I'd be insane to be an early adopter with these, and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone for that reason. Unlike many I have CFs that have lasted for at least 5 years now, and are just as energy efficient as these $60 LEDs. I think I'll wait around for them to be competitively priced. $60 is just too much for a friggin' light bulb.
I have never regretted closing and deleting the Facebook page that I had. I'm even more glad that it didn't use my real name or ever have any pictures with me in them anywhere on Facebook. Facebook is a fucking social virus and I'll celebrate the day it comes crashing down in ruin. I'll also laugh and point at all of you who scoffed at my valuing privacy on the day that it finally dawns on you that you've screwed yourselves over six ways from Sunday by putting your entire life on the damned thing.
It's been proven time and time again that filtering isn't effective, and often it's abused by people with access and the power to affect what is and is not filtered!
The question that immediately comes to mind upon reading your post is: Do the people you're referring to consume animals that are inherently free-range, or are they still farmed animals? My gut instinct is trying to tell me that it's not so much what animals we consume or how much of that we consume, but what the animals are fed on. Here in the U.S., the typical farmed animals are kept in pens (or worse if it's chickens), fed grains and even offal, and fed antibiotics, growth hormones, etc.
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Then there's people like me, who aren't a member of any political party, and vote their conscience. So far as I'm concerned there needs to be more people who do what I do.
Why do you still have yours? I also don't own any Apple products, and have no plans to buy any in the future, either; I don't recommend anyone buy those, either.
I'd like to remind everyone that you don't need any of these things in your life in order to have a happy, productive life, and in my opinion you're more likely to have a happy, productive life if you don't have them. While you're at it, stop wasting money on cable and satellite TV, and smartphones and the overpriced data plans that they come with, too. Read more books, interact with more people in person, and go outside more often and move your bodies around. I can almost guarantee that these things will make your healthier and happier than what they're replacing.
WHY is it that these morons can't seem to get it through their thick heads that what they're asking to do is not technically feasible??!? You don't like porn? Then don't look at it, morons!!!
Why hasn't the Catholic Church been declared a conspiracy to aid and abet child molestors? The reason is emm-oh-enn-ee-why, that's what. The MPAA, rotting from within or not, still has a shit-ton of money, and they're happy to toss it around to try to get what they want -- and so far they're fairly effective at it.
The "downside" so far as people are concerned, is that they'd feel guilty about eating the fatty shit foods they so adore, and since for most people that's what little pleasure they have in their droning, dull-as-shit lives, they won't tolerate it. That, and they're addicted to the shit. So they'd rather be blissfully ignorant, and fat, and complain about it, while conversely asking constantly for a magic pill to make them thin in a matter of days.
I applaud you for your efforts to get your weight under control. Here is my one piece of advice: If it doesn't have nutritional information, then you probably shouldn't eat it at all. Period. Has worked for me for years now, and I used to weigh ~320lbs, now I 'm down to 200lbs and race bikes competitively, and I'm in my mid-forties. If I can do it, you or anyone should be able to do it, too.
I think you may be kidding, but even if you are, you're right: they can clamp down on online file sharing all they want, and people will just go back to using SneakerNet.
It's a very sad thought to me, that a once-great and powerful machine of such complexity is being reduced to little more than a static kiddie ride in a museum, even if it is the Smithsonian. I suppose part of this sadness comes from the fact that we don't have anything home-grown replacing it currently, and with the way things are going, we might not for many decades to come. As many of us did, I anticipated having reusable SSTO craft before now, driving the cost of the ride into orbit way down from what the shuttle cost. Instead we have essentially nothing.
When will people learn? It starts with blocking "thepiratebay.com". Then people start using "thepir@teb@y.com". Then when they block that, maybe it morphs into "tehpyr@teb@e". After not very long, and way too much in labor costs by network admins, they're totally missing blocking references to "7|-|3P1R473B4'/.(0/\/\". MEMO TO DISNEY (and everyone else trying to censor shit on the internets: Give the fuck up, it doesn't work no matter how hard you try, and it just makes everything more annoying and confusing for everyone!
I don't give a crap about what THEY want! Are you forgetting? They seem to be: "..by the people, FOR the people". This is OUR country, OUR taxes. The government is supposed to serve US, not the other way around!
Welcome to the age of Minority Report, France: Now you, too, can be convicted of a crime you haven't yet committed, but that we suspect you'll commit! What's next, France? Jailing someone who researches how a nuclear bomb works? How about jailing someone who watches Breaking Bad because they obviously are planning on becoming a producer and dealer in methamphetamine? Whoops, little 5 year old Johnny at the supermarket with his mother almost walked out the door with a candy bar in his hand, better send him off to Juvenile Hall, he's on his way to becoming a hardened criminal!
Seriously, Sarkosy? Are you seriously going to plunge head-first down this slippery slope? Are you really that stupid?
I don't give a crap about who tracks what already. Cash may be one of the last bastions of anonymity and privacy left to us! If I want to pay for cash for everything I can, then I should be able to do that! What I buy at the grocery store, or what movie I go see, or what restaurant I eat at, etc. is nobody's business but mine. Aren't things already bad enough in this world? I can't say it loud enough: DO NOT WANT!
I have no use for this technology, which will only serve to make it even easier for the government and corporate America to track my movement and habits. Just yesterday I read a news story about how Sweden is considering going cashless. This isn't much better. I want to preserve my right to pay for everything with cash and NOT have all my spending habits and movements tracked through financial transactions.
I'll never, ever buy an Apple product, if that's the way of things. I am an experienced electronics tech, I've been working on my own vehicles since I was a teenager, and I regularly build or repair things myself. If it's going to cost so damned much as Apple products do and they're going to damn near seal the thing in a block of epoxy to keep me out of it, then screw them and their shit.
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I suggest we refer to this new protocol as "XoIP" (pronounced "zoip", of course).
I'd be insane to be an early adopter with these, and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone for that reason. Unlike many I have CFs that have lasted for at least 5 years now, and are just as energy efficient as these $60 LEDs. I think I'll wait around for them to be competitively priced. $60 is just too much for a friggin' light bulb.
I have never regretted closing and deleting the Facebook page that I had. I'm even more glad that it didn't use my real name or ever have any pictures with me in them anywhere on Facebook. Facebook is a fucking social virus and I'll celebrate the day it comes crashing down in ruin. I'll also laugh and point at all of you who scoffed at my valuing privacy on the day that it finally dawns on you that you've screwed yourselves over six ways from Sunday by putting your entire life on the damned thing.
It's been proven time and time again that filtering isn't effective, and often it's abused by people with access and the power to affect what is and is not filtered!
The question that immediately comes to mind upon reading your post is: Do the people you're referring to consume animals that are inherently free-range, or are they still farmed animals? My gut instinct is trying to tell me that it's not so much what animals we consume or how much of that we consume, but what the animals are fed on. Here in the U.S., the typical farmed animals are kept in pens (or worse if it's chickens), fed grains and even offal, and fed antibiotics, growth hormones, etc.
Then there's people like me, who aren't a member of any political party, and vote their conscience. So far as I'm concerned there needs to be more people who do what I do.
When are these idiot politicians going to get it through their thick skulls that filtering software doesn't work!
Why do you still have yours?
I also don't own any Apple products, and have no plans to buy any in the future, either; I don't recommend anyone buy those, either.
I'd like to remind everyone that you don't need any of these things in your life in order to have a happy, productive life, and in my opinion you're more likely to have a happy, productive life if you don't have them. While you're at it, stop wasting money on cable and satellite TV, and smartphones and the overpriced data plans that they come with, too. Read more books, interact with more people in person, and go outside more often and move your bodies around. I can almost guarantee that these things will make your healthier and happier than what they're replacing.
"Beatings will continue until morale improves"
Who are they kidding? This is just another technology that would be used to monitor and spy on people in their homes.
WHY is it that these morons can't seem to get it through their thick heads that what they're asking to do is not technically feasible??!? You don't like porn? Then don't look at it, morons!!!
Why hasn't the Catholic Church been declared a conspiracy to aid and abet child molestors? The reason is emm-oh-enn-ee-why, that's what. The MPAA, rotting from within or not, still has a shit-ton of money, and they're happy to toss it around to try to get what they want -- and so far they're fairly effective at it.
The "downside" so far as people are concerned, is that they'd feel guilty about eating the fatty shit foods they so adore, and since for most people that's what little pleasure they have in their droning, dull-as-shit lives, they won't tolerate it. That, and they're addicted to the shit. So they'd rather be blissfully ignorant, and fat, and complain about it, while conversely asking constantly for a magic pill to make them thin in a matter of days.
I applaud you for your efforts to get your weight under control. Here is my one piece of advice: If it doesn't have nutritional information, then you probably shouldn't eat it at all. Period. Has worked for me for years now, and I used to weigh ~320lbs, now I 'm down to 200lbs and race bikes competitively, and I'm in my mid-forties. If I can do it, you or anyone should be able to do it, too.
I think you may be kidding, but even if you are, you're right: they can clamp down on online file sharing all they want, and people will just go back to using SneakerNet.
It's a very sad thought to me, that a once-great and powerful machine of such complexity is being reduced to little more than a static kiddie ride in a museum, even if it is the Smithsonian. I suppose part of this sadness comes from the fact that we don't have anything home-grown replacing it currently, and with the way things are going, we might not for many decades to come. As many of us did, I anticipated having reusable SSTO craft before now, driving the cost of the ride into orbit way down from what the shuttle cost. Instead we have essentially nothing.
When will people learn?
It starts with blocking "thepiratebay.com". Then people start using "thepir@teb@y.com". Then when they block that, maybe it morphs into "tehpyr@teb@e". After not very long, and way too much in labor costs by network admins, they're totally missing blocking references to "7|-|3P1R473B4'/.(0/\/\".
MEMO TO DISNEY (and everyone else trying to censor shit on the internets: Give the fuck up, it doesn't work no matter how hard you try, and it just makes everything more annoying and confusing for everyone!
Maybe the right to privacy we were told so much about has simply become old-fashioned, a barrier to progress
Memo to Mr. Venezia:
GO TO HELL!
I don't give a crap about what THEY want! Are you forgetting? They seem to be: "..by the people, FOR the people". This is OUR country, OUR taxes. The government is supposed to serve US, not the other way around!
No.
You don't seem to understand: How do you guarantee that it's truly anonymous and protects your privacy? Answer: you can't.
Welcome to the age of Minority Report, France: Now you, too, can be convicted of a crime you haven't yet committed, but that we suspect you'll commit! What's next, France? Jailing someone who researches how a nuclear bomb works? How about jailing someone who watches Breaking Bad because they obviously are planning on becoming a producer and dealer in methamphetamine? Whoops, little 5 year old Johnny at the supermarket with his mother almost walked out the door with a candy bar in his hand, better send him off to Juvenile Hall, he's on his way to becoming a hardened criminal!
Seriously, Sarkosy? Are you seriously going to plunge head-first down this slippery slope? Are you really that stupid?
I don't give a crap about who tracks what already. Cash may be one of the last bastions of anonymity and privacy left to us! If I want to pay for cash for everything I can, then I should be able to do that! What I buy at the grocery store, or what movie I go see, or what restaurant I eat at, etc. is nobody's business but mine. Aren't things already bad enough in this world? I can't say it loud enough: DO NOT WANT!
I have no use for this technology, which will only serve to make it even easier for the government and corporate America to track my movement and habits. Just yesterday I read a news story about how Sweden is considering going cashless. This isn't much better. I want to preserve my right to pay for everything with cash and NOT have all my spending habits and movements tracked through financial transactions.
Get real. You should at least be able to replace the damned battery!
I'll never, ever buy an Apple product, if that's the way of things. I am an experienced electronics tech, I've been working on my own vehicles since I was a teenager, and I regularly build or repair things myself. If it's going to cost so damned much as Apple products do and they're going to damn near seal the thing in a block of epoxy to keep me out of it, then screw them and their shit.
That makes sense, actually. Even flash programming a OTP microcontroller is still cheaper than dedicated silicon, especially for something so simple.