You forget that the Tea Party had the power of FILIBUSTER! (by agreement, they didn't even have to do anything, just say they were filibustering and magically things more than just a simple majority to pass)
Something seems amiss when *ANY* business entity would get into a contractual arrangement where the mall janitor could declare a fire sale for your entire store.
You don't think it will cost them and us more when cell phones and VoIP are required to have the same uptime and repair response times as landlines that there won't be new costs?
That's not even getting into what happens when they actually have to pay to maintain their infrastructure when ILECs aren't around for them to leech off of. Of course, you don't sound like the type who cares about that since maintaining other people's infrastructure would be communist and makes Baby Invisible Hand cry.
I have to wonder what cell/mobile/wireless and VoIP will cost when they have to meet the same uptime standards as landlines.
I can't remember which company it was but they dropped 10,000 911 calls during one snow storm. A land line company would have been fined out of existence for that but it was A-OK for them since it was only cell phones.
"I'll also add that it's easy to spot a strait razor poser as he/she will only have one razor, whereas someone who actually shaves with them every day (as I do) will have at least half a dozen in rotation to reduce the honing burden."
You should be touching up the razor before each use (and during use as necessary) so having multiple razors doesn't reduce the "honing burden". If you can't tell a freshly honed and stropped blade from one a few shaves old I dare say you shouldn't accuse anyone of being a straight razor poser.
I use a Citizen Nighthawk. It has a sliderule and I know how to use it. It only has scales for multiplication/division but it is perfect for speed/distance/time calculations and unit conversions.
My cell phone stays on the charger unless I'm traveling or am expecting to need to make or take a call.
I've always worn a watch, never saw the point of lugging a cell phone around just to know the time, and pretty much always shaved with a straight edge, nothing to clog those things so you didn't have to religiously shave everyday or face five minutes of swishing the disposable around in water to get the hair out every swipe.
Dear $DEITY, am I H I P positive? Are there pro-viruses to treat it?
So when Linux gets usability for "normal" people can we point out that Apple has had that for ages? (Although waiting until the heat death of the universe for that to happen will take awhile so I better make note of this on something rather durable.)
A trend I've been seeing with "modern" geek culture is their demand for society to conform to their wants.
"Everyone else should understand geocaching and not screw with us. We should be able to use any property any way we want and no one should screw with us."
Even their OS choices should be supported by everyone else, no matter how obscure it is. Don't support GNU/RMS/Linux? DIAF.
I don't have citations but one easy experiment will prove who's right: point to the sky and shout "airplane", or perhaps even "Air Force One" and count how many people are on the ground in the fetal position in a city in Nebraska and in New York City (or point lite brites at people if in Boston). My bet is that it will be the East Coasters that are on the ground in droves.
The TSA's got to keep tap dancing around the fact that they can't use methods that work, namely profiling, no, not just racial or religious profiling, because then "everyone" would be up in arms about how they discriminate so they need to keep up the appearance of anticipating every crazy attack vector.
Real security means some people feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately we'll only tolerate something if it makes everyone uncomfortable, otherwise you're some sort of -ist.
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You forget that the Tea Party had the power of FILIBUSTER! (by agreement, they didn't even have to do anything, just say they were filibustering and magically things more than just a simple majority to pass)
War. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Something seems amiss when *ANY* business entity would get into a contractual arrangement where the mall janitor could declare a fire sale for your entire store.
More than likely a guard is a contractor/employee of the mall, not a store in particular.
Wait, if there are no elephants what stops the earth from going all wibbly-wobbly on the shell?
I asked this guy walking by your car if I could take it and he said yes, I am in the clear, right?
You get half what you used to? You lucky bastard.
The tragedy of the geek tragedy of the commons is that they don't see the tragedy.
In other words, geek abuses resource, thinks he's in the right because he wasn't explicitly told no for his exact situation, film at 11.
You don't think it will cost them and us more when cell phones and VoIP are required to have the same uptime and repair response times as landlines that there won't be new costs?
That's not even getting into what happens when they actually have to pay to maintain their infrastructure when ILECs aren't around for them to leech off of. Of course, you don't sound like the type who cares about that since maintaining other people's infrastructure would be communist and makes Baby Invisible Hand cry.
I have to wonder what cell/mobile/wireless and VoIP will cost when they have to meet the same uptime standards as landlines.
I can't remember which company it was but they dropped 10,000 911 calls during one snow storm. A land line company would have been fined out of existence for that but it was A-OK for them since it was only cell phones.
"I'll also add that it's easy to spot a strait razor poser as he/she will only have one razor, whereas someone who actually shaves with them every day (as I do) will have at least half a dozen in rotation to reduce the honing burden."
You should be touching up the razor before each use (and during use as necessary) so having multiple razors doesn't reduce the "honing burden". If you can't tell a freshly honed and stropped blade from one a few shaves old I dare say you shouldn't accuse anyone of being a straight razor poser.
I use a Citizen Nighthawk. It has a sliderule and I know how to use it. It only has scales for multiplication/division but it is perfect for speed/distance/time calculations and unit conversions.
My cell phone stays on the charger unless I'm traveling or am expecting to need to make or take a call.
And got particles of pencil lead into/onto their equipment and in their air supply.
I've always worn a watch, never saw the point of lugging a cell phone around just to know the time, and pretty much always shaved with a straight edge, nothing to clog those things so you didn't have to religiously shave everyday or face five minutes of swishing the disposable around in water to get the hair out every swipe.
Dear $DEITY, am I H I P positive? Are there pro-viruses to treat it?
So when Linux gets usability for "normal" people can we point out that Apple has had that for ages? (Although waiting until the heat death of the universe for that to happen will take awhile so I better make note of this on something rather durable.)
It will prove that it's not the fly over states that are the "pants-pissing pussies".
Good luck getting the food to the "people" and not the local warlord/junta/dictator without boots-on-the-ground military interdiction.
A trend I've been seeing with "modern" geek culture is their demand for society to conform to their wants.
"Everyone else should understand geocaching and not screw with us. We should be able to use any property any way we want and no one should screw with us."
Even their OS choices should be supported by everyone else, no matter how obscure it is. Don't support GNU/RMS/Linux? DIAF.
I don't have citations but one easy experiment will prove who's right: point to the sky and shout "airplane", or perhaps even "Air Force One" and count how many people are on the ground in the fetal position in a city in Nebraska and in New York City (or point lite brites at people if in Boston). My bet is that it will be the East Coasters that are on the ground in droves.
El Al does pretty good with their behavioral profiling.
"no, not just racial or religious profiling"
What part of that don't you understand or did you just see profiling and went frothing mad?
The TSA's got to keep tap dancing around the fact that they can't use methods that work, namely profiling, no, not just racial or religious profiling, because then "everyone" would be up in arms about how they discriminate so they need to keep up the appearance of anticipating every crazy attack vector.
Real security means some people feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately we'll only tolerate something if it makes everyone uncomfortable, otherwise you're some sort of -ist.
Why would you put a clickwheel on a device with the front covered by a touchscreen?
Apple doesn't like extraneous buttons and a clickwheel on an iPod Touch would be just that.
Do you just post to /. without reading any of it?
Usability lowers your geek/techie cred.
For example, what does a 10 hr battery life mean? The CPU and GPU are too feeble, it needs bigger numbers to have any g/t cred.