I'd mod you up, but the abbreviated lifecycle of my mod points does not coincide.
I hate this mod system...when I have mod points I have 15 for a day. When I have time+inclination to use them they are gone. Jumping through hoops on command must be what the users want, too.
problem is, they must also ratchet back the banks' inroads they've built all up and down the supply chain. It is an interesting correlation in that every single commodity on the market has tripled in value in the last 10 years. Seriously, look at some 20yr graphs in foods, energy, metals...it's like hurricanes and droughts and China did not exist prior to 1999. I think of DeBeers and the diamond market when the LME is berating Goldman Sachs for creating artificial supply shortages for slow deliveries from their 'storage warehouses'. How does Goldman respond...? buy the LME
No joy in Vista besides basic windows commands. Admittedly, I gave up early in 7. Turned off indexing and use a portable manager to avoid further disappointments.
Works awesome when you don't have the correct file/folder/executable name. Not quite as intuitive as a search engine. AFAIK, Windows search is still an exact match search. No?
So much easier to keep people inside a walled garden if there are no doors or ladders. It's called behavioral shaping and it is much more profitable when your customers' options are limited and locked.
Why would you try to push a market that is doomed to fail...?
I'm more inclined to ask, 'Why does NF doom DVDs to fail prematurely?' I realize DVDs will die, sooner if not later, but why push out those users who find the online content selection lacking? How about the millions of people who get less than 1.5mbps, data caps or no Inet at all at home? NF really does not want the discerning or the unplugged marketshare, apparently. Has anyone tried signing up or perusing the title selection on the site? Signed in may be different, but not-signed in gives me crap sample titles with no info and nothing about DVDs except a quick summary of prices buried on a how to page...and no way to opt for said DVD options...when we have an agreement of terms, I give money or billing info, never not before confirming all terms, conditions and charges. 'Why must browsing be so counter-intuitive?' one might ask, and when they ask me, I say it's because when it's all laid out in plain sight the selection(streaming) is just not that impressive or they are with more interested in getting you signed up than delivering the service they are peddling..
I have been contemplating getting DVD mail service(3rd time in 2 years, had it back in the beginning and loved it), but I find anyone who goes through so much effort to obscure their services and shape my choice for me deserves none of my money. Now this little bombshell makes my spidey senses tingle, I believe other options may be more reliable. I guess this neanderthal is heading out to the local video store that doesn't rhyme with nutbuster. *Yeah, I get DVDs from the library and I'm not interested in Hot Tub Time Machine or 90% of the other new release dreck, so Redbox is not an alternative.
Geithner did fix him and his friends' problems back home. Until they drag him out in cuffs he will continue to fix his buddies up. Now, he'd like his counterparts on the other side of the pond to enjoy the benefits of big cash handouts, too.
Timmy's all heart, he's just like Robin Hood... except different.
cut&paste from above:
I was making an analogy to what organized crime has evolved to in the US. Hence the Geihtner anecdote.
My point was not that apathy is the same as empathy, it was that just cutting drugs/blackmarket out of the picture doesn't mean they will just go away. Vigilance is required to see their demise to completion.
I was making an analogy to what organized crime has evolved to in the US. Hence the Geihtner anecdote.
My point was not that apathy is the same as empathy, it was that just cutting drugs/blackmarket out of the picture doesn't mean they will just go away. Vigilance is required to see their demise to completion.
...or they will morph and grow into new areas. Perhaps they infiltrate the corporations and the labor to cover both sides, buy government/laws through legal bribery, pickup key positions of policy making(by hook or crook) and start a revolving door of controlled appointments to become the biggest organized crime ring the world has ever known.
I think I know why Tim Geihtner is sacrificing so much, personally, to stay at the Treasury(and now helping the Euro's, what a saint)...it's because nobody has dragged him out in cuffs yet.
I didn't read the latest round of mainstream 'headlines', but I hope everyone knows there is an Anon that matters. The Mexi Guv despises him/he,r as do the cartels, for publicizing what is not in the mainstream b/c of cover-ups and outright fear of retribution. Post is to Google page, pick your translator if no habla español...
Most is NSFW & NSFL but, nevertheless, a stunning and violent reality for Mexico... Talk to Blog Del Narco
Raptors(falcons, hawks, eagles) are killing machines. If they were any bigger I don't doubt we'd make for a nice quarry. When I read JP I remember more being made out of the feather theory, I remember because it reminded me of the evil rooster that tormented me when I was 3yo.
BTW, I've been privileged to have a family of Harris' Hawks nesting outside my bedroom window for the last 10 months. No shitting, I went to the aid of a peacock a few hours ago after they cornered him on the neighbor's porch. The big mutha hawk perched on the gable end 15' over my head and stared at me, unafraid, as I herded her lunch into the safety of his coop. I don't know if they could have taken him, he's triple the size and I don't know how aggressive peacocks are, actually. His talons are impressive.
Laugh it up, talking parrots are everywhere. They have infiltrated our sites and our TVs, spreading misinformation and fanbotism in an attempt to undermine the gullible humans.
Thanks for the tip, TIL. LAN play is 100% hobbled, no? and that doesn't cut it either. I could give 2 shits if the corps value my data. As long as I'm paying for the product, so can they or GTFO of my life.
BTW, I was referring to all the people who cheat online. I hex edited a character once and gave him max everything...IMO, the game got real boring afterward.
With the exception of the phone home nanny. I'd love to play it, I spent hundreds of hours in the original. Problem is, I don't want to play online w/ cheats and I haven't had to ask permission to play a game in over 20 years. Not about to start, I'm a big boy now.
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I'd mod you up, but the abbreviated lifecycle of my mod points does not coincide.
I hate this mod system...when I have mod points I have 15 for a day. When I have time+inclination to use them they are gone.
Jumping through hoops on command must be what the users want, too.
problem is, they must also ratchet back the banks' inroads they've built all up and down the supply chain. It is an interesting correlation in that every single commodity on the market has tripled in value in the last 10 years. Seriously, look at some 20yr graphs in foods, energy, metals...it's like hurricanes and droughts and China did not exist prior to 1999. I think of DeBeers and the diamond market when the LME is berating Goldman Sachs for creating artificial supply shortages for slow deliveries from their 'storage warehouses'. How does Goldman respond...?
buy the LME
Welcome to the most effective spycraft tool ever conceived.
No joy in Vista besides basic windows commands. Admittedly, I gave up early in 7. Turned off indexing and use a portable manager to avoid further disappointments.
Works awesome when you don't have the correct file/folder/executable name. Not quite as intuitive as a search engine. AFAIK, Windows search is still an exact match search. No?
So much easier to keep people inside a walled garden if there are no doors or ladders. It's called behavioral shaping and it is much more profitable when your customers' options are limited and locked.
TIL the sun may already have gone supernova and that it will soon enter into a Red Giant phase.
emphasis mine
Please disregard my ignorance and feel free to embrace the correct end of life as we know it. Panic accordingly.
Did Fecebook integrate BleachBit into their log-out process?
Oh yeah...Welcome to the Internetz, Nik. Don't take candy from strangers.
+1 FUD Negation.
Trinkets, baubles and other fads will fade from the collective consciousness in time. Toys do not replace tools.
I was expecting TFA to read, 'Could Newegg Survive The Post-IPO Era", now that would be interesting to read.
Knowledge and technology are all well and good, except when used for evil or to sell advertising, I guess...
A Solar Storm Strikes Earthâ"and Provides a Warning for the Future
New Forecast: Sun's 'Superstorms' Could Doom Satellites
Could The Sun Set Off The Next Big Natural Disaster?
PS: The sun will go supernova in the near future. Please panic accordingly. :-)
I almost meant to say that exact same thing!
I wouldn't be surprised if we see Windows XP re-establishing itself as market share leader
Or even Windows 98.
Why would you try to push a market that is doomed to fail...?
I'm more inclined to ask, 'Why does NF doom DVDs to fail prematurely?' I realize DVDs will die, sooner if not later, but why push out those users who find the online content selection lacking? How about the millions of people who get less than 1.5mbps, data caps or no Inet at all at home? NF really does not want the discerning or the unplugged marketshare, apparently. Has anyone tried signing up or perusing the title selection on the site? Signed in may be different, but not-signed in gives me crap sample titles with no info and nothing about DVDs except a quick summary of prices buried on a how to page...and no way to opt for said DVD options...when we have an agreement of terms, I give money or billing info, never not before confirming all terms, conditions and charges. 'Why must browsing be so counter-intuitive?' one might ask, and when they ask me, I say it's because when it's all laid out in plain sight the selection(streaming) is just not that impressive or they are with more interested in getting you signed up than delivering the service they are peddling..
I have been contemplating getting DVD mail service(3rd time in 2 years, had it back in the beginning and loved it), but I find anyone who goes through so much effort to obscure their services and shape my choice for me deserves none of my money. Now this little bombshell makes my spidey senses tingle, I believe other options may be more reliable. I guess this neanderthal is heading out to the local video store that doesn't rhyme with nutbuster. *Yeah, I get DVDs from the library and I'm not interested in Hot Tub Time Machine or 90% of the other new release dreck, so Redbox is not an alternative.
/netflix bash
Geithner did fix him and his friends' problems back home. Until they drag him out in cuffs he will continue to fix his buddies up. Now, he'd like his counterparts on the other side of the pond to enjoy the benefits of big cash handouts, too.
Timmy's all heart, he's just like Robin Hood... except different.
cut&paste from above:
I was making an analogy to what organized crime has evolved to in the US. Hence the Geihtner anecdote.
My point was not that apathy is the same as empathy, it was that just cutting drugs/blackmarket out of the picture doesn't mean they will just go away. Vigilance is required to see their demise to completion.
I was making an analogy to what organized crime has evolved to in the US. Hence the Geihtner anecdote.
My point was not that apathy is the same as empathy, it was that just cutting drugs/blackmarket out of the picture doesn't mean they will just go away. Vigilance is required to see their demise to completion.
...or they will morph and grow into new areas. Perhaps they infiltrate the corporations and the labor to cover both sides, buy government/laws through legal bribery, pickup key positions of policy making(by hook or crook) and start a revolving door of controlled appointments to become the biggest organized crime ring the world has ever known.
I think I know why Tim Geihtner is sacrificing so much, personally, to stay at the Treasury(and now helping the Euro's, what a saint)...it's because nobody has dragged him out in cuffs yet.
I didn't read the latest round of mainstream 'headlines', but I hope everyone knows there is an Anon that matters. The Mexi Guv despises him/he,r as do the cartels, for publicizing what is not in the mainstream b/c of cover-ups and outright fear of retribution. Post is to Google page, pick your translator if no habla español...
Most is NSFW & NSFL but, nevertheless, a stunning and violent reality for Mexico...
Talk to Blog Del Narco
Raptors(falcons, hawks, eagles) are killing machines. If they were any bigger I don't doubt we'd make for a nice quarry. When I read JP I remember more being made out of the feather theory, I remember because it reminded me of the evil rooster that tormented me when I was 3yo.
BTW, I've been privileged to have a family of Harris' Hawks nesting outside my bedroom window for the last 10 months. No shitting, I went to the aid of a peacock a few hours ago after they cornered him on the neighbor's porch. The big mutha hawk perched on the gable end 15' over my head and stared at me, unafraid, as I herded her lunch into the safety of his coop. I don't know if they could have taken him, he's triple the size and I don't know how aggressive peacocks are, actually. His talons are impressive.
Rise of The Planet Of The Parrots!
Laugh it up, talking parrots are everywhere. They have infiltrated our sites and our TVs, spreading misinformation and fanbotism in an attempt to undermine the gullible humans.
I, too, am skeptical. What's in the other hand? Would they be able to patent the tech ex post facto with the 'First To File' rules?
Thanks for the tip, TIL. LAN play is 100% hobbled, no? and that doesn't cut it either. I could give 2 shits if the corps value my data. As long as I'm paying for the product, so can they or GTFO of my life.
BTW, I was referring to all the people who cheat online. I hex edited a character once and gave him max everything...IMO, the game got real boring afterward.
for instance SC2 is as good as SC
With the exception of the phone home nanny. I'd love to play it, I spent hundreds of hours in the original. Problem is, I don't want to play online w/ cheats and I haven't had to ask permission to play a game in over 20 years. Not about to start, I'm a big boy now.
Ziiiing!
/. Self-interest trumps rationale.
Wait...er.... I forgot, this is
1980s nostalgia? SOME (and I'm sure someone has opened a Cafe '80s somewhere)
My buddy's 16yo daughter has big Go-Go's hair and was listening to Cindy Lauper a few weeks ago. I shuddered.