I have heard it said that there are registries out there who will accept your donation and, if down the road your child may need it, will provide it back to you if it has not already been used (probably for a fee at that point would be my guess). Might be worth investigating donation policies.
I am sure there are some pretty powerful lobby dollars out there fighting against this, as banks will definitely want to maintain barriers to entry to the lending market.
For once I am not bubbling up with fury that he was overlooked. I do, however, take issue with the phrase "the three candidates" (emphasis mine) in the write-up - perhaps simply "three candidates"? Or "the three candidates of ill repute"?
Of course the U.S. Government will latch onto this, it represents an ideal opportunity to invoke the name of anti-terrorism to actively censor; just in case they haven't completely covered their bases with SOPA/PIPA.
I keep finding it ironic that we are slowly slipping back into the Alien & Sedition Acts, which came immediately following our inception as a country. Perhaps a sign that our system of government is due for rebirth?
Although I will say, I have been reassured by the recent media reports that gun purchases have skyrocketed recently - hopefully this indicates that the rugged-individualist, American-spirited Americans out there will have a little sway over the outcome of this rebirth.
Excursus: When the FAA was in danger of "losing 4,000 jobs", I thought to myself, "what the hell does the FAA need with 4,000 employees" - can't we deploy Skynet already?
For me the problem was just as much the variety of physical devices to and from which cords were running as the problem with cords themselves (i.e. modem, router, UPS, etc.). Therefore, I went and had some pegboard cut to spec and mounted it on the back of my computer desk - such that some of it is accessible from the front, as well - and bought a variety bag of pegboard hardware (hooks, etc.). I then proceeded to mount my modem, router, UPS, USB hub, speakers, etc. on there, wired everything up, and used releasable zip ties to bundle up the cords. So far it's worked very nicely, and given me more desk space.
I caught a great documentary one time regarding the way in which he Canadian government is destroying both fish and independent hand-line fishermen - it's called "One More Dead Fish". I highly recommend it - it's a glaring example of Corporatism, outside of US borders for once.
Given the uniqueness of many African-American names, I think the incidence of this policy will largely fall on them, which one might construe as racism on Google's part.
Obviously I don't see any reason to suspect racism, but there are a whole lot of political opportunists out there not quite so averse to outlandish statements as I.;)
What stops the Feds from simply claiming anyone they want to investigate is a "suspected terrorist" and doing all the snooping they want. Suppose the Feds simply declare that due to "secret" information, they believe that someone is a "suspected terrorist". They tap his phone, bug his car, break into his email accounts...and discover that John Doe buys personal use quantities of prescription pain meds without a prescription. (but is not a terrorist). Or some other low-end crime.
Can the Feds put John Doe into prison based on this information?
I was just about to post to this effect - you're spot on.
My vote for most overused word in tech is definitely "cloud" - and Microsoft's ridiculous ad campaigns are not helping the situation. People use it in a very uninformed, buzzword manner in most circumstances.
I ran into this problem when attempting to complete my XBOX Live profile - it didn't allow me to enter my location using my city of Tecumseh, MI; apparently I was attempting to allude to ejaculation by doing so. I even tried it Roman-style, with a "v" for the "u", but they denied that, too.
My question is - how the heck did the guy manage to get it into his profile in the first place? My experience is that it denies you up-front as you attempt to save that entry in your profile. Did he just have it in there from before they implemented their censorship?
On the flip side of that argument, someone stands to make a lot of money by entering the market and challenging Visa with the selling point of increased security. Are there barriers to entry in that market? Sure. Will Visa lobby its butt off to intensify those barriers? No doubt. But it's not impossible.
Furthermore, what about the following: a cash-secured credit card. They already exist from what I've heard (no personal experience with them), but I'm not sure if they function in the fashion that I envision, which is basically a system in which the charge initially hits the credit account, but after a predetermined amount of time (enough time to allow for the monitoring of transactions, such as 3-7 days), the credit account automatically debits the user's checking account.
Particularly when government entities are becoming less and less solvent. Many states are temporarily suspending refund issuance right now because they simply can't cover them; California issued IOU's last year. The IRS actually implemented the option of receiving your refund in the form of U.S. Treasury Bonds this year - somewhat fishy, IMO. Let's hope that next year Treasury Bonds don't become the only option for refunds - even more reason to target your liability and close as possible, and err to the side of owing. You can leave up to $1,000 outstanding until the deadline, and as long as you pay it with your return or extension by 4/15, you won't be subject to any underpayment penalties.
We should organize a web community through which Aussies tell us foreigners what they want us to post, and we go post it on their behalf. This is insane.
What is Apple using for their solder joints these days? If they want to comply with a number of regulations the world over to remove lead from solder, it's probably tin.
Unfortunately, tin solder has the nasty side effect of developing "tin whiskers" - microscopic threads that spontaneously grow off of tin solder joints, and no one seems to know why - all anyone knows is that when you put lead in solder, it doesn't do it. This has the obvious possibility of causing shorts as the whiskers contact other solder points; but there is also the possibility of spontaneous combustion. Tin whiskers have the possibility of becoming so small that they actual vaporize, leaving a super-conductive fine mist behind which has the possibility of causing an explosion.
Therefore, if this is the cause, I would say Apple is justified in saying the explosions are caused by external forces, namely the government and the lobbyists that push for legislation like this. Sure, it looks good on the surface (less lead making it into ground water, etc.), but is the opportunity cost of this sort of havoc really worth it? I wholeheartedly have to say no.
If publishers really want to get in on the action, why don't they just take the initiative to start buy-back programs of their own, and outbid GameStop? Have you ever actually traded in a game there? The money you get is laughable - it's akin to selling your textbooks back to the school bookstore at the end of the year.
The publishers would have no problem outbidding GameStop for this reason. Yeah, they'd be paying out more, but they'd have very little net overhead (assuming most of the games they'd buy would be sold in the immediate future) and could start a reasonable profit stream in no time.
If the publishers started their own program, it could be like Netflix: they send you an envelope that is completely inexpensive to just mail back the disk itself, and sell it online. They could offer direct cash payouts or credits towards games in their own online stores.
This is just indicative of the trend which was began by anti-trust legislation - why innovate when you can get a piece of your competitor's pie for the (usually) lower cost of some legal fees?
Yet, the truth is, in the scale of the war, American firebombing was actually far less terrible than what the Germans did to everyone else, so the USA came off as far more humane.
We came off as more humane because we won, and we claimed the monopoly over the historiography of it. The same could be said regarding what I prefer to call the War of Northern Aggression.
Yes, I agree it's hilariously ironic that Microsoft is advocating openness. However, as much as I dislike Microsoft, antitrust arguments are ridiculous to begin with - antitrust legislation is without a doubt one of the most counterproductive aspects of the US Legal Code: damaging to consumers, and only helpful to rent-seeking producers who would rather drag down their more efficient and productive rivals than innovate themselves.
See the following work:
http://mises.org/books/antitrust.pdf
Or Chapter 10 of this masterpiece:
http://mises.org/rothbard/mespm.PDF
Or, hell, read Atlas Shrugged.
Seems like a lot of complaints about wire management - a modular power supply would probably alleviate a lot of the unnecessary mess.
If I had the money I'd try it out, but c'mon Antec, the economy sucks; they should've waited for another Fed-induced boom to launch this thing.
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I have heard it said that there are registries out there who will accept your donation and, if down the road your child may need it, will provide it back to you if it has not already been used (probably for a fee at that point would be my guess). Might be worth investigating donation policies.
I am sure there are some pretty powerful lobby dollars out there fighting against this, as banks will definitely want to maintain barriers to entry to the lending market.
For once I am not bubbling up with fury that he was overlooked. I do, however, take issue with the phrase "the three candidates" (emphasis mine) in the write-up - perhaps simply "three candidates"? Or "the three candidates of ill repute"?
Of course the U.S. Government will latch onto this, it represents an ideal opportunity to invoke the name of anti-terrorism to actively censor; just in case they haven't completely covered their bases with SOPA/PIPA.
I keep finding it ironic that we are slowly slipping back into the Alien & Sedition Acts, which came immediately following our inception as a country. Perhaps a sign that our system of government is due for rebirth?
Although I will say, I have been reassured by the recent media reports that gun purchases have skyrocketed recently - hopefully this indicates that the rugged-individualist, American-spirited Americans out there will have a little sway over the outcome of this rebirth.
...more like "swiftly merging cesspool." Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same wooden nickel.
After reading this article, I'm halfway tempted to think that his incident was an elaborately orchestrated plot to facilitate a power grab by the FAA:
AMA: FAA Seeks To Restrict Model Aircraft Flight
Excursus: When the FAA was in danger of "losing 4,000 jobs", I thought to myself, "what the hell does the FAA need with 4,000 employees" - can't we deploy Skynet already?
For me the problem was just as much the variety of physical devices to and from which cords were running as the problem with cords themselves (i.e. modem, router, UPS, etc.). Therefore, I went and had some pegboard cut to spec and mounted it on the back of my computer desk - such that some of it is accessible from the front, as well - and bought a variety bag of pegboard hardware (hooks, etc.). I then proceeded to mount my modem, router, UPS, USB hub, speakers, etc. on there, wired everything up, and used releasable zip ties to bundle up the cords. So far it's worked very nicely, and given me more desk space.
I caught a great documentary one time regarding the way in which he Canadian government is destroying both fish and independent hand-line fishermen - it's called "One More Dead Fish". I highly recommend it - it's a glaring example of Corporatism, outside of US borders for once.
Given the uniqueness of many African-American names, I think the incidence of this policy will largely fall on them, which one might construe as racism on Google's part. Obviously I don't see any reason to suspect racism, but there are a whole lot of political opportunists out there not quite so averse to outlandish statements as I. ;)
What stops the Feds from simply claiming anyone they want to investigate is a "suspected terrorist" and doing all the snooping they want. Suppose the Feds simply declare that due to "secret" information, they believe that someone is a "suspected terrorist". They tap his phone, bug his car, break into his email accounts...and discover that John Doe buys personal use quantities of prescription pain meds without a prescription. (but is not a terrorist). Or some other low-end crime.
Can the Feds put John Doe into prison based on this information?
I was just about to post to this effect - you're spot on.
My vote for most overused word in tech is definitely "cloud" - and Microsoft's ridiculous ad campaigns are not helping the situation. People use it in a very uninformed, buzzword manner in most circumstances.
I believe this explains the events which transpired in the film "Children of Men". :)
I ran into this problem when attempting to complete my XBOX Live profile - it didn't allow me to enter my location using my city of Tecumseh, MI; apparently I was attempting to allude to ejaculation by doing so. I even tried it Roman-style, with a "v" for the "u", but they denied that, too. My question is - how the heck did the guy manage to get it into his profile in the first place? My experience is that it denies you up-front as you attempt to save that entry in your profile. Did he just have it in there from before they implemented their censorship?
On the flip side of that argument, someone stands to make a lot of money by entering the market and challenging Visa with the selling point of increased security. Are there barriers to entry in that market? Sure. Will Visa lobby its butt off to intensify those barriers? No doubt. But it's not impossible. Furthermore, what about the following: a cash-secured credit card. They already exist from what I've heard (no personal experience with them), but I'm not sure if they function in the fashion that I envision, which is basically a system in which the charge initially hits the credit account, but after a predetermined amount of time (enough time to allow for the monitoring of transactions, such as 3-7 days), the credit account automatically debits the user's checking account.
Particularly when government entities are becoming less and less solvent. Many states are temporarily suspending refund issuance right now because they simply can't cover them; California issued IOU's last year. The IRS actually implemented the option of receiving your refund in the form of U.S. Treasury Bonds this year - somewhat fishy, IMO. Let's hope that next year Treasury Bonds don't become the only option for refunds - even more reason to target your liability and close as possible, and err to the side of owing. You can leave up to $1,000 outstanding until the deadline, and as long as you pay it with your return or extension by 4/15, you won't be subject to any underpayment penalties.
Anyone have any ideas as to what impact this may have on the formation of "tin whiskers"? Slashdot article on 6/15/08 re: Tin Whiskers
We should organize a web community through which Aussies tell us foreigners what they want us to post, and we go post it on their behalf. This is insane.
I second TeamViewer. Very quick and easy for all involved - I've used it frequently to assist my very technologically needy mother-in-law.
Here is some good reading material on the subject: http://it.slashdot.org/story/05/01/09/0833254/The-Tin-Whisker-Menace?art_pos=3 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/08/06/15/1732216/Tin-Whiskers-mdash-Fact-Or-Fiction?art_pos=1 http://nepp.nasa.gov/WHISKER/background/index.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering
What is Apple using for their solder joints these days? If they want to comply with a number of regulations the world over to remove lead from solder, it's probably tin. Unfortunately, tin solder has the nasty side effect of developing "tin whiskers" - microscopic threads that spontaneously grow off of tin solder joints, and no one seems to know why - all anyone knows is that when you put lead in solder, it doesn't do it. This has the obvious possibility of causing shorts as the whiskers contact other solder points; but there is also the possibility of spontaneous combustion. Tin whiskers have the possibility of becoming so small that they actual vaporize, leaving a super-conductive fine mist behind which has the possibility of causing an explosion. Therefore, if this is the cause, I would say Apple is justified in saying the explosions are caused by external forces, namely the government and the lobbyists that push for legislation like this. Sure, it looks good on the surface (less lead making it into ground water, etc.), but is the opportunity cost of this sort of havoc really worth it? I wholeheartedly have to say no.
If publishers really want to get in on the action, why don't they just take the initiative to start buy-back programs of their own, and outbid GameStop? Have you ever actually traded in a game there? The money you get is laughable - it's akin to selling your textbooks back to the school bookstore at the end of the year. The publishers would have no problem outbidding GameStop for this reason. Yeah, they'd be paying out more, but they'd have very little net overhead (assuming most of the games they'd buy would be sold in the immediate future) and could start a reasonable profit stream in no time. If the publishers started their own program, it could be like Netflix: they send you an envelope that is completely inexpensive to just mail back the disk itself, and sell it online. They could offer direct cash payouts or credits towards games in their own online stores. This is just indicative of the trend which was began by anti-trust legislation - why innovate when you can get a piece of your competitor's pie for the (usually) lower cost of some legal fees?
The price drop would actually not mean fully half revenue loss for the publishers because they would sell more games.
The Laffer Curve in practice!
Yet, the truth is, in the scale of the war, American firebombing was actually far less terrible than what the Germans did to everyone else, so the USA came off as far more humane.
We came off as more humane because we won, and we claimed the monopoly over the historiography of it. The same could be said regarding what I prefer to call the War of Northern Aggression.
Yes, I agree it's hilariously ironic that Microsoft is advocating openness. However, as much as I dislike Microsoft, antitrust arguments are ridiculous to begin with - antitrust legislation is without a doubt one of the most counterproductive aspects of the US Legal Code: damaging to consumers, and only helpful to rent-seeking producers who would rather drag down their more efficient and productive rivals than innovate themselves. See the following work: http://mises.org/books/antitrust.pdf Or Chapter 10 of this masterpiece: http://mises.org/rothbard/mespm.PDF Or, hell, read Atlas Shrugged.
Seems like a lot of complaints about wire management - a modular power supply would probably alleviate a lot of the unnecessary mess. If I had the money I'd try it out, but c'mon Antec, the economy sucks; they should've waited for another Fed-induced boom to launch this thing.