And for those of you wondering why several of us are going on and on about decades-old keyboards from IBM, you owe it to yourself to at least try one of these and see what you think. Yes, they are noisier than those squishy membrane ones, but the feedback from them is amazing and you get to the point of blazing over them and often catching many typos by sound alone...
All you have to remember is the one password for the archive, then everything inside is a double click to spawn a browser or PuTTY window, and a double click to copy the password to clipboard. Even wipes the clipboard after 10 seconds. Ctrl-H shows or hides the password if you need to see it.. I tend to leave mine as asterisks all the time.. Also has a password generator with good configurability and a "quality" checker that rates how hard a password is to crack. You can even configure it to launch apps a la command line for other types of programs beyond web/ssh ones.
It's an awesome and free app. I use it religiously at the office for the 30+ systems I have accounts on.
If you haven't tried it, check it out.
I'll also use this opportunity to remind folks that they simplify the problem in the first place by using an algorithm for their passwords. Like: [favorite number] + [first letter of site/host] + [last letter of site/host] So an example for an account on amazon.com might be like: "64438an"
(those plusses are concatenates/appends)
Pros: 1) You never have to "remember" a single password. Just remember your magic number and you can always derive the password at any point later. 2) passwords are unique per site. if someone finds out one, it's not used anywhere else (execpt clearly for sites that have the same first and last letters, which is pretty rare) 3) passwords appear random at casual glance. 4) At periodic cycles (depending on your level of paranoia) change the magic number across all your sites. Worse case scenario is a seldom visited site that you have to try maybe the previous number or the one prior to it... usually not hard to do if the numbers have any significance for you.
Cons: Not an option where the passwords are assigned for you.
My example above is very simple. You can easily spice up the algorithm to include caps, punctuation, interspersing the letters and numbers, using subsequent letters (like amazon = "an" -> "bo" from above), etc. But once you pick the system, just apply it everywhere and you essentially never have to remember an actual password ever again. It's worked for me for nearly a decade now and the only time I've had any problems is when the site itself changed names and I had to recall the old name... a pretty uncommon occurance.
Myself, I can't live without that clicky feel, so I've got one of the Avant Primes at work (from CVT) and an old Model M at home... My quest now is for a split/ergo buckling spring model. I've only found 2 so far: the uber-rare IBM M15 and the overpriced Northgate Evolution. If anyone knows of others, please point me toward them. Thanks!
I liked to tell my students (when I was working in a high school) that there used to be a page called "What is new on the Internet" that would list all new pages to go up.
Sounds like you mean Scott Yanoff's "Special Internet Connections" list. It was a staple back then for newcomers to the net. Here's a snapshot of it from around then: http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/~nholtz/Yanoff.html
There were a few other places that documented new sites, but I don't recall any that kept a cumulative list like Yanoff's list.
<oldfogey>I was part of NCSA's public best test program for Mosaic prior to Netscape hitting the market. I remember the day I finally had to reluctantly switch over to Netscape when about 1/3 of the sites I visited no longer rendered under Mosaic. The scary part is that I have maintained the same original bookmark file from that time and still use it today in Mozilla. (it's grown to about 287k these days)</oldfogey>
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I registered my Hotmail account around or before Jan 2000 and it's still sitting at 2MB (and about 99% full as I juggle every email that comes in while waiting for the stupid upgrade)
No, the California quake was action along the San Andreas fault line, occuring about 4.9 miles deep. The current seismicity at Mount St. Helens is very shallow, approximately 1/2 to 1 mile deep, and is confined almost directly to the cone itself, indicating it is probably triggered by local gas or magma action, not by any deeper seismic causes.
The California earthquake was actually measureable throughout the entire Cascade chain, and I did some computations of the event propagation for the heck of it:
Epicenter: 10:15:24 PDT San Fran: 10:16:05 (41 sec delay) LAS station (CA/OR border): 10:17:00 (96 sec delay) Three Sisters (OR mountain): 10:17:40 (136 sec delay) Mount Hood (OR/WA border): 10:17:45 (141 sec delay) Mount St. Helens: Too much local action to detect Mount Rainier (SE of Seattle): 10:18:20 (176 sec delay) Stiped Peak (Olympic Pen.): 10:18:32 (188 sec delay) Rockport, WA (30 mi from Canada): 10:18:40 (196 sec delay)
So, picking two points as the earthquake epicenter and Mount Rainer based on being the ones I found very accurate Lat/Lon coordinates for, the shockwave traveled 740 miles in 176 seconds for an overall speed around 15136 MPH (approx Mach 20, depending on altitude)
The detected signals definitely diminished the further north you traveled, but were still clearly identifiable even up to the Canadian border. But those signals were orders of magnitude less than Mt. St. Helens is generating on its own right now.
I'm no geologist, but I live 38.4 miles from Mount St. Helens so I've recently taken up a keen interest in current events there.;)
If you're talking about a jay-walker, the pedestrian joins the roadkill ranks. But if they hit a crosswalk button, I'd assume the system would just make a reservation for the pedestrian and everything else queues up like normal. Seems pretty trivial to me, IMHBIO (In My Humble, But Ignorant, Opinion).
First was when a lightning strike hit the building next to mine. Mondo amperage came in through the modem line frying both the modem and motherboard. The modem actually had a wire trace that peeled up off the pcb about 1 cm.
Second was a few years later. I was working on my home machine after having a couple of beers. I bumped the desk accidently and the rather large (22 oz) but empty bottle on the top of the hutch slowly wobbled and tipped over, did one very pretty twirl in slow motion, and bounced off the top of the computer case. The harddrive immediately began to emit an awful whining noise and the machine refused to reboot after this, courtesy of a classical head crash.
So that was my personal realization about the hazards of drinking around computers.
First of all, I'd assert that fffice policies are just as important as office layout. If I'm told I can redecorate, then I'd almost rather do that than trading generic beige for something that some stranger decided is "artistic".
Here are ideas to consider: No fluorescent lights. Try to provide full-spectrum sources where possible, and give people the ability to control how much light they work with. I have a big black insert in my window to keep glare off my screen and usually keep my overhead off too. Programmers and creative types are usually the most sensitive to this.
We have a couple people that are seldom in the office. We actually give them larger offices with a spare table and use them as mini-conference rooms while they're gone. And since they're seldom in, they usually have clean desks. (This assumes you have square footage to spare like that.)
If anyone in the office commutes by bicycle, a shower is a great thing to have. Appreciated by them *and* their coworkers. >:0
If you have a snack area, you'll probably have a microwave. Consider also having a toaster oven, or better yet a full size stove/oven. This makes it easier to fix whatever you're in the mood for. And I'm more likely to hang around the office if I can have what I'm in the mood for. (Microwaved bagels are right out, for instance). Ditto for an icemaker.
Have enough printers. Having to walk from one end of an office to another just to print a short doc is annoying. Make sure the printing facilities are split up and placed strategically around the office.
If you have creative types as mentioned, at least one conference room should be wall to wall with whiteboards (or smarter equivalents if you have the budget). I like to have two in my office alone.
Make sure there is good (and adjustable) air conditioning and heating. It's very hard to productive when you're too hot or cold.
At my current company we have an M&M jar on the front desk that gets emptied and replenished every couple of days. Nice for those times when you've got a munchie attack but don't have time before your next meeting to go get something. Doesn't have to be M&Ms, but just something along those lines.
[Apologies for actually responding to an AC, but felt there were some points to clarify and I'm at work on a Saturday so might as well...]
Well, if "giving them TWO guns" is how you interpret someone breaking into a locked house and someone else later into a locked van (that we had even paid someone to watch), then that's your prerogative.
Another thing you're completely overlooking is that the right to bear arms is only extended in the United States. In other countries we have to adhere to their national laws regarding weapons.
My father (to whom the pistols in question belonged) was an officer in the US military providing technical training about tracking inventory and supply logistics to the FAC (the Colombian Air Force). He was there at their request to help them computerize their operations. The pistols were issued either by the Embassy or the US military (I no longer recall) for self-protection in the clearly risky areas of Colombia. Colombia has no US bases, so we were living right in Bogota along with the 5 million or so other citizens. As I already pointed out, their own military leaders had even more blatantly armed guards (with a pair of M16 assault rifles on display at the house next to us). So why a pistol locked in our house elevates us to the level of "damn fool Americans", I guess I'm failing to see.
And how you draw the connection that an event 23 years ago in Colombia has anything to do with an extremist Islamic group from Afghanistan I can't even grasp at all, so I'll just assume the posting was some just used as some opportunity to vent frustration about the current administration or something...
Argentina and Chile are pretty benign. It's a little nastier in the Central american area, Colombia probably being the worst, with Guatemala and Nicaragua behind.
When I was younger (77-82) I lived in Panama, then Colombia. Panama had the Canal Zone back then and that was completely safe. Bogota on the other hand was not. Within one month of living there, our house was burglarized (while we were out for lunch) and had thousands of dollars of jewelry, cameras, and electronics taken. Oh, and a loaded 9mm.
After that the embassy posted a 24hr armed guard on my doorstep. For every day of the next two years I had some guy in a uniform with a.38 revolver sitting outside my front door and walking me across the street to the schoolbus. The general next door to us had *two* guards with machine guns.
About 6 months later (and a few hundred miles away) we had our van broken into and more stuff taken including *another* pistol.
Most of the vehicles that the Embassy used or loaned out there had bullet-proof inserts behind the windows. Most of the moderate to high ranked Colombian officials had similar vehicles as well.
I'd still like to go back and visit again someday, but would feel rather leery staying more than say a week or so. Iraq may be worse for more personal attacks, but Central America is still pretty high risk in several of the countries. But there are many that are probably fairly safe.. I just haven't kept track of which lately. For the latest, you should check out the travel warnings put out by the US Department of State...
I wanted to have something similar, but one of my prioirities was global accessibility. I tried notebooks, daytimers, postits, etc, but invariably it would always be at home when I was at work, or vice versa, or left behind when I travel.
So my first step was an online note tool called NoteToSelf that I use to keep all those interesting articles, recommendations for movies, homework assignments, job descriptions, consumer ratings, etc. I wrote it in PHP and love it. It's pretty primative as I haven't put any extra work into it since I got it functional. But it's great for me and I use it throughout the day.
My next step is the to-do list. As an interim, I just use a note in NoteToSelf to keep the tasks, but really want something with priorities and reminders. So I've looked at various ones, and I think I'm going to integrate Horde'sKronolith for calendaring and Nag for task lists. They're all PHP and MySQL so I can integrate or tweak as much as I feel like.. With those 3 things I think I have most of my "PIM" needs met and accessible from any internet-connected device around. I've been mulling over a PDA, but only to act as an offline copy of those 3 apps, and not for their own native PDA apps.
I-405 runs from W.Portland to 205 in E. Portland. Most people call it The Banfield.
Really? I'm pretty sure that I-405 is just the C-shaped loop that runs along the west side of downtown Portland. It's only a few miles long and so people just call it 405.
The highway from I-5 (just across the Willamette from downtown) to 205 in E. Portland is really I-84, and that stretch of it is often called "the Banfield". I-84 continues from there to eastern Oregon/Idaho as you mention.
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If you want to have your [Christian] cake and eat it too, there's actually a "version" of D&D called Dragonraid that is rewritten based on biblical scripture. When I went through my religious phase in high school I briefly got into it, but I had too much trouble finding other Christians that were into role-playing games so I gave it up. Frankly I'm surprised it's still around (since it was circa 1985/86 that I last played it)
I'm now a very happy 3.5E player with a session planned for this weekend:)
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Yeah, we have a liberal set of houserules designed to overcome anything we don't like. For flanking, we decided on these.
I've also concocted very entertaining critical and fumbles rules for melee, missile, and spell scenarios. Far more fun than "Oh, you get double damage" or "the spell just fizzles" over and over.
Another photographer has put together a whole book that looks very much like her site... I've flipped through it.. hundreds of ghostly images.. Here's a link to it from Amazon: Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
Given their monstrous system requirements:
* P4 2.0GHz; P4 2.8GHz recommended (or Athlon equivalent).
* 512MB RAM; 1GB recommended.
* 64MB DX 9.0 Video Card (GeForce 3/4 Ti; ATI 8500+); 128 MB GeForce FX or Radeon 9600+ recommended.
* 16bit Sound Card; 24bit recommended.
* 8 GB free disk space; 7200+ RPM recommended.
* Connection to the Internet; 33 Kbps modem minimum; broadband recommended.
...maybe they should find a way to send datasets to the client machines and let them do their own manipulations.. Needing 8 Gig of disk on a 2+ GHz machine has to imply that the server doesn't handle all the real-time work... They are prime candidates for middleware that does some distributed computing and let all the customers' beast machines do the grunt work...
I'm no fanboy of the series, but I did see one of the documentaries that said that Jackson had something like 9 different film crews shooting scenes at the same time, around 15000 extras, and 3 separate movies being filmed concurrently... If doing that for over 3 years straight and coming up with the eye candy and enthralling films that make the LOTR doesn't earn the right to "Best Director", then I guess I'm not clear on what does...
I don't see where Lucas even enters in that line of thinking.
You didn't read the story below the picture. He's not the bearded guy "positioned inches away from her". He's several rows behind her... so your "sitting in his lap" comment is incorrect. Kerry was just sitting in the same crowd as her...
Nope, you're absolutely right in what you're doing. The problem is that there simply aren't enough people doing it to make the MPAA sit up and take notice. People are selfish. The average person isn't going to get involved and deprive themselves of pleasure just to help "society" if they derrive no immediate return from it.
The sad part is that if you do manage to put any dent in their sales/earnings, they'll come out with a nice report showing how piracy is hurting their sales and that we need tougher protections against it. And all you've done is choosen not to buy their stuff.
Isn't that what the RIAA has been claiming lately? That diminishing album sales is clearly a sign of piracy?
It's a lose-lose for the consumer. We abstain from the product in protest and the product gets worse. Sad but probably true.
I noted that quote as well. Sounded like a very sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek response.
I also noted the quote that followed it, but I think the author of that one misspelled one of the words:
A spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters dismissed the study as flawed. "Local radio listeners should not be subjected to the inevitable interference that would result from shoehorning more stations onto
our already overcrowded radio dial," spokesman Dennis Wharton said.
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Yeah. What *he* said.
And just for the record, there are several other places to get that unmistakable buckling-spring feel:
y board-standard-g80-3000.htm Cherry G80, mechnical, but I'm not sure how close to the Model M feel it has...
s mk85_compact.html A compact model using ALPS keyswitches. Similar to the Model M style switches.
I D=6&Product_ID=624&CATID=36 Northgate Omnikey models are largely discontinued, but here's an ergo one still being sold using Alps keyswitches. You can also try ebay http://search-desc.ebay.com/omnikey_W0QQftsZ2 for used or remaindered Omnikeys.
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http://www.cvtinc.com/products/keyboards/menu.htm CVT's Avant models (I'm typing this on an Avant Prime and it feels just like the Model M I use at home)
http://www.pckeyboard.com/customizer.html PC Keyboard, already mentioned in parent of this
http://www.mck142.com/ The Ortek MCK-142 monster with programmable function keys
http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/classic-line/ke
http://www.ergocanada.com/products/keyboards/dsi_
http://www.ergo-2000.com/ergo2000/showdetl.cfm?&D
Finally, just for learning about the buckling spring/clicky keyboards, here are some great sites for details:
http://www.clickykeyboards.com/
http://www.dansdata.com/ibmkeyboard.htm
http://thesiliconunderground.editthispage.com/200
And for those of you wondering why several of us are going on and on about decades-old keyboards from IBM, you owe it to yourself to at least try one of these and see what you think. Yes, they are noisier than those squishy membrane ones, but the feedback from them is amazing and you get to the point of blazing over them and often catching many typos by sound alone...
KeePass rocks.
All you have to remember is the one password for the archive, then everything inside is a double click to spawn a browser or PuTTY window, and a double click to copy the password to clipboard. Even wipes the clipboard after 10 seconds. Ctrl-H shows or hides the password if you need to see it.. I tend to leave mine as asterisks all the time.. Also has a password generator with good configurability and a "quality" checker that rates how hard a password is to crack. You can even configure it to launch apps a la command line for other types of programs beyond web/ssh ones.
It's an awesome and free app. I use it religiously at the office for the 30+ systems I have accounts on.
If you haven't tried it, check it out.
I'll also use this opportunity to remind folks that they simplify the problem in the first place by using an algorithm for their passwords. Like:
[favorite number] + [first letter of site/host] + [last letter of site/host]
So an example for an account on amazon.com might be like: "64438an"
(those plusses are concatenates/appends)
Pros:
1) You never have to "remember" a single password. Just remember your magic number and you can always derive the password at any point later.
2) passwords are unique per site. if someone finds out one, it's not used anywhere else (execpt clearly for sites that have the same first and last letters, which is pretty rare)
3) passwords appear random at casual glance.
4) At periodic cycles (depending on your level of paranoia) change the magic number across all your sites. Worse case scenario is a seldom visited site that you have to try maybe the previous number or the one prior to it... usually not hard to do if the numbers have any significance for you.
Cons:
Not an option where the passwords are assigned for you.
My example above is very simple. You can easily spice up the algorithm to include caps, punctuation, interspersing the letters and numbers, using subsequent letters (like amazon = "an" -> "bo" from above), etc. But once you pick the system, just apply it everywhere and you essentially never have to remember an actual password ever again. It's worked for me for nearly a decade now and the only time I've had any problems is when the site itself changed names and I had to recall the old name... a pretty uncommon occurance.
It may look like a Model M, but it won't type like one. This one uses membrane keyswitches. Model M keyboards used buckling springs. See http://www.clickykeyboards.com/ for real Model M keyboards, or CVT and PCKeyboard.com for modern equivalents...
Myself, I can't live without that clicky feel, so I've got one of the Avant Primes at work (from CVT) and an old Model M at home... My quest now is for a split/ergo buckling spring model. I've only found 2 so far: the uber-rare IBM M15 and the overpriced Northgate Evolution. If anyone knows of others, please point me toward them. Thanks!
I liked to tell my students (when I was working in a high school) that there used to be a page called "What is new on the Internet" that would list all new pages to go up.
Sounds like you mean Scott Yanoff's "Special Internet Connections" list. It was a staple back then for newcomers to the net. Here's a snapshot of it from around then:
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/~nholtz/Yanoff.html
There were a few other places that documented new sites, but I don't recall any that kept a cumulative list like Yanoff's list.
<oldfogey>I was part of NCSA's public best test program for Mosaic prior to Netscape hitting the market. I remember the day I finally had to reluctantly switch over to Netscape when about 1/3 of the sites I visited no longer rendered under Mosaic. The scary part is that I have maintained the same original bookmark file from that time and still use it today in Mozilla. (it's grown to about 287k these days)</oldfogey>
I registered my Hotmail account around or before Jan 2000 and it's still sitting at 2MB (and about 99% full as I juggle every email that comes in while waiting for the stupid upgrade)
No, the California quake was action along the San Andreas fault line, occuring about 4.9 miles deep. The current seismicity at Mount St. Helens is very shallow, approximately 1/2 to 1 mile deep, and is confined almost directly to the cone itself, indicating it is probably triggered by local gas or magma action, not by any deeper seismic causes.
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The California earthquake was actually measureable throughout the entire Cascade chain, and I did some computations of the event propagation for the heck of it
Epicenter: 10:15:24 PDT
San Fran: 10:16:05 (41 sec delay)
LAS station (CA/OR border): 10:17:00 (96 sec delay)
Three Sisters (OR mountain): 10:17:40 (136 sec delay)
Mount Hood (OR/WA border): 10:17:45 (141 sec delay)
Mount St. Helens: Too much local action to detect
Mount Rainier (SE of Seattle): 10:18:20 (176 sec delay)
Stiped Peak (Olympic Pen.): 10:18:32 (188 sec delay)
Rockport, WA (30 mi from Canada): 10:18:40 (196 sec delay)
So, picking two points as the earthquake epicenter and Mount Rainer based on being the ones I found very accurate Lat/Lon coordinates for, the shockwave traveled 740 miles in 176 seconds for an overall speed around 15136 MPH (approx Mach 20, depending on altitude)
The detected signals definitely diminished the further north you traveled, but were still clearly identifiable even up to the Canadian border. But those signals were orders of magnitude less than Mt. St. Helens is generating on its own right now.
I'm no geologist, but I live 38.4 miles from Mount St. Helens so I've recently taken up a keen interest in current events there.
If you're talking about a jay-walker, the pedestrian joins the roadkill ranks.
But if they hit a crosswalk button, I'd assume the system would just make a reservation for the pedestrian and everything else queues up like normal. Seems pretty trivial to me, IMHBIO (In My Humble, But Ignorant, Opinion).
First was when a lightning strike hit the building next to mine. Mondo amperage came in through the modem line frying both the modem and motherboard. The modem actually had a wire trace that peeled up off the pcb about 1 cm.
Second was a few years later. I was working on my home machine after having a couple of beers. I bumped the desk accidently and the rather large (22 oz) but empty bottle on the top of the hutch slowly wobbled and tipped over, did one very pretty twirl in slow motion, and bounced off the top of the computer case. The harddrive immediately began to emit an awful whining noise and the machine refused to reboot after this, courtesy of a classical head crash.
So that was my personal realization about the hazards of drinking around computers.
First of all, I'd assert that fffice policies are just as important as office layout. If I'm told I can redecorate, then I'd almost rather do that than trading generic beige for something that some stranger decided is "artistic".
Here are ideas to consider:
No fluorescent lights. Try to provide full-spectrum sources where possible, and give people the ability to control how much light they work with. I have a big black insert in my window to keep glare off my screen and usually keep my overhead off too. Programmers and creative types are usually the most sensitive to this.
We have a couple people that are seldom in the office. We actually give them larger offices with a spare table and use them as mini-conference rooms while they're gone. And since they're seldom in, they usually have clean desks. (This assumes you have square footage to spare like that.)
If anyone in the office commutes by bicycle, a shower is a great thing to have. Appreciated by them *and* their coworkers. >:0
If you have a snack area, you'll probably have a microwave. Consider also having a toaster oven, or better yet a full size stove/oven. This makes it easier to fix whatever you're in the mood for. And I'm more likely to hang around the office if I can have what I'm in the mood for. (Microwaved bagels are right out, for instance). Ditto for an icemaker.
Have enough printers. Having to walk from one end of an office to another just to print a short doc is annoying. Make sure the printing facilities are split up and placed strategically around the office.
If you have creative types as mentioned, at least one conference room should be wall to wall with whiteboards (or smarter equivalents if you have the budget). I like to have two in my office alone.
Make sure there is good (and adjustable) air conditioning and heating. It's very hard to productive when you're too hot or cold.
At my current company we have an M&M jar on the front desk that gets emptied and replenished every couple of days. Nice for those times when you've got a munchie attack but don't have time before your next meeting to go get something. Doesn't have to be M&Ms, but just something along those lines.
[Apologies for actually responding to an AC, but felt there were some points to clarify and I'm at work on a Saturday so might as well...]
Well, if "giving them TWO guns" is how you interpret someone breaking into a locked house and someone else later into a locked van (that we had even paid someone to watch), then that's your prerogative.
Another thing you're completely overlooking is that the right to bear arms is only extended in the United States. In other countries we have to adhere to their national laws regarding weapons.
My father (to whom the pistols in question belonged) was an officer in the US military providing technical training about tracking inventory and supply logistics to the FAC (the Colombian Air Force). He was there at their request to help them computerize their operations. The pistols were issued either by the Embassy or the US military (I no longer recall) for self-protection in the clearly risky areas of Colombia. Colombia has no US bases, so we were living right in Bogota along with the 5 million or so other citizens. As I already pointed out, their own military leaders had even more blatantly armed guards (with a pair of M16 assault rifles on display at the house next to us). So why a pistol locked in our house elevates us to the level of "damn fool Americans", I guess I'm failing to see.
And how you draw the connection that an event 23 years ago in Colombia has anything to do with an extremist Islamic group from Afghanistan I can't even grasp at all, so I'll just assume the posting was some just used as some opportunity to vent frustration about the current administration or something...
Argentina and Chile are pretty benign. It's a little nastier in the Central american area, Colombia probably being the worst, with Guatemala and Nicaragua behind.
.38 revolver sitting outside my front door and walking me across the street to the schoolbus. The general next door to us had *two* guards with machine guns.
When I was younger (77-82) I lived in Panama, then Colombia. Panama had the Canal Zone back then and that was completely safe. Bogota on the other hand was not. Within one month of living there, our house was burglarized (while we were out for lunch) and had thousands of dollars of jewelry, cameras, and electronics taken. Oh, and a loaded 9mm.
After that the embassy posted a 24hr armed guard on my doorstep. For every day of the next two years I had some guy in a uniform with a
About 6 months later (and a few hundred miles away) we had our van broken into and more stuff taken including *another* pistol.
Most of the vehicles that the Embassy used or loaned out there had bullet-proof inserts behind the windows. Most of the moderate to high ranked Colombian officials had similar vehicles as well.
I'd still like to go back and visit again someday, but would feel rather leery staying more than say a week or so. Iraq may be worse for more personal attacks, but Central America is still pretty high risk in several of the countries. But there are many that are probably fairly safe.. I just haven't kept track of which lately. For the latest, you should check out the travel warnings put out by the US Department of State...
I wanted to have something similar, but one of my prioirities was global accessibility. I tried notebooks, daytimers, postits, etc, but invariably it would always be at home when I was at work, or vice versa, or left behind when I travel.
So my first step was an online note tool called NoteToSelf that I use to keep all those interesting articles, recommendations for movies, homework assignments, job descriptions, consumer ratings, etc. I wrote it in PHP and love it. It's pretty primative as I haven't put any extra work into it since I got it functional. But it's great for me and I use it throughout the day.
My next step is the to-do list. As an interim, I just use a note in NoteToSelf to keep the tasks, but really want something with priorities and reminders. So I've looked at various ones, and I think I'm going to integrate Horde's Kronolith for calendaring and Nag for task lists. They're all PHP and MySQL so I can integrate or tweak as much as I feel like.. With those 3 things I think I have most of my "PIM" needs met and accessible from any internet-connected device around. I've been mulling over a PDA, but only to act as an offline copy of those 3 apps, and not for their own native PDA apps.
I-405 runs from W.Portland to 205 in E. Portland. Most people call it The Banfield.
Really? I'm pretty sure that I-405 is just the C-shaped loop that runs along the west side of downtown Portland. It's only a few miles long and so people just call it 405.
The highway from I-5 (just across the Willamette from downtown) to 205 in E. Portland is really I-84, and that stretch of it is often called "the Banfield". I-84 continues from there to eastern Oregon/Idaho as you mention.
If you want to have your [Christian] cake and eat it too, there's actually a "version" of D&D called Dragonraid that is rewritten based on biblical scripture. When I went through my religious phase in high school I briefly got into it, but I had too much trouble finding other Christians that were into role-playing games so I gave it up. Frankly I'm surprised it's still around (since it was circa 1985/86 that I last played it)
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I'm now a very happy 3.5E player with a session planned for this weekend
Yeah, we have a liberal set of houserules designed to overcome anything we don't like. For flanking, we decided on these.
I've also concocted very entertaining critical and fumbles rules for melee, missile, and spell scenarios. Far more fun than "Oh, you get double damage" or "the spell just fizzles" over and over.
If we'd had this mindset a few decades ago, Ralph Nader would have gone to jail for "Unsafe at Any Speed" and we'd have Gore in the Whitehouse.
You're right, this is clearly overreaction. Identifying fraud or flaws should never be illegal.
Yeah, I was thinking of using this plugin to rename Mozilla to something like Mosaic 0.93b
I bet few folks these days would get it but other old fogies like me would probably appreciate the tip o' the hat...
Another photographer has put together a whole book that looks very much like her site... I've flipped through it.. hundreds of ghostly images..
Here's a link to it from Amazon:
Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
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I'm no fanboy of the series, but I did see one of the documentaries that said that Jackson had something like 9 different film crews shooting scenes at the same time, around 15000 extras, and 3 separate movies being filmed concurrently... If doing that for over 3 years straight and coming up with the eye candy and enthralling films that make the LOTR doesn't earn the right to "Best Director", then I guess I'm not clear on what does...
I don't see where Lucas even enters in that line of thinking.
You didn't read the story below the picture. He's not the bearded guy "positioned inches away from her". He's several rows behind her... so your "sitting in his lap" comment is incorrect. Kerry was just sitting in the same crowd as her...
Nope, you're absolutely right in what you're doing. The problem is that there simply aren't enough people doing it to make the MPAA sit up and take notice. People are selfish. The average person isn't going to get involved and deprive themselves of pleasure just to help "society" if they derrive no immediate return from it.
The sad part is that if you do manage to put any dent in their sales/earnings, they'll come out with a nice report showing how piracy is hurting their sales and that we need tougher protections against it. And all you've done is choosen not to buy their stuff.
Isn't that what the RIAA has been claiming lately? That diminishing album sales is clearly a sign of piracy?
It's a lose-lose for the consumer. We abstain from the product in protest and the product gets worse. Sad but probably true.
I also noted the quote that followed it, but I think the author of that one misspelled one of the words:
At least that seems how they act...
Well, I live in Vancouver, Washington and I usually find that I see tons of BC jobs and few in my neighborhood. Maybe you and I should swap notes?