Even voting for a major canidate in a "safe" state is still worth something because the popular vote is still used to gage public opinion about a canidate. Of course the way bush has used his mandateless presidency to push his far right wing agenda doesnt bare that out, but even so if the president is again elected by the electoral college and not by the popular vote then it might wake people up to the fact that our election system is seriously fucked.
We need election reform right here in the "worlds greatest democracy", but that wont happen without repeated demononstations of the flaws of our current system. So anyway, vote for your favorite canidate even if you live in a "safe" state, dont stay home because the polls told you who is going to win.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) Users of email will not put up with it
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (x) Open relays in foreign countries
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
You can get satellite radio with 100+ channels this includes 60-70 commercial free music channels for less than $10 per month(after paying $100+ for the hardware). I think this is clearly the way to go for non-stable audio. If you want to fill up your ipod you could just plug the audio inputs into your computer and record a few hours of a station with a good mix. Circuit City thought they could convince people to buy into pay-per-play for movies, this will fail for the same reasons.
Channel Four International (C4i) asked a number of US and UK film and TV stars what the favorite swear words were -- and to say them out loud (and they do). Check it out here.
"It may be impossible to prosecute enough spammers to have a serious deterrent effect, let alone stop, or even slow down, the problem." - FTC chairman and republican corporate lapdog Timothy Muris
"You tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try!" - Homer Simpson
Why bother, use the power of the web and pay less.
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Which Price is Right?
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Amazon has a decent browsing systems in place, but once I find something I want I use a cheap book search engine or go elsewhere to find cheap computer components or use another engine to fine cheap stuff. In the end I pay less for the product + SH than any browser purchaseing directly from amazon.
Amazon does charge different people different prices, dumb people who shop there end up paying a lot more money.
Thats what I want to know. I havent bought into pvr's yet because I dont want to shift from tv ads to tivo ads. If I could firewall them from incomming traffic and block tivo from spying on me by sending information about my viewing back to corporate I would sign up. If I have to pay for the net/phone connection for the machine I should be able to control what is sent over the line.
Oh hell, fuck tivo I want a free/open linux pvr with xml show listings available on the net. Xml show listings could be served add-free for less than $5/month.
Many times they would say they couldnt sell to you without this information if you tried to use a check or credit card. They tried to pull this on a friend of mine who had his checkbook out. I whipped out the cash to cover it and told them "It's legal tender, you have to take it."
Most supermarkets, wholesalers and chain store intentionally price products in a way that makes it difficult for people to calculate a running total in their head. When calculating procuct cost they add on their usual margin and then fudge the cents value to be strange numbers that confuse people. For example:.99,.23,.67,.53.
They have studied this and found that when they use this confusing pricing system people buy more, they buy what they want, not what they can afford or what fits in their budget. The stores dont want people be able to calculate their total purchase.
$10 at buy.com for the paperback version
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Slack
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If you goto http://www.addall.com/ you can search for it in hardcover and electronic form also. They search some 24 different sites and give you the lowest price. That is what the internet is about - enforcing competition.
Why pay more,... or amazon and RedWolves2...
I am not associated with addall.com, I like cheap books.
I got a cell phone awhile ago and then got my land line to forward my calls to the cell because I am rarely home. I rarely received telemarketer calls at home because I tell them to blacklist me and report violators to the ftc.
Then I just this car loan from chase and the bastards sold my info to telemarketers. Now I get these ghost calls about once a day where the call gets forwarded to my cell(unlisted number) rings once and disconnects. This annoys the hell out of me! There is no way for me to find out who they are so that I can track them down and kill them like the dogs they are(or at least dos their servers).
There ought to be a law... actually soon they will be implementing a do not call list in wisconsin. Until then anyone have any good ideas on how I can exact some revenge on these bastards?
Works for charter pipeline also.
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What Free Cable?
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You can expanded basic for "free" if you only sign up for the internet sevices. Be sure to get a high quality splitter and cables though. You will drop packets and get a fuzzy picture with cheaper splitters. You pay 10 bucks extra for not having bundled service so they still make money off of you, but at least you pay a more reasonable rate for your services.
If you buy a replaytv then all your viewing data belongs to them. Then they use your tv and your pvr to force feed you targeted ads when you pause, in banners on menus etc.
This cached google page is why I will not be buying a replaytv. When will device manufacturers make a decent product and leave me the fuck alone after the sale. I have money to spend and I will not support companies that harass me.
If you buy a replaytv then all your viewing data belongs to them. Then they use your tv and your pvr to force feed you targeted ads when you pause, in banners on menus etc.
This cached google page is why I will not be buying a replaytv. When will device manufacturers make a decent product and leave me the fuck alone after the sale. I have money to spend and I will not support companies that harass me.
He was a great man - intelligent, well read and an awesome speaker who we honor with a day every year in remembrance of his struggle for equal rights and the barriers to equality that must still be overcome.
Its too bad that these works cannot be freely listened to and studied in order to educate and inform the people. I was thinking about collecting mp3s of his speeches and making them available to others at work on MLK day, but i guess its illegal to spread his good news.
MLK Jr. strived for racial, social and economic equality for minorities, the poor, and the uneducated. Im sure he wanted to protect his works from being co-opted for profit, and I doubt that he would rejoice that his family is now one of the rich oppressors who demand money for his works and restrict information that could help people take the power back through non-violent protest and community action.
Here at the king center through the goodness of their hearts they have made available an excerpt from one speech.
This page at Stanford University does have some more streaming excerpts though they are clearly trying to sell the full works.
I think its time to fire up audiognome and practice some civil disobedience.
I write down the name of the company and the name of the person that called(which they must provide), the time and date and what they were selling. Then ask them to never call you again. AT&T called me twice and I reported them to the ftc via an online form. They got a nasty letter from the government and probably a fine.
Soon wisconsin will have a do not call list. Here are do not call lists for many other states.
They have a contract with nonesuch records which has a web site at http://www.warnerclassics.com/nonesuch/ and is a member of the warner music group which is owned by Time Warner.
That being said, I like wilco and have bought thier albums in the past when they published on reprise records. I dont know if I will buy this one, though I might go to a their concert if they stop though town. I supprised tw let them do this.
Find a nice powerful magnet and rub that sucker all over your drivers license information strip to render it useless to these machines. Then your drivers license will still get you into bars but it wont add to your junk mail.
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Even voting for a major canidate in a "safe" state is still worth something because the popular vote is still used to gage public opinion about a canidate. Of course the way bush has used his mandateless presidency to push his far right wing agenda doesnt bare that out, but even so if the president is again elected by the electoral college and not by the popular vote then it might wake people up to the fact that our election system is seriously fucked.
We need election reform right here in the "worlds greatest democracy", but that wont happen without repeated demononstations of the flaws of our current system. So anyway, vote for your favorite canidate even if you live in a "safe" state, dont stay home because the polls told you who is going to win.
Hold your congresmen accountable.
Roll Call Results
Bill Text
This article advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
You can get satellite radio with 100+ channels this includes 60-70 commercial free music channels for less than $10 per month(after paying $100+ for the hardware). I think this is clearly the way to go for non-stable audio. If you want to fill up your ipod you could just plug the audio inputs into your computer and record a few hours of a station with a good mix. Circuit City thought they could convince people to buy into pay-per-play for movies, this will fail for the same reasons.
Channel Four International (C4i) asked a number of US and UK film and TV stars what the favorite swear words were -- and to say them out loud (and they do). Check it out here.
"It may be impossible to prosecute enough spammers to have a serious deterrent effect, let alone stop, or even slow down, the problem." - FTC chairman and republican corporate lapdog Timothy Muris
"You tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try!" - Homer Simpson
from detroitproject.com in real format(sorry):
I like my suv
The gas that george bought.
Amazon has a decent browsing systems in place, but once I find something I want I use a cheap book search engine or go elsewhere to find cheap computer components or use another engine to fine cheap stuff. In the end I pay less for the product + SH than any browser purchaseing directly from amazon.
Amazon does charge different people different prices, dumb people who shop there end up paying a lot more money.
Well, if they didn't append your medical records to every Word file, it really wouldn't be that bad. :)
Fyi our average electronic medical record isnt that big.(Unless you attach xrays or ekg data)
Thats what I want to know. I havent bought into pvr's yet because I dont want to shift from tv ads to tivo ads. If I could firewall them from incomming traffic and block tivo from spying on me by sending information about my viewing back to corporate I would sign up. If I have to pay for the net/phone connection for the machine I should be able to control what is sent over the line.
Oh hell, fuck tivo I want a free/open linux pvr with xml show listings available on the net. Xml show listings could be served add-free for less than $5/month.
Many times they would say they couldnt sell to you without this information if you tried to use a check or credit card. They tried to pull this on a friend of mine who had his checkbook out. I whipped out the cash to cover it and told them "It's legal tender, you have to take it."
Most supermarkets, wholesalers and chain store intentionally price products in a way that makes it difficult for people to calculate a running total in their head. When calculating procuct cost they add on their usual margin and then fudge the cents value to be strange numbers that confuse people. For example: .99, .23, .67, .53.
They have studied this and found that when they use this confusing pricing system people buy more, they buy what they want, not what they can afford or what fits in their budget. The stores dont want people be able to calculate their total purchase.
I know this because I used to work for a fucking supermarket.
If you goto http://www.addall.com/ you can search for it in hardcover and electronic form also. They search some 24 different sites and give you the lowest price. That is what the internet is about - enforcing competition.
Why pay more,... or amazon and RedWolves2...
I am not associated with addall.com, I like cheap books.
202-418-1000
I got a cell phone awhile ago and then got my land line to forward my calls to the cell because I am rarely home. I rarely received telemarketer calls at home because I tell them to blacklist me and report violators to the ftc.
Then I just this car loan from chase and the bastards sold my info to telemarketers. Now I get these ghost calls about once a day where the call gets forwarded to my cell(unlisted number) rings once and disconnects. This annoys the hell out of me! There is no way for me to find out who they are so that I can track them down and kill them like the dogs they are(or at least dos their servers).
There ought to be a law... actually soon they will be implementing a do not call list in wisconsin. Until then anyone have any good ideas on how I can exact some revenge on these bastards?
You can expanded basic for "free" if you only sign up for the internet sevices. Be sure to get a high quality splitter and cables though. You will drop packets and get a fuzzy picture with cheaper splitters. You pay 10 bucks extra for not having bundled service so they still make money off of you, but at least you pay a more reasonable rate for your services.
...or so Im told.
If you buy a replaytv then all your viewing data belongs to them. Then they use your tv and your pvr to force feed you targeted ads when you pause, in banners on menus etc.
This cached google page is why I will not be buying a replaytv. When will device manufacturers make a decent product and leave me the fuck alone after the sale. I have money to spend and I will not support companies that harass me.
If you buy a replaytv then all your viewing data belongs to them. Then they use your tv and your pvr to force feed you targeted ads when you pause, in banners on menus etc.
This cached google page is why I will not be buying a replaytv. When will device manufacturers make a decent product and leave me the fuck alone after the sale. I have money to spend and I will not support companies that harass me.
He was a great man - intelligent, well read and an awesome speaker who we honor with a day every year in remembrance of his struggle for equal rights and the barriers to equality that must still be overcome. Its too bad that these works cannot be freely listened to and studied in order to educate and inform the people. I was thinking about collecting mp3s of his speeches and making them available to others at work on MLK day, but i guess its illegal to spread his good news.
MLK Jr. strived for racial, social and economic equality for minorities, the poor, and the uneducated. Im sure he wanted to protect his works from being co-opted for profit, and I doubt that he would rejoice that his family is now one of the rich oppressors who demand money for his works and restrict information that could help people take the power back through non-violent protest and community action.
Here at the king center through the goodness of their hearts they have made available an excerpt from one speech.
This page at Stanford University does have some more streaming excerpts though they are clearly trying to sell the full works.
I think its time to fire up audiognome and practice some civil disobedience.
I write down the name of the company and the name of the person that called(which they must provide), the time and date and what they were selling. Then ask them to never call you again. AT&T called me twice and I reported them to the ftc via an online form. They got a nasty letter from the government and probably a fine.
Soon wisconsin will have a do not call list. Here are do not call lists for many other states.
This place offers 17 led bulbs(comperable to a 25w bulb) for $39, but they wont sell to developed nations(usa).
This place has 20 led bulbs for $60.
here is a place that has dimmer(?) bulbs for 30-35 bucks.
here are some really cool sunlight powered outdoor led lights for $80.
They have a contract with nonesuch records which has a web site at http://www.warnerclassics.com/nonesuch/ and is a member of the warner music group which is owned by Time Warner.
That being said, I like wilco and have bought thier albums in the past when they published on reprise records. I dont know if I will buy this one, though I might go to a their concert if they stop though town. I supprised tw let them do this.
Find a nice powerful magnet and rub that sucker all over your drivers license information strip to render it useless to these machines. Then your drivers license will still get you into bars but it wont add to your junk mail.
it turns on my wife when I bang on the bongo's like a chimpanzee.
Here is some new music you might like: king of bongo
is here