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What we need is some government with some backbone to impose the tax, to encourage (nay, fund!) the research.
backbone = balls
I live in the USA, and I welcome a higher gas tax and higher gas prices, so long as that money is going to research and road maintenance instead of lining someone's pockets. Even though higher gas prices aren't hurting me substantially, I miss the days when $10 (USD) would get me 330 miles.
I live in the USA, and I'm waiting for the diesel motorcycle to become available, at a more reasonable price.
Scooters are great if you live in a small city, but even in a city like New York where scooters have the potential to be practical, most other traffic (especially the taxis) drive at ridiculous speeds. I currently have a Yamaha XT350 which is basically a street-legal dirtbike. It accelerates faster than a 50cc scooter and has a high seat height which is nice, but it's still somewhat scary to drive next to the insane taxis.
It's not just downloaded music where DRM gets very annoying. My shiny new Treo 700P (through Sprint) is loaded with DRM, and I'm guessing many other devices are as well. I downloaded some pictures, and they're showing up as 'locked'. I can't share these pictuers with anyone and I can't even transfer them to my own computer because they're locked.
I also don't like restricted PDF documents. I wanted to quote a paragraph from a PDF that I have and send it to a friend of mine, but whoever published the document restricted text copying, forcing me to type it out by hand. In this case it wasn't a big deal, rather just a minor inconvenience.
PS: When is someone going to release a stable linux distribution for the Treo 700P? I know someone has it running on the 650, but last I heard it wasn't very stable and there weren't many applications for it. Palm OS isn't the best thing out there, though I'll take it over Windows Mobile any day (despite the fact that my Palm crashes a lot)
Hmm.. Interesting point. I used to live in Houston and I spent a lot of time in Dallas and New Orleans, and I don't remember seeing any of the ATM enclosures. Maybe it has to do with the weather; these ATM lobbies would be a nice place for a bum to sleep when it's cold outside. I know in Houston all the bums hang out under the freeways near the downtown area.
I lived in L.A. for several years and I only remember seeing one or two of the lobbies, and they were in downtown L.A. Nearly all of the other ATMs (at banks that aren't in downtown L.A.) were on the sides of the buildings.
Sorry, I didn't really mean to sounds like a smart ass in my first reply.
Are there places where you have to swipe your ATM card just to open the door to get to the ATM? Where do they do this in the US?
Have you ever been to a city like, say New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, or Seattle? Just about every major city I've been to has a set-up like that. You must first swipe your card just to get into a lobby-like area where the ATMs are located. I live about 25 miles outside of New York in suburban NJ and almost all the local banks are set up like this.
All the guys on the Discovery channel biker-buildoff look like they're passionate about their work. They made a job out of their hobby (motorcycles) and spend hours a day building a custom bike, and making money off of it. It's no different than joe-sixpack building a bike or hotrod in his garage; time goes by quickly when you're doing something fun.
I'm willing to bet that even those guys still feel like they're 'working' sometimes and would rather be out riding, especially when the bike they're building is not for themselves or for a TV show.
That being said, I believe an "unborn mass of cells" to be a person, and as such feel compelled to work towards protecting those who can not do so themselves.
The problem with that is the "unborn mass of cells" was created by an act of two people. How's that for an outside influence? That unborn mass of cells was created by outside coercion and had no personal choice in the decision to be conceived.
Given a choice, do you think someone would want to be born into a life of poverty with parents who don't care about their child? The problem lies with the parents though - many people shouldn't be f*cking in the first place, especially if they don't want kids. These people can't take care of themselves let alone raise a kid.
Personally, I feel that "unborn mass of cells" is a person too and I do not condone abortion, however I'm not going to tell someone else what to do with their body. There are many ways to prevent a pregnancy from ever happening in the first place, well before any mass of cells starts developing (though if you follow the teachings of the Catholic church, those methods are bad... but that's a whole different topic)
Although ebay wants the name of your unborn first child in addition to a ton of other related financial information.
I like how eBay wants your credit card information if you're using a hotmail/yahoo/gmail address. I ONLY use gmail and yahoo mail for all of my email access because it's more convenient than my ISP's email service, and it doesn't change if I switch ISPs. When I tried to switch my eBay account preferences to use my gmail address, eBay was bugging me to enter my credit card for 'security purposes'. It seemed too phishy to me, but I triple checked everything and confirmed that ebay really wants credit card info if you're using a free email service such as gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.
4. Your reputation is your only valuable asset. Even 98% is a terrible feedback score. Buyers only leave negatives when they've been badly screwed or to be jerks (these can be removed).
No, those comments can't be removed. Ebay claims they can, however they really don't do much about it. I had excellent feedback for the longest time, then I bought an item from one of the mega-sellers. I followed the sellers instructions after winning the auction, paying promptly. The seller claimed he would email me a confirmation when he received payment and would provide me with a UPS tracking number. I waited a week, then emailed the seller requesting the status of my item, to which I didn't receive a response. A few days later I sent another email, and again received no response. Finally about six weeks later (still without receiving any response from the seller, and after sending him numerous additional emails) I received the item I purchased. The item arrived fine, exactly as described and packaged well, however I decided to leave negative feedback because of the seller's failure to respond to my inquiries.
The seller then left me a negative feedback saying "ship next day after receiving pmt buyer leaves neg what a jerk!!!" Ebay calls this retalitory feedback, and after several inquiries (to which I received form-letter responses) eBay told me there was nothing they could do to remove it.
It varies by league and arena. Everywhere I played in the Northeast USA (PA/NJ/NY), full face shields were requied. When I moved to Southern California, I was shocked to learn that they weren't required. There were only two people on my team who chose not to wear them, and guess who both took pucks to the face? Fortunately in both incidents, the pucks weren't moving fast, and they hit with the large flat surface (not the edge).
Is that only possible with WEP? I've been using WPA (PSK) with SSID broadcast disabled though I'm not 100% confident that it's crackproof.
Isn't there another more secure way of doing WPA, involving a separate server to issue keys? I have an unmodified WRT54G (v3) and a 400MHz P3 linux box collecting dust. How can I put them to use to make my wireless connection more secure? I started looking into dd-wrt and I'm interested though I need to read more about it. Ideally I'd like to be able to offer any random neighbors access to my router, though I'd like to have a very secure wireless connection for myself when I'm using it.
I don't understand why people always associate Hockey with missing teeth. For the past 30 years or so goalies have been wearing face shields, nearly eliminating their chances of getting teeth knocked out.
Players who aren't goalies still don't wear face shields in 2006, however most facial injuries from hockey involve someone getting hit with the end of a stick or getting crushed into the boards by a bad hit, NOT getting hit with a puck (though it does happen sometimes).
Imagine if they made a diesel hybrid in the USA! A standard compact diesel vehicle like the VW Golf already gets 37 city/44 highway. Imagine if that powered a hybrid!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed so that when low-sulphur diesel hits the market we'll see all the automakers release diesel cars (that they already in the rest of the world).
It's not just the electric vehicles that are unsexy and unstylish, it's practically ALL of GM's vehicles, with the exception of Cadillac.
Of the American automakers, Ford is really stepping up to the plate when it comes to design, and Chrysler has a hit with the 300, though the rest of Chrysler's lineup (including the Dodge brand) is nasty. Chevy/Buick/Pontiac/Saturn cars have nothing particularly interesting in terms of style and design, though their brand-loyal white trash customers in the midwest, south, and eastern US continues to buy them.
The flimsy plastic is really only good for a couple of uses before scratching, fingerprints or other marks degraded them.
Despite the bulk, the caddies that the early CD-ROM drives used were a good idea in my opinion. I was hoping for something like the minidisc (using a protective cover and similar in size) to catch on as a data storage medium.
Not all toll roads are privately owned roads... Even for private roads, I don't particularly like the fact that something like a road can be privately owned, charging people to drive on them. They can't be compared to software or any other business (I can compare them to privately-owned utility companies though).
A road is something that is needed, and by charging to make money it almost seems like extortion since in most cases there's no practical alternative to getting where you want to go. This is especially the case in New Jersey where I live now. The NJ Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway are the only major North-South highways through New Jersey and there really is no practical alternative to get where you're going. The NJ Turnpike is even part of the federal interstate highway system (I-95). The only nice thing I can say about the Garden State Parkway is that no trucks are allowed, though I wonder if that's more because of the narrow lanes instead of being a convenience to cars.
In California (where I used to live before moving to dirty Jersey), I don't believe any interstate highways (freeways) have tolls, hence the name "FREE"way. Roads are funded with tax dollars. One toll road I can think of is the 73 toll road in Orange County, CA which serves as a major convenience to many people commuting from South to North Orange County and vice versa. I don't have a problem with this toll road becasue there IS a practical alternative (the 5 freeway). Traffic on the 5 freeway backs up heavily during rush hour, in which case you can pay a few dollars and take the 73 toll road. There are a few other toll roads in Orange County which also have practical alternatives; the 133 and 241. They primarily serve as a convenience to all the newly-incorporated cities in South Orange County, however if you don't feel like paying you can still take the freeways and you won't be terribly inconvenienced (except during rush hour)
No way Jose (I've always wanted to say that to someone actually named Jose!). I don't deal with international buyers or sellers because the chance for fraud is simply too great. Not that it can't happen in the United States, but at least if something goes wrong we can at least alert Police about the incident and can get banks involved. Once you step outside the boundaries of the United States, local law enforcement don't want to (or can't) get involved.
Even banks don't treat you well if something turns out to be fraudulent. My brother mistakenly cashed a fraudulent check from a buyer in Canada, and after an hour when he realized the check was bad, he went to the bank and personally spoke to several people to report the incident and inform them that the whole thing was an accident. The bank was nice at the time, but a week later they treated him like a criminal, cancelling his account, refunding the actual money he had left, and told him that he could never open a bank account there again because of his involvement with fraudulent activity (even though he was an innocent victim).
Bingo! Ebay's policy is excellent for sellers (high sale prices) and for Ebay (making more commission from that high sale price).
I've given up on ebay for the most part. They seem too much like a large greedy evil corporation that maximizes their revenue, even at the expense of customer service. What we need is a real alternative to eBay, which is extremely difficult for an average Joe to start up. Someone with serious muscle and money needs to step up and lay the smackdown on Ebay... *cough cough* google *cough* microsoft
Since you brought up the Constitution, you reminded me of one thing. How can a university ban the possession of firearms on their campus? Isn't that a right protected by the second amendment? I'm a gun enthusiast (don't carry concealed - I do go to ranges 1-2 times a month though), but as far as I know almost every university has a policy disallowing firearms on campus, not just restricting licensed concealed carry but prohibiting students from having firearms in dorms, university-owned apartment, or on any university property.
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I live in the USA, and I welcome a higher gas tax and higher gas prices, so long as that money is going to research and road maintenance instead of lining someone's pockets. Even though higher gas prices aren't hurting me substantially, I miss the days when $10 (USD) would get me 330 miles.
Don't forget to convert your octane too, as we use a different octane calculation in the USA. Your 95 octane is 87 here.
I live in the USA, and I'm waiting for the diesel motorcycle to become available, at a more reasonable price.
Scooters are great if you live in a small city, but even in a city like New York where scooters have the potential to be practical, most other traffic (especially the taxis) drive at ridiculous speeds. I currently have a Yamaha XT350 which is basically a street-legal dirtbike. It accelerates faster than a 50cc scooter and has a high seat height which is nice, but it's still somewhat scary to drive next to the insane taxis.
I also don't like restricted PDF documents. I wanted to quote a paragraph from a PDF that I have and send it to a friend of mine, but whoever published the document restricted text copying, forcing me to type it out by hand. In this case it wasn't a big deal, rather just a minor inconvenience.
PS: When is someone going to release a stable linux distribution for the Treo 700P? I know someone has it running on the 650, but last I heard it wasn't very stable and there weren't many applications for it. Palm OS isn't the best thing out there, though I'll take it over Windows Mobile any day (despite the fact that my Palm crashes a lot)
I lived in L.A. for several years and I only remember seeing one or two of the lobbies, and they were in downtown L.A. Nearly all of the other ATMs (at banks that aren't in downtown L.A.) were on the sides of the buildings.
Sorry, I didn't really mean to sounds like a smart ass in my first reply.
Have you ever been to a city like, say New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, or Seattle? Just about every major city I've been to has a set-up like that. You must first swipe your card just to get into a lobby-like area where the ATMs are located. I live about 25 miles outside of New York in suburban NJ and almost all the local banks are set up like this.
I don't even know where to begin on that one...
I'm willing to bet that even those guys still feel like they're 'working' sometimes and would rather be out riding, especially when the bike they're building is not for themselves or for a TV show.
95 octane in Finland is approximately 89 octane in the USA, using the American method of computing octane ratings.
Of course we can. We'll simply print more money!
The problem with that is the "unborn mass of cells" was created by an act of two people. How's that for an outside influence? That unborn mass of cells was created by outside coercion and had no personal choice in the decision to be conceived.
Given a choice, do you think someone would want to be born into a life of poverty with parents who don't care about their child? The problem lies with the parents though - many people shouldn't be f*cking in the first place, especially if they don't want kids. These people can't take care of themselves let alone raise a kid.
Personally, I feel that "unborn mass of cells" is a person too and I do not condone abortion, however I'm not going to tell someone else what to do with their body. There are many ways to prevent a pregnancy from ever happening in the first place, well before any mass of cells starts developing (though if you follow the teachings of the Catholic church, those methods are bad... but that's a whole different topic)
I like how eBay wants your credit card information if you're using a hotmail/yahoo/gmail address. I ONLY use gmail and yahoo mail for all of my email access because it's more convenient than my ISP's email service, and it doesn't change if I switch ISPs. When I tried to switch my eBay account preferences to use my gmail address, eBay was bugging me to enter my credit card for 'security purposes'. It seemed too phishy to me, but I triple checked everything and confirmed that ebay really wants credit card info if you're using a free email service such as gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.
No, those comments can't be removed. Ebay claims they can, however they really don't do much about it. I had excellent feedback for the longest time, then I bought an item from one of the mega-sellers. I followed the sellers instructions after winning the auction, paying promptly. The seller claimed he would email me a confirmation when he received payment and would provide me with a UPS tracking number. I waited a week, then emailed the seller requesting the status of my item, to which I didn't receive a response. A few days later I sent another email, and again received no response. Finally about six weeks later (still without receiving any response from the seller, and after sending him numerous additional emails) I received the item I purchased. The item arrived fine, exactly as described and packaged well, however I decided to leave negative feedback because of the seller's failure to respond to my inquiries.
The seller then left me a negative feedback saying "ship next day after receiving pmt buyer leaves neg what a jerk!!!" Ebay calls this retalitory feedback, and after several inquiries (to which I received form-letter responses) eBay told me there was nothing they could do to remove it.
It varies by league and arena. Everywhere I played in the Northeast USA (PA/NJ/NY), full face shields were requied. When I moved to Southern California, I was shocked to learn that they weren't required. There were only two people on my team who chose not to wear them, and guess who both took pucks to the face? Fortunately in both incidents, the pucks weren't moving fast, and they hit with the large flat surface (not the edge).
Isn't there another more secure way of doing WPA, involving a separate server to issue keys? I have an unmodified WRT54G (v3) and a 400MHz P3 linux box collecting dust. How can I put them to use to make my wireless connection more secure? I started looking into dd-wrt and I'm interested though I need to read more about it. Ideally I'd like to be able to offer any random neighbors access to my router, though I'd like to have a very secure wireless connection for myself when I'm using it.
Players who aren't goalies still don't wear face shields in 2006, however most facial injuries from hockey involve someone getting hit with the end of a stick or getting crushed into the boards by a bad hit, NOT getting hit with a puck (though it does happen sometimes).
I'll say it again, in a way that might be easier to understand: It's time to start encrypting everything, eh?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed so that when low-sulphur diesel hits the market we'll see all the automakers release diesel cars (that they already in the rest of the world).
It's not just the electric vehicles that are unsexy and unstylish, it's practically ALL of GM's vehicles, with the exception of Cadillac.
Of the American automakers, Ford is really stepping up to the plate when it comes to design, and Chrysler has a hit with the 300, though the rest of Chrysler's lineup (including the Dodge brand) is nasty. Chevy/Buick/Pontiac/Saturn cars have nothing particularly interesting in terms of style and design, though their brand-loyal white trash customers in the midwest, south, and eastern US continues to buy them.
Sadly you're right. It seems that for almost everything I search for, all but one or two links on the first page of results are linkspam pages/sites.
A road is something that is needed, and by charging to make money it almost seems like extortion since in most cases there's no practical alternative to getting where you want to go. This is especially the case in New Jersey where I live now. The NJ Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway are the only major North-South highways through New Jersey and there really is no practical alternative to get where you're going. The NJ Turnpike is even part of the federal interstate highway system (I-95). The only nice thing I can say about the Garden State Parkway is that no trucks are allowed, though I wonder if that's more because of the narrow lanes instead of being a convenience to cars.
In California (where I used to live before moving to dirty Jersey), I don't believe any interstate highways (freeways) have tolls, hence the name "FREE"way. Roads are funded with tax dollars. One toll road I can think of is the 73 toll road in Orange County, CA which serves as a major convenience to many people commuting from South to North Orange County and vice versa. I don't have a problem with this toll road becasue there IS a practical alternative (the 5 freeway). Traffic on the 5 freeway backs up heavily during rush hour, in which case you can pay a few dollars and take the 73 toll road. There are a few other toll roads in Orange County which also have practical alternatives; the 133 and 241. They primarily serve as a convenience to all the newly-incorporated cities in South Orange County, however if you don't feel like paying you can still take the freeways and you won't be terribly inconvenienced (except during rush hour)
Even banks don't treat you well if something turns out to be fraudulent. My brother mistakenly cashed a fraudulent check from a buyer in Canada, and after an hour when he realized the check was bad, he went to the bank and personally spoke to several people to report the incident and inform them that the whole thing was an accident. The bank was nice at the time, but a week later they treated him like a criminal, cancelling his account, refunding the actual money he had left, and told him that he could never open a bank account there again because of his involvement with fraudulent activity (even though he was an innocent victim).
I've given up on ebay for the most part. They seem too much like a large greedy evil corporation that maximizes their revenue, even at the expense of customer service. What we need is a real alternative to eBay, which is extremely difficult for an average Joe to start up. Someone with serious muscle and money needs to step up and lay the smackdown on Ebay... *cough cough* google *cough* microsoft
Since you brought up the Constitution, you reminded me of one thing. How can a university ban the possession of firearms on their campus? Isn't that a right protected by the second amendment?
I'm a gun enthusiast (don't carry concealed - I do go to ranges 1-2 times a month though), but as far as I know almost every university has a policy disallowing firearms on campus, not just restricting licensed concealed carry but prohibiting students from having firearms in dorms, university-owned apartment, or on any university property.
Continental's 777 has outlets at each of it's businessfirst seats. I don't recall if their 767s have them.