Let's see. While this person who has done no physical harm (and is a first time offender) is awaiting sentencing which murederer, rapists or other violent felon should we kick out to make room for him. (At a cost of almost $3000 a month.)
I have a friend whose husband threatened her and her son's life and had a 7 hour stand-off with the police. The stand off ended after the police had fired over 12 rounds of tear gas in the house. He got out of jail less than a month later on a plea bargain. In a court hearing today on a protective order, he again threatened her and this time included her friends. Who is the one who needs to be in jail more?
Yes, Ken Lay and many other people harmed the finances of many people. However, IMO, there are people walking around free who deserve prison time much more than they do.
I bought one for work purposes. I do web and graphic design. It allows me to work while waiting for clients and show them graphics at their best. It also allows me to play games when I have nothing else to do.
(Speaking as someone who has some training in securing facilities against spying)
If they allow secure work on laptops, they are already making a big mistake. This was proven by the recent fears of a leak in Afghanistan due to missing thumb drives. Regulations state that such devices are not to be used, and any computer they are on is to be no longer considered secure. But, the twits who care more about the ease of doing their work than security use them anyways. The more portable the information is, the harder it is to keep secure.
Yes, but you miss the author's point. Most users don't want to have to go out and search for the software they need for their day-to-day usage. Install the OS (or buy their computer) and play any videos that come their way, play their MP3s and hook up to their broadband and wireless network with no diffculty. Unfortunately, Linux distro's don't do all of this right now and Windows does.
I live in Texas, a "right to work state." Basically, if an employer decides to fire you because he woke up on the wrong side of the bed, he can. (However, he will find himself paying your unemployment cost.) So, unions are next to useless in this state. Plus, in my opinion, they are just another extortion racket. I have a friend who ended up changing careers because of a union strike. What the union was paying the strikers to live on was not enough to support a single person, much less a family. And, they were threatening the lives of anyone who crossed the line (and their families).
Unions have their time and place. In most of the USA, that time and place has passed.
The overall cost of everything at rent-to-own stores is higher. However, they are willing to take a risk on people with no or horrible credit. They offer free delivery. They will repair or replace any items that break. And, if someone should have to return something, the renter can use the money they paid later on for something else. For those who can not get credit any other way, they are a good alternative. When your fridge has died, and you have no other alternatives, they will get it to you ASAP.
Like all other forms of financing, they have their plusses and minuses.
(Speaking from experience)
Yes. It is the basis they use for all civil rights legislation. Since any state or local discriminatory laws could possibly affect a traveler from another state.
The other way they control states is with purse strings. The congress writes legislation that says is a state does this (say lower speed limits) they will get federal funding for something. The corollary is is a state doesn't do this, it will not get the federal money. When you are talking about things like highway dollars and federal money for entitlements, that's a mighty big stick and carrot.
Basically, because the Supreme Court said so. I will go ahead and give their reasoning behind this. If a person from another state can somehow receive the good or service (in their own state or the atate of origin) it is interstate commerce. And, if a state attempted to ban the sale of something to someone from another state, that would be unconstitutional since it is regulating interstate commerce. It really stinks, but that is how they get away with it.
Actually, the amount of air pollution depends on where you live. In London, it has gotten much better. This is due to the fact that they used to burn coal to heat their homes. In the late 40s and early 50s they had smog so bad in the winter that it was killing healthy people. London's air has gotten much better since then.
Believe it or not, in most of the civilized world, air and water pollution has decreased greatly due to anti-pollution regulations, centralized power generation and switching to cleaner burning alternatives such as natural gas and propane for heating. The places where pollution is getting worse is 2nd and 3rd world countries that do not have the funding for these technologies.
It depends on the number of pages and sites you have to modify. Since this also pertains to how IE handles Flash, my company is looking at over 1000 pages that all have to be edited on several different sites. Since that is me and one other person, we ar looking at least a week of wasted time on this.
My mother lives out in the middle of nowhere (nearest town is over 15 miles away). I brought her a computer so she could access the internet and e-mail me. Well, it turns out that there is not an ISP with an access number that is local to her. So, no net access (she can't afford the long distance). There are still plenty of people who live in areas like that.
You need to do a few things to handle employees and security:
1. Do a thorough background check. This includes employment and criminal. You don't want to hire someone who did time for stealing from an employer.
2. Only allow them access to information they need for their jobs. I've had jobs where I could have walked out with all the personal info on past and current employees, and I had no need to access that information.
3. Run a good hardware and software anti-virus and firewall system. This means not letting every employee and their cousin having admin access to their machines.
4. Try to run a work place where people are happy to be there. I had an employer that I seriously thought about turning in software piracy because of the way he treated everyone in the office. Instead, I found a new job and left him with no technical people (it was a computer parts reseller).
I already have around 300 e-books. Most come from http://www.webscription.net/
This is the e-publishing arm of Baen publishing. They come in 4 different formats and are DRM free. Now, most of the books are science fiction or fantasy. So, you do need to like those formats. Also, you can get all the books Baen releases in a month for $14.95. This is usually 4-5 books.
Well, Choicepoint has already made changes to more strictly screen their clients. However, I still see it as punishing Choicepoint for someone else comitting a crime. Similar to if a car dealer sold a car to someone who falsely identified themselves and comitted a crime.
"When you take that $10 million out of the $27.68 million, I'd say that's a pretty big percentage of your profits gone. The idea is to punish the company, not kill it. OTOH, considering what happened, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea..."
Let's see you say that to the people who were working for departments of the company in no way related to this. A company is not just the board/owners/stockholders, it is also the employees. This would be similar to saying your brother screwed and accidentally killed someone, so we might as well punish you too. What people fail to realize is Choicepoint was also a victim of fraud. These people posed as legitimate businesses with falsified releases for Choicepoint to gather this information. Choicepoint lost clients, is repaying anyone who was damaged by this (which it should do) and will be paying a fine.
I admit, I have a stake in this. My wife works for a part of Choicepoint that has nothing to do with this. Nobody in the offices she works in had anything to do with this. Yet, due to the news coverage, they have had to deal with the repurcussions. People need to realize, when they talk about eliminating a company, it's not just rich people who will be hurt by such actions.
1. That French government went the way of the dodo bird when they executed the monarchy. Plus, even then, they were doing it as a way to sxtick it to the English. 2. The only times French governements have stepped in to help the USA in war is when they could stick it to England. 3. Many brave French citizens died resisting the Nazis. Unfortunately, just as many were assisting the Nazis. The rest were just ducking for cover. 4. We also saved their nation in World War I. 5. I've despised the French government ever since they pulled out of NATO (for the first time). I've despised Parisians since I was 7. When my family visited the city, attempted to speak French and treated rudely for not speaking French perfectly.
There are plenty of hypoallergenic pillow covers out there. You do need to wash them at least once a week (along with the resot of your bedding. As others have said, get white sheets that you can wash in hot water and bleach.
The current administration is only conservative in the sense of social and military. They do not seek smaller government, and the size of government has expanded under their watch. Check some of Bush's campaign promises (he promised to sign any gun control legislation that crossed his desk) and facts from the congressional budget office.
True. And, you are correct, I am referring to private party sales.
This is the reason I have weapons that are off the books. I also have convenient, yet appropriately dissuading location to hide such items (and ammunition for the same).
This is the reason I like the gunshow loophole. If they come by with a list, I habd over the ones on the list. I have a couple of others that I paid cash for.
BTW, if government officials come by grabbing guns, demand a receipt that has the weapons serial number and condition on it. They are responsible for storage and/or just compensation for damage.
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Let's see. While this person who has done no physical harm (and is a first time offender) is awaiting sentencing which murederer, rapists or other violent felon should we kick out to make room for him. (At a cost of almost $3000 a month.) I have a friend whose husband threatened her and her son's life and had a 7 hour stand-off with the police. The stand off ended after the police had fired over 12 rounds of tear gas in the house. He got out of jail less than a month later on a plea bargain. In a court hearing today on a protective order, he again threatened her and this time included her friends. Who is the one who needs to be in jail more? Yes, Ken Lay and many other people harmed the finances of many people. However, IMO, there are people walking around free who deserve prison time much more than they do.
I bought one for work purposes. I do web and graphic design. It allows me to work while waiting for clients and show them graphics at their best. It also allows me to play games when I have nothing else to do.
(Speaking as someone who has some training in securing facilities against spying) If they allow secure work on laptops, they are already making a big mistake. This was proven by the recent fears of a leak in Afghanistan due to missing thumb drives. Regulations state that such devices are not to be used, and any computer they are on is to be no longer considered secure. But, the twits who care more about the ease of doing their work than security use them anyways. The more portable the information is, the harder it is to keep secure.
Yes, but you miss the author's point. Most users don't want to have to go out and search for the software they need for their day-to-day usage. Install the OS (or buy their computer) and play any videos that come their way, play their MP3s and hook up to their broadband and wireless network with no diffculty. Unfortunately, Linux distro's don't do all of this right now and Windows does.
I live in Texas, a "right to work state." Basically, if an employer decides to fire you because he woke up on the wrong side of the bed, he can. (However, he will find himself paying your unemployment cost.) So, unions are next to useless in this state. Plus, in my opinion, they are just another extortion racket. I have a friend who ended up changing careers because of a union strike. What the union was paying the strikers to live on was not enough to support a single person, much less a family. And, they were threatening the lives of anyone who crossed the line (and their families). Unions have their time and place. In most of the USA, that time and place has passed.
The overall cost of everything at rent-to-own stores is higher. However, they are willing to take a risk on people with no or horrible credit. They offer free delivery. They will repair or replace any items that break. And, if someone should have to return something, the renter can use the money they paid later on for something else. For those who can not get credit any other way, they are a good alternative. When your fridge has died, and you have no other alternatives, they will get it to you ASAP. Like all other forms of financing, they have their plusses and minuses. (Speaking from experience)
It's also great for sinking ships of war and whaling ships.
Yes. It is the basis they use for all civil rights legislation. Since any state or local discriminatory laws could possibly affect a traveler from another state. The other way they control states is with purse strings. The congress writes legislation that says is a state does this (say lower speed limits) they will get federal funding for something. The corollary is is a state doesn't do this, it will not get the federal money. When you are talking about things like highway dollars and federal money for entitlements, that's a mighty big stick and carrot.
Basically, because the Supreme Court said so. I will go ahead and give their reasoning behind this. If a person from another state can somehow receive the good or service (in their own state or the atate of origin) it is interstate commerce. And, if a state attempted to ban the sale of something to someone from another state, that would be unconstitutional since it is regulating interstate commerce. It really stinks, but that is how they get away with it.
Actually, the amount of air pollution depends on where you live. In London, it has gotten much better. This is due to the fact that they used to burn coal to heat their homes. In the late 40s and early 50s they had smog so bad in the winter that it was killing healthy people. London's air has gotten much better since then. Believe it or not, in most of the civilized world, air and water pollution has decreased greatly due to anti-pollution regulations, centralized power generation and switching to cleaner burning alternatives such as natural gas and propane for heating. The places where pollution is getting worse is 2nd and 3rd world countries that do not have the funding for these technologies.
It depends on the number of pages and sites you have to modify. Since this also pertains to how IE handles Flash, my company is looking at over 1000 pages that all have to be edited on several different sites. Since that is me and one other person, we ar looking at least a week of wasted time on this.
My mother lives out in the middle of nowhere (nearest town is over 15 miles away). I brought her a computer so she could access the internet and e-mail me. Well, it turns out that there is not an ISP with an access number that is local to her. So, no net access (she can't afford the long distance). There are still plenty of people who live in areas like that.
You need to do a few things to handle employees and security: 1. Do a thorough background check. This includes employment and criminal. You don't want to hire someone who did time for stealing from an employer. 2. Only allow them access to information they need for their jobs. I've had jobs where I could have walked out with all the personal info on past and current employees, and I had no need to access that information. 3. Run a good hardware and software anti-virus and firewall system. This means not letting every employee and their cousin having admin access to their machines. 4. Try to run a work place where people are happy to be there. I had an employer that I seriously thought about turning in software piracy because of the way he treated everyone in the office. Instead, I found a new job and left him with no technical people (it was a computer parts reseller).
I already have around 300 e-books. Most come from http://www.webscription.net/ This is the e-publishing arm of Baen publishing. They come in 4 different formats and are DRM free. Now, most of the books are science fiction or fantasy. So, you do need to like those formats. Also, you can get all the books Baen releases in a month for $14.95. This is usually 4-5 books.
"spraying coal with pine tar qualifies" I wouldn't be surprised if Robert "pork addiction" Byrd (D. WV), knew about this.
Well, Choicepoint has already made changes to more strictly screen their clients. However, I still see it as punishing Choicepoint for someone else comitting a crime. Similar to if a car dealer sold a car to someone who falsely identified themselves and comitted a crime.
"When you take that $10 million out of the $27.68 million, I'd say that's a pretty big percentage of your profits gone. The idea is to punish the company, not kill it.
OTOH, considering what happened, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea..."
Let's see you say that to the people who were working for departments of the company in no way related to this. A company is not just the board/owners/stockholders, it is also the employees. This would be similar to saying your brother screwed and accidentally killed someone, so we might as well punish you too. What people fail to realize is Choicepoint was also a victim of fraud. These people posed as legitimate businesses with falsified releases for Choicepoint to gather this information. Choicepoint lost clients, is repaying anyone who was damaged by this (which it should do) and will be paying a fine.
I admit, I have a stake in this. My wife works for a part of Choicepoint that has nothing to do with this. Nobody in the offices she works in had anything to do with this. Yet, due to the news coverage, they have had to deal with the repurcussions. People need to realize, when they talk about eliminating a company, it's not just rich people who will be hurt by such actions.
"Without the French there wouldn't be a USA!"
1. That French government went the way of the dodo bird when they executed the monarchy. Plus, even then, they were doing it as a way to sxtick it to the English.
2. The only times French governements have stepped in to help the USA in war is when they could stick it to England.
3. Many brave French citizens died resisting the Nazis. Unfortunately, just as many were assisting the Nazis. The rest were just ducking for cover.
4. We also saved their nation in World War I.
5. I've despised the French government ever since they pulled out of NATO (for the first time). I've despised Parisians since I was 7. When my family visited the city, attempted to speak French and treated rudely for not speaking French perfectly.
How dare they limit the numbers being sold. I just won't buy one. Oh, wait. I wasn't going to buy one anyways.
There are plenty of hypoallergenic pillow covers out there. You do need to wash them at least once a week (along with the resot of your bedding. As others have said, get white sheets that you can wash in hot water and bleach.
The current administration is only conservative in the sense of social and military. They do not seek smaller government, and the size of government has expanded under their watch. Check some of Bush's campaign promises (he promised to sign any gun control legislation that crossed his desk) and facts from the congressional budget office.
True. And, you are correct, I am referring to private party sales. This is the reason I have weapons that are off the books. I also have convenient, yet appropriately dissuading location to hide such items (and ammunition for the same).
This is the reason I like the gunshow loophole. If they come by with a list, I habd over the ones on the list. I have a couple of others that I paid cash for. BTW, if government officials come by grabbing guns, demand a receipt that has the weapons serial number and condition on it. They are responsible for storage and/or just compensation for damage.