Buy them something that comes with phone support. Seriously.
Sure, the support contract may be somewhat expensive, but it's a lot easier when you don't have to worry about support yourself.
Buy them an iMac and get them AppleCare support for 3 years for 169 USD Buy them a Dell Inspiron One and get 3 Year Enhanced Support for 149 (I can't find a direct link to a description) Buy them an HP Envy and get an HP 3 year Care Pack149 USD
Or some other company - it doesn't matter. What matters is that they can bother someone other than you about these things.
It boils down to something like 50 dollars a year for ease of mind - both for you and them. Sure, it's easy to call you, but they also worry that they're disturbing you. Much easier to pay someone else to do it.
It sounds callous and harsh, but honestly, having worked in phone support for two of the companies, I can tell you, that once you explain to these people that instead of having to worry about bothering their friends or family, they can simply call us and not have to worry about bothering anybody, you can almost always hear a a load being removed from their shoulders.
Yes, we like being able to draw on help from friends and family, but we also don't want to come off as needy and helpless.
Well, considering that the Pirate Bay's own blog talks about Pyongyang and that "We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information. It's a country opening up".
Now, while I'm not an expert in Asian politics, I don't think that Pyongyang is in South Korea, nor do i believe that the quote is an apt description of it.
I'm normally not keen on the government telling us how to live our lives, but having mandatory liability coverage is a no-brainer for the vast majority of poor and middle-class citizens who simply can't be assumed to be responsible enough to have a personal insurance savings plan, and can't afford a huge payout if they do cause an accident
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First of all - fuck you. Secondly - fuck you some more.
If you're poor, how the fuck are you supposed to put money aside for a personal insurance savings plan? Especially in the US, where people are likely to get sued for anything and the cost of any kind of medical assistance is likely to be ruinous if not for insurance.
Seriously - you even pointed it out yourself, right after you made your quite frankly extremely insulting comment!can't be assumed to be responsible
As for #1, there are people out there (losers like myself), who wouldn't mind doing copyediting for scientific papers.
Granted, I've only done it a few times, but even when the subject has been way outside of my field of knowledge, I still find it quite interesting to read the papers. Plus, if you're doing copyediting, you're inevitably going to be talking with the author when there are bigger issues.
And as for layout, I'm sure there are people with expertise in those fields as well.
One thing that the cartoon effect in Borderlands (both) does, for me at least, is make the suspension of disbelief much easier.
Sure, it takes you maybe a few minutes in the beginning to get there, but once you're there, you're not yanked out of it, because something sticks out like a sore thumb.
Take Diablo III as an example. Blizzard went out of their way to make some amazing looking cinematics for their cut scenes. But that rips you out of your story and then pushes you back into the usual graphics again afterwards.
Compare that to Borderlands, where the cut scenes are, at most, rendered at a better quality than your regular settings.
Also, there's a lot to be said about interacting with the world's deadliest 13-year-old, when the character manages to be both adorable, funny and really scary at the same time.
Is there a better way to figure out who should pay for the upkeep and extensions of the roads, that by usage? If you drive 200 miles a day on the roads and your neighbour drives 200 miles a year, should he pay as much as you (a non-zero amount of course)? Isn't that [boogie man voice]socialism[/boogie man voice]?
Unless we either switch entirely to toll roads for everything or let the current infrastructure decay completely, the government needs to get funding for those upkeeps and extensions.
Or were you under the impression that the roads were made by the Asphalt and Concrete Fairies?
1a) Don't look like you might be a terrorist 1b) Don't look like the stereotypical terrorist 1c) Don't look like 1a or 1b in blurry pictures 1d) Don't look like you might be a Muslim 1e) Don't live in countries that contain people who fit 1, 1a or 1b
My point was that everybody commits crimes, no matter their social and economic status, and that singling out poor people isn't constructive in any way.
In that case why bring it up? Or why not simply say "the more people there are, the more crimes they'll commit" instead of stigmatizing a massive amount of people?
If you were to catalogue every single crime committed in the span of a year, I'm pretty sure the only ones who haven't committed a crime in some way are people who've been in a coma the entire time, and probably not even all of those.
And then actively interfering with their ability to surveil by using maybe high powered IR lasers, carefully aimed microwave transmitters, or similar aimed at them.
And in the same segment they compared a Toyota Prius to a BMW M3, with the Prius hitting 17.2 MPG (rated at 48/45) and the M3 getting 19.4 MPG (rated at 14/20).
Amazingly Clarkson actually has sound advice in the end. It's now what you drive, it's how you drive it.
But the offending part of that particular bit wasn't fact. It was fiction and nothing more. Presented by a supposed expert. THAT is the problem.
I don't find it troublesome that they argue against solar energy (or at least subsidies for it) - as you said, all news organizations present their own views. But presenting a guest as an expert on a subject matter, and then having that expert say something that is factually incorrect - and not even a little bit, mind you - THAT should be completely unacceptable, no matter what your political opinions are.
And while Fox News Channel has laid the ground work in getting the courts to declare that the media can lie, it is still really, REALLY bad form to present something like this as "facts".
But here's a tricky question - why are the media allowed to lie, when movies and tv shows have to go out of their way to emphasise that they are fiction? Seriously - there's a disclaimer at the end of Lord of the Fucking Rings!
She specifically claims that Germany "gets more sun than us" then goes on and seemingly clarifies a bit, that "us" means east coast.
So let's stick with that for a moment. Let's pick New York state, because in all likelihood that's where the studio is, and compare climate to Germany.
It's a bit tricker than I'd like, because New York is listed in days and %sunshine, and Germany is listed in hours, but in the state overview for the US, Syracuse is listed at 2,120 hours.
So, Syracuse has the third lowest number of sunshine days, and the lowest percentage of sunshine of the listed cities in New York, but it still has 14% more sunshine hours than Zugspitze, which is the one with the highest number of sunshine hours in Germany.
Remind me again, how she's right about Germany being sunnier?
And let's not forget that one of the northernmost towns in New York is Champlain, located at 44;57N, whereas one of the southernmost towns in Germany is Oberstdorf, located at 47;25N. Or for the layman amongst us, Oberstdorf is located 274 km further North than Champlain.
This will obviously have an impact on the amount of energy you can extract from the sun, and wouldn't you know it - that's exactly what the lovely chart from the NREL shows as well.
But maybe I misunderstood her completely. Maybe she was referring to some other east cost - the east cost of Alaska doesn't exactly seem to be a sunshine state.
As someone else said earlier, for an expert she certainly seems ignorant. I'm not whoring myself out as an expert on the subject, and I could tear her argument to shreds with less than five minutes of fact checking. The only thing she seems to be an expert on, is telling the hosts what they want to hear.
Whether or not you like the idea of subsidising solar energy, I'd think you'd like to have the facts straight. Facts aren't political, unless you believe that reality has a liberal bias.
This is the problem in general. Not that it's on Fox News Channel, but that the hosts aren't interested in presenting the truth, but simply what supports their (or their employer's) views. This happens all the time, but we pick on Fox News a lot more, because they are so horribly bad at lying.
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Buy them something that comes with phone support. Seriously.
Sure, the support contract may be somewhat expensive, but it's a lot easier when you don't have to worry about support yourself.
Buy them an iMac and get them AppleCare support for 3 years for 169 USD
Buy them a Dell Inspiron One and get 3 Year Enhanced Support for 149 (I can't find a direct link to a description)
Buy them an HP Envy and get an HP 3 year Care Pack149 USD
Or some other company - it doesn't matter. What matters is that they can bother someone other than you about these things.
It boils down to something like 50 dollars a year for ease of mind - both for you and them. Sure, it's easy to call you, but they also worry that they're disturbing you. Much easier to pay someone else to do it.
It sounds callous and harsh, but honestly, having worked in phone support for two of the companies, I can tell you, that once you explain to these people that instead of having to worry about bothering their friends or family, they can simply call us and not have to worry about bothering anybody, you can almost always hear a a load being removed from their shoulders.
Yes, we like being able to draw on help from friends and family, but we also don't want to come off as needy and helpless.
What makes you think this is a first world issue? "We" only make up about 1/7th of the world's population.
I realize that this may come as a shock to you, but the world is bigger than you seem to think.
Well, considering that the Pirate Bay's own blog talks about Pyongyang and that "We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information. It's a country opening up".
Now, while I'm not an expert in Asian politics, I don't think that Pyongyang is in South Korea, nor do i believe that the quote is an apt description of it.
While I agree with the sentiment, it does raise questions about "greatest country in the world", "land of the free", "bastion of freedom" etc.
Or to put it another way - judge countries/people/companies/stuff by their actual merits rather than their PR.
The really silly thing is that the Library of Congress gets to decide the legality of cell phone unlocking.
Yes, I know, it's because of the travesty that is DMCA, but that doesn't make it any less silly.
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First of all - fuck you.
Secondly - fuck you some more.
If you're poor, how the fuck are you supposed to put money aside for a personal insurance savings plan? Especially in the US, where people are likely to get sued for anything and the cost of any kind of medical assistance is likely to be ruinous if not for insurance.
Seriously - you even pointed it out yourself, right after you made your quite frankly extremely insulting comment!can't be assumed to be responsible
As for #1, there are people out there (losers like myself), who wouldn't mind doing copyediting for scientific papers.
Granted, I've only done it a few times, but even when the subject has been way outside of my field of knowledge, I still find it quite interesting to read the papers. Plus, if you're doing copyediting, you're inevitably going to be talking with the author when there are bigger issues.
And as for layout, I'm sure there are people with expertise in those fields as well.
If it's free and open, why can't you simply submit to multiple journals?
One thing that the cartoon effect in Borderlands (both) does, for me at least, is make the suspension of disbelief much easier.
Sure, it takes you maybe a few minutes in the beginning to get there, but once you're there, you're not yanked out of it, because something sticks out like a sore thumb.
Take Diablo III as an example. Blizzard went out of their way to make some amazing looking cinematics for their cut scenes. But that rips you out of your story and then pushes you back into the usual graphics again afterwards.
Compare that to Borderlands, where the cut scenes are, at most, rendered at a better quality than your regular settings.
Also, there's a lot to be said about interacting with the world's deadliest 13-year-old, when the character manages to be both adorable, funny and really scary at the same time.
The demo linked in that video is quite impressive, and even more so is the performance - it never dipped below 170 fps while rendering at 1080p
Me.
I find Katie Price/Jordan and others who go for that particular look quite unattractive.
The deposit should be sent to the actual owner of the copyright - not YouTube.
Is there a better way to figure out who should pay for the upkeep and extensions of the roads, that by usage? If you drive 200 miles a day on the roads and your neighbour drives 200 miles a year, should he pay as much as you (a non-zero amount of course)? Isn't that [boogie man voice]socialism[/boogie man voice]?
Unless we either switch entirely to toll roads for everything or let the current infrastructure decay completely, the government needs to get funding for those upkeeps and extensions.
Or were you under the impression that the roads were made by the Asphalt and Concrete Fairies?
1a) Don't look like you might be a terrorist
1b) Don't look like the stereotypical terrorist
1c) Don't look like 1a or 1b in blurry pictures
1d) Don't look like you might be a Muslim
1e) Don't live in countries that contain people who fit 1, 1a or 1b
My point was that everybody commits crimes, no matter their social and economic status, and that singling out poor people isn't constructive in any way.
In that case why bring it up? Or why not simply say "the more people there are, the more crimes they'll commit" instead of stigmatizing a massive amount of people?
If you were to catalogue every single crime committed in the span of a year, I'm pretty sure the only ones who haven't committed a crime in some way are people who've been in a coma the entire time, and probably not even all of those.
Are you sure you don't mean "commit more obvious crimes"? Or did you mean quantity rather than per capita?
How many have considered purposefully interfering with surveillance drones?
Since Britain is considering turning off active airport radar, and using TV signals, one would think that hobbyists could do similar things to track surveillance drones.
And then actively interfering with their ability to surveil by using maybe high powered IR lasers, carefully aimed microwave transmitters, or similar aimed at them.
They have similar issues with all cars. They did a nice test of five supercars. The results:
#5: Ferrari 599 - 1.7 MPG, rated at 11/15; and as James May pointed out, that works out to GBP 3.20/mile.
#4: Aston Martin DB9, rated at 11/17
#3: Mercedes McLaren SLR, rated at 12/16
#2: Lamborghini Murcielago - 4.1 MPG, rated at 8/13
#1: Audi R8 - 5 MPG, rated at 12/19.
And in the same segment they compared a Toyota Prius to a BMW M3, with the Prius hitting 17.2 MPG (rated at 48/45) and the M3 getting 19.4 MPG (rated at 14/20).
Amazingly Clarkson actually has sound advice in the end. It's now what you drive, it's how you drive it.
So ... in your fantasy country of the United States of No Taxes at All, your politicians get no salary at all?
But the offending part of that particular bit wasn't fact. It was fiction and nothing more. Presented by a supposed expert. THAT is the problem.
I don't find it troublesome that they argue against solar energy (or at least subsidies for it) - as you said, all news organizations present their own views. But presenting a guest as an expert on a subject matter, and then having that expert say something that is factually incorrect - and not even a little bit, mind you - THAT should be completely unacceptable, no matter what your political opinions are.
And while Fox News Channel has laid the ground work in getting the courts to declare that the media can lie, it is still really, REALLY bad form to present something like this as "facts".
But here's a tricky question - why are the media allowed to lie, when movies and tv shows have to go out of their way to emphasise that they are fiction? Seriously - there's a disclaimer at the end of Lord of the Fucking Rings!
Did we watch the same video?
She specifically claims that Germany "gets more sun than us" then goes on and seemingly clarifies a bit, that "us" means east coast.
So let's stick with that for a moment. Let's pick New York state, because in all likelihood that's where the studio is, and compare climate to Germany.
It's a bit tricker than I'd like, because New York is listed in days and %sunshine, and Germany is listed in hours, but in the state overview for the US, Syracuse is listed at 2,120 hours.
So, Syracuse has the third lowest number of sunshine days, and the lowest percentage of sunshine of the listed cities in New York, but it still has 14% more sunshine hours than Zugspitze, which is the one with the highest number of sunshine hours in Germany.
Remind me again, how she's right about Germany being sunnier?
And let's not forget that one of the northernmost towns in New York is Champlain, located at 44;57N, whereas one of the southernmost towns in Germany is Oberstdorf, located at 47;25N. Or for the layman amongst us, Oberstdorf is located 274 km further North than Champlain.
This will obviously have an impact on the amount of energy you can extract from the sun, and wouldn't you know it - that's exactly what the lovely chart from the NREL shows as well.
But maybe I misunderstood her completely. Maybe she was referring to some other east cost - the east cost of Alaska doesn't exactly seem to be a sunshine state.
As someone else said earlier, for an expert she certainly seems ignorant. I'm not whoring myself out as an expert on the subject, and I could tear her argument to shreds with less than five minutes of fact checking. The only thing she seems to be an expert on, is telling the hosts what they want to hear.
Whether or not you like the idea of subsidising solar energy, I'd think you'd like to have the facts straight. Facts aren't political, unless you believe that reality has a liberal bias.
This is the problem in general. Not that it's on Fox News Channel, but that the hosts aren't interested in presenting the truth, but simply what supports their (or their employer's) views. This happens all the time, but we pick on Fox News a lot more, because they are so horribly bad at lying.
Let's see. 500 million dollars, divide by 300 million people - so less than two bucks.
Call me a big old softy if you will, but I doubt they'll be sending a SWAT team to your door.
It's tempting to think they tested it in Bergen
Why is it called Frodo? Has XBMC had it's red ring destroyed?