Perhaps so. In fact, probably so. Doesn't mean some very strong spotlights shouldn't be pointed in that direction. What he did/is/ despicable and it should make all us Freedom/Democracy Lovers very, very nervous.
Small nitpick here: Dodd is not an elected official anymore. So he doesn't have a congressional district. He USED to be, and when he was he fought very hard for the MPAA... and now he has a very well-paying job with them. Shocking, I know.
I've been watching season 4 of Chuck and just saw this episode. We have nothing to worry about, the CIA will have no problem recovering the bullets. Also the female CIA agent will develop a severe clothing allergy half-way through.
I was wondering about that. I 'knew' Brazil has switched to 100% ethanol and was wondering how they got all the cars adjusted to that. Turns out they didn't? (:
I've been leasing my cars lately (mostly because I don't believe hybrid tech is all there yet, and I'm hoping all-electric will come out 'soon'), so technically I don't really care how much the engine gets wrecked. But still...
Trust me, I've dealt with a lot of car sales people. This guy was a shark, plain and simple. He did NOT have my best interests in mind, only his commission.
Yeah I know all that. The point here is they came up with E85 and they sell cars specifically designed for it, called Flex-Fuel vehicles. I know they're more expensive and I was willing to consider those because I wanted a more environmentally-friendly vehicle. I told a car sales-shark that price wasn't a concern. He should've started laughing maniacally, not trying to talk me into a cheaper car.
Now if their Flex-Fuel vehicles are not actually engineered to withstand using E85, that's just even MORE of a scam, isn't it.
I know this is conspiracy-theory territory, but I'm fairly convinced the car companies/oil companies created E85 and meant for it to fail miserably so that they could say "Hey look, we TRIED to make Alternative Energy cars but nobody wanted them!"
My "proof" of this is two-fold. First, there are hardly any... in fact I don't know that there was ONE 'regular' flex-fuel vehicle. I mean family sedan, compact, you know... CHEAP car for the Masses. The smallest cars I found were like Crown Victoria - BIG sedans that are usually made for fleets. I don't need or WANT a car that big. I eventually got a Honda Civic, I was looking for that form-factor car.
Second, and this is the big one. I was willing to consider SUVs so I looked around and there was a Jeep that was flex-fuel. I forget which one. But it was NOT their smallest SUV by far.
So I go to a Jeep dealer and am immediately attacked by a sales shark. I say "I'm interested in the Jeep Monstrosity" and he starts drooling because I just asked about a $40K car and says "Yeah, we have one right here." And then I go "I understand there's a flex-fuel option".
It is important to understand that the flex-fuel version of the Jeep Monstrosity costs a lot MORE than the non-flex-fuel. We're talking $47K instead of $40K.
This should make a sales-shark happy. VERY happy.
Instead, he ACTIVELY tries to talk me into the CHEAPER, non-flex-fuel model, by telling me all the things that are WRONG with E85. "Oh you know it costs more in the long run. It'll ruin the engine. E85 gets lower mileage. It's a lot more expensive."
Seriously. A cat sales-shark tried very hard to get me NOT TO BUY a MORE EXPENSIVE CAR because it could take E85. If that's not proof that SOMEthing is wrong, nothing is.
I went to Ireland on the off-season. For the first week I got caught in torrential downpours every SINGLE day. It was still better than sitting inside!
No offence, but if you think ANY cellphone camera is even CLOSE to being equal to a dSLR, you're using your dSLR wrong. I'd guessyou're using the kit lens and not shooting in RAW...
With all the, uh, street-cred up there, you mean to tell us you don't ALREADY have a Kindle Fire rooted and running the pre-alpha Ice Cream Sandwich????
I'd suggest that purely for size, a 7" tablet might be better for travelling. The Transformer is apparently a hell of a tablet though.
Now I'll share my personal experience from a 2-week trip to Ireland a few years ago. Sure tablets didn't exist way back in 2006 but here's my advice anyway.
SCREW THE TABLET. Get a REALLY NICE camera.
I did take my laptop (at the time a 12" Powerbook G4). It was used at night to download the hundreds of photos off the camera so I have space for photos the next day, and to do minor trip blogging. I did not find the time, opportunity, need or DESIRE to touch a computer during the day.
Comcast Business will set up reverse DNS for you to match your server names. I needed this for my mail server. I was actually VERY pleasantly surprised when I called tech support - I was all geared up to explain what reverse DNS means so they can kick me up to the supervisor who can maybe figure out who to talk to, but the guy who answered the phone knew exactly what I wanted and was able to set it up in UNDER A MINUTE.
I'm with you on this except I liked my flip-phones because of the small form-factor... and cause it knda looked like you were opening a communicator from ST:TOS (:
I did eventually switch to an Android phone a few years back and I am married to it now. Which I think is a 50/50 between "I'm embarrassed about it" and "THIS IS AWESOME".
I know this is silly but there are rotary dialler apps. And my ring-tone (even pre-smartphone) is a recording I made of an old Bell-style phone ringing (:
What I'm waiting for is the tiny device with the 'virtual' projected screen. Kinda like a hologram but 2-dimentional, just project the screen up in front of the device (or above, whatever). THAT'S going to be fun.
I think we'll have foldable tablets before that though. I'd LOVE to have my tablet's 10" screen with me at all times but hell if I'm lugging that thing around to the gym or to walk the dog or while I'm jogging etc etc.
I got into computers when I was fairly young... well, for the time. I was 13, and Way Back Then not everyone was born already having a computer or three in the house.
And even Way Back Then, one of the dreams, the truly grand dreams that we HOPED we'd ever see but didn't know if would happen in our lifetime, was a truly portable computer that fit in your pocket.
AND NOW I HAVE ONE. It's in my pocket right now. It runs Linux, I can ssh into (and out of) it, it is virtually ALWAYS CONNECTED to yet another of our dreams, the now-ubiquitous Internet, I can TELL IT to search for something and 90% of the time it'll get it right, I can check my email on it, and in rare circumstances, and I mean rare... I can use it to make and receive phone calls.
You know what you should do? STOP CALLING IT A "SMARTPHONE". It's a portable internet-connected computer that happens to be able to make phone calls, and it's AWESOME that something like this even friggin EXISTS. I can't WAIT to see what they look like in 5 years, let alone 10, but unless the thing requires brain surgery I'm sure as hell going to have one.
On the contrary. His point was that the people COMPLAINING failed to learn from history. He was being optimistic about it, yeah, but he did say it COULD happen.
That actually is kinda funny. If you were following Usenet/CompuServe at the time those seasons aired, especially the Night Watch ones, people were actually complaining that it's "unreasonable" and that "Stuff like that would never happen in AMERICA".
And JMS' responses to them were that these things all happened fairly recently (at the time they were references to the Red Scare and McCarthyism-era politics).
He also said that he knows it's not likely that it'll ever happen again because we're so vigilant and attached to our freedom now.
I have a programmable thermostat, but the thing is ancient and looks like a VCR from the '70s.
I just went out and got e replacement for it, in part because this one's not SUPER flexible, and in part to help myself not be tempted to get a $250 thermostat, no matter how pretty it is.
Eh. That's what the label the package says. Probably to help hipsters buy them. They're the ones I've found in fun-size packs that'd be ideal for trick-or-treaters.../don't know much about coffee either.
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Frankly I'm a bit more shocked at how much marshmallow fluff costs. Whatever the hell marshmallow fluff is...
Perhaps so. In fact, probably so. Doesn't mean some very strong spotlights shouldn't be pointed in that direction. What he did /is/ despicable and it should make all us Freedom/Democracy Lovers very, very nervous.
Small nitpick here: Dodd is not an elected official anymore. So he doesn't have a congressional district. He USED to be, and when he was he fought very hard for the MPAA... and now he has a very well-paying job with them. Shocking, I know.
So lets go ask specific law enforcement agencies.
I've been watching season 4 of Chuck and just saw this episode. We have nothing to worry about, the CIA will have no problem recovering the bullets. Also the female CIA agent will develop a severe clothing allergy half-way through.
I was wondering about that. I 'knew' Brazil has switched to 100% ethanol and was wondering how they got all the cars adjusted to that. Turns out they didn't? (:
I've been leasing my cars lately (mostly because I don't believe hybrid tech is all there yet, and I'm hoping all-electric will come out 'soon'), so technically I don't really care how much the engine gets wrecked. But still...
Trust me, I've dealt with a lot of car sales people. This guy was a shark, plain and simple. He did NOT have my best interests in mind, only his commission.
Yeah I know all that. The point here is they came up with E85 and they sell cars specifically designed for it, called Flex-Fuel vehicles. I know they're more expensive and I was willing to consider those because I wanted a more environmentally-friendly vehicle. I told a car sales-shark that price wasn't a concern. He should've started laughing maniacally, not trying to talk me into a cheaper car.
Now if their Flex-Fuel vehicles are not actually engineered to withstand using E85, that's just even MORE of a scam, isn't it.
So they engineered the cars to break down more?
I know this is conspiracy-theory territory, but I'm fairly convinced the car companies/oil companies created E85 and meant for it to fail miserably so that they could say "Hey look, we TRIED to make Alternative Energy cars but nobody wanted them!"
My "proof" of this is two-fold. First, there are hardly any... in fact I don't know that there was ONE 'regular' flex-fuel vehicle. I mean family sedan, compact, you know... CHEAP car for the Masses. The smallest cars I found were like Crown Victoria - BIG sedans that are usually made for fleets. I don't need or WANT a car that big. I eventually got a Honda Civic, I was looking for that form-factor car.
Second, and this is the big one. I was willing to consider SUVs so I looked around and there was a Jeep that was flex-fuel. I forget which one. But it was NOT their smallest SUV by far.
So I go to a Jeep dealer and am immediately attacked by a sales shark. I say "I'm interested in the Jeep Monstrosity" and he starts drooling because I just asked about a $40K car and says "Yeah, we have one right here." And then I go "I understand there's a flex-fuel option".
It is important to understand that the flex-fuel version of the Jeep Monstrosity costs a lot MORE than the non-flex-fuel. We're talking $47K instead of $40K.
This should make a sales-shark happy. VERY happy.
Instead, he ACTIVELY tries to talk me into the CHEAPER, non-flex-fuel model, by telling me all the things that are WRONG with E85. "Oh you know it costs more in the long run. It'll ruin the engine. E85 gets lower mileage. It's a lot more expensive."
Seriously. A cat sales-shark tried very hard to get me NOT TO BUY a MORE EXPENSIVE CAR because it could take E85. If that's not proof that SOMEthing is wrong, nothing is.
I went to Ireland on the off-season. For the first week I got caught in torrential downpours every SINGLE day. It was still better than sitting inside!
No offence, but if you think ANY cellphone camera is even CLOSE to being equal to a dSLR, you're using your dSLR wrong. I'd guessyou're using the kit lens and not shooting in RAW...
With all the, uh, street-cred up there, you mean to tell us you don't ALREADY have a Kindle Fire rooted and running the pre-alpha Ice Cream Sandwich????
I'd suggest that purely for size, a 7" tablet might be better for travelling. The Transformer is apparently a hell of a tablet though.
Now I'll share my personal experience from a 2-week trip to Ireland a few years ago. Sure tablets didn't exist way back in 2006 but here's my advice anyway.
SCREW THE TABLET. Get a REALLY NICE camera.
I did take my laptop (at the time a 12" Powerbook G4). It was used at night to download the hundreds of photos off the camera so I have space for photos the next day, and to do minor trip blogging. I did not find the time, opportunity, need or DESIRE to touch a computer during the day.
Comcast Business will set up reverse DNS for you to match your server names. I needed this for my mail server. I was actually VERY pleasantly surprised when I called tech support - I was all geared up to explain what reverse DNS means so they can kick me up to the supervisor who can maybe figure out who to talk to, but the guy who answered the phone knew exactly what I wanted and was able to set it up in UNDER A MINUTE.
Exactly. Comcast Business will let you run whatever the hell you want.
It's not like I've replaced my OTHER computers with the smart"phone". The heavy stuff still happens on the desktop and laptops.
I'm with you on this except I liked my flip-phones because of the small form-factor... and cause it knda looked like you were opening a communicator from ST:TOS (:
I did eventually switch to an Android phone a few years back and I am married to it now. Which I think is a 50/50 between "I'm embarrassed about it" and "THIS IS AWESOME".
I know this is silly but there are rotary dialler apps. And my ring-tone (even pre-smartphone) is a recording I made of an old Bell-style phone ringing (:
What I'm waiting for is the tiny device with the 'virtual' projected screen. Kinda like a hologram but 2-dimentional, just project the screen up in front of the device (or above, whatever). THAT'S going to be fun.
I think we'll have foldable tablets before that though. I'd LOVE to have my tablet's 10" screen with me at all times but hell if I'm lugging that thing around to the gym or to walk the dog or while I'm jogging etc etc.
I got into computers when I was fairly young... well, for the time. I was 13, and Way Back Then not everyone was born already having a computer or three in the house.
And even Way Back Then, one of the dreams, the truly grand dreams that we HOPED we'd ever see but didn't know if would happen in our lifetime, was a truly portable computer that fit in your pocket.
AND NOW I HAVE ONE. It's in my pocket right now. It runs Linux, I can ssh into (and out of) it, it is virtually ALWAYS CONNECTED to yet another of our dreams, the now-ubiquitous Internet, I can TELL IT to search for something and 90% of the time it'll get it right, I can check my email on it, and in rare circumstances, and I mean rare... I can use it to make and receive phone calls.
You know what you should do? STOP CALLING IT A "SMARTPHONE". It's a portable internet-connected computer that happens to be able to make phone calls, and it's AWESOME that something like this even friggin EXISTS. I can't WAIT to see what they look like in 5 years, let alone 10, but unless the thing requires brain surgery I'm sure as hell going to have one.
> The opposite of Progress is Congress.
Actually, the opposite of Progress is Regress.
On the contrary. His point was that the people COMPLAINING failed to learn from history. He was being optimistic about it, yeah, but he did say it COULD happen.
That actually is kinda funny. If you were following Usenet/CompuServe at the time those seasons aired, especially the Night Watch ones, people were actually complaining that it's "unreasonable" and that "Stuff like that would never happen in AMERICA".
And JMS' responses to them were that these things all happened fairly recently (at the time they were references to the Red Scare and McCarthyism-era politics).
He also said that he knows it's not likely that it'll ever happen again because we're so vigilant and attached to our freedom now.
I misread that as "Death By A Thousand Cats".
Which would be a lot more fun to watch.
Also thought it was a Babylon 5 reference
You don't need an electronic device to hit yourself over the head with a hammer.
I have a programmable thermostat, but the thing is ancient and looks like a VCR from the '70s.
I just went out and got e replacement for it, in part because this one's not SUPER flexible, and in part to help myself not be tempted to get a $250 thermostat, no matter how pretty it is.
Eh. That's what the label the package says. Probably to help hipsters buy them. They're the ones I've found in fun-size packs that'd be ideal for trick-or-treaters... /don't know much about coffee either.