Its a good thing Presidents don't make laws but not too much comfort. We still want someone who stands up for freedom not destroys it. What would really disgust me is if they start talking about it being a "test" for Supreme Court nominees whether they would uphold a government "right" to violate human rights - that is, the fundamental right to privacy.
Doesn't the fact that they are named Homo floresiensis - not Homo sapiens - already mean they weren't considered humans? Not sure what the news is here.
1. Its not a personal preference it is sensible. If you don't realize that > 480p resolution on a 5 inch display is overkill you are stupid. Whether you are deliberately being stupid to be a prick for arguments' sake I don't know, but you are stupid.
2. It wasn't an e-mail it was a clearly worded txt so the rest of your rant is BS.
I'm through arguing about this. If you were too stupid to 1) not read the fucking txt; 2) not realize that 480p is more than sufficient and in fact highly preferable for a 5 inch display with a device on a measured-rate plan with generally limited bandwidth, and 3) call tech support if you thought there was a problem then too bad.
480 is exactly what I would want on a 5-inch display phone. Even on a 15-inch laptop I often watch videos at 480 p.
As for your comments, if you are too stupid to read the communication the carrier sent to you notifying you of it, that's your problem.
And I'm sure if you were having an unwarranted crap-fit about your resolution because you ignored the communication, and called their support number, they would have immediately told you what was going on and given you the same information that was in the communication you failed to read.
What are you saying? The setting T-Mobile is using is, I think I remember from last reading, is *higher* than 720p. And if you happen to be tethering some device with a hi-res display through the phone then you can just toggle the service temporarily off.
I *totally* agree. The people who are trying to relate this to net neutrality (which I strongly support) seem to be the ones causing damage here, not the other way around.
You are full of it. They are not fucking up anything. They simply have provided a feature to be able to limit videos being watched on the phone at a ridiculously high bitrate such as 2k or 4k which would be overkill for such small screens. And it can easily be toggled on or off.
I agree. I still side with T-Mobile on this. Binge-On is no different than a browser plugin I use and consider essential called "YouTube High Definition" which I use to automatically restrict all YouTube videos on my laptop to no higher than 720p resolution. That is because there is no discernible difference above it for most of the videos I watch and because with the crappy bandwidth I get (all the crap in the news about fiber upgrades is basically a complete farce) with DSL over the POTS line, anything above 720p tends to be choppy.
Obviously if you're on a phone you would not really want or need anything above 480p in most cases. I think Binge-On and similar features with other carriers are a convenience for customers and, at least with my MetroPCS service, we were clearly notified of the availability of the feature and it trivial to toggle it on or off.
Perhaps the "controversy" going on is just people crapping their pants for no reason.
All they have to do is come to the West Coast and buy property. No worries about pesky immigration requirements. Bring the whole family. And the city hall's in America open their doors wide for the CCP embezzlers. We pay for their kids medical and education. Meanwhile the people they've ripped off rot back in their home country. That's how American humanistic open immigration works.
Casinos in Macau are also taking a hit due to active public campaigns to dissuade the public from gambling. There was a segment about it on NHK recently. Not like I ever make close to enough money (like Edward Snowden did and his ex-co-workers do) to be able to afford to visit there.
I don't think I will ever attend performance art again.
I've used drbd distributed block device before in redundancy/failover setups, but didn't know about this which is entirely different. Just found a site with some better info on the whole distributed ledger thing. It seems really cool.
Thank you for the clarification. I agree that those are reasonable salaries in range with what would be expected.
Re: Snowden: Wasn't he an employee of an agency that contracted with the govn't, not an independent contractor himself? And still, in whatever case, I can imagine the exorbitant amount that the middleman contracting company was charging the govn't.
I know that he blew the whistle on major abuses, but still I find it sickening that my government employs thousands of people like him to violate our civil rights and these people are living the high life in places like Hawaii. And it disgusts me when I think about his gf who is a performance artist. Are these the kind of people we want involved in our art communities?
This all reminds me of the Nazi era with the SS people living their high lives. I even saw a video of Eva Braun doing yoga at Hitler's country home near Munich. This is what American society has collapsed to.
In some ways I think what the SS did was more honorable, because they did not try to conceal who they were and blend in.
Its absolutely sickening what has happened in America: A country with an entitled elite class which has a completely different set of rules that the rest of the population.
Better solution IMHO by far is to ditch Chrome. And, as someone above wrote, its not just Lastpass that can have this issue in it, but potentially any other app as well.
I agree. It is a Chrome issue and in fact Chrome's crappy support for Lastpass, along with blocking duckduckgo.com from being a search engine, is why I never use Chrome.
I agree and think that at some point in what will probably be the relatively close future the level of technology is going to be so high that the idea of risking any human life would just seem nonsensical in comparison. What would be the point of going through the horrendous task of putting humans in far away places when the eyes, ears, instrumentation, etc. that could be put there for a fraction of the cost and at no risk to human health would be vastly superior. True, its not as glamorous as sci-fi, and you're right in identifying sci-fi as a kind of romantic delusion that finally needs to be identified and purged.
Re: the Moon as a learning/training tool to help with eventual Mars habitation: One question I would ask is to what extent using the Moon would be that much more useful than what could be learned from simulations/different environments on Earth which might also be similar to Mars, although perhaps lacking the low-G and no oxygen.
Deflate the value of American currency by a factor of 100. Problem solved.
Not only would it solve the issue with low-denomination coins, it would make the entire spectrum of currency much more useful.
Think of it: If you had to pay for something expensive in cash, you wouldn't need a humungous wad of $100 bills. And the penny would be equivalent purchasing power to $1 now. You could go out for a walk with a few quarters in your pocket knowing that was all you needed to get lunch somewhere.
I completely disagree with your line of thinking. As a consumer and a citizen you have rights and in civilized society we agree on certain sets of rules regarding what is acceptable and what is not. Even if you individually chose to waive your civil or consumer rights, it would not be considered valid nor acceptable from a legal standpoint.
The European Union is much further along at recognizing and enforcing rights in the area of information technology. But just because you as a consumer are happy to accept violations of your rights does not vindicate the violation of those rights.
What the heck is Silverlight? I never checked that update for so long, then finally one time I was just sick of constantly seeing it and so checked it. I still don't know what it is and never saw anything about it.
AT&T, the company which said "Hey NSA, please come in and install your own equipment to violate the basic human rights of millions of peoples' communications running through our trunks".
Anyone who would ever consider conducting business with the company has a serious problem. It would be like happily conducting business with the company that made Zyklon B.
Probably for some really grubby reason such as making it easier for her to accept bribes, etc.
On a side note, its really interesting when the oligarchic-controlled news media and political "pundits" crap their pants over they way Donald Trump has verbally thrashed her recently.
What they fail to understand is that Big Media and "pundits" crapping their pants over his statements only increases his popularity with people, who see through the years and decades of lies and BS.
If the oligarchic-controlled Big Media and all the "pundits" were such great guardians and watchers of our democracy, how the hell did it become this effed up and broken?
And now we're supposed to be concerned when they crap their pants because someone insults one of the foremost, lying hypocrites?
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Its a good thing Presidents don't make laws but not too much comfort. We still want someone who stands up for freedom not destroys it. What would really disgust me is if they start talking about it being a "test" for Supreme Court nominees whether they would uphold a government "right" to violate human rights - that is, the fundamental right to privacy.
Doesn't the fact that they are named Homo floresiensis - not Homo sapiens - already mean they weren't considered humans? Not sure what the news is here.
1. Its not a personal preference it is sensible. If you don't realize that > 480p resolution on a 5 inch display is overkill you are stupid. Whether you are deliberately being stupid to be a prick for arguments' sake I don't know, but you are stupid.
2. It wasn't an e-mail it was a clearly worded txt so the rest of your rant is BS.
I'm through arguing about this. If you were too stupid to 1) not read the fucking txt; 2) not realize that 480p is more than sufficient and in fact highly preferable for a 5 inch display with a device on a measured-rate plan with generally limited bandwidth, and 3) call tech support if you thought there was a problem then too bad.
480 is exactly what I would want on a 5-inch display phone. Even on a 15-inch laptop I often watch videos at 480 p.
As for your comments, if you are too stupid to read the communication the carrier sent to you notifying you of it, that's your problem.
And I'm sure if you were having an unwarranted crap-fit about your resolution because you ignored the communication, and called their support number, they would have immediately told you what was going on and given you the same information that was in the communication you failed to read.
What are you saying? The setting T-Mobile is using is, I think I remember from last reading, is *higher* than 720p. And if you happen to be tethering some device with a hi-res display through the phone then you can just toggle the service temporarily off.
I *totally* agree. The people who are trying to relate this to net neutrality (which I strongly support) seem to be the ones causing damage here, not the other way around.
You are full of it. They are not fucking up anything. They simply have provided a feature to be able to limit videos being watched on the phone at a ridiculously high bitrate such as 2k or 4k which would be overkill for such small screens. And it can easily be toggled on or off.
Please stop crapping your pants about this.
I agree. I still side with T-Mobile on this. Binge-On is no different than a browser plugin I use and consider essential called "YouTube High Definition" which I use to automatically restrict all YouTube videos on my laptop to no higher than 720p resolution. That is because there is no discernible difference above it for most of the videos I watch and because with the crappy bandwidth I get (all the crap in the news about fiber upgrades is basically a complete farce) with DSL over the POTS line, anything above 720p tends to be choppy.
Obviously if you're on a phone you would not really want or need anything above 480p in most cases. I think Binge-On and similar features with other carriers are a convenience for customers and, at least with my MetroPCS service, we were clearly notified of the availability of the feature and it trivial to toggle it on or off.
Perhaps the "controversy" going on is just people crapping their pants for no reason.
All they have to do is come to the West Coast and buy property. No worries about pesky immigration requirements. Bring the whole family. And the city hall's in America open their doors wide for the CCP embezzlers. We pay for their kids medical and education. Meanwhile the people they've ripped off rot back in their home country. That's how American humanistic open immigration works.
Casinos in Macau are also taking a hit due to active public campaigns to dissuade the public from gambling. There was a segment about it on NHK recently. Not like I ever make close to enough money (like Edward Snowden did and his ex-co-workers do) to be able to afford to visit there.
I don't think I will ever attend performance art again.
I've used drbd distributed block device before in redundancy/failover setups, but didn't know about this which is entirely different. Just found a site with some better info on the whole distributed ledger thing. It seems really cool.
Thank you for the clarification. I agree that those are reasonable salaries in range with what would be expected.
Re: Snowden: Wasn't he an employee of an agency that contracted with the govn't, not an independent contractor himself? And still, in whatever case, I can imagine the exorbitant amount that the middleman contracting company was charging the govn't.
I know that he blew the whistle on major abuses, but still I find it sickening that my government employs thousands of people like him to violate our civil rights and these people are living the high life in places like Hawaii. And it disgusts me when I think about his gf who is a performance artist. Are these the kind of people we want involved in our art communities?
This all reminds me of the Nazi era with the SS people living their high lives. I even saw a video of Eva Braun doing yoga at Hitler's country home near Munich. This is what American society has collapsed to.
In some ways I think what the SS did was more honorable, because they did not try to conceal who they were and blend in.
Its absolutely sickening what has happened in America: A country with an entitled elite class which has a completely different set of rules that the rest of the population.
In the mobile browser it is impossible to set ddg as default search.
Better solution IMHO by far is to ditch Chrome. And, as someone above wrote, its not just Lastpass that can have this issue in it, but potentially any other app as well.
I agree. It is a Chrome issue and in fact Chrome's crappy support for Lastpass, along with blocking duckduckgo.com from being a search engine, is why I never use Chrome.
I agree and think that at some point in what will probably be the relatively close future the level of technology is going to be so high that the idea of risking any human life would just seem nonsensical in comparison. What would be the point of going through the horrendous task of putting humans in far away places when the eyes, ears, instrumentation, etc. that could be put there for a fraction of the cost and at no risk to human health would be vastly superior. True, its not as glamorous as sci-fi, and you're right in identifying sci-fi as a kind of romantic delusion that finally needs to be identified and purged.
Re: the Moon as a learning/training tool to help with eventual Mars habitation: One question I would ask is to what extent using the Moon would be that much more useful than what could be learned from simulations/different environments on Earth which might also be similar to Mars, although perhaps lacking the low-G and no oxygen.
Sugar daddy arrangement? ;-)
Also got me curious now about the cost inflation over the years of those other types of "dates"
Well now that I think about it $1 gumballs would be ridiculous anyway. So revaluation by a factor of 1/10 would be better ;-)
Deflate the value of American currency by a factor of 100. Problem solved.
Not only would it solve the issue with low-denomination coins, it would make the entire spectrum of currency much more useful.
Think of it: If you had to pay for something expensive in cash, you wouldn't need a humungous wad of $100 bills. And the penny would be equivalent purchasing power to $1 now. You could go out for a walk with a few quarters in your pocket knowing that was all you needed to get lunch somewhere.
That is how currency was supposed to be anyhow!
I completely disagree with your line of thinking. As a consumer and a citizen you have rights and in civilized society we agree on certain sets of rules regarding what is acceptable and what is not. Even if you individually chose to waive your civil or consumer rights, it would not be considered valid nor acceptable from a legal standpoint.
The European Union is much further along at recognizing and enforcing rights in the area of information technology. But just because you as a consumer are happy to accept violations of your rights does not vindicate the violation of those rights.
What the heck is Silverlight? I never checked that update for so long, then finally one time I was just sick of constantly seeing it and so checked it. I still don't know what it is and never saw anything about it.
AT&T, the company which said "Hey NSA, please come in and install your own equipment to violate the basic human rights of millions of peoples' communications running through our trunks".
Anyone who would ever consider conducting business with the company has a serious problem. It would be like happily conducting business with the company that made Zyklon B.
Probably for some really grubby reason such as making it easier for her to accept bribes, etc.
On a side note, its really interesting when the oligarchic-controlled news media and political "pundits" crap their pants over they way Donald Trump has verbally thrashed her recently.
What they fail to understand is that Big Media and "pundits" crapping their pants over his statements only increases his popularity with people, who see through the years and decades of lies and BS.
If the oligarchic-controlled Big Media and all the "pundits" were such great guardians and watchers of our democracy, how the hell did it become this effed up and broken?
And now we're supposed to be concerned when they crap their pants because someone insults one of the foremost, lying hypocrites?