In Canada, the Human Rights Act and its equivalent in every state, says that a business has a Duty to Accomodate the Disabled, unless it can be proven that doing so would impose an onerous burden on the business. Typically, any business with more than 50 employees would find it impossible to prove hardship. Therefore, a company the size of Target has to provide things like wheelchair accessible washrooms, ramps, tools for the blind, special keyboards and tools for disabled employees and special accessibility features for customers. The laws in the US are different, but the same in spirit.
Providing a simple text version of a website is a minor thing to a alrge business and I suspect that many users would prefer to use a text based web site, rather than a complex, graphic intensive, cluttered, web site like that of Target. Furthermore, I suspect that Target would get a tax break on the work required to make their web site accessible, so it won't cost them much and provide employment for another geek or two.
Well, you see - things started to go down hill when the dinosaurs switched from coal fired power plants to nuclear energy and caused the CO2 levels in the atmosphere to drop precipitously. That started a prolonged ice age, freezing over their swamps and lakes at the poles. The result was that only the dumb, hairy mammals survived, which then inherited the planet.
Have you noticed that the Siberian and Canadian permafrost is frozen turf. Turf that was living, growing turf some millions of years of ago, with elephant like creatures now frozen solid in it in some places and dinosaur skeletons in the rock far underneath. So the question is, What is 'normal'? If steamy jungles at the poles with huge elephants or dinosaurs wallowing in the mud is 'normal', then we still have a long way to go to recover from the last ice age and what we are experiencing now is a natural warming cycle with a period of hundreds of millions of years. Either that, or the cavemen must have stoked huge fires in their caves to get the planet out of the last ice age and in the cycle before that, those dinosaurs must have farted a helluvalot...
There is plenty evidence that the earth was much warmer in the past. For a period of hundreds of millions of years, the polar regions were as steamy as the tropics is now. What caused that? Dinosaur farts?
The CO2 or the Temperature?
Note that they don't say, which leads me to believe that saying would be inconvenient, so chances are that the temperature went up first and the increased biological activity on earth then caused CO2 to increase.
There are only two Windoze machines in my house (about 8 Linux). My notebook needs Windows to enable me to stay on top of the latest problems, but it mostly runs Linux. My son runs a cracked XP to play games. He has a Dell machine with a valid XP license, but he says that the cracked copy is quicker to re-install after the machine got hosed by something...
Embedded control systems. Using DOS and either an assembler or the Turbo Pascal compiler from the Borland museum, you can create a very capable embedded system with great ease.
Actually, there is a simple test that can give you a some idea of the quality. Take a large file an encrypt it with the tool of choice. Then compress the file with gzip or even winzip. If the result ends up larger than the original, then the encryption is probably OK. If the result ends up smaller, then it is obviously snake oil.
They should start with a moon elevator. That could make building a base on the moon and using it as a staging area for longer trips more practical. Landing on the moon is costly, since there is no atmosphere to help with slowing down.
Hmmm, you mean a real open source business, like, RedHat, Debian, Novel, Mandriva, Linspire, Canonical - it is not like there aren't any real life examples out there - sigh...
Actually, the cookie stored on your computer is just the tip of the iceberg. Google (and other web sites) have everything you do in their log files. It is funny though that the same people that are going nuts over search engine data, send email in plain text, chat with their friends on MSN all day long in plain text and POP their mail off a public server every 3 minutes with username and password in plain text...
Well geez, the mice should be thankful. Never before has one species invested so much effort in curing diseases in another species. If you get cancer, you better be a mouse.
All you need is a bank that doesn't allow random destinations for money transfers. TD Bank (Canada) only allows transfers to corporations that registered with them. So all an imposter can do on my account, is pay my bills for me.
It is interesting how religious groups always claim the moral high ground, even though the whole operation is a scam, that plays on simple people's feelings of insecurity and then rip them off for the benefit of the church masters.
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In Canada, the Human Rights Act and its equivalent in every state, says that a business has a Duty to Accomodate the Disabled, unless it can be proven that doing so would impose an onerous burden on the business. Typically, any business with more than 50 employees would find it impossible to prove hardship. Therefore, a company the size of Target has to provide things like wheelchair accessible washrooms, ramps, tools for the blind, special keyboards and tools for disabled employees and special accessibility features for customers. The laws in the US are different, but the same in spirit.
Providing a simple text version of a website is a minor thing to a alrge business and I suspect that many users would prefer to use a text based web site, rather than a complex, graphic intensive, cluttered, web site like that of Target. Furthermore, I suspect that Target would get a tax break on the work required to make their web site accessible, so it won't cost them much and provide employment for another geek or two.
and my spam filter deleted it. Sorry...
Well, you see - things started to go down hill when the dinosaurs switched from coal fired power plants to nuclear energy and caused the CO2 levels in the atmosphere to drop precipitously. That started a prolonged ice age, freezing over their swamps and lakes at the poles. The result was that only the dumb, hairy mammals survived, which then inherited the planet.
Have you noticed that the Siberian and Canadian permafrost is frozen turf. Turf that was living, growing turf some millions of years of ago, with elephant like creatures now frozen solid in it in some places and dinosaur skeletons in the rock far underneath. So the question is, What is 'normal'? If steamy jungles at the poles with huge elephants or dinosaurs wallowing in the mud is 'normal', then we still have a long way to go to recover from the last ice age and what we are experiencing now is a natural warming cycle with a period of hundreds of millions of years. Either that, or the cavemen must have stoked huge fires in their caves to get the planet out of the last ice age and in the cycle before that, those dinosaurs must have farted a helluvalot...
There is plenty evidence that the earth was much warmer in the past. For a period of hundreds of millions of years, the polar regions were as steamy as the tropics is now. What caused that? Dinosaur farts?
The CO2 or the Temperature? Note that they don't say, which leads me to believe that saying would be inconvenient, so chances are that the temperature went up first and the increased biological activity on earth then caused CO2 to increase.
Like this screw head camera: http://www.spygadgets.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?S creen=PROD&Product_Code=SCREW&Category_Code=
There are only two Windoze machines in my house (about 8 Linux). My notebook needs Windows to enable me to stay on top of the latest problems, but it mostly runs Linux. My son runs a cracked XP to play games. He has a Dell machine with a valid XP license, but he says that the cracked copy is quicker to re-install after the machine got hosed by something...
Oh man, this is hillarious! Nice Google crack.
Embedded control systems. Using DOS and either an assembler or the Turbo Pascal compiler from the Borland museum, you can create a very capable embedded system with great ease.
Google turns up bazillions of 'therms of use'...
Actually, there is a simple test that can give you a some idea of the quality. Take a large file an encrypt it with the tool of choice. Then compress the file with gzip or even winzip. If the result ends up larger than the original, then the encryption is probably OK. If the result ends up smaller, then it is obviously snake oil.
They should start with a moon elevator. That could make building a base on the moon and using it as a staging area for longer trips more practical. Landing on the moon is costly, since there is no atmosphere to help with slowing down.
Hmmm, you mean a real open source business, like, RedHat, Debian, Novel, Mandriva, Linspire, Canonical - it is not like there aren't any real life examples out there - sigh...
Actually, the cookie stored on your computer is just the tip of the iceberg. Google (and other web sites) have everything you do in their log files. It is funny though that the same people that are going nuts over search engine data, send email in plain text, chat with their friends on MSN all day long in plain text and POP their mail off a public server every 3 minutes with username and password in plain text...
or set up a process to do random Google searches and browsing every once in a while - drown them with useless information.
Well geez, the mice should be thankful. Never before has one species invested so much effort in curing diseases in another species. If you get cancer, you better be a mouse.
All you need is a bank that doesn't allow random destinations for money transfers. TD Bank (Canada) only allows transfers to corporations that registered with them. So all an imposter can do on my account, is pay my bills for me.
Yup, I can't afford to run Windows, since nobody pays me to keep it working. Windows is only worth using if your time is worth nothing...
Hmm, my son did that to his computer science teacher...
they killed Kenny!
Hmm, I divorced my wife after she came home with bites on her, well, uhmm, you get the picture...
Yup, my TRS80 is perfectly secure...
It is interesting how religious groups always claim the moral high ground, even though the whole operation is a scam, that plays on simple people's feelings of insecurity and then rip them off for the benefit of the church masters.
Raid may not work on such critters, but I bet this spray would: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/mmm/mmm77-17.htm
Good for 1002 uses...