Debt is not capital, regardless of how you slice it. True, those in the worst debt often spend the most, but it isn't on capital nor on huge sums of cash. They are leveraging their reputation in exchange for larger loans than would be given to a smaller entity (too large to fail anyone?...) They aren't raising or spending money because they have it, but rather because they can pretend to have it by pointing to their size and history and saying "Of course we can cover it".
Its like if your neighbor has a Rolls Royce, you naturally think they are rich. Then you go in their house and realize they have no food because everything was spent on the Rolls Royce.
Chicken or the egg problem. Do music skills increase math skills, or do math skills indicate music skills. I sucked in band, but on the other hand I've forgotten more math than most people ever learn.
For PE, there is a big difference between having everyone run laps for an hour during school and spending thousands every year for the dozen students hand picked for football. If you are going to spend as much on the chess team, robotics team, starcraft team (thats a joke btw), and math club the more power to you. You live in a very rich school district. Otherwise, why are we spending public funds so a small group can have fun at the expense of everyone else? O I remember, because thats the New America...
None of the above. She simply can't figure out how to cancel. Every time me or my dad try to talk to her about it she gets angry. I would gladly charge her a $7.50 monthly fee to manage all AOL associated cancellation duties as might arise.
I know, and thats one reason I picked it for my netbook. I'm not really worried about security for it because I'm not downloading and installing alot on it, and its not htat hard to set up firefox to initiate a scan after downloading something. Just means less strain on my 900 mhz celeron:D
I've been using OpenDNS for a while now, and am honestly bewildered why ISP dns servers cant do alot of the same functions. One of the best features of OpenDNS is it can block ips for known malware/spyware/virus sites. No reason that ISPs cant do the same thing. Take the whole Confliker thing. We knew where it was going to call home to, and by default OpenDNS blocked those ips. If ISPs did the same thing, there would have been no *need* for all the scare reports about what was going to happen.
All I ever really use from Spybot anymore are the immunization tools. Since it can immunize almost everything it can detect, then running a scan is almost pointless if you set it up right to begin with. First swap hosts file for the one at http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm then run immunization. Sitting behind OpenDNS and that blocks almost all bad addresses/links without any additional processes on your system.
I've never used malwarebytes, but Im gonna download now and look it over.
How is that any better than clamwin, which is the official workstation version of ClamAV? I use clamwin on my netbook and avast on all my desktops. Until recently I was using AVG but I upgraded everything to win7 and decided I didnt like AVG anymore.
My router already has the capability to email me log files on a set schedule, would it really be that much more difficult to have it send an email/sms/prerecorded call to a designated recipient every time a new device connects? Sure a blackhat could probably fool it into thinking it was just an old connection resuming, but not if they didn't know it was going to do it. Further, how many real blackhats really go around and try to crack random residential networks?
I hate community funded extracurricular activities like sports and band. Using tax money to teach jimmy to read and write I approve. Using tax money so a dozen jocks can run around a field for an hour or two, is not. If you want to play football, you pay for it. If you want to play basketball, you pay for it. School is to learn.
I used to work at an office store doing printing and copy work, sometimes a little graphic design, photos etc. When I had nothing to do at my counter I would wander the store and talk to people. I'm a horrible salesmen, and my managers know it, because I don't try to push the expensive crap. I tell them what they need and the cheapest way to do it. Often times I've sent people out of the store with a notecard giving instructions on how to find some opensource app, especially if it is something not stocked in store. Printers can be pretty fun to sale, because most people really have no idea the difference between inkjet and laser (hint, its in the name) and most of what I do "selling" is really giving a tutorial on the technical functions and options available. Rarely do I try and push any particular model, although I tend to steer towards HP units.
Selling computers on the other hand, SUCKS. There really isnt much of a valid selling point to a "better" computer to most consumers. Rule of thumb, if you have to ask what one is the best, you dont need that one. The only things I really talk about are screen size, weight, hard drive size, and battery. Other than that, any computer is going to work for most people just as good as any other. They aren't going to fill their 500gb hard drive, even if they ask how many photos they can put on it. They aren't going to tax the 2.0ghz dual core, even if they ask if it is fast. 3gb ram is plenty unless you are going to be gaming. Yet I still have people who are worried about if it is a good deal (another hint, you are in a RETAIL store buying a computer. Its not a good deal.) What they do with it after they take it out of the box affects how fast it is way more than the technical specs on the box. The only thing I try to push are netbooks. I've found customer satisfaction is usually a lot higher with them, because you are only getting what you need and nothing more.
As for BestBuy, we recently had two new hires who came from there. One is our new tech manager and the other does the same stuff I do. Both are really good guys, not the sterotypical geeksquad loosers. I asked them once how in the world they could stand working at BestBuy when they really are geeks, not just wannabes. They both looked at each other, laughed and said in sync "Employee Discount". Turns out, their discount is 5% over stock price on EVERYTHING. That is an amazing deal. They told me about getting $1500 TVs for under $600 and computers for almost nothing.
To sweeten that, their standard policy is like a 60 day probation period after hire before you get the discount. Not a bad idea all considering. However, that probation doesn't apply to seasonal workers, they get it from day 1. If you can take the abuse, not a bad idea to swing over for a few weeks/months, get a seasonal christmas job, load up with everything you wanted to buy all year, then after Christmas you're done:D
I've never ever ever seen anyone use a firewire port. Amongst my family and friends, the only ones I've seen are one of my old sound card (Audigy) that was always disabled, and on my sister-in-laws mac (which they never had any firewire devices to connect to).
The US is nowhere near being metric, anything about and "extended" metric system is bs to postpone real change.
One of the most important indicators of being metric is when you can talk about centimeters in public and people understand you rather than look aat you like a deer in the headlights.
Example, the other day I was at the deli counter and asked for something sliced about a centimeter. I got a sheep looking back at me and regretfully told her just do it about half an inch. (I know half an inch isnt a centimeter, but I didnt want to confuse with the idea of a third)
Further, I'd wager the real reason stuff in the US has both metric and imperial units is so companies can use the same packaging in multiple countries, ie Canada, Mexico, Britain. They already have spanish on most of them, and french is starting to become more and more common >: In fact, they often list two phone numbers for customer relations. Canadian and American.
When I lived in Europe, lots of stuff had imperial markings too. Does that mean the Czech Republic uses feet and pounds?
that makes no sense. If they(protesters) were organizing it on their own, there would be no need to have anyone affiliated with EA there. The organizers WOULD want a handful of actual christian protesters, because thats who THEY are.
It's most of society now. People are so wrapped up in a single death that they make things worse for everyone. Death happens, you cant stop it forever.
A few years ago in WWI&II casualties were in the thousands and hundreds of thousands. Now they are in the dozens yet there is more protest over them than before. Life-support for people who are already dead costs millions and consumes resources otherwise usable for those that still have a chance. Prisons are full of career criminals who are little more than animals, but we have to be nice to them so that when we let them out again they can continue their life of crime. Homeowners are prosecuted for murder after killing a violent intruder in their homes or on the street (google harold fish). Gun control advocates cry about how dangerous guns are, ignoring the mountains of evidence showing they reduce violent crime and are more likely to be used in legal self-defense than in a crime.
because, if it saves even one life, isn't it worth anything in the world? Including the life of another?
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Debt is not capital, regardless of how you slice it. True, those in the worst debt often spend the most, but it isn't on capital nor on huge sums of cash. They are leveraging their reputation in exchange for larger loans than would be given to a smaller entity (too large to fail anyone?...) They aren't raising or spending money because they have it, but rather because they can pretend to have it by pointing to their size and history and saying "Of course we can cover it".
Its like if your neighbor has a Rolls Royce, you naturally think they are rich. Then you go in their house and realize they have no food because everything was spent on the Rolls Royce.
Amtrak is subsizided by the feds. There IS a way that this could compete with airfare, just not fairly.
Chicken or the egg problem. Do music skills increase math skills, or do math skills indicate music skills. I sucked in band, but on the other hand I've forgotten more math than most people ever learn.
For PE, there is a big difference between having everyone run laps for an hour during school and spending thousands every year for the dozen students hand picked for football. If you are going to spend as much on the chess team, robotics team, starcraft team (thats a joke btw), and math club the more power to you. You live in a very rich school district. Otherwise, why are we spending public funds so a small group can have fun at the expense of everyone else? O I remember, because thats the New America...
None of the above. She simply can't figure out how to cancel. Every time me or my dad try to talk to her about it she gets angry. I would gladly charge her a $7.50 monthly fee to manage all AOL associated cancellation duties as might arise.
I know, and thats one reason I picked it for my netbook. I'm not really worried about security for it because I'm not downloading and installing alot on it, and its not htat hard to set up firefox to initiate a scan after downloading something. Just means less strain on my 900 mhz celeron :D
I've been using OpenDNS for a while now, and am honestly bewildered why ISP dns servers cant do alot of the same functions. One of the best features of OpenDNS is it can block ips for known malware/spyware/virus sites. No reason that ISPs cant do the same thing. Take the whole Confliker thing. We knew where it was going to call home to, and by default OpenDNS blocked those ips. If ISPs did the same thing, there would have been no *need* for all the scare reports about what was going to happen.
Thats not removal, thats called prevention. In the IT and tech support world, it is the almost impossible holy grail.
All I ever really use from Spybot anymore are the immunization tools. Since it can immunize almost everything it can detect, then running a scan is almost pointless if you set it up right to begin with. First swap hosts file for the one at http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm then run immunization. Sitting behind OpenDNS and that blocks almost all bad addresses/links without any additional processes on your system.
I've never used malwarebytes, but Im gonna download now and look it over.
How is that any better than clamwin, which is the official workstation version of ClamAV? I use clamwin on my netbook and avast on all my desktops. Until recently I was using AVG but I upgraded everything to win7 and decided I didnt like AVG anymore.
My router already has the capability to email me log files on a set schedule, would it really be that much more difficult to have it send an email/sms/prerecorded call to a designated recipient every time a new device connects? Sure a blackhat could probably fool it into thinking it was just an old connection resuming, but not if they didn't know it was going to do it. Further, how many real blackhats really go around and try to crack random residential networks?
I hate community funded extracurricular activities like sports and band. Using tax money to teach jimmy to read and write I approve. Using tax money so a dozen jocks can run around a field for an hour or two, is not. If you want to play football, you pay for it. If you want to play basketball, you pay for it. School is to learn.
You should have looked into stuff like net10 and tracfone. Very cheap, very simple phones.
or you could just get a jitterbug
I used to work at an office store doing printing and copy work, sometimes a little graphic design, photos etc. When I had nothing to do at my counter I would wander the store and talk to people. I'm a horrible salesmen, and my managers know it, because I don't try to push the expensive crap. I tell them what they need and the cheapest way to do it. Often times I've sent people out of the store with a notecard giving instructions on how to find some opensource app, especially if it is something not stocked in store. Printers can be pretty fun to sale, because most people really have no idea the difference between inkjet and laser (hint, its in the name) and most of what I do "selling" is really giving a tutorial on the technical functions and options available. Rarely do I try and push any particular model, although I tend to steer towards HP units.
:D
Selling computers on the other hand, SUCKS. There really isnt much of a valid selling point to a "better" computer to most consumers. Rule of thumb, if you have to ask what one is the best, you dont need that one. The only things I really talk about are screen size, weight, hard drive size, and battery. Other than that, any computer is going to work for most people just as good as any other. They aren't going to fill their 500gb hard drive, even if they ask how many photos they can put on it. They aren't going to tax the 2.0ghz dual core, even if they ask if it is fast. 3gb ram is plenty unless you are going to be gaming. Yet I still have people who are worried about if it is a good deal (another hint, you are in a RETAIL store buying a computer. Its not a good deal.) What they do with it after they take it out of the box affects how fast it is way more than the technical specs on the box. The only thing I try to push are netbooks. I've found customer satisfaction is usually a lot higher with them, because you are only getting what you need and nothing more.
As for BestBuy, we recently had two new hires who came from there. One is our new tech manager and the other does the same stuff I do. Both are really good guys, not the sterotypical geeksquad loosers. I asked them once how in the world they could stand working at BestBuy when they really are geeks, not just wannabes. They both looked at each other, laughed and said in sync "Employee Discount". Turns out, their discount is 5% over stock price on EVERYTHING. That is an amazing deal. They told me about getting $1500 TVs for under $600 and computers for almost nothing.
To sweeten that, their standard policy is like a 60 day probation period after hire before you get the discount. Not a bad idea all considering. However, that probation doesn't apply to seasonal workers, they get it from day 1. If you can take the abuse, not a bad idea to swing over for a few weeks/months, get a seasonal christmas job, load up with everything you wanted to buy all year, then after Christmas you're done
My neighbor still pays for AOL Dial up even though she hasnt connected to it in 3 years... Same sort of thing. People are idiots.
LightPeak = Firewire 2
I've never ever ever seen anyone use a firewire port. Amongst my family and friends, the only ones I've seen are one of my old sound card (Audigy) that was always disabled, and on my sister-in-laws mac (which they never had any firewire devices to connect to).
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So do they post km/hr in your state?
The US is nowhere near being metric, anything about and "extended" metric system is bs to postpone real change.
One of the most important indicators of being metric is when you can talk about centimeters in public and people understand you rather than look aat you like a deer in the headlights.
Example, the other day I was at the deli counter and asked for something sliced about a centimeter. I got a sheep looking back at me and regretfully told her just do it about half an inch. (I know half an inch isnt a centimeter, but I didnt want to confuse with the idea of a third)
Further, I'd wager the real reason stuff in the US has both metric and imperial units is so companies can use the same packaging in multiple countries, ie Canada, Mexico, Britain. They already have spanish on most of them, and french is starting to become more and more common >: In fact, they often list two phone numbers for customer relations. Canadian and American.
When I lived in Europe, lots of stuff had imperial markings too. Does that mean the Czech Republic uses feet and pounds?
More ammo for idiots to use in court keeping 90 year old grannies on life support for another few more years.
hehe thats wicked. totally harmless, yet effective.
No, my outdoor faucets are from the irrigation ditch coming from the river.
that makes no sense. If they(protesters) were organizing it on their own, there would be no need to have anyone affiliated with EA there. The organizers WOULD want a handful of actual christian protesters, because thats who THEY are.
If they really do protest games like that, why did EA have to stage one?
Ya, it cant even beat a couple of loser kids at battleship...
It's most of society now. People are so wrapped up in a single death that they make things worse for everyone. Death happens, you cant stop it forever.
A few years ago in WWI&II casualties were in the thousands and hundreds of thousands. Now they are in the dozens yet there is more protest over them than before. Life-support for people who are already dead costs millions and consumes resources otherwise usable for those that still have a chance. Prisons are full of career criminals who are little more than animals, but we have to be nice to them so that when we let them out again they can continue their life of crime. Homeowners are prosecuted for murder after killing a violent intruder in their homes or on the street (google harold fish). Gun control advocates cry about how dangerous guns are, ignoring the mountains of evidence showing they reduce violent crime and are more likely to be used in legal self-defense than in a crime.
because, if it saves even one life, isn't it worth anything in the world? Including the life of another?
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....and 6 shall be the monitors of thine fragging... no more, no less.