You might want to lay off the stuff, I think you've had enough. Hemp is banned in the US because it's easy to conceal pot plants next to them, there is no law against importing the stuff, and AFAIK, never was, which really leads me to question the DuPont conspiracy angle.
You can legally get a prescription for THC in the US, the trade name is Marinol and assuming that the doctor is willing to go along with it, you can get it without any trouble. Which sort of discards the view that it's about big pharma.
At the end of the day, couldn't this really be just a matter of politicians viewing pot as being dangerous? Legitimate or not.
I hear tell that you can now make phone calls, not by twisting a dial or turning a crank, but by pushing buttons, and sometimes you can even have the phone dial the previous number again!
It doesn't make any less sense than selling ebooks in the first place. I'm sure that if you know where to look, you can find all sorts of ebooks available for pirating.
Not to mention that companies like O'reilly don't seem to be having any trouble making money with their DRM free ebooks.
I actually am pretty serious. I do not see how one can expect to fund a production per copy when cloning such a production is a virtually free operation. The funding needs to be done beforehand. I would totally chip in a few hundreds bucks a year to fund arts I like.
That there is the problem. A lot of what's turned out to be incredibly influential work wasn't liked at that time, much of it was outright banned for being offensive to portions of the population.
Not to mention that in many cases you don't know what a work is going to look like until after it's finished.
This is why charity based welfare and assistance programs don't work very well. If you're a battered wife, you're far, far more likely to get help from charitable organizations than if you're a man in a similar situation, because it's not popular. Same goes for other programs as well, if it's a popular cause it can work, but there's a lot that needs doing that isn't glamorous or popular, but the need is just as significant and real.
Which is why the whole last 4 digits thing is so completely stupid. Those are the only 4 digits in the number which have any degree of randomness applied to them. The rest of it can be figured out with a bit of knowledge about the age and location of birth of the person. There's this view people have that giving up the last four digits is somehow preferable from a security point of view to giving up the whole string, but it's really analogous to giving somebody that ammunition and pistol, but making them get their own trigger for the pistol.
Google seems to be pretty vague on things like that. I'm still wondering when they're going to see fit to release Gingerbread for use on the Nexus One. Given that the Nexus phones are essentially theirs to control, I'm not sure why it's taking so long.
Additionally, depending upon the implementation you can also cope with situations where one might fool the keyboard into thinking your still there, when what really happened was the nurse got knocked out or you were in the vicinity as she left. Of course wireless tokens aren't perfect either, but at least they take some savvy and equipment to duplicate.
There are solutions to that kind of problem. Basically you can have a wireless token. I've seen them advertised before where they automatically log you out as soon as the token gets out of range. It's not perfect, but fine for situations where you absolutely need to be logged out.
When I did my jury duty a couple years back, they didn't ask anything about social networking sites in particular, they did ask if there were any reasons or connections that might lead me to be partial. And they asked in several different ways about things which might reasonably related.
To a point, you're correct, but if we'd started getting serious about alternatives in the 70s when it became really obvious what we were screwing with, we wouldn't be drilling in such risky areas.
What you're failing to grasp is that this particular position isn't handled the way that literally every other issue is handled here. We're an absentee ballot state for 100% of the other issues, but in this case you have to go to one specific voting location on a particular day, and neither the day nor the election are advertised.
I'm pretty politically engaged myself, but I was voting for a decade before I'd even heard of that particular election.
When the average turn out for an election is less than 1% of the eligible voters, turn out becomes very important. Also, if the election were handled the way that typical elections were and mailed out to registered voters, I'd tend to agree with you. But in this case it's a sort of secret handshake deal because the state doesn't handle the election.
This isn't about laziness, this particular position isn't included on the normal ballot because it's paid for by the conservation district itself rather than the state. Consequently there's typically only 1 polling place which is tucked away in a downtown library and doesn't have any signs as to where to vote.
Plus it's voted for on a non-election day and I'd been voting for over a decade before I'd even heard about it.
You obviously don't know anything about the issue. The problem is that the King Conservation District is in a sort of legal loophole. It has to be funded by the conservation district rather than the state, and isn't ever on the normal ballots that are sent out. Consequently, there's only one polling place for the issue and it's hidden in a back corner of a library.
Consequently, it's the only office I haven't had the chance to vote for since I gained the right well over a decade ago. This isn't about us being progressive or trying to get more voters per se, it's about the thoroughly undemocratic way in which the positions have been filled. In a county with a million or so eligible voters, the elections tend to draw only a few thousand voters in a typical election cycle.
Well, that's the thing, with cloud computing you generally don't have to waste the resources on a server that's up all the time and enough to cover the full load, depending upon the service or set up it's definitely possible to set yourself up to have additional capacity come online as needed, and for the most part those other servers are pretty much identical.
People who don't know any better. On Windows systems sometimes the system gets so that there's a bit of corrupted memory that prevents a program from running correctly if the computer isn't completely shut off and let to sit for a few seconds before being turned back on. I was personally skeptical until I saw that work for myself. I still don't really understand why that's the case, but IIRC it had to do with some errors you could run into with Autocad.
I'm not familiar with Unix itself enough to comment, but with both Linux and *BSD you're able to start and restart services without a reboot and the architecture is such that you're much less likely to end up in a situation where you can't perform whatever action you need to in order to clear the error manually. I'm not sure how I would even go about looking up how to do a lot of that with a Windows box.
Perhaps, this is an indication that animals shouldn't be given X-rays. I know it's going to drive the PETA people nuts, but the bottom line is that animals < humans.
I think a bigger point to this than that is that as the cost of UAVs comes down and the practicality of running them off solar power increases, that these would allow for significantly improved searches for people that are lost at sea. In much of the world, the reality is that this is probably going to be more useful for recovering bodies than for picking up people that are still kicking, but there will be exceptions. A person just does not last very long in 40 degree water.
I'd be surprised if in the next 20 years it doesn't become common for a cruise ship to have one or two of these just in case.
It debut on Fox, right? I'm surprised that anybody is willing to trust them with their show ideas, given the number of them they've killed prematurely with their incompetence. They killed Family Guy what, like 3 times so far? And failing to give Futurama a consistent slot, I mean what the fuck? Is it really so strange to give viewers the chance to get used to watching a show at the same time long enough to get hooked?
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You might want to lay off the stuff, I think you've had enough. Hemp is banned in the US because it's easy to conceal pot plants next to them, there is no law against importing the stuff, and AFAIK, never was, which really leads me to question the DuPont conspiracy angle.
You can legally get a prescription for THC in the US, the trade name is Marinol and assuming that the doctor is willing to go along with it, you can get it without any trouble. Which sort of discards the view that it's about big pharma.
At the end of the day, couldn't this really be just a matter of politicians viewing pot as being dangerous? Legitimate or not.
I hear tell that you can now make phone calls, not by twisting a dial or turning a crank, but by pushing buttons, and sometimes you can even have the phone dial the previous number again!
It doesn't make any less sense than selling ebooks in the first place. I'm sure that if you know where to look, you can find all sorts of ebooks available for pirating.
Not to mention that companies like O'reilly don't seem to be having any trouble making money with their DRM free ebooks.
As we used to fund art before with Patronage ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage ).
I actually am pretty serious. I do not see how one can expect to fund a production per copy when cloning such a production is a virtually free operation. The funding needs to be done beforehand. I would totally chip in a few hundreds bucks a year to fund arts I like.
That there is the problem. A lot of what's turned out to be incredibly influential work wasn't liked at that time, much of it was outright banned for being offensive to portions of the population.
Not to mention that in many cases you don't know what a work is going to look like until after it's finished.
This is why charity based welfare and assistance programs don't work very well. If you're a battered wife, you're far, far more likely to get help from charitable organizations than if you're a man in a similar situation, because it's not popular. Same goes for other programs as well, if it's a popular cause it can work, but there's a lot that needs doing that isn't glamorous or popular, but the need is just as significant and real.
Which is why the whole last 4 digits thing is so completely stupid. Those are the only 4 digits in the number which have any degree of randomness applied to them. The rest of it can be figured out with a bit of knowledge about the age and location of birth of the person. There's this view people have that giving up the last four digits is somehow preferable from a security point of view to giving up the whole string, but it's really analogous to giving somebody that ammunition and pistol, but making them get their own trigger for the pistol.
Google seems to be pretty vague on things like that. I'm still wondering when they're going to see fit to release Gingerbread for use on the Nexus One. Given that the Nexus phones are essentially theirs to control, I'm not sure why it's taking so long.
That never fails to surprise me, even though there are keyboards out there that are designed to take a bath or a quick rub down well.
Additionally, depending upon the implementation you can also cope with situations where one might fool the keyboard into thinking your still there, when what really happened was the nurse got knocked out or you were in the vicinity as she left. Of course wireless tokens aren't perfect either, but at least they take some savvy and equipment to duplicate.
There are solutions to that kind of problem. Basically you can have a wireless token. I've seen them advertised before where they automatically log you out as soon as the token gets out of range. It's not perfect, but fine for situations where you absolutely need to be logged out.
When I did my jury duty a couple years back, they didn't ask anything about social networking sites in particular, they did ask if there were any reasons or connections that might lead me to be partial. And they asked in several different ways about things which might reasonably related.
This seems to be unnecessary though.
I've seen it, it's hidden right behind the stacks of gay porn, er "research materials."
To a point, you're correct, but if we'd started getting serious about alternatives in the 70s when it became really obvious what we were screwing with, we wouldn't be drilling in such risky areas.
What you're failing to grasp is that this particular position isn't handled the way that literally every other issue is handled here. We're an absentee ballot state for 100% of the other issues, but in this case you have to go to one specific voting location on a particular day, and neither the day nor the election are advertised.
I'm pretty politically engaged myself, but I was voting for a decade before I'd even heard of that particular election.
When the average turn out for an election is less than 1% of the eligible voters, turn out becomes very important. Also, if the election were handled the way that typical elections were and mailed out to registered voters, I'd tend to agree with you. But in this case it's a sort of secret handshake deal because the state doesn't handle the election.
This isn't about laziness, this particular position isn't included on the normal ballot because it's paid for by the conservation district itself rather than the state. Consequently there's typically only 1 polling place which is tucked away in a downtown library and doesn't have any signs as to where to vote.
Plus it's voted for on a non-election day and I'd been voting for over a decade before I'd even heard about it.
You obviously don't know anything about the issue. The problem is that the King Conservation District is in a sort of legal loophole. It has to be funded by the conservation district rather than the state, and isn't ever on the normal ballots that are sent out. Consequently, there's only one polling place for the issue and it's hidden in a back corner of a library.
Consequently, it's the only office I haven't had the chance to vote for since I gained the right well over a decade ago. This isn't about us being progressive or trying to get more voters per se, it's about the thoroughly undemocratic way in which the positions have been filled. In a county with a million or so eligible voters, the elections tend to draw only a few thousand voters in a typical election cycle.
But, how realistic was their modelling of that Wooshing sound?
Well, that's the thing, with cloud computing you generally don't have to waste the resources on a server that's up all the time and enough to cover the full load, depending upon the service or set up it's definitely possible to set yourself up to have additional capacity come online as needed, and for the most part those other servers are pretty much identical.
People who don't know any better. On Windows systems sometimes the system gets so that there's a bit of corrupted memory that prevents a program from running correctly if the computer isn't completely shut off and let to sit for a few seconds before being turned back on. I was personally skeptical until I saw that work for myself. I still don't really understand why that's the case, but IIRC it had to do with some errors you could run into with Autocad.
I'm not familiar with Unix itself enough to comment, but with both Linux and *BSD you're able to start and restart services without a reboot and the architecture is such that you're much less likely to end up in a situation where you can't perform whatever action you need to in order to clear the error manually. I'm not sure how I would even go about looking up how to do a lot of that with a Windows box.
Perhaps, this is an indication that animals shouldn't be given X-rays. I know it's going to drive the PETA people nuts, but the bottom line is that animals < humans.
I think a bigger point to this than that is that as the cost of UAVs comes down and the practicality of running them off solar power increases, that these would allow for significantly improved searches for people that are lost at sea. In much of the world, the reality is that this is probably going to be more useful for recovering bodies than for picking up people that are still kicking, but there will be exceptions. A person just does not last very long in 40 degree water.
I'd be surprised if in the next 20 years it doesn't become common for a cruise ship to have one or two of these just in case.
Or at least be smart enough to not blab about it on a medium that records what you're saying.
It debut on Fox, right? I'm surprised that anybody is willing to trust them with their show ideas, given the number of them they've killed prematurely with their incompetence. They killed Family Guy what, like 3 times so far? And failing to give Futurama a consistent slot, I mean what the fuck? Is it really so strange to give viewers the chance to get used to watching a show at the same time long enough to get hooked?
Eh, just throw them through some sort of space/time anomaly, I'm sure that will fix the plot holes necessary to make it worik.
The one where they killed off all the main characters, don't you keep up with things?