A little less blame on the owner, and a little more blame on the carrier? How much genuine crap comes pre-installed on a carrier subsidized phone? I'm talking about genuine worthless crap, that does and gives nothing of value to the end customer, the owner who pays for the phone.
The phone is regarded by the carrier as a tool, with which to keep track of the chattel, or the sheeple. Again and again, the carriers are exposed for their overzealous data collection. And, for the most part, people aren't able to turn these "features" off, unless they are willing to invest some time in research, then risk voiding their so-called warranties.
Yeah, end users are mostly dumb clods, but the carriers are responsible for a lot of the problem.
You ought to re-think that. No, I'm not "firmly into the Baby Boom". The Baby Boom began in 1845, and had tapered off by the time I was born. The real baby boomers are all over sixty now.
Which part of "self admitted war criminal" did you fail to understand? The little weasel stood in front of congress and testified that he killed men, women, and children in a massacre. It takes a lost soul to defend a man who admits such actions. Not that I BELIEVE his admissions - he has played that deck of jokers well over the years, accumulating a lot of wealth, power, and some sort of leftist glory.
I can't say whether this panhandler was homeless, or anything of the nature. The Marine wasn't picking on him though. The weather didn't warrant a jacket, the panhandler admitted that he was not a veteran, and he admitted to the Marine that he wore the jacket because people gave him more money when he wore it. Stolen valor.
Personally, I wouldn't have chased a panhandler down. But I would LOVE the opportunity to chase down some of the freaks who commericalize their non-existent war wounds, fake flashbacks, even write books. Can we start with John Kerry? A self admitted war criminal who bartered a handful of bogus purple hearts into one office after another in Washington D.C.
Keep dreaming. However old you are, when your generation takes power, it's going to be the same old cesspool inside the beltway. But, you go ahead and dream. That's one of the good things about youth.
Hey, Old Man - maybe you're a millenial, and didn't know it? I'm 59, and I fall just short of admiring Edward Snowden. If I were the sort to admire people, then I would admire the man. I just can't quite bring myself to the level of a cult fan, or groupie, that's all.
So, from one aging Millenial to another, "How are ya!"
There are men - and women too, I suppose - who hunt down people who claim to be veterans. Watched video just recently, some old Marine chased down some panhandler posing as a veteran, and made him take the Marine Corps jacket off. Told him if he EVER saw him with it on again, he was going to stomp the shit out of him.
This woman deserves as much as any fake veteran has ever received at the hands of real veterans.
Because women are sure to put a different spin on bullshit than males. Because women don't fart, and their shit don't stink. Just because women. But, you're mostly right - stupid is stupid.
Lemme think here. If the primary goal of the site is to spy on you, that site puts out some kind of bait for you to take. Failing to take the bait means you win. But, you see winning as breaking the internet?
It's like, you're a spy. The enemy puts the most beautiful woman on earth at your disposal, as bait. Use whichever movie plot you like - if you sleep with her, you die. If you don't sleep with her - then what? She's broken? You're broken? WTF?
Just don't take the bait. That doesn't "break the web".
That's the best explanation yet - but I don''t think it's accurate. They'll have to demonstrate before I buy into it. Remember, the skin of a spacecraft is thin. Getting the surface hot enough to melt and sublime will necessarily mean that the skin is just about the same temperature on the other side. Your molten metallic material is going to be subliming into space in equal and opposite directions. Net sum? No change in inertia.
A thicker skin would actually be better, because the laser could burn into it, effectively scooping out a poorly shaped jet or rocket nozzle that would focus all of the hot metal and gasses in the direction that the laser came from.
If a satellite has a few hard points on it that the laser can be focused on, then I can see how your view would work. But, we gotta remember, everything sent into space is as light as technology can make it. There's no metal body panels as thick and heavy as is found on our cars. It's all paper thin!
We see this on earth all the time. Heat a pan of water, and it jumps off of the kitchen range.
Changing the temperature of an item doesn't change it's trajectory, or orbit. Thermal energy doesn't magically change itself into kinetic energy. All that is going to happen is, the cold bits of scrap will turn into warm bits of scrap.
Two points for having more of a clue than the author. Yes, the laser will poke holes through most of the space junk. A laser isn't going to blast anything out of the sky. That crap is floating in vacuum. Laser hits, it burns through, a little bit of the skin is vaporized into the vacuum, and you're left with just as much debris up there as you started with. Some of it has been heated, liquified, and "evaporated" into space is all.
My own experience with crushing cans? I was a runt, so I didn't crush cans when I was a kid. Not even when I was a "big kid" in high school. I joined the Navy in '75, made a couple cruises, and during that time, aluminum cans became ubiquitous. (The Navy had them everywhere, at least.) I came home one summer weekend, and visited an uncle's bar. There were a couple people in there that I knew from high school - one growing fat and soft, another who looked pretty good shape. We all had Iron City beers, which were still in steel cans. Fat guy crushed his can with some strain. The other guy crushed his with less strain. These guys were jocks in high school - they used to crush those cans effortlessly. Me? The runt? I never could crush those cans with one hand. Imagine my own surprise, when I actually crushed that stupid steel can, apparently with less effort than either of the other guys.
Yes, it took either strength, or real effort to crush those steel cans. Personally, I didn't have that strength until I was about 22 or 23, with a few years of hard life at sea behind me.
And, I'm sitting here, right this moment, wondering If I could crush a can today. No - I'm not as strong as I was back in '78, '79, and '80. I developed even more muscle after I got out of the Navy, but the past decade has been pretty sedentary, and I'm not in the same shape anymore.
"bestows new significance on the old aluminum cans"
I'm not sure that those ALUMINUM pull rings are fifty years old. Steel, yes, I suppose so. They've been around for most of my life. I remember people still used can openers to open their sodas and beers when I was a kid, sometime around 9 to 12 years old, I started seeing pull rings. But, the macho men and the big kids were still crushing their empty cans to demonstrate how many muscles they had between their ears. Aluminum cans became a thing when I was already a teen.
Or, maybe memory serves me poorly. Actually, I think that soda was still marketed in bottles until I was a teen. It was just the beer drinkers who had those pull rings. But I'm quite sure that I saw no aluminum cans until around '67, '68, or maybe even a little later.
How typical. People like you ramble on about things like "tolerance", but you are completely intolerant of any point of view that doesn't agree with your own. You are so very intolerant, that you ASSume that any opposing view must be a Republican point of view. "If you're not with us, then you're against us", right?
Have you tried a VPN? If I log into my VPN through the UK, I get tons of results from Google that seem to be UK-centric. If I log in through Dallas, Texas, the results look very much the same as not using a VPN at all. Log in through Denmark, and everything is presented in some language which I presume to be Danish, and I have to click the little UK flag to get English results. I don't know if I can log in through Oz or not - I may have to check that out. There is a LONG list of places that I can log onto the internet through, but I've only tested a few of them.
You might give it a try, if you want regionally / nationally / culturally flavored search results.
Yes, I realize that you've asked for unflavored results, but my idea offers different flavors, which might satisfy your cravings after all!
WTF you calling a Republican? I despise what the Republican party has become. Granted, I despise the Republicans less than I despise the Democrats - but that sure as hell doesn't make me a Republican.
Your second paragraph attempts to establish a person's intelligence, based on his political thoughts. No point in reading any further, unless I want to amuse myself.
Then, you have the audacity to offer advice in your last paragraph?
Grow up, boy. Or girl. The adults were talking, and you should just STFU and listen.
"Why the fuck do you make the idiotic claims that you do?"
Useful idiots are useful idiots. Ever notice that those who denigrate European and US culture are almost always leftists? They are communism's "useful idiots".
Taco Cowboy is CHINESE?!?!?!?! You had me buffaloed, man. I figured you for twelfth generation mixed Mexican and redneck, from deep in the heart of Texas.
They don't. You're making it up. First generation has a strong Mexican accent. Second generation has an accent. Third generation speaks better English than most of us tenth and twentieth generation Americans. You pulled that out of your arse, didn't you?
What's more, because I work with so many Mexicans, I'm actually beginning to understand the first generation accents, and accept them as "normal".
Maybe you should work with more Mexicans, and learn how they assimilate.
I'll grant that there ARE SOME militant assholes among the Mexican community who have no intention of ever being assimilated. They don't want citizenship, they don't want nothing from the US. Those people only want to take back those states that the US took from Mexico. But - it ain't happening. Their grand children will eventually become assimilated.
Not that the US will remain the same - Mexicans are changing the US, right now, while we discuss Mexicans in America. Prepare to be assimilated, yourself. My youngest son, for instance, is doing some mutual assimilating with a beautiful young Mexican lady. I'm waiting for a perfectly assimilated little half Mexican grand baby that I can make fun of.
And, yes, Grandpa gets to make fun of the grandkids, no matter what. I don't give a damn HOW sensitive anyone else might be, grandpa and the grand kids do whatever the hell they want to do.
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A little less blame on the owner, and a little more blame on the carrier? How much genuine crap comes pre-installed on a carrier subsidized phone? I'm talking about genuine worthless crap, that does and gives nothing of value to the end customer, the owner who pays for the phone.
The phone is regarded by the carrier as a tool, with which to keep track of the chattel, or the sheeple. Again and again, the carriers are exposed for their overzealous data collection. And, for the most part, people aren't able to turn these "features" off, unless they are willing to invest some time in research, then risk voiding their so-called warranties.
Yeah, end users are mostly dumb clods, but the carriers are responsible for a lot of the problem.
What if your name is Clinton?
LOL - no, 1945. Hear me groaning? I usually catch typos before I hit the submit button - this time - no.
I don't know about 1845 - they may have had a little baby boom.
You ought to re-think that. No, I'm not "firmly into the Baby Boom". The Baby Boom began in 1845, and had tapered off by the time I was born. The real baby boomers are all over sixty now.
Yes, I'll keep up with the Swift Boaters.
Which part of "self admitted war criminal" did you fail to understand? The little weasel stood in front of congress and testified that he killed men, women, and children in a massacre. It takes a lost soul to defend a man who admits such actions. Not that I BELIEVE his admissions - he has played that deck of jokers well over the years, accumulating a lot of wealth, power, and some sort of leftist glory.
Let me say it again: Stolen valor. If you're wearing our uniform, you are stealing from these guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What does a man deserve from me, if he is willing to steal from my brother's corpse?
I can't say whether this panhandler was homeless, or anything of the nature. The Marine wasn't picking on him though. The weather didn't warrant a jacket, the panhandler admitted that he was not a veteran, and he admitted to the Marine that he wore the jacket because people gave him more money when he wore it. Stolen valor.
Personally, I wouldn't have chased a panhandler down. But I would LOVE the opportunity to chase down some of the freaks who commericalize their non-existent war wounds, fake flashbacks, even write books. Can we start with John Kerry? A self admitted war criminal who bartered a handful of bogus purple hearts into one office after another in Washington D.C.
Go ahead, call the police. They'll draw some chalk lines around your body, before the coroner has the carcass bagged up and transported to the morgue.
Veterans in general, and Marines in particular, tend to MAKE stuff their business. No one tells us what our business is, or is not.
Enjoy a nice video - listen carefully to the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Keep dreaming. However old you are, when your generation takes power, it's going to be the same old cesspool inside the beltway. But, you go ahead and dream. That's one of the good things about youth.
Hey, Old Man - maybe you're a millenial, and didn't know it? I'm 59, and I fall just short of admiring Edward Snowden. If I were the sort to admire people, then I would admire the man. I just can't quite bring myself to the level of a cult fan, or groupie, that's all.
So, from one aging Millenial to another, "How are ya!"
There are men - and women too, I suppose - who hunt down people who claim to be veterans. Watched video just recently, some old Marine chased down some panhandler posing as a veteran, and made him take the Marine Corps jacket off. Told him if he EVER saw him with it on again, he was going to stomp the shit out of him.
This woman deserves as much as any fake veteran has ever received at the hands of real veterans.
Because women are sure to put a different spin on bullshit than males. Because women don't fart, and their shit don't stink. Just because women. But, you're mostly right - stupid is stupid.
Lemme think here. If the primary goal of the site is to spy on you, that site puts out some kind of bait for you to take. Failing to take the bait means you win. But, you see winning as breaking the internet?
It's like, you're a spy. The enemy puts the most beautiful woman on earth at your disposal, as bait. Use whichever movie plot you like - if you sleep with her, you die. If you don't sleep with her - then what? She's broken? You're broken? WTF?
Just don't take the bait. That doesn't "break the web".
That's the best explanation yet - but I don''t think it's accurate. They'll have to demonstrate before I buy into it. Remember, the skin of a spacecraft is thin. Getting the surface hot enough to melt and sublime will necessarily mean that the skin is just about the same temperature on the other side. Your molten metallic material is going to be subliming into space in equal and opposite directions. Net sum? No change in inertia.
A thicker skin would actually be better, because the laser could burn into it, effectively scooping out a poorly shaped jet or rocket nozzle that would focus all of the hot metal and gasses in the direction that the laser came from.
If a satellite has a few hard points on it that the laser can be focused on, then I can see how your view would work. But, we gotta remember, everything sent into space is as light as technology can make it. There's no metal body panels as thick and heavy as is found on our cars. It's all paper thin!
We see this on earth all the time. Heat a pan of water, and it jumps off of the kitchen range.
Changing the temperature of an item doesn't change it's trajectory, or orbit. Thermal energy doesn't magically change itself into kinetic energy. All that is going to happen is, the cold bits of scrap will turn into warm bits of scrap.
Two points for having more of a clue than the author. Yes, the laser will poke holes through most of the space junk. A laser isn't going to blast anything out of the sky. That crap is floating in vacuum. Laser hits, it burns through, a little bit of the skin is vaporized into the vacuum, and you're left with just as much debris up there as you started with. Some of it has been heated, liquified, and "evaporated" into space is all.
Uh-huh - that is right.
My own experience with crushing cans? I was a runt, so I didn't crush cans when I was a kid. Not even when I was a "big kid" in high school. I joined the Navy in '75, made a couple cruises, and during that time, aluminum cans became ubiquitous. (The Navy had them everywhere, at least.) I came home one summer weekend, and visited an uncle's bar. There were a couple people in there that I knew from high school - one growing fat and soft, another who looked pretty good shape. We all had Iron City beers, which were still in steel cans. Fat guy crushed his can with some strain. The other guy crushed his with less strain. These guys were jocks in high school - they used to crush those cans effortlessly. Me? The runt? I never could crush those cans with one hand. Imagine my own surprise, when I actually crushed that stupid steel can, apparently with less effort than either of the other guys.
Yes, it took either strength, or real effort to crush those steel cans. Personally, I didn't have that strength until I was about 22 or 23, with a few years of hard life at sea behind me.
And, I'm sitting here, right this moment, wondering If I could crush a can today. No - I'm not as strong as I was back in '78, '79, and '80. I developed even more muscle after I got out of the Navy, but the past decade has been pretty sedentary, and I'm not in the same shape anymore.
Why not? I did!
"bestows new significance on the old aluminum cans"
I'm not sure that those ALUMINUM pull rings are fifty years old. Steel, yes, I suppose so. They've been around for most of my life. I remember people still used can openers to open their sodas and beers when I was a kid, sometime around 9 to 12 years old, I started seeing pull rings. But, the macho men and the big kids were still crushing their empty cans to demonstrate how many muscles they had between their ears. Aluminum cans became a thing when I was already a teen.
Or, maybe memory serves me poorly. Actually, I think that soda was still marketed in bottles until I was a teen. It was just the beer drinkers who had those pull rings. But I'm quite sure that I saw no aluminum cans until around '67, '68, or maybe even a little later.
How typical. People like you ramble on about things like "tolerance", but you are completely intolerant of any point of view that doesn't agree with your own. You are so very intolerant, that you ASSume that any opposing view must be a Republican point of view. "If you're not with us, then you're against us", right?
Poor idiot.
Have you tried a VPN? If I log into my VPN through the UK, I get tons of results from Google that seem to be UK-centric. If I log in through Dallas, Texas, the results look very much the same as not using a VPN at all. Log in through Denmark, and everything is presented in some language which I presume to be Danish, and I have to click the little UK flag to get English results. I don't know if I can log in through Oz or not - I may have to check that out. There is a LONG list of places that I can log onto the internet through, but I've only tested a few of them.
You might give it a try, if you want regionally / nationally / culturally flavored search results.
Yes, I realize that you've asked for unflavored results, but my idea offers different flavors, which might satisfy your cravings after all!
WTF you calling a Republican? I despise what the Republican party has become. Granted, I despise the Republicans less than I despise the Democrats - but that sure as hell doesn't make me a Republican.
Your second paragraph attempts to establish a person's intelligence, based on his political thoughts. No point in reading any further, unless I want to amuse myself.
Then, you have the audacity to offer advice in your last paragraph?
Grow up, boy. Or girl. The adults were talking, and you should just STFU and listen.
"Why the fuck do you make the idiotic claims that you do?"
Useful idiots are useful idiots. Ever notice that those who denigrate European and US culture are almost always leftists? They are communism's "useful idiots".
Taco Cowboy is CHINESE?!?!?!?! You had me buffaloed, man. I figured you for twelfth generation mixed Mexican and redneck, from deep in the heart of Texas.
They don't. You're making it up. First generation has a strong Mexican accent. Second generation has an accent. Third generation speaks better English than most of us tenth and twentieth generation Americans. You pulled that out of your arse, didn't you?
What's more, because I work with so many Mexicans, I'm actually beginning to understand the first generation accents, and accept them as "normal".
Maybe you should work with more Mexicans, and learn how they assimilate.
I'll grant that there ARE SOME militant assholes among the Mexican community who have no intention of ever being assimilated. They don't want citizenship, they don't want nothing from the US. Those people only want to take back those states that the US took from Mexico. But - it ain't happening. Their grand children will eventually become assimilated.
Not that the US will remain the same - Mexicans are changing the US, right now, while we discuss Mexicans in America. Prepare to be assimilated, yourself. My youngest son, for instance, is doing some mutual assimilating with a beautiful young Mexican lady. I'm waiting for a perfectly assimilated little half Mexican grand baby that I can make fun of.
And, yes, Grandpa gets to make fun of the grandkids, no matter what. I don't give a damn HOW sensitive anyone else might be, grandpa and the grand kids do whatever the hell they want to do.