I assume you realize that your cheap gas prices are due to spending a couple of trillion invading Iraq.
Your theory is puzzling me. Please, explain further how WTI Crude went from $20-40/barrel range to $60-$80 range when the invasion took place and how it now hovers just below $110/barrel is keeping gas cheap? I've watched gas triple in the last 10 or so years, so, I really want to know where to find this cheap gas you speak of.
On a global scale, you may well discover that you are the 1%
Haha! As shitty as the last 4 years has been for me, I was telling mom that on the phone this morning. My hut in the desert(400sqft studio 'casita') has electric, running water and heat(no AC, a swamp cooler...oh the horror). I never accepted the numerous offers to 'get me into a home' from '96 up well into '07. I lived as a contractor, delivered to the best of my abilities and lived well. Now, old customers have closed shop, new contracts are infinitely rare, savings are gone and I'm a 41yo white male who has no 'work history' to e-verify. And still... I haven't got it so bad. Starvation, hypothermia and malaria are bad. I just have a lot more free time to appreciate the intangibles and read.
PS: Don't worry about me 'sponging' on the system. Every doctor knows, the best medicine is 'Do nothing' and all my octogenarian grandparents' parents lived into their 90's(even the smokers, the audacity!!!!) and with ONE exception, none ever stepped into a hospital. I never applied nor received any welfare. I never asked for nor cashed an 'earned income credit'. And I never cashed my 'government rebate' checks. I don't subscribe to 'something for nothing', neither do the so-called 'less-civilized' peoples.
Oh honey bunch, if life was fair there wouldn't be rich people.
Did anyone else find the fact that '1984' was the first book pulled from Kindle users hilariously ironic? Made me want to cue up some Yahoo Tunes and reminisce in silence. Alas, I didn't opt-in and all my digital content still works... even after the servers become unprofitable and go silent.
Too bad the next generation will not have the choices/rights some deem worth giving away in the name of 'convenience'. Just because you don't value your privacy doesn't mean (*) Corp, LLC doesn't.
Why wouldn't they? Are there enough naive consumers to buy what they may/may not need? Are there enough nApple mobile device users who will rationalize they need it to read the latest chain mail PP presentation? MS is 'The King' of selling unnecessary licenses to users, why wouldn't they continue doing what makes them large amounts of money?
A Pay As You Go plan would eliminate the vast majority of users who pay for data contracts they never/barely use. It's the few bad apples that are ruining the gravy train the Telcos enjoy. If it wasn't extremely profitable, the required data contracts that created this "wireless data tsunami" would no longer be required. It's hard to pity the glutton who cries about their ilk's selfish behavior...
Probably because you are not the first by a few hours, just the highest nested. Respecting others' privacy is a two way street, it requires personal temperance and responsible ethics(neglected concepts for most, I understand). My 'drama queen' post was an effort to spare the long story of what happens when you come across illegal content and report to enforcement. You want drama, keep snooping. For everyone else, there's DBAN.
Without the 'smoke and mirror' games/obfuscations/maths I use in excess of 1000 mins/mth. With $.10/min overage, it could cost more than Big Shaft...considering VZW goes to such lengths to gouge I am not ready to give someone else the credit they earnestly deserve.
I tested an n900 on Tmobile in December for $3/day(Unlimted everything) and ported my permanent # from VZW after a couple weeks of positive results. $60/mth unlimited everything(2GB @ 4g, after is real slow but useful for emails/ssl/streaming audio). VZW charged me $70 for voice alone(900minutes) for most of the last 10 years and I have 'counted minutes' all along. I live on the outskirts and the sole landline provider is sorely outdated, overloaded and unreliable, so wireless is my most reliable option. So far, Tmo seems to work everywhere as VZW did. Even better, Tmo data hits 3-5mbs, where VZW never exceeded 1.5, even where 4g was supposedly available(Pantech USBs, ANOTHER $70/month). So, for less than half I get faster data, no contract and no more counting minutes! I'll deal with the occasional disruption, so far two possible disconnects that were resumed immediately with redial. So far, so good. Bye-bye Big Red.
Welcome t o DeBeers Marketing 101. The finance markets are tapped out temporarily, so now it's time to reap the commodities for a few years. Look at any 20 year graphs, wow what a coincidence globalization has created. Nothing new here.
When there are 20, 30, 40 million of these VCRs in the land, we will be invaded by millions of â(TM)tapeworms,â(TM) eating away at the very heart and essence of the most precious asset the copyright owner has, his copyrightâ
Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders): Hearing on S. 1758 Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 97th Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., 459 (1982) (testimony of Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.).
Oh yeah, if you find an envelope stuffed with cash bearing the initials RH please forward immediately to Mr. Hundt. Apparently he didn't get the 'memo'...donation...comfy 7 digit-job...
One more point that's missing, the final product, coverage. Verizon works everywhere in the US...I have found parts of eastern Oregon and deep canyons in AZ lack, but c'mon, most everywhere. Whether it's ubiquitous towers or superior range/freq I haven't a clue, it just works. However, their business practices are their fatal flaw. VZW's announcement to charge a fee to pay was my final straw, I went to Tmo and it works most places around town and the fringes, but I wouldn't want to be relying on it in rural spaces. Verizon abuses their customers with blatant nicks, crams and customer disservice. I would expect them to treat their 'partners' no differently. For the stockholders...yeah. TLDR; TFA says 'CDMA', but I think we all know Big Red is the problem, not the tech.
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I assume you realize that your cheap gas prices are due to spending a couple of trillion invading Iraq.
Your theory is puzzling me. Please, explain further how WTI Crude went from $20-40/barrel range to $60-$80 range when the invasion took place and how it now hovers just below $110/barrel is keeping gas cheap? I've watched gas triple in the last 10 or so years, so, I really want to know where to find this cheap gas you speak of.
I just assumed they were talking about Austin. Sugar Land is nowhere near Austin! The Mayan prophecy is almost complete.
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I recommend you read the first comment before citing that particular article in the future, tomhath.
On a global scale, you may well discover that you are the 1%
Haha! As shitty as the last 4 years has been for me, I was telling mom that on the phone this morning. My hut in the desert(400sqft studio 'casita') has electric, running water and heat(no AC, a swamp cooler...oh the horror). I never accepted the numerous offers to 'get me into a home' from '96 up well into '07. I lived as a contractor, delivered to the best of my abilities and lived well. Now, old customers have closed shop, new contracts are infinitely rare, savings are gone and I'm a 41yo white male who has no 'work history' to e-verify. And still... I haven't got it so bad. Starvation, hypothermia and malaria are bad. I just have a lot more free time to appreciate the intangibles and read.
PS: Don't worry about me 'sponging' on the system. Every doctor knows, the best medicine is 'Do nothing' and all my octogenarian grandparents' parents lived into their 90's(even the smokers, the audacity!!!!) and with ONE exception, none ever stepped into a hospital. I never applied nor received any welfare. I never asked for nor cashed an 'earned income credit'. And I never cashed my 'government rebate' checks. I don't subscribe to 'something for nothing', neither do the so-called 'less-civilized' peoples.
Oh honey bunch, if life was fair there wouldn't be rich people.
J James
and except for me because i walk barefoot, uphill both ways, to work in 10' snow in the summertime...get with the program and off my lawn!
Did anyone else find the fact that '1984' was the first book pulled from Kindle users hilariously ironic? Made me want to cue up some Yahoo Tunes and reminisce in silence. Alas, I didn't opt-in and all my digital content still works... even after the servers become unprofitable and go silent.
Too bad the next generation will not have the choices/rights some deem worth giving away in the name of 'convenience'. Just because you don't value your privacy doesn't mean (*) Corp, LLC doesn't.
You're right. I'm wrong. What can I do to make it better?
Apply to all situations, regardless of validity. Present present every 28 days, you'll learn the timing soon enough. Enjoy.
Then we'd be reading a story about how some spoiled rich brat was suing because the mean ol' FCC wouldn't approve his nifty idea.
Errrm.... Falcone's investors seem to think that is exactly what we are reading about.
Harbinger investors sue Falcone, Harbinger fund
Why wouldn't they? Are there enough naive consumers to buy what they may/may not need? Are there enough nApple mobile device users who will rationalize they need it to read the latest chain mail PP presentation? MS is 'The King' of selling unnecessary licenses to users, why wouldn't they continue doing what makes them large amounts of money?
Damn, if enough people mod you up will it eventually go to 6? I'd try it but I am spent on points right now.
...except for the 25cents example, because they are intrinsically greedy I'd guess multi-$ per episode, perhaps cheaper by the set.
A Pay As You Go plan would eliminate the vast majority of users who pay for data contracts they never/barely use. It's the few bad apples that are ruining the gravy train the Telcos enjoy. If it wasn't extremely profitable, the required data contracts that created this "wireless data tsunami" would no longer be required.
It's hard to pity the glutton who cries about their ilk's selfish behavior...
Apple in the '90s got Steve Jobs and a boatload of cash from Microsoft & Monkey Boy.
FTFY
I'm afraid to click any one of those results...lol.
If you're over 13 and replace your O's with 'u' and throw a 'z' on for plural goodness, you must be L337!
And Goog has already blocked your content from their search results.
Why do I have to be the first to say it?
Probably because you are not the first by a few hours, just the highest nested. Respecting others' privacy is a two way street, it requires personal temperance and responsible ethics(neglected concepts for most, I understand). My 'drama queen' post was an effort to spare the long story of what happens when you come across illegal content and report to enforcement. You want drama, keep snooping. For everyone else, there's DBAN.
Without the 'smoke and mirror' games/obfuscations/maths I use in excess of 1000 mins/mth. With $.10/min overage, it could cost more than Big Shaft...considering VZW goes to such lengths to gouge I am not ready to give someone else the credit they earnestly deserve.
Knowledge can be quite a burden, too.
YMMV.
I tested an n900 on Tmobile in December for $3/day(Unlimted everything) and ported my permanent # from VZW after a couple weeks of positive results. $60/mth unlimited everything(2GB @ 4g, after is real slow but useful for emails/ssl/streaming audio). VZW charged me $70 for voice alone(900minutes) for most of the last 10 years and I have 'counted minutes' all along. I live on the outskirts and the sole landline provider is sorely outdated, overloaded and unreliable, so wireless is my most reliable option. So far, Tmo seems to work everywhere as VZW did. Even better, Tmo data hits 3-5mbs, where VZW never exceeded 1.5, even where 4g was supposedly available(Pantech USBs, ANOTHER $70/month). So, for less than half I get faster data, no contract and no more counting minutes! I'll deal with the occasional disruption, so far two possible disconnects that were resumed immediately with redial. So far, so good. Bye-bye Big Red.
Welcome t o DeBeers Marketing 101. The finance markets are tapped out temporarily, so now it's time to reap the commodities for a few years. Look at any 20 year graphs, wow what a coincidence globalization has created. Nothing new here.
Fear. Consume. Repeat... We can always pay more.
When there are 20, 30, 40 million of these VCRs in the land, we will be invaded by millions of â(TM)tapeworms,â(TM) eating away at the very heart and essence of the most precious asset the copyright owner has, his copyrightâ
Copyright Infringements (Audio and Video Recorders): Hearing on S. 1758
Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 97th Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., 459
(1982) (testimony of Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture Association of
America, Inc.).
I am an eJanitor, you insensitive clod!
Yeah!
Oh yeah, if you find an envelope stuffed with cash bearing the initials RH please forward immediately to Mr. Hundt. Apparently he didn't get the 'memo'...donation...comfy 7 digit-job...
One more point that's missing, the final product, coverage. Verizon works everywhere in the US...I have found parts of eastern Oregon and deep canyons in AZ lack, but c'mon, most everywhere. Whether it's ubiquitous towers or superior range/freq I haven't a clue, it just works. However, their business practices are their fatal flaw. VZW's announcement to charge a fee to pay was my final straw, I went to Tmo and it works most places around town and the fringes, but I wouldn't want to be relying on it in rural spaces. Verizon abuses their customers with blatant nicks, crams and customer disservice. I would expect them to treat their 'partners' no differently. For the stockholders...yeah.
TLDR; TFA says 'CDMA', but I think we all know Big Red is the problem, not the tech.
-Not an engineer.
Obfuscations and shinies. The long-con continues to be our most cumbersome 'innovation' in modern marketing. Now with added spyware included*!
*For only a small fee, of course. We can always pay more.
Haha, thanks for the lift. I really needed a good laugh this morning.