I keep an old burner in a USB drive enclosure. It handles the power and connecter issue plus it goes on the shelf if I don't need it. It has also worked well when I needed an optical drive on a netbook or tablet.
It's perfectly fine to count eggs before they hatch. I have a dozen in my fridge right now. They look delicious. In fact, I hope they don't hatch, because I'm really craving eggs, and not chickens. Now, counting *chickens* before they hatch on the other hand...
And I don't even want them one day closer to hatching when I buy them. Doesn't it just mess up your mood when you crack an egg and it has some blood formed?
This actually helps Microsoft. The stable browser for Win 64 is now IE. I dropped FF as default when they lost control of Flash audio volume. Every time I went back to check the latest release of FF (thinking surely they would fix a bug that cranked the volume up when watching video and playing so many web based games) not only was the issue not addressed but the browser itself got very unstable. I have spent months getting people back off of FF after spending years getting them to switch to it in the first place. When someone calls to say FF keeps crashing or to bitch about extremely loud videos or games I just send them to IE because I don't have a fix for them... Why not turn them on to Chrome? Because doing that with FF bit me in the ass. Also not wild about Google having every little scrap of our lives. I'm now trying FF 17 but the Flash volume is still broken so it's not my default browser. Ever since Chrome came out FF seems to be doing a "Me Too!" game, right down to version numbering, I miss the days when they were innovating...
I would tend to agree with you about the theft issue. But it still leaves the whole "ownership of information" in the murk. If I had the right to pursue someone digitally back to the system used to copy "my" data (i.e. "my IP") and then possibly take action against what I deem to be the offending system, what kind of power would that convey to any commercial rights holder seeking the source of, say, shared files? To my mind, the concept of justified retaliatory action is not even a slippery slope, it's a cliff...
Is it legal for you to steal your stuff back from a robber?
Can you carjack a carjacker if (s)he is driving your car?
Same applies here
Doesn't this concept validate everything the *IAA does in attempting to control use of their "IP"? If MY 0's and 1's are steal-able stuff then THEIR 0's and 1's are the same... Not real wild about that idea.
Ernest's first dog was "Shorty" and his second dog was "Rimshot".
I think you have in mind the old missing dog flyer:
Missing: One-eyed, three legged dog. No tail, recently castrated, answers to the name "Lucky".
As long as it's tax avoidance, rather than tax evasion, nothing illegal in this. Everyone (corporations included) want to pay as little tax as possible. It's the governments job to close the loopholes. It's the lobbyists job to pay for new ones.
As a former builder I can tell you, we don't do that. Telling someone it will take longer is a great way to lose a bid... and thus never get a chance to even start the job.
The "Scotty Principle" works only if you have a nice safe government paycheck.
That's pretty accurate, but you forgot to mention that the estimated time for project completion will be about 50% of the actual time needed for project completion...
Oh sure, drop off colonists after raising them on "Jersey Shore" reruns and "Mythbusters" episodes... self destruction in 3, 2, 1. Seriously, who picks the "indoctrination and training" content? People not making the trip?
I guess if you want to get away with something you had better be smiling the whole time... if you mess up pattern matching by having a smile in the official exemplar then it would follow that you mess up pattern matching by having a smile in the sample to be compared, right?
You forgot checking for IR output from various remote controls. TV remote not working? Point it at the phone camera and you should see the remotes IR LED ligjt up (on the phone camera screen) when you press a button on the remote.
Soon Moh She will lead the workers out of their factories and part the Yellow Sea.
Which, if this is pollution related, may in fact actually be "yellow" by then! Now, if the yellow area just makes it down to the mouth of the Yangtze River we might get a nice swirled paisley effect... Tie Dyed ocean, could there be better proof of God's Love?
If the practiced Sodomy in Sodom, did they practice Gomorrahy in Gomorrah?
Pretty good chance... According to documents from the files of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), gomorrahy (gomorrahy - cf. sodomy) is the insertion of a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb (i.e., the insertion of an extremity) into an introitus/vagina or an anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose. In other words, the following sexual acts are subsumed under the concept "gomorrahy":
fisting/handballing
footing
stumping
Circa Wednesday August 6, 2003, CBSA - then known as Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) - repealed its ban on the importation of pornographic material containing explicit descriptions or depictions of gomorrahy.
RELATED WORDS
gomorrahize: (v) to insert a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb into an introitus/vagina or an anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose (cf. sodomize)
gomorrahizer: (n) one who gomorrahizes; one who inserts a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb into an introitus/vagina or an anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose (cf. sodomizer)
gomorrahizee: (n) one who is gomorrahized; one who has a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb inserted into her introitus/vagina or her/his anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose (cf. sodomizee)
gomorrahite: (n) one who engages in gomorrahy; a gomorrahizer and/or gomorrahizee (cf. sodomite) - - - - So... I guess having a nickname like "stumpy" would have been a good thing around there.
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I keep an old burner in a USB drive enclosure. It handles the power and connecter issue plus it goes on the shelf if I don't need it. It has also worked well when I needed an optical drive on a netbook or tablet.
It's perfectly fine to count eggs before they hatch. I have a dozen in my fridge right now. They look delicious. In fact, I hope they don't hatch, because I'm really craving eggs, and not chickens. Now, counting *chickens* before they hatch on the other hand...
And I don't even want them one day closer to hatching when I buy them. Doesn't it just mess up your mood when you crack an egg and it has some blood formed?
Yech. You know those twinkies will get all dried out on the outside, and the inside will get mushy...
Yeah, same thing with the zombies...
This actually helps Microsoft. The stable browser for Win 64 is now IE. I dropped FF as default when they lost control of Flash audio volume. Every time I went back to check the latest release of FF (thinking surely they would fix a bug that cranked the volume up when watching video and playing so many web based games) not only was the issue not addressed but the browser itself got very unstable. I have spent months getting people back off of FF after spending years getting them to switch to it in the first place. When someone calls to say FF keeps crashing or to bitch about extremely loud videos or games I just send them to IE because I don't have a fix for them... Why not turn them on to Chrome? Because doing that with FF bit me in the ass. Also not wild about Google having every little scrap of our lives. I'm now trying FF 17 but the Flash volume is still broken so it's not my default browser. Ever since Chrome came out FF seems to be doing a "Me Too!" game, right down to version numbering, I miss the days when they were innovating ...
I would tend to agree with you about the theft issue. But it still leaves the whole "ownership of information" in the murk. If I had the right to pursue someone digitally back to the system used to copy "my" data (i.e. "my IP") and then possibly take action against what I deem to be the offending system, what kind of power would that convey to any commercial rights holder seeking the source of, say, shared files? To my mind, the concept of justified retaliatory action is not even a slippery slope, it's a cliff...
Is it legal for you to steal your stuff back from a robber?
Can you carjack a carjacker if (s)he is driving your car?
Same applies here
Doesn't this concept validate everything the *IAA does in attempting to control use of their "IP"?
If MY 0's and 1's are steal-able stuff then THEIR 0's and 1's are the same...
Not real wild about that idea.
Ernest's first dog was "Shorty" and his second dog was "Rimshot". I think you have in mind the old missing dog flyer:
Missing: One-eyed, three legged dog. No tail, recently castrated, answers to the name "Lucky".
O tempora, o mores!
And in fog the sharks are easy to pick off because of the laser indicating your aim point... shoot where the laser originates and you got 'em.
As long as it's tax avoidance, rather than tax evasion, nothing illegal in this. Everyone (corporations included) want to pay as little tax as possible. It's the governments job to close the loopholes. It's the lobbyists job to pay for new ones.
FTFY
I'm with you. Scotty was great at adapting his environment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrRzmV46bOM
As a former builder I can tell you, we don't do that. Telling someone it will take longer is a great way to lose a bid... and thus never get a chance to even start the job.
The "Scotty Principle" works only if you have a nice safe government paycheck.
That's pretty accurate, but you forgot to mention that the estimated time for project completion will be about 50% of the actual time needed for project completion...
They split it in half?
I know it's wrong but I just got this mental image of someone moving all the 0's to one side of a page and all the 1's to the other side...
...I would also like to point out I just realized we live in Fahrenheit 451...
Well, that explains the constant sizzling sound I'm hearing... does anyone else smell bacon cooking?
It is becoming obvious that intolerant people must be shot on sight... Hey guys! Ohhh, cool looking guns you have there, what are
Yeah, you have fun with that. I don't do fat chicks.
But GMILF is still OK, right?
Oh sure, drop off colonists after raising them on "Jersey Shore" reruns and "Mythbusters" episodes...
self destruction in 3, 2, 1.
Seriously, who picks the "indoctrination and training" content? People not making the trip?
I guess if you want to get away with something you had better be smiling the whole time... if you mess up pattern matching by having a smile in the official exemplar then it would follow that you mess up pattern matching by having a smile in the sample to be compared, right?
You forgot checking for IR output from various remote controls. TV remote not working? Point it at the phone camera and you should see the remotes IR LED ligjt up (on the phone camera screen) when you press a button on the remote.
Betcha didn't know the holodeck is made-up technology.
Sure does speed up debugging!
Soon Moh She will lead the workers out of their factories and part the Yellow Sea.
Which, if this is pollution related, may in fact actually be "yellow" by then!
Now, if the yellow area just makes it down to the mouth of the Yangtze River we might get a nice swirled paisley effect...
Tie Dyed ocean, could there be better proof of God's Love?
Mommy, what did they do in Sodom that was sinful?
If the practiced Sodomy in Sodom, did they practice Gomorrahy in Gomorrah?
Pretty good chance...
According to documents from the files of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), gomorrahy (gomorrahy - cf. sodomy) is the insertion of a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb (i.e., the insertion of an extremity) into an introitus/vagina or an anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose. In other words, the following sexual acts are subsumed under the concept "gomorrahy":
fisting/handballing
footing
stumping
Circa Wednesday August 6, 2003, CBSA - then known as Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) - repealed its ban on the importation of pornographic material containing explicit descriptions or depictions of gomorrahy.
RELATED WORDS
gomorrahize: (v) to insert a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb into an introitus/vagina or an anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose (cf. sodomize)
gomorrahizer: (n) one who gomorrahizes; one who inserts a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb into an introitus/vagina or an anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose (cf. sodomizer)
gomorrahizee: (n) one who is gomorrahized; one who has a hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb inserted into her introitus/vagina or her/his anus/anal canal, for a sexual purpose (cf. sodomizee)
gomorrahite: (n) one who engages in gomorrahy; a gomorrahizer and/or gomorrahizee (cf. sodomite)
- - - -
So... I guess having a nickname like "stumpy" would have been a good thing around there.
http://www.gomorrahy.com/sin-of-gomorrah.htm
The important question then becomes what kind of pie?
OK, I vote for Deadly Venomous Spider Surprise with whipped cream topping...
radioactive decay is not as random as we thought. So where do we get random numbers that are good?
http://xkcd.com/221/