Why the 'ef is the city taxing these things that *fit* folks also enjoy.
I enjoy Video games, watching DVD's and the occasional 2^32 calorie baconator sandwich. I also work out with weights 4 days a week and try to squeeze in some cardio on the weekends. I work hard to keep myself in shape, why the heck should I be paying these dumb taxes just because the city decided to play nanny to some obviously retarded morons..
This reeks of the typical lawyer 'shift the blame' mentality. Tax the fat fucking folks not the source of their fat, charge them double on Airplanes and subways, the assholes take up 2.5 seats each, tax them for treating walkways like amusement park rides, tax them for holding up pedestrian traffic, No more disabled parking stickers for fat retards, let them walk and burn it off.
Make an exception in case of folks that can't help it e.g. thyroid disorders but all the other morons stuffing themselves with Big Mac's all day long, teach them a lesson. the Japanese way sounds pretty good..
Come again? Anyone who wants to "punish" me by sending me 13 cents, by all means feel free.
If 30 million people each pay one Sek, how does that not pay the fine?
Most hormone crazed teens are only looking for an outlet for that pent up energy. Tons of violence accompanied by a total demonization of sex can only lead to frustration, couple that with a small arsenal in everyone's basement and you get a columbine
Promote more love and sex in movies and video games along with free condoms, pills and sex education, I'm sure mindless violence will go down a lot.
Resale would never be allowed, with regular paper books there is a lot of wear and tear until a point in the poor textbook's life where it's nothing but clumps of pages hanging off the seams and scribbles and doodles all over them.
e-books on the other hand have a virtually infinite life. Maybe resale could be allowed Amazon removed a few pages added some random scribbles when it passes ownership:)
The library can have a copy soiled, pages torn out, genitalia doodles drawn on useful information, dog eared pages, books splitting at the seams, smelly pages, disease infested pages, someone's love letter/suicide confession between pages and worst of all no copies available.
I agree this device is not for 'exploring authors and genres' (The library is the best for that) but for texts that you need or know you want to own.
I think the price is for the e-ink technology, I saw someone reading an older 6" kindle a few days ago and the picture quality looks just like paper, no strain on the eyes.
Give it like a month after release, I'm sure some hackers will break it open and port an open linux kernel to it:)
Our prophet Larry Wall(PBUH) was the son of the binary god sent down from the usenet heaven to rectify all who had strayed from the blissful path of eternal regular expressions.
Sure the code might look obfuscated but it's a deliberate attempt to weed out the weak and phony followers who cannot see the true beauty of TMTOWDI underneath
Laugh if you will but we'll be the ones transported to an eternal continuum of text processing and process integration in the afterlife. Hope you burn in you Java hell!
Not finding the sickly nerds in the google office cute, female google employees spend most of their day staring at muscular Miguel driving the lawn mower with his shirt off...
Before reading it I assumed it would have the subtle undercurrent of 'brown ppl = mommy killer' but the book seems pretty benign. Mostly of the pages deal with coping with losing a loved one to a disaster..
Glad no one showed me this book when I was young.. I would have gone into a schizophrenic paranoid dementia:)
There's 20,000+ miles of dark fiber in America owned by a couple of shells or consortiums. All this was laid out during the late 90's dot com boom and the bandwidth per fiber was tripled with DWDM. Most of the holding companies acquired the infrastructure for pennies on the dollar as deployed fiber costs fell with dwdm.
On top of that the telcos laid out an extra set of conduits with all fiber to snake future fiber through..all the backbone they need to double of triple their bandwidth is already available..
Let's create some more FUD on 'brownouts' and roll out the bandwidth caps... On a related note TWC will be repackaging a recent Southpark episode as a documentary on excess internet usage and broadcasting it for free on all channels tonight..
A destructive pest enjoys something that happens to be produced by niggers! It dislikes something that was produced by white people! Coincidence? I think not..
Google already does it, so do a lot of large advertisement pools like doubleclick etc. using the consumer's IP.
It wouldn't make sense for Tyson to make an ad in Chinese for a thanksgiving turkey but these sites and their affiliated advertisers could move their services to the international arena. Have a pool of advertisements from all major developing countries.. China, India, Brazil etc..
It could be hard due to the trade restrictions in some countries but you can always collaborate with some local ad providers on some sort of a profit sharing scheme.
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Why the 'ef is the city taxing these things that *fit* folks also enjoy.
I enjoy Video games, watching DVD's and the occasional 2^32 calorie baconator sandwich. I also work out with weights 4 days a week and try to squeeze in some cardio on the weekends. I work hard to keep myself in shape, why the heck should I be paying these dumb taxes just because the city decided to play nanny to some obviously retarded morons..
This reeks of the typical lawyer 'shift the blame' mentality. Tax the fat fucking folks not the source of their fat, charge them double on Airplanes and subways, the assholes take up 2.5 seats each, tax them for treating walkways like amusement park rides, tax them for holding up pedestrian traffic, No more disabled parking stickers for fat retards, let them walk and burn it off.
Make an exception in case of folks that can't help it e.g. thyroid disorders but all the other morons stuffing themselves with Big Mac's all day long, teach them a lesson. the Japanese way sounds pretty good..
Given it's density, the missile would probably tip over before launch :)
they could buy Yahoo from the change in Steve Ballmer's couch cushions.
I don't think you're aware of how Ballmer treats seating furniture.
Read Slashdot comments from Sep'05 on any MS related article for more insight into this matter.
Come again? Anyone who wants to "punish" me by sending me 13 cents, by all means feel free. If 30 million people each pay one Sek, how does that not pay the fine?
The time honoured reply: RTFA! RTFA RTFA!
The American censor board has it backwards
Most hormone crazed teens are only looking for an outlet for that pent up energy. Tons of violence accompanied by a total demonization of sex can only lead to frustration, couple that with a small arsenal in everyone's basement and you get a columbine
Promote more love and sex in movies and video games along with free condoms, pills and sex education, I'm sure mindless violence will go down a lot.
This might not pose that much of a threat to H264, sounds like another OGG or FLAC. Superior in a lot of qualities but largely ignored by the majority
Unless some major device manufacturers or youtube like heavyweights get behind it, it's gonna be pretty much limited to the geek community.
And now for the real question everyone is asking:
Can you get porn on it?
Yes you can:
:P
http://www.amazon.com/kamasutra/dp/B001C83O16/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241633173&sr=8-1
Resale would never be allowed, with regular paper books there is a lot of wear and tear until a point in the poor textbook's life where it's nothing but clumps of pages hanging off the seams and scribbles and doodles all over them.
:)
e-books on the other hand have a virtually infinite life.
Maybe resale could be allowed Amazon removed a few pages added some random scribbles when it passes ownership
The library can have a copy soiled, pages torn out, genitalia doodles drawn on useful information, dog eared pages, books splitting at the seams, smelly pages, disease infested pages, someone's love letter/suicide confession between pages and worst of all no copies available.
I agree this device is not for 'exploring authors and genres' (The library is the best for that) but for texts that you need or know you want to own.
I'm buying one as long as it works in the toilet... reading LOTR on the loo was a pain in the butt.
I think the price is for the e-ink technology, I saw someone reading an older 6" kindle a few days ago and the picture quality looks just like paper, no strain on the eyes.
:)
Give it like a month after release, I'm sure some hackers will break it open and port an open linux kernel to it
I bet the console would be called 'iPlay'
Eerily enough, I was told to gb2wow within a week of EVE after I commented that shooting beams at lumps of rocks was boring :-)
Don't you dare insult my lord!
Our prophet Larry Wall(PBUH) was the son of the binary god sent down from the usenet heaven to rectify all who had strayed from the blissful path of eternal regular expressions.
Sure the code might look obfuscated but it's a deliberate attempt to weed out the weak and phony followers who cannot see the true beauty of TMTOWDI underneath
Laugh if you will but we'll be the ones transported to an eternal continuum of text processing and process integration in the afterlife. Hope you burn in you Java hell!
Not all X users are X fanbois. I have a ubuntu using friend who hates it.
I implore thee to burn thy friend at a stake for apostasy is the highest crime against the one true Desktop.
Let they friend die in peace after you utter these divine words before he dies: 'Xorg loves you'.
WoW and Evercrack are too large to be cults. They're major religions.
Now EVE players are a cult, they're always trying to convert everyone
... everyone covered their ears!
Not finding the sickly nerds in the google office cute, female google employees spend most of their day staring at muscular Miguel driving the lawn mower with his shirt off...
Goat poo isn't as bad as cow pies or dog crap.. It's mostly small hardened pellets that deform or crumble rather than stick or squish.
Before reading it I assumed it would have the subtle undercurrent of 'brown ppl = mommy killer' but the book seems pretty benign. Mostly of the pages deal with coping with losing a loved one to a disaster..
:)
Glad no one showed me this book when I was young.. I would have gone into a schizophrenic paranoid dementia
hmmmmm... french fried posts.. *drool*
I don't get it
There's 20,000+ miles of dark fiber in America owned by a couple of shells or consortiums. All this was laid out during the late 90's dot com boom and the bandwidth per fiber was tripled with DWDM. Most of the holding companies acquired the infrastructure for pennies on the dollar as deployed fiber costs fell with dwdm.
On top of that the telcos laid out an extra set of conduits with all fiber to snake future fiber through..all the backbone they need to double of triple their bandwidth is already available..
The ISP's are really reluctant to invest money in leasing more fiber and upgrading their switches, god forbid they accidentally invest money in something actually beneficial for their customers. they prefer to spend money lobbying and threatening out the competition.. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86081/big-us-isps-roll-out-push-polling-to-stop-cheap-internet/
Let's create some more FUD on 'brownouts' and roll out the bandwidth caps... On a related note TWC will be repackaging a recent Southpark episode as a documentary on excess internet usage and broadcasting it for free on all channels tonight..
All comments till your post have been a poo-flinging contest between the democrats and republicans.
America needs a good shake up to awaken people from this dumb political fuckfest and get their focus back on technology and science.
In short, turn off the damn tv and pick up a book!
A destructive pest enjoys something that happens to be produced by niggers! It dislikes something that was produced by white people! Coincidence? I think not..
That's correct..
Jimi hendrix was the best rap artist ever...
Eminem just rocks dude.. hardcore..
Google already does it, so do a lot of large advertisement pools like doubleclick etc. using the consumer's IP.
It wouldn't make sense for Tyson to make an ad in Chinese for a thanksgiving turkey but these sites and their affiliated advertisers could move their services to the international arena. Have a pool of advertisements from all major developing countries.. China, India, Brazil etc..
It could be hard due to the trade restrictions in some countries but you can always collaborate with some local ad providers on some sort of a profit sharing scheme.