Why do you think you have SP2 installed? Do you have any of the SP2-only features working?
The computer I am on right now does not have SP2 installed and Help-->About in Internet Explorer says 6.0.......xpsp2..... Unless you're seeing the popup-blocker working, my guess is you don't have SP2 installed.
No longer shall I think negative thoughts when Dick C. invites energy companies into private meetings to write energy bills. They were probably just playing Risk or Dungeons & Dragons.
Dick C. and George W. Bush were elected by the people.
No longer will I assume that George was skipping National Guard duty in Texas rather than slogging through the jungles of Vietnam because of his family connections. It was probably just the luck of the draw.
George was elected by the people.
I will recognize that the DMCA was for the benefit of all citizens of our great country and not a cynical manuever to extend Mickey Mouse's value. I feel better knowing that my copyrights are now protected for decades after I die.
The Senators and Congressmen who voted for the DMCA were elected by the people.
I will rejoice that the grassroots efforts of the voters of California managed to unseat a lawfully elected govenor without the influence of outside money. Jeb next, anyone?
Gray Davis was recalled in a vote cast by the people.
CEOs and "rich" people get exactly the same number of votes as everyone else. All power is granted exclusively through the democratic process. I know you want to try and blame the boogeyman for everything that is wrong in the world so you can feel better about yourself but in this case the buck stops with the people. None of the above would have happened without the authority expressly granted by the people.
Agreed, but the side-effect of this is becoming a plutocracy, which the USA now is (and has been for quite some time).
Nonsense. Political power and the government is NOT in the hands of "the wealthy classes". Political power is squarely in the hands of ALL the people. Some people might be too stupid to exercise their political power but to pretend that it is in the hands of the wealthy in a democracy is a travesty of the truth.
Since they have more to lose, a stable society is more valuable to them. Therefore they should pay more.
I think that's the most idiotic argument for a "progressive" tax system that I've ever heard.
By your logic, the poor should be paying more for medicare and social security since obviously, they have the most to lose if those go down.
Taxes are not a way to "keep society stable". Taxes are a way for citizens to pay for what the government does for the common good. It's debatable what any persons "fair share" in this is but pretending that it is somehow proportional to what they have to lose is preposterous.
How do you know they don't already do that? (apart from Disneyland being too far to drive, that is). I have seen Bill & Melinda at a local restaurant and my wife has seen them at a local movie theater in the crowd just like everyone else. Bill really does look quite ordinary in person.
I have no idea what any of his kids look like - or what Melinda looks like and I'm sure most of you don't either. They could very well be at Disneyland right now and hardly anyone would be any wiser for it.
This announcement refers to AT&Ts residential long distance service. AT&T's service is at very competitive rates and provides very good fidelity compared to their competitors. I've tried several phone cards, Sprint & MCI and AT&T by far provides me with the clearest international long distance calls - all this for a price that's cheaper than what Sprint or MCI offer in their best plan.
When your parents / grandparents / non-technically savive friends & family can do something as simple as record a TV program because of 'broadcast flags' and the like then Congress will hear from the masses in the most unpleasent way possible.
Parents/ grandparents / non-tecnically savvy friends & family have already learned to deal with the fact that they can't copy from a DVD onto video tape. My bet is they will learn to live with the broadcast flag too.
Here's how the capital gains tax write off works: Say you have income of X dollars and lost Y dollars through capital losses. You can now deduct the amount of money you lost from your income subject to a $3,000/year maximum. You can carry over your losses to the following year, however. This makes sense since the money you lost is due to a risk you took and if you had made the money you wouldn't be paying full income tax on it anyway so capping the deduction is a good idea because it protects small investors without providing an unfair advantage to high rollers who gamble and lose.
The charitable donation deduction doesn't work that way. If you have income of X dollars and donate Y of it to charity, you will only have to pay tax on X-Y dollars. It's as if you never earned those Y dollars - which makes sense since you didn't keep any of it. You may be subject to Alternate Minimum Tax, however. I'm not quite sure how that works since I've never had to deal with it.
Charitable donation does NOT absolve you of paying tax on the income you donated.
That's not quite right. When you donate an amount of money to a charity you are absolved of all tax on that amount. However, your total tax savings are only equivalent to your marginal tax rate.
In other words, when you donate $100,000 (say) to charity, and your marginal interest rate is 17%, you save $17,000 in taxes but you're still out the $100,000 you donated so you have an effective loss of $83,000.
A power failure had messed up some of the configuration settings on my DSL modem. I called QWorst so they could tell me how to fix it.
So we started sending commands to my modem through the command cable which was connected to a COM port on my PC. The tech gave me the incorrect syntax for one of the commands - I could see the modem responding with syntax error. When I told the tech this, he tried to get me to connect to a different COM port on my computer inspite of me telling him there was a syntax error in what he was telling me to type. When I told him I didn't have another COM port he tried to tell me I needed to take that up with my computer manufacturer and that it was not QWorst's fault.
After hanging up I was lucky enough to find a clueful tech with my next phone call who walked me through what I needed to do to get it right.
You are an idiot. The 959 was not street legal in the US because it had not been "certified" by the NHTSA. In order to get a car "certified", the manufacturer normally has to supply several units of the car to the NHTSA for crash testing.
This particular car was a rare and expensive model and there was no feasible way that the manufacturer could afford to supply the requisite number of cars for crash testing - nor was it necessary since the car was already certified in Europe under more stringent conditions.
All that was done in this case was that an exception was made to the letter of the rules since the car clearly met the requirements to be certified in the US. No "evil" occurred and no laws were changed to satisfy any "whims".
All of the digital SLRs (i.e. Canon D30/D60/10D/1D/1Ds/300D, Nikon D1X/D1H/D2H/D100/D70, Fuji S1/S2/S3, Olympus E-1/E-10/E-20, Sigma SD-9/SD-10, Pentax *istD, Kodak DCS-14N) will essentially let you click and take photos as fast as you can, zero delay, not feeling any different from an SLR film camera at all.
It's still not the same - particularly with the lower end digital SLRs.
While the single-picture lag may not be so great, the key number is buffer size. The 300D, for example has a buffer size of 3 images. That means you can take 3 pictures but then have to wait several seconds while those are saved onto your CF card before being able to shoot again. Definitely not the same as film for action shots.
What are you basing this on? Assuming the person is not a complete idiot, I have a very hard time believing that he made that actual quote in that actual context. I don't doubt that he is more sorry about being caught than he is about commiting the wrong but I very much doubt that he would say that.
Without the full context of the quote, it is very hard to figure out what he was saying.
Could it be because the legal system in the country is so screwed up that it is simpler for a company to just settle every lawsuit it faces, regardless of merit, than it is to fight the lawsuit and win? Of course you could just as easily argue that fighting the case would have cost MN more than it would get if it won compared to what it got in the settlement.
There are two sides to every coin. One thing I think we can all agree to is that there is something seriously wrong with a legal system when the cost of prosecuting or defending a case is a significant factor in the direction a case goes.
It depends if you're talking about headlights or crash protection. If I were on his jury, I'd acquit anyone arrested for stealing those goddamn headlights (what kind of safety feature is it to blind oncoming traffic?).
BMWs have self-leveling Xenon HIDs. The pattern on the headlights is expressly designed to NOT blind oncoming traffic.
What, you're suggesting he avoid locking into a long term contract? Most of the service providers these days on insisting on them...
Until you have a certificate from the government saying you are locked in a contract, you are not. Most service providers will try to intimidate you into believing that a verbal agreement is a binding long-term contract but you should know that they will not hesistate to dump you and move on to other clients unless you have a signed, written agreement to bequeath an arm, a leg, everything you will ever earn and your first born to them in return for the service they provide.
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Why do you think you have SP2 installed? Do you have any of the SP2-only features working?
The computer I am on right now does not have SP2 installed and Help-->About in Internet Explorer says 6.0.......xpsp2..... Unless you're seeing the popup-blocker working, my guess is you don't have SP2 installed.
No longer shall I think negative thoughts when Dick C. invites energy companies into private meetings to write energy bills. They were probably just playing Risk or Dungeons & Dragons.
Dick C. and George W. Bush were elected by the people.
No longer will I assume that George was skipping National Guard duty in Texas rather than slogging through the jungles of Vietnam because of his family connections. It was probably just the luck of the draw.
George was elected by the people.
I will recognize that the DMCA was for the benefit of all citizens of our great country and not a cynical manuever to extend Mickey Mouse's value. I feel better knowing that my copyrights are now protected for decades after I die.
The Senators and Congressmen who voted for the DMCA were elected by the people.
I will rejoice that the grassroots efforts of the voters of California managed to unseat a lawfully elected govenor without the influence of outside money. Jeb next, anyone?
Gray Davis was recalled in a vote cast by the people.
CEOs and "rich" people get exactly the same number of votes as everyone else. All power is granted exclusively through the democratic process. I know you want to try and blame the boogeyman for everything that is wrong in the world so you can feel better about yourself but in this case the buck stops with the people. None of the above would have happened without the authority expressly granted by the people.
Agreed, but the side-effect of this is becoming a plutocracy, which the USA now is (and has been for quite some time).
Nonsense. Political power and the government is NOT in the hands of "the wealthy classes". Political power is squarely in the hands of ALL the people. Some people might be too stupid to exercise their political power but to pretend that it is in the hands of the wealthy in a democracy is a travesty of the truth.
Since they have more to lose, a stable society is more valuable to them. Therefore they should pay more.
I think that's the most idiotic argument for a "progressive" tax system that I've ever heard.
By your logic, the poor should be paying more for medicare and social security since obviously, they have the most to lose if those go down.
Taxes are not a way to "keep society stable". Taxes are a way for citizens to pay for what the government does for the common good. It's debatable what any persons "fair share" in this is but pretending that it is somehow proportional to what they have to lose is preposterous.
I don't think I've watched any of those movies on the IMDB list (except maybe for the Jaws or Superman sequels which I may or may not have watched)
My list:
- Joe Dirt
- 50 first dates
If it was open source, he wouldn't have had to crack it now, would he?
How do you know they don't already do that? (apart from Disneyland being too far to drive, that is). I have seen Bill & Melinda at a local restaurant and my wife has seen them at a local movie theater in the crowd just like everyone else. Bill really does look quite ordinary in person.
I have no idea what any of his kids look like - or what Melinda looks like and I'm sure most of you don't either. They could very well be at Disneyland right now and hardly anyone would be any wiser for it.
You are uninformed.
This announcement refers to AT&Ts residential long distance service. AT&T's service is at very competitive rates and provides very good fidelity compared to their competitors. I've tried several phone cards, Sprint & MCI and AT&T by far provides me with the clearest international long distance calls - all this for a price that's cheaper than what Sprint or MCI offer in their best plan.
When your parents / grandparents / non-technically savive friends & family can do something as simple as record a TV program because of 'broadcast flags' and the like then Congress will hear from the masses in the most unpleasent way possible.
Parents/ grandparents / non-tecnically savvy friends & family have already learned to deal with the fact that they can't copy from a DVD onto video tape. My bet is they will learn to live with the broadcast flag too.
Nope. No cap.
Here's how the capital gains tax write off works: Say you have income of X dollars and lost Y dollars through capital losses. You can now deduct the amount of money you lost from your income subject to a $3,000/year maximum. You can carry over your losses to the following year, however. This makes sense since the money you lost is due to a risk you took and if you had made the money you wouldn't be paying full income tax on it anyway so capping the deduction is a good idea because it protects small investors without providing an unfair advantage to high rollers who gamble and lose.
The charitable donation deduction doesn't work that way. If you have income of X dollars and donate Y of it to charity, you will only have to pay tax on X-Y dollars. It's as if you never earned those Y dollars - which makes sense since you didn't keep any of it. You may be subject to Alternate Minimum Tax, however. I'm not quite sure how that works since I've never had to deal with it.
Charitable donation does NOT absolve you of paying tax on the income you donated.
That's not quite right. When you donate an amount of money to a charity you are absolved of all tax on that amount. However, your total tax savings are only equivalent to your marginal tax rate.
In other words, when you donate $100,000 (say) to charity, and your marginal interest rate is 17%, you save $17,000 in taxes but you're still out the $100,000 you donated so you have an effective loss of $83,000.
Yeah, because we all know that hooking up a music player to a car radio is on the same level as running the telematics of the car.
You are an idiot. Microsoft and BMW are already partners.
Also, an on board auto-PC is much, much more sophisticated than being able to hook up a music player to a car radio.
... is never a good thing.
A power failure had messed up some of the configuration settings on my DSL modem. I called QWorst so they could tell me how to fix it.
So we started sending commands to my modem through the command cable which was connected to a COM port on my PC. The tech gave me the incorrect syntax for one of the commands - I could see the modem responding with syntax error. When I told the tech this, he tried to get me to connect to a different COM port on my computer inspite of me telling him there was a syntax error in what he was telling me to type. When I told him I didn't have another COM port he tried to tell me I needed to take that up with my computer manufacturer and that it was not QWorst's fault.
After hanging up I was lucky enough to find a clueful tech with my next phone call who walked me through what I needed to do to get it right.
Who's on first?
No. Who's on second. What's on first.
You are an idiot. The 959 was not street legal in the US because it had not been "certified" by the NHTSA. In order to get a car "certified", the manufacturer normally has to supply several units of the car to the NHTSA for crash testing.
This particular car was a rare and expensive model and there was no feasible way that the manufacturer could afford to supply the requisite number of cars for crash testing - nor was it necessary since the car was already certified in Europe under more stringent conditions.
All that was done in this case was that an exception was made to the letter of the rules since the car clearly met the requirements to be certified in the US. No "evil" occurred and no laws were changed to satisfy any "whims".
If you paid for a full retail version of XP, you would indeed be able to use it that way.
However, you didn't. You paid a fraction of the price for a limited license which allows you to use it on your laptop and your laptop alone.
The term "law" should only be applied to true laws, eg. thermodynamics, Newton's and Murphy's.
Umm.. Murphy's law is no more of a "true" law than Moore's is.
All of the digital SLRs (i.e. Canon D30/D60/10D/1D/1Ds/300D, Nikon D1X/D1H/D2H/D100/D70, Fuji S1/S2/S3, Olympus E-1/E-10/E-20, Sigma SD-9/SD-10, Pentax *istD, Kodak DCS-14N) will essentially let you click and take photos as fast as you can, zero delay, not feeling any different from an SLR film camera at all.
It's still not the same - particularly with the lower end digital SLRs.
While the single-picture lag may not be so great, the key number is buffer size. The 300D, for example has a buffer size of 3 images. That means you can take 3 pictures but then have to wait several seconds while those are saved onto your CF card before being able to shoot again. Definitely not the same as film for action shots.
What are you basing this on? Assuming the person is not a complete idiot, I have a very hard time believing that he made that actual quote in that actual context. I don't doubt that he is more sorry about being caught than he is about commiting the wrong but I very much doubt that he would say that.
Without the full context of the quote, it is very hard to figure out what he was saying.
Most people spell it Ferraris, not Ferraries.
You could have had every line in the parent post but you blew it.
Let me play the devils advocate here.
Could it be because the legal system in the country is so screwed up that it is simpler for a company to just settle every lawsuit it faces, regardless of merit, than it is to fight the lawsuit and win? Of course you could just as easily argue that fighting the case would have cost MN more than it would get if it won compared to what it got in the settlement.
There are two sides to every coin. One thing I think we can all agree to is that there is something seriously wrong with a legal system when the cost of prosecuting or defending a case is a significant factor in the direction a case goes.
It depends if you're talking about headlights or crash protection. If I were on his jury, I'd acquit anyone arrested for stealing those goddamn headlights (what kind of safety feature is it to blind oncoming traffic?).
BMWs have self-leveling Xenon HIDs. The pattern on the headlights is expressly designed to NOT blind oncoming traffic.
What, you're suggesting he avoid locking into a long term contract? Most of the service providers these days on insisting on them...
Until you have a certificate from the government saying you are locked in a contract, you are not. Most service providers will try to intimidate you into believing that a verbal agreement is a binding long-term contract but you should know that they will not hesistate to dump you and move on to other clients unless you have a signed, written agreement to bequeath an arm, a leg, everything you will ever earn and your first born to them in return for the service they provide.