From what USA Channel said at the time, they were planning one more season to wrapup the storylines.
Then the writers' strike happened. When the strike ended USA simply decided not to bother with Dead Zone or 4400. Pretty disappointing for me, because I at least wanted to see how the overall story would end.
>>>I can't reasonably take a taxi from Boston to Washington DC, and taking that trip on a train vs a bus is a pretty different experience in terms of reliability, comfort, and throughput.
You're right. The bus is better than the shitty train. So eliminate the train, and add more buses. They are cheaper, more flexible (not tied to a rail), and use existing infrastructure (roads). .
>>>The problem isn't the train, the problem is that you live in fricken Baltimore.
What the hell's wrong with Ballmer? I've lived in all kinds of locations (Grand Rapids MI, OK City, Charlotte NC, New York, Salt Lake City, Filthadelphia), and no major city has been as pleasant to visit as Baltimore. .
>>>the point isn't necessarily to be profitable, but to provide a public transportation option.
No. The point is that the US is heading towards bankruptcy (~$150,000 per home is our current national debt), and it's time to eliminate services that are inefficient/waste money compared to other alternatives (like buses, cars). Amtrak is one of them. I'd be okay with keeping the internal metros & subways of the cities, but the amtrak arteries between cities are bleeding billions of dollars per year. They should be discontinued.
>>>OK, you're right, but those Medicare and Social Security programs are really the exception to the general rule in the USA.
Yeah and they also cost over 1000 billion each year. They really need to be means-tested, and exclude people like me or my coworkers who don't need the help paying bills. Else this country will literally bankrupt itself.
>>>So at what point do you consider someone to have run out?
I don't know but the eligibility requirements for Gov't Housing seems like a good start. Or maybe just say, "When you bank account drops below $10,000, you may then ask the government to start sending your SSI checks, or sign-up for Medicare to pay your hospital bills." The details are for the lawyers to work out.
But someone like me, with nearly half a million saved and a weekly paycheck, should not be receiving handouts. I should pay my own bills and be ineligible for SSI or Medicare assistance, until I absolutely need the help.
This 80 billion is small compared to how much is spent on Welfare programs like SSI/medicare (1060 billion)
7%.
If we're going to cut cost, eliminating 7% is about as worthless as a "7% off" sale at Walmart. Let's cut the huge expenses, like this pointless war. And slso exclude anyone earning more than 5 million/lifetime from receiving welfare assistance. Those wealthy persons can live off their own resources/personal savings.
>>>How many charge-discharge cycles will this battery last, and how expensive is it?
2nd question - no idea. 1st question - If it's like most batteries it depends how fast you charge it. Quick-charged batteries rarely last more than 6 months because the Heat causes internal damage & shorts. But slow-charged batteries (i.e. over 12 hours) will last seemingly forever. I have NiCds that are over 20 years old and still work just fine. NiMHs probably have a similar lifespan. As a random guess, this new exotic battery likely has similar characteristics.
>>>More expensive and inefficient than drilling for oil, refining...
Most EVs run on fossil fuel anyway. It's why ACEEE.org rated the EV1 as no cleaner than a Prius or Civic Hybrid, and less clean than an Insight or Civic CNG. So buying this new EV won't automatically eliminate the drilling/refining.
Where on earth is this in the Constitution? In any case, it can't overrule the Legislative branch. They can't simply choose to ignore ACTA and pass whatever laws they wish.
>>>And they are having a hard time recovering from it.
All Microsoft had to do was make IE7, 8, and 9 backwards-compatible with IE6. Even the competitor Opera has a mode to handle websites that mirror IE6's quirks.
I think the whole idea of virtualizing IE6 inside Windows 7 is silly. Surely it was take less manpower to simply modify the company apps to work with IE8.
>>>I think Verizon should pay him for the many hours of his life he spent arguing on the phone with their customer service reps trying to get these charges reversed.
Well if your brother really feels they owe him something, say $50, then he could just steal a Verizon phone worth that value. Like how Robin Hood used to do (steal from the rich to return the money they had stolen from the poor).
>>>they start threatening to raise rates and institute layoffs.
My reply would be something like this: "Okay. That won't change the amount of the fine because you committed a crime, and I intend to see you pay at least double the damages you caused. In fact I don't care if your entire company goes bankrupt. It will be quickly replaced by newer, better companies. Look what happened to Circuit City - we're better off without CC and I bet we'd be better off without Verizon too."
>>>ever assign malice where ineptitude/stupidity/incompetence will suffice
True but sometimes the incompetence is "embraced" by the management because it turns-out to be so profitable for them. Like this guy in this video. Verizon was and still is aware of the problem, but has done nothing to fix it, because it works to their advantage! Anyway: This guy owes.002 cents/KB times 35896 KB used == 71.8 cents. But Verizon is trying to charge 71.8 dollars. No wonder I hate corporations.
Ooops. I see what I did there. I mean 512 M of RAM.
Just you wait! Someday you too will be in your senile 40s, start thinking that Synthesized/Electronic Disco is the latest style of music, and that computers still use kilobytes
No. I ran XP with 128K of RAM. That's the recommended spec (minimum is 64k). ----- And right now I have XP with 512K and it runs just fine. Hell even Seven can run with only 512K (but not vista).
I thought the chairs in my school were quite comfortable.
They were made of plastic, but molded to fit the curve of the body. And remember that kids have more body fat than adults, so a hard surface doesn't really bother them. And finally you can't give office furniture to a student because he'll just take his pen and scrawl on it. That's no big deal when it's a disposable $40 chair, but could get rather expensive for a $700 chair.
>>>Firefox folks seem to think "beta" means "Let's add new features every couple of days". I've been using Minefield... and it got a lot less stable once it hit the "beta" stage
That's weird. I've been using SeaMonkey, based upon the same mozilla/gecko core, and its beta is rock solid. I haven't been able to crash it, or even slow it down by watching lots of youtube videos.
>>>Unless we're talking about Microsoft, in which any delay is castigated.
The delay of Vista was one of the best things for users. It's allowed me (and others too) to use the same XP computer for nearly ten years. Plus the occasional RAM upgrade (from 128 to 512K). What a great bargain that allowed me to save tons of money, and it reminds me of how I was able to use my Commodore Amiga for ten years without needing to upgrade.
Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to get 10 years out of my Windows 7 or OS10.6 machine, which is a shame because I'm used to driving things until they die. My TV is twenty years - my VCR 15 years - the cars are 25 years and 13 years respectively. I like to get my money out of the things I buy.
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Actually wrestling has been on Sci-Fi for half a decade, long before the name change.
From what USA Channel said at the time, they were planning one more season to wrapup the storylines.
Then the writers' strike happened. When the strike ended USA simply decided not to bother with Dead Zone or 4400. Pretty disappointing for me, because I at least wanted to see how the overall story would end.
I was talking about Syfy having to bribe Stephen King to gain permission to do the show.
>>>I can't reasonably take a taxi from Boston to Washington DC, and taking that trip on a train vs a bus is a pretty different experience in terms of reliability, comfort, and throughput.
You're right.
The bus is better than the shitty train.
So eliminate the train, and add more buses. They are cheaper, more flexible (not tied to a rail), and use existing infrastructure (roads).
.
>>>The problem isn't the train, the problem is that you live in fricken Baltimore.
What the hell's wrong with Ballmer? I've lived in all kinds of locations (Grand Rapids MI, OK City, Charlotte NC, New York, Salt Lake City, Filthadelphia), and no major city has been as pleasant to visit as Baltimore.
.
>>>the point isn't necessarily to be profitable, but to provide a public transportation option.
No. The point is that the US is heading towards bankruptcy (~$150,000 per home is our current national debt), and it's time to eliminate services that are inefficient/waste money compared to other alternatives (like buses, cars). Amtrak is one of them. I'd be okay with keeping the internal metros & subways of the cities, but the amtrak arteries between cities are bleeding billions of dollars per year. They should be discontinued.
>>>OK, you're right, but those Medicare and Social Security programs are really the exception to the general rule in the USA.
Yeah and they also cost over 1000 billion each year.
They really need to be means-tested, and exclude people like
me or my coworkers who don't need the help paying bills.
Else this country will literally bankrupt itself.
>>>So at what point do you consider someone to have run out?
I don't know but the eligibility requirements for Gov't Housing seems like a good start. Or maybe just say, "When you bank account drops below $10,000, you may then ask the government to start sending your SSI checks, or sign-up for Medicare to pay your hospital bills." The details are for the lawyers to work out.
But someone like me, with nearly half a million saved and a weekly paycheck, should not be receiving handouts. I should pay my own bills and be ineligible for SSI or Medicare assistance, until I absolutely need the help.
This must be what's happening to Detroit. The abandoned buildings/homes are reverting to prairie. Very green and progressive of them.
This 80 billion is small compared to how much is spent on Welfare programs like SSI/medicare (1060 billion)
7%.
If we're going to cut cost, eliminating 7% is about as worthless as a "7% off" sale at Walmart. Let's cut the huge expenses, like this pointless war. And slso exclude anyone earning more than 5 million/lifetime from receiving welfare assistance. Those wealthy persons can live off their own resources/personal savings.
>>>How many charge-discharge cycles will this battery last, and how expensive is it?
2nd question - no idea. 1st question - If it's like most batteries it depends how fast you charge it. Quick-charged batteries rarely last more than 6 months because the Heat causes internal damage & shorts. But slow-charged batteries (i.e. over 12 hours) will last seemingly forever. I have NiCds that are over 20 years old and still work just fine. NiMHs probably have a similar lifespan. As a random guess, this new exotic battery likely has similar characteristics.
>>>More expensive and inefficient than drilling for oil, refining...
Most EVs run on fossil fuel anyway. It's why ACEEE.org rated the EV1 as no cleaner than a Prius or Civic Hybrid, and less clean than an Insight or Civic CNG. So buying this new EV won't automatically eliminate the drilling/refining.
>>>a Treaty allows something that would otherwise be unconstitutional to be done by the federal government
Does that include Amendment 1? Or 2? Or 4? Or 5? Just sign a treaty, get 2/3rd of Senate approval, and those pesky rights can be nullified?
>>>Executive Agreement
Where on earth is this in the Constitution? In any case, it can't overrule the Legislative branch. They can't simply choose to ignore ACTA and pass whatever laws they wish.
>>>And they are having a hard time recovering from it.
All Microsoft had to do was make IE7, 8, and 9 backwards-compatible with IE6. Even the competitor Opera has a mode to handle websites that mirror IE6's quirks.
I think the whole idea of virtualizing IE6 inside Windows 7 is silly.
Surely it was take less manpower to simply modify the company apps to work with IE8.
>>>I think Verizon should pay him for the many hours of his life he spent arguing on the phone with their customer service reps trying to get these charges reversed.
Well if your brother really feels they owe him something, say $50, then he could just steal a Verizon phone worth that value. Like how Robin Hood used to do (steal from the rich to return the money they had stolen from the poor).
>>>they start threatening to raise rates and institute layoffs.
My reply would be something like this: "Okay. That won't change the amount of the fine because you committed a crime, and I intend to see you pay at least double the damages you caused. In fact I don't care if your entire company goes bankrupt. It will be quickly replaced by newer, better companies. Look what happened to Circuit City - we're better off without CC and I bet we'd be better off without Verizon too."
Them: "....."
>>>ever assign malice where ineptitude/stupidity/incompetence will suffice
True but sometimes the incompetence is "embraced" by the management because it turns-out to be so profitable for them. Like this guy in this video. Verizon was and still is aware of the problem, but has done nothing to fix it, because it works to their advantage! Anyway: This guy owes .002 cents/KB times 35896 KB used == 71.8 cents. But Verizon is trying to charge 71.8 dollars. No wonder I hate corporations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2isSJKntbg
I have a modern OS that fits on a 1440 K floppy. ;-)
Still won't fit inside a 1/2 meg of RAM though.
http://wiki.kolibrios.org/
Yes. And apparently Synthesized/electronic music IS in style. Again.
Ooops. I see what I did there. I mean 512 M of RAM.
Just you wait! Someday you too will be in your senile 40s, start thinking that Synthesized/Electronic Disco is the latest style of music, and that computers still use kilobytes
>>>You ran XP with 512K of RAM?
No. I ran XP with 128K of RAM. That's the recommended spec (minimum is 64k). ----- And right now I have XP with 512K and it runs just fine. Hell even Seven can run with only 512K (but not vista).
I thought the chairs in my school were quite comfortable.
They were made of plastic, but molded to fit the curve of the body. And remember that kids have more body fat than adults, so a hard surface doesn't really bother them. And finally you can't give office furniture to a student because he'll just take his pen and scrawl on it. That's no big deal when it's a disposable $40 chair, but could get rather expensive for a $700 chair.
No, no. It rolls over from 2009 to 20010
>>>Firefox folks seem to think "beta" means "Let's add new features every couple of days". I've been using Minefield... and it got a lot less stable once it hit the "beta" stage
That's weird. I've been using SeaMonkey, based upon the same mozilla/gecko core, and its beta is rock solid. I haven't been able to crash it, or even slow it down by watching lots of youtube videos.
I use Netscape Navigator 9.
What? It's only two years old. (cough)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Netscape9.png
>>>Unless we're talking about Microsoft, in which any delay is castigated.
The delay of Vista was one of the best things for users. It's allowed me (and others too) to use the same XP computer for nearly ten years. Plus the occasional RAM upgrade (from 128 to 512K). What a great bargain that allowed me to save tons of money, and it reminds me of how I was able to use my Commodore Amiga for ten years without needing to upgrade.
Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to get 10 years out of my Windows 7 or OS10.6 machine, which is a shame because I'm used to driving things until they die. My TV is twenty years - my VCR 15 years - the cars are 25 years and 13 years respectively. I like to get my money out of the things I buy.