Over 10 years ago, a study was done by Cal Trans (the State of California Transportation Department) using traffic cameras and they discovered the same thing that mathematicians have just now discovered. Cal Trans did it the old fashioned way: by studying hours of video and doing a little brain work...
Does this new tax apply to clients outside of Maryland with custom work being done by a Maryland based business? This would kill business for a vendor I deal with on a (nearly) daily basis.
The Right to Privacy, as put forth by the Constitution of the United States of America, never intended for any one to be anonymous. Anonymous people have no voice in the government because they are unkown and faceless. Only those who stand up to be counted, by their vote and their enumeration in a census, can be a part of the government.
Privacy means that the gevernment can't look into your life without just cause.
I've tried communicating with these people when they were without a meeting place and suggested using the LASFS clubhouse but I never received a response. Hence I wanted to start my own LUG.
Advantages to using the LASFS clubhouse (for a LASFS sponsored LUG):
1) Don't have to buy food to stay. 2) Enough power outlets to plug in a dozen (or more) laptops. 3) Couches. 4) Soda vending machine (at $0.50 per can for most brands). 5) Video projector (has SVGA input port) and screen. 6) No mundanes giving you funny looks when you start talking tech... 7) Will not schedule a LUG meeting on a fannish high holy day (San Diego Comic Book Convention, July 26-29, 2007).
No only do I think LUGs are useful, I want to start one. If anyone in the San Fernando Valley (CA) is interested, please stop by the LASFS clubhouse on Thursday Night (07/26/07) and ask for Ed Hooper.
I was going to comment on this topic, but I realized that most of the people who have their comments visible are of the mind that: a) economic sanctions don't work, and b) military action doesn't work.
I guess that these people believe the only way to make the world a better place is to toke up, hand out folowers, drop your pants and bend over. All this gets you is butt-fucked before before decaptitation.
This just goes to prove that no matter what you try to do to make life "greener" without making life harder doesn't work. Do you really think everyone will agree to give up their creature comforts that easily? No way. And if everyone in the Western world did, the Eastern world would just nuke us out of existance and live with the radiation.
Something has got to give. I say we shoot all the members of Green Peace and just get on with life.
I would guess your are all for an anonymous internet until someone starts slandering you, then you will want "Big Brother" to step in and prosecute the individual while you slander somone else from the safety of your anonymity.
The big discussion about immigration is not keeping the skilled labor out, it's about keeping the illegals out. Both Bill Gates and just about everyone here has missed the point.
The illegals bring with them the all of the bad habits that made their home countries shit holes and is the reason they left. Now they are making the US (the South West in particular) into a bigger versions of _______. (That means "fill in the blank.")
Please bring on the skilled labor. These are the people who contribute to a society. But please keep out the filth. All they do is produce more filth.
Big asteroids have been know to cool things down a bit, but an asteroid large enough to start an ice age will kill most life on the surface before the temperature could start falling.
From the little I have gleaned in the science classes I've taken over the years (high school and college) it is probably a combination of factors that start an ice age: temperature of the sun, orbit of the Earth (distance from the sun), and lack of green house gasses. The green house gasses in the atmosphere determine how much heat is retained and when there is to liitle of these gasses the heat escapes from the Earth into space.
I will be blunt: the real reason why there aren't more female techies, self taught or trained, is because most girls are raised to be image consious and being a techie is thought by most non-techies that same as being a nerd. Male techies don't care about how we are percieved. We're too busy showing off to each other to be bothered with how "normal" people view us. It's the same in Science Fiction Fandom; a vast majority of SciFi geeks are male.
If you want to have more female techies you need to destroy the pre-conceived notions about techies on the global level (tell Mattel to stop making the Barbie dolls, etc) and wait for society to catch up.
1) There is no Linux version of the software 2) I don't have the time to spend on a game like this 3) I suck at games like this
I would like regular old Warcraft for Linux, but it doesn't exist.
The only way companies like Blizzard will only get a clue is if their sales dry up and people say "Give us a Linux port or we spend our money elsewhere!"
Remember, hit them where it hurts: the bottom line.
What Guinness forgot to mention, is that Doctor Who is the longest running fiction series that is not a soap opera. It's has more seasons that I Love Lucy or all of the Star Trek shows combined.
When I had a bicycle, and the time to ride it, I would ride along the San Gabrial River (in California) before work and think about the code I needed to write that day, or the problems I encountered the day before. I didn't always write the code in my head or resolve the problems but it made the ride less boring.
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Over 10 years ago, a study was done by Cal Trans (the State of California Transportation Department) using traffic cameras and they discovered the same thing that mathematicians have just now discovered. Cal Trans did it the old fashioned way: by studying hours of video and doing a little brain work...
Does this new tax apply to clients outside of Maryland with custom work being done by a Maryland based business? This would kill business for a vendor I deal with on a (nearly) daily basis.
Just curious.
The Right to Privacy, as put forth by the Constitution of the United States of America, never intended for any one to be anonymous. Anonymous people have no voice in the government because they are unkown and faceless. Only those who stand up to be counted, by their vote and their enumeration in a census, can be a part of the government.
Privacy means that the gevernment can't look into your life without just cause.
As always, this is only my $0.02 worth.
I've tried communicating with these people when they were without a meeting place and suggested using the LASFS clubhouse but I never received a response. Hence I wanted to start my own LUG.
Advantages to using the LASFS clubhouse (for a LASFS sponsored LUG):
1) Don't have to buy food to stay.
2) Enough power outlets to plug in a dozen (or more) laptops.
3) Couches.
4) Soda vending machine (at $0.50 per can for most brands).
5) Video projector (has SVGA input port) and screen.
6) No mundanes giving you funny looks when you start talking tech...
7) Will not schedule a LUG meeting on a fannish high holy day (San Diego Comic Book Convention, July 26-29, 2007).
Just a few thoughts.
As always, just my $0.02 worth.
No only do I think LUGs are useful, I want to start one. If anyone in the San Fernando Valley (CA) is interested, please stop by the LASFS clubhouse on Thursday Night (07/26/07) and ask for Ed Hooper.
As always, just my $0.02 worth.
It's (Mars) Global Warming out to kill us all!!!!
Run for your lives!
As always, just my $0.02 worth.
Forget installing Fiber to the home in Europe. I want it in Burbank, CA! Not just to download, but to get clear telephone and TV service.
Who needs Copper? Give me Glass!
Just my $0.02 worth.
Send a load and clear message to Apple: take your iPhone back to the store where you purchased it and ask for your money back.
Just my $0.02 worth.
I was going to comment on this topic, but I realized that most of the people who have their comments visible are of the mind that: a) economic sanctions don't work, and b) military action doesn't work.
I guess that these people believe the only way to make the world a better place is to toke up, hand out folowers, drop your pants and bend over. All this gets you is butt-fucked before before decaptitation.
See you all in hell.
As always, just by $0.02 worth.
I'd be happy if it was inexspenive and would screw OPEC. Maybe screwing some of the big corporations is OK too.
Remember, if you remove the goverment you remove the shield between you and the guys who want you dead. (Mainly the guys that OPEC feed.)
Just my $0.02 worth.
Not again!
Well, at least it means David Tennant is available to attend Gallifrey One!
Just my $0.02 worth.
This just goes to prove that no matter what you try to do to make life "greener" without making life harder doesn't work. Do you really think everyone will agree to give up their creature comforts that easily? No way. And if everyone in the Western world did, the Eastern world would just nuke us out of existance and live with the radiation.
Something has got to give. I say we shoot all the members of Green Peace and just get on with life.
Just my $0.02 worth.
I have probably spelt it wrong, but it's the substance that John Adams is told by his wife to use in the musical "1776."
Just my $0.02 worth.
I would guess your are all for an anonymous internet until someone starts slandering you, then you will want "Big Brother" to step in and prosecute the individual while you slander somone else from the safety of your anonymity.
This is how it always works.
As always, just my $0.02 worth.
The big discussion about immigration is not keeping the skilled labor out, it's about keeping the illegals out. Both Bill Gates and just about everyone here has missed the point.
The illegals bring with them the all of the bad habits that made their home countries shit holes and is the reason they left. Now they are making the US (the South West in particular) into a bigger versions of _______. (That means "fill in the blank.")
Please bring on the skilled labor. These are the people who contribute to a society. But please keep out the filth. All they do is produce more filth.
As always, this has been my $0.02 worth.
Big asteroids have been know to cool things down a bit, but an asteroid large enough to start an ice age will kill most life on the surface before the temperature could start falling.
From the little I have gleaned in the science classes I've taken over the years (high school and college) it is probably a combination of factors that start an ice age: temperature of the sun, orbit of the Earth (distance from the sun), and lack of green house gasses. The green house gasses in the atmosphere determine how much heat is retained and when there is to liitle of these gasses the heat escapes from the Earth into space.
Just my $0.02 worth.
I will be blunt: the real reason why there aren't more female techies, self taught or trained, is because most girls are raised to be image consious and being a techie is thought by most non-techies that same as being a nerd. Male techies don't care about how we are percieved. We're too busy showing off to each other to be bothered with how "normal" people view us. It's the same in Science Fiction Fandom; a vast majority of SciFi geeks are male.
If you want to have more female techies you need to destroy the pre-conceived notions about techies on the global level (tell Mattel to stop making the Barbie dolls, etc) and wait for society to catch up.
Just my $0.02 worth.
I don't play World of Warcraft for three reasons:
1) There is no Linux version of the software
2) I don't have the time to spend on a game like this
3) I suck at games like this
I would like regular old Warcraft for Linux, but it doesn't exist.
The only way companies like Blizzard will only get a clue is if their sales dry up and people say "Give us a Linux port or we spend our money elsewhere!"
Remember, hit them where it hurts: the bottom line.
Just my $0.02 worth.
I got it all. I was a Math minor...
Be prepared for a lot of tax bills.
.com bubble burst hurt the tech industry? Wait until a Democrat is elected to the White House in 2008...
The President will attempt to veto all of them, but some may slip through.
You thought the
As always, just by $0.02 worth.
What Guinness forgot to mention, is that Doctor Who is the longest running fiction series that is not a soap opera. It's has more seasons that I Love Lucy or all of the Star Trek shows combined.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Don't forget August 8, 2006 can be written as 8/08/6, and in 2008 as 8/08/8.
Just my $0.02 worth.
They already exist. For the common user, it's called Mac OS X. For the geek user, it's called Linux.
Just my $0.03 (inflation) worth.
Green Freaks are worried that end is near!
Rest of world yawns and continues on with life.
When I had a bicycle, and the time to ride it, I would ride along the San Gabrial River (in California) before work and think about the code I needed to write that day, or the problems I encountered the day before. I didn't always write the code in my head or resolve the problems but it made the ride less boring.