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If I had the money to spare I wouldn't give you it except as a loan but I would be like the IMF and tell you what spending you had to cut to be able to pay me back. I'm sorry you are struggling (and I understand that your question is a mere interest one) I'm sure most of the people on here have or will struggle at some time. I was in a huge amount of debt eight years ago and their was only one way out that I could see (other than default). I left enough money from my wages in the bank to cover the direct debit bills and took the rest out as cash. This cash paid for my food, gas, electric, petrol and any extras if there was cash left. One expenditure was a transfer of money to a savings account for emergency spending like car repairs or replacing high value electrical items. I don't have spare cash but I don't have any debt either.
our government takes all of our money....
I don't think begging is allowed on this site.

Contact agencies where you live who are equipped to help you or give you advice.

Good Luck.
Scammers do this all the time on websites. It's never a great idea to give money to anyone you don't know online. Just not smart.
sucks for you stop asking for money and find a place to work
bums ask me for money all the time and you are doing that now so essentially you both have something in common
i just think to ask this question is dumb and so i stated it very plainly stop asking for handouts and giving excuses on why you want them and do something about your life
Im sorry but that never solves anything. You need a budget and live inside your means.
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Since opening in 2004, Telltale Games has made quite a name for itself in the episodic adventure arena. One of the main reasons for the company's success is the Sam & Max franchise, which has lately been revitalized by The Devil's Playhouse, an innovative five episode series that has Sam & Max chasing down a dangerous artifact called the Devil's Toybox. This month sees the release of the fourth hilarious episode, Beyond the Alley of the Dolls, which unfortunately, spends less time innovating and more time revisiting established characters and gameplay concepts.
Throughout the series, our favorite Freelance Police have been led on a merry chase by the elusive Devil's Toybox, which when filled with its complete collection of infernal toys, has the power to destroy the world. Thus far in the story, our heroes have been imprisoned by a power-mad space gorilla, raided an ancient Egyptian tomb, outsmarted Santa and his elves and had Max's brain stolen right out of his head. Having survived all that, in Alley of the Dolls, their pursuit of the Toybox is further thwarted by an army of mindless, half-naked Sam zombies (Samulacra? Dogglegangers?) and it's all Sam & Max can do to avoid being killed by these gold-shorts-wearing-clones long enough to find out where they came from.
The game starts with Sam & Max holed up in Stinky's Diner, surrounded by Samulacra (Dogglegangers!). They're not alone; trapped with them is grizzled diner owner, the vaguely piratey Grandpa Stinky and his lazy, text-message-obsessed granddaughter, Girl Stinky. In this environment, you're confronted with a classic adventure game challengeescape from a closed room using only what's at hand. Sam's ingenuity and Max's psychic powers are put to good use here as they work together to find a way out of the seemingly inescapable greasy spoon. This cooperation is a strong hint at things to come since throughout the game, Sam & Max are asked to solve puzzles that require them to work in tandem.
Once the duo escapes from the diner, they set out to discover who's trying to undermine them with the mob of dog zombies. Their search takes them back to places like Monsieur Papierwaite's office at the museum, to a grungy urban warehouse to chat with Sal the giant cockroach, and to an unknown super-villain's secret lab. The usual approach is required here as Sam interviews various suspects and Max lends a hand by making sarcastic remarks in between using his psychic powers to read people's minds, throw his voice or see into the future. While the gameplay in Alley of the Dolls is still fun, it's noticeably less inventive than that of previous episodes. The Penal Zone had a power-hungry space gorilla,Sammun Mak had time travel and some great visual gags;Max's Brain had a memorable film noir-ish approachAlley of the Dolls by comparison, is fairly straightforward, both aesthetically and gameplay-wise, and that feels like a step backwards.
We see the return of favorite characters Skun'ka'pe, Monsieur Papierwaite and Sal, as well as more clever puzzle design that makes good use of Max's psychic powers. However, some of the puzzles fall into the tedium zone, requiring a goodly amount of trial and errorone in particular requires you to play through it again and again and again just to see the effects of your actions. In addition to this, one or two puzzles also require you to jump a bit of a logic gap and the last, episode-ending puzzle may leave more than a few gamers scratching their heads. If the puzzle design is uneven and the gameplay as a result feels a little on the ho-hum side, we might hope the art would make up for it. Alas, it doesn't. The settings in Alley of the Dolls just aren't as interesting as the ones in previous episodes. There are no mystery trains or ancient tombs or turn-of-the-century city blocks here. Thankfully, the characterization and voice acting are still great, and the writing's as amusing as always.
The Devil's Playhouse series has thus far been overall, of high quality. The first three chapters have offered up mostly the good and a tad of the not-so-goodthe good being some classic Sam & Max humor and some interesting new twists on adventure gameplay, and the less good being some repetitious puzzles and unpolished graphics. Alley of the Dolls represents a still-funny but less creative chapter in the series that for some will feel more like a stepping-stone to the finale than a worthwhile chapter in itself. Of course, it does manage to end fairly spectacularly, and with an intriguing nod toward the fifth and final chapter. In spite of the relatively low drama of Alley of the Dolls, Devil's Playhouse fans should keep the faith and keep playingespecially since we're only a few weeks away from the final chapter.


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Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technical officer of BT Counterpane, issued the warning at the RSA Conference Europe 2007 in London on Tuesday. He told delegates that they should not necessarily trust security vendors to give a fair representation of the security of those products.
"There might be a political bent to security decisions, or there might be a marketing bent," said Schneier, citing as an example people selling smart cards who "do a lot to convince us that smart cards are the answer to security problems. For every company that's secure, there's at least one 'me too.'"
Schneier said it was difficult for companies to judge the security of varying products because known attacks are relatively rare, making it hard to collect enough data for security-product evaluations.
"If events are high-damage and rare it's difficult to get data. I'm not going to know (the validity of a product) because I don't have the data. After 9/11 there was a huge inquiry into what went wrong, but it's hard to tell what went wrong because it was one event. There's not enough data," said Schneier.
"The (security) market is asymetrical--the seller knows a lot more than the buyer," said Schneier. "In the U.S., a lousy used car is called a lemon--but you don't know until you drive it off the lot that it's a lemon."
If marketed correctly, bad products can drive good products out of the market, Schneier warned.
"Products can have the same claims, the same algorithms, the same buzzwords, and one is very secure while the other is just slapped together. If there's no functional way to test a product, you'll buy the cheaper one," said Schneier.
Schneier said that due to market dynamics, good products tend to rise to the top, but that the market probably couldn't stop the incidence of rare events. He warned businesses not to get "caught up in the feeling of security, driven by fear, rather than the reality."
"Fundamentally, we are not rational," said Schneier. "The brain is just barely functioning in the security community. It's still in beta testing. There's weird holes and shortcuts, and all sorts of patches and work-arounds."
Businesses should evaluate security products very carefully, said Schneier, and find trusted individuals with expertise who can make security decisions within a company.
Eric Baize, senior director of the product security office of storage company EMC, agreed that there were both good- and bad-quality security products available.
"The law of statistics is such that in anything there are good- and bad-quality things," said Baize. "This applies to wine, food, and security products. There has been a lot of discussion about whether security should be added on to the infrastructure, or included as a core feature. Now in the security space companies are selling secure infrastructures."
Shannon Kellogg, director of information security policy for security company RSA, said that it was critical to build security into systems from the beginning.
"Building core security functionalities is absolutely critical," Kellogg said. "Systems in the past didn't have security functionalities, but it enables your company to do more. If your car has brakes, it enables you to go faster."
Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK reported from London.
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- Why the dance? If Schneier knows of products or vendors who are guilty, why not just name them? Otherwise, his "advice" is useless.
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- Kettle Calling the pot black...
- Who's to say that his company is NOT the "me too" company? (* ROFLOL *)
Profile of the company, length of time on the market, market share and number of security flaws should help differentiate the wanna-bees from the pros.
If companies CANNOT make the right decision, then maybe they should consider hiring a better IT professional expert capable of making the right decision.
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- This gets complicated. All marketed devices must have some kind of scientific study behind it. That is how they sell it. They tell you what it will do, often 'parroting studies' that they do not understand.
Furthermore, if the security corp outsourced for the device built and/or the research behind it, they only know what they were told. Not too many out there follow 'sound methodology' in their research. That is across the board, most instruments, medical tests/studies you name it.
Whether you have fw rules, or running labs on normal value research, if the research behind the device is unsound,it affects all done based on those defects.
For years I had to watch people die from incorrect medical tests. They were already off, but looked like they were set to create false negatives. Talk political!! More sick people go home, insurance corps pay less, drug companies get richer as we go around the merry go round.
I now have to watch all of the horrid crimes on the net, knowing that the firewalls may be incorrectly calibrated on bad research. That is before a corp gets it, puts in settings/ rules ids etc.
If device research is bad security people cannot know the limitations of the instrument, the 'true' error rate in the 'band' you can count on, nor where in that band-the error is greater. That is, unless they did their own research on the devices they have.
Not sure of the politics unless it is to sell more expensive stuff.What holds true of pc vendors could affect firewalls, backdoors. I do not know, but i cannot explicitly trust anyone. That is why security would do better perhaps, if they did some tweaking.
That leaves the best option as-hacking. Make it do what you want it to do for good. Is not that what hackers have always done on both sides of the fence? making things do what they were not intended to do? Time to get creative and turn the table on computer crime.
The catch is then with a new more secure creation, who do you trust? Go public,the crackers know it, and who in the world knows who they are? Really.
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- I am talking about backdoors encoded into the hardware. Can we even trust the boards in our pcs anymore? The board has already been 'breached'. It is a question of how badly. It does not matter if a thing is a router,firewall,cell phone digicam. They are all computers with 'pc architecture circuitry', processors,ram,etc.The only difference is that they are designed to do different things.
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Before I say this, I want it known I am a major NRA member and supporter, and a firm defender of 2nd amendment rights.
YEARS ago I got the great idea (this is dripping with sarcasm,) to rent a booth at the local gun show to promote my programs. I was there all day Saturday. I didn't even bother to come back on Sunday.
After about an hour looking at, and talking to, the people there, I began to have the uncontrollable urge to write checks to Sara Brady!!! By the end of the day I was ready to join a ban firearms group. The redneck, inbred, racists, the wannabes & posers were beyond anything I have ever seen. There is a VERY large market for these people, and it is the one Ralph is serving with his blue plate special of bull crap.
These are some VERY unstable people with serious mental issues, paranoia being greatest among them. But all of you know that by now."Out of every hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back." -- Hericletus, circa 500 BC
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So, I just watched Ralph's video from around 2-20-10(might be off by a day or 2) and I must say that we all need to give Ralph a visit. I don't see how he could seriously think that what he is doing in the videos is anything but pathetic. I am completely appauled at his level of incompetence. Do we know if he has some sort of condition that would make him that way? I am not razzing, but am being very serious. He has to be attached to some group home or something and the guys in his videos are other people from that home. Again, I am being very serious.
Ralph, I knew we would never get any straight answers out of you from the start. But would you please just answer the questions so we can get on with other investigations? You are sad no matter what style you are teaching, training in curretnly, or have ever trained in. If you were my student, I would have to get you locked up to keep from embarrassing the school or style. Your technique is that of a junior white belt(that is a stretch) and your ability is even worse.
I amnot trying to be a dick to you, but you need to come clean and stop acting like an escape asperger's patient.
I'd assert that they are actually some of the most dangerous people out there on the 'mean streets of reality'...
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Just something for comparison.
Here is a video of a European guy who "trains military and LE". Take the time to watch the whole thing.
YouTube- Tactical Training, extreme close quarter shooting, tactical Knife
What do you note?
Now that's not to say that "what" he is teaching is good or bad... that can always be debated. However, in this example I actually see this guy training soldiers and cops. He's training students who are in uniform, at their ranges and under the auspices of "formal training", not just "a cop who works out with me".
I would think Ralph would showcase video like this...if he had any.
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As any questions pertaining to your present training are also, necessarily going to relate to any past training, as this would be the foundation of your present skill set!
If you think this is not the case, would you be kind enough to state why...?
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OK catbox question time!
I now will not ask bujinkan related questions while asking catbox questions, as per ralph severe's rules on Q.
here are the questions mr. severe, DerAuslander108 has asked these questions, I hope you answer them:


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2) For strawberries,cut into halves.
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4) In a clean jar with a firm top,arrange the fruit layering with the sugar.
5) Then ladle on the brandy, gin, vodka or whisky.
6) Keep in a cool dark place and give it a few mixes every day for a couple of weeks until the sugar has completely dissolved.
7) Keep for 2-3 months to get the ultimate results.
8) Serve the alcohol chilled as an aperitif or serve the sweeter liqueur after a meal.
9) Both make sensational combinations to a glass of champagne, especially the liqueurs.
10) And, of course, fruit such as peaches, raspberries, blackberries and blackcurrants will, after this treatment, lift even the most uninspiring pudding into the realms of magic.
11) Use them more carefully with meats and savoury courses, wherever you feel the alcoholic fruit will highlight rather than dominate - for example, with gammon or hams, duck or geese, rich game or a grand piece of lamb.
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The report (click for PDF), released Monday by a pair of free-expression advocates at New York University Law School's Brennan Center for Justice, argues that so-called "fair use" rights are under attack. It suggests six major steps for change, including reducing penalties for infringement and making a greater number of pro bono lawyers available to defend alleged fair users.
Fair use is a longstanding principle of copyright law. Its aim is to allow people to copy or quote copyright works without the permission of their authors, provided that they do so, in the words of the statute, "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research." The law lays out a four-pronged approach for determining--if legal challenges against the work's use occur--whether the use was, in fact, "fair."
But beyond that, "nobody really knows what it is, because in fact there is no precise, easy definition," said Marjorie Heins, coordinator of the Brennan Center's Free Expression Policy Project and a co-author of the report, which was titled, "Will Fair Use Survive?"
Research for the report, which began in late 2004, involved, among other tasks, surveying nearly 300 stakeholders and perusing letters dispatched to those accused of violating copyright law. In the process, Heins said she encountered a vast amount of confusion over fair-use principles and a high volume of what she considered irrational infringement claims.
One case described involved a man who in 1997 launched a personal Web site at Tatooine.com, named for the fictional planet in the first "Star Wars" flick. Three years later, the site's owner received a cease-and-desist letter from LucasFilm, ordering him to hand over the site. He said he never posted any "Star Wars"-related content, but instead, such personal-site material as family photos, poetry and fiction.
Worried that he couldn't afford a legal fight, the site's owner ultimately reached a confidential agreement with the company, which now owns the URL and redirects it to the official "Star Wars" site. (Ironically, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas borrowed the name of Tatooine from a city in Tunisia called Tataouine, located near a desert where some scenes were filmed.)
A similar "chilling effect," the report said, is taking shape through so-called takedown notices, a tactic in which copyright and trademark owners send letters to Internet service providers pressuring them to remove sites the owners determined to be infringing.
Such notices are rooted in a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 that frees ISPs and search engines from copyright infringement liability if they "expeditiously" take down anything a copyright owner claims to be in violation of the law. The entire process, from letter-sending to site takedown, can occur without any formal legal proceedings.
Victims of the takedown notices have recourse. They can contest the allegations with a counternotice, but the paperwork is often complicated, Heins said. The report recommended creating Web sites that clarify not only appropriate fair uses but offer sample retorts to questionable takedown notices.
Over the past few years, fair use has been a hot topic in Congress, where politicians have voiced reluctance to make changes to the law. A few politicians have proposed altering existing rules so that people could carry out fair-use activities and legally pick the lock on copy-protection technologies for, say, DVDs and audio files.
But a larger contingent has voiced concern that such a policy would open the floodgates for piracy--a concern that has received backing from the entertainment industry.
For example, the president of the Entertainment Software Association, which represents the video game industry, told members of Congress at a hearing last month that his members think "current law properly balances consumers' diverse interests in using copyrighted works."
Heins said she finds current copyright infringement penalties "Draconian," but noted that the bulk of suggestions in the recent report don't even involve direct lobbying, perhaps in part because of Congress's vocal resistance to change.
"The more people in a community assert fair use, the more it will be recognized and the more difficult it will be for those who want to control every last quote or every clip used in a film," Heins said. "I think a lot of organizing and educating need to be done, and a lot of it will be sort of grassroots."
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- Fair Use...
- The copyright law defines "fair use". Read that, and adhere to it. As long as your not copying entire CDs or DVDs for everyone then you will be fine--end of story.
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- HAHA... Don't we wish
- end of story? No, not at all. Perhaps you'll want to read and anhere to the DMCA... which says the second you circumvent the encryption on that DVD you are trying to "partially copy," you are a criminal.
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- It's not defined...
- If you read the statute, it gives a list of
examples, and then more specifically defines
fair use as "any use that may be reasonably
deemed fair". So, there are examples, and no
concrete standard.
However, courts have iterated over and over
again that the lack of a specific definition of
fair use in the law is significant and
completely intentional. Similar to the standard
of being guilty until proven innocent, copyright
law is intended to treat any use as "fair" until
the matter is brought to court and ajudicated
otherwise. That adjudication is based on some
precedent, but more so at the discretion of the
court (using the "I don't have a legal
definition for pornography, but I know it when I
see it" logic).
This is what these folks are on about. Companies
are now shutting down websites, getting things
taken off the air, etc. because they object to
them. ISPs and broadcasters simply comply with
the request for fear of getting sued. The fact
that the majority of this stuff is "fair" use
and perfectly legal is never considered. In
eliminating liability by promoting censorship, a
situation has appeared where deep-pockets get to
say what is and isn't publishable.
If the government tried it, it would be prior
restraint or censorship. Corporations do it,
however, with Uncle Sam's blessing.
What really irks people, of course, is that this
is EXACTLY the situation that copyright law
(going back a few hundred years to England) was
meant to ameliorate.
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- Economics 101
- It's classic Milton Friedman. The copyright holders have focused interests in protecting their IP (and usually very deep pockets) whereas Joe Sixpack has a diffuse interest in fair use. In either case, who do you think has Senator Specter's ear? Was that last comment about a grass roots movement a joke?
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- More Complex Economics
- your remark just covers the initial considerations of copyright. the writers of the constitution (wherein copyright law is allowed to the U.S. federal government) agonized over the purpose of copyright law. they were both concerned with providing an incentive for the creators of copyrightable works, thus generating more such works, and with allowing for the use of those works to create yet other works. fair use flows from these concepts of our founding fathers. they provided a much shorter period for copyright to exist for a single item than today, both because it moved it more quickly into the public domain where it could be used to create other copyrightable works (ie, sleeping beauty the book into a disney movie), and because a shorter holding period discouraged the creative talent from "sitting on their butts raking in the dough without doing any more work" (i use quotes because of the irreverent way i state that, not because a founding father ever stated it that way!!!).
anyway, in today's world the copyright holders, in the form of big business, believe that a copyright should exist on a product as long as there is profit to be made.
end of story.
mark d.
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- Even TRUTH is being censored on the Net
- The state of the Net now is I can't even say what I want to say here! Even if I use a fake name, they still got my IP address!
So, how is this going to be better in 10 years' time? How is the Net going to help bring out a better system of society for people?
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- He quit, claiming the wheels of politics are to fast for him
- They always had your IP address. Back in 1999 I was at a newspaper forum that didn't like the way I talked in their politics section so they blocked me from posting. I tried changing my name and that's how I found out. I still couldn't post. I'm afraid to say which paper it was, but I'll tell you this much, I put down their governor and they couldn't have that because he's already tried to punch their lights out. A fighter he was!
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- Need for anonymizer software.
- What people need is built in anonymization software to encrypt their surfing habits from their ISPs. That'd be a start.
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- Our technology is such
- that if you can think of it you can bet it's out there. Right now though, government won't let us have it because they are in the process of shoving big brother down our throats
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- Adobe's abuse of this copyright provision
- Five or six years ago, at the beginning of what was called the Sklyarov case (Dimitry Sklyarov was the Russian graduate student who went to work for a Russian company called Elcomsoft and was arrested when visiting the U.S.), Adobe believed that Elcomsoft was violating the DMCA by selling a program that would open the content of a "locked" PDF.
But what they did was accuse Elcomsoft of violating their copyright (as some sites were, by posting illicit copies of Photoshop) -- Elcomsoft wasn't, but the company's website was shut down from three different ISP's because of Adobe's lie.
While this episode has stained Adobe's reputation forever, what sticks in people's minds is how Adobe sicced the FBI on an individual presenting a paper at a conference. Few people realize how Adobe manipulated this provision to harm Elcomsoft.
But I haven't forgotten. AFAIK, Adobe never acknowledged its abuse to harm another company.
Roger Sperberg
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- UnFair Use
- My biggest gripe about "fair use" is where college professors or TAs photocopy whole sections of a book, pass them out in class (or sell them in a syllabus!!) with no compensation to the author.
The courts have to straighten out compensation for us print authors before even attmpting to wade into the digital morass.
On another note, to call someone a "remix artist" is a joke. If their version was any better than the original, they would have been hired as the producer originally.
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- Not Just About Remix Artists
- setting aside the artistic talent of remix artists, the issue is the availability of previously copyrighted works for the use of others in the creation of new works. a good example might be sleeping beauty (okay, a bad example since the fairy tale was likely never copyrighted). here's a work that disney remade as a wonderful animation.
now, suppose that a different copyrighted work could be forced into the public domain because of improved fair use and, more important to me, shorter copyright lifecycles. personally, i'd love to see Peter Jackson make a movie version of "the hobbit", but that will probably never happen because of disputes over ownership. you may not like remix artists, you may not even like Tolkien, but surely there's some copyrighted work that would interest you if someone else had a chance at it with either broader fair use provisions, or once it entered public domain?
mark d.
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- Fair use = software piracy?
- I take anything these authors say with a huge grain of salt considering how they use information from chillingeffects.org as evidence of the quashing of free speech. chillingeffects.org seems to believe that search engines have every right to list web sites that publish software cracks and serial numbers to allow the illegal use of software. Companies that send in a DMCA notice to Google regarding such piracy links Google includes in their search listings will see their notice immediately appear on the chillingeffects.org web site. Note this this is the only option Google gives for companies in this situation. Apparently chillingeffects.org and Google feel it constitutes free speech to help others engage in software piracy.
I understand that ordinary people like to get software for free. I also understand that large companies like Google want to be able to do anything they want. In the middle are small companies struggling to survive.
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- Creative Commons replacing Fair Use
- Fair Use is state controlled where Creative Commons is more non-profit, like ICANN, and clearly defines between all nations.
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- go free!
- http://www.analogstereo.com/bmw_z_owners_manual.htm
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The Choice Bus, a school-prison bus program designed to motivate high school students to complete school and graduate visited Stanhope Elmore High School last week.
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From editorial writers' talk of a "school to prison pipline" to reports of alarming high school dropout rates on newscasts there has been significant discussion about deteriation in educational systems around the country. Since 2008, State Farm Insurance and the Mattie C. Stewart Foundation have impacted more than 2 million students in 20 states about this issue through a program called The Choice Bus.
The display consists primarily of a school bus, the back half of which is painted to resemble a prison bus. A grant by State Farm provides The Choice Bus the opportunity to visit schools, along with the InsideOut Toolkit. Each Toolkit contains a Teacher's Guide, a Stay in School Pledge Card and the InsideOut documentary—a 26-minute DVD that exposes the real story of the devastating and lasting effects of dropping out of school, told by those who live with the consequences every day: prison inmates.
Alabama is no stranger to this half-classroom, half-prison cell mobile experience. Since 2008, nearly 20,000 Alabama students have boarded The Choice Bus.
Roughly every 26 seconds across America, a student drops out of high school, according to organizers of the Choice Bus. The period between semesters at the winter break is often when students drop out. The Choice Bus is the nation's first mobile experience dedicated to reducing the dropout rate by showing students the power of their choices.
Dr. Molly Killingsworth, a former Assistant Principal at Stanhope Elmore High School, said in her experience the program is a powerful motivatior.
"I've received several emails from teachers stating students were really impacted by The Choice Bus. When students see individuals who made bad choices as teenagers, and ended up in prison, it's a more powerful impact than the teachers explaining to them what they should and should not do. Bringing the Choice Bus to Stanhope Elmore is one of the various programs being implemented to help increase the graduation rate.," Killingsworth said.
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This nicely designed 19th-century town house sits on a quiet street at the edge of the old city, a minute's walk from the Plaza Almoina and the Cathedral in one direction, and steps from the Turia gardens in the other. Owner Luis García Alarcón is an antiquarian, and the hotel reflects his eye for classic design and architectural elegance: original decorative brickwork, geometric tile floors, and curved ceiling beams. A buffet breakfast is included.
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Easy walking distance from all the sites in the old town and on a nice and quiet street (airport taxi driver had no difficulty in locating it). Large, spacious, air-conditioned, clean rooms. Bathroom was also a very good size (had shower and bath) as was the wardrobe which had a sufficient number of hangers. My friend and I loved that the rooms were decorated in the period of the hotel which gave it a more personal flavour. Twin rooms are available
- I was travelling with a female friend. Staff were very helpful and spoke excellent English and had very good restaurant recommendations. Hotel makes available a computer for internet use, which was invaluable for checking in return flight, as one could also use the printer. Good breakfast which was included in room rate. Very reasonable rate for the quality of hotel. Would recommend to business or tourist traveller.
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The Westin St. John Resort & Villas Rating: 3.5 Pearls
The Westin St. John is the best kid-friendly resort in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Children receive personalized amenities like coloring books or bath toys and are treated to complimentary beverages at mealtimes. The supervised kids' club ($60 per day) -- for ages three to 12 (it's four-and-up at other hotels) -- offers daily activities like sandcastle contests, movies, and swimming. And teen-interests aren't neglected: They can keep busy at the 1,200-square-foot Westin Teen Center or with activities like parasailing, kayaking, tennis, and salsa lessons.
Caneel Bay Resort Rating: 4.5 Pearls
Caneel Bay lacks an elaborate pool or even TVs in the rooms, but it has one of the best, and rarest, of kid-friendly amenities in the Virgin Islands: free supervised activities. Kids three to 12 can spend the day participating in arts and crafts, treasure hunts, and nature walks through the activity center, Turtle Town. Plus its location -- in the midst of the Virgin Islands National Park -- offers ample hiking and outdoors activities.
Dreams Sugar Bay Rating: 3.5 Pearls
A cool grotto-style pool, fun water activities like bumper boats, and the "Kids Klub's" scavenger hunts, snorkeling, and iguana feeding ($95 per day) make the Wyndham Sugar Bay the best family resort on St. Thomas, especially since families can easily fit into the large standard rooms (available with two double beds or free rollaways).
Crystal Cove Beach Resort on Sapphire Bay Rating: 2.5 Pearls
Crystal Cove Beach Resort on Sapphire Beach has distinctive pros and cons. Situated on gorgeous Sapphire Beach, this stretch of sand is one of the best in the Virgin Islands -- clear, turquoise, and calm, with great snorkeling and lots of sea life. The property also has a large pool and tennis courts and offers condo-style living at an affordable price.
Frenchman's Reef & Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort Rating: 4.0 Pearls
Made up of 478 guest rooms, this is one of the largest resorts in theU.S. Virgin Islands. It has two gorgeous pools, a long stretch of beachfront, a qualityspa and fitness center, ample bars and restaurants (including one of the most fashionable restaurants on the island), an in-house scuba tour operator, and enough space between it all to find some relative peace and quiet.
The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas Rating: 4.0 Pearls
The Ritz-Carlton is St. Thomas' classiest resort, located only five minutes from Red Hook's fun dining and yacht scene. Its private sailboat, fitness center, spa, and soft-sand beach -- a marine-life sanctuary -- are all among the best in St. Thomas. Though the food and service don't compare to swankier Ritzs elsewhere, it's a solid family pick, especially with Standard rooms that have either a king bed plus a sleeper sofa or two double beds.
Point Pleasant Resort Rating: 3.5 Pearls
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Report: Cubs offering Jeff Samardzija around five years and $55 million
Dec 6, 2013, 7:57 AM EDT
It was reported Wednesday that the Cubs intend to listen to offers on right-hander Jeff Samardzija during next week's Winter Meetings in Orlando, but they haven't given up all hope in retaining him for the long-term.
Bruce Levine of 670 The Score in Chicago was told by a source that the Cubs have offered Samardzija a deal in the area of five years and $55 million. Meanwhile, another source said that the number is actually higher. While Cubs general manager Theo Epstein maintains that "nothing has changed" in regard to contract talks, Levine hears that the two sides "continue to have an open amicable line of communication."
Samardzija compiled a 4.34 ERA in 33 starts this past season, but his peripherals remained quite strong. He has averaged 9.13 K/9 over the past two seasons, which is fifth-highest among pitchers with at least 300 innings pitched during the same timespan. Only Chris Sale, Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer, and Yu Darvish are higher. Samardzija turns 29 in January and is under team control for two more seasons.
- pastabelly - Dec 6, 2013 at 8:07 AM
Samardzia will probably be insulted by that offer. Some pretty mediocre pitchers are getting deals with an AAV of $13 million and an offer of $11 AAV over five years just doesn't seem right. I'm not sure if the luster is off of Samardzia, but it's certainly off Epstein.
- bravojawja - Dec 6, 2013 at 9:23 AM
Except those mediocre pitchers were free agents. Samardzjia is under team control for another two years through arbitration. I imagine he's in line for a nice raise (he made $2.64 million in 2013), but he won't be getting $13 million or even $11 million anytime soon without a new contract.
- irishfan82 - Dec 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM
The Twins need to go after the Shark!
- tfilarski - Dec 6, 2013 at 8:24 AM
some other team please trade for him!
- basedrum777 - Dec 6, 2013 at 9:05 AM
Somewhere Brain cashman just had an orgasm…
- bluesoxbaseball - Dec 6, 2013 at 9:29 AM
Theo Epstein is not the Cubs GM.
- markofapro - Dec 6, 2013 at 9:30 AM
I don't get it. This guy IS mediocre. Are the Hugges', Nelasco's, and Samardzija's now supposed to be better once they sign big contracts? $11 a year for a guy who has a 4.39 ERA.
- bpearse230 - Dec 6, 2013 at 9:34 AM
I guess that career choice to give up football worked out pretty well.
- kastout11 - Dec 6, 2013 at 11:17 AM
I think you need to try and lock him up. He can be your #1 or #2 starter for the next decade. Big kid with a strong arm. I don't see the Cubs doing a whole lot over the past few years. I think they are trying to cut payroll and build up the farm system, then I will expect them to make their move. They have a nice nucleus, but badly need pitching. I don't think he is worth $12M a year, but right now all the salaries are out of line in baseball. I think $12M a year is probably the going rate for a pitcher of his caliber.
- hwkeycubronco - Dec 6, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Jeff is a version of Carlos Zambrano….great arm but lacks the mental toughness to make the big pitch when needed. Cubs need more offense than they need pitching…pitching has been at average or above the last couple years.
- yourcubreporter - Dec 6, 2013 at 3:23 PM
Oh dear God.
There is only one Carlos Zambrano. And for most Cubs fans, there needs to be one and only one Carlos Zambrano. Samardzija is a good pitcher for the money and delivers innings and strikeouts. And he contributes with the bat, mostly because our offense requires it…
Keep him on the roster, and let's kick this thing into gear. Time to find out if we can stop ta lking about rebuilding.
- eddiek77 - Dec 6, 2013 at 7:57 PM
If the Cubs can figure out a way to pitch Samardzija every other day against the Pirates next season, he may win 20.
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The Bears go for their third straight win today as they face the Titans for the first time ever at The Coliseum. The last time these teams met, the current stadium was not built and they were the Tennessee Oilers.
Bear fans, Adam Caldarelli is at The Coliseum in the Music City today, and you can send him your e-mail questions and he'll find out the answers in the locker room after the contest. Use the form on the right.
Chris Brown will be the main man for Tennessee, as he has rushed for over 800 yards so far with five TDs.
Craig Krenzel looks to run his record as a starter to 3-0. The Bears have not won three in a row since the playoff season of 2001.
Adam: Greetings form the town that gave us Jonathan Quinn. Anyone for grits? They serve them every meal down here. At least every meal I've had. Not that I'm complaining.
This is possibly the greatest press box ever. We're exactly 34 rows up. So close I could use a beer. Soldier Field's press box is 34 stories up.
Football related news: Like you're not going to know in about 10 minutes, but Anthony Thomas will start today. Thomas Jones is inactive. The bigger news, however, is that Bill Volek starts at quarterback for the Titans over the injured Steve McNair.
Ho boy, the Titans mascot is a guy in a raccoon suit. And he's freak dancing at midfield.
Football next.
First quarter
It's sunny and 56 degrees in Nashville. The Titans receive and will start at the 27 with Billy Volek behind center. He's an undrafted free agent from Fresno State. Chris Brown gets the call and will lose 3. Titans go to the hurry-up offense and Brown gets back to the line of scrimmage. Volek calls and audible and has plenty of time to pass--he completes to Erron Kinney, but they're a few yards shy of the first. R.W. McQuarters takes the punt and is hit immediately at the Bears 26.
Krenzel rolls to his left and completes to Bobby Wade for a short gain of 4. They try a screen and the pass goes right into the ground. No chance on that one. Draw to A-Train and the Titans were ready for it--no gain. Michael Waddell takes the punt at the 30 and has running room and gets across midfield, but it's called back due to two penalties--a late hit and an illegal block. Not sure how you have a late hit on the return team. Maybe it was a block after the play was blown dead.
From the Titans 46, Brown picks up 3. Volek goes to Shad Meier for a short gain to the Bears 48. Now Volek goes to Derrick Mason and Jerry Azumah keeps him from getting the first at the 45. Titans will go for it. Brown takes the toss and he's nailed. It's close. They're short by a few inches and Brian Urlacher celebrates.
Adam: I guess when Craig Krenzel is the opposing quarterabck you can go for it on fourth down in the first quarter.
Krenzel first-down throw is almost picked off. The pass was low and well behind the intended receiver. No room to run again for Thomas. The O-line is getting overpowered at this stage. So it's third-and-13. Krenzel goes back to pass and is forced to run and he'll slide at the Titans 48, which is about three yards shy of the first. Derrick Mason takes the punt and calls a fair catch inside the 10. Thank you.
Volek will pass on first down and he completes to Drew Bennett for a 20-yard gain. Brown carries for a yard to the 29. Brown has some room straight ahead and gets 7 more. Quick slant for Bennett, but Azumah is there just in time to knock the ball away. Fox says it should have been pass interference. Berrian takes the punt and steps out at the 15.
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Adam: Paging Terry Shea: major offensive adjustments needed. The Titans are loading up on the run and in obvious passing situations bringing everything. The Bears have no answer.
Volek takes a two-step drop and lofts one over everyone out of bounds. The Bears bring a few DBs, and Volek goes to the sideline and completes to Ben Troupe for a 3-yard gain. The Bears blitz, but Volek finds Bennett for the first down at the Bears 43. Brown carries and gets maybe a yard. Brown blasts through the middle for a first at the 28.


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Re: Xinerama and GLX with dual GPUs, compatibility question
I'm running a tripple head setup for about a year using two 7800GTX
and three 1600x1200 LC displays. LCD1 and LCD2 connected to card1
operate in twinview mode. LCD3 connected to card2 is tied in with
Xinerama. LCD1 and LCD2 could also be defined as seperate screens.
Both varaints have pros and cons.
Concerning OpenGL: the window width/hight limit is currently 4096
pixels. If the window is bigger, then fallback to soft-rendering is done
(at least for me).
My first experimental setup used a 7800GTX for LCD1 and LCD2 and
a 6600 card for LCD3. I didn't have done any benchmarks at that time,
but i had the impression that replacing the 6600 with a second 7800GTX
didn't made a big difference for UT2K4: for this game, the CPU is
typically the bottleneck. Even if you can use a slower card for LCD3,
i would recomend buying the same card as used for LCD1+2, because
then you can also use an SLI setup in case you need it.
Concerning overhead because of xinerama: i once did some benchmarks
and IIRC, a 2560x1024 twinview setup using only the first card was
about 20% slower than a 3840x1024 using both cards with xinerama.
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i have a 13 inch macbook and i need a cable to recharge the battery where can i find it?
- Asked by Sandra F from Hampton Bays
QA Rechargeable Battery 13" MacBook
Product No Longer Available
1 Answer from the Community
Apple Store should be able to supply you with 60 Watt MagSafe Adapter.
- Answered by Dinesh D from Dubai


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Limited Edition Print
Artwork by Daria Martin
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- Composition: Paper, Giclée print
- Details: Untitled, 2010 by Daria Martin. Giclée print on Somerset paper. 15-piece edition. Signed and numbered by the artist on reverse. This is Martin's first ever print edition, and is taken from a her film, "The Birds" 2001, which is now part of the Tate Collection.
- Measurements: Height: 12.48 inches Width: 16.38 inches
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Lawmaker Seeks To Require State To Consult Towns On Parks
A southeastern Connecticut state lawmaker is introducing legislation to give local town officials and residents more of a say in the siting of state parks.
Meeting Planned For Proposed State Park In Waterford
Three state agencies plan to publicly introduce the team that will be working with the community on developing a new state park at the former Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford.
US Oversight Increased At Millstone Nuclear Plant
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it is stepping up oversight at Connecticut's nuclear plant following a safety violation.
State Probing Millstone Water Dumped Into LI Sound
State environmental officials are taking a closer look at the impact of more than 2 billion gallons of water discharged into Long Island from Connecticut's nuclear plant.
Millstone Drill To Test Response To Intruders
WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) – The Millstone nuclear power complex in Waterford is testing the response of about 500 workers and emergency responders to an intruder scenario. The power station owned by Virginia-based Dominion is conducting […]
US Regulators Rap Faulty Water Pump At Millstone
Federal regulators say they could impose more inspections and greater oversight of Connecticut's nuclear power plant due to repeated problems with a critical water pump.
One Of Two Millstone Reactors Back Online
WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) – Connecticut's only nuclear plant says one of its two reactors is back online after operations were halted by a weekend power outage. Millstone Power Station spokesman Ken Holt says Unit 2 […]
Electricity Out at Millstone
WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Federal officials say Connecticut's nuclear plant in Waterford has lost power, with an electrical short likely to blame. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the two reactors at Millstone Power Station shut […]
Fugitive From New Hampshire Nabbed In Connecticut
WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) – A former New Hampshire state representative who once served as state chairman for Joe Biden's presidential campaign has been captured in Connecticut on a fugitive from justice charge. Waterford police Lt. […]
Potassium Iodide Going to Millstone Neighbors
WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Connecticut is about to receive about 1.3 million potassium iodide pills to be distributed to towns in a 10-mile emergency planning zone around Millstone Power Station in Waterford. The pills protect […]