If they have the resources to attack someone, it should be the cash-rich Saudis who fund these terror cells. If you want to hurt jihadists, cut off their money.
Also, in many cases, the HOA bylaws are not made available to you until closing.
That is bananas. Here in British Columbia you don't have HOAs, but when you buy a condo or townhouse you fall under the condo board's bylaws. It's perfectly reasonable to ask for them during the due diligence process (and in some cases they're publicly online for all to read, e.g. http://www.freesiavancouver.co... ).
You may be asked to cover the cost of photocopying them, but that's it.
Except, it has the potential to be many times faster
"Faster" was important when people couldn't afford to be out of contact with the office for 10 hours.
Technology is rapidly making that notion a thing of the past. If you can sit in comfort in first class on an airliner, and be online like you're in the office then it doesn't really matter if it takes you longer to get there.
Yeah, maybe that day will come... But as of today, my kids simply don't have the patience / attention span to 'help' as I replace the brushes in the lawn mower.
It's also a cultural shift - When I was a kid, I remember my dad being down in the basement for hours fixing stuff, working on the car or what have you, while my mum took care of us kids. Now that I'm a dad, I'm out at the park with my kids, or taking them to swimming lessons or just doing general Dad stuff. So while I have the aptitude for fixing stuff (likely inherited from my dad), I don't have the time - I'm busy parenting. It's just not acceptable for a Dad to be down in the basement or the garage for hours on end while the mum upstairs is going insane.
3 in the last year or so? that's completely unacceptable.
What are the three Airbus A-320 crashes in the 'last year or so' that you're referencing?
I'm an aviation geek and I know of one, for which the cause has not yet been determined. 18+ months ago one ran off the runway in the Philippines, but that was pilot error.
Yeah, I understand that. What I don't understand is why the big media conglomerates put such baffling restrictions into their licenses in the first place. Is it to comply with licensing agreements that they made?
Yes.
For example, NBC licenses Saturday Night Live to Global TV Canada for a millions of dollars.
Global TV Canada now has exclusive rights to 'air' SNL in Canada - On TV, on the web and via their app.
As a result, in Canada I can't watch SNL on NBC.com or Hulu or Yahoo because those exclusive rights in Canada to my Canadian eyeballs have been licensed to Global TV.
That's not how it works. You subscribe to "Netflix," not to specific content.
Not entirely true.
I live in Canada, so I have Canada-specific content. When our household signed up for Netflix the agreement said that we were signing up for the specific content that Netflix makes available in Canada.
Not really a problem for me, as we have two kids and a big Golden Retriever, so Canada-Netflix has more content than we could ever get through anyway...
Dashboard camera app that scans license plates and alerts when police ghost cars are immediately ahead or behind. Connects to a user-maintained database of known ghost car plates.
I already have this service, in the form of my four-year-old son.
"DADDY! GHOST CAR!!! GHOST CAR!!!"
Even if it's the most subtle ghost car you could imagine, he spots it instantly.
They dedicate six screens to the hobbit in every theatre complex, but films like Wild that have generated a bit of buzz are only playing on two screens in the entire city
It's a Catch-22. When they do dedicate a screen in the multiplex to "Wild" the theater sits empty. People would rather watch The Hobbit. At that's what happens in my town...
Hollywood doesn't seem to be able to come up with new stuffs
I keep hearing it over and over again, but it's just not true - It's that people don't want to go watch 'new stuffs.'
Go to http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ and look at new movies movies & new DVDs that were 'certified fresh' for 2014. Tons and tons of new stuff, all rated as good.
And you can mail it in when the airline's loyalty program fails to credit you the miles and write notes on the back of it as you're coming into your hub's gate and you're looking up your connection info.
I'm not anything close to an expert, but wouldn't a stall be easily recoverable at 32,000+ feet?
Depends what caused the stall. If the engines ingested a tremendous amount of hail and water and flamed out then the crew may not have been able to start them again. They could still have gotten out of the stall into a glide, but with no power there would have been nowhere to go...
What is wrong with a 4 year old smartphone that still works?
I have a 3+ year old iPhone 4s running iOS 7.1. It still works well enough, but it's starting to show its age. More and more apps are crashy, the touchscreen is less responsive & laggy and functions in the camera don't work very well anymore. In my region its only 3G and the battery life isn't too good. I could reset it back to out-of-box, but then Apple would try to update it to iOS 8, which I don't want.
Imagine you're flying from Portland to Orlando. The fare for that journey is determined by market forces (competition).
So United would fly you Portland -> Houston -> Orlando and American might fly you Portland -> Dallas -> Orlando.
However, the fares for Portland -> Houston and Portland -> Dallas might be different, because different market forces set those fares, e.g. there might be more business travellers on those routes, less competition etc.
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If they have the resources to attack someone, it should be the cash-rich Saudis who fund these terror cells. If you want to hurt jihadists, cut off their money.
you should be measuring it in United States Coolness Units.
I live in Canada, you insensitive clod!
Also, in many cases, the HOA bylaws are not made available to you until closing.
That is bananas. Here in British Columbia you don't have HOAs, but when you buy a condo or townhouse you fall under the condo board's bylaws. It's perfectly reasonable to ask for them during the due diligence process (and in some cases they're publicly online for all to read, e.g. http://www.freesiavancouver.co... ).
You may be asked to cover the cost of photocopying them, but that's it.
Head to my nearest airport and observe what?
Did you RTFA?
Except, it has the potential to be many times faster
"Faster" was important when people couldn't afford to be out of contact with the office for 10 hours.
Technology is rapidly making that notion a thing of the past. If you can sit in comfort in first class on an airliner, and be online like you're in the office then it doesn't really matter if it takes you longer to get there.
Yeah, maybe that day will come... But as of today, my kids simply don't have the patience / attention span to 'help' as I replace the brushes in the lawn mower.
It's also a cultural shift - When I was a kid, I remember my dad being down in the basement for hours fixing stuff, working on the car or what have you, while my mum took care of us kids. Now that I'm a dad, I'm out at the park with my kids, or taking them to swimming lessons or just doing general Dad stuff. So while I have the aptitude for fixing stuff (likely inherited from my dad), I don't have the time - I'm busy parenting. It's just not acceptable for a Dad to be down in the basement or the garage for hours on end while the mum upstairs is going insane.
3 in the last year or so? that's completely unacceptable.
What are the three Airbus A-320 crashes in the 'last year or so' that you're referencing?
I'm an aviation geek and I know of one, for which the cause has not yet been determined. 18+ months ago one ran off the runway in the Philippines, but that was pilot error.
can't product planes that don't regularly fall out of the sky
"Regularly?"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Yeah, I understand that. What I don't understand is why the big media conglomerates put such baffling restrictions into their licenses in the first place. Is it to comply with licensing agreements that they made?
Yes.
For example, NBC licenses Saturday Night Live to Global TV Canada for a millions of dollars.
Global TV Canada now has exclusive rights to 'air' SNL in Canada - On TV, on the web and via their app.
As a result, in Canada I can't watch SNL on NBC.com or Hulu or Yahoo because those exclusive rights in Canada to my Canadian eyeballs have been licensed to Global TV.
So, I don't know what difficulty you're alluding to.
Remind me how easy this is if you live in Kamloops.
Haven't you just described iTunes?
That's not how it works. You subscribe to "Netflix," not to specific content.
Not entirely true.
I live in Canada, so I have Canada-specific content. When our household signed up for Netflix the agreement said that we were signing up for the specific content that Netflix makes available in Canada.
Not really a problem for me, as we have two kids and a big Golden Retriever, so Canada-Netflix has more content than we could ever get through anyway...
Dashboard camera app that scans license plates and alerts when police ghost cars are immediately ahead or behind. Connects to a user-maintained database of known ghost car plates.
I already have this service, in the form of my four-year-old son.
"DADDY! GHOST CAR!!! GHOST CAR!!!"
Even if it's the most subtle ghost car you could imagine, he spots it instantly.
They dedicate six screens to the hobbit in every theatre complex, but films like Wild that have generated a bit of buzz are only playing on two screens in the entire city
It's a Catch-22. When they do dedicate a screen in the multiplex to "Wild" the theater sits empty. People would rather watch The Hobbit. At that's what happens in my town...
Hollywood doesn't seem to be able to come up with new stuffs
I keep hearing it over and over again, but it's just not true - It's that people don't want to go watch 'new stuffs.'
Go to http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ and look at new movies movies & new DVDs that were 'certified fresh' for 2014. Tons and tons of new stuff, all rated as good.
And you can mail it in when the airline's loyalty program fails to credit you the miles and write notes on the back of it as you're coming into your hub's gate and you're looking up your connection info.
You can only kill the malware that is behind these DDoS's by completely eliminating security flaws in software
How do you stop users from double-clicking miley_cyrus_nude.jpg.exe?
The ability to run an executable is not a security flaw.
Nice try Microsoft.
For god's sake, give it a rest already Go play with your Linux Franken-"boxen" and leave us adults alone to do some actual work.
Modern Engines are designed to ingest tremendous amounts of water and still run.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
I'm not anything close to an expert, but wouldn't a stall be easily recoverable at 32,000+ feet?
Depends what caused the stall. If the engines ingested a tremendous amount of hail and water and flamed out then the crew may not have been able to start them again. They could still have gotten out of the stall into a glide, but with no power there would have been nowhere to go...
What is wrong with a 4 year old smartphone that still works?
I have a 3+ year old iPhone 4s running iOS 7.1. It still works well enough, but it's starting to show its age. More and more apps are crashy, the touchscreen is less responsive & laggy and functions in the camera don't work very well anymore. In my region its only 3G and the battery life isn't too good. I could reset it back to out-of-box, but then Apple would try to update it to iOS 8, which I don't want.
So will the UI makers retreat on their strategy of forcing PCs to use touch-inspired interfaces? We can only hope.
In my case I can certainly hope *not*.
At home and at work my Surface Pro works perfectly as a day-to-day PC with an external screen, keyboard, mouse and wired network connectivity.
On the bus, an airplane or wherever it works great as a touch tablet. It's the only gadget I carry and need (other than my little iPhone 4s).
Why would this ever be cheaper?
Imagine you're flying from Portland to Orlando. The fare for that journey is determined by market forces (competition).
So United would fly you Portland -> Houston -> Orlando and American might fly you Portland -> Dallas -> Orlando.
However, the fares for Portland -> Houston and Portland -> Dallas might be different, because different market forces set those fares, e.g. there might be more business travellers on those routes, less competition etc.
Which is why it's always been cheaper to fly one-way
Certainly not 'always' - As recently as a decade ago, a one way ticket might have cost double what a return ticket did.