I'm surprised to see these two companies accused of misbehavior. Especially SAIC which has been around for a long time doing government work in DC.
Also since New York is not a self-sufficient city, but heavily subsidized by the US government, this loss of taxpayer dollars affects all of us. It's obviously worse for New York State residents, but all americans were defrauded on this one.
>>>There are certain places where only an incandescent will work >>>Pump houses are one example. >>>Animal homes are another.
Enclosed fixtures (the heat kills compact fluorescents) Upside-down fixtures (ditto) Anyplace you need instant light instead of having to wait 3-4 minutes to reach full brightness (ex: basement steps) Stoves, refrigerators.
BTW fluorescent bulbs DO make heat... just not as much. So if you had a farm or something where you need heat, you could swap-out the 100 watt incandescent with a 100 watt CFL (equivalent to 400w incandescent) and get the same amount of heat. Or just use a tiny heater.
Yes TEXTING does cost practically nothing. "When phones are on and waiting for a phone call or any type of data retrieval, they are ALWAYS connected to the cell phone tower. The phones and cell phone towers exchange little packets worth of information back and forth so when ever a call comes it, they can find you straight away. Can anyone guess how big the packets are that are sent between cell and tower? If you guess 160 characters, you are right." In other words they are charging for a service that should be free, because the phone and tower are *already sending* Texts to one another. It costs nothing for the company to append that extra 160 character Text to the outgoing packet.
To summarize: Phones are "texting" towers constantly as part of the cellular standard. The appending of a personal message costs nothing extra for the company. The rates are outrageously high for the minuscule data passed.
Yep. And I'll trade-in my 80 MPG hybrid for a gas-guzzling Porsche (shaped like a penis)* that gets a mere 15 mpg. And move to a home 100 miles from my job.
The Congress has the power to "make regular" aka to apply uniform laws to "commerce among the States", not to ban people from traveling. In fact the Constitution specifically forbids the setting-up of duty posts/barriers to prevent crossing state lines.
VirginMobile eliminating the $15 "text all you want" plan.
Not exactly a disaster, but now customers must upgrade to the next tier & pay almost twice as much to get the same "unlimited texts" benefit. I don't buy Virgin's excuse that they were losing money on the $15 Texting plan. Texts cost practically nothing.
>>>Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Oh leally? Well somebody set up us the bomb. We get signal. Main screen tuln on. All youl base are belong to us. What you say !! You have no chance to sulvive make youl time. Ha Ha! Take off every 'ZIG cause you know what you doing fol great justice - move ZIG.
And fulthemore: ALL BASES OF CATS WERE DESTROYED. IT SEEMS TO BE PEACEFUL. BUT IT IS INCORRECT. CATS IS STILL ALIVE. ZIG-01 MUST FIGHT AGAIN. (game reboots)
I can not lay my hand on any part of the US Constitution that gives Congress power to bar you from riding in a plane or driving a car or hitching-up one of those old Conestoga wagons like the pioneers used. Can you? No. This power, if it exists, has been reserved to the individual States.
In the U.S. porn (not just nudity but actual sex) is posted publicly on the web for everyone to see.
Ditto on cable television (although most channels blur it out). There is no requirement that it be blocked from the eyes of children or teenagers..... that is considered the responsibility of the parent using NetNanny or TV Channel Locks.
Europeans are the only people who have any sanity when it comes to nudity. I was watching a Philadelphia station that plays European programs, about some Italian detective/cop, and suddenly the young daughter walks into the room, topless, and sits there for five minutes. Nobody reacted.
First I was shocked, and then I realized it ain't no big deal. In America (and Asia too apparently) the station would be hit with a million dollar fine if caught. I don't understand why people are afraid to see a naked breast or body. As the Pope once said about the nude paintings in various chapels: "The human body is made in God's image, therefore it remains holy even when it is unclothed."
But it's the LEFT wing that is actually doing it (review the laws passed by the Democrat Congress these last four years). How ironic. This is why I joined a third party. You can't trust the two big parties.
Net Neutrality? Or Fairness Doctrine? Nah. The FCC has been doing this since the 1950s, before those buzzwords even existed. In the same fashion they censor radio and television, they will soon be doing the same thing China is doing: censoring the "filthy nudie pics" from the web.
Of course they should not be able to do. CATV and internet are PRIVATE domains so the FCC should keep their hands off. But they won't. Our US and EU politicians are no different than Chinese politicians - they all have avarice and ambition - love of money & love of power. They'll censor the porn off the net and justify it as "protecting the children".
That's the same odds of dying in a US tsunami, or getting hit on the head by a meteorite, or winning the Big Lotto prize. Twice. I do not fear any of these events happening, therefore I do not fear death by terrorist. Neither should you.
Although that sounds reasonable the Supreme Law of the land disagrees with you. The 9th reserves to me the right to travel by car and boat AND airplane, while the 10th forbids the Union government from curtailing that right (unless it's across an international border), because the power is reserved to the Member States. It was never given to the central government.
And of course there's the 4th which forbids the Union government from searching people on domestic car drives, boat outings, or plane flights. Or even just walking down the street. Doesn't that suck? That damn LAW makes it impossible for the US Congress to act like tyrants or caesars.
Hmmmm. I guess that's why the Founders created it: "The purpose of a constitution is to render contrary laws passed by the leaders as Nullities. These lesser laws shall not be enforced." - Thom. Jefferson, 1780s.
No the solution is to have massive layoffs. I worked for the FAA and 75% of the staff just sat surfing the net all day. Plus closures of departments that don't really need to exist like the Dept of Education - not only is this an unconstitutional creation (Congress was never granted power to educate) but it is also better handled locally by the State Governments, since they are closer to the voice of the people. (My state rep lives right in my neighborhood; it doesn't get any more directly democratic than that.)
The solution is to downsize government the same way corporations downsize - in order to create a better more efficient organization. Layoffs of non-working workers and closures of departments that are (a) redundant or (b) not necessary.
>>>I'd love to hear about Glenn Beck not being able to fly, or Sarah Palin strip-searched and groped at the airport. Now that might make FOX reverse some of their propaganda.
You don't watch FOX at all, do you? Almost all the hosts are against TSA gropings.
>>>as FOX essentially created the "Tea Party"
And more misinformation. The Ron Paul for President campaign created the tea party in late 2007. They had multiple rallies and then it just keep growing, even after Ron Paul stepped back from it. I had joined Ron's tea party loooong before FOX ever talked about it.
Is it? "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the military." - our current president (Dem or Rep/it makes no difference).
As for the tone of the post, it does seem Alex Jones like. There's a kernal of truth wrapped with overzealousness.
I LOVE this idea. Now how do I get ahold of a list for Microsoft, Amazon, and RIAA's lobbyists? Hmmm.
The only problem is that these companies have so many resources that if their lobbyists get blacklisted by the TSA, they'll just hire new ones from their pool of ~1 million employees.
I had a facebook "friend" and former classmate tell me I am overreacting and the TSA breat/penis-fondling is no big deal. So I copied that Ben Franklin quote *from the friends page* as my response.
His reply: "Flying is not an essential liberty." Then he unfriended me. (sigh) The 9th and 10th amendments, plus more court cases than I can list here, assert that these ARE essential liberties. How can people be so dumb that they think the right to travel (including by plane) should not be protected? Or that getting felt-up by police at the port is okay?
I could understand such things if you are crossing an international border, but not if you're flying from St. Louis to New York or some other local flight. About a year ago a Ron Paul employee was stopped by the TSA and interrogated for an hour. His crime: He had 3000 dollars in cash in a lockbox. They were donations from Paul's supporters, but the TSA wanted to drag him off to the Drug Enforcement Agency to be charged for suspected smuggling.
I heard Glenn was fondling Rachel Maddow, trying to convince her to become his Second Mormon wife. Now THERE'S a crime against humanity. (And neither of them have denied it to be true.) Okay this is becoming ridiculous.
Ahhh com'on guys. Even though I completely disagree with his post, that doesn't make him a "troll" or "ass". He's just sharing his opinion. He didn't deserve the negative karma hit nor the insult. Can't we all just..... get along?
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Or just buy an already-existing time system like AutoTime or FieldGlass or OnTime or ..... No need to reinvent the wheel.
I'm surprised to see these two companies accused of misbehavior. Especially SAIC which has been around for a long time doing government work in DC.
Also since New York is not a self-sufficient city, but heavily subsidized by the US government, this loss of taxpayer dollars affects all of us. It's obviously worse for New York State residents, but all americans were defrauded on this one.
>>>There are certain places where only an incandescent will work
>>>Pump houses are one example.
>>>Animal homes are another.
Enclosed fixtures (the heat kills compact fluorescents)
Upside-down fixtures (ditto)
Anyplace you need instant light instead of having to wait 3-4 minutes to reach full brightness (ex: basement steps)
Stoves, refrigerators.
BTW fluorescent bulbs DO make heat... just not as much. So if you had a farm or something where you need heat, you could swap-out the 100 watt incandescent with a 100 watt CFL (equivalent to 400w incandescent) and get the same amount of heat. Or just use a tiny heater.
>>>leave the lights on in every room of the house
And revoke that US law that bans incandescent bulbs.
Yes TEXTING does cost practically nothing. "When phones are on and waiting for a phone call or any type of data retrieval, they are ALWAYS connected to the cell phone tower. The phones and cell phone towers exchange little packets worth of information back and forth so when ever a call comes it, they can find you straight away. Can anyone guess how big the packets are that are sent between cell and tower? If you guess 160 characters, you are right." In other words they are charging for a service that should be free, because the phone and tower are *already sending* Texts to one another. It costs nothing for the company to append that extra 160 character Text to the outgoing packet.
"When you think of it on a kilobyte level it costs us $1.09 per text message Kilobyte. The markup for costs is 7300%." So using your example of 2000 messages/month, that's just 320,000 characters or 0.00032 gigabytes. It shouldn't cost 25 dollars (what Virgin now charges for unlimited texting). Continued here: http://www.spoiledtechie.com/post/The-Actual-Cost-of-Texting2c-Short-Codes-and-a-731425-Mark-up.aspx and here: http://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+texting
To summarize: Phones are "texting" towers constantly as part of the cellular standard.
The appending of a personal message costs nothing extra for the company.
The rates are outrageously high for the minuscule data passed.
Yep. And I'll trade-in my 80 MPG hybrid for a gas-guzzling Porsche (shaped like a penis)* that gets a mere 15 mpg. And move to a home 100 miles from my job.
*
*Buffy reference
The globe is warming!
;-)
I mean cooling.
I mean "climate changing".
(clings to the Book of Al Gore and whimpers)
The Congress has the power to "make regular" aka to apply uniform laws to "commerce among the States", not to ban people from traveling. In fact the Constitution specifically forbids the setting-up of duty posts/barriers to prevent crossing state lines.
VirginMobile eliminating the $15 "text all you want" plan.
Not exactly a disaster, but now customers must upgrade to the next tier & pay almost twice as much to get the same "unlimited texts" benefit. I don't buy Virgin's excuse that they were losing money on the $15 Texting plan. Texts cost practically nothing.
>>>Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Oh leally? Well somebody set up us the bomb. We get signal. Main screen tuln on. All youl base are belong to us. What you say !! You have no chance to sulvive make youl time. Ha Ha! Take off every 'ZIG cause you know what you doing fol great justice - move ZIG.
And fulthemore:
ALL BASES OF CATS WERE DESTROYED.
IT SEEMS TO BE PEACEFUL. BUT IT IS INCORRECT.
CATS IS STILL ALIVE. ZIG-01 MUST FIGHT AGAIN.
(game reboots)
Or calls? We used to call this phreaking but I guess it's gone out of style.
I can not lay my hand on any part of the US Constitution that gives Congress power to bar you from riding in a plane or driving a car or hitching-up one of those old Conestoga wagons like the pioneers used. Can you? No. This power, if it exists, has been reserved to the individual States.
In the U.S. porn (not just nudity but actual sex) is posted publicly on the web for everyone to see.
Ditto on cable television (although most channels blur it out). There is no requirement that it be blocked from the eyes of children or teenagers..... that is considered the responsibility of the parent using NetNanny or TV Channel Locks.
Europeans are the only people who have any sanity when it comes to nudity. I was watching a Philadelphia station that plays European programs, about some Italian detective/cop, and suddenly the young daughter walks into the room, topless, and sits there for five minutes. Nobody reacted.
First I was shocked, and then I realized it ain't no big deal. In America (and Asia too apparently) the station would be hit with a million dollar fine if caught. I don't understand why people are afraid to see a naked breast or body. As the Pope once said about the nude paintings in various chapels: "The human body is made in God's image, therefore it remains holy even when it is unclothed."
But it's the LEFT wing that is actually doing it (review the laws passed by the Democrat Congress these last four years). How ironic.
This is why I joined a third party.
You can't trust the two big parties.
Net Neutrality? Or Fairness Doctrine? Nah. The FCC has been doing this since the 1950s, before those buzzwords even existed. In the same fashion they censor radio and television, they will soon be doing the same thing China is doing: censoring the "filthy nudie pics" from the web.
Of course they should not be able to do. CATV and internet are PRIVATE domains so the FCC should keep their hands off. But they won't. Our US and EU politicians are no different than Chinese politicians - they all have avarice and ambition - love of money & love of power. They'll censor the porn off the net and justify it as "protecting the children".
Odds of dying from a terrorist on an airplane:
1 in 5000.
That's the same odds of dying in a US tsunami, or getting hit on the head by a meteorite, or winning the Big Lotto prize. Twice. I do not fear any of these events happening, therefore I do not fear death by terrorist. Neither should you.
>>>You have an option, take a car or a boat.
Although that sounds reasonable the Supreme Law of the land disagrees with you. The 9th reserves to me the right to travel by car and boat AND airplane, while the 10th forbids the Union government from curtailing that right (unless it's across an international border), because the power is reserved to the Member States. It was never given to the central government.
And of course there's the 4th which forbids the Union government from searching people on domestic car drives, boat outings, or plane flights. Or even just walking down the street. Doesn't that suck? That damn LAW makes it impossible for the US Congress to act like tyrants or caesars.
Hmmmm. I guess that's why the Founders created it: "The purpose of a constitution is to render contrary laws passed by the leaders as Nullities. These lesser laws shall not be enforced." - Thom. Jefferson, 1780s.
>>>The solution is to make government work better
No the solution is to have massive layoffs. I worked for the FAA and 75% of the staff just sat surfing the net all day. Plus closures of departments that don't really need to exist like the Dept of Education - not only is this an unconstitutional creation (Congress was never granted power to educate) but it is also better handled locally by the State Governments, since they are closer to the voice of the people. (My state rep lives right in my neighborhood; it doesn't get any more directly democratic than that.)
The solution is to downsize government the same way corporations downsize - in order to create a better more efficient organization. Layoffs of non-working workers and closures of departments that are (a) redundant or (b) not necessary.
>>>I'd love to hear about Glenn Beck not being able to fly, or Sarah Palin strip-searched and groped at the airport. Now that might make FOX reverse some of their propaganda.
You don't watch FOX at all, do you?
Almost all the hosts are against TSA gropings.
>>>as FOX essentially created the "Tea Party"
And more misinformation. The Ron Paul for President campaign created the tea party in late 2007. They had multiple rallies and then it just keep growing, even after Ron Paul stepped back from it. I had joined Ron's tea party loooong before FOX ever talked about it.
Is it? "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the military." - our current president (Dem or Rep/it makes no difference).
As for the tone of the post, it does seem Alex Jones like. There's a kernal of truth wrapped with overzealousness.
I LOVE this idea. Now how do I get ahold of a list for Microsoft, Amazon, and RIAA's lobbyists? Hmmm.
The only problem is that these companies have so many resources that if their lobbyists get blacklisted by the TSA, they'll just hire new ones from their pool of ~1 million employees.
I had a facebook "friend" and former classmate tell me I am overreacting and the TSA breat/penis-fondling is no big deal. So I copied that Ben Franklin quote *from the friends page* as my response.
His reply: "Flying is not an essential liberty." Then he unfriended me. (sigh) The 9th and 10th amendments, plus more court cases than I can list here, assert that these ARE essential liberties. How can people be so dumb that they think the right to travel (including by plane) should not be protected? Or that getting felt-up by police at the port is okay?
I could understand such things if you are crossing an international border, but not if you're flying from St. Louis to New York or some other local flight. About a year ago a Ron Paul employee was stopped by the TSA and interrogated for an hour. His crime: He had 3000 dollars in cash in a lockbox. They were donations from Paul's supporters, but the TSA wanted to drag him off to the Drug Enforcement Agency to be charged for suspected smuggling.
It's complete and utter bullshit.
>>>I heard it was for fondling baby terrorists
I heard Glenn was fondling Rachel Maddow, trying to convince her to become his Second Mormon wife. Now THERE'S a crime against humanity. (And neither of them have denied it to be true.) Okay this is becoming ridiculous.
Perhaps. (Score:-1, Troll)
by puterg33k (1920022)
Ahhh com'on guys. Even though I completely disagree with his post, that doesn't make him a "troll" or "ass". He's just sharing his opinion. He didn't deserve the negative karma hit nor the insult. Can't we all just..... get along?