Nope, I have a mail slot the mailman puts it in the slot and I dont have to leave the house. And again, it is only a problem with ADD and ADHD people... normal people can click buy on amazon.com and do other things until the DVD shows up in the mail... Only the people that have severe mental disabilities have a problem with the "gotta watch it now.... gotta gotta gotta.... gimmie.... gotta watch it now....." mentality.
Normal people will go, "Hey that looks neat, click buy and when it arrives watch it. I rip them to get rid of the wasted 5 minutes of ad's and "you are a stinky thief" propaganda that is forced on DVD and Bluray owners when they play a disc. That way I can crash on the couch, select the movie from my XBMC interface and press play. So convenient that most rich people do this... but they use a commercial product called http://www.kaleidescape.com/ There is a multi million dollar industry built around ripping a DVD into a private VOD server... even Crestron, the uber-rich-man's automation system as one... http://www.crestron.com/resources/product_and_programming_resources/catalogs_and_brochures/online_catalog/default.asp?jump=1&model=ADMS
Otherwise there are hundreds of live news audio streams on the internet... From liberal sex fiends to right wing nutjobs ot even Libertarians... It's all over the internet... did you even bother to look?
it will never happen. The sports conglomerates live blacking out games. and it's easier to circumvent a online blackout than it is on your TV. It's all about greed, nothing more.
an automated DVD ripping pc like I set up with linux and handbrake CLI it's 15 seconds of my personal time to rip the DVD and I watch it at my leisure. Granted ADHD nuts will point out that it takes longer than 15 seconds because they have to stand there watching it rip, but normal people can go on doing other things while the computer does it on it's own.....
It just takes more effort to set it up, disney owned releases are not automatic, and you are acting as a stand-alone VOD setup... but it can be had, thousands of people have had this exact setup for nearly a decade....
Hands down the EASIEST to use head unit for a car made. it's integration with the iphoneipod is stellar . It uses real Bluetooth for hands free from BlueParrot instead of the low grade crap that Kenwood uses. and you can get an audio DSP that will make your Daewoo sound better than a BMW premium sound system.
I used to listen to Last.fm on it daily until they started to charge for it, so now I listen to Sirius instead ($6.99 a month alacarte subscription and it does not need 3G so it works outside of town unlike last.fm)
Eclipse is crap, Kenwood is Crap, Panny is low grade dog-food. They have not put any attention into the UI cince 1987... This one once I demoed on I was blown away. they at least put a lot of effort into the UI and Audio subsystems.
"Delete the ENTIRE library and re purchase all of them to be sure. It's cheaper than our lawyers raping you..."
IF you call a RIAA office the above will be their answer. if you call any lawyer the above will be their answer. if you cant PROVE you bought it, it's pirated by default.
"Essentially, scarcity meant that you couldn't counterfeit coins, and that meant that value wasn't going to appear out of nowhere and ruin the economy as assholes made themselves rich without providing anything in trade."
Exactly, except the invention of electroplating started that exact problem. Fake coins electroplated with gold LOOKS like a gold coin. it then became commonplace to have people bite coins to see if they were simply electroplated lead fakes, etc... and precious metals have been used a long time for trade. COINS were a recent (2800bc) addition but "money" has been around for a very long time, there has been evidence if this found in Cambay Ruins from 9500bc and Mohenjo-daro ruins.. And honestly any city or country state MUST have a currency as the king or leader can not collect taxes without a form of currency. How to you tax a Mason or Carpenter without currency.
Gold will continue for a while as a currency if the Apocalypse happens tomorrow because the big stashes of gold are not as large as you think they are. Also the federal reserve stockpile will not just open it's doors, you will have to fight to get to it. The scarcity will continue for quite a while until people realize that it's just shiny and the barter system retakes the landscape. In fact the "recession" we are in has created a market for barter to flourish. I have met a lot of people that are unemployed that will gladly work for cash, service, or items. The neighbor had his roof redone in trade for a car he had sitting in the garage.
What intrinsic value do precious metals have that makes them so valuable?
Scarcity and the fact that it's works well for 900,000,000 years... I'm guessing history puts more weight behind it. Plus history also shows how the fake money systems collapse... History is riddled with how Fiat Money systems fail over and over throughout time.
"If there isn't enough currency to go around then people will go back to the barter system. I am not an advocate of the barter system."
Because you hate freedom?
I love the barter system.... Why? because it's non taxable and not traceable by the King.
I can make horseshoes, and you have two lovely daughters.... I'll trade you a lifetime of horse shoes for that pretty 18 year old redhead daughter of yours.
Works great. Today? I'll trade you 4 hours of IT work for 4 hours of automotive work. I need parts for the car? will you take another 3 hours of IT work to cover that? great!
I do this now. I have a $4500.00 custom paint job on my motorcycle for the IT work I did for a Custom paint shop. Bartering happens at a honest rate instead of a inflated MSRP of "how much can I get out of you"....
Granted rich assholes that like to rob people blind don't like barter because it forces an equalization... you cant justify your high value to your work and discount the value of the other persons work without coming across as a complete jerk. So Honestly in pricing is forced upon the transaction. Now quality of work after the fact is another matter, but that already happens and is a problem with the current money for goods and services method.
Here is a fun fact.... the same can happen to the Euro and US dollar. All fake currency suffers from this potential.Hell the Federal Reserve is printing money so fast that the US dollar is going to go flat almost as fast...
GO back to coins made of real copper, nickel, silver and gold. suddenly the currency regains it's value and cant be destroyed..... Unless someone perfects alchemy and turns lead into gold or synthesizes gold.
For the naysayers complaining about carrying coins... do you realize how much a 1 troy oz gold coin is worth?
Problem is the Federal Reserve was given too much power by the US government so they continue to crush any alternatives like the Liberty dollar....
“Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins said. “While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidious and represent a clear and present danger to the economic stability of this country.”
Question: If Americans starting using the Gold Maple Leaf, would the government seriously go to war with Canada to stop the "economic terrorism"?
Organized crime group forms a corperation called.... Continental Options Network.... and buys the.con TLD.
Now the price is nothing to organized crime, if the payout potential is big.
Hire some killer IT and networking black-hats. Give them $350,000US a year to live in china, south america, Russia, etc.. so they can life like rockstars and do epic coding for their data centers.
First sit low and record the number of typos for sites to.con instead of.com you can data mine where it comes from and target certian areas. set up the fake sites to load their bomb that only shows up ONCE and then innocently redirects to the real site.
and so on... heck even MITM attacks could be done.
This kind of cash is peanuts to organized crime. and if they hired good enough black hats and paid them well they could easily outwit the securoty companies long enough to make a giant pile of cash.... rinse, change up a little, repeat....
John -- Ted you are failing 3 classes, I'll help but you have to do it sober!
Ted -- I'm free and you are jealous! come on man smoke a fatty with me!
Steve -- Stupid Girlfriend left me! I need to get drunk!
Yeah, college students are HIGHLY predictable... POT, Booze and Drama... Repeat until they either grow up or crash a car and their page turns into a memorial.
Don't blame the technology for you ignoring your wife and not meeting her needs so she looks elsewhere for her hook-up. You have a very shakey foundation for your marriage.. Let me guess you two are not each others best friend. Start working on that because you should have been that.
Not blaming you completely, but she started the problem looking for something you were unwilling or unknowingly not giving her, and you are perpetuating it by not changing your behavioral tactics.
Or she is a nympho and wants to hum everything..... in that case, YOU ROCK SIR!
I cant find the spellcheck tab on this written letter thing.... or are you talking about using one of those special fonts that looks like cursive?
Let's take into consideration that writing a nice letter in Cursive and finding that people cant read it because....
A your handwriting in atrocious! B they dont teach it anymore C it sucked anyways.
Honestly, it's a leftover from the medieval times. It has always sucked because of personal embellishments or simply lazy writers not making the squiggles the correct way. I have only seen 5 times in my life someone write a Capitol F correctly in Cursive.
I know a LOT of people that have quit facebook... quit as in changed to only looking at it for a few minutes once a week.
Why? because FB has made it an annoying piece of crap. you cant block all stupid game requests by default. now they allow fricking apps to post to your wall, and they stop showing you people that you have not commented on any of their stuff in the past 30 days.
Facebook utterly sucks compared to a year ago.. It's fricking turning into MySpace.
I have two stations here one selling E0 (verified as they sell to farmers for their older farm gear) and the others selling E10.
In my car that get's 40mpg regularly I get 44mpg on E0 and 39-40mpg on E10.
that is 10%. look at the hypermiler forums. guys that get even higher gas mileage are seeing even bigger differences. Driving a gas hog SUV that get's 20mpg will not notice a 2mpg difference.
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Nope, I have a mail slot the mailman puts it in the slot and I dont have to leave the house. And again, it is only a problem with ADD and ADHD people... normal people can click buy on amazon.com and do other things until the DVD shows up in the mail... Only the people that have severe mental disabilities have a problem with the "gotta watch it now.... gotta gotta gotta.... gimmie.... gotta watch it now....." mentality.
Normal people will go, "Hey that looks neat, click buy and when it arrives watch it. I rip them to get rid of the wasted 5 minutes of ad's and "you are a stinky thief" propaganda that is forced on DVD and Bluray owners when they play a disc. That way I can crash on the couch, select the movie from my XBMC interface and press play. So convenient that most rich people do this... but they use a commercial product called http://www.kaleidescape.com/ There is a multi million dollar industry built around ripping a DVD into a private VOD server... even Crestron, the uber-rich-man's automation system as one... http://www.crestron.com/resources/product_and_programming_resources/catalogs_and_brochures/online_catalog/default.asp?jump=1&model=ADMS
You do housework staring at a TV?
You must SUCK at housework.
Otherwise there are hundreds of live news audio streams on the internet... From liberal sex fiends to right wing nutjobs ot even Libertarians... It's all over the internet... did you even bother to look?
it will never happen. The sports conglomerates live blacking out games. and it's easier to circumvent a online blackout than it is on your TV. It's all about greed, nothing more.
On the same note: you can already have this.
an automated DVD ripping pc like I set up with linux and handbrake CLI it's 15 seconds of my personal time to rip the DVD and I watch it at my leisure. Granted ADHD nuts will point out that it takes longer than 15 seconds because they have to stand there watching it rip, but normal people can go on doing other things while the computer does it on it's own.....
It just takes more effort to set it up, disney owned releases are not automatic, and you are acting as a stand-alone VOD setup... but it can be had, thousands of people have had this exact setup for nearly a decade....
Stop buying crap....
http://www.alpine-usa.com/product/view/ina-w910
Hands down the EASIEST to use head unit for a car made. it's integration with the iphoneipod is stellar . It uses real Bluetooth for hands free from BlueParrot instead of the low grade crap that Kenwood uses. and you can get an audio DSP that will make your Daewoo sound better than a BMW premium sound system.
I used to listen to Last.fm on it daily until they started to charge for it, so now I listen to Sirius instead ($6.99 a month alacarte subscription and it does not need 3G so it works outside of town unlike last.fm)
Eclipse is crap, Kenwood is Crap, Panny is low grade dog-food. They have not put any attention into the UI cince 1987... This one once I demoed on I was blown away. they at least put a lot of effort into the UI and Audio subsystems.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&pq=cisco+tv&xhr=t&q=Cisco+LCD+TV&cp=11&qe=Q2lzY28gTENEIFQ&qesig=xNmAvOFB-hKDH25EyUayhA&pkc=AFgZ2tn8Ej-wspumcF8i-LLhC7kg8TY5I8JtxtxWu5zE57q9rIfUpTU9NhbtwJvEFay3myzeOQekH7_1ylI9Ur0i968prtPoIQ&client=firefox-a&hs=hNQ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1680&bih=793&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=3778220348194346124&sa=X&ei=AUIDTrGpJaHi0QH789CjDg&sqi=2&ved=0CE8Q8wIwAw
I laughed my butt off when I saw a client buy all Cisco displays for their office.. paid 5X the price for rebranded LG displays....
Press 4 to hear a duck quack
They hire minimum wage lackeys for the physical security... what makes you think they will hire someone skilled for the IT security?
"Delete the ENTIRE library and re purchase all of them to be sure. It's cheaper than our lawyers raping you..."
IF you call a RIAA office the above will be their answer. if you call any lawyer the above will be their answer. if you cant PROVE you bought it, it's pirated by default.
So you hate freedom then.. Got it. Foaming at the mouth freedom hater.
Awesome an educated and smart reply!
"Essentially, scarcity meant that you couldn't counterfeit coins, and that meant that value wasn't going to appear out of nowhere and ruin the economy as assholes made themselves rich without providing anything in trade."
Exactly, except the invention of electroplating started that exact problem. Fake coins electroplated with gold LOOKS like a gold coin. it then became commonplace to have people bite coins to see if they were simply electroplated lead fakes, etc... and precious metals have been used a long time for trade. COINS were a recent (2800bc) addition but "money" has been around for a very long time, there has been evidence if this found in Cambay Ruins from 9500bc and Mohenjo-daro ruins.. And honestly any city or country state MUST have a currency as the king or leader can not collect taxes without a form of currency. How to you tax a Mason or Carpenter without currency.
Gold will continue for a while as a currency if the Apocalypse happens tomorrow because the big stashes of gold are not as large as you think they are. Also the federal reserve stockpile will not just open it's doors, you will have to fight to get to it. The scarcity will continue for quite a while until people realize that it's just shiny and the barter system retakes the landscape. In fact the "recession" we are in has created a market for barter to flourish. I have met a lot of people that are unemployed that will gladly work for cash, service, or items. The neighbor had his roof redone in trade for a car he had sitting in the garage.
"Who actually chants "USA! USA! USA!" in America?"
Alabama suicide bombers... Luckily they build the bombs themselves and end up exploding prematurely in a open field.
What intrinsic value do precious metals have that makes them so valuable?
Scarcity and the fact that it's works well for 900,000,000 years... I'm guessing history puts more weight behind it. Plus history also shows how the fake money systems collapse... History is riddled with how Fiat Money systems fail over and over throughout time.
"If there isn't enough currency to go around then people will go back to the barter system. I am not an advocate of the barter system."
Because you hate freedom?
I love the barter system.... Why? because it's non taxable and not traceable by the King.
I can make horseshoes, and you have two lovely daughters.... I'll trade you a lifetime of horse shoes for that pretty 18 year old redhead daughter of yours.
Works great. Today? I'll trade you 4 hours of IT work for 4 hours of automotive work. I need parts for the car? will you take another 3 hours of IT work to cover that? great!
I do this now. I have a $4500.00 custom paint job on my motorcycle for the IT work I did for a Custom paint shop. Bartering happens at a honest rate instead of a inflated MSRP of "how much can I get out of you"....
Granted rich assholes that like to rob people blind don't like barter because it forces an equalization... you cant justify your high value to your work and discount the value of the other persons work without coming across as a complete jerk. So Honestly in pricing is forced upon the transaction. Now quality of work after the fact is another matter, but that already happens and is a problem with the current money for goods and services method.
Sounds great, can I buy that TV from you? I have 1200 cans in my pocket....
Here is a fun fact.... the same can happen to the Euro and US dollar. All fake currency suffers from this potential.Hell the Federal Reserve is printing money so fast that the US dollar is going to go flat almost as fast...
GO back to coins made of real copper, nickel, silver and gold. suddenly the currency regains it's value and cant be destroyed..... Unless someone perfects alchemy and turns lead into gold or synthesizes gold.
For the naysayers complaining about carrying coins... do you realize how much a 1 troy oz gold coin is worth?
Problem is the Federal Reserve was given too much power by the US government so they continue to crush any alternatives like the Liberty dollar....
“Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins said. “While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidious and represent a clear and present danger to the economic stability of this country.”
Question: If Americans starting using the Gold Maple Leaf, would the government seriously go to war with Canada to stop the "economic terrorism"?
So the world of "bioshick" wont become real?
Organized crime group forms a corperation called.... Continental Options Network.... and buys the .con TLD.
Now the price is nothing to organized crime, if the payout potential is big.
Hire some killer IT and networking black-hats. Give them $350,000US a year to live in china, south america, Russia, etc.. so they can life like rockstars and do epic coding for their data centers.
First sit low and record the number of typos for sites to .con instead of .com you can data mine where it comes from and target certian areas. set up the fake sites to load their bomb that only shows up ONCE and then innocently redirects to the real site.
and so on... heck even MITM attacks could be done.
This kind of cash is peanuts to organized crime. and if they hired good enough black hats and paid them well they could easily outwit the securoty companies long enough to make a giant pile of cash.... rinse, change up a little, repeat....
Putting the final parts in place at the base on skull island for the earth core bomb?
What? Its easy to assume that ICANN is evil, just look at their past.
Ted -- 4:20 WOOOO! whos' meeting me for a roach?
Steve -- cant man, I'm already baked....
John -- Why d oyou guys only think of pot?
Ted -- Dont force your morals on me!
Steve -- I'm hungry...
John -- Ted you are failing 3 classes, I'll help but you have to do it sober!
Ted -- I'm free and you are jealous! come on man smoke a fatty with me!
Steve -- Stupid Girlfriend left me! I need to get drunk!
Yeah, college students are HIGHLY predictable... POT, Booze and Drama... Repeat until they either grow up or crash a car and their page turns into a memorial.
Don't blame the technology for you ignoring your wife and not meeting her needs so she looks elsewhere for her hook-up. You have a very shakey foundation for your marriage.. Let me guess you two are not each others best friend. Start working on that because you should have been that.
Not blaming you completely, but she started the problem looking for something you were unwilling or unknowingly not giving her, and you are perpetuating it by not changing your behavioral tactics.
Or she is a nympho and wants to hum everything..... in that case, YOU ROCK SIR!
I cant find the spellcheck tab on this written letter thing.... or are you talking about using one of those special fonts that looks like cursive?
Let's take into consideration that writing a nice letter in Cursive and finding that people cant read it because....
A your handwriting in atrocious!
B they dont teach it anymore
C it sucked anyways.
Honestly, it's a leftover from the medieval times. It has always sucked because of personal embellishments or simply lazy writers not making the squiggles the correct way. I have only seen 5 times in my life someone write a Capitol F correctly in Cursive.
"But have they paused for even a moment and thought about what will become of my farm?!?!?"
a wasteland of lost productivity?
Oh wait....
I know a LOT of people that have quit facebook... quit as in changed to only looking at it for a few minutes once a week.
Why? because FB has made it an annoying piece of crap. you cant block all stupid game requests by default. now they allow fricking apps to post to your wall, and they stop showing you people that you have not commented on any of their stuff in the past 30 days.
Facebook utterly sucks compared to a year ago.. It's fricking turning into MySpace.
Yes it can and does.
I have two stations here one selling E0 (verified as they sell to farmers for their older farm gear) and the others selling E10.
In my car that get's 40mpg regularly I get 44mpg on E0 and 39-40mpg on E10.
that is 10%.
look at the hypermiler forums. guys that get even higher gas mileage are seeing even bigger differences. Driving a gas hog SUV that get's 20mpg will not notice a 2mpg difference.