If he attended each college he claims for just six months, he'd have to have started when he was 15. I call bullshit.
Of course, I'm one of those who stopped contributing to Wikipedia because of reverts. Things I actually saw, witnessed, and spoke have all been marked "Citation needed" or erased completely.
One example: I happen to live in a building where a famous person died not too long ago. But in the Wikipedia article about the building it lists the apartment number wrong. Doesn't matter how many times I try to fix it, it gets reverted by people in other countries who somehow know better what's going on here than me, who lives down the hall from where it happened.
Not a public venue. It's very much a private venue. What part of leased property don't you comprehend?
Leased doesn't mean private when it comes to federal land. As someone else with experience in this area noted elsewhere in this thread, the rules are different for federal property. Just because you lease it, it's not private.
To corroborate what that person wrote, I found this on the Google:
"Authorized private use of federal land... does not allow the lessee to post or sign the land as being private. The lessee of federal lands cannot drny legal access or charge an access fee for others to use such lands.
What if I'm denied access to federal public lands?
If you think you are illegally denied access to federal lands, you are asked to contact either the administering agency listed on page 7 or use the Colorado toll-free hotline (1-800-332-4155)."
Sounds to me like a film crew can walk right in, and there's nothing Burning Man can do about it until it relocates to actual private property.
If the girls want to go wild, and are of an appropriate age to sign the consent form, then who is Burning Man to tell them to keep their boobies holstered?
Unless it's on private property. I don't know enough about BM to know what the property lines are, but it was my impression that it's held out in the desert on unclaimed property.
Ubuntu's meant shit, and LinuxMint just changes your search pages. Get over it. Move on.
That's how the IE search bars started out. A little search page change here, a little redirect there. Next thing you know it's Bonzai Buddy all over again.
But Apple didn't change. Your own statement shows that. You have to get past the notion that music files are different than any other kind of file. It's all software. And if it wasn't for a certain legal agreement, Apple would probably be publishing its own music by now.
Don't let logic enter this argument. It's important to maintain the old Slashdot cliche: All corporations are bad.
Whether it's ExxonMobil, or Fred's Independent Coffee House and Hash Bar -- if it's incorporated, it's automatically bad, bad, bad!
Even worse are MULTI-NATIONAL corporations, like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, and Gothamist/Torontoist/Shanghaiist. There's a special circle of Hell for them because they operate in more than one place!
Imagine a compiler that would eat any typo. Missing brackets, braces, semicolons, object-function separators, completely meaningless semantic messes. HTML4 browsers eat it all.
So, what you're saying is that the computer works for people instead of the other way around?
ZOMG! This article is revolutionary! You mean targeted advertising costs more than shotgun advertising? Whoda thunk it?
Why is it that every time the Slashdot crowd learns something that the rest of the world has known for decades it somehow warrants a breathless headline?
"But... but... it's on the interweb. It's 'new media' or something. It must be important."
Puhleeze.
Next thing you know, advertising in a specialty publication targeting a particular group of people like engineers will cost more than advertising in a general interest magazine. Oh wait... it already does.
Good job mentioning B&H. Fantastic customer service. I had to return a stand-alone CF->DVD burner and they were fantastic about it.
There's a reason virtually all professional photographers in America go to B&H or Calumet first. And with B&H's catalog now including so much electronics, it makes even less sense to shop at the discounters.
When I'm looking for something my shopping order is usually:
1. B&H 2. ZipZoomFly 3. NewEgg
Recently when looking for some flash memory I was surprised to find that NewEgg only had two choices in the capacity and format I wanted, while ZipZoomFly had dozens. Same thing happened when I was replacing a hard drive -- lots to choose from in my interface and form factor on ZZF, but only three on NewEgg.
I don't know if this is a sign that NewEgg is slipping, or trimming its inventory, or maybe just that ZipZoomFly's inventory better aligns with my interests.
When you get to a 10.25% base rate like it is in Chicago, then I might start feeling sorry for you.
And if you shop in certain products in Chicago, it's more. And if you shop in certain districts in Chicago, it's even more.
Some basic everyday items like a can of soda in certain parts of Chicago carry 14% or more sales tax. It's like living in Europe, but without the free healthcare or fast trains.
Learn to leave when you've outstayed your welcome.
Yeah, like the Brits.
America, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma, Egypt, Palestine, Bosnia, Kosovo, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh... Is there any country on this planet the British haven't gotten their butts kicked out of?
At least the Americans are good and whooped before they quit a war. They don't just run away when the tea runs out.
While you are correct that the overwhelming majority of stalkers know their prey, for some it's the challenge of getting to know the target that gives them a thrill. I know a woman who picked up a stalker by simply bumping into him at a sporting goods store.
Personally I don't give a fuck if someone addresses me by my first, last or any name.
I'm exactly the opposite of the previous caller -- I expect people in service industries to use my last name, not my first name. When they use my first name it bothers me and I correct them.
When a customer service goon on the phone says something like, "Can I call you Mike?" I always say, "No." They usually pause for a couple of seconds because their script doesn't have a "No" scenario. Eventually they ask, "Then what should I call you." The correct answer is "Mister Smith." I don't know you, and you're working for me, so you will address me by a respectful title.
If a doorman in my building addressed a resident by their first name, the doorman would be looking for a new job in a matter of hours. There are still places in the world where civilized society exists.
After reading so much about the rainbows and puppies that is life with Speakeasy here on Slashdot, I gave them a ring for DSL in my new place.
No Way.
AT&T 3/512 is $49.99/month ($54.ish including taxes) with no phone number and no contract. Speakeasy 2/128 was over $125/month and needed a two-year contract.
I could install two and a half AT&T lines for the cost of one, slower, Speakeasy line. This was downtown Chicago last Spring. YMMV.
I had some issues with Verizon, and after months of tech support Hell, I found out the only sure-fire way to get things fixed:
File a complaint with the state Public Utilities Commission.
I did it in Illinois where it can be done online. Miraculously within two weeks I had supervisors from falling all over themselves trying to solve my problem, and what had been broken for months got fixed in a matter of days.
Like the others, my phone's World Clock function is showing 07/12/31 in Hong Kong and London.
And I guess this is a feature, not a bug, but it shows that the date in my current time zone is "Today." Well, that's not all that helpful if I don't know what today's date is, is it?
Googling for specific newspapers shows articles in the Washington Post, New York Times, the Sun, and so on. It's referenced in an article in the Wall Street Journal. This is all outside of the IT press, mind you!
Googling newspaper web sites isn't a very good way of determining if something gets a lot of press. Most newspapers post hundreds or even thousands more stories on their web sites than in the paper because they simply run the automated feeds from their various wire services into their web sites. So the same piece of AP copy will show up in dozens or hundreds of newspapers even though it was never deemed worthy of committing to print.
. I have about 400 CDs at home , but ripping them myself manually is a royal PITA. It takes a long time (with 400 frigging CDs )
Yes, we're all soooooo impressed with your 400 CDs. Oh, wait. No we're not.
I ripped almost 1,200 of my wife's CDs into iTunes. Devoting 1-2 hours a day it took about three months. So get off your lazy butt and start ripping.
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Everyone should just pick a number between 987-65-4320 and 987-65-4329 and use that. That block is reserved for use in advertising.
If he attended each college he claims for just six months, he'd have to have started when he was 15. I call bullshit.
Of course, I'm one of those who stopped contributing to Wikipedia because of reverts. Things I actually saw, witnessed, and spoke have all been marked "Citation needed" or erased completely.
One example: I happen to live in a building where a famous person died not too long ago. But in the Wikipedia article about the building it lists the apartment number wrong. Doesn't matter how many times I try to fix it, it gets reverted by people in other countries who somehow know better what's going on here than me, who lives down the hall from where it happened.
Wikipedia is the sum of all bad knowledge.
Leased doesn't mean private when it comes to federal land. As someone else with experience in this area noted elsewhere in this thread, the rules are different for federal property. Just because you lease it, it's not private.
To corroborate what that person wrote, I found this on the Google:
"Authorized private use of federal land... does not allow the lessee to post or sign the land as being private. The lessee of federal lands cannot drny legal access or charge an access fee for others to use such lands.
What if I'm denied access to federal public lands?
If you think you are illegally denied access to federal lands, you are asked to contact either the administering agency listed on page 7 or use the Colorado toll-free hotline (1-800-332-4155)."
Sounds to me like a film crew can walk right in, and there's nothing Burning Man can do about it until it relocates to actual private property.
If the girls want to go wild, and are of an appropriate age to sign the consent form, then who is Burning Man to tell them to keep their boobies holstered?
Unless it's on private property. I don't know enough about BM to know what the property lines are, but it was my impression that it's held out in the desert on unclaimed property.
Clarification is welcome.
That's how the IE search bars started out. A little search page change here, a little redirect there. Next thing you know it's Bonzai Buddy all over again.
Disc.
Disks are floppy or hard. Discs are compact or vinyl.
But Apple didn't change. Your own statement shows that. You have to get past the notion that music files are different than any other kind of file. It's all software. And if it wasn't for a certain legal agreement, Apple would probably be publishing its own music by now.
Don't let logic enter this argument. It's important to maintain the old Slashdot cliche: All corporations are bad.
Whether it's ExxonMobil, or Fred's Independent Coffee House and Hash Bar -- if it's incorporated, it's automatically bad, bad, bad!
Even worse are MULTI-NATIONAL corporations, like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, and Gothamist/Torontoist/Shanghaiist. There's a special circle of Hell for them because they operate in more than one place!
So, what you're saying is that the computer works for people instead of the other way around?
[citation needed]
ZOMG! This article is revolutionary! You mean targeted advertising costs more than shotgun advertising? Whoda thunk it?
Why is it that every time the Slashdot crowd learns something that the rest of the world has known for decades it somehow warrants a breathless headline?
"But... but... it's on the interweb. It's 'new media' or something. It must be important."
Puhleeze.
Next thing you know, advertising in a specialty publication targeting a particular group of people like engineers will cost more than advertising in a general interest magazine. Oh wait... it already does.
This is a non-story.
Good job mentioning B&H. Fantastic customer service. I had to return a stand-alone CF->DVD burner and they were fantastic about it.
There's a reason virtually all professional photographers in America go to B&H or Calumet first. And with B&H's catalog now including so much electronics, it makes even less sense to shop at the discounters.
When I'm looking for something my shopping order is usually:
1. B&H
2. ZipZoomFly
3. NewEgg
Recently when looking for some flash memory I was surprised to find that NewEgg only had two choices in the capacity and format I wanted, while ZipZoomFly had dozens. Same thing happened when I was replacing a hard drive -- lots to choose from in my interface and form factor on ZZF, but only three on NewEgg.
I don't know if this is a sign that NewEgg is slipping, or trimming its inventory, or maybe just that ZipZoomFly's inventory better aligns with my interests.
9.5% sales tax? Cry me a river.
When you get to a 10.25% base rate like it is in Chicago, then I might start feeling sorry for you.
And if you shop in certain products in Chicago, it's more.
And if you shop in certain districts in Chicago, it's even more.
Some basic everyday items like a can of soda in certain parts of Chicago carry 14% or more sales tax. It's like living in Europe, but without the free healthcare or fast trains.
Anyone who trots out the old "internet tubes" cliche loses his right to talk about his "fat pipe" connection when bragging about bandwidth.
Slashnerds are such hypocrites.
Learn to leave when you've outstayed your welcome.
Yeah, like the Brits.
America, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma, Egypt, Palestine, Bosnia, Kosovo, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh... Is there any country on this planet the British haven't gotten their butts kicked out of?
At least the Americans are good and whooped before they quit a war. They don't just run away when the tea runs out.
Zmodem is for Johnny-come-latelys.
Punter FTW!
ACK ACK ACK
While you are correct that the overwhelming majority of stalkers know their prey, for some it's the challenge of getting to know the target that gives them a thrill. I know a woman who picked up a stalker by simply bumping into him at a sporting goods store.
Personally I don't give a fuck if someone addresses me by my first, last or any name.
I'm exactly the opposite of the previous caller -- I expect people in service industries to use my last name, not my first name. When they use my first name it bothers me and I correct them.
When a customer service goon on the phone says something like, "Can I call you Mike?" I always say, "No." They usually pause for a couple of seconds because their script doesn't have a "No" scenario. Eventually they ask, "Then what should I call you." The correct answer is "Mister Smith." I don't know you, and you're working for me, so you will address me by a respectful title.
If a doorman in my building addressed a resident by their first name, the doorman would be looking for a new job in a matter of hours. There are still places in the world where civilized society exists.
After reading so much about the rainbows and puppies that is life with Speakeasy here on Slashdot, I gave them a ring for DSL in my new place.
No Way.
AT&T 3/512 is $49.99/month ($54.ish including taxes) with no phone number and no contract.
Speakeasy 2/128 was over $125/month and needed a two-year contract.
I could install two and a half AT&T lines for the cost of one, slower, Speakeasy line. This was downtown Chicago last Spring. YMMV.
I had some issues with Verizon, and after months of tech support Hell, I found out the only sure-fire way to get things fixed:
File a complaint with the state Public Utilities Commission.
I did it in Illinois where it can be done online. Miraculously within two weeks I had supervisors from falling all over themselves trying to solve my problem, and what had been broken for months got fixed in a matter of days.
Like the others, my phone's World Clock function is showing 07/12/31 in Hong Kong and London.
And I guess this is a feature, not a bug, but it shows that the date in my current time zone is "Today." Well, that's not all that helpful if I don't know what today's date is, is it?
I ripped almost 1,200 of my wife's CDs into iTunes. Devoting 1-2 hours a day it took about three months. So get off your lazy butt and start ripping.