I would guess so. I'm guessing that is why they've been vetting their videos. First they got rid of everything sexually explicit and now they are getting rid of things that are graphic. Probably because they don't want to piss off their advertisers. One of my favorite former youtube videos was of a guy who had wrapped tinfoil around his male parts and stuck it into an electric socket. No naughty bits showed (less than what you can see in a PG-13 movie) but they've pulled it from the site.
Though I think I would laugh so hard I'd wet myself if the tinfoil video was followed by a Reynold commercial.
That's what I'm guessing too. I know digital is supposed to be all or nothing, but I wonder if the line they put CC in is more likely to get garbled or delayed over long distances. My closest station is probably 40-50 miles away. I'd be really interested if it works correctly for people who live closer to the towers.
The only time I've ever had the problem with Analog CC running behind is for live shows. Every once in a while if the weather was bad the CC would be garbled, but it never ran behind and was almost always readable on standard programming.
I have a hard of hearing person in my household so we've been watching programming with CC on for 10+ years. NBC & FOX seem the worst for running behind, it can get as bad as 15 seconds. PBS, ABC, & CBS tend to be garbled beyond recognition. I switch to analog and the CC works perfectly (at least for a few more weeks). These are all pre-captioned shows and I can still do a side by side comparison.
Geez you must be my neighbor. Hi Neigbor! I concur though stations that were a bit grainy on analog are completely gone on digital. Also Closed Caption doesn't seem to work right on DTV (both direct to the tv or w/ the box). It always runs 15 seconds behind the actual dialog or is to garbled to read.
Just so I have your right... If someone should happen to slip your IP to the RIAA that could possibly cause the RIAA's tyranny? That is huge incentive for someone to sneak a peak in/.'s access logs.
Yeah I heard you can only use it during the day. Of course that means it is pretty much useless in areas that get dark at 5pm in the winter. Though it could be a great tie in for the Zork browser MMO. If you don't get your character someplace safe before night when your internet cuts out you end up getting eaten by a grue.
Michigan had an anti-profanity passed in 1897. It outlawed cursing in front of woment or children. In 1989 a canoeist was charged with violating the law after hitting a rock with his canoe and releasing a stream of profanities in front of a family.
He was actually found guilty the first time around. The court of appeals though threw out his case and the law. Here though if he had been convicted it would only have been a $75 fine and community service.
Wow thanks for making me realize how much I miss BC aspirin powder:P
I can't find the stuff in stores any longer. Now I need to find it online and order some. For me this stuff was one of the best ways to get rid of headaches. It was a decent mix of caffeine (only 33 mg) & aspirin. You could rub it into your gums to help "jump start" the relief. I'm guessing you could also snort it, but I was never brave enough.
Exactly! 1/2 days make no sense if you have a long commute or live in an area that has a lot of traffic. I would also prefer to work 4/10 than the 9/80. Having a 3 day weekend every week is blissful.
Especially when you live in a cold climate. During the winter it is getting dark at 5:00 so what does it matter if you leave at 5 or 7. In the summer it does suck to lose the long evenings, but the three day weekend makes up for it.
See that is where you are wrong. While it is difficult to beat Cthulhu, it is possible. The group you are playing with just has to be good at working together. Though I prefer to win by closing & sealing all the gates before Cthulhu awakes.
I would guess that it is because alcohol in moderation may be beneficial to your health. Especially if you drink red wine, a glass or two a day isn't considered detrimental to your health.
I'd be interested in seeing if anyone had done a cost analysis of switching to Linux vs. IT & OS cost to move to Vista or Windows 7. I would guess it would be very similar. If they are currently running XP and looking at upgrading they may have reached the point you mention, where moving to Linux costs the same as Microsoft's super-deal.
I'm using a converter box with my VCR and it works without any problems (other than not being able to change stations).
I have coax from the antenna coming straight into the converter box, then coax from the converter box to the VCR, and then RCA from the vcr to the tv. It is a fairly new VCR (3 years), but I don't have any problems with signal quality.
From what you are describing I'm guessing you've got a bad fitting on one of the coax jumpers. This is really common with the screw on fittings. Try replacing the cabling and see if it improves.
There is one other way that DTV is inferior. Close captioning just doesn't work. It could be because I'm pulling signals from about 90 miles away, but the audio quality and the picture quality is perfect. My tv has a digital tuner and I have a dtv converter box and with both the signal looks great, but depending on the station the CC is either garbled beyond recognition or runs 25 seconds behind the programing.
My credit card company does something similar. They give virtual numbers. You generate the number via an app or the web. They are usually one use, but you can set it for intervals also. You can even decide how much can be spent on it. If the site isn't legit or they let the number get stolen no biggy. Generally I have it expire in a month and be only good for the exact amount I need.
I know Citibank and Bank of America provide this service, but not on every card they offer. I guess it would be more like a one time pad than a Root CA, but effective.
Generally though if their are shenanigans on your card I believe the credit card company tries to stick the vendor that approved the purchase. Which is why business tend to check ID's and handwriting more during the high theft season of Christmas.
I agree that it would be very easy for kids to get a very unhealthy view of sex, but in some ways I guess I sort of would. Growing up we got 0 sex ed. It was amazing the things we learned from other kids like:
You can't get pregnant if you have sex in water You won't get pregnant if you douche with coke (the soda) after the event.
This list goes on and on and I know a bunch of my classmates took these tidbits as the truth. If the kids could google "Can you get pregnant from having sex in the water?" They'd have the answer right away and maybe save themselves from a teen pregnancy without feeling stupid. From what I've heard sex ed is worse now than it was when I was a kid. I can't even imagine how that is possible.
Here are a couple cheap and easy ways to get rid of forest for farmland.
If it is old growth call a company that wants to harvest it for lumber. Make it a requirement that they remove the stumps. Depending on the economy with that requirement at worst you'll pay nothing for them to take the trees. If wood is at a premium or if you have really nice growth or hardwoods you'll make a profit. Not every lumber company would be willing to make that deal but some are. Especially the guys who cut it into boards on site.
If the trees are junk fast growth trees you slash and burn. Cheap & easy. I don't live in a dry state so in my area you don't even need to get a permit for this. You just call and leave a message on the machine of the local volunteer fired department. Girdle the trees in late summer/fall and burn in the spring and you are ready for early planting. You probably won't even need to fertilize the first couple of years.
As for stones and boulders if you farm in a "glacier state" you are already used to growing boulders and rocks and it is just part of life. You take your rock picker or rock rake you and clear them. Heck you can even sell the rocks to landscapers or the public.
I'll agree though that farming and ranching isn't what is the biggest threat to the forests. According to US Forest Services the biggest threat to the forests (at least in 2005 when it was written) is urban development. U.S. Department of Agriculture "Forests on the Edge - Housing Development on America's Private Forests" (2005) http://www.fs.fed.us/projects/fote/reports/fote-6-9-05.pdf An interesting side note and more applicable to question of paper use, it looks like the Forest Service is researching urban tree utilization for wood and paper products.
I'd be willing to take that sacrifice. I live in the boonies and my only option is dial-up. There are too many trees for dish & no wimax in the area. DSL & Cable companies aren't doing anything to provide internet out here. I can't even get cell service for phone let alone wireless internet.
They claim in the CTIA pdf they expect it to be better in 10 years. It won't. When I first moved to my area there was actually very good cell coverage. When one of the big mergers happened the new bigger company decided to save money and shut down a bunch of towers. Now many of the areas that used to have coverage are spotty. The companies are reducing their coverage in low profit areas and not improving it. As long as it is a private industry providing the service if the profit margin isn't high enough they will not increase the market.
The sad thing is I only live 30 minutes from two of the biggest cities in the state and an hour from the third. If this service means I'm restricted to checking my email and low bandwidth "G" rated sites I'd be ecstatic. It is not like providing this service for free would prevent anyone from staying with their paid service. I'm already living with FCC restrictions since I only view free antenna based tv and I'm happy with it. Instead of paying for nothing being on with 300 stations there is nothing on with 12 for free.
I also think the link to the PDF from CTIA showing "free" internet failures a bit slanted. Yes the free dial-ups failed, but having used Netzero I dumped it because Dial-up is painful enough. Add all the ads on top of it and it was pretty much unusable. The point of their service wasn't to provide you with free internet, but to annoy you enough that you'd shell out more money for the next level of service.
One of the quotes from the article:
Tim Wu in describing why municipal wireless networks have been "such a flop" came to this conclusion: "The result . . . has been telecom's Bay of Pigs--a project the government wanted to happen but left to underqualified private parties to deliver. Firms like Earthlink promised too much, and the cities have stood by and watched as the firms trying to build Wi-Fi systems have twisted and died on the beachhead."
So the flop wasn't due to the service not being wanted or used, but because the cities chose bad providers. This is sort of the best argument for & against a government provided internet. It only failed in the past because the companies did a bad job picking their vendor. If they did a good job it might succeed. Of course then we have to have faith that they would choose a vendor not just because they had the (unrealistic) low bid or because they gave the best bribes.
I doubt my purchases matter much in the grand scheme of things but I'm going to vote with my wallet anyway.
I do the same thing. I haven't purchased a non-indie cd in over 5 years Between RIAA Radar and CD Baby I'm always able to find new music. I like to think that all the revenue that the RIAA is claiming it lost due to thieves is actually from people like us voting with our wallet.
The trick is getting them to behave when you aren't standing there with a spray bottle or employing a fleece containment unit.
Now I'm wondering if that video I've been seeing all over the place of the cat riding the roomba is actually the alpha test of Darpa's Neural Network Project. I for one welcome our feline skynet... I mean overlords.
Ok you guys got me all paranoid. I want my browser to be as secure as possible. I went out and bought a family pack of condoms and I have one on each finger and thumb. Do I need to put the condoms on anywhere else?
Technically the legalese stated you could only run it on Apple-branded computers.
I would love to see a company get into this and argue the definition of Apple Branded as opposed to the legality of the EULA. If you buy a bunch of cases of old mac's that died and put your own hardware in them does that count as Apple branded. Or even better if you went to http://missingbite.com/ and purchased official Apple stickers and slapped them on the box would that count as branded.
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I would guess so. I'm guessing that is why they've been vetting their videos. First they got rid of everything sexually explicit and now they are getting rid of things that are graphic. Probably because they don't want to piss off their advertisers. One of my favorite former youtube videos was of a guy who had wrapped tinfoil around his male parts and stuck it into an electric socket. No naughty bits showed (less than what you can see in a PG-13 movie) but they've pulled it from the site.
Though I think I would laugh so hard I'd wet myself if the tinfoil video was followed by a Reynold commercial.
That's what I'm guessing too. I know digital is supposed to be all or nothing, but I wonder if the line they put CC in is more likely to get garbled or delayed over long distances. My closest station is probably 40-50 miles away. I'd be really interested if it works correctly for people who live closer to the towers.
The only time I've ever had the problem with Analog CC running behind is for live shows. Every once in a while if the weather was bad the CC would be garbled, but it never ran behind and was almost always readable on standard programming.
I have a hard of hearing person in my household so we've been watching programming with CC on for 10+ years. NBC & FOX seem the worst for running behind, it can get as bad as 15 seconds. PBS, ABC, & CBS tend to be garbled beyond recognition. I switch to analog and the CC works perfectly (at least for a few more weeks). These are all pre-captioned shows and I can still do a side by side comparison.
Geez you must be my neighbor. Hi Neigbor! I concur though stations that were a bit grainy on analog are completely gone on digital. Also Closed Caption doesn't seem to work right on DTV (both direct to the tv or w/ the box). It always runs 15 seconds behind the actual dialog or is to garbled to read.
Just so I have your right... If someone should happen to slip your IP to the RIAA that could possibly cause the RIAA's tyranny? That is huge incentive for someone to sneak a peak in /.'s access logs.
Yeah I heard you can only use it during the day. Of course that means it is pretty much useless in areas that get dark at 5pm in the winter. Though it could be a great tie in for the Zork browser MMO. If you don't get your character someplace safe before night when your internet cuts out you end up getting eaten by a grue.
Michigan had an anti-profanity passed in 1897. It outlawed cursing in front of woment or children. In 1989 a canoeist was charged with violating the law after hitting a rock with his canoe and releasing a stream of profanities in front of a family.
He was actually found guilty the first time around. The court of appeals though threw out his case and the law. Here though if he had been convicted it would only have been a $75 fine and community service.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15992
Wow thanks for making me realize how much I miss BC aspirin powder :P
I can't find the stuff in stores any longer. Now I need to find it online and order some. For me this stuff was one of the best ways to get rid of headaches. It was a decent mix of caffeine (only 33 mg) & aspirin. You could rub it into your gums to help "jump start" the relief. I'm guessing you could also snort it, but I was never brave enough.
Exactly! 1/2 days make no sense if you have a long commute or live in an area that has a lot of traffic. I would also prefer to work 4/10 than the 9/80. Having a 3 day weekend every week is blissful.
Especially when you live in a cold climate. During the winter it is getting dark at 5:00 so what does it matter if you leave at 5 or 7. In the summer it does suck to lose the long evenings, but the three day weekend makes up for it.
But you can't stop one of the great old ones
See that is where you are wrong. While it is difficult to beat Cthulhu, it is possible. The group you are playing with just has to be good at working together. Though I prefer to win by closing & sealing all the gates before Cthulhu awakes.
For those of you looking for a great co-op board game check out Arkham Horror http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_Horror
I would guess that it is because alcohol in moderation may be beneficial to your health. Especially if you drink red wine, a glass or two a day isn't considered detrimental to your health.
The AHA doesn't recommend taking up drinking if you don't already do it, but if you do a drink a day isn't bad for you.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4422
On the other hand cigarette smoke in any quantity is considered unhealthy.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3038016
Of course you may be right and the booze companies just have better lobbyists.
I'd be interested in seeing if anyone had done a cost analysis of switching to Linux vs. IT & OS cost to move to Vista or Windows 7. I would guess it would be very similar. If they are currently running XP and looking at upgrading they may have reached the point you mention, where moving to Linux costs the same as Microsoft's super-deal.
I'm using a converter box with my VCR and it works without any problems (other than not being able to change stations).
I have coax from the antenna coming straight into the converter box, then coax from the converter box to the VCR, and then RCA from the vcr to the tv. It is a fairly new VCR (3 years), but I don't have any problems with signal quality.
From what you are describing I'm guessing you've got a bad fitting on one of the coax jumpers. This is really common with the screw on fittings. Try replacing the cabling and see if it improves.
There is one other way that DTV is inferior. Close captioning just doesn't work. It could be because I'm pulling signals from about 90 miles away, but the audio quality and the picture quality is perfect. My tv has a digital tuner and I have a dtv converter box and with both the signal looks great, but depending on the station the CC is either garbled beyond recognition or runs 25 seconds behind the programing.
My credit card company does something similar. They give virtual numbers. You generate the number via an app or the web. They are usually one use, but you can set it for intervals also. You can even decide how much can be spent on it. If the site isn't legit or they let the number get stolen no biggy. Generally I have it expire in a month and be only good for the exact amount I need.
I know Citibank and Bank of America provide this service, but not on every card they offer. I guess it would be more like a one time pad than a Root CA, but effective.
Generally though if their are shenanigans on your card I believe the credit card company tries to stick the vendor that approved the purchase. Which is why business tend to check ID's and handwriting more during the high theft season of Christmas.
I agree good fruitcake is moist, soft and delicious. The bakery I get mine from soaks the fruit in Brandy a long time before they bake the cake.
I agree that it would be very easy for kids to get a very unhealthy view of sex, but in some ways I guess I sort of would. Growing up we got 0 sex ed. It was amazing the things we learned from other kids like:
You can't get pregnant if you have sex in water
You won't get pregnant if you douche with coke (the soda) after the event.
This list goes on and on and I know a bunch of my classmates took these tidbits as the truth. If the kids could google "Can you get pregnant from having sex in the water?" They'd have the answer right away and maybe save themselves from a teen pregnancy without feeling stupid. From what I've heard sex ed is worse now than it was when I was a kid. I can't even imagine how that is possible.
Here are a couple cheap and easy ways to get rid of forest for farmland.
If it is old growth call a company that wants to harvest it for lumber. Make it a requirement that they remove the stumps. Depending on the economy with that requirement at worst you'll pay nothing for them to take the trees. If wood is at a premium or if you have really nice growth or hardwoods you'll make a profit. Not every lumber company would be willing to make that deal but some are. Especially the guys who cut it into boards on site.
If the trees are junk fast growth trees you slash and burn. Cheap & easy. I don't live in a dry state so in my area you don't even need to get a permit for this. You just call and leave a message on the machine of the local volunteer fired department. Girdle the trees in late summer/fall and burn in the spring and you are ready for early planting. You probably won't even need to fertilize the first couple of years.
As for stones and boulders if you farm in a "glacier state" you are already used to growing boulders and rocks and it is just part of life. You take your rock picker or rock rake you and clear them. Heck you can even sell the rocks to landscapers or the public.
I'll agree though that farming and ranching isn't what is the biggest threat to the forests. According to US Forest Services the biggest threat to the forests (at least in 2005 when it was written) is urban development. U.S. Department of Agriculture "Forests on the Edge - Housing Development on America's Private Forests" (2005) http://www.fs.fed.us/projects/fote/reports/fote-6-9-05.pdf An interesting side note and more applicable to question of paper use, it looks like the Forest Service is researching urban tree utilization for wood and paper products.
I'd be willing to take that sacrifice. I live in the boonies and my only option is dial-up. There are too many trees for dish & no wimax in the area. DSL & Cable companies aren't doing anything to provide internet out here. I can't even get cell service for phone let alone wireless internet.
They claim in the CTIA pdf they expect it to be better in 10 years. It won't. When I first moved to my area there was actually very good cell coverage. When one of the big mergers happened the new bigger company decided to save money and shut down a bunch of towers. Now many of the areas that used to have coverage are spotty. The companies are reducing their coverage in low profit areas and not improving it. As long as it is a private industry providing the service if the profit margin isn't high enough they will not increase the market.
The sad thing is I only live 30 minutes from two of the biggest cities in the state and an hour from the third. If this service means I'm restricted to checking my email and low bandwidth "G" rated sites I'd be ecstatic. It is not like providing this service for free would prevent anyone from staying with their paid service. I'm already living with FCC restrictions since I only view free antenna based tv and I'm happy with it. Instead of paying for nothing being on with 300 stations there is nothing on with 12 for free.
I also think the link to the PDF from CTIA showing "free" internet failures a bit slanted. Yes the free dial-ups failed, but having used Netzero I dumped it because Dial-up is painful enough. Add all the ads on top of it and it was pretty much unusable. The point of their service wasn't to provide you with free internet, but to annoy you enough that you'd shell out more money for the next level of service.
One of the quotes from the article:
Tim Wu in describing why municipal wireless networks have been "such a flop" came to
this conclusion: "The result . . . has been telecom's Bay of Pigs--a project the government
wanted to happen but left to underqualified private parties to deliver. Firms like Earthlink
promised too much, and the cities have stood by and watched as the firms trying to build Wi-Fi
systems have twisted and died on the beachhead."
So the flop wasn't due to the service not being wanted or used, but because the cities chose bad providers. This is sort of the best argument for & against a government provided internet. It only failed in the past because the companies did a bad job picking their vendor. If they did a good job it might succeed. Of course then we have to have faith that they would choose a vendor not just because they had the (unrealistic) low bid or because they gave the best bribes.
Ok I think this message was meant for me and it is freaking me out.
orthogonal - I'm sitting right now so my upper body is at right angles to my lower body
terwilliger - OMFG that's my last name
accordion - I can play the accordion (albeit badly, but really doesn't everybody?)
Must find tinfoil hat, must watch out for white helicopters, must avoid ninja's at all cost.
I doubt my purchases matter much in the grand scheme of things but I'm going to vote with my wallet anyway.
I do the same thing. I haven't purchased a non-indie cd in over 5 years Between RIAA Radar and CD Baby I'm always able to find new music. I like to think that all the revenue that the RIAA is claiming it lost due to thieves is actually from people like us voting with our wallet.
The trick is getting them to behave when you aren't standing there with a spray bottle or employing a fleece containment unit.
Now I'm wondering if that video I've been seeing all over the place of the cat riding the roomba is actually the alpha test of Darpa's Neural Network Project. I for one welcome our feline skynet... I mean overlords.
Ok you guys got me all paranoid. I want my browser to be as secure as possible. I went out and bought a family pack of condoms and I have one on each finger and thumb. Do I need to put the condoms on anywhere else?
That is a good point. I wasn't thinking of the branding in that way.
Technically the legalese stated you could only run it on Apple-branded computers.
I would love to see a company get into this and argue the definition of Apple Branded as opposed to the legality of the EULA. If you buy a bunch of cases of old mac's that died and put your own hardware in them does that count as Apple branded. Or even better if you went to http://missingbite.com/ and purchased official Apple stickers and slapped them on the box would that count as branded.
That's the lawsuit I'd like to see.