Get an antenna, if you have a good selection of stations. Try TVFOOL.com for more info.
I suggest the 8 bay bow-tie from Winegard. It has the advantage of not taking up too much space and it is made in the US. You have to assemble it, which can be a con for some. It was not difficult to put together. The pro is if you are mounting in your attic you can assemble it after you get in the space. The box was about 4ft X 8in X 8 in.
The gain is on par with other bow-ties, though some say the gain is a bit less. However, I am in the Chicago area over 60 miles away and receive all the Chicago stations, including the VHF (which they say should not work, but WBBM (ch 12) comes in perfect).
From my antenna I get NBC, ABC, CBS, CW, WGN, My50, ION, Qubo (kids), PBS ( both 11 and 20), independent 26, MeTV, MeTooTv, Antenna TV, Fox and other sub-carrier offerings on those channels.
Also, use the RG-6 Quad Shielded cable, it prevents excessive signal loss. Having a good antenna without a good cable is just plain nuts. I received all those stations without much trouble and no pre-amp. I just use a distribution amp in the house. I am feeding 2 tvs easily.
I did add hulu and netflix to round out my options. It works great. The kids find some of the Disney and Nickelodeon on netflix, so the bitching is easing a bit. All for less than standard cable. I may eventually drop hulu, but I will wait and see what they do. I may be surprised. Netflix is just an extreme value! BTW, hulu is off my mythtv (DVR) and netflix off the Wii.
The DSL line sucks for my streaming, but it works (768k business class). I may need to move up to something better, but the the ISPs will rape me unless I buy video and voice. The biggest issue I think is not having a good choice for ISPs that offer a fast pipe with no cap at a reasonable price.
Well, there is a debate that the 16th Amendment was not ratified correctly. Also, the 16th mentions income, which was meant to mean investment income, such as corporate profit and dividends.
It did not mean the fruits of your labor. You do not profit when you work for an employer. You make an even trade of your time for some money. You would not consider bartering as profit, it is an even trade. In fact, one ruling said that the 16th did not create any new form of taxation.
That is why the income tax is "voluntary". If you fill out the form, then you owe. It is a scam, but the scammers have guns and prisons to lock you up in!
I agree. The web could be considered an electronic catalog and ordering system, but it is still mail order.
If you truly want to be fair, then it must go both ways. Every brick and mortar store should be forced to card every customer to determine where they live. They may be tourists that should have to pay sales tax for another jurisdiction. The B&Ms would cry like babies, if they had to do that. That is funny for they are asking web stores to do that for 7500 jurisdictions.
My dream device would be a mobile with enough power to be a fully functional computer. Wireless Video displays would be cool, but an hdmi port could suffice. Bluetooth keyboards and mice would be awesome. No more syncing. Your phone is your computer, plain and simple. Walk into your office and link up to your peripherals and away you go.
Your passphrase is personal data. Unless, you accept that a secured wireless router can be routinely accessed without a passphrase, they have personal information at their disposal. They also will have access to all your traffic to and from your other PCs. Accessing a network is as bad as accessing a particular PC. Seems the judge just made it open season on all private networks if there is an AP on it.
No need to force them. They will need to grab the.xxx anyway or somebody else will get it. Then they put the content on the.xxx and keep the.com with the page blank or non-pornographic.
We all get to help, if we use such sites by abstaining from using any site with a live.com and only go to the.xxx. No force required, but the effect would be the same. I do not find porn offensive in general, but I do not feel children should have access. Having a.xxx domain would make filtering for kids a hell of a lot more successful. Plus, that benefits such sites by taking away the "for the children" reasoning to ban all Internet porn.
The devil's hand is government. Though I do not dismiss nuclear power as a useful source of energy, it is hard to imagine many companies would choose to build them without indemnification, incentives, fuel processing and more benefits from government.
Fine, but then I want you to sign a contract indemnifying me from any damages that come from any IP you used to make your album.
Yes, we have copyright to protect IP, but it was to be limited due to the fact people from all walks of life borrow from the society they live in. Musicians steal from the past, so do inventors and others. Whatever a person creates is not presumed to be 100% unique, so it enters the public domain at some point. Personally, the time should be far less due to the speed of our society. For patents, 5 years. Copyright, the lifetime of the creator.or 50 years for a corporation. Mickey Mouse should not be protected until the end of time.
You could have my life be an open book when there is a very small government with very few rules to get caught up in. Also, I would need everybody to be non-judgmental. If I want a wife AND a girlfriend, you may get to know, but do not get to say anything about it.
The whole reason for privacy is the government and your neighbors always go apeshit once they know what you are up to, so it is better they do not know.
The problem is not that I want secrets, but everybody else that wants to run my life for me. They pry into my life, so they may know when I am not complying to their will. When lovers can have sex in public without cops busting them or people gawking at them, then we will have a world that doesn't need privacy.
I picked up an old HTC with WiFi from a friend. I could not get a phone only plan for it at US Cellular. This was a phone I owned free and clear. They still wouldn't do it.
I somehow avoided Trumpet Winsock for the most part. I used Compuserve and moved to OS/2 about that time which allowed me to use OS/2 for most of my dialup needs. I also used Injoy for OS/2 to share my connection on my network. Later, I bought a dedicated network modem dialer unit which along with Injoy allowed the move to ethernet a bit sooner than most. Strange that the just the right combination of technologies can skirt around another almost entirely.
The few times I did have to use Winsock, it usually came with the disk from the ISP. The small ISPs used an older version and never mentioned any need to pay for it. That seemed to be the business model for many small non-AOL/Compuserve systems.
Mostly religion tries to limit sex to married couples for the need to support a wife and child is very important to society. Those concepts were driven by the lack of birth control and the fact the average family struggled enough without having small armies of moms needing welfare.
Birth control helps when people use it. Too many do not. The result is many women needing welfare, effectively demanding charity to support their mistakes. Free love is fine, but you must be willing and able to pay when the baby comes along.
The other issue with sex is disease, we have not really done too well with that. HPV for example is virtually impossible to prevent spreading and seems to lead to all types of cancers. Being conservative with your body could save your life.
As Europe has single payer health care, many there may not worry about STDs. When their loose lifestyle gets them cancer, they get to make everybody else pay to cure them.
Religions tended to inform people that they need to take care of themselves and not be a burden on society. We do not need such foolishness today!/s
Personally, I am areligious, but hold libertarian ideals. So, I still feel I need to try my best not to be a burden to others. Running around impregnating every woman who will let me is not exactly responsible behavior towards them, myself or society.
If anybody else placed anything onto your car, you could assume it was a gift. I think the FBI was embarrassed it was found. I would claim it was a gift from the government. Or, microwave the bastard and put it back. At that point you can videotape your car and get evidence of them replacing it.
Go to a dog park and you will see all sorts of dogs licking each other. It is very common. Not all licking may be sexual though. There seems to be a sniff it and taste it exploration going on. However, soon after that sniffing and tasting comes the humping.
As a business owner, I do pay my use tax. The reason is simple, I cannot make the excuse I didn't know.
It is not that hard. First, all such orders are done online with email verifications. Just throw them into an email folder and add them up at the end of the year. That is usually a single line item that they pretty much take your word on. Hell, I am one of the few that willingly complies. Piss me off and my email folder vanishes!
The goal of streamlined taxes is not to have other states tax you. It is to make a system clear enough to allow any retailer to tax you for your state.
The best and most successful argument against Internet sales taxes has been the filing of dozens of state returns. With all the complex laws, it would be truly sadistic to put upon small businesses. Food is not even defined universally across the nation and is a matter of debate within the simplified tax plans. Once you allow any state the option to look at a product or service differently from another state, your plan goes out the window.
Some sites I see now tend to stop at the state tax for that is the easiest to tax, but if you pay that tax you are obligated to check for local and special tax jurisdictions, too. Like I said before, zip codes will not help you there.
As soon as you figure out how to catalog every single address and cross reference that to all the ever changing state and local tax laws, including new jurisdictions be added, let me know.
BTW, every day new homes are built, so your database will never be complete. I will not have the luxury of claiming you were wrong in tax court. The government will insist that I am responsible for the accuracy of my returns, period.
There are over 1500 taxing bodies in the United States. States, counties, villages, cities and special districts all must be accounted for. Guess what? The zip codes don't matchup to those areas, so you end up having to dig into a map to really know what tax to charge. I know for I asked my state and they said there is no way to use the zip codes. It just doesn't work that way.
Then, we have the fun of figuring out what is taxable. The biggest hurdle to the simplified sales tax has always been all the special favors doled out by the tax code makes all sort of things exempt. Every state has its own list of exemptions.
My little IT shop has 3 counties in my state I generally cover. Each one has a different sales tax rate. If I sell prepackaged software, I tax it. Software I custom write for a client, I do not. I tax backup media, but need not tax the actual act of data backup or restoration. You would think that since the act of backing up is labor all labor is tax-free. No, all other labor is taxable. It is totally insane.
To the south, I have another state that does not tax labor as mine does, so I never sell real property there. I just buy parts locally, get reimbursed and just bill the labor. If I did choose to sell stuff, there would be several additional taxing bodies to deal with.
The only simple interstate sales tax would be you tax EVERYTHING at the SAME rate, EVERYWHERE. That will never happen. Politicians love the knobs and buttons of power, they resist any simplification that limits the favors they can dole out. Without power, there is no reason to grease their palms.
I agree about a small business having a hard time with the Internet as it deals with sales taxes. However, I do not think it is a fair playing field with the tax. The states claim that a purchase used in their state is taxable, regardless where they buy it. So, every person buying any non-food item should be presumed to use it in their home location. Every transaction must then be identified. To be fair every brick and mortar must ID every customer and file a form for each applicable state. I am sure they will consider that fair!
The goal of fairness is always achieved with more rules to the point everybody is screwed. The best way to a fair tax is to keep as simple and low as possible. However, that requires what nobody seems to want, smaller government.
Sounds like the platters were taken out. Contamination, including abrasive action occurs immediately at that point. Bouncing down the road in the back of a truck unprotected, those mirror-like platters are going to look like hell.
A complete drive may be easy to pick out, but a loose and badly damaged platter would look a lot like foil. It would be painstaking to retrieve once the components are no longer a single unit and soiled.
I always skid my optical media along the concrete before I snap and discard them. How hard would it be to scrap the disks on the concrete in the stairwell before he left the building? Some platter particles are now there, too.
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Get an antenna, if you have a good selection of stations. Try TVFOOL.com for more info.
I suggest the 8 bay bow-tie from Winegard. It has the advantage of not taking up too much space and it is made in the US. You have to assemble it, which can be a con for some. It was not difficult to put together. The pro is if you are mounting in your attic you can assemble it after you get in the space. The box was about 4ft X 8in X 8 in.
The gain is on par with other bow-ties, though some say the gain is a bit less. However, I am in the Chicago area over 60 miles away and receive all the Chicago stations, including the VHF (which they say should not work, but WBBM (ch 12) comes in perfect).
From my antenna I get NBC, ABC, CBS, CW, WGN, My50, ION, Qubo (kids), PBS ( both 11 and 20), independent 26, MeTV, MeTooTv, Antenna TV, Fox and other sub-carrier offerings on those channels.
Also, use the RG-6 Quad Shielded cable, it prevents excessive signal loss. Having a good antenna without a good cable is just plain nuts. I received all those stations without much trouble and no pre-amp. I just use a distribution amp in the house. I am feeding 2 tvs easily.
I did add hulu and netflix to round out my options. It works great. The kids find some of the Disney and Nickelodeon on netflix, so the bitching is easing a bit. All for less than standard cable. I may eventually drop hulu, but I will wait and see what they do. I may be surprised. Netflix is just an extreme value! BTW, hulu is off my mythtv (DVR) and netflix off the Wii.
The DSL line sucks for my streaming, but it works (768k business class). I may need to move up to something better, but the the ISPs will rape me unless I buy video and voice. The biggest issue I think is not having a good choice for ISPs that offer a fast pipe with no cap at a reasonable price.
Well, there is a debate that the 16th Amendment was not ratified correctly. Also, the 16th mentions income, which was meant to mean investment income, such as corporate profit and dividends.
It did not mean the fruits of your labor. You do not profit when you work for an employer. You make an even trade of your time for some money. You would not consider bartering as profit, it is an even trade. In fact, one ruling said that the 16th did not create any new form of taxation.
That is why the income tax is "voluntary". If you fill out the form, then you owe. It is a scam, but the scammers have guns and prisons to lock you up in!
I agree. The web could be considered an electronic catalog and ordering system, but it is still mail order.
If you truly want to be fair, then it must go both ways. Every brick and mortar store should be forced to card every customer to determine where they live. They may be tourists that should have to pay sales tax for another jurisdiction. The B&Ms would cry like babies, if they had to do that. That is funny for they are asking web stores to do that for 7500 jurisdictions.
My dream device would be a mobile with enough power to be a fully functional computer. Wireless Video displays would be cool, but an hdmi port could suffice. Bluetooth keyboards and mice would be awesome. No more syncing. Your phone is your computer, plain and simple. Walk into your office and link up to your peripherals and away you go.
Why not have law enforcement work harder on these crimes than drug enforcement?
Your passphrase is personal data. Unless, you accept that a secured wireless router can be routinely accessed without a passphrase, they have personal information at their disposal. They also will have access to all your traffic to and from your other PCs. Accessing a network is as bad as accessing a particular PC. Seems the judge just made it open season on all private networks if there is an AP on it.
Good job!! /s
The judge is a fool. Routers store data such as DHCP info and passwords created by the OWNERS.
No need to force them. They will need to grab the .xxx anyway or somebody else will get it. Then they put the content on the .xxx and keep the .com with the page blank or non-pornographic.
We all get to help, if we use such sites by abstaining from using any site with a live .com and only go to the .xxx. No force required, but the effect would be the same. I do not find porn offensive in general, but I do not feel children should have access. Having a .xxx domain would make filtering for kids a hell of a lot more successful. Plus, that benefits such sites by taking away the "for the children" reasoning to ban all Internet porn.
The devil's hand is government. Though I do not dismiss nuclear power as a useful source of energy, it is hard to imagine many companies would choose to build them without indemnification, incentives, fuel processing and more benefits from government.
The whole point is HPV is not without risks and being a whore makes little sense, if you really care about yourself, your mate or your society.
I thought the EU was one happy family! /s
Fine, but then I want you to sign a contract indemnifying me from any damages that come from any IP you used to make your album.
Yes, we have copyright to protect IP, but it was to be limited due to the fact people from all walks of life borrow from the society they live in. Musicians steal from the past, so do inventors and others. Whatever a person creates is not presumed to be 100% unique, so it enters the public domain at some point. Personally, the time should be far less due to the speed of our society. For patents, 5 years. Copyright, the lifetime of the creator.or 50 years for a corporation. Mickey Mouse should not be protected until the end of time.
You could have my life be an open book when there is a very small government with very few rules to get caught up in. Also, I would need everybody to be non-judgmental. If I want a wife AND a girlfriend, you may get to know, but do not get to say anything about it.
The whole reason for privacy is the government and your neighbors always go apeshit once they know what you are up to, so it is better they do not know.
The problem is not that I want secrets, but everybody else that wants to run my life for me. They pry into my life, so they may know when I am not complying to their will. When lovers can have sex in public without cops busting them or people gawking at them, then we will have a world that doesn't need privacy.
I picked up an old HTC with WiFi from a friend. I could not get a phone only plan for it at US Cellular. This was a phone I owned free and clear. They still wouldn't do it.
I somehow avoided Trumpet Winsock for the most part. I used Compuserve and moved to OS/2 about that time which allowed me to use OS/2 for most of my dialup needs. I also used Injoy for OS/2 to share my connection on my network. Later, I bought a dedicated network modem dialer unit which along with Injoy allowed the move to ethernet a bit sooner than most. Strange that the just the right combination of technologies can skirt around another almost entirely.
The few times I did have to use Winsock, it usually came with the disk from the ISP. The small ISPs used an older version and never mentioned any need to pay for it. That seemed to be the business model for many small non-AOL/Compuserve systems.
Mostly religion tries to limit sex to married couples for the need to support a wife and child is very important to society. Those concepts were driven by the lack of birth control and the fact the average family struggled enough without having small armies of moms needing welfare.
Birth control helps when people use it. Too many do not. The result is many women needing welfare, effectively demanding charity to support their mistakes. Free love is fine, but you must be willing and able to pay when the baby comes along.
The other issue with sex is disease, we have not really done too well with that. HPV for example is virtually impossible to prevent spreading and seems to lead to all types of cancers. Being conservative with your body could save your life.
As Europe has single payer health care, many there may not worry about STDs. When their loose lifestyle gets them cancer, they get to make everybody else pay to cure them.
Religions tended to inform people that they need to take care of themselves and not be a burden on society. We do not need such foolishness today! /s
Personally, I am areligious, but hold libertarian ideals. So, I still feel I need to try my best not to be a burden to others. Running around impregnating every woman who will let me is not exactly responsible behavior towards them, myself or society.
If anybody else placed anything onto your car, you could assume it was a gift. I think the FBI was embarrassed it was found. I would claim it was a gift from the government. Or, microwave the bastard and put it back. At that point you can videotape your car and get evidence of them replacing it.
Go to a dog park and you will see all sorts of dogs licking each other. It is very common. Not all licking may be sexual though. There seems to be a sniff it and taste it exploration going on. However, soon after that sniffing and tasting comes the humping.
Plus, with that standard the TSA will go nuts with these. I can see it now, dis-assembly required to board a plane.
As a business owner, I do pay my use tax. The reason is simple, I cannot make the excuse I didn't know.
It is not that hard. First, all such orders are done online with email verifications. Just throw them into an email folder and add them up at the end of the year. That is usually a single line item that they pretty much take your word on. Hell, I am one of the few that willingly complies. Piss me off and my email folder vanishes!
The goal of streamlined taxes is not to have other states tax you. It is to make a system clear enough to allow any retailer to tax you for your state.
The best and most successful argument against Internet sales taxes has been the filing of dozens of state returns. With all the complex laws, it would be truly sadistic to put upon small businesses. Food is not even defined universally across the nation and is a matter of debate within the simplified tax plans. Once you allow any state the option to look at a product or service differently from another state, your plan goes out the window.
Some sites I see now tend to stop at the state tax for that is the easiest to tax, but if you pay that tax you are obligated to check for local and special tax jurisdictions, too. Like I said before, zip codes will not help you there.
Plus, if the following catches on, have fun with that.
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=579746
As soon as you figure out how to catalog every single address and cross reference that to all the ever changing state and local tax laws, including new jurisdictions be added, let me know.
BTW, every day new homes are built, so your database will never be complete. I will not have the luxury of claiming you were wrong in tax court. The government will insist that I am responsible for the accuracy of my returns, period.
Simple? Try again!
There are over 1500 taxing bodies in the United States. States, counties, villages, cities and special districts all must be accounted for. Guess what? The zip codes don't matchup to those areas, so you end up having to dig into a map to really know what tax to charge. I know for I asked my state and they said there is no way to use the zip codes. It just doesn't work that way.
Then, we have the fun of figuring out what is taxable. The biggest hurdle to the simplified sales tax has always been all the special favors doled out by the tax code makes all sort of things exempt. Every state has its own list of exemptions.
My little IT shop has 3 counties in my state I generally cover. Each one has a different sales tax rate. If I sell prepackaged software, I tax it. Software I custom write for a client, I do not. I tax backup media, but need not tax the actual act of data backup or restoration. You would think that since the act of backing up is labor all labor is tax-free. No, all other labor is taxable. It is totally insane.
To the south, I have another state that does not tax labor as mine does, so I never sell real property there. I just buy parts locally, get reimbursed and just bill the labor. If I did choose to sell stuff, there would be several additional taxing bodies to deal with.
The only simple interstate sales tax would be you tax EVERYTHING at the SAME rate, EVERYWHERE. That will never happen. Politicians love the knobs and buttons of power, they resist any simplification that limits the favors they can dole out. Without power, there is no reason to grease their palms.
I agree about a small business having a hard time with the Internet as it deals with sales taxes. However, I do not think it is a fair playing field with the tax. The states claim that a purchase used in their state is taxable, regardless where they buy it. So, every person buying any non-food item should be presumed to use it in their home location. Every transaction must then be identified. To be fair every brick and mortar must ID every customer and file a form for each applicable state. I am sure they will consider that fair!
The goal of fairness is always achieved with more rules to the point everybody is screwed. The best way to a fair tax is to keep as simple and low as possible. However, that requires what nobody seems to want, smaller government.
Sounds like the platters were taken out. Contamination, including abrasive action occurs immediately at that point. Bouncing down the road in the back of a truck unprotected, those mirror-like platters are going to look like hell.
A complete drive may be easy to pick out, but a loose and badly damaged platter would look a lot like foil. It would be painstaking to retrieve once the components are no longer a single unit and soiled.
I always skid my optical media along the concrete before I snap and discard them. How hard would it be to scrap the disks on the concrete in the stairwell before he left the building? Some platter particles are now there, too.
The data is gone.