The Tunguska event had the uncanny luck of happening over land and in one of the world's least populated areas. What are the odds of THAT happening again?
Well, if it happens over California, does that qualify as least populated by intelligent beings?
No you wouldn't if the alternative is staying in Canada and making say 25% of what you could make in the US. Besides, when you exit the US, it will be just like checking out at Walmart.
Such things are typically welcomed by people who want to cut taxes and "Run Schools Like a Business".
After all, as long as taxes are lowered who cares?
I, for one, care. I don't know of anyone who takes the approach you do speak of here, especially if they have kids in the schools, but schools often waste a lot of money due to lack of oversight. Things like facilities costs, too many teachers (union members) on staff and overpaid administration. Not every school district is like that, but there are too many that are. It's the kids who lose out when those things are in place.
Several years ago, a principal in an inner city high school here in Massachusetts requested and received notebook computers for the staff and that included the janitorial staff! What the hell does a janitor do with a notebook? There are often many zealots watching the budgets of local school districts, and many need that kind of oversight. But what kind of business are they trying to run the school like? In some cases that may be a good thing.
Bottom line is the ads for PCs is an idea, not a reality, and it will not fly if there's no interest. M$ is filed for patent protection, that's all so far.
Picture this: you work for a large multinational firm with users numbering in the 10's of thousands. How, exactly, would migrate the lot of them from Windows to Mac? Moreover, do you think that you could actually sell the migration to upper management?
Of course you could make the presentation. Then be prepared to leave through the nearest windows, with your feet never hitting the ground.
Try to find out when these guys will be in your neighborhood and then stand in the window with your
butt hanging out. Of course, if you have to work, maybe a life size blow-up will do.
Just a thought, probably not worth anything.
Seems to me they'll need an immeasurable amount of publicity for the movie, since it doesn't seem like one single person in Boston was able to recognize an ATHF character.
Well, perhaps no one who graduated from college could recognize the character.....
Many/.ers and others are certain it's all the politicians that overreacted to the discovery of these items. But, on the day it occurred, the BPD only received one call about the item under the I93 bridge from a Transit authority employee. It was only after it hit the news (and the road closure) did the calls start to come in. Many people had seen them and thought they knew what they were. One call was from the manager of a Newbury Comics store where one of the mooninites had been placed. On the news video, she stated she knew what the thing was but decided to call the police anyway.
And, in today's news, the BPD has surveillance video of the two "performance artists" videotaping the bomb squad removing the bridge mounted mooninite. Perhaps they just wanted some fodder for YouTube, but their actions now cast a different light on their intentions. They'd better hope this can be plead out, because who knows what could happen in front of a jury
While many people now think of us here in Boston as a bunch of total lamers, the fact remains that this could have been completely avoided if Turner and their cowardly marketing company Interference, Inc, who are still hiding under their desks, had just informed the city and the BPD as to what they were doing. They would have needed permits but that's it. Bottom line is signage can't be hung without a permit in Boston or anywhere I know of and now Turner and Interference have learned that the hard way.
You know, if you're going to shoot from the hip, there's a strong chance of hitting your own gonads. However, in reviewing what I previously posted, I left out the word "little" between "made" and "sense". So shoot me. I didn't use the Preview button.
The rationale made sense then but without the draft
The argument to lower the drinking age was based on young men being old enough to kill but not old enough to buy a beer. In fact, alcohol is and as far as I know, always has been available on military posts without an age limit. The US military is now built from people who make the choice to serve, not by those having the choice made for them. So, draftees, once they entered the service, actually could buy beer. The argument was ill-conceived, as the thousands of 18 to 20 years that died in driving accidents proved.
Why is there a problem with a national driving licence in the USA?
As other have pointed out, rights not specifically granted to the Federal government in the US Constitution belong to the states. It's a nice concept, but it has been eroded over the decades. People on both ends of the political spectrum are not looking forward to having the Federal government have a database of drivers, because of the fear it would give the Feds far too much power. At the state level, not issuing licenses causes politicians to fear it would take revenue away from the states.
You are correct, there are already national databases, the most robust one being the Internal Revenue Service's database of taxpayers. In theory, anyone that works a job for pay must have a Social Security number, and any wages paid are reported to the IRS and state authorities who routinely share data.
While I'm not in favor of yet another huge Federal database, I haven't seen any workable solutions to tightening the security of personal identification documents. The driver's license is considered to be an authoritative document of identity and the inability to control who gets one makes security much harder to enforce.
The drinking age thing comes up just about every time the Georgia legislature meets. The traditional argument is that people old enough to fight our wars should be able to have a drink, so sometimes, it is tied to being in the military. But, that isn't even the best reason.
This was the argument put forth in the sixties when there was a draft. The rationale made sense then but without the draft, young men make the decision to join themselves, not have it made for them.
There are many other alternatives, especially when using Mac OS X. Those alternatives can often exceed Microsoft's products in terms of quality, usability, features and security.
Corporations are the customers that drive Microsoft to make the products that they do, because a few big business results in hundreds of thousands of licenses. Corporations are notoriously slow to change. Remember the old adage - no one ever got fired for buying IBM. They may have not been the best, but they were the biggest and most stable and that's what big corps like.
Too many employers look for checklists of skills rather than overall knowledge of an area.
You couldn't be more on target if you shot it with a.357 Magnum. While any employer wants to make sure they hire the right person for a given position, far too many rely on the degrees listed on the resume rather than the practical application of the supposedly accrued knowledge. When it comes right down to it, earning a degree only shows one's ability as a student, not the real world use of that knowledge. Why else are there so many semi-competent people in various fields, programming being just one of them? Hell, anyone can probably list a dozen different CEOs who are running their companies into the ground.
I'm not down on education or earning advanced degrees, but several years ago, I remember reading about the explosion of MBAs. In the article, the author pointed out that less than 15% of CEOs in Fortune 500 companies had advanced degrees. I don't know if that still holds true today, but it proved to me that real world knowledge was far more important than a degree in a frame.
Back in the day, after a night of pounding down many beers, one of my hard-drinkin' roommates would take a dump which left the distinct aroma of "low tide". If that's what they're trying to capture, it's already been done by Budweiser.
Not sure what you're talking about...I've used grub quite easily and with a straighforward,normal set up on 200G and 300G drives.
What size were you using and how long ago what this? I've never had trouble with grub installing on the MBR on any box I've used it on in past 5-6 years or so....
I installed Debian via the "goodbye-microsoft" link about two weeks ago as a dual boot with an XP installation. Grub failed to boot to Debian with the message "error 18". After searching on error 18, what I found was the dual boot was the culprit. Several places mentioned that in a Linux-only install, it would be unlikely to see the error, but dual boot somehow caused the problem. It now boots from ntloader, not the best way but it works. And it's only a play machine anyway. I wasn't going to spend a lot of time trying to figure it out. Thanks for asking.
What a coincidence, http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ came up a couple of days ago. You can use it to boot the Debian installer from Windows directly.:)
Unfortunately, it uses grub, which has a problem seeing the MBR on large discs. I tried it, and eventually got mine working, but a lot of noobs will not be so lucky and that won't help reduce the dependence on M$.
You know, if you're going to lecture on the law, you ought to get it right. As should you sir.
Parking tickets are assessed against the registered owner of the vehicle, and are attached to the registration. License to drive never enters into the equation at any point. If you don't pay, they add it on to the registration fees for the vehicle. An unpaid parking ticket will never result in suspension of a driver's license because by definition there is no freakin' driver of a parked car! Here in Ted Kennedy country, the registered owner can have his/her license suspended for failure to pay a traffic ticket. I can't speak about other jurisdictions, but US lawmakers never miss an opportunity to extract money from someone, even if they didn't commit the parking offense.
I'm thinking maybe an alien infected the GPS satellite as revenge for Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith infecting the mother ship.
Or maybe it's running on Vista.
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No... that'd be if it happened over Washington, D.C.
Duh....of course, you're right. CA would be the second place.Well, if it happens over California, does that qualify as least populated by intelligent beings?
No you wouldn't if the alternative is staying in Canada and making say 25% of what you could make in the US. Besides, when you exit the US, it will be just like checking out at Walmart.
My comments will get better after the next three cups of coffee.
Naw, just like termites and bacteria, spammers would survive a nuking.
I, for one, care. I don't know of anyone who takes the approach you do speak of here, especially if they have kids in the schools, but schools often waste a lot of money due to lack of oversight. Things like facilities costs, too many teachers (union members) on staff and overpaid administration. Not every school district is like that, but there are too many that are. It's the kids who lose out when those things are in place.
Several years ago, a principal in an inner city high school here in Massachusetts requested and received notebook computers for the staff and that included the janitorial staff! What the hell does a janitor do with a notebook? There are often many zealots watching the budgets of local school districts, and many need that kind of oversight. But what kind of business are they trying to run the school like? In some cases that may be a good thing.
Bottom line is the ads for PCs is an idea, not a reality, and it will not fly if there's no interest. M$ is filed for patent protection, that's all so far.
That's because no one else would call them actors. And, if what they do is acting, then my wife must be the next Meryl Streep.
Of course you could make the presentation. Then be prepared to leave through the nearest windows, with your feet never hitting the ground.
Try to find out when these guys will be in your neighborhood and then stand in the window with your butt hanging out. Of course, if you have to work, maybe a life size blow-up will do. Just a thought, probably not worth anything.
Well, perhaps no one who graduated from college could recognize the character.....
Many /.ers and others are certain it's all the politicians that overreacted to the discovery of these items. But, on the day it occurred, the BPD only received one call about the item under the I93 bridge from a Transit authority employee. It was only after it hit the news (and the road closure) did the calls start to come in. Many people had seen them and thought they knew what they were. One call was from the manager of a Newbury Comics store where one of the mooninites had been placed. On the news video, she stated she knew what the thing was but decided to call the police anyway.
And, in today's news, the BPD has surveillance video of the two "performance artists" videotaping the bomb squad removing the bridge mounted mooninite. Perhaps they just wanted some fodder for YouTube, but their actions now cast a different light on their intentions. They'd better hope this can be plead out, because who knows what could happen in front of a jury
While many people now think of us here in Boston as a bunch of total lamers, the fact remains that this could have been completely avoided if Turner and their cowardly marketing company Interference, Inc, who are still hiding under their desks, had just informed the city and the BPD as to what they were doing. They would have needed permits but that's it. Bottom line is signage can't be hung without a permit in Boston or anywhere I know of and now Turner and Interference have learned that the hard way.
Is this the same thing that causes people to give out their SSN to total strangers online and on the phone?
As other have pointed out, rights not specifically granted to the Federal government in the US Constitution belong to the states. It's a nice concept, but it has been eroded over the decades. People on both ends of the political spectrum are not looking forward to having the Federal government have a database of drivers, because of the fear it would give the Feds far too much power. At the state level, not issuing licenses causes politicians to fear it would take revenue away from the states.
You are correct, there are already national databases, the most robust one being the Internal Revenue Service's database of taxpayers. In theory, anyone that works a job for pay must have a Social Security number, and any wages paid are reported to the IRS and state authorities who routinely share data.
While I'm not in favor of yet another huge Federal database, I haven't seen any workable solutions to tightening the security of personal identification documents. The driver's license is considered to be an authoritative document of identity and the inability to control who gets one makes security much harder to enforce.
This was the argument put forth in the sixties when there was a draft. The rationale made sense then but without the draft, young men make the decision to join themselves, not have it made for them.
Corporations are the customers that drive Microsoft to make the products that they do, because a few big business results in hundreds of thousands of licenses. Corporations are notoriously slow to change. Remember the old adage - no one ever got fired for buying IBM. They may have not been the best, but they were the biggest and most stable and that's what big corps like.
You couldn't be more on target if you shot it with a
I'm not down on education or earning advanced degrees, but several years ago, I remember reading about the explosion of MBAs. In the article, the author pointed out that less than 15% of CEOs in Fortune 500 companies had advanced degrees. I don't know if that still holds true today, but it proved to me that real world knowledge was far more important than a degree in a frame.
Back in the day, after a night of pounding down many beers, one of my hard-drinkin' roommates would take a dump which left the distinct aroma of "low tide". If that's what they're trying to capture, it's already been done by Budweiser.
Not sure what you're talking about...I've used grub quite easily and with a straighforward,normal set up on 200G and 300G drives.
What size were you using and how long ago what this? I've never had trouble with grub installing on the MBR on any box I've used it on in past 5-6 years or so....
I installed Debian via the "goodbye-microsoft" link about two weeks ago as a dual boot with an XP installation. Grub failed to boot to Debian with the message "error 18". After searching on error 18, what I found was the dual boot was the culprit. Several places mentioned that in a Linux-only install, it would be unlikely to see the error, but dual boot somehow caused the problem. It now boots from ntloader, not the best way but it works. And it's only a play machine anyway. I wasn't going to spend a lot of time trying to figure it out. Thanks for asking.
Unfortunately, it uses grub, which has a problem seeing the MBR on large discs. I tried it, and eventually got mine working, but a lot of noobs will not be so lucky and that won't help reduce the dependence on M$.
For laughs, I put AOL stickers on them and send them to my friends and former employers.
My name would be OJ and I would have made millions.
I'm thinking maybe an alien infected the GPS satellite as revenge for Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith infecting the mother ship. Or maybe it's running on Vista.
It's a pregnant lady on the beach, with a "For Rent" sign on her belly.