Yep - And I'll add one more to the mix: Cartridges for 'video games' for the toddler set. They all come on cartridges that are tolerant of kid's sticky mitts. Example:
My God you're right! Without dice, ice cube trays, football cleats, cassettes, footballs, panty hose and awnings society as we know it will surely collapse.
I can see why email spam persists - People are still lured in by offers of cheap software, pornography, 'free smilies' and whatever - But usenet spam remains a mystery to me. I just don't understand why spammers take the energy to bother spamming usenet. Presumably usenet users are a higher class of user. While email spam presumably continues to yield good results, I just can't imagine usenet spam yields a single sale... What's the point?
Years ago I used viavoice on Warp4, and it had a pretty decend [sic] recognitation [sic] rate..
Did you have to 'train' it to your voice using a script and a series of corrections, or did it have 'natural' speech recognition from the get-go, the way you do when you chat with a cashier at the supermarket?
While I enjoyed this episode of DS9, it really wasn't clear to me how this Bajoran ship left Bajor's surface, did a de-orbit burn to start its journey into space and then did a re-entry onto Cardassia. They conveniently glossed over that piece.
They get paid about as much as a McDonalds restaurant manager.
Or much less. In many cases the person who cleans your plane after a flight is paid considerably more than the person who just flew your plane to its destination. I kid you not.
Remember, the police and the government here in America are utterly corrupt, and fighting against that is futile
You know, staying stuff like this is an insult to people who live in / come from places where the government and police *are* truly corrupt. I once worked with a guy from Brazil who was happy when he went through a police roadcheck because it reminded him he wasn't in Brazil. In Brazil he would have had to have paid a bribe to the police, been detained hours, or risked being pulled from his car and beaten. Here it was a few questions and 'have a nice night, sir' - And he was an olive-skinned guy driving a new Nissan. In the USA if the police knock on your door and ask to come in you can tell them to go away - And they have to. In many parts of the world they'll kick your door in without asking, trash your house, and rape your daughter for good measure.
The best argument for the moon landing IMO is the scrutiny the Soviets would have had to put into it
For me the best arguement is the fact that it's forty years later and no one has made a deathbed confession that they worked on faking the landing. To fake it you would have needed many many many people to keep a secret for 40 years. Impossible IMO.
I'm not on FB, but I am on Flickr. I think a lot of people reject Flickr because it costs $25 per year, but it's so worth it. You can upload your pics in hi-rez as well as short videos. You can tag them, geolocate them, add them to groups and pools and on and on. You add your contacts and watch their lives as well. It takes some commitment, but if you tag all your pictures with lots of tags, give them good descriptions etc. you'd be amazed at the 'instant' community that will grow up amongst you - Be it cigar smoking, golden retrievers, business travel or the many other things I'm involved in.
From TFA: "It was Steve's vision that if you made every single computer with the same exact OS and the same amount of memory, developers would always have a fixed platform for which to develop, making their jobs easier."
I've always been of the opinion that this is one the 'advantages' of the dominance of Windows. If you're a small development house cranking out applications, you only need to make a Windows version and you've got a big chunk of the market - The dominance of windows makes "the job easier."
Write and complain to your local consumer watchdog - here in the EU, even under force majure, the aviation companies are required to compensate travellers.
The parent is probably in the USA. (His 'first vacation in 2 years' comment is a good clue. Most EUers are squirrely if they go 6 months without a vacation.) Consumer protection laws like the ones you cite would never pass in the USA and to be honest, I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. Airlines who are forced to compensate pax for matters out of their control like, say, volcanoes, really only have one way to generate compensation funds: Raising fares. So I'd prefer weaker laws and lower fares. My opinion might be different if the airlines were making money hand-over-fist, but more of them are about one flight short of going out of business altogether.
that's why I like to say I purchase tickets not albums
I like to listen to audiobooks, some of which are 20 or more hours long and are read by a single skilled actor who 'plays' all the differnt voices of the different characters. Do I purchase tickets to a 20 hour performance?
you should invoke your right to remain silent. That's the point to having a lawyer even if you haven't been charged.
Definitely - But you don't need a lawyer to 'invoke' anything and remain silent. All you need to do is shut your mouth and stare at the floor. I have friends who are criminal defense lawyers. If you call them all they'll say is 'stay silent, call me back if you're charged.'
The public view of a 'flying car' is what George Jetson drove, Korben Dallas's taxi or the Doc's Delorean after its hover-conversion. Until you have anti-gravity technology you ain't got no flying car in the public's books - You just have another version of an aircraft.
NOTHING good comes of talking to them without a lawyer present
If you haven't been charged, there's no point to the lawyer. Unless you've been charged, all the lawyer can or will do is tell you not to say anything. Once you've been charged, definitely lawyer up.
Money money money. This is what Larry cares about and NOTHING else
Yeah, cause, I'm sure the Oracle *employees* and shareholders who are trying to, well, you know, pay mortgages and feed and clothe their children and other selfish stuff like that don't give a rat's @ss about money.
Seriously can anyone from the US explain what's wrong with debit cards? It seems people around the world commenting here don't get it either. Whole my life I used debit, being afraid to use credit card. The first time ever I missed it was in US. I couldn't even lend a car without it!
Businesses that in effect 'extend you credit' (i.e. provide you a service now for which you pay later) don't like debit cards. For example, if you check into a hotel and provide a credit card, the hotel has a degree of comfort that if you disappear in the night they have a better chance of getting paid. Ditto if you have a rental car and keep it an extra week, or drop it somewhere else. Debit cards don't work for them in this regard as you might empty your bank account and they'd have no means to get paid. Businesses like grocery stores don't extend you credit so they're not as concerned.
I just don't know why I'd walk around all day long handing out the PIN to my mag-striped ATM card to every Tom Dick and Harry business all over town. It just seems wrong to me - So I use credit. I might revisit my policy when "chip"ed Interac cards are everywhere... Also, I earn an Aeroplan mile with every dollar on my visa card. I'm flying to Europe next month on points. What points to I get from Interac? Zip.
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Or or the domInion of canada:
(Sorry, only way I could squeeze an "I" in there)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182
Yep - And I'll add one more to the mix: Cartridges for 'video games' for the toddler set. They all come on cartridges that are tolerant of kid's sticky mitts. Example:
http://www.etoys.com.my/catalog/images/V%20SMILE%20MOTION.jpg
Hey I'm a married man with 2 kids who has had 'the snip.' No rubber for me :)
That was Voyager 6. This article is about Voyager 2.
My God you're right! Without dice, ice cube trays, football cleats, cassettes, footballs, panty hose and awnings society as we know it will surely collapse.
I can see why email spam persists - People are still lured in by offers of cheap software, pornography, 'free smilies' and whatever - But usenet spam remains a mystery to me. I just don't understand why spammers take the energy to bother spamming usenet. Presumably usenet users are a higher class of user. While email spam presumably continues to yield good results, I just can't imagine usenet spam yields a single sale... What's the point?
Years ago I used viavoice on Warp4, and it had a pretty decend [sic] recognitation [sic] rate ..
Did you have to 'train' it to your voice using a script and a series of corrections, or did it have 'natural' speech recognition from the get-go, the way you do when you chat with a cashier at the supermarket?
I bought it in 2001 when it was called Disney's Pocahontas
Hey I bought it in 1991 on VHS when it was called "Dances with Wolves."
Would it be offtopic to mention the nationalized healthcare debate at this point?
Yes.
I think it's very related.
No it's not.
the bjorans did this centuries ago
While I enjoyed this episode of DS9, it really wasn't clear to me how this Bajoran ship left Bajor's surface, did a de-orbit burn to start its journey into space and then did a re-entry onto Cardassia. They conveniently glossed over that piece.
They get paid about as much as a McDonalds restaurant manager.
Or much less. In many cases the person who cleans your plane after a flight is paid considerably more than the person who just flew your plane to its destination. I kid you not.
Remember, the police and the government here in America are utterly corrupt, and fighting against that is futile
You know, staying stuff like this is an insult to people who live in / come from places where the government and police *are* truly corrupt. I once worked with a guy from Brazil who was happy when he went through a police roadcheck because it reminded him he wasn't in Brazil. In Brazil he would have had to have paid a bribe to the police, been detained hours, or risked being pulled from his car and beaten. Here it was a few questions and 'have a nice night, sir' - And he was an olive-skinned guy driving a new Nissan. In the USA if the police knock on your door and ask to come in you can tell them to go away - And they have to. In many parts of the world they'll kick your door in without asking, trash your house, and rape your daughter for good measure.
How many people do you think are now keeping the secret of government nine eleven conspiracy?
Zero.
The best argument for the moon landing IMO is the scrutiny the Soviets would have had to put into it
For me the best arguement is the fact that it's forty years later and no one has made a deathbed confession that they worked on faking the landing. To fake it you would have needed many many many people to keep a secret for 40 years. Impossible IMO.
If you want a really good example of what happens when you let the lunatics run the asylum, IRC is it
Obviously you've never visited usenet.
I'm not on FB, but I am on Flickr. I think a lot of people reject Flickr because it costs $25 per year, but it's so worth it. You can upload your pics in hi-rez as well as short videos. You can tag them, geolocate them, add them to groups and pools and on and on. You add your contacts and watch their lives as well. It takes some commitment, but if you tag all your pictures with lots of tags, give them good descriptions etc. you'd be amazed at the 'instant' community that will grow up amongst you - Be it cigar smoking, golden retrievers, business travel or the many other things I'm involved in.
From TFA: "It was Steve's vision that if you made every single computer with the same exact OS and the same amount of memory, developers would always have a fixed platform for which to develop, making their jobs easier."
I've always been of the opinion that this is one the 'advantages' of the dominance of Windows. If you're a small development house cranking out applications, you only need to make a Windows version and you've got a big chunk of the market - The dominance of windows makes "the job easier."
Write and complain to your local consumer watchdog - here in the EU, even under force majure, the aviation companies are required to compensate travellers.
The parent is probably in the USA. (His 'first vacation in 2 years' comment is a good clue. Most EUers are squirrely if they go 6 months without a vacation.) Consumer protection laws like the ones you cite would never pass in the USA and to be honest, I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. Airlines who are forced to compensate pax for matters out of their control like, say, volcanoes, really only have one way to generate compensation funds: Raising fares. So I'd prefer weaker laws and lower fares. My opinion might be different if the airlines were making money hand-over-fist, but more of them are about one flight short of going out of business altogether.
that's why I like to say I purchase tickets not albums
I like to listen to audiobooks, some of which are 20 or more hours long and are read by a single skilled actor who 'plays' all the differnt voices of the different characters. Do I purchase tickets to a 20 hour performance?
you should invoke your right to remain silent. That's the point to having a lawyer even if you haven't been charged.
Definitely - But you don't need a lawyer to 'invoke' anything and remain silent. All you need to do is shut your mouth and stare at the floor. I have friends who are criminal defense lawyers. If you call them all they'll say is 'stay silent, call me back if you're charged.'
The public view of a 'flying car' is what George Jetson drove, Korben Dallas's taxi or the Doc's Delorean after its hover-conversion. Until you have anti-gravity technology you ain't got no flying car in the public's books - You just have another version of an aircraft.
NOTHING good comes of talking to them without a lawyer present
If you haven't been charged, there's no point to the lawyer. Unless you've been charged, all the lawyer can or will do is tell you not to say anything. Once you've been charged, definitely lawyer up.
Money money money. This is what Larry cares about and NOTHING else
Yeah, cause, I'm sure the Oracle *employees* and shareholders who are trying to, well, you know, pay mortgages and feed and clothe their children and other selfish stuff like that don't give a rat's @ss about money.
Seriously can anyone from the US explain what's wrong with debit cards? It seems people around the world commenting here don't get it either. Whole my life I used debit, being afraid to use credit card. The first time ever I missed it was in US. I couldn't even lend a car without it!
Businesses that in effect 'extend you credit' (i.e. provide you a service now for which you pay later) don't like debit cards. For example, if you check into a hotel and provide a credit card, the hotel has a degree of comfort that if you disappear in the night they have a better chance of getting paid. Ditto if you have a rental car and keep it an extra week, or drop it somewhere else. Debit cards don't work for them in this regard as you might empty your bank account and they'd have no means to get paid. Businesses like grocery stores don't extend you credit so they're not as concerned.
I just don't know why I'd walk around all day long handing out the PIN to my mag-striped ATM card to every Tom Dick and Harry business all over town. It just seems wrong to me - So I use credit. I might revisit my policy when "chip"ed Interac cards are everywhere... Also, I earn an Aeroplan mile with every dollar on my visa card. I'm flying to Europe next month on points. What points to I get from Interac? Zip.