The main problem is that utility companies are for-profit. Your electricity should not be run by a for-profit organization, period. My water isn't for-profit, nor are my recycling services. For some reason though, the power companies are allowed to deny access to alternate generation and distribution centers, provide the most piss-poor service possible, and still raise rates year after year. It's easily one of the most crooked industries in the country.
Except that in this case your Xbox is the DRM. Furthermore, you're paying for Xbox Live on top of your standard Netflix fee for some reason. I wouldn't be so proud about letting Microsoft double-dip on me like that.
It's so much harder to actually effect change by contacting politicians, convincing the public, studying the law, and generally having an impact on the legislative process so that something actually comes out of any of it.
Except that nothing would come of that either. You can't change an inherently corrupt system by playing within the rules it has established and currently controls.
There are public schools everywhere, y'know. In fact, I'm right on the edge of two different districts. The bus for one of them runs right down my road three times a day. Honestly though, I wouldn't put my children through the joke that is public school. With the wealth of accredited online academies, home-schooling is easier than ever. As for my daily commute... I am self employed. I work three days a week, which makes the forty minute commute into town a little easier to bear.
Stop making excuses and take control of your life.
Young kids need parenting and supervision, and in the 'good ol' days' that would have fallen on the woman.
That is unfortunately not the case anymore, is it? Now the kids are just shipped off to a daycare to be indoctrinated by a stranger. The parents have no time for them, as they're both out working full time jobs in order to just barely stay afloat on that house and care payment. They have made themselves into slaves through debt. They children won't even know them, and they will be worse off for it. The cycle will become more and more aggressive with each parentless generation.
Buy a smaller house in a less affluent neighborhood. Don't spend your budget on fads like iPad installations. Maybe try actually owning something in your life instead of living under an increasingly ridiculous debt. It's not hard, you just have to stop thinking like a yuppie. Ditch the SUV and move out of the suburbs. You're the reason our country is in the shitter. You've made yourself an economic slave and are bringing everyone else down with you.
I wanted to add that the Optimus is super easy to root. There isn't much in the way of a community, but I have the optimized firmware and a pretty spiffy custom ROM running on it. It's a lot better than the throwaway GoPhone that I had been using for years before.
I concur. I have an LG Optimus Slider with Virgin Mobile. I grabbed it on sale (with additional coupons) for $99 back last summer. It does pretty much anything I would want it for, and the monthly fee is about as cheap as they come for mobile phones. Of course, that still makes it overpriced, but what are you going do?:P
I was always disappointed that Jack Harkness didn't stick around for more than a few episodes. Of course, I guess the character did get his own show to make up for it.
What I really want is for the Doctor to take on a non-human companion. That would open things open a lot more, I think. Also, while we're at it, why doesn't the Doctor ever regenerate into a female form?
That's what I do. I have a fairly traditional (if not stylish) double-sided card. One side has the logo and slogan, the other has basic contact information and a QR code. The thing is, business cards are just another form of advertising. They're not necessarily about "making a connect", they're about canvasing. Furthermore, the get passed around to new people. I redesign my cards just a bit about every year when I need more printed. Because of this I can tell how long any particular card has been around. Parents pass cards onto their kids, friends to each other, etc. Some of my cards have been in circulation for years, and I get new business because of it. Anyone who is writing off business cards as a bygone antiquity just doesn't understand marketing... then again, most of these "web-savy" kids don't. Not everyone has a smart phone, after all.
I'm truly sad to say that Diablo III just doesn't have me very excited. I put countless hours into both of the previous games, though I never did get much out of Battle.net in Diablo II for whatever reason. For me, it was all about LAN play. The first Diablo made this especially appealing due to its Spawn Installs. Diablo III has no local multiplayer, which is ridiculous in itself. If you want to play by yourself in singleplayer, it requires the internet. So much for playing while you're on the road. The various changes to mechanics, art style, and addition of things like a trading area make it seem like little more than a shadow of World of Warcraft.
Honestly, I'm much more excited for Torchlight 2. I like the first game well enough while on the road, but the non-existent story couldn't hold my interest for much more than that. Thankfully the sequel will have multiplayer (local and online!) and seems to be expanding to overworld areas much like Diablo II did in comparison to the first Diablo. I imagine it's no coincidence that the Torchlight series is spearheaded by all of the major players from the first two Diablo games' development.
Are you serious? It's one hour... it means practically nothing. If you're truly that tired from getting up one hour earlier, then you shouldn't find any difficulty in going to bed an hour earlier the following night. See, the problem fixes itself in exactly one day.:P
Now that's not to say that DST is a good idea, because it's not. It's pointless and confusing.
Microsoft buggered up the start menu in Windows 7 and people complained [...]
The Start Menu itself seems fine. It's trading in the Quick Launch bar for those huge, never-static, pinned programs. It can be changed back, of course. But it's just one more step that has to be taken to get a decent interface. It would appear as though Metro will take a few more steps to get rid of.:P
People back over other people because they aren't looking behind them.
looking around and behind them altogether if they think they can get away with only glancing at that little in-dash monitor. The result will be that they may think it is clear directly behind while failing to account for things coming up from the sides, or farther out from the camera's view.
I alternate my driving between a 1972 VW Super Beetle and a 1999 Subaru Outback Sport. Both are pretty bare bones, with nothing even as fancy as cruise control. Guess what? I've never had one single accident in the decades that I have been driving. Accidents can almost always be avoided by paying attention. Even if you're not at fault, chances are good that you could have outright avoided the situation had you been paying attention to your surroundings and trying to anticipate the nature of your environment.
On the plus side, it would at least take care of the entire Twilight franchise in one fell swoop. Vampires and werewolves are clearly not human. At best, it'd fall into necrophilia and bestiality.
No, I doubt it would significantly correct population growth. Not when you have whack-job religious, middle-class families throughout America popping out 5-7 kids per couple. I would be willing to compromise and let infertility be treat if a "2 children per family" law was implemented and enforced, along with proper sexual education. Furthermore, there should be a very basic parenting license that you must apply for along with this hard limit. Repeat criminal offenders need not apply. People with adverse genetic defects that would be passed onto their children would be turned away. Drug tests would be mandatory. Basic child-care classes would become the equivalent of Driver's Education in this scenario. Population control is important for those of us who don't enjoy living like sardines, one on top of another, in the crowded urban areas. It's important to those of us that have the foresight to realize that we're already staining our resources. We need less people consuming less resources, as well as more manageable and responsible practices to preserve said resources. If you think concerns over oil are bad, wait until water starts to become visibly scarce.
And yes, a lot of old people simply need (and want) to die. Have you ever been to a nursing home? I have two family members that work in that particular industry. Those people aren't alive, they merely exist. Most have no idea where they're at, and the ones that do are miserable. The only reason anyone is ever put into that kind of situation is because their family doesn't love them enough to provide care themselves. They never visit, but they want the moral high ground of knowing that "grandma is doing great... somewhere... we asume". These are ritzy places too, not those industrialized slums that nursing homes are so generally stereotyped as.
population control is inherently racist, and yours is a racist comment.
It sounds like you're just trolling to me, but I did want to elaborate on my comments. I didn't meant that Africa's population was strictly the problem. I meant that humanity's worldwide population is the issue. Less people means more resources like food and land... y'know, those things that directly effect me each and every day. If you want to treat infertility, go ahead. You say people have the "right" to breed, and I say it's just nature doing its job. At the very least, developed countries should limit the amount of children per person/couple to no more than two.
Boxee Box, hands down. It'll do anything you want a set-top to do, and it'll do it all with style. It has a beautiful interface, and the exterior is even pretty neat looking. The QWERTY keyboard/controller is nifty, too. The only downside is that their is no Hulu support... but you'll find all of that stuff elsewhere, in better quality, and with no commercials.;)
I've had a number of older Realtek bases devices, and they were all pretty much rubbish. Asus O!Play, Patriot Box Office, WDTV Live. All underpowered and lacking in features. Not to mention horrible, horrible user interfaces.
The Roku is a nice choice if all you want is internet streaming. It seems to be lacking on most other fronts though.
Of course, nothing is going to beat a good HTPC running something like XBMC. You're going to pay more for it, and obviously spend more time setting it up. It would certainly be worth it in the long run though. It'd be infinitely expandable and upgradable.
sliding door would have been far more practical, and no, gullwing doors do not need less space.
Gullwing doors barely need any surrounding space at all to fully open. I have a Bradley GT2 and it's great in tight parking spaces. Of course, tight parking spaces would be a non-issue if everyone drove [i]normal sized[/i] cars instead of bloated shit like this SUV.
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The main problem is that utility companies are for-profit. Your electricity should not be run by a for-profit organization, period. My water isn't for-profit, nor are my recycling services. For some reason though, the power companies are allowed to deny access to alternate generation and distribution centers, provide the most piss-poor service possible, and still raise rates year after year. It's easily one of the most crooked industries in the country.
Except that in this case your Xbox is the DRM. Furthermore, you're paying for Xbox Live on top of your standard Netflix fee for some reason. I wouldn't be so proud about letting Microsoft double-dip on me like that.
It's so much harder to actually effect change by contacting politicians, convincing the public, studying the law, and generally having an impact on the legislative process so that something actually comes out of any of it.
Except that nothing would come of that either. You can't change an inherently corrupt system by playing within the rules it has established and currently controls.
There are public schools everywhere, y'know. In fact, I'm right on the edge of two different districts. The bus for one of them runs right down my road three times a day. Honestly though, I wouldn't put my children through the joke that is public school. With the wealth of accredited online academies, home-schooling is easier than ever. As for my daily commute... I am self employed. I work three days a week, which makes the forty minute commute into town a little easier to bear.
Stop making excuses and take control of your life.
Don't live in the suburbs. Don't live in the city. No one cares what I build or how I paint my house.
Young kids need parenting and supervision, and in the 'good ol' days' that would have fallen on the woman.
That is unfortunately not the case anymore, is it? Now the kids are just shipped off to a daycare to be indoctrinated by a stranger. The parents have no time for them, as they're both out working full time jobs in order to just barely stay afloat on that house and care payment. They have made themselves into slaves through debt. They children won't even know them, and they will be worse off for it. The cycle will become more and more aggressive with each parentless generation.
Precisely. The submitter even admits to as much.
The problem: money, I'm on a budget.
Buy a smaller house in a less affluent neighborhood. Don't spend your budget on fads like iPad installations. Maybe try actually owning something in your life instead of living under an increasingly ridiculous debt. It's not hard, you just have to stop thinking like a yuppie. Ditch the SUV and move out of the suburbs. You're the reason our country is in the shitter. You've made yourself an economic slave and are bringing everyone else down with you.
I wanted to add that the Optimus is super easy to root. There isn't much in the way of a community, but I have the optimized firmware and a pretty spiffy custom ROM running on it. It's a lot better than the throwaway GoPhone that I had been using for years before.
I concur. I have an LG Optimus Slider with Virgin Mobile. I grabbed it on sale (with additional coupons) for $99 back last summer. It does pretty much anything I would want it for, and the monthly fee is about as cheap as they come for mobile phones. Of course, that still makes it overpriced, but what are you going do? :P
I was always disappointed that Jack Harkness didn't stick around for more than a few episodes. Of course, I guess the character did get his own show to make up for it.
What I really want is for the Doctor to take on a non-human companion. That would open things open a lot more, I think. Also, while we're at it, why doesn't the Doctor ever regenerate into a female form?
That's what I do. I have a fairly traditional (if not stylish) double-sided card. One side has the logo and slogan, the other has basic contact information and a QR code. The thing is, business cards are just another form of advertising. They're not necessarily about "making a connect", they're about canvasing. Furthermore, the get passed around to new people. I redesign my cards just a bit about every year when I need more printed. Because of this I can tell how long any particular card has been around. Parents pass cards onto their kids, friends to each other, etc. Some of my cards have been in circulation for years, and I get new business because of it. Anyone who is writing off business cards as a bygone antiquity just doesn't understand marketing... then again, most of these "web-savy" kids don't. Not everyone has a smart phone, after all.
I'm truly sad to say that Diablo III just doesn't have me very excited. I put countless hours into both of the previous games, though I never did get much out of Battle.net in Diablo II for whatever reason. For me, it was all about LAN play. The first Diablo made this especially appealing due to its Spawn Installs. Diablo III has no local multiplayer, which is ridiculous in itself. If you want to play by yourself in singleplayer, it requires the internet. So much for playing while you're on the road. The various changes to mechanics, art style, and addition of things like a trading area make it seem like little more than a shadow of World of Warcraft.
Honestly, I'm much more excited for Torchlight 2. I like the first game well enough while on the road, but the non-existent story couldn't hold my interest for much more than that. Thankfully the sequel will have multiplayer (local and online!) and seems to be expanding to overworld areas much like Diablo II did in comparison to the first Diablo. I imagine it's no coincidence that the Torchlight series is spearheaded by all of the major players from the first two Diablo games' development.
Are you serious? It's one hour... it means practically nothing. If you're truly that tired from getting up one hour earlier, then you shouldn't find any difficulty in going to bed an hour earlier the following night. See, the problem fixes itself in exactly one day. :P
Now that's not to say that DST is a good idea, because it's not. It's pointless and confusing.
Microsoft buggered up the start menu in Windows 7 and people complained [...]
The Start Menu itself seems fine. It's trading in the Quick Launch bar for those huge, never-static, pinned programs. It can be changed back, of course. But it's just one more step that has to be taken to get a decent interface. It would appear as though Metro will take a few more steps to get rid of. :P
...Apparently a few sentences got cut off at the beginning of that post. Odd. :(
People back over other people because they aren't looking behind them.
looking around and behind them altogether if they think they can get away with only glancing at that little in-dash monitor. The result will be that they may think it is clear directly behind while failing to account for things coming up from the sides, or farther out from the camera's view.
I alternate my driving between a 1972 VW Super Beetle and a 1999 Subaru Outback Sport. Both are pretty bare bones, with nothing even as fancy as cruise control. Guess what? I've never had one single accident in the decades that I have been driving. Accidents can almost always be avoided by paying attention. Even if you're not at fault, chances are good that you could have outright avoided the situation had you been paying attention to your surroundings and trying to anticipate the nature of your environment.
On the plus side, it would at least take care of the entire Twilight franchise in one fell swoop. Vampires and werewolves are clearly not human. At best, it'd fall into necrophilia and bestiality.
No, I doubt it would significantly correct population growth. Not when you have whack-job religious, middle-class families throughout America popping out 5-7 kids per couple. I would be willing to compromise and let infertility be treat if a "2 children per family" law was implemented and enforced, along with proper sexual education. Furthermore, there should be a very basic parenting license that you must apply for along with this hard limit. Repeat criminal offenders need not apply. People with adverse genetic defects that would be passed onto their children would be turned away. Drug tests would be mandatory. Basic child-care classes would become the equivalent of Driver's Education in this scenario. Population control is important for those of us who don't enjoy living like sardines, one on top of another, in the crowded urban areas. It's important to those of us that have the foresight to realize that we're already staining our resources. We need less people consuming less resources, as well as more manageable and responsible practices to preserve said resources. If you think concerns over oil are bad, wait until water starts to become visibly scarce.
And yes, a lot of old people simply need (and want) to die. Have you ever been to a nursing home? I have two family members that work in that particular industry. Those people aren't alive, they merely exist. Most have no idea where they're at, and the ones that do are miserable. The only reason anyone is ever put into that kind of situation is because their family doesn't love them enough to provide care themselves. They never visit, but they want the moral high ground of knowing that "grandma is doing great... somewhere... we asume". These are ritzy places too, not those industrialized slums that nursing homes are so generally stereotyped as.
population control is inherently racist, and yours is a racist comment.
It sounds like you're just trolling to me, but I did want to elaborate on my comments. I didn't meant that Africa's population was strictly the problem. I meant that humanity's worldwide population is the issue. Less people means more resources like food and land... y'know, those things that directly effect me each and every day. If you want to treat infertility, go ahead. You say people have the "right" to breed, and I say it's just nature doing its job. At the very least, developed countries should limit the amount of children per person/couple to no more than two.
Unexplained infertility is a huge medical problem.
Is it?
It seems like an out of control population is a much, much larger problem.
Boxee Box, hands down. It'll do anything you want a set-top to do, and it'll do it all with style. It has a beautiful interface, and the exterior is even pretty neat looking. The QWERTY keyboard/controller is nifty, too. The only downside is that their is no Hulu support... but you'll find all of that stuff elsewhere, in better quality, and with no commercials. ;)
I've had a number of older Realtek bases devices, and they were all pretty much rubbish. Asus O!Play, Patriot Box Office, WDTV Live. All underpowered and lacking in features. Not to mention horrible, horrible user interfaces.
The Roku is a nice choice if all you want is internet streaming. It seems to be lacking on most other fronts though.
Of course, nothing is going to beat a good HTPC running something like XBMC. You're going to pay more for it, and obviously spend more time setting it up. It would certainly be worth it in the long run though. It'd be infinitely expandable and upgradable.
We must be destroyed and subjugated, and if we resist, we fuel your bullshit sense of victimhood.
Doesn't sound all that far removed from Christianity, now does it? I guess that's what they get for worshiping the exact same god.
You city folk have gotten along without cell phones for centuries as well... you did just fine.
Asshole.
sliding door would have been far more practical, and no, gullwing doors do not need less space.
Gullwing doors barely need any surrounding space at all to fully open. I have a Bradley GT2 and it's great in tight parking spaces. Of course, tight parking spaces would be a non-issue if everyone drove [i]normal sized[/i] cars instead of bloated shit like this SUV.
[...] when it comes to sex, nothing beats ladyboys!
Quoted for truth. :)