Your 2 year contract only expires when the iPhone says it does.
oh man, wouldn't that be something eh?? and then since apple is so trendy all the other phone carries will follow their lead and do the same. I may never get out of this contract now! arrrrrrrrg
I'm much the same, which winds me up no end because the communal TV in my flat only whistles when it's turned off. Lord only knows why. It's not RF though, just the noise from various components such as capacitors (Much like camera flashes sound when you charge them).
I've been very lucky in that i personally haven't bought anything that makes noise while off. But i have noticed this too at other peoples houses! hahaha Maybe it's like we're part matrix or something eh?
As a biker, i would like to say that i wouldn't get offended if my tat artist went to a gay wedding
But on a more serious note, the problem isn't "what your employer" can find out about you. My opinion is "what YOU are putting on the web." I tend to be more on the secretive side because i like to keep my life separate from the inet. But some people are the opposite, they just can't get enough of them ON the inet.
I always tell people never put personal info on the net because ANYONE can find it. I was actually denied a job because i didn't state if i was Christian! The interview went great, i was able to do everything they asked for, but because i wouldn't answer if i had anything to do on sunday or with family, which i understood as asking about my religion in a not so very indirect way (asking about family values etc) they told me right then and their, "thanks but no thanks." hahaha
Anyhow, back to the point of how it can affect your life, say you are agnostic and are trying to work for a place in chino, CA that sells luxury spas, pools and other crap, and it turns out THESE are the SAME people who interviewed me. And then they find out that you openly post about your beliefs. That right there for THESE people would be enough to skip you too.
In short, i keep my two "lives" distinctly separate. My closest of friends know of both, and some because we've met on the inet and developed friendships that the inet couldn't contain. Wait that sounded non-hetero. We've hung out and gone on biker rides. But for the most part, most people don't know what i'm capable of - and thats a good thing, being a biker means most think i'm retarded!:D
Although i too experienced missing background noise, the problem could also be that the OP has extra sensitivity to higher frequencies. I recently met someone who like me can hear when certain things are on or off, such as radios or tv's when the volume is turned all the way down.
For a long time people looked at me crazy when i'd tell them "i could hear the tv being on." But, this could also be a case. For me at least, it isn't too difficult to think that some people could be just as sensitive to RF signals, and most of us are oblivious to them.
The thing i think about, is what happens when this crazy world decides you are doing something naughty, like helping terrorists! And they justify taking your servers and drives to those ends.
The Pirate Bay is the biggest example in mind of who had to have their data encrypted. Who cares if the cops take the drives, what matters is that the data is secure, right?
I honestly think anything on a server should be encrypted, but is that really economically sound? I don't but it's like insurance, it doesn't matter until something happens, right?
Well, there are a lot of extreme opinions here. And like everything else, anything can be good or bad, depending on your perspective.
I think this could work on to be a good thing in the end, to help "keep information free." I like to watch japanese animation based in the future, especially those with heavy doses of scifi. One of my fav's is Ghost in the Shell, specifically the part about how the "internet" works.
If you start censoring all of these people, and they come up with these wonderful ideas for anime, maybe someday someone will get inspiration from it and apply it to the real world, created some truly awesome things.
It's sad people go out and put your info out on the web, it sucks that we need laws for it, but it also sucks when you over censor. There is no fine line here, nor a blurry one. It is more like a, i think it's called a phase solution or phase changing solution. Where you have 2 types of liquids distinctly separated. But just shake the bottle up a little and they diffuse into each other. Give it a while, and they'll separate once more. Unlike water and oil, which are always distinctly separate from each other, the phase solutions become one and then separate again. And this is how this problem seems to look like.
Hopefully they'll figure out the correct balance between the 2 ideas and the proper level of diffusion so everyone else in the world can follow their lead.
hahaha thanks for making me laugh! i had never heard that one before:P i've stayed away from macs as much as possible since i learned to use them in elementary school! But with osx they seem much better now:P
I think most everyone forgets how difficult it was for us to learn these systems ourselves. If you think "it wasn't hard for me" then you're just plain wrong:P
When you were born, you didn't even know how to roll onto your side! Now it's inconceivable for you not to be able to do that. Same thing with computers. Sure, it comes more naturally for some, but definitely not for all.
So when you expect windows, which has been geared for the non-tech people in need/want of a "PC," to be 2nd rate to linux, then you're way off base. Just think back to WHY linux came around. That's the two main groups of people you're dealing with.
Then take the side that (at least from my point of view) linux doesn't have enough uniformity to jump from one distro to the next and easily do the same things with the same software/setups. And you can't expect normal people really wanting to get into this.
But remember my point of view is skewed by BSD's because i've just found bsd to be so easy for me to use and learn about. Linux has been more difficult, and i've had to learn specific things about each one to do the same thing.
Hmm, i'll say the same thing about BSDs, but it hasn't been that hard to jump from fbsd, to netbsd to openbsd.
Anyways, ubuntu (although i've never run it) is making great strides and is helping to pave the path to nix -- which is great! But as a nix community we need to come together, and get it down to better than (easier than) windows. Windows blew up because anyone could sit down and do something on it, even if it's playing solitaire. Sure, that game sucks! But it's still something that gets people on it and using it. For too long the nix' been focused on other objectives, which is great for us the users. But not for those who find computing as difficult as it was for us to crawl.
thats the problem! That's how change starts! And little by little they'll be contesting more and more things in court. So, i hope this guy gets what he wants, but i also hope it's not at the expense of his life.
Just look at the US' history with african-americans, native americans, or any other people! Little by little they've crept into the very places no one wanted them -- which is a GREAT thing (equality and all that). But this is why so many wanted to deny people such basic rights as voting! Because if you stump them at the beginning, they can't get going!
Its all about money! I agree, there is NO reason at all except for spelling mistakes, which i am guilty of doing once hahaha!
but other than that, no, no reason at all. But because the inet is what the inet is, it's not going to go away anytime soon. We really need a democratic way of governing the inet.
Until then, we'll keep getting our sites stolen. As a person who's bought domain names for many people, i've always told them i'll check the name only when they're ready to pay for it. The reason is i've always been distrustful of these companies.
Well, my bike has a california exhaust, and only the ones in california have these because they meet california requirements. Now if you buy the same bike out of state, different exhaust!
The thing i wonder about, is how safe are these scooters? Yes yes it's been said a million times by both sides, but loud pipes do help save lives. If you are electric quiet on a scooter, you're going to get hit. My stock pipes are medium loud, and only loud under load (acceleration and sustained high speeds). They're whisper quiet at low speed cruising speeds.
the other thing is, considering electric vehicles don't hold up well to crazy constant fast acceleration, how are cops expected to be useful? They can't worry about running out of juice and riding economically. So, ??????????
You know, this is a good time to explain the difference between debit, credit and money orders/wire transfers!
Once money is taken from your savings, checking or money order/wire transfer, it's gone and can not be disputed (realistically, although nothing is impossible). And then even if you do prove fraud, you can be assed out and not get your money back - that is how it usually goes with cash!
But if you use any credit card, you have some fraud protection. From my experience, VISA is the best - they reimburse you first (immediately) and investigate second. If everything looks legit after they are done, nothing changes as far as you know. But if it looks like you are pulling fraud, they'll ask you to prove a LOT of things.
Next master card is the opposite, they like to investigate FIRST, THEN give you your money back. I have a problem with these guys because of town car service, basically they charged me twice even though once of their cars crashed on the way to pick me up. Anyhow, it took about 2 months to get anything done because what happened was that the person who could give me a refund was on vacation. When they got back, the person responsible was hard to get a hold of, and then it turns out it just never got done. Eventhough i had tried to take care of this like a nice person, it didn't work out. So i called master card and they said 1st of all, you took too long to report it. But they still tried investigating and DENIED my claim because they said i signed for both cars (pick up and drop off) even though i only signed once! So no more master card for me, i've closed all of my accounts with the since then.
American express and discover have different types of protection but i never have used them for these purposes. Anyways, you really have to be careful and pay attention to what you're doing, also no matter who you are you can always get scammed!
Most people are dumb asses! No really, check it out! It's like pedestrians. Sure, you think that they would stay on the sidewalk when there is a sidewalk available, but noooo they just HAVE to walk on the street, right?
Then you have people who drive fast and zig zag in and out of traffic. For what? To get wherever they are going faster? Like that ever works!
And this sort of behavior happens all the time in many ways, because people just don't think "oh, maybe if i did this a little different and i was a little more considerate, things would be better."
So that is what happening with this information overload. I personally think it's good to have so many sources of information. One of the cons is that not all of the information is going to be correct.
But having information too organized means that nothing would be overlapping and unless you know exactly what you are looking for, you wouldn't be able to find it.
I think wikipedia has a good model for organizing things. Although i don't think there is any one central group who produces most of the material, it might be good to say base it off of a group. Say the encyclopedia brittanica. And then the open community could edit the heck out of it and vote on "what is really correct." That way we have two sources.
Of course this is only talking about the inet and not other sources of distraction, but really that is the major source in my opinion because i don't know anyone who uses anything else to do so much in such a short amount of time except while watching tv and 'surfing' the channels to see whats on. Then it seems their ADD kicks in.
This is what i've said for a long time, and what most people just will never understand. It's all a question of thinking about a problem, not just acting on what you see.
The guys from jackass did the gumball rally in europe. And they were hauling ass right, but like one of the guys said "what good is it going so fucking fast if we're going in the wrong direction?" And that is what happens here! People do things they think are helpful, but really aren't.
This is why i leave a lot of space between cars in front of me, especially in heavy traffic. Aside from helping traffic instead of making it worse, it also keeps stress down because you're always moving and you are stopping and going less often.
But like i always tell people, you really need to think about what you do because only that way you can make sense of things and improve yourself.
My solution to this whole traffic problem is splitting lanes:P Cause you guys know already, 'i'm a biker, i do whatever i want.':P
But, it is still worth pointing out a few things. In TFA i read, which might be different the army guys referred to the macs running on unix. It's disconcerting to me because you know, there was a big problem with the word unix itself, which is why FreeBSD was named FreeBSD.
Aside from that, i truly think it's bad for those who are dabbling with nix systems. Because they think linux is more secure because it's not windows, and its less used which "means hackers target it less." Thats stupid! Also, those who use BSD systems might think that (i doubt it).
Security through obscurity is the opposite of what we're (*nix's) all about. I was really happy that apple is using BSD as their base because of so many lame mac fans i personally know. They aren't lame because they're mac fans, they're lame because they think apple products are safer than windows or bsds/linux's because it's apple. They are the dummies who will fall victim to "well hardly anyone uses it so hackers can't hurt it." They also believe that there are no viruses for that platform as well.
Anyways^&!*@^#*&!^# Merry xmas, happy new year and Go BSD!
i'm a little late cause i've been busy but, it's not over reacting when it's sony we're talking about! I really get tired of retelling this story, but everything from, walkmans, cdmans, remotes, tvs, home stereos, car stereos, radios, cd changers on and on and on have broken. Including a sony vaio desktop replacement laptop.
customer service is the worst ever! There are tons of user forums devoted to helping eachother out because sony won't help it's customers. We've talked about class action lawsuits as well because sony likes to take your product, not fix it, send it back and charge you for it!
any how, from my personal experience, i don't buy anything sony, not even cds! And i don't recommend sony to anyone, so i drive all kinds of $$ away from them. All because of their bad customer service.
of coarse nothing is as simple as it seems, and some of the products i mentioned were over 5 years old. But when i look at my 21" magnavox tv set that is over 15 years old, and a sony of the same size thats less than 10 and the magnavox still looks and runs great, and the sony lost its over the air capabilities, making the rca inputs the only way to use the set, remote not working right, eventhough i've cleaned the contacts out, and the quality of the picture being shit, i'd never buy sony again!
you know, it is true what you said... about any deviation from the norm makes people a suspect... a MMA fighter by the name of kevin randleman has admited to taking performance enhancing drugs, and steroids for faster healing from injury. I believe he said roids ONLY for healing, but you know roids are roids, right?
well, this fighter almost died in a car accident. He actually came back into the MMA fighting world! It's an AMAZING story, like Kurt Angle, the olympic wrestler. Anyways, years later, kevin was told he was dq'ed from a match because he failed the drug test. He was subsequently suspended and fined. A few months prior, he was in the hospital having a fist size bit of mold removed from one of his lungs! So thus fighting so SOON after this, everyone was like "look who is, of COARSE it was roids." Well any one with any sense would agree right?
turns out he has some other serious kidney infection or something and he was producing a chemicle more than 1000% more than the normal limit!! They said he must have been using horse urine to try to pass his drug tests, because thats what he failed right. Turns out it was just him dying, but being so damn tough that he was actually LIVING THROUGH THIS! A few months after finding out what had happened and receiving treatment he is "OK."
This guy is a survivor and a genuinely a good guy. It's too bad he's been "busted" for having taken steroids for whatever reason. But because of that precedent, as we would apply to anyone else, he now has that cloud over his head for the rest of his life.
Sooo this just goes to show, that not everyone takes drugs to cheat, but to heal which is legit. A lot of people claim they don't know what they are taking, which i think could be true for at least some. And then you have truly remarkable people who live through things that most others would die. But if you are any of those, you could be banned from the hall of fame from your sport because of that nasty 1 time cloud.
if you want racist comments watch 90's movies! They didn't hold back much! But what was considered ok back then is now "not PC." But that doesn't mean that isn't a good thing.
they said the other day that 225 million people no longer live in their native countries! With most countries being transient countries that don't have any particular group of people staying in their country, and then the other countries that are the destinations. In a world like today, saying any shit like that is bad and uncalled for/unnecessary because it may not affect you now, being on the caller side, but someday you or yours may be on the callee side and it could hurt their feelings.
the problem is greed, and something else which i am not sure what to call it. Just like after 9/11, airline companies were "losing a lot of money, too much" that they "were going to go out of business." They weren't "losing" money, but they just weren't making their projected income. So of course they are going to claim bankruptcy and fire everyone while the top positions keep their $$. So the gov't stepped in and "helped them stay in business."
that is what is going to happen with US cars. I'm all for saving those making strides in technology for more fuel efficient vehicles AND "trying to be green." But for those others who want to make huge cars that drink gas more than an irishman drinks booze, they need to get out of the business.
like I've told anyone who will listen that companies are willing to kill their own industry as long as they can make money doing it! This is no different. Go Japan!!!!!!!! I ride a japanese motorcycle, very reliable!
Well, if you compare the US assembled to german assembled mercedes benz, the US benz are really bad! They're supposed to have more failures and recalls then their german counterparts. I'm not sure if that helps:P
i was in las vegas with a biker buddy of mine. And we stopped at a burger king on the entrance to vegas right, well we found the bearded lady. We tried not to laugh, but we couldn't even eat our food. I mean, i REALLY don't mean to be mean but, she could have shaved! I was embarrassed:(
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i never thought of that at the time! but next time, i'll be ready!!!
i don't know how no one else has caught your comment but its great! cracking up at work dude! hope you get modded up!#!@
oh man, wouldn't that be something eh?? and then since apple is so trendy all the other phone carries will follow their lead and do the same. I may never get out of this contract now! arrrrrrrrg
As a biker, i would like to say that i wouldn't get offended if my tat artist went to a gay wedding
:D
But on a more serious note, the problem isn't "what your employer" can find out about you. My opinion is "what YOU are putting on the web." I tend to be more on the secretive side because i like to keep my life separate from the inet. But some people are the opposite, they just can't get enough of them ON the inet.
I always tell people never put personal info on the net because ANYONE can find it. I was actually denied a job because i didn't state if i was Christian! The interview went great, i was able to do everything they asked for, but because i wouldn't answer if i had anything to do on sunday or with family, which i understood as asking about my religion in a not so very indirect way (asking about family values etc) they told me right then and their, "thanks but no thanks." hahaha
Anyhow, back to the point of how it can affect your life, say you are agnostic and are trying to work for a place in chino, CA that sells luxury spas, pools and other crap, and it turns out THESE are the SAME people who interviewed me. And then they find out that you openly post about your beliefs. That right there for THESE people would be enough to skip you too.
In short, i keep my two "lives" distinctly separate. My closest of friends know of both, and some because we've met on the inet and developed friendships that the inet couldn't contain. Wait that sounded non-hetero. We've hung out and gone on biker rides. But for the most part, most people don't know what i'm capable of - and thats a good thing, being a biker means most think i'm retarded!
Although i too experienced missing background noise, the problem could also be that the OP has extra sensitivity to higher frequencies. I recently met someone who like me can hear when certain things are on or off, such as radios or tv's when the volume is turned all the way down.
For a long time people looked at me crazy when i'd tell them "i could hear the tv being on." But, this could also be a case. For me at least, it isn't too difficult to think that some people could be just as sensitive to RF signals, and most of us are oblivious to them.
The thing i think about, is what happens when this crazy world decides you are doing something naughty, like helping terrorists! And they justify taking your servers and drives to those ends.
The Pirate Bay is the biggest example in mind of who had to have their data encrypted. Who cares if the cops take the drives, what matters is that the data is secure, right?
I honestly think anything on a server should be encrypted, but is that really economically sound? I don't but it's like insurance, it doesn't matter until something happens, right?
Well, there are a lot of extreme opinions here. And like everything else, anything can be good or bad, depending on your perspective.
I think this could work on to be a good thing in the end, to help "keep information free." I like to watch japanese animation based in the future, especially those with heavy doses of scifi. One of my fav's is Ghost in the Shell, specifically the part about how the "internet" works.
If you start censoring all of these people, and they come up with these wonderful ideas for anime, maybe someday someone will get inspiration from it and apply it to the real world, created some truly awesome things.
It's sad people go out and put your info out on the web, it sucks that we need laws for it, but it also sucks when you over censor. There is no fine line here, nor a blurry one. It is more like a, i think it's called a phase solution or phase changing solution. Where you have 2 types of liquids distinctly separated. But just shake the bottle up a little and they diffuse into each other. Give it a while, and they'll separate once more. Unlike water and oil, which are always distinctly separate from each other, the phase solutions become one and then separate again. And this is how this problem seems to look like.
Hopefully they'll figure out the correct balance between the 2 ideas and the proper level of diffusion so everyone else in the world can follow their lead.
hahaha thanks for making me laugh! i had never heard that one before :P i've stayed away from macs as much as possible since i learned to use them in elementary school! But with osx they seem much better now :P
I think most everyone forgets how difficult it was for us to learn these systems ourselves. If you think "it wasn't hard for me" then you're just plain wrong :P
When you were born, you didn't even know how to roll onto your side! Now it's inconceivable for you not to be able to do that. Same thing with computers. Sure, it comes more naturally for some, but definitely not for all.
So when you expect windows, which has been geared for the non-tech people in need/want of a "PC," to be 2nd rate to linux, then you're way off base. Just think back to WHY linux came around. That's the two main groups of people you're dealing with.
Then take the side that (at least from my point of view) linux doesn't have enough uniformity to jump from one distro to the next and easily do the same things with the same software/setups. And you can't expect normal people really wanting to get into this.
But remember my point of view is skewed by BSD's because i've just found bsd to be so easy for me to use and learn about. Linux has been more difficult, and i've had to learn specific things about each one to do the same thing.
Hmm, i'll say the same thing about BSDs, but it hasn't been that hard to jump from fbsd, to netbsd to openbsd.
Anyways, ubuntu (although i've never run it) is making great strides and is helping to pave the path to nix -- which is great! But as a nix community we need to come together, and get it down to better than (easier than) windows. Windows blew up because anyone could sit down and do something on it, even if it's playing solitaire. Sure, that game sucks! But it's still something that gets people on it and using it. For too long the nix' been focused on other objectives, which is great for us the users. But not for those who find computing as difficult as it was for us to crawl.
thats the problem! That's how change starts! And little by little they'll be contesting more and more things in court. So, i hope this guy gets what he wants, but i also hope it's not at the expense of his life.
Just look at the US' history with african-americans, native americans, or any other people! Little by little they've crept into the very places no one wanted them -- which is a GREAT thing (equality and all that). But this is why so many wanted to deny people such basic rights as voting! Because if you stump them at the beginning, they can't get going!
Its all about money! I agree, there is NO reason at all except for spelling mistakes, which i am guilty of doing once hahaha!
but other than that, no, no reason at all. But because the inet is what the inet is, it's not going to go away anytime soon. We really need a democratic way of governing the inet.
Until then, we'll keep getting our sites stolen. As a person who's bought domain names for many people, i've always told them i'll check the name only when they're ready to pay for it. The reason is i've always been distrustful of these companies.
Anyhow, sorry it has happened to so many!
Well, my bike has a california exhaust, and only the ones in california have these because they meet california requirements. Now if you buy the same bike out of state, different exhaust!
The thing i wonder about, is how safe are these scooters? Yes yes it's been said a million times by both sides, but loud pipes do help save lives. If you are electric quiet on a scooter, you're going to get hit. My stock pipes are medium loud, and only loud under load (acceleration and sustained high speeds). They're whisper quiet at low speed cruising speeds.
the other thing is, considering electric vehicles don't hold up well to crazy constant fast acceleration, how are cops expected to be useful? They can't worry about running out of juice and riding economically. So, ??????????
Somethings are good ideas, some are bad.
You know, this is a good time to explain the difference between debit, credit and money orders/wire transfers!
Once money is taken from your savings, checking or money order/wire transfer, it's gone and can not be disputed (realistically, although nothing is impossible). And then even if you do prove fraud, you can be assed out and not get your money back - that is how it usually goes with cash!
But if you use any credit card, you have some fraud protection. From my experience, VISA is the best - they reimburse you first (immediately) and investigate second. If everything looks legit after they are done, nothing changes as far as you know. But if it looks like you are pulling fraud, they'll ask you to prove a LOT of things.
Next master card is the opposite, they like to investigate FIRST, THEN give you your money back. I have a problem with these guys because of town car service, basically they charged me twice even though once of their cars crashed on the way to pick me up. Anyhow, it took about 2 months to get anything done because what happened was that the person who could give me a refund was on vacation. When they got back, the person responsible was hard to get a hold of, and then it turns out it just never got done. Eventhough i had tried to take care of this like a nice person, it didn't work out. So i called master card and they said 1st of all, you took too long to report it. But they still tried investigating and DENIED my claim because they said i signed for both cars (pick up and drop off) even though i only signed once! So no more master card for me, i've closed all of my accounts with the since then.
American express and discover have different types of protection but i never have used them for these purposes. Anyways, you really have to be careful and pay attention to what you're doing, also no matter who you are you can always get scammed!
Most people are dumb asses! No really, check it out! It's like pedestrians. Sure, you think that they would stay on the sidewalk when there is a sidewalk available, but noooo they just HAVE to walk on the street, right?
Then you have people who drive fast and zig zag in and out of traffic. For what? To get wherever they are going faster? Like that ever works!
And this sort of behavior happens all the time in many ways, because people just don't think "oh, maybe if i did this a little different and i was a little more considerate, things would be better."
So that is what happening with this information overload. I personally think it's good to have so many sources of information. One of the cons is that not all of the information is going to be correct.
But having information too organized means that nothing would be overlapping and unless you know exactly what you are looking for, you wouldn't be able to find it.
I think wikipedia has a good model for organizing things. Although i don't think there is any one central group who produces most of the material, it might be good to say base it off of a group. Say the encyclopedia brittanica. And then the open community could edit the heck out of it and vote on "what is really correct." That way we have two sources.
Of course this is only talking about the inet and not other sources of distraction, but really that is the major source in my opinion because i don't know anyone who uses anything else to do so much in such a short amount of time except while watching tv and 'surfing' the channels to see whats on. Then it seems their ADD kicks in.
But then again, what do i know?
This is what i've said for a long time, and what most people just will never understand. It's all a question of thinking about a problem, not just acting on what you see.
:P Cause you guys know already, 'i'm a biker, i do whatever i want.' :P
The guys from jackass did the gumball rally in europe. And they were hauling ass right, but like one of the guys said "what good is it going so fucking fast if we're going in the wrong direction?" And that is what happens here! People do things they think are helpful, but really aren't.
This is why i leave a lot of space between cars in front of me, especially in heavy traffic. Aside from helping traffic instead of making it worse, it also keeps stress down because you're always moving and you are stopping and going less often.
But like i always tell people, you really need to think about what you do because only that way you can make sense of things and improve yourself.
My solution to this whole traffic problem is splitting lanes
But, it is still worth pointing out a few things. In TFA i read, which might be different the army guys referred to the macs running on unix. It's disconcerting to me because you know, there was a big problem with the word unix itself, which is why FreeBSD was named FreeBSD.
Aside from that, i truly think it's bad for those who are dabbling with nix systems. Because they think linux is more secure because it's not windows, and its less used which "means hackers target it less." Thats stupid! Also, those who use BSD systems might think that (i doubt it).
Security through obscurity is the opposite of what we're (*nix's) all about. I was really happy that apple is using BSD as their base because of so many lame mac fans i personally know. They aren't lame because they're mac fans, they're lame because they think apple products are safer than windows or bsds/linux's because it's apple. They are the dummies who will fall victim to "well hardly anyone uses it so hackers can't hurt it." They also believe that there are no viruses for that platform as well.
Anyways^&!*@^#*&!^# Merry xmas, happy new year and Go BSD!
i'm a little late cause i've been busy but, it's not over reacting when it's sony we're talking about! I really get tired of retelling this story, but everything from, walkmans, cdmans, remotes, tvs, home stereos, car stereos, radios, cd changers on and on and on have broken. Including a sony vaio desktop replacement laptop.
:P
customer service is the worst ever! There are tons of user forums devoted to helping eachother out because sony won't help it's customers. We've talked about class action lawsuits as well because sony likes to take your product, not fix it, send it back and charge you for it!
any how, from my personal experience, i don't buy anything sony, not even cds! And i don't recommend sony to anyone, so i drive all kinds of $$ away from them. All because of their bad customer service.
of coarse nothing is as simple as it seems, and some of the products i mentioned were over 5 years old. But when i look at my 21" magnavox tv set that is over 15 years old, and a sony of the same size thats less than 10 and the magnavox still looks and runs great, and the sony lost its over the air capabilities, making the rca inputs the only way to use the set, remote not working right, eventhough i've cleaned the contacts out, and the quality of the picture being shit, i'd never buy sony again!
oh and i have a wii
i could have used this monitor back in '96! hahaha
you know, it is true what you said... about any deviation from the norm makes people a suspect... a MMA fighter by the name of kevin randleman has admited to taking performance enhancing drugs, and steroids for faster healing from injury. I believe he said roids ONLY for healing, but you know roids are roids, right?
well, this fighter almost died in a car accident. He actually came back into the MMA fighting world! It's an AMAZING story, like Kurt Angle, the olympic wrestler. Anyways, years later, kevin was told he was dq'ed from a match because he failed the drug test. He was subsequently suspended and fined. A few months prior, he was in the hospital having a fist size bit of mold removed from one of his lungs! So thus fighting so SOON after this, everyone was like "look who is, of COARSE it was roids." Well any one with any sense would agree right?
turns out he has some other serious kidney infection or something and he was producing a chemicle more than 1000% more than the normal limit!! They said he must have been using horse urine to try to pass his drug tests, because thats what he failed right. Turns out it was just him dying, but being so damn tough that he was actually LIVING THROUGH THIS! A few months after finding out what had happened and receiving treatment he is "OK."
This guy is a survivor and a genuinely a good guy. It's too bad he's been "busted" for having taken steroids for whatever reason. But because of that precedent, as we would apply to anyone else, he now has that cloud over his head for the rest of his life.
Sooo this just goes to show, that not everyone takes drugs to cheat, but to heal which is legit. A lot of people claim they don't know what they are taking, which i think could be true for at least some. And then you have truly remarkable people who live through things that most others would die. But if you are any of those, you could be banned from the hall of fame from your sport because of that nasty 1 time cloud.
if you want racist comments watch 90's movies! They didn't hold back much! But what was considered ok back then is now "not PC." But that doesn't mean that isn't a good thing.
they said the other day that 225 million people no longer live in their native countries! With most countries being transient countries that don't have any particular group of people staying in their country, and then the other countries that are the destinations. In a world like today, saying any shit like that is bad and uncalled for/unnecessary because it may not affect you now, being on the caller side, but someday you or yours may be on the callee side and it could hurt their feelings.
never hurts to look at it from more than 1 side.
the problem is greed, and something else which i am not sure what to call it. Just like after 9/11, airline companies were "losing a lot of money, too much" that they "were going to go out of business." They weren't "losing" money, but they just weren't making their projected income. So of course they are going to claim bankruptcy and fire everyone while the top positions keep their $$. So the gov't stepped in and "helped them stay in business."
that is what is going to happen with US cars. I'm all for saving those making strides in technology for more fuel efficient vehicles AND "trying to be green." But for those others who want to make huge cars that drink gas more than an irishman drinks booze, they need to get out of the business.
like I've told anyone who will listen that companies are willing to kill their own industry as long as they can make money doing it! This is no different. Go Japan!!!!!!!! I ride a japanese motorcycle, very reliable!
Well, if you compare the US assembled to german assembled mercedes benz, the US benz are really bad! They're supposed to have more failures and recalls then their german counterparts. I'm not sure if that helps :P
thats right! All those 1990's ford taurus' are being rebuilt ALL the time. With everything being a new part, how can it NOT last forever?
As for the japanese cars (and motorcycles!), SUCKERS!!!
i was in las vegas with a biker buddy of mine. And we stopped at a burger king on the entrance to vegas right, well we found the bearded lady. We tried not to laugh, but we couldn't even eat our food. I mean, i REALLY don't mean to be mean but, she could have shaved! I was embarrassed :(