Oh wow, you dug up exactly one statistic where the US is worse than a lot of countries.
Hey I have an idea... why don't you harp on that single number while ignoring how we are near the top on pretty much every other health metric. That's a winner.
I don't see how this remark is germane to the fnord discussion at hand.
I find verizon totally unusable as a provider because of their customer "support", and their rates are significantly higher (about 25-30%) than my current t-mobile plan. I hate verizon wireless with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
Skype is fantastic though, especially for international calls. Anywhere in the world, you can call a US phone number, with unlimited minutes, for like $3-4 a month. Right on.
hopefully a few of these d-bags will go and get themselves arrested, killed
I'm caught between the horror of the blatant and gratuitous violence in this remark and my burning desire to silently murder STV campers in their sleep.
I've known plenty of girls who play MMOs who don't really have that big of a problem with it.
I've known plenty of guys that get called fags in online games who don't really have a problem with it. But I do.
I'm with some of the other posts I've read: I'm getting Cata, maybe even collector's edition, but I wouldn't set foot in the forums if they wanted to make me use my real name. This is a real dick move.
"I hope you like it. It's great that it will be free to readers of your newspaper. I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music."
The guy is a genius! Who would have ever imagined using a dying news media as a promotional venue for music? I'm assuming the free music was distributed on cassette tape, rubber-banded to the paper.
IANAL. In your example, the person that has been pulled over is actually already "under arrest". They just haven't been charged with anything, and have been let go. Any time a police officers asks you to stop what you are doing, and/or begins questioning you, you are under arrest.
If you haven't been marandized, you are not under arrest. Don't do their job for them, it's already hard enough for the rest of us.
Are you sure T-Mobile isn't cheaper because you can't make calls from as many places as you can with Verizon? My sister has T-Mobile and talking to her on the phone is always an exercise in saying, "what?"
I switched from Verizon Wireless to T-Mobile a few years ago in a fit of rage after (yet... another) very difficult and obtuse phone representative told me they couldn't... I don't know, whatever it is they can't do.
Now, I haven't had too many issues with T-Mobile service in the Boston area, but I would much rather have to say "What?" to my sister than to my service provider.
So go live in a mud hut on a desert island, dipshit. Last I checked, nobody in this modern society was holding you against your will. You want your "privacy", go away. You want the convenience of living in a society that protects its members from their neighbors' aggression, well, quid pro quo.
This, then, is the culmination of American intellectual rigor. It amounts to a Declaration of Dependence. This country wasn't founded on convenience. The responsibility of living in civilized society is being surrendered voluntarily, and as it goes, so goes civilization.
The US today is a trust-fund nation - we have all this freedom, we didn't work for it, we don't value it or defend it, and so we will lose it. What's scary about this story is the international surveillance. The global marketplace is creeping towards a global surveillance federation. It is frightening but, perhaps, inevitable.
Don't get upset that some of us still think "liberty" is at least as important as life and the pursuit of happiness. Ask New Hampshire, they'll tell you.
Why didn't you log in?! This is so incredible it needs a new mod. Funny just doesn't cut it. Thank you!
Er... to stay on topic... Despite the ability to lock down your information, I fired Facebook for their stance on privacy. Besides, if you're friends with people, you talk to them, write to them, call them. If not... why do you care what they had for dinner? Either way, Facebook is pointless mental masturbation and social exhibitionism. I'm all set on that.
Okay, it's good for organizing parties. That's it, as far as I can see.
I am very pleased with my data plan. I pay $5 for about 64 kilobytes of data, and then a very reasonable 20 cents per 160 bytes above that. Why, that's only about $1,342,177 per gig. That seems pretty reasonable, really.
I don't know why everyone gets so upset about this kind of thing. You can't expect companies to just give away their services because some bad apples want to use their video-capable, application-equipped smartphones for more than text messaging. After all, they're probably pirates, and they deserve what they get for stealing from honest people trying to make a living.
How do BP's profits from last quarter pertain to an oil rig exploding?
Okay, here it is. Ready? Take notes.
1. BP's oil rig failed because lower quality parts were used in safety mechanisms in an effort to save money. 2. There is no 2.
They should face massive punitive damages, and the money should go to Superfund sites across the country. Or they could buy me a nice mansion, with a pool and a manservant.
Wait. What? Did someone actually do this? Okay, way off-topic, I know. But it wasn't Clinton that got the memo detailing the attack. Whatever he may or may not have done regarding terrorism safety (and from what I understand, he did a tremendous amount), I don't see how the blame for 9/11 would rest more heavily on his shoulders than the subsequent administration.
As to your other point, I'm sure there are many of us who blame corporatism and house corruption, but blame doesn't solve problems. My not inconsiderable imagination has yet to find a reasonable solution to the current state of political affairs in the US. Maybe we can drill for oil on the senate floor?
What I want to know is, once they realized that the ship-with-a-straw idea was somewhat effective at drawing 20% (or some fraction, open for debate) of the oil, why didnt they immediately deploy a dozen said ships with straws to catch the rest?
Because there's only 1 pipe into which the straw can be inserted.
Well that's the problem, they need to relieve the pressure in the well first to get the foam working. Why don't they just do something to get rid of all the pressure down there?
Do you even read what you're writing? Regulation had zero to do with the vast majority of the fight over the Cape Wind project. Private citizens and advocacy groups have been fighting it tooth and nail since the plans were drawn up, and those lawsuits are the primary cause of the delays.
Ironically, it is people like the damn Kenedys that have held up construction. As a Massachusetts progressive, it makes me want to choke someone, but it sure as hell isn't Government regulation.
Slashdot Mirror
if you want to find gay men you will have better luck at a gay bar rather than asking random people on slashdot if they are gay.
You have better luck at a gay bar than you do of finding your pillow in the morning though, so it isn't a particularly fair comparison.
Also Alzheimers and it'll save Social Security!
Man the benefits are so worth it!
Plus maybe Snapple will finally start living up to its motto.
Oh wow, you dug up exactly one statistic where the US is worse than a lot of countries.
Hey I have an idea... why don't you harp on that single number while ignoring how we are near the top on pretty much every other health metric. That's a winner.
You mean like cost?
What proof do you have of that?
He has a fair point, don't get pissed.
I from Jamaica, mon.
so then... "these seats are reserved for my wife and me and I"?
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
I don't see how this remark is germane to the fnord discussion at hand.
I find verizon totally unusable as a provider because of their customer "support", and their rates are significantly higher (about 25-30%) than my current t-mobile plan. I hate verizon wireless with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
Skype is fantastic though, especially for international calls. Anywhere in the world, you can call a US phone number, with unlimited minutes, for like $3-4 a month. Right on.
hopefully a few of these d-bags will go and get themselves arrested, killed
I'm caught between the horror of the blatant and gratuitous violence in this remark and my burning desire to silently murder STV campers in their sleep.
I'm like a car that's... um...
sick of getting camped.
Gits.
Jews who run your entire media
Erh. I thought we'd finally moved on to blaming News Corp and patent trolls for all that. Old meme is old, mate. Gotta live in the now.
We all bought lifetime subs when it came out and we will be there when the last whir of the server fans die in the datacenter.
Funny, and I always though a lifetime sub meant my lifetime, not some heap 'o junk server's
You probably thought you were buying that music CD too, didn't you.
License... revoked.
I've known plenty of girls who play MMOs who don't really have that big of a problem with it.
I've known plenty of guys that get called fags in online games who don't really have a problem with it. But I do.
I'm with some of the other posts I've read: I'm getting Cata, maybe even collector's edition, but I wouldn't set foot in the forums if they wanted to make me use my real name. This is a real dick move.
yes, as I use the same name here as I do in game... oh wait, no I don't.
Much like the mighty monarch, your words are razor sharp and laced with venom!
Let's just change the internet's name to "The Global Data Transfer Protocol Formerly Known as The World Wide Web".
...or, "NAMBLA"...
Crazy like a fox! FTFA:
The guy is a genius! Who would have ever imagined using a dying news media as a promotional venue for music? I'm assuming the free music was distributed on cassette tape, rubber-banded to the paper.
I preordered online.
usually they were more asquarish in the 80's.
Yes, back before the Belgian invasion. God, I miss last century sometimes. ... but not Prince.
IANAL. In your example, the person that has been pulled over is actually already "under arrest". They just haven't been charged with anything, and have been let go. Any time a police officers asks you to stop what you are doing, and/or begins questioning you, you are under arrest.
If you haven't been marandized, you are not under arrest. Don't do their job for them, it's already hard enough for the rest of us.
Are you sure T-Mobile isn't cheaper because you can't make calls from as many places as you can with Verizon? My sister has T-Mobile and talking to her on the phone is always an exercise in saying, "what?"
I switched from Verizon Wireless to T-Mobile a few years ago in a fit of rage after (yet... another) very difficult and obtuse phone representative told me they couldn't... I don't know, whatever it is they can't do.
Now, I haven't had too many issues with T-Mobile service in the Boston area, but I would much rather have to say "What?" to my sister than to my service provider.
So go live in a mud hut on a desert island, dipshit. Last I checked, nobody in this modern society was holding you against your will. You want your "privacy", go away. You want the convenience of living in a society that protects its members from their neighbors' aggression, well, quid pro quo.
This, then, is the culmination of American intellectual rigor. It amounts to a Declaration of Dependence. This country wasn't founded on convenience. The responsibility of living in civilized society is being surrendered voluntarily, and as it goes, so goes civilization.
The US today is a trust-fund nation - we have all this freedom, we didn't work for it, we don't value it or defend it, and so we will lose it. What's scary about this story is the international surveillance. The global marketplace is creeping towards a global surveillance federation. It is frightening but, perhaps, inevitable.
Don't get upset that some of us still think "liberty" is at least as important as life and the pursuit of happiness. Ask New Hampshire, they'll tell you.
Papobear?
Why didn't you log in?! This is so incredible it needs a new mod. Funny just doesn't cut it. Thank you!
Er... to stay on topic... Despite the ability to lock down your information, I fired Facebook for their stance on privacy. Besides, if you're friends with people, you talk to them, write to them, call them. If not... why do you care what they had for dinner? Either way, Facebook is pointless mental masturbation and social exhibitionism. I'm all set on that.
Okay, it's good for organizing parties. That's it, as far as I can see.
10 cents per GIGABYTE?
I am very pleased with my data plan. I pay $5 for about 64 kilobytes of data, and then a very reasonable 20 cents per 160 bytes above that. Why, that's only about $1,342,177 per gig. That seems pretty reasonable, really.
I don't know why everyone gets so upset about this kind of thing. You can't expect companies to just give away their services because some bad apples want to use their video-capable, application-equipped smartphones for more than text messaging. After all, they're probably pirates, and they deserve what they get for stealing from honest people trying to make a living.
How do BP's profits from last quarter pertain to an oil rig exploding?
Okay, here it is. Ready? Take notes.
1. BP's oil rig failed because lower quality parts were used in safety mechanisms in an effort to save money.
2. There is no 2.
They should face massive punitive damages, and the money should go to Superfund sites across the country. Or they could buy me a nice mansion, with a pool and a manservant.
You know. Whichever.
haha yeah, epic bad reading on my part. In my head I was comparing my $2 billion # to $1.5 billion.
You don't happen to work at Verizon, do you?
blame Clinton for 9/11
Wait. What? Did someone actually do this? Okay, way off-topic, I know. But it wasn't Clinton that got the memo detailing the attack. Whatever he may or may not have done regarding terrorism safety (and from what I understand, he did a tremendous amount), I don't see how the blame for 9/11 would rest more heavily on his shoulders than the subsequent administration.
As to your other point, I'm sure there are many of us who blame corporatism and house corruption, but blame doesn't solve problems. My not inconsiderable imagination has yet to find a reasonable solution to the current state of political affairs in the US. Maybe we can drill for oil on the senate floor?
Because there's only 1 pipe into which the straw can be inserted.
... Giggity?
Well that's the problem, they need to relieve the pressure in the well first to get the foam working. Why don't they just do something to get rid of all the pressure down there?
Maybe a jog and a cold shower?
there will probably be more lawsuits
excessive regulation
Do you even read what you're writing? Regulation had zero to do with the vast majority of the fight over the Cape Wind project. Private citizens and advocacy groups have been fighting it tooth and nail since the plans were drawn up, and those lawsuits are the primary cause of the delays.
Ironically, it is people like the damn Kenedys that have held up construction. As a Massachusetts progressive, it makes me want to choke someone, but it sure as hell isn't Government regulation.