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http://www.amazon.com/Comcast-Interactive-Media-XFINITY-TV/dp/B00AOA9BL0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1458672644&sr=8-2&keywords=comcast

Amazing that it has 4.5/5 stars. Not sure about that.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B6... has 1.5 stars and 82 customer reviews right now.

Personally, I cannot imagine why either Amazon or Comcast thought this was a good idea.

Then you have not looked very hard.

Then you have not looked very hard.

Then you have not looked very hard.

I distill my tap water before drinking it, using one of these.

That doesn't solve this problem, of course, but it does give me an extra layer of protection against failings of the water treatment process.

Contrary to strangely-popular belief, distilled water is only barely acidic (thousands of times less acidic than soda pop, slightly less acidic than a banana), and does not leech minerals from your body. It's water. It is perfectly healthy, and it tastes good.

Just looked at the page, it's bundled with internet service. I see no place to buy just TV service, and I already have smoking fast cable so this doesn't add a thing for me.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/13295274011

"their work ought to convince hundreds of thousands of drivers to keep their car keys next to their Pudding Pops"

Huh? Pudding pops? What does that even mean? I thought the new Slashdot management was going to get rid of these horrible summaries that don't make any sense. Since the word is capitalized, I assume this means Jell-O Pudding Pops? The frozen snack from the 80s? They stopped making these a long, long time ago. So you should keep your key fob in the freezer? How does that help?

I just assumed this was a hidden slashvertisement for a new car security service led by Bill Cosby.

"their work ought to convince hundreds of thousands of drivers to keep their car keys next to their Pudding Pops"

Huh? Pudding pops? What does that even mean? I thought the new Slashdot management was going to get rid of these horrible summaries that don't make any sense. Since the word is capitalized, I assume this means Jell-O Pudding Pops? The frozen snack from the 80s? They stopped making these a long, long time ago. So you should keep your key fob in the freezer? How does that help?

$40 out the door sounds like you had a subsidized phone - this $399 price is the unsubsidized price.

That said, "budget friendly" is a Moto G, $179 for 8GB or $219 for 16GB but with the ability to stick in a 32GB MicroSD for $20 more. Those are the unsubsidized prices.

oh wait... only $11 more now - http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-...

Seems like a problem we've already solved for the small percentage of people who need ethernet on a thin laptop. What's wrong with WiFi for 99%+ of people? Especially since 802.11n let alone ac?

Who cares how big the connector on their cable modem or router is as long as the end that goes into the laptop is small?

There is another interesting and potentially very important observation: People with ASD appear to have a gut flora that differs significantly from the average population.

Bingo!

This! A thousand times this!

Nutrition is the most overlooked factor in the wider ADHD / Autism spectrum. I'm a sugar addict and would subscribe a lot of my solopsistic behaviour that might be classified as sort-of "aspergerish" or adhd to diet. Whenever I make an effort to eat healthy the difference is very notable. I'm more awake, more aware, my mood is better and I'm way better at social interaction.

Excercise is another big factor, as is - for heterosexual men - interaction with women. It's a proven scientific fact that social interaction with women improves mens mental health across the board, autism or not. ... I'm basically addicted to Tango for that exact reason - one of the rare opportunities where interaction of the sexes is still formalised, similar to ye 'olde days. Testosterone goes up, cortisol and other stress-hormones go down. Again, that's scientifically proven. Mood and mental well-being improves measurably. If you're a nerd or geek like me and suffer from the usual social interaction problems, especially with the other gender, you should try it.

They make sliding bluetooth keyboards which snap onto the back of your phone. Yeah they're all for landscape orientation. You can thank Blackberry for suing anyone who makes a keyboard in portrait orientation.

The problem is not fast food labor. The problem is that a large percentage of jobs are in China. There are fewer hi-tech manufacturing jobs in the United States. Life in the U.S. is rapidly degrading. It's good that low-level jobs are taken by machines. It's bad if the hi-level jobs of designing, manufacturing, and maintaining those machines are all taken by Chinese. In Hong Kong, a long time ago, I met a man who was having golf clubs made in China. He said he taught a Chinese man to design the factory. He found later that the Chinese man's brother was building an identical factory to make golf clubs that would compete with his business. This is an excellent book that tells one part of the story of degradation: Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game. There are many other, related issues.

that's always been the way. Dodge Brothers start out by making parts for Olds and Ford, then strike out on their own, for instance. Chinese are no different in that light. What's different is that they have been taught by most of the American companies who outsourced production there that price is everything, and quality is meaningless. Craftsman tools being a shining example.

The problem is not fast food labor. The problem is that a large percentage of jobs are in China. There are fewer hi-tech manufacturing jobs in the United States. Life in the U.S. is rapidly degrading.

It's good that low-level jobs are taken by machines. It's bad if the hi-level jobs of designing, manufacturing, and maintaining those machines are all taken by Chinese.

In Hong Kong, a long time ago, I met a man who was having golf clubs made in China. He said he taught a Chinese man to design the factory. He found later that the Chinese man's brother was building an identical factory to make golf clubs that would compete with his business.

This is an excellent book that tells one part of the story of degradation: Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game. There are many other, related issues.

"but in the long run are undermining our values."

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Trilateral commission crisis of democracy pdf

Crisis of democracy - pdf

Book

Crisis of democracy

Selling state secrets may be a bit too much of an accusation, but selling favors and access isn't.

The entire Clinton Global Initiative looks to be an amazing scam in which she was personally able to enrich her family thanks to her position as SoS. Granted a book written on this subject isn't able to 'prove' much (though it does make a compelling case), it would be up to the feds to do a criminal investigation on the subject and that isn't likely.

"Private corporations are people when it suits them best."

Well if the population wasn't so dumb about history and politics they could probably do something about it. But most people are hyper capitalist ra-ra-ra.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

"Private corporations are people when it suits them best."

Well if the population wasn't so dumb about history and politics they could probably do something about it. But most people are hyper capitalist ra-ra-ra.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

I ran into the same problem. Comcast informed me that my modem was out of date and I needed to upgrade to get the full speeds I was paying for. I took the bait and signed up and they sent me a modem that I discovered had WiFi that could not be turned off, presumably to create a mesh network allowing other people to steal my bandwidth. I promptly returned it and bought my own DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem without WiFi or router capabilities.

You can search DOCSIS 3 on Amazon or the like, but here is the specific modem I purchased

they are and always have been crazily cheap. i don't think microsoft is making any money on them.
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Lu...

This drone has a flight time of 25 minutes. In 25 minutes it can definitely go higher than 400 feet.

Or just buy a cheap tablet, install Timely or My Alarm Clock and mount it on the wall

Total cost: About $50-$70
Total headache: None

Or just buy a cheap tablet, install Timely or My Alarm Clock and mount it on the wall

Total cost: About $50-$70
Total headache: None

Next: when do our phones come with Citizens Band or something like that?

Done

How much does the Library of Congress weigh?

Oh, about 6 lbs, according to this blog post. Now, they didn't say it weight 6 lbs., but I used the bullet point that stated

."..it is estimated that the entire collection of the Library of Congress including photos, sound recordings and movies might take 3,000 TB of storage. Assuming $100 each for 2 TB hard drives, the entire book collection of the Library of Congress could be stored on about $1500 worth of hard drives at today's prices." LINK

I looked up 2 GB external HDs and picked one at random. This Seagate Express 2 TB External HD weighs 6.4 oz.

Hence, 15 2TB HDs at 6.4 oz. each, divided by 16 oz/lb = 6 lbs.

... the american empire doesn't care. Canada is a client state, the TPP is a big protectionist agreement for western nation corporations as a hedge against china and russia.

The grand chessboard

This is how Brzezinski views the (supposedly sovereign) nations of Central Asia:

"The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as a key arbiter of Eurasian power relations but also as the world's paramount power. The defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendance of a Western Hemisphere power, the United States, as the sole and, indeed, the first truly global power..."

"Two basic steps are thus required: first, to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them;... second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above..." (p. 40)

- "...To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together." (p.40)
- "Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power." (p.55)

- "America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy." (p.194)

- "That puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to challenge America's primacy..." (p. 198)

- "The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role." (p. 198)

- "For Pakistan, the primary interest is to gain Geostrategic depth through political influence in Afghanistan - and to deny to Iran the exercise of such influence in Afghanistan and Tajikistan - and to benefit eventually from any pipeline construction linking Central Asia with the Arabian Sea." (p.139)

And ponder the meaning of these statements in a post-9-11 world:

- "Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." (p. 211)

- "The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (pp 24-5)

To most Americans the people of the world are just that- people, just like us, with a right to self-determination. To Brzezinski, they are merely pawns on a chessboard. Such an imperialist strategy does not make me feel any safer- how did Napoleon's strategy fare for the French in the long run? Or the Roman emperors for their citizens?

Rome fell, Hitler fell, all imperialist powers ultimately fail, because they follow the over-extended geopolitical strategy advocated by Brzezinski. While our military is busy fighting for oil interests all around the world, who's watching the front door?

Well, I guess it's at least good for a laugh.

What part do you think is funny?

Seriously, though, do you have a link to your stuff?

http://www.amazon.com/C.D.-Reimer/e/B0040A2SEW/
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/cdreimer

I cannot tell you the name of the company I worked for, but perhaps you can figure it out from the hints.

Umm. Boeing?

Read Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers. A good analysis of employee surveys and statistics collected at that company which pretty much illustrate the same points you made. Particularly stress related health problems. The sooner you get out of that company, the longer you'll live.

Because money improves your quality of life more than extra time does.

Wrong. Beyond 'minimum' needs like food, shelter, health, security, and perhaps some good sex thrown in, income basically is disposable. What humans need beyond that is to feel loved, competent and a sense of enthusiasm for what they strive for. Which all has nothing to do with 'physical' wealth. Money in those latter areas is nothing but a shallow substitute, and mostly a bad one at that. That's why most people are quite unhappy with their lives, even though they're doing well by any outward metric. Depression is the first world disease that comes with that.

By any historic measure we live in times of infinite abundance. 80%+ of work done in first world societies are bullshit jobs and superfluos work. Most of which can be done by robots, better planing or, most of the time, simply left out all together.

I work part time for more spare-time, and while I sometimes moan that because of my compareatively lower income I have the feeling I am - to most women of my social herachy - not suitable for long-term relationship because of that (especially with the values our society to wrongly pursues), I repeatedly run into situations that can only be described as plain an utter envy over my freedom compared to my peers. By men and women alike. I'm only suitably as a dance partner and a lover to most. ... A situation I will probably have to learn to live with. ... And, yes, I'm going to cry you a river now. :-)

Conclusion:
You Sir need to get yourself a copy of the 4 Hour Workweek. Or, better yet, the original: Senecas Letters from a Stoic., read it and get a life (Hint: It is *not* about dependant income-work.) Stoicism: The optimised wester variant of zen-buddhism as you might call it. Get with the programm and start enjoying you life like never before. Welcome to the club.

wrong book you are looking for "Mutant 59: The Plastic-Eaters" http://www.amazon.com/Mutant-P...

> The government couldn't get someone like Al Capone for mob activity or running illegal alcohol. They had to be creative in how they got at him.

Which is also BS. We want to convict you on something, so we will go through the lawbooks until we find something to convict you of.

Also, don't forget "ignorance of the law is no excuse."

"Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Fe...

The S7 is IP68 certified which means that you can submerge it in up to 1.5 metres of water for up to 30 minutes without damage being done to the phone. Accomplishing that with a removable battery would be an absolute nightmare

No, it's not. Here's a $23 phone with a removable battery which is IP 57 rated (1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes). When you take the back cover off, there's a simple gasket that prevents water from entering into the compartment that hold the battery, SIM and memory card. It's not complicated at all and it's certainly not a nightmare.

It builds on the ideas set forth in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. It's a social science paper, not a climate science paper, so that's why there's some confusion.

--Look into the Cubietruck. I've been running it for the last ~3 years or so as a standalone Linux+Squid cache with an SSD drive attached.

http://www.amazon.com/Cubieboa...

http://www.amazon.com/Eleduino...
^^ I haven't used this one personally, but looks like it may be useful for you...

--REFS:

http://cubieboard.org/

http://www.cubietruck.com/

http://www.cubieforums.com/

--Look into the Cubietruck. I've been running it for the last ~3 years or so as a standalone Linux+Squid cache with an SSD drive attached.

http://www.amazon.com/Cubieboa...

http://www.amazon.com/Eleduino...
^^ I haven't used this one personally, but looks like it may be useful for you...

--REFS:

http://cubieboard.org/

http://www.cubietruck.com/

http://www.cubieforums.com/

Most of what I've learned came from exploration not unlike something completely different from whatever John C. Lily did. Seriously, ketamine is not the way.

The sad fact is my brain is filled with a wide stretch of domain knowledge. Moonwalking with Einstein made a good inspirational piece for all the mnemonics stuff; and I've since learned things like Kepner-Tregoe problem solving and decision analysis, hierarchical decomposition from project management, SQ3R and derived study methods, Cornell and other note-taking systems, and so forth. Some of what Kenneth Higbee wrote about memory--that it's associative, that it works by association, that organization sharply improves it, and so forth--has allowed me to recognize how and why some of these systems help with memory, with studying, and with analysis.

For the most part, I have a pile of unsorted information my brain can command. Learning and teaching are different things, and I do not have a prepared presentation of any use to anyone. Some things I can't even explain properly, such as my model of thinking by which I break things down into abstract models and then associate them with anything else having a similar abstract model--I'll treat any mechanism as a set of subsets of other mechanisms, all cobbled together into one big machine. If I had a well-organized presentation, I'd have an educational plan instead of a vague ideal and a pile of tools I've already described.

I can say this, however: people don't do enough reflection. Modern study methods include a step in which you think about what you just learned and how it relates to everything else--I do this in the extreme--and so come to more firmly understand the topic and those related topics, while also solidifying the new knowledge within the framework of your memory. People like to throw around words like "critical thinking" the same way teachers throw around words like "study" and "take notes": they don't have any meaning in mind, and are only voicing a complaint that you're not taking an abstract and ill-defined action. Reflection is the basis of critical thinking: you will frequently find disturbing mismatches, which only proves either your knowledge is incomplete or something you've learned is incorrect.

... Most people don't understand how the system workss because our politics is fake. The vast majority of the electorate is not living in reality because of mass indoctrination. First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Democracy Inc.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

... Most people don't understand how the system workss because our politics is fake. The vast majority of the electorate is not living in reality because of mass indoctrination. First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Democracy Inc.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

When buying one, take it to the doctor's office and compare with the nurse's readings.

What happens when your doctor's office doesn't use an old fashion cuff and instead use this one? Every time I go in I have to position my arm in a different way. Sometimes it's stretched out, sometimes it's across by chest, once it was straight up. It's not really a surprise that my blood pressure always seems to be different (both significantly lower or higher) than what a traditional reading normally is for me.

Customers using an outdated software version on Kindle e-readers require an important software update by March 22, 2016 in order to continue to download Kindle books from the Cloud, access the Kindle Store, and use other Kindle services on their device.

We could see an "Alienware Xbox" sometime soon.

We could Alienware exiting the Steam Machine market. Seriously.

In a bizarre twist of fate, high end Steam Machines are being purchased for Win 10 console gaming. ZOTAC NEN Steam Machine 6th Gen Intel Core i5-6400T Quad-Core CPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 8GB Memory 1TB 2.5-inch Hard Drive Dual Gigabit Lan 802.11ac Bluetooth 4.0 ( ZBOX-SN970-P-U)

While sales of more affordable Steam Machines with very credible specs have been nothing to write home about. Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-2980BLK Desktop Console (Intel Core i3, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU #395 in Desktop sales at Amazon.com.

I'm quoting Amazon.com here because I can't find any better numbers for Steam Machine sales. I can't find much about Steam Machine sales, period.

We could see an "Alienware Xbox" sometime soon.

We could Alienware exiting the Steam Machine market. Seriously.

In a bizarre twist of fate, high end Steam Machines are being purchased for Win 10 console gaming. ZOTAC NEN Steam Machine 6th Gen Intel Core i5-6400T Quad-Core CPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 8GB Memory 1TB 2.5-inch Hard Drive Dual Gigabit Lan 802.11ac Bluetooth 4.0 ( ZBOX-SN970-P-U)

While sales of more affordable Steam Machines with very credible specs have been nothing to write home about. Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-2980BLK Desktop Console (Intel Core i3, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU #395 in Desktop sales at Amazon.com.

I'm quoting Amazon.com here because I can't find any better numbers for Steam Machine sales. I can't find much about Steam Machine sales, period.

You might want to look at this and the cheaper version (which will only get cheaper as time goes on). The older 27" is still a grand, but that's a serious price drop from the original. Who knows - $500 in 3 years?

My family were twice kicked out of their homes because of greedy zionists out of Palestine. The comparison is more like the colonists of early America killing and evicting Native Americans. Luckily there are brave Jewish people like historian Ilan Pape that covered this in detail: http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-C... Wake up and smell the facts.

I think they're silly, but there are very small portable photo printers.. e.g. http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

No one buys $2,200 PCs anymore, unless they are Apple. Come to think of it, no one buys desktop PC's for home anymore.

Best Sellers in Desktop Computers

#57 CybertronPC Thallium X99 Red Gaming Desktop-Intel i7-5960X, 64GB DDR4,3x NVIDIA GTX980 Ti, Microsoft Windows 10 $6000.

#286 Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-6980BLK Desktop Console (Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU $679.

[12:15 AM EDT March 1]

No one buys $2,200 PCs anymore, unless they are Apple. Come to think of it, no one buys desktop PC's for home anymore.

Best Sellers in Desktop Computers

#57 CybertronPC Thallium X99 Red Gaming Desktop-Intel i7-5960X, 64GB DDR4,3x NVIDIA GTX980 Ti, Microsoft Windows 10 $6000.

#286 Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-6980BLK Desktop Console (Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU $679.

[12:15 AM EDT March 1]

No one buys $2,200 PCs anymore, unless they are Apple. Come to think of it, no one buys desktop PC's for home anymore.

Best Sellers in Desktop Computers

#57 CybertronPC Thallium X99 Red Gaming Desktop-Intel i7-5960X, 64GB DDR4,3x NVIDIA GTX980 Ti, Microsoft Windows 10 $6000.

#286 Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-6980BLK Desktop Console (Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU $679.

[12:15 AM EDT March 1]

Try an Intel NUC. I use the latest 14nm version with OpenElec/XBMC installed as my everyday HTPC. I even used a 2 GB stick of ram to keep costs low. I boot mine off the SD card slot, because i dont have a lot of card access beside boot up. You have sata and m.2 inside if you want it.

This particular NUC
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-NU...
is the dividing line between x86-64 and ARM at the low power end. Compared to the Pi, its expensive, but its robust feature set makes up for it. I use and recommend both NUCs and Pis. The NUC5 series even has GPIO.

http://www.intel.com/content/w...