Don't forget that OPEC countries have been found financing anti-Keystone XL 'environmental' groups as a means to keep competition out of their oil markets and keep prices up. Then there's the railway owners, who would lose out if a pipeline was built. Much of the inland oil development is shipped by BSNF, a Berkshire-Hathaway company. Buffet is an Obama supporter who has publicly supported Keystone XL, but who knows what deals are going on behind closed doors? (my apologies if this is a repeat post, the last one didn't seem to take.)

There's more though. Arab oil-producing companies have been found backing environmental groups, to fight the introduction of new supply into their markets, which would depress prices. Then there's the owners of the railroads, who would lose out if the pipe network was expanded. If I remember correctly, BSNF railway ships much of the recent inland oil development, and it's owned by Warren Buffet, a notable supporter of Obama. Buffet (again IIRC) has come out in support of the Keystone XL pipeline, but who knows what deals are going on behind closed doors?.

1. I would like to present the results of [experiment].
2. I would like to lead a group discussion about the implications of [novel hypothesis].
3. I would like to teach you how to perform [new calculation].
4. I would like to tell everyone how to comply with [complex new regulations].

...Are at least four very different communication tasks. Some are better accomplished with PowerPoint (or other similar presentation tools) than others. The way that a presenter uses those tools is likely to have a significantly greater impact on the effectiveness of the presentation than the presence or absence of those tools. Uses of the different presentation aids need not be mutually exclusive--PowerPoint decks, whiteboards, handouts, etc. can be used singly or in combination for best effect.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. I've been at very productive scientific meetings where someone puts up one or two slides of data and we spend the rest of the time in an open discussion around the whiteboard trying to figure out what it means (and which experiments should come next).

I've never been in a job since university where I have a 'supervisor'. I've had managers, but their role has never been to supervise me.

I don't want a supervisor. I want someone I can work with, not for. Generally I achieve this.

I worry that I _am_ that layer of ineffective management.

You mean like Windows explorer, Office 2013, internet explorer and the Windows 2012R2 RSAT? It's a joke. And yes I've tried all of the things you mention. Windows 7 just leaves the scale the fuck alone and it works.

Pretty much.

They have removed/hidden a bunch of the options you used to get when right clicking a connection in the task bar. They've also removed a bunch of options you could use to get more information and remove/re-add a connection via the control panel.

What about the setting "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays"

Was waiting for someone to mention that. It doesn't work. I have noticed no appreciable effect. And to clarify, by "re-size" in my above post, i mean that it does a really shitty job of scaling things to what seems like non-native monitor resolution - exactly like if you were to say, run you 1920x1080 monitor in 1680x1050 resolution. Blurred fonts, head-ache inducing and difficult to read. My laptops internal screen is 1920x1080. My 23" monitor is 1920x1080. In 6 months I was unable to get this behavior to stop. Yes, i understand what Windows 8.1 is TRYING to do - make my windows the same physical size on both screens, but it doesn't work and makes things nasty to use - and can't be disabled, it would appear. Whether that is due to a driver issue or what i have no idea. But its a deal breaker for multi-monitor support for me at the moment.

... it is a custom build. What would firefox rather they do? Not offer it? Fork, calling it something else and erode Firefox's market presence? Or give them some free publicity. This strikes me as cutting off their nose to spite their face on the part of Mozilla.

These are not school exams, these are external exams that the school administers.

No. Subjugated girls being kept in ignorance by religious fuckwits are sitting an exam with fewer questions than well educated students at other schools.

Otherwise it's the same exam, but the girls at that particular school will fail to get the top marks, because they automatically score 0 for the questions that were removed from their papers.

I haven't checked with my current employer, but at my previous company (a bank) their MITM attacks had a whitelist that they would ignore.

Major UK banks were on the whitelist. I could log into my bank site through a secure HTTPS link, with no corporate inspection of my packets.

Of course, people worrying about the MITM attack on their bank details are all ignoring the other obvious vector: Your employer can use (and often has pre-installed, ready for activation) keyloggers and/or screen capture software to monitor your activity. They don't need to 'sniff' your banking details, they can capture them at source.

It's the employer's network, the employer's PC, the employer's choice what to do with it. Use your own devices on your own networks if you want any security.

You're missing the point.

My argument was facetious. It would be no more about making abortion rare than "assault weapons" bans, "Universal Background Checks" and gun registration are about preventing gun violence.

The true purpose of tracking everyone who had an abortion would be so that they could be prosecuted if and when the political winds change enough to make it possible, just like those gun control schemes are about hassling,harassing and tracking legitimate gun owners until the political winds allow for banning and confiscation.

LK

Ebay also had the added leverage of being able to freeze people's assets for 180 days through PayPal.

People were less likely to press the issue when PayPal could lock them out of their operating capital for 6 months.

LK

You don't know much about the process do you?

Please don't take that as an insult, I didn't mean it as one. I'll ask a few questions to illustrate my point.

1)Which form?
2)Police have access to NCIC, not NICS so how would they run a NICS check?
3)Which form?

LK