I just closed my account at the CU. A mis-entered exp date left my card useless, my replacement card came a week later in a never-sealed envelope for all mail handlers to see and for 'convenience' on the phone I have to navigate 7 long-winded menus and input last 4 SSN, different PIN than my ATM PIN and last 4 of account# to access via phone...whew, what a convenience. They also informed me, ex post facto, that all check funds are held for 10 days on new accounts...WTF? When the funds are clear my money is MINE, not theirs to play with. All that in the 1st 30 days of opening the account. I think back to the 3 years the same CU dinged me $3/month for my FREE checking and I have to assume they still don't have their shit together.
Don't get me wrong, my hate for banks goes back much longer than the current popular movement, I cash checks there and when they need to hold funds I am there to withdraw as soon as they are available, if not 12:01am, definitely by 8am. It's ironic, banks were created to avoid pirate thefts and now they are the pirate thieves we need to avoid.
I say "I-10" to denote the Interstate 10 Freeway, just like everyone else I know. If I, or my colleagues/friends, watched the talking heads on the idiot box I'm sure the cutesy names like 'The 10' would eventually slip into our vocab after hearing it repeatedly. What I don't understand is why the OP used that and not the recent media parroting of 'haboob' in the news(I am always amazed by how much I know and hear about what's on TV without even watching it). It's a fucking SANDSTORM, it's what it's been called in this region of the world for at least 20 years I've been here! Sure in the middle east they call them that, but are we now going to call hurricanes typhoons or cyclones? Actually, I'm surprised BigP hasn't paid to have the talking heads refer exclusively to them as 'depressions' to sell more happy pills.
How in the hell could I even start my daughter down this path today?
I suggest getting her a n810 or n900 off Dregslist. Or an N9 if you've got the jack to buy outright! I still use my n800 daily for reading feeds, ebooks and mail. Browsing or a VNC into my home screen works in a pinch but leaves a lot to be desired. For playing around and learning some CLI it was fun. Support isn't too active anymore but there's still libraries of 'apps'. The devices are easily hackable with lots of archived wikis and discussions. If it crashes, a quick reload and it's back running in less than 5 minutes with factory or custom image. Great tools, fun to play with too.
After you find something illegal and report it to the FBI. You will be interrogated every which way and feel like a criminal yourself before it's done. Between that experience(at the behest of a concerned parent) and a brief glimpse into the world of amplovesyou, I am completely cured of any curiosity about others' secrets.Trust me, I don't want to know.
I manage/troubleshoot systems for two law offices, local and county guvs, half a dozen local small businesses and a dozen+ privates. They put their trust in me not because of what I say or type, but because of how I act and what I do. Without that trust I have nothing. The last thing I'm going to do is jeopardize my HONOR and welfare by sneaking peaks at your private data. Passe' attitude, I know, but it works for me and I can sleep at night. Like a baby. Seriously.
There is 0 incentive to fly into a territory to find radar sites *before* a conflict has started.
Au contraire, mon frer. Only gamblers, gluttons and losers go into a fight without assessing their opponent's strengths and weaknesses first. There is a tangible variance between capability and practice; Mismanagement, ignorance, misinformation, unknowns...
Perhaps, If you say it enough times people will adopt it as an original and viable concept and it's path to reality will be paved. Or, people will eventually lose interest in both the parrots and their toys once they grow tired of them.
FUD...if you cease to react, the tactic is no longer useful
BofA is out of Charlotte and I'd imagine has a significant IT department. I did not RTFA, but it sounds like their MO. Anyone been in a bank lately? The desperation to sell you more services is as thick as mud.
GoDaddy & J Jackson tried that during some sporting event. The result was a push for more non-free restrictions, a barely avoided global Tivo meltdown and nobody moved on for a very long time....shit, GD is still milking theirs!
Kinda like Thomas Midgley Jr's public demonstrations on how safe leaded fuel is...
On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL. In this demonstration, he poured TEL over his hands, then placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems whatsoever.
After his hiatus to recover from lead poisoning...
In 1923, Midgley took a prolonged vacation to cure himself of lead poisoning. "After about a year's work in organic lead," he wrote in January 1923, "I find that my lungs have been affected and that it is necessary to drop all work and get a large supply of fresh air." He went to Miami, Florida for convalescence.
^^^^^
Exactly take a few Live-CDs for a test drive to find the right fit.
Also, before you go loading a new OS, image the drive before wiping the old OS in case you want to revert... Granted, it's easier/faster to do if you have separate, dedicated OS and Data drives.
Once I had my data separated, I map/mount the data drive, moved my browser profile, mail profile and mail folder(not Outlook still?) to the data drive and now I can boot into any of a dozen OS's through drive bay swaps, custom Live USB/CD/DVD or a VM and be sitting at all my data, mail and bookmarks/feeds in any environment. Make your custom Live-CD combined with an external drive and any terminal becomes your Linux workstation upon reboot. Food for thought.
Verizon tried this on my account numerous times(almost quarterly) from '04-'07. Despite my regular calls to remove fees and block all web content again and again and again, my account kept defaulting back to allow web access fees and espanol spam text fees(I even wrote the Arizona AG and the BBB to no avail). It all stopped miraculously when I decided to continue our arrangement 'off-contract' as I waited for Android. I have not had a single mis-charge since August of '07.
*Google & Verizon give me enough reasons to retain my e815 and stay off-contract. I would ditch VZW but they are no better/worse than any other options, wireless or landline.
The maths don't add up, what we observe is not enough matter to make our models work. Many posit 'Dark Matter' that remains unobserved by us, alternate dimensions we cannot observe with our limited senses and I'm sure there are plenty more less-mainstream hypotheses. That's why I asked the question, what is more probable, missing matter or we are...brace yourselves...mistaken? Even Einstein believed his GTR was flawed and subsequently believed it was his 'greatest failure'. I'm willing to give him a mulligan, but maybe we should listen to his advice, too.
For every million dollar winner, there are two million losers who lost their dollar.
Well put. Also, when you see the lotteries promoting all the winners, keep in mind a 'wash' is considered a 'win'. The vast majority didn't win a thing, they just didn't lose their dollar.
Wasn't WOPR's message: "nobody wins in Global Thermonuclear War and tic-tac-toe, so don't play"?
Definitely, and as Occum's Razor suggests, probably. We have on the books now, apparently, neutrinos faster than light, a preponderance of theorized dark matter still MIA and many alternate dimensions/universes that cannot ever be proved/disproved.
Perhaps Wigner was wrong, are we creating maths to describe what we (want to)see, rather than explaining the fundamentals, after all?
When "THE" gas pipeline supplying Phoenix AZ(from Texas via Tucson) broke in '03 gas prices spiked from ~$1.25/g to over $3/g over-night. Nary a word was mentioned in the news/market reports/price volatility about that 'other' supply line from Cali. No mention was made of the fact that we could drive 15 miles North of town and buy gas in Black Canyon City(town) for ~$1.25. I find a lot of the news I hear is tailored to a specific objective that has little to do with the 'news'.
IE: This summer was "one of the hottest' on record just like last year. Despite the fact this summer came late, left early, our lows never came close to 90*F and barely crept into the 80's and less than 4 weeks of >115*F. Anyone who has lived here awhile knows the last two summers were milder than the average 1990's summers by a long shot. I'm told the 70's were worse, but that may be because that was before they changed the measurement variables to make us more attractive to the tourist dollars.
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I just closed my account at the CU. A mis-entered exp date left my card useless, my replacement card came a week later in a never-sealed envelope for all mail handlers to see and for 'convenience' on the phone I have to navigate 7 long-winded menus and input last 4 SSN, different PIN than my ATM PIN and last 4 of account# to access via phone...whew, what a convenience. They also informed me, ex post facto, that all check funds are held for 10 days on new accounts...WTF? When the funds are clear my money is MINE, not theirs to play with. All that in the 1st 30 days of opening the account. I think back to the 3 years the same CU dinged me $3/month for my FREE checking and I have to assume they still don't have their shit together.
Don't get me wrong, my hate for banks goes back much longer than the current popular movement, I cash checks there and when they need to hold funds I am there to withdraw as soon as they are available, if not 12:01am, definitely by 8am. It's ironic, banks were created to avoid pirate thefts and now they are the pirate thieves we need to avoid.
I say "I-10" to denote the Interstate 10 Freeway, just like everyone else I know. If I, or my colleagues/friends, watched the talking heads on the idiot box I'm sure the cutesy names like 'The 10' would eventually slip into our vocab after hearing it repeatedly. What I don't understand is why the OP used that and not the recent media parroting of 'haboob' in the news(I am always amazed by how much I know and hear about what's on TV without even watching it). It's a fucking SANDSTORM, it's what it's been called in this region of the world for at least 20 years I've been here! Sure in the middle east they call them that, but are we now going to call hurricanes typhoons or cyclones? Actually, I'm surprised BigP hasn't paid to have the talking heads refer exclusively to them as 'depressions' to sell more happy pills.
Have they tested the myth that The Fonze jumped a shark yet?
How in the hell could I even start my daughter down this path today?
I suggest getting her a n810 or n900 off Dregslist. Or an N9 if you've got the jack to buy outright! I still use my n800 daily for reading feeds, ebooks and mail. Browsing or a VNC into my home screen works in a pinch but leaves a lot to be desired. For playing around and learning some CLI it was fun. Support isn't too active anymore but there's still libraries of 'apps'. The devices are easily hackable with lots of archived wikis and discussions. If it crashes, a quick reload and it's back running in less than 5 minutes with factory or custom image. Great tools, fun to play with too.
After you find something illegal and report it to the FBI. You will be interrogated every which way and feel like a criminal yourself before it's done. Between that experience(at the behest of a concerned parent) and a brief glimpse into the world of amplovesyou, I am completely cured of any curiosity about others' secrets.Trust me, I don't want to know.
I manage/troubleshoot systems for two law offices, local and county guvs, half a dozen local small businesses and a dozen+ privates. They put their trust in me not because of what I say or type, but because of how I act and what I do. Without that trust I have nothing. The last thing I'm going to do is jeopardize my HONOR and welfare by sneaking peaks at your private data. Passe' attitude, I know, but it works for me and I can sleep at night. Like a baby. Seriously.
There is 0 incentive to fly into a territory to find radar sites *before* a conflict has started.
Au contraire, mon frer. Only gamblers, gluttons and losers go into a fight without assessing their opponent's strengths and weaknesses first. There is a tangible variance between capability and practice; Mismanagement, ignorance, misinformation, unknowns...
Perhaps, If you say it enough times people will adopt it as an original and viable concept and it's path to reality will be paved. Or, people will eventually lose interest in both the parrots and their toys once they grow tired of them.
FUD...if you cease to react, the tactic is no longer useful
BofA is out of Charlotte and I'd imagine has a significant IT department. I did not RTFA, but it sounds like their MO. Anyone been in a bank lately? The desperation to sell you more services is as thick as mud.
"well, we have 100 other applicants, so we'll find someone who is more desperate than you,"
Welcome to the 21st Century. It's a New World Order, after all.
GoDaddy & J Jackson tried that during some sporting event. The result was a push for more non-free restrictions, a barely avoided global Tivo meltdown and nobody moved on for a very long time....shit, GD is still milking theirs!
Kinda like Thomas Midgley Jr's public demonstrations on how safe leaded fuel is...
On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL. In this demonstration, he poured TEL over his hands, then placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems whatsoever.
After his hiatus to recover from lead poisoning...
In 1923, Midgley took a prolonged vacation to cure himself of lead poisoning. "After about a year's work in organic lead," he wrote in January 1923, "I find that my lungs have been affected and that it is necessary to drop all work and get a large supply of fresh air." He went to Miami, Florida for convalescence.
^^^^^
Exactly take a few Live-CDs for a test drive to find the right fit.
Also, before you go loading a new OS, image the drive before wiping the old OS in case you want to revert... Granted, it's easier/faster to do if you have separate, dedicated OS and Data drives.
Once I had my data separated, I map/mount the data drive, moved my browser profile, mail profile and mail folder(not Outlook still?) to the data drive and now I can boot into any of a dozen OS's through drive bay swaps, custom Live USB/CD/DVD or a VM and be sitting at all my data, mail and bookmarks/feeds in any environment. Make your custom Live-CD combined with an external drive and any terminal becomes your Linux workstation upon reboot. Food for thought.
Verizon tried this on my account numerous times(almost quarterly) from '04-'07. Despite my regular calls to remove fees and block all web content again and again and again, my account kept defaulting back to allow web access fees and espanol spam text fees(I even wrote the Arizona AG and the BBB to no avail). It all stopped miraculously when I decided to continue our arrangement 'off-contract' as I waited for Android. I have not had a single mis-charge since August of '07.
*Google & Verizon give me enough reasons to retain my e815 and stay off-contract. I would ditch VZW but they are no better/worse than any other options, wireless or landline.
There are hundreds of things changing the temperature contantly and it's very hard to isolate the changes CO2 caused.
BLASPHEMER!!!!!!!!!!!!
The maths don't add up, what we observe is not enough matter to make our models work. Many posit 'Dark Matter' that remains unobserved by us, alternate dimensions we cannot observe with our limited senses and I'm sure there are plenty more less-mainstream hypotheses. That's why I asked the question, what is more probable, missing matter or we are...brace yourselves...mistaken? Even Einstein believed his GTR was flawed and subsequently believed it was his 'greatest failure'. I'm willing to give him a mulligan, but maybe we should listen to his advice, too.
For every million dollar winner, there are two million losers who lost their dollar.
Well put. Also, when you see the lotteries promoting all the winners, keep in mind a 'wash' is considered a 'win'. The vast majority didn't win a thing, they just didn't lose their dollar.
Wasn't WOPR's message: "nobody wins in Global Thermonuclear War and tic-tac-toe, so don't play"?
1st sentence of OP clarification:
Definitely more interesting...
...probably needing a new theory.
Definitely, and as Occum's Razor suggests, probably. We have on the books now, apparently, neutrinos faster than light, a preponderance of theorized dark matter still MIA and many alternate dimensions/universes that cannot ever be proved/disproved.
Perhaps Wigner was wrong, are we creating maths to describe what we (want to)see, rather than explaining the fundamentals, after all?
The annoying hard selling of unnecessary softwares/licenses, too?
Oh, not that annoying behavior.
Sounds almost too good to be true... can't help wondering what the next incantation/bastardization will take their place.
Up all night honking me horn!
Oh...not that Maker Movement? Huh.
Who's the suiter© trying to make-up cool=nerdy=cool urban lingo? Try not to laugh when he says Makers 'spread their wings'...lulz.
When "THE" gas pipeline supplying Phoenix AZ(from Texas via Tucson) broke in '03 gas prices spiked from ~$1.25/g to over $3/g over-night. Nary a word was mentioned in the news/market reports/price volatility about that 'other' supply line from Cali. No mention was made of the fact that we could drive 15 miles North of town and buy gas in Black Canyon City(town) for ~$1.25. I find a lot of the news I hear is tailored to a specific objective that has little to do with the 'news'.
IE: This summer was "one of the hottest' on record just like last year. Despite the fact this summer came late, left early, our lows never came close to 90*F and barely crept into the 80's and less than 4 weeks of >115*F. Anyone who has lived here awhile knows the last two summers were milder than the average 1990's summers by a long shot. I'm told the 70's were worse, but that may be because that was before they changed the measurement variables to make us more attractive to the tourist dollars.
How to speak without saying a single thing
How not to share and take everything for yourself
How to increase margins to infinity in a finite world
How to backstab and claw to the next rung of the ladder
How to lobby for laws to make your illegal activities magically no longer illegal
I'm just spitballing here... everything I learned in kindergarten is a lie.
Don't suspect a friend
REPORT THEM!