I got plenty of spam during the month, because of the previous owner of the number.
SMS is not cheaper for me either - I use the Gmail application on my cell, the unlimited data plan is $10 and I use it for mostly tethering anyway. I have no free messages.
All I miss from email killing SMS forever is others with the capability and a notifier on my mobile whenever an email arrives.
It kills healthy people, more of them thus far than ill people. And it's rather obvious why it hasn't killed much people in the last 30 years - if you don't get that, get the hell outta my Slashdot and your ass into Biology 101.
It's not yet confirmed it's cytokine storm precisely - but it's certainly a possibility on the table.
Read something once in a while instead of spouting bullshit that goes against every report, every previous data set and every single bit of science we have about this.
I already use FLAC and expensive headphones / sound card.
And I could always use more quality. Indistinguishable from the source media, perhaps, but compared to studio masters on good studio equipment, this is nothing.
Maybe you're just getting old and your senses are dulling badly. You got the damn "get off my lawn" attitude down pat already, so good work there. Enjoy old age, I'll be young and capable of appreciating technological advances for a while still.
Exactly why your suggested economic model would either end up in bloody chaos or tyranny.
The people who lose everything in a dumbass model like that will not receive help but scorn - at the very least, not help in a scale large enough - and will turn violent, unless superior force is used to subdue them, turning the society into tyranny.
So why have a concept of money in this magical fairyland of yours at all?
Jesus Christ, it's like the Communist movement, except they advocate private property instead of public property - with all the same fervor and sheer stupidity.
But the fact is that supporting the disabled and the infrastructure does take a lot more than 50% of everyone's income - the main reason for this are inefficiencies in government structure and rampant idolization of capitalism.
"FREE MARKET FREE MARKET FREE MARKET" ends in tears just as certainly as giving all power and money to a small group and expecting them to wield it for the people's gain as opposed to their own.
Welcome to the world. Somehow, not everyone is healthy and rich, and even fewer stay that way.
And society has to support the weaker ones, lest they fall into tyranny or chaos.
Therefore most of what you earn is taxed so that the chance of you randomly dying to a rampage by a man or a woman with nothing to lose is significantly reduced.
I wonder why having/. by your name seems to be a guarantee you understand nothing about economics or societal stability.
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Two party system. The amount of difference your vote makes?
You decide which excuse they use to expand government power.
The best trolls are two thirds truth and one part utter nonsense.
Y'see, it's okay when we do it, but requiring of disproportionate response when they do it.
However, only in English.
You try something like predictive text in Finnish and you end up with something retarded.
I opened a new account with a recycled number.
I got plenty of spam during the month, because of the previous owner of the number.
SMS is not cheaper for me either - I use the Gmail application on my cell, the unlimited data plan is $10 and I use it for mostly tethering anyway. I have no free messages.
All I miss from email killing SMS forever is others with the capability and a notifier on my mobile whenever an email arrives.
Okay, "Obama is bent on the destruction of the US"... after he's done nothing much, after eight years of Bush?
Wait, what?
Because RPG nerds and techie nerds are heavily mixed, and RPG nerds and Japanophiles share bookstores.
'tleast it's so here.
Citation, please.
Adblock Plus was disabling a part of the NoScript site, as designed.
Aaand clarifying before justified downmods:
It kills healthy people, more of them thus far than ill people. And it's rather obvious why it hasn't killed much people in the last 30 years - if you don't get that, get the hell outta my Slashdot and your ass into Biology 101.
It's not yet confirmed it's cytokine storm precisely - but it's certainly a possibility on the table.
You're a downright moron, 100% grade A stupidity.
Read something once in a while instead of spouting bullshit that goes against every report, every previous data set and every single bit of science we have about this.
... and bacon has what to do with the swine flu now?
Bacon's every bit as safe as it's always been.
Precisely that bloat functionality.
Advanced forms handling, embedded content, Adobe javascript, et cetera.
Things most people never need and things that would use Microsoft Word if Adobe had never offered the functionality.
You won't run into them too often outside giant bureaucratic systems where some boss thought using PDFs for forms was a great idea.
I thought sanity had left Washington ages ago.
Wait, what?
Is this an elaborate confusion troll or something, or are you just skipping the summary and making wild assumptions based on the title?
Nevermind that it's the very reason judges should be objective.
Which this judge wasn't.
I already use FLAC and expensive headphones / sound card.
And I could always use more quality. Indistinguishable from the source media, perhaps, but compared to studio masters on good studio equipment, this is nothing.
Maybe you're just getting old and your senses are dulling badly. You got the damn "get off my lawn" attitude down pat already, so good work there. Enjoy old age, I'll be young and capable of appreciating technological advances for a while still.
Jesus Christ what a horrible idea.
That would mean the end of the internet as a refuge of the autistic, given their facial recognition skills suck.
How much was the bailout?
How much is the budget for infrastructure per year?
How many people live in America?
How much do they earn per year on average?
Exactly why your suggested economic model would either end up in bloody chaos or tyranny.
The people who lose everything in a dumbass model like that will not receive help but scorn - at the very least, not help in a scale large enough - and will turn violent, unless superior force is used to subdue them, turning the society into tyranny.
Oh, logic, how mistreated you are.
Jesus Christ, pudge, you and your seance economics.
So why have a concept of money in this magical fairyland of yours at all?
Jesus Christ, it's like the Communist movement, except they advocate private property instead of public property - with all the same fervor and sheer stupidity.
Here's a questions I-don't-know-a-thing-about-the-economy-ists like you usually refuse to answer.
If we can trust each other to do what's right and good, why didn't the communist mantra of "do as you can, get as you need" function?
QED.
Thank you.
Cannot disagree with anything you say there.
But the fact is that supporting the disabled and the infrastructure does take a lot more than 50% of everyone's income - the main reason for this are inefficiencies in government structure and rampant idolization of capitalism.
"FREE MARKET FREE MARKET FREE MARKET" ends in tears just as certainly as giving all power and money to a small group and expecting them to wield it for the people's gain as opposed to their own.
Welcome to the world. Somehow, not everyone is healthy and rich, and even fewer stay that way.
And society has to support the weaker ones, lest they fall into tyranny or chaos.
Therefore most of what you earn is taxed so that the chance of you randomly dying to a rampage by a man or a woman with nothing to lose is significantly reduced.
I wonder why having /. by your name seems to be a guarantee you understand nothing about economics or societal stability.