For any question there are an infinite number of possible answers. It's common to not know which is correct, but still be able to identify lots and lots of them that are clearly wrong. It would be really rare to have a question where you couldn't rule out anything at all.
Course the next step in this arms race is to use a botnet to do distributed slurping. Each compromised machine accesses a handful of pages, then sends them to a master server for aggregation. I'm not sure what you could do to prevent that, technically or legally.
Wait until they post the data, accuse them of running a botnet, and then bring a slightly more valid "hacking" case against them?
By contrast, I watch Red Sox games on MLB.tv. Cost about $100 for the full season in HD and no commercials. Gladly paid it and watched maybe 75% of games last season.
Which only works because you don't live where your team plays. I looked into the baseball package when I cut cable, and the answer was I could watch any game I wanted live, but not the local team, which was the only team I actually wanted to watch. I found that frustrating and just gave up on the sport rather than spend money on subpar options.
I cut the cord to be cheap, but losing my tolerance for ads may have been the biggest benefit. I can't bear to watch TV in hotel rooms anymore, and the maybe 5 or 8 times a year I put on a live football game, I'm half-dizzy by halftime from all the bopping back and forth between game and other stuff. It's amazing how much of your life can tick away letting someone else try to sell you stuff.
Please. If you're going to give an example like this, also list the interest rate so that people can know the full equation. (It appears you're using 7%).
Yep. I'm surprised at how few people see it this way. Or maybe I'm surprised at how many people have access to infinite amounts of overtime or other hourly work, and when presented with a choice between doing other things or just working more and hiring a service, go for the service.
That said, it's not always unwise to pay for the service. Unpaid personal time has a value, too. Hiring someone to paint your room so that you can be out with friends or family, having fun, or just getting rest, may be a perfectly sensible choice. It varies a lot based on time, income, preferences, and circumstance.
For instance, I'll drink the free coffee at work most days, and usually make it at home on weekends. But I'll splurge on a fancy latte maybe once a month just because I want something different. And if I'm traveling, well, I'll buy whatever's around, but tend to pay a premium because a lot of times the basic stuff has been sitting around for hours getting burnt, which I find unappealing.
I've known enough Brits that I don't really notice most of the differences, but there are a couple I've never been able to wrap my head around:
- different to. Americans would be more inclined to say different than or different from. To just seems backwards.
- Directly, particularly at the start of a sentence. The American usage requires a preposition, and it usually only appears after a verb. The English version always seems to be in the wrong part of the sentence and missing several supporting words.
Yet you can walk on the street in Japan and not get assaulted. Try walking through a black district in an US city, while white -- not a healthy idea. I've ever been to the US just twice, but both times some friends made such a mistake and had to negotiate to keep their faces in one piece. The US is incredibly racist.
I used to walk all over Chicago, and was never bothered, even in the lower income neighborhoods. Once in Cabrini Green a guy stopped me and offered to sell me drugs, but he was super friendly about it. Maybe I was lucky, but I was never targeted.
That's terrible. I know in some sense that there are people who don't enjoy books, but I don't understand how. I mean, if you look around, there are books about everything. Unless a person is totally uninterested in everything the world over, it seems like there ought to be a few books for them.
As for the issue actually being discussed, I've never even seen that happen.
I had it on my phone a few times, where I'd follow a link, see it for a second, and then get shuttled off to an advertising page. Usually with no back button functionality. I got it to stop by installing an ad blocker. I haven't seen it on my laptop, but I'm always running an ad blocker there, so that's probably why.
Glad someone else mentioned it. I'm having a hell of a time with Podcast. It took me about a month to get it halfway right in iOS 10, and about the time I did that 11 came out.
My main problem is, when one podcast ends, the next one won't start without manual intervention, which is particularly bad because I'm mostly listening on the road.
But really the whole interface is bad. Giant, screen-filling boxes, too much drilling down just to find an episode to play, difficult filters, a default that thinks you want to listen to a podcast backwards rather than in chronological order, a tendency to reset to the start screen if you leave and return, rather than picking up where you left off...
I used to also have a huge problem with a scenario where I'd be listening to a podcast, pause on the lock screen, and when I pulled it up again to start playing, it would switch over to Music and play that instead of restarting my podcast. I haven't seen it this week, though. Not sure if the upgrade to 11 fixed that piece, or some series of reboots and consistent podcast listening helped it find a groove.
Are there other non-native podcast player options worth using? Does it integrate with iTunes podcast subscriptions?
So, people were worried an extra 140 characters would fill up my feed? When half of the tweets I see have giant photos filling up ten times as much space, I'm hardly worried about an extra line and a half a text.
Man, in the 25-ish years since I've read that book, this is the first time I've seen someone else mention it. I'd forgotten the computer's name, but the book itself really stuck with me, and I still think about it now and then.
I agree with you. Indeed i might be among the ones who doesn't give too much shit about my privacy, because i don't feel like (for now) i have much to hide.
I don't have much to hide. But that doesn't make my personal life anybody else's business. Privacy isn't just about hiding. It asks the question, "Does this party have any right to this information?" If the answer is no, they should buzz off. And that's not just about shadow actors and criminals, but applies to what I do in my bedroom or bathroom, what my bank account number is, information about my minor children, my medical history, and even tastes and preferences I don't feel like advertising. Unless I explicitly feel like sharing, nobody ought to be able to take that information from me. Right now there's a whole bunch of quasi-to-fully-shady stuff were other parties are collecting information, but not clearly letting the rest of us know when or how they're doing it, and that makes it much closer to the "taking things they have to right to" side than the "we willingly gave it to them."
You only need $56,200 of taxable income (MFJ) to have $7500 in tax liability.
That doesn't seem right. I think you've left out the standard deduction, which would kick it up another $12,600, and the personal exemptions, which would be another $8k. So you'd need more like $76,000, assuming no other credits, deductions, or children. It wouldn't be hard for a family to make $100k and still not actually pay $7,500 in tax.
$37k is a reasonable price for a minivan.
If we're still in the context of a $56k as a comparison income, I'd say a $37k car of any kind is outrageously expensive. I don't see how anyone can afford a vehicle that costs a full year's post-tax earnings.
I've had my Roku for 5 or 6 years, and hadn't thought anything about upgrading until a couple of weeks ago, when my phone company gave me a free option to stream HBO through their streaming app, which supposedly will work with Roku, but not one that old. I haven't decided yet if I'll actually bother.
My model reboots itself mid-use maybe once a week or so, but it's been doing that since we got it, and it otherwise works solidly.
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For any question there are an infinite number of possible answers. It's common to not know which is correct, but still be able to identify lots and lots of them that are clearly wrong. It would be really rare to have a question where you couldn't rule out anything at all.
Course the next step in this arms race is to use a botnet to do distributed slurping. Each compromised machine accesses a handful of pages, then sends them to a master server for aggregation. I'm not sure what you could do to prevent that, technically or legally.
Wait until they post the data, accuse them of running a botnet, and then bring a slightly more valid "hacking" case against them?
Insightful.
The world population nearly quintupling during that time frame doesn't hurt, either.
By contrast, I watch Red Sox games on MLB.tv. Cost about $100 for the full season in HD and no commercials. Gladly paid it and watched maybe 75% of games last season.
Which only works because you don't live where your team plays. I looked into the baseball package when I cut cable, and the answer was I could watch any game I wanted live, but not the local team, which was the only team I actually wanted to watch. I found that frustrating and just gave up on the sport rather than spend money on subpar options.
If the weight problems are severe enough, everything will eventually self-shape into a sphere again, due to the laws of physics.
Yes, but in honor of my buddy Tim, who was so wrapped up in his argument of how to pronounce GIF he spelled GUI instead, I thought I'd pass it on.
They're technically the same GR sound anyway, right?
They say it with a GR, like in Graphical User Interface.
I cut the cord to be cheap, but losing my tolerance for ads may have been the biggest benefit. I can't bear to watch TV in hotel rooms anymore, and the maybe 5 or 8 times a year I put on a live football game, I'm half-dizzy by halftime from all the bopping back and forth between game and other stuff. It's amazing how much of your life can tick away letting someone else try to sell you stuff.
Please. If you're going to give an example like this, also list the interest rate so that people can know the full equation. (It appears you're using 7%).
Yep. I'm surprised at how few people see it this way. Or maybe I'm surprised at how many people have access to infinite amounts of overtime or other hourly work, and when presented with a choice between doing other things or just working more and hiring a service, go for the service.
That said, it's not always unwise to pay for the service. Unpaid personal time has a value, too. Hiring someone to paint your room so that you can be out with friends or family, having fun, or just getting rest, may be a perfectly sensible choice. It varies a lot based on time, income, preferences, and circumstance.
For instance, I'll drink the free coffee at work most days, and usually make it at home on weekends. But I'll splurge on a fancy latte maybe once a month just because I want something different. And if I'm traveling, well, I'll buy whatever's around, but tend to pay a premium because a lot of times the basic stuff has been sitting around for hours getting burnt, which I find unappealing.
Although I'm reminded of a co-worker who once asked, "Does morning really only have one N in it? I mean, I realize it has two."
I believe humor still has a U in it. Unless you want hmor?
I've known enough Brits that I don't really notice most of the differences, but there are a couple I've never been able to wrap my head around:
- different to. Americans would be more inclined to say different than or different from. To just seems backwards.
- Directly, particularly at the start of a sentence. The American usage requires a preposition, and it usually only appears after a verb. The English version always seems to be in the wrong part of the sentence and missing several supporting words.
- Whinge. Just looks like a typo of whine.
Yet you can walk on the street in Japan and not get assaulted. Try walking through a black district in an US city, while white -- not a healthy idea. I've ever been to the US just twice, but both times some friends made such a mistake and had to negotiate to keep their faces in one piece. The US is incredibly racist.
I used to walk all over Chicago, and was never bothered, even in the lower income neighborhoods. Once in Cabrini Green a guy stopped me and offered to sell me drugs, but he was super friendly about it. Maybe I was lucky, but I was never targeted.
That's terrible. I know in some sense that there are people who don't enjoy books, but I don't understand how. I mean, if you look around, there are books about everything. Unless a person is totally uninterested in everything the world over, it seems like there ought to be a few books for them.
Bobiverse is Dennis E. Taylor, I believe. Just finished the trilogy. Enjoyed it quite a bit.
As for the issue actually being discussed, I've never even seen that happen.
I had it on my phone a few times, where I'd follow a link, see it for a second, and then get shuttled off to an advertising page. Usually with no back button functionality. I got it to stop by installing an ad blocker. I haven't seen it on my laptop, but I'm always running an ad blocker there, so that's probably why.
Man, I'd thought "the internet won't start" browser confusion problems had died with the last millennium. Guess some things never change.
Glad someone else mentioned it. I'm having a hell of a time with Podcast. It took me about a month to get it halfway right in iOS 10, and about the time I did that 11 came out.
My main problem is, when one podcast ends, the next one won't start without manual intervention, which is particularly bad because I'm mostly listening on the road.
But really the whole interface is bad. Giant, screen-filling boxes, too much drilling down just to find an episode to play, difficult filters, a default that thinks you want to listen to a podcast backwards rather than in chronological order, a tendency to reset to the start screen if you leave and return, rather than picking up where you left off ...
I used to also have a huge problem with a scenario where I'd be listening to a podcast, pause on the lock screen, and when I pulled it up again to start playing, it would switch over to Music and play that instead of restarting my podcast. I haven't seen it this week, though. Not sure if the upgrade to 11 fixed that piece, or some series of reboots and consistent podcast listening helped it find a groove.
Are there other non-native podcast player options worth using? Does it integrate with iTunes podcast subscriptions?
So, people were worried an extra 140 characters would fill up my feed? When half of the tweets I see have giant photos filling up ten times as much space, I'm hardly worried about an extra line and a half a text.
Sea of Glass, Barry B. Longyear
Man, in the 25-ish years since I've read that book, this is the first time I've seen someone else mention it. I'd forgotten the computer's name, but the book itself really stuck with me, and I still think about it now and then.
I agree with you. Indeed i might be among the ones who doesn't give too much shit about my privacy, because i don't feel like (for now) i have much to hide.
I don't have much to hide. But that doesn't make my personal life anybody else's business. Privacy isn't just about hiding. It asks the question, "Does this party have any right to this information?" If the answer is no, they should buzz off. And that's not just about shadow actors and criminals, but applies to what I do in my bedroom or bathroom, what my bank account number is, information about my minor children, my medical history, and even tastes and preferences I don't feel like advertising. Unless I explicitly feel like sharing, nobody ought to be able to take that information from me. Right now there's a whole bunch of quasi-to-fully-shady stuff were other parties are collecting information, but not clearly letting the rest of us know when or how they're doing it, and that makes it much closer to the "taking things they have to right to" side than the "we willingly gave it to them."
You only need $56,200 of taxable income (MFJ) to have $7500 in tax liability.
That doesn't seem right. I think you've left out the standard deduction, which would kick it up another $12,600, and the personal exemptions, which would be another $8k. So you'd need more like $76,000, assuming no other credits, deductions, or children. It wouldn't be hard for a family to make $100k and still not actually pay $7,500 in tax.
$37k is a reasonable price for a minivan.
If we're still in the context of a $56k as a comparison income, I'd say a $37k car of any kind is outrageously expensive. I don't see how anyone can afford a vehicle that costs a full year's post-tax earnings.
It would make me very happy if the merged company rebranded to become Comcomm.
I've had my Roku for 5 or 6 years, and hadn't thought anything about upgrading until a couple of weeks ago, when my phone company gave me a free option to stream HBO through their streaming app, which supposedly will work with Roku, but not one that old. I haven't decided yet if I'll actually bother.
My model reboots itself mid-use maybe once a week or so, but it's been doing that since we got it, and it otherwise works solidly.