Or... their TiVo is so old it doesn't have built-in ethernet or wifi. The big "problem" with TiVo in the beginning was that it required a phone line near your TV! I remember hacking my Series 1 TiVo with an PCI ethernet card; not everyone was capable of doing that. I'm not even sure they had USB back then. If people simply replaced an old Series 1 TiVo with one that supported digital TV, they may very well have simply moved over the phone line! My Series 3 HD supported MOCA and ethernet, but required an external dongle for WiFi... My Bolt has WiFi, MOCA and Ethernet built in, but MOCA is mostly useless with antenna, and I don't have Ethernet near my TV.
So, it's not out of the realm of possibility that people were still using modems.
If the world is biased against you, then of course, a neutral search algorithm will show that bias. Only a biased search algorithm would guarantee "fair and balanced" search results.
Like Boston, it has areas of small grids that go every which way. There appears to be attempts at circumferential roadways, which would certainly explain it. But unplanned growth seems to be at the heart of it.
Yes, you would. It's called capital gains... I assume the IRS would consider BTC an investment, rather than earned income. The capital gains tax rate is actually lower than earned income. So you should've paid tax on the earned income of $7 (since you worked for that) in 2010/2011 (which would've been $0). Then you'd have a cost basis of $7. If you sold that 1 BTC 9possibly wrong assumption) for $4000, the capital gains would be $3993, for a tax of $598.95 (15%) assuming you make more than $37,950 filing as a single individual...
The problem is that just because you cash it out, doesn't mean you spend it, but it does mean you now have that "income" available to you. If the US were to tax based on spending, it'd have a nationwide sales tax (which is considered regressive) rather than an income tax.
I had the triple play, and It was getting ridiculous with the add-on fees (taxes, rentals) that made it ridiculous. After several calls, got a 50 Mbps service that works for me. My phone has been moved to a low-cost VOIP. My TV source is now antenna attached to a lifetime-subcription HD3 TiVo ($0/month), BluRay player for Amazon Prime (we also use the shipping benefit, but $99/year), and AppleTV for NetFlix (which is temporary), Hulu ($12/month) and CBS All Access ($6/month). Once NetFlix is cancelled, the monthly TV price is $26.25... I'm saving about $65/month.
My wife has a LEAF and a short enough commute to work and activities that the car works for her. I have a Volt that I primarily drive in EV mode. We both have Level 2 chargers at home and at work; but the LEAF has a 6.6kW charger, and can accept Level 3 CHAdeMo fast charging. So the double-sized LEAF battery can completely charge in the same time (or less) as the Volt. I know of a city dweller who has a Volt, and they charge it when they go grocery shopping.
So personal circumstances do matter.
The issues you bring up are certainly impediments, but an EV with with a decent battery and range extender (like the Volt or BMW i3) I think is the way things will progress. The battery needs to be bigger (at least 100 miles cold range) and the ICE needs to be able to charge the battery while running, not just maintain the charge. It also needs a highway mode that will choose EV or ICE depending on efficiency at speed. So take a Prius Prime, Volt, i3, mish-mash them together.
You are unlikely to live in that house forever, and the next owner may not be as tech-savvy as you. Leave it for them. You could even be nice and upgrade it to RG6(Q). When doing home improvements/modifications, always look to when you sell the house, and whether it will add value or detract from the house.
I'm using the existing cable (RG6?) for MoCA throughout my house, rather than running Cat5/Cat6 everywhere (WiFi is good enough for my situation).
The first amendment explicitly separates out freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. Perhaps in the eyes of a Constitutional originalist, would one possibly only consider the printing press as being a medium of free speech. But given that they are listed separately, a non-originalist might consider that a free press and free speech are different from each other. Also, being an originalist, one might limit the freedom to the medium generated on a printing printing press. But time moves on, cars supplant trains which supplant horses; the press is now considered to be not just newspapers, but new media such as TV, radio, the Internet, etc.
Yes, the professional behavior of journalists is a matter of public scrutiny, but having the government require the firing of a journalist and/or editor (here I consider the president of CNN a journalist and/or editor, an originalist might just think he's management) to make a business deal is effectively government interference in the press.
While I am against the AT&T/Time-Warner merger (and was also against the Comcast/NBC-Universal merger), I think this goes too far. The Press is part of the checks and balances of the government. There have been lots of bad press against all former Presidents, but the President didn't use his powers against them like this. This blatantly violates the First Amendment.https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/07/06/2255213/white-house-could-use-atttime-warner-deal-as-leverage-against-cnn#
Given the vertical integration, things generally just work, and at least on the Mac side, can work for a long time. I have several Macs that are 10~7 years old that are still going strong. Most PCs tend to last 3~4 years and then are replaced. There is reasonably tight integration among the iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the system feels stable as a whole (although when I first got my new 2016 MBP, it kept kernel panicking when I connected via Ethernet). The stability of Unix/BSD/Darwin, the similarity to Linux (used at work).
The iPhone simply had the better ecosystem; it blew away what Windows Phone/CE had, and is less confusing than Android (i.e. all the app stores), which also had a reputation to never be updated (due to vendor or service provider issues).
And don't get me started on the Windows update process! And the bastardized Windows 8 interface... it still isn't quite done in Windows 10.
Most devices simply work; less drivers and stuff one has to install (I know it's been getting better and better in Windows).
Windows machines from the big manufacturers have lots of bloatware on them. My son and I built a Windows gaming machine for him because we wanted to control exactly what was put on there.
Until the 2016 MBPs, my wife's MBA, my personal MBP and my work MBP all used a compatible power supply, so I could leave one in the family room, and one in the office, and we were always ready.
Yes, I'm pretty much locked in, and I ended up buying lots of dongles, but I get to share them with the wife.:)
With the exception of a few games (and some hardware vendor's utilities), I can do everything I want on a Mac that I need to do (and the games aren't all that important to me any more).
AT&T Next Family Plan 15GB with 5 lines, and corporate discount. I'm at the sweet spot price-wise for 5 lines. When I switched, at least 3 of the phones were still under contract, and were released upon switching. Went with them because they were the first with iPhones (had a 3G), and supported GSM (for European travel). Not going to unlimited because I don't care about DirectTV.
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Interesting how the in-app pricing (Personal=$69.99, Home=$99.99) differs from the price on Microsoft's website (Personal=$59.99, Home=$79.99).
I didn't think Apple allowed that?
Don't post it to the internet!
...be used by Client Change/Science Deniers "to prove" that it's just a big hoax and a big conspiracy...
After the Fox acquisition, won't Disney own a majority of Hulu? Why are they creating a new service, just have everything on Hulu...
Trump doesn't pay contractors, though...
Or... their TiVo is so old it doesn't have built-in ethernet or wifi. The big "problem" with TiVo in the beginning was that it required a phone line near your TV! I remember hacking my Series 1 TiVo with an PCI ethernet card; not everyone was capable of doing that. I'm not even sure they had USB back then. If people simply replaced an old Series 1 TiVo with one that supported digital TV, they may very well have simply moved over the phone line! My Series 3 HD supported MOCA and ethernet, but required an external dongle for WiFi... My Bolt has WiFi, MOCA and Ethernet built in, but MOCA is mostly useless with antenna, and I don't have Ethernet near my TV.
So, it's not out of the realm of possibility that people were still using modems.
And adapter cables!
Harding's administration was pretty corrupt, too.
If the world is biased against you, then of course, a neutral search algorithm will show that bias. Only a biased search algorithm would guarantee "fair and balanced" search results.
EDIT: Not quite correct; there were some new streets, but not as many as I had thought...
After the Fire of 1666, a good chunk of London streets were re-aligned.
Like Boston, it has areas of small grids that go every which way. There appears to be attempts at circumferential roadways, which would certainly explain it. But unplanned growth seems to be at the heart of it.
Amazon has to pay for all the packages it ships; it's not as though FedEx, UPS and USPS do it for free.
The USPS is an independent agency of the US government, and receives minimal subsidies...
Yes, you would. It's called capital gains... I assume the IRS would consider BTC an investment, rather than earned income. The capital gains tax rate is actually lower than earned income.
So you should've paid tax on the earned income of $7 (since you worked for that) in 2010/2011 (which would've been $0). Then you'd have a cost basis of $7. If you sold that 1 BTC 9possibly wrong assumption) for $4000, the capital gains would be $3993, for a tax of $598.95 (15%) assuming you make more than $37,950 filing as a single individual...
The problem is that just because you cash it out, doesn't mean you spend it, but it does mean you now have that "income" available to you. If the US were to tax based on spending, it'd have a nationwide sales tax (which is considered regressive) rather than an income tax.
I had the triple play, and It was getting ridiculous with the add-on fees (taxes, rentals) that made it ridiculous. After several calls, got a 50 Mbps service that works for me. My phone has been moved to a low-cost VOIP. My TV source is now antenna attached to a lifetime-subcription HD3 TiVo ($0/month), BluRay player for Amazon Prime (we also use the shipping benefit, but $99/year), and AppleTV for NetFlix (which is temporary), Hulu ($12/month) and CBS All Access ($6/month). Once NetFlix is cancelled, the monthly TV price is $26.25... I'm saving about $65/month.
I've discovered that Chrome simply works for me better, so I switched. Some sites would not work with Safari (e.g. my bank's bill pay).
My wife has a LEAF and a short enough commute to work and activities that the car works for her. I have a Volt that I primarily drive in EV mode. We both have Level 2 chargers at home and at work; but the LEAF has a 6.6kW charger, and can accept Level 3 CHAdeMo fast charging. So the double-sized LEAF battery can completely charge in the same time (or less) as the Volt. I know of a city dweller who has a Volt, and they charge it when they go grocery shopping.
So personal circumstances do matter.
The issues you bring up are certainly impediments, but an EV with with a decent battery and range extender (like the Volt or BMW i3) I think is the way things will progress. The battery needs to be bigger (at least 100 miles cold range) and the ICE needs to be able to charge the battery while running, not just maintain the charge. It also needs a highway mode that will choose EV or ICE depending on efficiency at speed. So take a Prius Prime, Volt, i3, mish-mash them together.
You are unlikely to live in that house forever, and the next owner may not be as tech-savvy as you. Leave it for them. You could even be nice and upgrade it to RG6(Q). When doing home improvements/modifications, always look to when you sell the house, and whether it will add value or detract from the house.
I'm using the existing cable (RG6?) for MoCA throughout my house, rather than running Cat5/Cat6 everywhere (WiFi is good enough for my situation).
They are preventing a journalist/editor from reporting the news by requiring his firing for the merger to proceed.
No idea who I'd be playing with Anonymous Coward.
The first amendment explicitly separates out freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. Perhaps in the eyes of a Constitutional originalist, would one possibly only consider the printing press as being a medium of free speech. But given that they are listed separately, a non-originalist might consider that a free press and free speech are different from each other. Also, being an originalist, one might limit the freedom to the medium generated on a printing printing press. But time moves on, cars supplant trains which supplant horses; the press is now considered to be not just newspapers, but new media such as TV, radio, the Internet, etc.
Yes, the professional behavior of journalists is a matter of public scrutiny, but having the government require the firing of a journalist and/or editor (here I consider the president of CNN a journalist and/or editor, an originalist might just think he's management) to make a business deal is effectively government interference in the press.
While I am against the AT&T/Time-Warner merger (and was also against the Comcast/NBC-Universal merger), I think this goes too far. The Press is part of the checks and balances of the government. There have been lots of bad press against all former Presidents, but the President didn't use his powers against them like this. This blatantly violates the First Amendment.https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/07/06/2255213/white-house-could-use-atttime-warner-deal-as-leverage-against-cnn#
Given the vertical integration, things generally just work, and at least on the Mac side, can work for a long time. I have several Macs that are 10~7 years old that are still going strong. Most PCs tend to last 3~4 years and then are replaced. There is reasonably tight integration among the iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the system feels stable as a whole (although when I first got my new 2016 MBP, it kept kernel panicking when I connected via Ethernet). The stability of Unix/BSD/Darwin, the similarity to Linux (used at work).
The iPhone simply had the better ecosystem; it blew away what Windows Phone/CE had, and is less confusing than Android (i.e. all the app stores), which also had a reputation to never be updated (due to vendor or service provider issues).
And don't get me started on the Windows update process! And the bastardized Windows 8 interface... it still isn't quite done in Windows 10.
Most devices simply work; less drivers and stuff one has to install (I know it's been getting better and better in Windows).
Windows machines from the big manufacturers have lots of bloatware on them. My son and I built a Windows gaming machine for him because we wanted to control exactly what was put on there.
Until the 2016 MBPs, my wife's MBA, my personal MBP and my work MBP all used a compatible power supply, so I could leave one in the family room, and one in the office, and we were always ready.
Yes, I'm pretty much locked in, and I ended up buying lots of dongles, but I get to share them with the wife. :)
With the exception of a few games (and some hardware vendor's utilities), I can do everything I want on a Mac that I need to do (and the games aren't all that important to me any more).
She was born outside these limits:
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AT&T Next Family Plan 15GB with 5 lines, and corporate discount. I'm at the sweet spot price-wise for 5 lines. When I switched, at least 3 of the phones were still under contract, and were released upon switching.
Went with them because they were the first with iPhones (had a 3G), and supported GSM (for European travel).
Not going to unlimited because I don't care about DirectTV.