No need to be that extreme... A hefty fine for companies that do it and another to the carriers that put the calls through should be enough.
Pull your head out of your ass. Companies haven't effectively reacted to "hefty fines" in decades. Wall Street alone should have shown you that.
You know what they call a $100 million fine on activity that has generated a billion in revenue?
Worth it.
Wall Street received bail outs. For some strange reason none of the people involved were ever slammerized. Slammerizing 'big guys' instead of only lowly peons would do wonders to stop this type of behavior.
You can at least fire every incumbant. After that demand that lawmakers either eliminate lifetime pensions for politicians (retroactively of course) and if they do not, fire them next election. Keep doing that until would-be career politicians realize that a) they work for us b) we are the boss and c) if they want to keep working for us, they need to remember that the making of a great leader is a servant attitude, not a royalty/celebrity attitude.
I mailed in my early ballot today. The problem we voters face is the parties recycling candidates. Here in Arizona almost 100% of the names on the ballot are people who have no clue what a 'real job' is. They run for one office and when term limits make them move on, they run for another. The same jerks recycled year after year. Their names become so common that they are elected to the new office because the populace all recognize their names. We NEED new ideas and honest people to run for office. The idea to throw everyone in office out is impossible. Everyone running for office is a career politician, recycled, bought and paid for crooked party hacks. Voters have zero, ziltch nada choice. It seems every cycle we are offered the choice of either Charles Manson or Jeffery Dalmer.
I learned more 'about' computers in gradeschool than I did in highschool. Our computer science teacher actually tried to explain what the actual parts of the computer were, and how they worked. This was back in the very early 90s, and most of the hardware in the labs were macintosh or apple IIe or IIgs.
By the time I hit middleschool, his curriculum had been curtailed down to essentially teaching word processing.
By highschool, it was a total joke, focused around... yet more word processing.
Not a single programming class. Not a single computer hardware class. Not a single class on the abstracted workings of computers.
Yay team america. Because science is hard, and nobody wants to really teach anything with any teeth.
This is a trick question as it has an age limitation. I graduated from high school in 1958. I took courses in mechanical drawing and tube type electronics. Computers were neither an option nor a product. I was a paperboy and I remember delivering a paper that had the discovery of the transistor on the front page. I think I still have a Raytheon CK722 pnp germanium transistor somewhere in my junk box. Ask my son who does IT for the government, and you will get a slightly different answer. In 1993 when he graduated from HS it was different but still not very common. His teachers raved about the papers he turned in that he did on his Mac. Very few of the other kids had computers.
If it is possible, someone will make it. It might as well be us. In the US license plate readers, accomplish the same (though they are not that prevalent, yet(read, not that cheap yet)).
What we really need is, for people to put pressure on govt to pass privacy laws. I would be fine with this idea, if the data is destroyed after a day or so. To store it beyond a day, you need a warrant signed by judge.
Aha, but this is the next step. It would be easy to swap plates with some other vehicle in a garage or parking lot. However it probably is not nearly as easy to swap the chip in your car. Also you could smear mud on a plate rendering it unreadable. My brother used to do that when he was 14 and wanted to drive his unlicensed car. Out of date plate, back then they issued new ones every year with alternating colors, with mud or snow covering the year. N.Y. in the 50s.
That's the problem with a 2 party system. Everyone wants to assume that they picked the right side, when in reality an individual in their own regime can easily perform an action they don't agree with. So to somehow explain away the action they begin looking for a way to pass the blame to the other side.
When in reality, the 2 party system is the dumbest idea ever contrived. By limiting our potions the system has essentially created a method for us to somehow feel like were in control when in reality we don't have any control. Politics is a system for idiots, no matter how good or bad you are at your job you will be like by some and hated by others, have every aspect of your life examined under a microscope, and the only protection you have is the "friends" you acquire on your way up. Even an village idiot can take the role, the only talent you need is the ability to spend an hour saying nothing while mentioning all the topics that everyone cares about.
It's time for change stop supporting the 2 parties, and stop buying foods from company's that support them. Then actually spend a few hours investigating the background of the individual you are voting for. Check who is paying for their campaign (Remember the comment that the MPAA made "Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake", as this is generally true for all of industry.) Then check how they votes and the comments they made in the past. In all likely-hood they will be nearly identical the the standpoints they make in the future, as these are the comments and viewpoints that got them to where they are. Don't sit here and blame a party, or the president. Until all of us actually stand up and do something it's only going to get worse. We won once against SOPA/PIPA. however, even now the government is hard at work to derail efforts to stop like bills from receiving similar attention. Because these bills are in the interest of their investors. No matter which side you take, just look where the money is coming from. We need to take a larger stand, and give the government some real oversight, place people who actually know what they are doing (and not just giving a good pubic face) in charge.
Wish I had some points. This is a truly insightful opinion.
Let me know when Libre Office doesn't horribly mangle my PPTX files.
I believe that any MS file format that contains an 'X' in the extension is experimental and that is most likely why Libre Office has a problem. Use another file format and you probably won't have any problems.
I wonder why ads bother people so much. Especially on the kindle where the ads are unobtrusive (you only see them on the power-off screensaver). My kindle came with ads disabled, and I got bored with the default images of authors, so I turned the ads on to get $50 refunded to my account.
Wait until you are 70+ years old. I am filled to overflowing with ads. If I had to watch them on my TV I would cancel TV and only watch DVDs. I can't stand the constant 3rd grade level crap that is repeated over and over during the same program. When I was young an hour of TV had 10 minutes of commercials. Now it's 20 minutes. In 10 years it'll be 30 minutes. And this doesn't include how disgusting I find vaginal odor products, male enhancements products and butt creams. I have reached my saturation level. I can't absorb any more crappy ads.
I think that dog breeds are one of the biggest examples of engineered evolution. Surely the most dogmatic (pun intended) of the creationists will have to admit that the present dog breeds were created by scientific evolution.
I don't know if this guy was ever a real threat to anyone or not, but he certainly isn't some super-patriot or free speech hero. He's mentally ill, and really does need help (even if you can't force it). The guy seriously believes that George W. Bush is living in a secret castle in Colorado where he rapes and sacrifices children. He also believes that Bush not only planned 9-11, but serves a world shadow government who also seem to spend most of their time raping and sacrificing children (when they're not planning world domination, I guess).
Whatever you think of the free speech issues involved, please don't celebrate this dude. He's very sick and needs help.
Here is a link to what is supposed to be on his FaceBook page:
I don't see any references to Bush or children and being a former Marine myself, I agree with what he says. If he was arrested for this, it is just wrong and they need to put me away too.
The thing that annoys me about complaining about astroturfing on Amazon, is the concept that it would happen on Amazon with any more regularity than anywhere else that had reviews.
I feel like basically the sources with the most people providing input have the least to worry in that regard, as many other voices will drown out astroturfers.
As long as you read Amazon reviews with a critical eye, they are fine...
This is what I do. I check to see which people have actually bought the product and then I read all the negative reviews. So far I have not been stung. Read the negative reviews and then search elsewhere for reviews that support or disprove the review.
Ebook readers aren't great for PDFs, but they are leagues ahead of tablets for reading textbooks. I'd leave it another couple of years until ebooks really get all the wrinkles ironed out, then get an ebook reader. I have a nook and I can store tens of thousands of quality books in there at less than the weight of a paperback.
Ebook readers aren't great for PDFs, but they are leagues ahead of tablets for reading textbooks. I'd leave it another couple of years until ebooks really get all the wrinkles ironed out, then get an ebook reader. I have a nook and I can store tens of thousands of quality books in there at less than the weight of a paperback.
I have a Kindle and an iPad. Both have their strong points. The remarks about reading PF files are valid. However there is one other thing to consider, environment. The iPad is 100% useless outside in bright light. I use mine for reading in bed. The Kindle needs ambient light for the display so it is perfect outside, even in bright sunlight.
Its a little like the old puzzle "What do you use to hold an acid that can eat anything?" Difficult, but interesting, problem.
I always wondered about that too. I remember being taught about the scientific search for the 'Universal Solvent'. Why didn't these people realized that they were dealing with an impossible subject? As far as I can determine fire is the closest thing to the Universal Solvent.
If we can go 3 years with no Federal budget whatsoever and count it as "constitutional", I'm pretty sure we can finagle a multi-year budget or two.
Can't have a budget when you're maxing out your credit card. Why worry about a budget now? The debt will be someone else's problem in four more years. Let them worry about a budget.
Come on, this has got to be getting into anti-trust issues.
Sorry, but the anti trust laws went the way of the Constitution. Both are completely ignored now. That's why we have companies that are too big to fail. Anti trust laws should have limited banks like Chase buying up all the competition. That's why we no longer have nice honest small town banks anymore.
If there is not apparent reason that anger the Google gods, the other thing that came to mind is that there is always a dumbass that deleted the wrong accounts by mistake...wait...wait... the conspiracy theories are always more fun.
That sure happens. Just today I had to find a new auto insurance company because Geico mistakenly sent a letter to the state DMV stating that I had canceled my car insurance. They kept insisting that it was no big deal because I was still covered. They could not understand that if I get pulled over and the cops think my car is uninsured, they impound my car. No big deal to them, big, big, deal to me.
It's impossible to implement the goals of this government without breaking some old outdated rules that are considered optional in today's enlightened society, like the Constitution. Heck, that was written by a bunch of old guys and isn't relevant in today's world. Ever since it was declared "a living document" so it could be ignored. Also by pushing the war on drugs, the war on terror and the war on freedom the guys in D.C. have managed to explain why we need to bypass the original Constitution because it shackles them from fullfilling their mandate to protect us all from drugs and terror. It's for the children.
I get heartburn when the Feds get involved in education. I have no desire for corrupt politicians to start deciding curriculum. Nooo! I do not want Washington's version of history and values taught in out schools. Schools need to be run by local school boards.
Bad news: With an Arduino microcontroller and a little bit of programming, it's possible for a hacker to gain instant, untraceable access to millions of key card-protected hotel rooms.
Well, that's it! There's only one thing we can do... outlaw Arduinos
But if Arduinos are outlawed, only outlaws will have Arduinos.
That is so true. Look at the options we are given. A guy who ignores that America's creit card is maxed out and still wants to spend spend spend. And a guy who has more money than God and wants to be Prez simply because he's bored and wants to be very very powerful. We are doomed either way. Do I choose to jump off the cliff or be eaten by the lion?
Almost all the problems facing mankind and the earth are caused by the same thing. The solution is easy to see but difficult to get people at embrace. There are simply too damned many people on this globe. The Chinese had it right with their limit on family size. We need to trim down the population of the world. At the present growth rate of the population, we will again double in another 58 years. Instead of trying methods to change the climate which will probably not go the way scientists plan, we need an incentive for the peoples of the world to start limiting their reproduction. However the religions of the world will fight any attempt at population control. Like it or not, overpopulation is the underlying cause of climate change and decreasing the population is the solution. It will happen one way or another. We cannot continue to reproduce like rats and rabbits.
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Dear FTC,
Grow a pair, ban robo-calls, and follow through on enforcement.
You can send me my check at your convenience.
Signed,
Me
but, but, the politicians (that determine our salary and job security) need them! Won't someone please think of the politicians?
Change that to: Grow a pair, ban ALL robo-calls, and follow through on enforcement.
No need to be that extreme... A hefty fine for companies that do it and another to the carriers that put the calls through should be enough.
Pull your head out of your ass. Companies haven't effectively reacted to "hefty fines" in decades. Wall Street alone should have shown you that.
You know what they call a $100 million fine on activity that has generated a billion in revenue?
Worth it.
Wall Street received bail outs. For some strange reason none of the people involved were ever slammerized. Slammerizing 'big guys' instead of only lowly peons would do wonders to stop this type of behavior.
It doesn't make the data more secure but perhaps the exposure will shame companies into better security.
You can at least fire every incumbant. After that demand that lawmakers either eliminate lifetime pensions for politicians (retroactively of course) and if they do not, fire them next election. Keep doing that until would-be career politicians realize that a) they work for us b) we are the boss and c) if they want to keep working for us, they need to remember that the making of a great leader is a servant attitude, not a royalty/celebrity attitude.
I mailed in my early ballot today. The problem we voters face is the parties recycling candidates. Here in Arizona almost 100% of the names on the ballot are people who have no clue what a 'real job' is. They run for one office and when term limits make them move on, they run for another. The same jerks recycled year after year. Their names become so common that they are elected to the new office because the populace all recognize their names. We NEED new ideas and honest people to run for office. The idea to throw everyone in office out is impossible. Everyone running for office is a career politician, recycled, bought and paid for crooked party hacks. Voters have zero, ziltch nada choice. It seems every cycle we are offered the choice of either Charles Manson or Jeffery Dalmer.
I learned more 'about' computers in gradeschool than I did in highschool. Our computer science teacher actually tried to explain what the actual parts of the computer were, and how they worked. This was back in the very early 90s, and most of the hardware in the labs were macintosh or apple IIe or IIgs.
By the time I hit middleschool, his curriculum had been curtailed down to essentially teaching word processing.
By highschool, it was a total joke, focused around... yet more word processing.
Not a single programming class. Not a single computer hardware class. Not a single class on the abstracted workings of computers.
Yay team america. Because science is hard, and nobody wants to really teach anything with any teeth.
This is a trick question as it has an age limitation. I graduated from high school in 1958. I took courses in mechanical drawing and tube type electronics. Computers were neither an option nor a product. I was a paperboy and I remember delivering a paper that had the discovery of the transistor on the front page. I think I still have a Raytheon CK722 pnp germanium transistor somewhere in my junk box. Ask my son who does IT for the government, and you will get a slightly different answer. In 1993 when he graduated from HS it was different but still not very common. His teachers raved about the papers he turned in that he did on his Mac. Very few of the other kids had computers.
If it is possible, someone will make it. It might as well be us. In the US license plate readers, accomplish the same (though they are not that prevalent, yet(read, not that cheap yet)).
What we really need is, for people to put pressure on govt to pass privacy laws. I would be fine with this idea, if the data is destroyed after a day or so. To store it beyond a day, you need a warrant signed by judge.
Aha, but this is the next step. It would be easy to swap plates with some other vehicle in a garage or parking lot. However it probably is not nearly as easy to swap the chip in your car. Also you could smear mud on a plate rendering it unreadable. My brother used to do that when he was 14 and wanted to drive his unlicensed car. Out of date plate, back then they issued new ones every year with alternating colors, with mud or snow covering the year. N.Y. in the 50s.
That's the problem with a 2 party system. Everyone wants to assume that they picked the right side, when in reality an individual in their own regime can easily perform an action they don't agree with. So to somehow explain away the action they begin looking for a way to pass the blame to the other side.
When in reality, the 2 party system is the dumbest idea ever contrived. By limiting our potions the system has essentially created a method for us to somehow feel like were in control when in reality we don't have any control. Politics is a system for idiots, no matter how good or bad you are at your job you will be like by some and hated by others, have every aspect of your life examined under a microscope, and the only protection you have is the "friends" you acquire on your way up. Even an village idiot can take the role, the only talent you need is the ability to spend an hour saying nothing while mentioning all the topics that everyone cares about.
It's time for change stop supporting the 2 parties, and stop buying foods from company's that support them. Then actually spend a few hours investigating the background of the individual you are voting for. Check who is paying for their campaign (Remember the comment that the MPAA made "Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake", as this is generally true for all of industry.) Then check how they votes and the comments they made in the past. In all likely-hood they will be nearly identical the the standpoints they make in the future, as these are the comments and viewpoints that got them to where they are. Don't sit here and blame a party, or the president. Until all of us actually stand up and do something it's only going to get worse. We won once against SOPA/PIPA. however, even now the government is hard at work to derail efforts to stop like bills from receiving similar attention. Because these bills are in the interest of their investors. No matter which side you take, just look where the money is coming from. We need to take a larger stand, and give the government some real oversight, place people who actually know what they are doing (and not just giving a good pubic face) in charge.
Wish I had some points. This is a truly insightful opinion.
Let me know when Libre Office doesn't horribly mangle my PPTX files.
I believe that any MS file format that contains an 'X' in the extension is experimental and that is most likely why Libre Office has a problem. Use another file format and you probably won't have any problems.
I wonder why ads bother people so much. Especially on the kindle where the ads are unobtrusive (you only see them on the power-off screensaver). My kindle came with ads disabled, and I got bored with the default images of authors, so I turned the ads on to get $50 refunded to my account.
Wait until you are 70+ years old. I am filled to overflowing with ads. If I had to watch them on my TV I would cancel TV and only watch DVDs. I can't stand the constant 3rd grade level crap that is repeated over and over during the same program. When I was young an hour of TV had 10 minutes of commercials. Now it's 20 minutes. In 10 years it'll be 30 minutes. And this doesn't include how disgusting I find vaginal odor products, male enhancements products and butt creams. I have reached my saturation level. I can't absorb any more crappy ads.
A link to an article that makes you answer a poll about the RNC before letting you RTFA? Lame.
First Post.
The two questions they ask me were both about buying back to school supplies. Nothing political.
I think that dog breeds are one of the biggest examples of engineered evolution. Surely the most dogmatic (pun intended) of the creationists will have to admit that the present dog breeds were created by scientific evolution.
Whaddya mean propaganda? Haven't you ever seen 'Reefer Madness'? Gawd.
I don't know if this guy was ever a real threat to anyone or not, but he certainly isn't some super-patriot or free speech hero. He's mentally ill, and really does need help (even if you can't force it). The guy seriously believes that George W. Bush is living in a secret castle in Colorado where he rapes and sacrifices children. He also believes that Bush not only planned 9-11, but serves a world shadow government who also seem to spend most of their time raping and sacrificing children (when they're not planning world domination, I guess).
Whatever you think of the free speech issues involved, please don't celebrate this dude. He's very sick and needs help.
Here is a link to what is supposed to be on his FaceBook page:
http://wtvr.com/2012/08/21/full-text-brandon-raubs-proclamation-take-our-republic-back/
I don't see any references to Bush or children and being a former Marine myself, I agree with what he says. If he was arrested for this, it is just wrong and they need to put me away too.
The thing that annoys me about complaining about astroturfing on Amazon, is the concept that it would happen on Amazon with any more regularity than anywhere else that had reviews.
I feel like basically the sources with the most people providing input have the least to worry in that regard, as many other voices will drown out astroturfers.
As long as you read Amazon reviews with a critical eye, they are fine...
This is what I do. I check to see which people have actually bought the product and then I read all the negative reviews. So far I have not been stung. Read the negative reviews and then search elsewhere for reviews that support or disprove the review.
Ebook readers aren't great for PDFs, but they are leagues ahead of tablets for reading textbooks. I'd leave it another couple of years until ebooks really get all the wrinkles ironed out, then get an ebook reader. I have a nook and I can store tens of thousands of quality books in there at less than the weight of a paperback.
Ebook readers aren't great for PDFs, but they are leagues ahead of tablets for reading textbooks. I'd leave it another couple of years until ebooks really get all the wrinkles ironed out, then get an ebook reader. I have a nook and I can store tens of thousands of quality books in there at less than the weight of a paperback.
I have a Kindle and an iPad. Both have their strong points. The remarks about reading PF files are valid. However there is one other thing to consider, environment. The iPad is 100% useless outside in bright light. I use mine for reading in bed. The Kindle needs ambient light for the display so it is perfect outside, even in bright sunlight.
Its a little like the old puzzle "What do you use to hold an acid that can eat anything?" Difficult, but interesting, problem.
I always wondered about that too. I remember being taught about the scientific search for the 'Universal Solvent'. Why didn't these people realized that they were dealing with an impossible subject? As far as I can determine fire is the closest thing to the Universal Solvent.
If we can go 3 years with no Federal budget whatsoever and count it as "constitutional", I'm pretty sure we can finagle a multi-year budget or two.
Can't have a budget when you're maxing out your credit card. Why worry about a budget now? The debt will be someone else's problem in four more years. Let them worry about a budget.
Come on, this has got to be getting into anti-trust issues.
Sorry, but the anti trust laws went the way of the Constitution. Both are completely ignored now. That's why we have companies that are too big to fail. Anti trust laws should have limited banks like Chase buying up all the competition. That's why we no longer have nice honest small town banks anymore.
If there is not apparent reason that anger the Google gods, the other thing that came to mind is that there is always a dumbass that deleted the wrong accounts by mistake. ..wait...wait... the conspiracy theories are always more fun.
That sure happens. Just today I had to find a new auto insurance company because Geico mistakenly sent a letter to the state DMV stating that I had canceled my car insurance. They kept insisting that it was no big deal because I was still covered. They could not understand that if I get pulled over and the cops think my car is uninsured, they impound my car. No big deal to them, big, big, deal to me.
It's impossible to implement the goals of this government without breaking some old outdated rules that are considered optional in today's enlightened society, like the Constitution. Heck, that was written by a bunch of old guys and isn't relevant in today's world. Ever since it was declared "a living document" so it could be ignored. Also by pushing the war on drugs, the war on terror and the war on freedom the guys in D.C. have managed to explain why we need to bypass the original Constitution because it shackles them from fullfilling their mandate to protect us all from drugs and terror. It's for the children.
I get heartburn when the Feds get involved in education. I have no desire for corrupt politicians to start deciding curriculum. Nooo! I do not want Washington's version of history and values taught in out schools. Schools need to be run by local school boards.
Bad news: With an Arduino microcontroller and a little bit of programming, it's possible for a hacker to gain instant, untraceable access to millions of key card-protected hotel rooms.
Well, that's it! There's only one thing we can do... outlaw Arduinos
But if Arduinos are outlawed, only outlaws will have Arduinos.
That is so true. Look at the options we are given. A guy who ignores that America's creit card is maxed out and still wants to spend spend spend. And a guy who has more money than God and wants to be Prez simply because he's bored and wants to be very very powerful. We are doomed either way. Do I choose to jump off the cliff or be eaten by the lion?
Yea!!
Almost all the problems facing mankind and the earth are caused by the same thing. The solution is easy to see but difficult to get people at embrace. There are simply too damned many people on this globe. The Chinese had it right with their limit on family size. We need to trim down the population of the world. At the present growth rate of the population, we will again double in another 58 years. Instead of trying methods to change the climate which will probably not go the way scientists plan, we need an incentive for the peoples of the world to start limiting their reproduction. However the religions of the world will fight any attempt at population control. Like it or not, overpopulation is the underlying cause of climate change and decreasing the population is the solution. It will happen one way or another. We cannot continue to reproduce like rats and rabbits.