>>>I love the fucking hypocrisy around sex in USA.
What sex? These are just pictures of a naked human, and no more harmful than pics of a naked pig or naked bird. In fact the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that nudity is protected speech. It's why you can find images of naked children/teens in your local Barnes & Noble.
Underage sex photos should be restricted (because someone was raped), but not photos of homo sapiens in his natural state.
Well I remember when MSN.com blocked browsers like Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera ("We don't serve non-compliant browsers" they claimed), and there was a royal fit about Microsoft being anti-competitive.
>>>People who are both stupid... to add a line to their user CSS
The what? I had no idea such a thing existed in my web browser (IE, FF, or Opera). And I don't consider myself "stupid"..... maybe "ignorant" but not stupid. .
>>>adds a small, superscript, [PDF] after each link to a PDF
Or just look at the status bar before clicking a link, and it will tell you what you're opening.
"This Win7 PC cost $300. On the other hand I still owe you $299 for that RTF model airplane you gave me last month. How about we just call it even?" - me
"Deal." - brother
It sounds like Google and the ISPs have the same arrangement.
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>>>Internet + TV just seems like a waste of time and money...would anyone be interested in what they are offering here?
My parents would be... or anyone else who doesn't know how to use a computer, but would like to watch videos on youtube or hulu.com. Or go to government websites to look-up information. PLUS this won't be as a bad as the old WebTV which was limited to NTSC connections (approximately 440x480 resolution) with analog blur.
People today have ATSC sets that can show 1280x1080 or higher, and with the crystal clarity of a VGA/digital screen.
Perhaps if class wasn't so boring. I skipped a lot of classes, or if forced to attend, read the textbook during class because I can cover in 10-15 minutes what it takes a prof 50 minutes. - (Even today when I listen to lectures during my commute, I speed-up the playback to 2X speed. Otherwise it would be dull.)
And finally a lot of professors waste most of the class deriving equations. That's fine for someone who is a doctoral candidate, but I'm not. I'm an engineer. I don't care that Newton went through 20 pages of integrals to discover that KE == 1/2mv^2. Just give me the damn equation so I can get to work designing products or solving problems and/or writing that history paper that's due Friday.
"You're basically taking a stupid joke well beyond the scopes of a joke and flatly addressing it as an operating system rather than a grading system"
Yes I believe that was theaveng's point. Ever heard of dry humor or dry wit? .
"good luck getting XP to run on 128K of RAM."
Well, not 128K, but my brother's laptop has just 128M of RAM. Of course that limits him to only single-tasking Firefox or single-tasking Word, but still XP works.
In effect forbidding the purchase of incandescent bulbs. Effective 2015 I will be FORCED to buy CFLs because the EU government will not allow me to get incandescents.
Something else I forgot to mention: You can't put CFLs in enclosed fixtures, or upside fixtures which trap heat, because the CFLs will die within just a few months.
CFLs don't like heat. Incandescents don't care.
>>>Why do I get the impression you concluded that long before fifteen years had passed
Well if you want to be anal, I reached the conclusion at about year 13. I thought CFLs were okay at first, but they seem to have degraded in ability, plus I moved into a home where CFLs don't really work (too many enclosed fixtures). .
>>>you haven't found a single CFL that performs well? It took me all of two trips to Home Depot
Oh that's all? Two trips and a few hours wasted. PASS. You think I'm supposed to pay around a hundred dollars (on gasoline driving back-and-forth, plus the actual bulb) trying different Brands/bulbs just to save a few pennies?!?!? What was it Ben Franklin said? "Penny wise and dollar foolish."
I repeat: Pass. I'll stick with the incandescents because they work.
Jefferson was saying that having a democratic-elected Republican government means nothing if the government has become a puppet to the Moneyed aristocracy (corporations).
>>>Yeah, rural electrification and the interstate highway system were all unmitigated failures.
- We weren't carrying a $130,000 per U.S. home debt back then. - We didn't have China telling us, "We're not loaning you any more money. And if you keep spending, we're going to demand repayment immediately." - We didn't have the world discusses ways to end the Dollar Standard and replace it with something else, like the Euro or Yuan.
You don't seem to understand that we are on the verge of bankruptcy, and we're just hanging by a thread right now. Now is NOT the time to install an expensive 100 Mbit/s line to 110 million homes. I'd be willing to support a cheap ~$1000/home upgrade from Dialup to DSL, but that's it. Laying down $100,000 per fiber internet like the FCC plans to do (along with other wasteful spending) will be the straw that drives us off the cliff.
Then 2020s U.S. will look like 1920s Germany, where you need a wheelbarrow of cash just to buy a loaf of bread.
>>>>>Radio is on the verge of death, and more and more young persons are listening to songs I've never heard of before - stuff they pulled off the internet. There's definitely a "dent" there. >> >>Sure, but a lot of those bands are Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Usher, etc.
I've heard of them. I was talking about stuff that's not heard on the radio.
>> they still have the upper hand in terms of acts and cultural impact.
Agreed, but nevertheless independent artists have "dented" the music industry. The original poster claimed they didn't, which is obviously not true.
>>>about the time the Real World first appeared, they pretty much stopped, and that was maybe the early 90's?
Not correct. 1992 is when I first started watching MTV (via college cable) and they were still playing tons of videos. They did have Real World but usually only for 2-3 hours a day. The rest of the time was music video.
Even as late as 1999 I remember turning-on MTV and watching the latest videos. Remember Total Request Live that aired every day? They also had a lot of "parties" that basically consisted of college kids dancing to music (i.e. MTV-made music videos).
MTV didn't really stop playing music until high-speed internet enabled people to ignore MTV and watch/hear the music videos online.
It's somewhat similar to how I can watch a DVD and say, "Look at all those horrible compression artifacts," while those around me think the screen looks a-okay. My eyes and ears seem capable of seeing things that most people don't.
Of course in the case of these CFLs, the dimness is so obvious even my 80-year-old parents said, "Why are you kitchen lights so dim?" until the CFLs warm up.
I now think of CFLs like engines - not really drivable until 3-4 minutes after ignition.
>>>>>"Buy CFL or go to jail." >> >>Lucky for you, nobody has passed such a law, nor seems vaguely likely to.
The European Union Parliament has. Although it hasn't taken full effect, it will be phased-in by 2015. I don't like politicians forcing me to adopt inferior technology. It's like if they suddenly announced, "Desktop PCs will no longer be available due to excess energy use. Everyone must buy laptops." I hate laptops (poor lifespan).
Yes "smoking and melted plastic" seems to be the standard end-of-life fail mode for CFLs. Plus you're not allowed in many states to simply throw them away, due to poisoning the landfill/runoff water with mercury.
CFLs are superior in terms of efficiency, but Inferior in every other aspect. I'm done with them. AND I don't want my politicians shoving CFLs down my throat, just as I don't want healthcare.
And you're right that Talk Radio is doing okay. The highest ratings right now are on AM stations and morning FM Talk shows, but even that is on a downward slide thanks to net streaming or youtube archiving.
>>>the FCC is going to magically solve the last-mile
Yeah it's called "spend until you go bankrupt" and then wonder why it happened. Like those $7/hour McDonalds or Walmart employees who can't figure out why they lost their $250,000 homes. You spend beyond your means, even if you are the U.S. Government, and consequences will occur.
You can watch movies over 1.5 Mbit. Heck I watch them over 0.7 Mbit. Works just fine. Favorite channel is syfy.com (Caprica, Ghost Hunters and other stuff).
(I've also tried watching them over 0.05 Mbit/s dialup. Not so hot..... it take 6 hours of buffering to get 1 hour of show. Zzzz.)
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>>>I love the fucking hypocrisy around sex in USA.
What sex? These are just pictures of a naked human, and no more harmful than pics of a naked pig or naked bird. In fact the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that nudity is protected speech. It's why you can find images of naked children/teens in your local Barnes & Noble.
Underage sex photos should be restricted (because someone was raped), but not photos of homo sapiens in his natural state.
Well I remember when MSN.com blocked browsers like Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera ("We don't serve non-compliant browsers" they claimed), and there was a royal fit about Microsoft being anti-competitive.
Politicians == control freaks.
It is not linear. Or liberty. It is serfdom.
>>>People who are both stupid... to add a line to their user CSS
The what? I had no idea such a thing existed in my web browser (IE, FF, or Opera). And I don't consider myself "stupid"..... maybe "ignorant" but not stupid.
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>>>adds a small, superscript, [PDF] after each link to a PDF
Or just look at the status bar before clicking a link, and it will tell you what you're opening.
>>>I'm stuck with my pathetic broadband connection?
Bah. Humbug. I only have 0.7 Mbit/s at my home, and 0.05 Mbit/s on my laptop during travel. You are pratically living in luxury compared to me.
"This Win7 PC cost $300. On the other hand I still owe you $299 for that RTF model airplane you gave me last month. How about we just call it even?" - me
"Deal." - brother
It sounds like Google and the ISPs have the same arrangement.
>>>Internet + TV just seems like a waste of time and money...would anyone be interested in what they are offering here?
My parents would be... or anyone else who doesn't know how to use a computer, but would like to watch videos on youtube or hulu.com. Or go to government websites to look-up information. PLUS this won't be as a bad as the old WebTV which was limited to NTSC connections (approximately 440x480 resolution) with analog blur.
People today have ATSC sets that can show 1280x1080 or higher, and with the crystal clarity of a VGA/digital screen.
Blocking PS3 or other "undesirable devices" (like say, macs) also violates Net Neutrality.
Indepedent artists are still left out in the cold.
Perhaps if class wasn't so boring. I skipped a lot of classes, or if forced to attend, read the textbook during class because I can cover in 10-15 minutes what it takes a prof 50 minutes. - (Even today when I listen to lectures during my commute, I speed-up the playback to 2X speed. Otherwise it would be dull.)
And finally a lot of professors waste most of the class deriving equations. That's fine for someone who is a doctoral candidate, but I'm not. I'm an engineer. I don't care that Newton went through 20 pages of integrals to discover that KE == 1/2mv^2. Just give me the damn equation so I can get to work designing products or solving problems and/or writing that history paper that's due Friday.
"You're basically taking a stupid joke well beyond the scopes of a joke and flatly addressing it as an operating system rather than a grading system"
Yes I believe that was theaveng's point.
Ever heard of dry humor or dry wit?
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"good luck getting XP to run on 128K of RAM."
Well, not 128K, but my brother's laptop has just 128M of RAM. Of course that limits him to only single-tasking Firefox or single-tasking Word, but still XP works.
In effect forbidding the purchase of incandescent bulbs.
Effective 2015 I will be FORCED to buy CFLs because
the EU government will not allow me to get incandescents.
Something else I forgot to mention: You can't put CFLs in enclosed fixtures, or upside fixtures which trap heat, because the CFLs will die within just a few months.
CFLs don't like heat. Incandescents don't care.
>>>Why do I get the impression you concluded that long before fifteen years had passed
Well if you want to be anal, I reached the conclusion at about year 13. I thought CFLs were okay at first, but they seem to have degraded in ability, plus I moved into a home where CFLs don't really work (too many enclosed fixtures).
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>>>you haven't found a single CFL that performs well? It took me all of two trips to Home Depot
Oh that's all? Two trips and a few hours wasted. PASS. You think I'm supposed to pay around a hundred dollars (on gasoline driving back-and-forth, plus the actual bulb) trying different Brands/bulbs just to save a few pennies?!?!? What was it Ben Franklin said? "Penny wise and dollar foolish."
I repeat: Pass. I'll stick with the incandescents because they work.
Wow you missed the point.
Jefferson was saying that having a democratic-elected Republican government means nothing if the government has become a puppet to the Moneyed aristocracy (corporations).
>>>With a 10% unemployment rate why do you think businesses still hire illegals, millions of them?
Because hiring an intruder is cheaper than hiring an American at minimum wage (plus the required SSI, Medicare, and other paperwork).
>>>Yeah, rural electrification and the interstate highway system were all unmitigated failures.
- We weren't carrying a $130,000 per U.S. home debt back then.
- We didn't have China telling us, "We're not loaning you any more money. And if you keep spending, we're going to demand repayment immediately."
- We didn't have the world discusses ways to end the Dollar Standard and replace it with something else, like the Euro or Yuan.
You don't seem to understand that we are on the verge of bankruptcy, and we're just hanging by a thread right now. Now is NOT the time to install an expensive 100 Mbit/s line to 110 million homes. I'd be willing to support a cheap ~$1000/home upgrade from Dialup to DSL, but that's it. Laying down $100,000 per fiber internet like the FCC plans to do (along with other wasteful spending) will be the straw that drives us off the cliff.
Then 2020s U.S. will look like 1920s Germany, where you need a wheelbarrow of cash just to buy a loaf of bread.
>>>>>Radio is on the verge of death, and more and more young persons are listening to songs I've never heard of before - stuff they pulled off the internet. There's definitely a "dent" there.
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>>Sure, but a lot of those bands are Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Usher, etc.
I've heard of them.
I was talking about stuff
that's not heard on the radio.
>> they still have the upper hand in terms of acts and cultural impact.
Agreed, but nevertheless independent artists have "dented" the music industry. The original poster claimed they didn't, which is obviously not true.
>>>about the time the Real World first appeared, they pretty much stopped, and that was maybe the early 90's?
Not correct. 1992 is when I first started watching MTV (via college cable) and they were still playing tons of videos. They did have Real World but usually only for 2-3 hours a day. The rest of the time was music video.
Even as late as 1999 I remember turning-on MTV and watching the latest videos. Remember Total Request Live that aired every day? They also had a lot of "parties" that basically consisted of college kids dancing to music (i.e. MTV-made music videos).
MTV didn't really stop playing music until high-speed internet enabled people to ignore MTV and watch/hear the music videos online.
+1 Insightful for Mr. Anonymous.
It's somewhat similar to how I can watch a DVD and say, "Look at all those horrible compression artifacts," while those around me think the screen looks a-okay. My eyes and ears seem capable of seeing things that most people don't.
Of course in the case of these CFLs, the dimness is so obvious even my 80-year-old parents said, "Why are you kitchen lights so dim?" until the CFLs warm up.
I now think of CFLs like engines - not really drivable until 3-4 minutes after ignition.
>>>>>"Buy CFL or go to jail."
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>>Lucky for you, nobody has passed such a law, nor seems vaguely likely to.
The European Union Parliament has. Although it hasn't taken full effect, it will be phased-in by 2015. I don't like politicians forcing me to adopt inferior technology. It's like if they suddenly announced, "Desktop PCs will no longer be available due to excess energy use. Everyone must buy laptops." I hate laptops (poor lifespan).
Yes "smoking and melted plastic" seems to be the standard end-of-life fail mode for CFLs. Plus you're not allowed in many states to simply throw them away, due to poisoning the landfill/runoff water with mercury.
CFLs are superior in terms of efficiency, but Inferior in every other aspect. I'm done with them. AND I don't want my politicians shoving CFLs down my throat, just as I don't want healthcare.
Thanks for the link.
Never heard of "TCP" brand. Also those would look pretty ugly in my kitchen or bathroom lights, which were designed for standard round bulbs.
>>>I don't know the current state of affairs
MTV-2 stopped played videos. Ditto VH1.
And you're right that Talk Radio is doing okay. The highest ratings right now are on AM stations and morning FM Talk shows, but even that is on a downward slide thanks to net streaming or youtube archiving.
>>>the FCC is going to magically solve the last-mile
Yeah it's called "spend until you go bankrupt" and then wonder why it happened. Like those $7/hour McDonalds or Walmart employees who can't figure out why they lost their $250,000 homes. You spend beyond your means, even if you are the U.S. Government, and consequences will occur.
>>>high-latency 1.5 Mbit DSL, or low-rate cable
You can watch movies over 1.5 Mbit.
Heck I watch them over 0.7 Mbit. Works just fine.
Favorite channel is syfy.com (Caprica, Ghost Hunters and other stuff).
(I've also tried watching them over 0.05 Mbit/s dialup. Not so hot..... it take 6 hours of buffering to get 1 hour of show. Zzzz.)