - 1980 you could buy a made in Germany Fiesta, as my family did, and that was one of the only ways to get a fuel efficient vehicle from Ford. I drove the shit out of that car and learned a heck of a lot about front wheel drive handling. I looked longlingly across the pond at all the cool upgrades and performance parts available for it.
As will likely happen, the car will become Americanized at some point after Ford-US/Canada/Mexico gets tooled up and we'll end up with a modern version of the Ford Escort. That Escort was never as good as the Fiesta, but it was one of Ford's best selling vehicles for many many years. I suspect that will happen again, where we will end up with a watered down, soft, lower mileage vehicle.
Use tax only applies when you haven't paid sales tax on an item. So it is not additive where you are going to pay both, it is an either/or situation now. In the case of the federal law, you just won't have to bother with use taxes any more cause the either/or doesn't apply any more.
I think the amount of sun you guys get in Ft. Meyers is mitigated by the incredible thunderstorms that roll from there down through Alligator Alley toward Ft. Lauderdale. My parents live full time in Naples, FL (about 20 minutes south of Ft. Meyers for those not familiar) and virtually every time we have visited it has been sunny and really hot in the morning, and then incredibly cloudy and eventually stormy in the afternoon. You can almost set your watch that there will be a storm sometime between 2 pm and 5 pm with torrential downpours. The only time of the year this doesn't happen is when it is slightly cooler during the winter - which also happens to be their busy tourist season.
I like it down there, just not sure I could take not being able to swim in my pool after work every day because it is storming outside. Oh, and the streets that all look the same with a Pulbix or Walgreens on every other corner, and there are no curves to be found anywhere - no wonder Harleys are so popular.
Sig P226 in 9mm and .22LR (conversion kit). I have been shooting the .22LR exclusively simply because I cannot justify shooting my small supply of 9mm. It is still a lot of fun. At least I seem to be able to find .22 easily enough - some places are sold out, but my closest Walmart and a nearby Cabelas seem to have them every time I have visited. I think I have stockpiled 3000 rounds of .22 since I buy a box of 100 CCI Mini Mags each time I drive past.
You joke, but I'll have you know that ammunition and the components that make cartridges are getting ridiculously expensive and in short supply. I can't find 9mm anywhere locally, and all the Internet shops are completely sold out. So I thought about making my own, and the one component that is hard to find is the smallest one - primers. The price of these things has doubled since the election.
Whether they intended to or not, the Democrats have succeeded in curtailing ammunition purchases. Some folks have stocked up with thousands of rounds while the rest of us have to scrounge all the WalMarts locally for the occasional box of 50 rounds. It is probably due to all the new gun owners (myself included) that bought one after the election.
As I used to tell my kids before they put the snow pants on, "are you sure you don't need to go to the bathroom?!?". That is just so funny that an adult wouldn't think to go to the bathroom one last time before entering a clean area.
1. Cadbury's creme egg
2. Cadbury's Mini eggs
3. Fried eggs with ketchup and fried toast
You know, I hate it when my fingers feel sticky, even if they really aren't "sticky" in that stuff that I pick up stays stuck. You touch the backside of a post-it, and then for a little while they are sticky afterward. Or you touch scotch tape, and same thing - the fingers are just tacky and it feels weird in a fingers-down-the-blackboard sort of way.
There is no way I'd want to be in Space and have to touch this stuff, and then not be able to get it off by washing my hands. I prefer to get my fingers sticky another way, thank you very much!
I have mod points, but decided I didn't like being ordered what to do. So I decided to f*ck it and post so I'd be under no obligation to follow your order. :-P
I use a GreaseMonkey script to remove all those freakin' quizzes. It was making Facebook unusable. Now I am back to where I can use it again, unfortunately something in the javascript is causing my browser to slow wayy down. Unfortunately Facebook doesn't work with Javascript disabled via noscript. (you also have to include both facebook.com and some fbscnt-something or another)
Who says we need TLDs to begin with? Before the search engines, we had to enter website addresses by hand, and typically shared "good" websites with each other. I remember buying a magazine especially for the website listing in the back.
The thing is, this could be a good business opportunity. Instead of cataloging websites by TLD, search engines like Google could catalog them in a different way. The thing is, until Yahoo, Altavista and eventually Google came along we didn't know what it was like to surf the web any other way. There is probably some entrepreneur out there who has a great idea about how to organize the web in such a TLD manner, and he will be the next Sergey or Larry.
I am personally not worried.
But then people from Connecticut (former state code of CONN, now changed to CT) will be disenfranchised!
Experiments like these are like putting people next to a jet engine to see if their hearing gets damaged. I am no PETA freak, but putting 200+ decibels is bound to do permanent damage. I know they said it is temporary, but that might be like my "temporary" hearing loss from the Boston show a few months back. Yes, I could hear fine afterward* but I wonder what incremental loss I might have had from all that loudness.
*I have higher pitch loss that apparently came from shooting a lot many years ago without hearing protection.
If you replace the word "caffeine" in your entire post with "sugar" or "sweets" that would accurately describe me. Unfortunately I have fallen off the wagon and am seriously addicted to it again. Time to go cold turkey as the weight is starting to creep back up.
You know when they say "citations please"? This is a perfect example when one would be useful. Do you have any links that prove conclusively that soda/cola/pop is diabetes in a bottle? According to my research, high fructose corn syrup is very closely linked with increases in weight or BMI. I have found some broad linkages to increases in insulin resistance, but nothing that says you will get diabetes from drinking HFCS or anything else high in sugar.
Now that you have switched to bottled water and gotten used to it, it is time to consider non-bottled water... either out of a Brita filter or straight out of the tap. Do you live in a place where this is possible? For long drives that you mention I just use a refillable, insulated bicycling water bottle or one of those glass lined aluminum thingies. I drink straight out of the tap most of the time, or out of the water dispenser on the fridge the rest of the time. But I don't live in Malawi or any other backwoods place with unsafe water.
Perhaps this is an indication of how smart the security guys are where I work, but we have an internal IM client/server (we are also subject to HIPAA) and there is no way to get around getting to an outside server or client. You mention fully locked down computers... ours are XP and no one has administrative rights, but that is as locked down as they get (apart from a regular software scan). The Web has most of java/javascript disabled.
So I think your statement is either ignorance of smart but useable Internet policies or laziness in suggesting "it is a waste of time". There is a happy medium that exists between full blockage and wide open usage.
Agreed. I got a FON when they were giving them away with a commitment to run a hotspot for a while. I never got an active connection, despite keeping the heartbeat alive for months. So I flashed it to DD-WRT, eventually bricking it when I tried to use it as a client instead of a router.
Anyway, it was a cool concept and I really like the small piece of hardware. It is just unfortunate that it never took off here, I was really happy to run the router but when I saw zero connections realized I was just wasting electricity.
Yes, well many of us move into communities with home owners agreements specifically because there are rules against X, Y and Z. I personally would not have purchased my home had I known the HOA was as lax as it was about rules enforcement. I don't consider myself particularly agressive or petty, I just know that I expected some enforcement of the bylaws. The fact that these bylaws are also typically written into deed restrictions means they have some legal teeth.
I have a neighbor 2 doors down that has violated 5 of the rules. He has 1) put up a shed on a .2 acre property, 2) parked his camper alongside his garage, 3) erected a 6 foot fence around his 4) above ground pool and 5) strung up a clothesline. It is in my best interest, and those of my other neighbors, to ask the HOA to sue him and get him to resolve these issues if he doesn't do so after asking politely because it has a detrimental effect on the value/selling prices of our homes.
Don't bother! I was being totally serious. You see, from a business/MBA standpoint (yes, I know there are very very few of us here on Slashdot.. I think we might be outnumbered by the women) it all looks like stonewalling. And the thing is, the project architect is going to get blamed, probably when he is long gone from the first project, when it takes $500K to add a table to a data warehouse.
Here is the problem. The MBA type guys don't have a clue what works or doesn't work from an IT perspective. We can only make suggestions of what we want, and encourage folks to seek acceptable alternatives. But if we say we have $5M to do a project, and you say it can't be done for less than $10M we have to trust you. Since we only have $5M you get to recommend either doing the project half-assed, with half the functionality required, or you don't get *any* work and the funding goes to some other project. So what ends up happening is a "multi-year" project is born. "We'll build the foundation and some of the features required and do the rest next year when more funding is available" the project manager will say. And yet, when next year rolls around then there is no funding 'cause a 100 other projects are requesting priority instead. It is a maddening circle. The MBA types, like myself, blame the IT team for incompetence and failure to deliver when they promise a certain feature set. The IT types blame the MBAs for being inflexible and unrealistic. Finally everyone blames the customer for being too demanding.
No, trust me, the freakin' programmers and IT people make it impossible. All us MBAs want to do is output a freakin graph, and you put us through all kinds of process steps, and gates and usability testing, and then decide it will cost $1Million just to make a simple change. No wonder nothing gets done without a multi million dollar budget.
Been there, done that. A few years ago I got first post and a +5 (w/o karma bonus) interesting. I don't see it listed on my achievements list, but I was pretty proud of it at the time. I think a few of the following comments even said that it was the first time they had seen such a beast, and this of course was when "first post" was an interesting challenge and something noteworthy to attain. Nowadays, meh!
LOVE IT, BUT DON'T YOU NEED THE ENTIRE POST TO BE IN ALL CAPS?
Any lowercase violates the rule, no?
Any lowercase violates the rule, no?
Any lowercase violates the rule, no?
Is this the April Fools story so I can get my achievement, as noted in the prior front page story?
Posting in the April Fools story to get an achievement. LOL I like the system, though being in the 5 UID club makes me feel inferior!