Both comcast and centurytel have programs which allow qualified low income families with children to get 1.5Mbps broadband for ~$10/month. It doesn't appear to be an introductory rate and I don't see any obvious requirements that you have cable tv or phone service from them. Comcast will even sell you a low cost computer and come to your house and set it up and show you the basics of using it.
Comcast charge a bunch more for phone service, but once you've got cable internet you can easily sign up for google voice, get a free local phone number and (with the purchase of a cheap headset) you can take phone calls and receive voicemail.
These seem like programs that are absolutely targeted at the use case that the OP is describing. I'm asking you why, if you were eligible for a program like that, that you'd suggest getting a landline instead of cable/dsl?
Comcast and Centurytel both have plans that start at $10. I'm sure taxes and fees bump that up to nearer $15 but you can get a low-end broadband connection for LESS per month than a landline.
I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that if you had to choose between a phone line and a cable connection, the cable connection will provide way more value to you in the short and long terms. There's loads of free entertainment online, you can make phone calls for free, it's a necessity for applying for a lot of jobs, it lets you easily compare prices without wasting gas driving round town and it's an important part of educating your children.
Obviously there are going to be select people who can't afford either of them, but if you can afford one I have a really hard time pushing for the land line.
Well what's the point of the US having any environmental regulations at all if US corporations can import goods from chinese factories that are dumping poisonous fumes into the air. We've effectively already created a market where we can only source certain products from China because it'd violate our own laws to produce them here at that price point.
Not to make light of the situation you were in, but you say that you had a land line poor. I'm going to assume that was some time ago, but in the current day and age you'd be hard pressed to suggest anyone have a land line instead of a dsl/cable connection, especially when it looks like subsidized broadband is actually cheaper than subsidized phone service. Then of course you can tack on something like google voice to get a phone number and take calls for free.
It's half the price of the original message I was quoting.
While I recognize that lots of poor families won't make it a priority, it's also not a gigantic burden compared with the other general costs of raising a child.
And frankly, if I heard that there was a kid at my kid's school who didn't have a computer at home then i'd put one together and pay their internet bill.
Some charities also do a good job, for example Good WIll will clean up the computer, put a clean windows install and make sure it's essentially serviceable and properly licensed.
I think the fact that I haven't seen any legitimate journalistic source actually interview people who've had a long string of torrid affairs from the site probably tells us how well it actually works.
Though that presumably is because you didn't select a place to live based on the transit network.
I can get to work in 15 mins on the bus vs 12 minutes in the car. I can get to the center of town at almost any time of day, i can get into our nearest big city, i can get to two other towns, i can get to the airport all without needing to walk more than about 5 minutes. I also don't pay anything for my bus pass.
Even then I only ever use it if it's raining or snowy and I don't want to take the bike or walk.
it's also pretty ridiculous because the time window when they could have monetized that data at all ended a few years ago.
Google already knows everywhere I go and are already able to tell whether i'm in a car, bike, plane or on foot. They really don't need the automakers to get on board with that.
I can't offer you anything more than an anecdote, but i work for an apparel brand and generally women buy far more than men. I'd even guess that women buy more men's clothes than men.
In targeting ads it's generally a good strategy for us to buy ads that just target female buyers because the roi is significantly better. Not sure if that factors into other decisions, but I expect that might have some impact on it.
It does seem to be rare. I had one job in the UK that allowed it, but I was reporting to a US project team and my UK manager didn't really give a fuck as longs the cash kept flowing through his department.
I've seen some terrible abuse and it's quite clear that some people just can't be trusted to work from home. In the US i've never had a job that didn't allow it at least some of the time, though at one place I had to spend at least 40% of my time in the office or I'd lose a permanent desk.
It seems like a good thing to negotiate. If your skills are in demand and you have no shortage of people trying to hire you then it seems like you can negotiate nearly anything you want.
I also strongly suspect they'd have exactly the same problem if they offered the same bonus structure in the US. Except the headline would be something about hacker ingenuity.
Well it's hard to make it use standard os widgets and also be cross platform.
Spotify should be applauded for making a first class linux app. It really has almost every feature that the windows or mac apps have (even if that does leave it rather bloated)
The keg itself will stay good for at least a month if it's handled properly. Im' not sure about the lines running to it, but I've sat at the bar at those places and while a few beers might make up half the sales, I don't obviously notice taps going completely unused.
The brewpub across the street from me has two locations side by side and (iirc) 31 taps in one and 15 taps in the other. They stopped selling kegs from the brewery because they struggle to produce fast enough to feed their own pubs, I've never noticed anything particularly stale.
Also the lesser used stuff often tends to be things that are in a more barleywine style and that has the added bonus that it should have a longer shelf life.
Surely if you see a lane that's completely empty, you are likely to consider switching to the mode of transit that can use it.
Bikes a huge net win to cities because they are far cheaper to support than cars. Without taking action like this then nobody will want to use the, but even that's not enough - I can depend on my city ploughing bike trails and lanes (sometimes before they've even ploughed the road) and all the city buses are equipped with bike racks should I decide it's just too crappy out to ride home. Once it reaches that level of support then people do use them. I think about half the people in my office ride in to work in good weather, though certainly fewer when it's raining or snowing.
I prefer the US. Though I'm young, in good health and am very well paid. Though I have the ultimate fallback and can potentially retire to the UK when thats a better fit for my needs.
Selfish certainly, but it's nice to have that option.
If i wasn't on a six figure income I'd probably go back though, the US is horribly stacked against the lower middle class.
I was actually pretty surprised to see a similar track in italy. I worked with a guy at a supplier there who "only" had a high school education but was working in software.
Few US employers would touch someone like that (especially fresh out of high school) but there seems to be a different mentality over there where you can transition into jobs like that starting as an intern.
But you are also suggesting that's just for education which is clearly untrue.
I've never lived in Germany, but in Scotland you get a lot more for your income tax dollars than you do in the US. Of course if you happen to never get sick or never need welfare then the US is probably going to win overall, but it's hard to make that bet.
Plus if you exclude american breweries that aren't US-owned then you've suddenly lost Bud, Miller and Coors - that makes the average american beer a fuckton better
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Have you looked at the links I've posted?
Both comcast and centurytel have programs which allow qualified low income families with children to get 1.5Mbps broadband for ~$10/month. It doesn't appear to be an introductory rate and I don't see any obvious requirements that you have cable tv or phone service from them. Comcast will even sell you a low cost computer and come to your house and set it up and show you the basics of using it.
Comcast charge a bunch more for phone service, but once you've got cable internet you can easily sign up for google voice, get a free local phone number and (with the purchase of a cheap headset) you can take phone calls and receive voicemail.
These seem like programs that are absolutely targeted at the use case that the OP is describing. I'm asking you why, if you were eligible for a program like that, that you'd suggest getting a landline instead of cable/dsl?
Comcast and Centurytel both have plans that start at $10. I'm sure taxes and fees bump that up to nearer $15 but you can get a low-end broadband connection for LESS per month than a landline.
I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that if you had to choose between a phone line and a cable connection, the cable connection will provide way more value to you in the short and long terms. There's loads of free entertainment online, you can make phone calls for free, it's a necessity for applying for a lot of jobs, it lets you easily compare prices without wasting gas driving round town and it's an important part of educating your children.
Obviously there are going to be select people who can't afford either of them, but if you can afford one I have a really hard time pushing for the land line.
Well what's the point of the US having any environmental regulations at all if US corporations can import goods from chinese factories that are dumping poisonous fumes into the air. We've effectively already created a market where we can only source certain products from China because it'd violate our own laws to produce them here at that price point.
Or, more reasonably, add an import tariff to anything coming from a country that pollutes
Not to make light of the situation you were in, but you say that you had a land line poor. I'm going to assume that was some time ago, but in the current day and age you'd be hard pressed to suggest anyone have a land line instead of a dsl/cable connection, especially when it looks like subsidized broadband is actually cheaper than subsidized phone service. Then of course you can tack on something like google voice to get a phone number and take calls for free.
They sure appear to be one
http://www.bbb.org/denver/char...
It's half the price of the original message I was quoting.
While I recognize that lots of poor families won't make it a priority, it's also not a gigantic burden compared with the other general costs of raising a child.
And frankly, if I heard that there was a kid at my kid's school who didn't have a computer at home then i'd put one together and pay their internet bill.
You can get 1.5 Mbps broadband from comcast or centurytel for $10/month.
https://apply.internetessentia...
http://www.centurylink.com/hom...
Some charities also do a good job, for example Good WIll will clean up the computer, put a clean windows install and make sure it's essentially serviceable and properly licensed.
http://www.goodwilldenver.org/...
I think the fact that I haven't seen any legitimate journalistic source actually interview people who've had a long string of torrid affairs from the site probably tells us how well it actually works.
I thought they were kinda weird and disappointing. The combo of chocolate and flour just didn't seem like the right texture.
No real issue with insect protein, but i'm not rushing back to the store to get more cricket bars.
Though that presumably is because you didn't select a place to live based on the transit network.
I can get to work in 15 mins on the bus vs 12 minutes in the car. I can get to the center of town at almost any time of day, i can get into our nearest big city, i can get to two other towns, i can get to the airport all without needing to walk more than about 5 minutes. I also don't pay anything for my bus pass.
Even then I only ever use it if it's raining or snowy and I don't want to take the bike or walk.
it's also pretty ridiculous because the time window when they could have monetized that data at all ended a few years ago.
Google already knows everywhere I go and are already able to tell whether i'm in a car, bike, plane or on foot. They really don't need the automakers to get on board with that.
I can't offer you anything more than an anecdote, but i work for an apparel brand and generally women buy far more than men. I'd even guess that women buy more men's clothes than men.
In targeting ads it's generally a good strategy for us to buy ads that just target female buyers because the roi is significantly better. Not sure if that factors into other decisions, but I expect that might have some impact on it.
It does seem to be rare. I had one job in the UK that allowed it, but I was reporting to a US project team and my UK manager didn't really give a fuck as longs the cash kept flowing through his department.
I've seen some terrible abuse and it's quite clear that some people just can't be trusted to work from home. In the US i've never had a job that didn't allow it at least some of the time, though at one place I had to spend at least 40% of my time in the office or I'd lose a permanent desk.
It seems like a good thing to negotiate. If your skills are in demand and you have no shortage of people trying to hire you then it seems like you can negotiate nearly anything you want.
You could easily refine this based on the logic that users are horribly bad at choosing passwords and pins
http://www.datagenetics.com/bl...
You only need to try 426 codes to hit 50% of all pin codes (in that analysis)
These days we talk about brute forcing keys with trillions of possible candidates, this is more like "slight" force rather than brute force.
I also strongly suspect they'd have exactly the same problem if they offered the same bonus structure in the US. Except the headline would be something about hacker ingenuity.
Well it's hard to make it use standard os widgets and also be cross platform.
Spotify should be applauded for making a first class linux app. It really has almost every feature that the windows or mac apps have (even if that does leave it rather bloated)
The keg itself will stay good for at least a month if it's handled properly. Im' not sure about the lines running to it, but I've sat at the bar at those places and while a few beers might make up half the sales, I don't obviously notice taps going completely unused.
The brewpub across the street from me has two locations side by side and (iirc) 31 taps in one and 15 taps in the other. They stopped selling kegs from the brewery because they struggle to produce fast enough to feed their own pubs, I've never noticed anything particularly stale.
Also the lesser used stuff often tends to be things that are in a more barleywine style and that has the added bonus that it should have a longer shelf life.
Surely if you see a lane that's completely empty, you are likely to consider switching to the mode of transit that can use it.
Bikes a huge net win to cities because they are far cheaper to support than cars. Without taking action like this then nobody will want to use the, but even that's not enough - I can depend on my city ploughing bike trails and lanes (sometimes before they've even ploughed the road) and all the city buses are equipped with bike racks should I decide it's just too crappy out to ride home. Once it reaches that level of support then people do use them. I think about half the people in my office ride in to work in good weather, though certainly fewer when it's raining or snowing.
I prefer the US. Though I'm young, in good health and am very well paid. Though I have the ultimate fallback and can potentially retire to the UK when thats a better fit for my needs.
Selfish certainly, but it's nice to have that option.
If i wasn't on a six figure income I'd probably go back though, the US is horribly stacked against the lower middle class.
I was actually pretty surprised to see a similar track in italy. I worked with a guy at a supplier there who "only" had a high school education but was working in software.
Few US employers would touch someone like that (especially fresh out of high school) but there seems to be a different mentality over there where you can transition into jobs like that starting as an intern.
But you are also suggesting that's just for education which is clearly untrue.
I've never lived in Germany, but in Scotland you get a lot more for your income tax dollars than you do in the US. Of course if you happen to never get sick or never need welfare then the US is probably going to win overall, but it's hard to make that bet.
Plus if you exclude american breweries that aren't US-owned then you've suddenly lost Bud, Miller and Coors - that makes the average american beer a fuckton better