We've never managed to close the Mexican border to illegal entry - closing it to legal entry would be a pointless inconvenience to those who can currently legally cross it.
When you submit said form, it says you may enter 25 times per day. However, if you try to enter a second time it says you have tried to enter too many times in the same day.
Wikipedia has an entry on "heat death". It basically refers to the second law reaching the point that heat "dies", that is, everything gets down near absolute zero.
Actually, the (less strawman) classic argument from the second law of thermo is to apply the second law to the universe. Is the universe a closed system? If so, then second law implies eventual heat death. Therefore, we should select at least 1 choice of these options: 1. Universe is not a closed system (religious types would argue this to be true, with God as the external thing affecting it) 2. Universe is of finite age (creationist types tend to go this way, which physics eventually caught up with as big bang beat out steady state theory. When steady state theory was popular, then option 1 was argued as the reason for option 2). 3. The second law is not universally true, it is simply a localized phenomena.
That's the basic form of the second law argument as I encountered it in casual conversation with actual engineers and science folks back when I was in college.
I have one of those converter boxes. Hooking it up to the same cheap antenna I had used for analog broadcasts, the quality of reception is much much lower. Lots of digital artifacts, choppiness, etc. The digital degrades much less gracefully than the analog broadcasts. I live in a decent-sized city, and we're talking local stations not broadcasting from particularly far away. So for the average consumer, particularly the type who were not willing/able to pay for cable or satellite before, the switchover is a Bad Thing, even if they get the free converters.
Now, to respond in advance to those who will tell me to go buy a better antenna to partially fix the problem- sure, I could do that. Of course, that means that the conversion causes yet another consumer expense, another reason the conversion is bad for the average person.
In my particular case, I very rarely bother to watch TV, except for local weather and occasional local news. My computer is already the better way to be entertained. So I don't have a big stake in whether my TV works. But there are plenty out there who are likely to be pissed when they discover how badly their The Price Is Right comes in now.
While the deal had merit for Google on its own merits, giving Yahoo an alternative to MS was an excellent move.
Funny thing here is that its MS buying Yahoo that as a regulator I'd be more inclined to block, given MS's history (and convictions) for poor behavior, but given MS's pull in the current govt I expect instead MS will get Yahoo cheap after pretending they don't want them any more for a while.
And then MS will screw up the useful parts of Yahoo and wind up without a benefit.
I play LOTRO and Eve. LOTRO is a bit more than WoW in Middle-Earth- I got bored in WoW & Guild Wars a lot faster- but then I have a good kinship, which is key to any game of that type and didn't hook up with as good a bunch in WoW. Still, I like the quests, deeds, crafting, etc better in LOTRO than WoW but I can see how WoW would appeal to some. Both WoW and LOTRO are primarily PVE games with uninteresting PVP, but the PVE is well flavored. I haven't picked up Moria yet, but I hear very good things from my kinship about it; the legendary weapons (weapons that can level) seem to be a hit. LOTRO is what I play if I want to just relax with no consequences to screwing up.
Eve is a totally different monster. Excellent in-game economy. High stakes PVP. Everything important is player driven. The PVE is not particularly developed. The game is very much what you make of it- and the reason it is a niche game is that these characteristics appeal to some and make others feel like they are doing something too much work to be a game- or they reduce their risk by finding a boring corner of the game and get bored there. If you make bad decisions you can lose a lot of stuff- that's the double-edged sword that gives PVP adrenaline and pain.
AoC buzz was like it was gonna be a PVP game. Instead, they didn't really finish it enough for me to tell what it could have been- at least based on the bit of time I tried it before going back to LOTRO and Eve.
I'm not even in a battleground state, and amoung the many messages on my answering machine were two offers of breakfast tacos from & one invite to a bar from the Democrats. Last night I got the a robocall at 10pm after getting back from a trip and going to sleep early- if I hadn't voted early, I probably would have let the call go long enough to figure out who they wanted me to vote for and made sure to vote the opposite.
If we get another Carter we'll be lucky based on what we've seen of his choices in advisers so far. Of course we've also seen he's willing to throw them under the bus when they embarrass him. Perhaps by sheer process of elimination he'll have a competent cabinet by the time he leaves office, but I wouldn't bet on it.
is what I read the first time, and it made much more sense.
I know people who will actually be holding election results watching parties. I can't think of much more painful that you could pay someone to do without violating OSHA..
Both of the major party candidates have the problem that they view the problems of the economy as something that can be fixed by spending money they don't have. The more the government intervenes, the worse for the economy in the long term. Both candidates supported the bailout boondoggle. McCain's main virtue as a candidate is that he's a different party than the one that will control congress, so that he's less likely to actually spend his money- but that didn't stop the Democrats & Bush from getting together to ram the bailout plan down our throats so it only goes so far. Obama's main virtue is that maybe if we get a few years of unified government it will be so clear to everybody that his fiscal policies suck that we'll get an actual fiscal conservative (whether it be Republican, Libertarian, or other) electing in four years. It was putting forward a fiscal "moderate" like Bush instead of someone who actually cared about spending and then presenting him as conservative that helped us reach the insane spending we have today- we haven't had a good choice on fiscal matters in a long time. Sane fiscal policy isn't cutting taxes and raising spending, it's cutting spending to the point that things are at least balanced, then trading off more cuts with the economic benefits of paying down the debt or cutting taxes.
but anyone who used it before is still able to use it despite the patent. That's why trade secrets are often well documented internally - to protect the use against someone patenting it later.
Cert authorities are notorious for poor checking. The main thing they check is that they are getting paid. There are things certificates are good for- knowing for sure the first time you see one for a site that they are who they claim they are without further checking is not one of them.
The solution is then obvious. Gather cell numbers of company-issued cellphones of corporations with effective lobbyists (particularly the persons decision-making capacities), lobbyists, congress-critters, and staffs of the same. Then everyone concerned with incoming SMS rules can SMS everyone on the list with your concerns on the lack of laws to prevent the situation, and remind them that once such a law is past, you won't be able to continue reminding them about the issue. Several messages may be necessary, since each individual message has such little information content.
Icelandic sheep are smarter than the average sheep. My parents farm had Icelandic sheep, and some of them were quite cooperative about shearing. They would come right up and stay still to get the hot wool off as quickly as possible.
Of course, Icelandics need to be shorn twice a year, so they get twice as many opportunities to figure things out than normal sheep.
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We've never managed to close the Mexican border to illegal entry - closing it to legal entry would be a pointless inconvenience to those who can currently legally cross it.
If they are just reading kdawson stories like this one, they are justified to classify it a blog.
When you submit said form, it says you may enter 25 times per day. However, if you try to enter a second time it says you have tried to enter too many times in the same day.
Wikipedia has an entry on "heat death". It basically refers to the second law reaching the point that heat "dies", that is, everything gets down near absolute zero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
Actually, the (less strawman) classic argument from the second law of thermo is to apply the second law to the universe. Is the universe a closed system? If so, then second law implies eventual heat death. Therefore, we should select at least 1 choice of these options:
1. Universe is not a closed system (religious types would argue this to be true, with God as the external thing affecting it)
2. Universe is of finite age (creationist types tend to go this way, which physics eventually caught up with as big bang beat out steady state theory. When steady state theory was popular, then option 1 was argued as the reason for option 2).
3. The second law is not universally true, it is simply a localized phenomena.
That's the basic form of the second law argument as I encountered it in casual conversation with actual engineers and science folks back when I was in college.
Well, it was modded "Interesting". On Slashdot that usually means "Wow, you're sure smoking something interesting! Can I try some?"
I have one of those converter boxes. Hooking it up to the same cheap antenna I had used for analog broadcasts, the quality of reception is much much lower. Lots of digital artifacts, choppiness, etc. The digital degrades much less gracefully than the analog broadcasts. I live in a decent-sized city, and we're talking local stations not broadcasting from particularly far away. So for the average consumer, particularly the type who were not willing/able to pay for cable or satellite before, the switchover is a Bad Thing, even if they get the free converters.
Now, to respond in advance to those who will tell me to go buy a better antenna to partially fix the problem- sure, I could do that. Of course, that means that the conversion causes yet another consumer expense, another reason the conversion is bad for the average person.
In my particular case, I very rarely bother to watch TV, except for local weather and occasional local news. My computer is already the better way to be entertained. So I don't have a big stake in whether my TV works. But there are plenty out there who are likely to be pissed when they discover how badly their The Price Is Right comes in now.
The universe really DOES revolve around the earth in the movie universe, so no special measures are necessary beyond "simply" moving in time.
While the deal had merit for Google on its own merits, giving Yahoo an alternative to MS was an excellent move.
Funny thing here is that its MS buying Yahoo that as a regulator I'd be more inclined to block, given MS's history (and convictions) for poor behavior, but given MS's pull in the current govt I expect instead MS will get Yahoo cheap after pretending they don't want them any more for a while.
And then MS will screw up the useful parts of Yahoo and wind up without a benefit.
I play LOTRO and Eve. LOTRO is a bit more than WoW in Middle-Earth- I got bored in WoW & Guild Wars a lot faster- but then I have a good kinship, which is key to any game of that type and didn't hook up with as good a bunch in WoW. Still, I like the quests, deeds, crafting, etc better in LOTRO than WoW but I can see how WoW would appeal to some. Both WoW and LOTRO are primarily PVE games with uninteresting PVP, but the PVE is well flavored. I haven't picked up Moria yet, but I hear very good things from my kinship about it; the legendary weapons (weapons that can level) seem to be a hit. LOTRO is what I play if I want to just relax with no consequences to screwing up.
Eve is a totally different monster. Excellent in-game economy. High stakes PVP. Everything important is player driven. The PVE is not particularly developed. The game is very much what you make of it- and the reason it is a niche game is that these characteristics appeal to some and make others feel like they are doing something too much work to be a game- or they reduce their risk by finding a boring corner of the game and get bored there. If you make bad decisions you can lose a lot of stuff- that's the double-edged sword that gives PVP adrenaline and pain.
AoC buzz was like it was gonna be a PVP game. Instead, they didn't really finish it enough for me to tell what it could have been- at least based on the bit of time I tried it before going back to LOTRO and Eve.
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I'm not even in a battleground state, and amoung the many messages on my answering machine were two offers of breakfast tacos from & one invite to a bar from the Democrats. Last night I got the a robocall at 10pm after getting back from a trip and going to sleep early- if I hadn't voted early, I probably would have let the call go long enough to figure out who they wanted me to vote for and made sure to vote the opposite.
If we get another Carter we'll be lucky based on what we've seen of his choices in advisers so far. Of course we've also seen he's willing to throw them under the bus when they embarrass him. Perhaps by sheer process of elimination he'll have a competent cabinet by the time he leaves office, but I wouldn't bet on it.
is what I read the first time, and it made much more sense.
I know people who will actually be holding election results watching parties. I can't think of much more painful that you could pay someone to do without violating OSHA..
Both of the major party candidates have the problem that they view the problems of the economy as something that can be fixed by spending money they don't have. The more the government intervenes, the worse for the economy in the long term. Both candidates supported the bailout boondoggle. McCain's main virtue as a candidate is that he's a different party than the one that will control congress, so that he's less likely to actually spend his money- but that didn't stop the Democrats & Bush from getting together to ram the bailout plan down our throats so it only goes so far. Obama's main virtue is that maybe if we get a few years of unified government it will be so clear to everybody that his fiscal policies suck that we'll get an actual fiscal conservative (whether it be Republican, Libertarian, or other) electing in four years. It was putting forward a fiscal "moderate" like Bush instead of someone who actually cared about spending and then presenting him as conservative that helped us reach the insane spending we have today- we haven't had a good choice on fiscal matters in a long time. Sane fiscal policy isn't cutting taxes and raising spending, it's cutting spending to the point that things are at least balanced, then trading off more cuts with the economic benefits of paying down the debt or cutting taxes.
And if you were a fan of that musician searching for stories about him, what different tag would you try?
We haven't had any money in quite a while. We've just had this paper stuff.
We'd be a lot better off if the lowest amount won- we got the govt we have from the highest amount approach.
but anyone who used it before is still able to use it despite the patent. That's why trade secrets are often well documented internally - to protect the use against someone patenting it later.
Maybe it's not the junk food in the plastic, but the plastic in the junk food!
Cert authorities are notorious for poor checking. The main thing they check is that they are getting paid. There are things certificates are good for- knowing for sure the first time you see one for a site that they are who they claim they are without further checking is not one of them.
Don't worry. I read the review for you. The summary is "Don't read the book".
The solution is then obvious. Gather cell numbers of company-issued cellphones of corporations with effective lobbyists (particularly the persons decision-making capacities), lobbyists, congress-critters, and staffs of the same. Then everyone concerned with incoming SMS rules can SMS everyone on the list with your concerns on the lack of laws to prevent the situation, and remind them that once such a law is past, you won't be able to continue reminding them about the issue. Several messages may be necessary, since each individual message has such little information content.
Icelandic sheep are smarter than the average sheep. My parents farm had Icelandic sheep, and some of them were quite cooperative about shearing. They would come right up and stay still to get the hot wool off as quickly as possible.
Of course, Icelandics need to be shorn twice a year, so they get twice as many opportunities to figure things out than normal sheep.
select a few of our favorite people as crew for that mission?