"That ITs internal HP printers LCD panels suddenly started displaying "INSERT COIN" had nothing to do with this, I swear." Ah, playing with LaserJet front panels... Making them talk to the person stand at the printer...

Since they're going to end up doing the same here, and some manufacturers are already shutting down incandescent lines, what's Hasbro going to use for future versions?

Someone in Wisconsin has emailed child porn to legislators and administrative staff in the state government, apparently to extort votes or political favour. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gnAmcYzYG2Ef0BJwTrf9aYQRIrTAD9HBNFR80

There's the fact that the photo in question is of a hammock which is described as "Cory's Hammock" in the photoset. It's possible Cory believes that a) it's non-commercial, and b) it's his owned damned hammock, so it's cool.

If you diagrammed the sentence, you would find out that the "that had never been released to the world" refers back to "a flavor of the old Lisa" which many would take to mean a variant. It's easy to believe that not all Lisa variants were released to the world.

If this thing crashes on takeoff, someone's going to have to stop it.

Citation? I still see a number of people who do carry hundreds, because they've been brought up/trained themselves to believe that it makes them (wealthy|important|happy). Other people do because they're much less likely to spend it - it's harder to let go of a $100 than a $20 or smaller. Personally, I'm not one of those, so it'd be a curiosity.

Mine changes at least 3 times a week, and it changes in several octets, so I'm not sure their database is going to do much.

Mama says alligators are ornery cause they got all dem teeth and no toothbrush.

Yeah, I don't remember the last time I used real coins. I carry a grocery-store branded "quarter" in my car to unlock grocery carts. I use cash to buy coffee, since I buy from a micro-roaster who isn't big enough to bother with accepting plastic, but he prices things so that it's an even $10/lb, so I never have change from that. For just about everything else, I use a credit card (or debit). I pay for our parking meters via cell-phone, and I don't use vending machines (partially due to the fact that I never have change on me). To pay friends for things, I usually just round up or pay with a cheque.

The advantages are having a much lighter wallet. I'm not worried about losing a lot of cash if I ever get mugged, or more likely forget my wallet somewhere. My credit card gives me 1.5% cash back on every purchase I make, plus all the other benefits of using a credit card (warranty, contesting charges, insurance, etc..).

Businesses screw you a lot more than the government. You have to choose your allegiance.. Corporate America or the Government. In this case you have to opt-in to choose the Government.

What is the exchange rate USD to virgins?

Where I live, there is a provider for non-profits - cheap access, connecting them with cheap hardware and software licensing, etc. Every so often they ahve an IT day of service you can sign up for to wire a space, or configure a bunch of servers/workstations for a youth center, etc.

Look for names like community computing, communitynet, net, etc.

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Did this before. When 2000/AD came out, they started claiming huge numbers of NOS seats, more than Netware, because everyone who owned 2000Pro, or XP, had an AD/Server CAL. It was determined that the majority of these weren't being used to connect to domains anyway, but they were advertising their obvious superiority to Netware based on seats sold. So, yeah, business as usual. Many of these 'licensed' SharePoint seats are probably from a CAL package that includes SharePoint, in Enterprise Agreements. Many state government entities are having the basic SharePoint CAL included in their EA in the hopes that they might use it later on.