Some cities are studying the halfway measure of banning them from bicycle lanes while permitting them on streets.
Considering them like a motor vehicle is halfway between what and what? It's like people try to copy the the most witless bit of prose from the entire article.
I was looking online for videos of Bruce's show from last year. They've all been taken down as far as I can see, which saddened an old fan like me. Copyright is supposed to be a balance between the rights of content providers and consumers such that society's benefit is maximized, right? Well, Bruce is famous for going all out for his fans, and I think he'd love it if today's kids liked his show and went looking for copies of it online -- perhaps they'd be tempted to pick up an album or two (kids, I recommend starting with 'Born to Run'). The NFL isn't, as far as I know, selling half-time videos, and although I imagine they're selling videos of the whole game, I doubt anyone would buy that for the half-time show. So I lose, other fans might be disappointed, Bruce might be disappointed and nobody wins.
The Idea of liberty is that citizens actively participate in the security of their nation by allowing citizens the freedom to keep and bear arms.
Liberty is to bearing arms as love is to shoe size. They are completely independent ideas, otherwise only citizens of countries with constitutions including your second amendment could not be free by definition. Canada, the UK and so on aren't free?
Liberty is the freedom to do what you want until you risk harming someone else. It is the freedom from fear of bullying by government or other powerful figures. It is having the same rights as fellow citizens to do what you want in business and in your home. It is not, not, not, not, not the right to bear arms. In fact, your response strikes me as a knee-jerk reaction of a hard-core right wing person who immediately jumps on the second amendment as what makes America great, rather than thinking his/her posts through.
Isn't the real value here for wifi hijackers? Why park suspiciously outside the house/cafe with an open wifi node when you can snag it from out of sight?
I'm not an electrical / electronic / radio engineer, but I think I can take a stab at that: Because it's a 3G dongle. You might want to RTFA next time, or even just RTFS.
Of course what you say is generally true, but my personal experience has been different. I now regularly use open office (linux) at home to edit documents prepared on MS Office under windows from work. I have no problems any more with translation.
The number one problem I used to have was in style codes with built-in numbers, which is a very useful thing for the documents I write. They used to get f*cked from time to time, with the font of the number ending up different from the rest of the line. Then, one day, I had the same problem with a document that had never seen OO. The problem seems to be an inconsistency in MS Word over how it stores style codes internally.
Now, I just leave the number out of the codes til the end, and no problems converting anything.
So God created gigantic sea creatures, and made the waters teem with every moving creature after its kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God approved it because it was good.
The largest of sea creatures included more than the great whales. They also included several species of marine dinosaurs, at least two of which (the Loch Ness creature and "Predator X", identified in the Bible as "Leviathan") survived the Great Flood.
Maybe I haven't been following the story, but Right-wing conservative canon now includes the Loch Ness Monster? Get out of town, this is getting too easy...
- Car filters. Working at a company that distributes car stuff, a trip to the warehouse is an eye opener, there's over 1,500 types of just oil filters, the difference between some of them being half a millimeter in circumference. Add windshield wipers (also windshields, for that matter), engine bands, tires (or tyres for all you Britons, cheers mate), fuses, and I wonder why no institution has put an end to this nonsense, like the API (American Petroleum Institute) did with engine oils (BTW, a shining example of standardization success).
Tires are a great example of standardization. As far as I can tell, they (used to, I may be out of date) come in exactly the same dimensions everywhere in the world -- for example P235/70R15 used to be a common size...
"P" for passenger car;
"235" for the width, in millimetres;
"70" for the percentage of sidewall depth to width (dimensionless);
I don't know that anyone is saying "Microsoft is bad because nobody should have to release 13 patches on one day" or whatever the number is. I think there are a couple of valid concerns, around issuing a set of patches that require a reboot on the first day back from a long weekend, for example. I'm also a little pissed off and confused, now that I'm using a Windows machine again for work, that when I came in for work today (Friday morning, we're 1/2 day ahead of USA), my machine had been rebooted in the middle of the night. Windows had decided it needed to reboot after installing "updates." My overnight download of a couple of movies for the weekend was, of course, stopped and not restarted. My linux machines never do anything like that without asking my permission, and if they are rebooted they come back to the configuration they were in before. I can't seem to get this windows box to do that either. Just nits, but the more I use both OSes, the better linux gets. Once (if) KDE gets stable, I'll never want to look at a windows machine again.
Nicotine-free hiring policy
Because itâ(TM)s important for healthcare providers to promote a healthy environment and lifestyle, Akron Childrenâ(TM)s Hospital has a nicotine-free hiring policy.
Newly hired employees are tested for nicotine as part of a pre-employment panel of medical tests.
Akron Childrenâ(TM)s will not hire applicants who test positive for nicotine use.
If you test positive for nicotine, the offer of employment made to you will be rescinded.
If after 90 days you successfully quit using nicotine, you may reapply for employment.
Wow, that's shocking in so many ways. Excluding potentially talented employees, discrimination on questionable legal grounds, and so on. The HR folks are just as sharp as the IT folks, it appears. (I write as an HR management consultant and former smoker, so I do know something about this.)
I'm Canadian, but haven't lived there for 17 years. I don't vote, don't write letters to the editor, and generally let the folks who live there decide what they want, as it doesn't affect me so I shouldn't vote. However, I did abandon my principles and submit a submission, as I think the IP battle has been many times over by content providers, and the ordinary citizen has finished dead last. This draft makes one more loss for most Canadians.
If you're Canadian, take half an hour and submit an email or letter (letter is better). Use the template, or copy and paste from Prof. Geist's text, or better still write something in your own words. Stand up like the guy in the Molson's Canadian commercial.
I'm late replying, but thanks for that link. Novocell seem to have both a technique (under development) for encouraging human stem cells to become insulin-producing pancreatic cells and a promising technique for hiding them from the immune system. I'd heard of both of these years ago, but it seems like they're closer now than I thought. (As an aside, I don't track the research much any more -- too often journalists tout a cure "around the corner" then we hear nothing for years. It's better not to get one's hopes up, in my opinion.)
Except for the fact that most people don't buy third party phones (well, other than this one family who is the phone-murderer and keeps buying used phones off of E-Bay to replace the phones they killed...) and so if they don't have it in AT&T, Sprint, Verizon or T-Mobile's stores, no one will buy it unless there is -huge- hype about it like the iPhone, but other than that everyone pretty much just buys their phones from their cell phone company. And similarly, no one wants an expensive phone, $200 for a smartphone that seems to do -everything- seems to be the most anyone will pay, $300 unlocked will not sell well, people want cheap phones even if they are tied to an unholy contract or the phone isn't that great.
I am sure you meant most Americans don't buy third party phones. I can assure you that most people do. In fact, while I'm ranting, all the comments in this thread that I've read, bar one, have been about American cell phone carriers. America is an important market, albeit stifled and behind most of the world, but that one market is almost irrelevant in the phone business. In short, pretty much all the comments posted here are wrong. I don't know why manufacturers aren't trying to sell Android phones (i.e. unlocked GSM phones, same as we already get) in Asia and Europe, but once they do I think things might turn around. In fact, I wonder if they're selling early, partly-broken models in the USA first, then once the bugs are worked out selling them in more discriminating and competitive markets.
Flame away, but non-Americans will, I imagine, know I'm right.
If you're right, then people are dumb (perhaps not a big revelation there). Most of the world doesn't have these tied deals, thank $deity, and I would never sign up for one. I buy the phone I want, and plug in the SIM card I want, and pay for the calls I make and the SMSs I send. Why Americans put up with this crap is beyond me -- don't you think you're paying for it in the end anyway?
Wouldn't conservation of energy still apply? You'd expend all the energy needed to lift the mass of "one standard rocket ship" out of Earth, land it on the moon, then expend even more energy getting it off the surface of the moon. How is that better than lifting "one standard rocket ship" directly off the Earth? (Yes, I admit there might be scale effects where we don't have a large efficient rocket capable of lifting said mass in one go.)
Mr. Scientist, if you happen to get around to doing something like this for a human pancreas, could I order one please? Blood type B+, if it's not too much trouble. DNA available on request.
Yours sincerely,
Dean, on behalf of millions of Type I diabetics
P.S. I *love* hearing about this stuff. The potential for helping millions is incredible.
Traditionally, salaried employees also lose somewhat due to inflation, as capital owners (businesses) raise prices throughout the year, but wages only increase in response to 12 months inflation data, so there is a slight but measurable decrease in real pay if inflation rises. I think, anyway -- I'm not an economist.
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If you build it, venture capitalists will come?
Jesus you had me laughing out loud -- at work. Funniest thing I've seen on /.
I always thought they made a mistake with 8.10, when they could have given it a "Cheers" tribute name: Hungry Heifer
Hehehe... Where's the +1 'Bitingly Acerbic' mod?
Considering them like a motor vehicle is halfway between what and what? It's like people try to copy the the most witless bit of prose from the entire article.
What am I missing here?
Liberty is to bearing arms as love is to shoe size. They are completely independent ideas, otherwise only citizens of countries with constitutions including your second amendment could not be free by definition. Canada, the UK and so on aren't free?
Liberty is the freedom to do what you want until you risk harming someone else. It is the freedom from fear of bullying by government or other powerful figures. It is having the same rights as fellow citizens to do what you want in business and in your home. It is not, not, not, not, not the right to bear arms. In fact, your response strikes me as a knee-jerk reaction of a hard-core right wing person who immediately jumps on the second amendment as what makes America great, rather than thinking his/her posts through.
I see. So, where does it rank on their list of the 500 most hazardous substances in the environment?
I came across this qutoe from Susan Neiman a couple of weeks ago in the Economist, and it seems to fit here:
It can be argued that security agencies aren't in the business of ideals, or dignity, but it seems they're not allowing anyone else to be either.
I'm not an electrical / electronic / radio engineer, but I think I can take a stab at that: Because it's a 3G dongle. You might want to RTFA next time, or even just RTFS.
The number one problem I used to have was in style codes with built-in numbers, which is a very useful thing for the documents I write. They used to get f*cked from time to time, with the font of the number ending up different from the rest of the line. Then, one day, I had the same problem with a document that had never seen OO. The problem seems to be an inconsistency in MS Word over how it stores style codes internally.
Now, I just leave the number out of the codes til the end, and no problems converting anything.
What would have nostalgia value for me would be if you had recordings of the handshake -- that would bring back memories (not all good).
Maybe I haven't been following the story, but Right-wing conservative canon now includes the Loch Ness Monster? Get out of town, this is getting too easy...
It's not really the full tale, but the Port Huron Times-Herald did speak to a police Captain. Their article is here: http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20091211/NEWS01/91211010/1002/NEWS01/Science+fiction+writer+charged+after+bridge+struggle
Tires are a great example of standardization. As far as I can tell, they (used to, I may be out of date) come in exactly the same dimensions everywhere in the world -- for example P235/70R15 used to be a common size...
"P" for passenger car;
"235" for the width, in millimetres;
"70" for the percentage of sidewall depth to width (dimensionless);
"R" for Radial; and
"15" for the rim diameter, in inches
There, something to please everybody!
I don't know that anyone is saying "Microsoft is bad because nobody should have to release 13 patches on one day" or whatever the number is. I think there are a couple of valid concerns, around issuing a set of patches that require a reboot on the first day back from a long weekend, for example. I'm also a little pissed off and confused, now that I'm using a Windows machine again for work, that when I came in for work today (Friday morning, we're 1/2 day ahead of USA), my machine had been rebooted in the middle of the night. Windows had decided it needed to reboot after installing "updates." My overnight download of a couple of movies for the weekend was, of course, stopped and not restarted. My linux machines never do anything like that without asking my permission, and if they are rebooted they come back to the configuration they were in before. I can't seem to get this windows box to do that either. Just nits, but the more I use both OSes, the better linux gets. Once (if) KDE gets stable, I'll never want to look at a windows machine again.
Nicotine-free hiring policy Because itâ(TM)s important for healthcare providers to promote a healthy environment and lifestyle, Akron Childrenâ(TM)s Hospital has a nicotine-free hiring policy. Newly hired employees are tested for nicotine as part of a pre-employment panel of medical tests. Akron Childrenâ(TM)s will not hire applicants who test positive for nicotine use. If you test positive for nicotine, the offer of employment made to you will be rescinded. If after 90 days you successfully quit using nicotine, you may reapply for employment.
Wow, that's shocking in so many ways. Excluding potentially talented employees, discrimination on questionable legal grounds, and so on. The HR folks are just as sharp as the IT folks, it appears. (I write as an HR management consultant and former smoker, so I do know something about this.)
If you're Canadian, take half an hour and submit an email or letter (letter is better). Use the template, or copy and paste from Prof. Geist's text, or better still write something in your own words. Stand up like the guy in the Molson's Canadian commercial.
Okay, I read it. Can't figure out what they could have deleted that would have been more damaging than the fact of the deletion itself.
Please don't buy into yet another American military obfuscation. Deleted is a perfectly acceptable word.
Grammar Nazi mode off ;-)
Dean
I am sure you meant most Americans don't buy third party phones. I can assure you that most people do. In fact, while I'm ranting, all the comments in this thread that I've read, bar one, have been about American cell phone carriers. America is an important market, albeit stifled and behind most of the world, but that one market is almost irrelevant in the phone business. In short, pretty much all the comments posted here are wrong. I don't know why manufacturers aren't trying to sell Android phones (i.e. unlocked GSM phones, same as we already get) in Asia and Europe, but once they do I think things might turn around. In fact, I wonder if they're selling early, partly-broken models in the USA first, then once the bugs are worked out selling them in more discriminating and competitive markets.
Flame away, but non-Americans will, I imagine, know I'm right.
If you're right, then people are dumb (perhaps not a big revelation there). Most of the world doesn't have these tied deals, thank $deity, and I would never sign up for one. I buy the phone I want, and plug in the SIM card I want, and pay for the calls I make and the SMSs I send. Why Americans put up with this crap is beyond me -- don't you think you're paying for it in the end anyway?
Wouldn't conservation of energy still apply? You'd expend all the energy needed to lift the mass of "one standard rocket ship" out of Earth, land it on the moon, then expend even more energy getting it off the surface of the moon. How is that better than lifting "one standard rocket ship" directly off the Earth? (Yes, I admit there might be scale effects where we don't have a large efficient rocket capable of lifting said mass in one go.)
Yours sincerely,
Dean, on behalf of millions of Type I diabetics
P.S. I *love* hearing about this stuff. The potential for helping millions is incredible.
Traditionally, salaried employees also lose somewhat due to inflation, as capital owners (businesses) raise prices throughout the year, but wages only increase in response to 12 months inflation data, so there is a slight but measurable decrease in real pay if inflation rises. I think, anyway -- I'm not an economist.