There is definitely a market for cheap handsets here. Not everyone lives in LA, SF, NYC, or Austin, and has the dosh to buy a new iPhone X or whatever Apple is selling on release date. In fact, most of the country is barely getting by, with the best times in memory all behind them.....None of this is rocket science here. The only thing that really is an obstacle is selling the devices in the US is the fact that companies think every Tom, Dick, and Harry can blow quad digits for a phone... which is not true.
Here you go. Unlocked phones for as little as $40. Sorry to spoil your rant.
The first goal for police should be that all civilian go home alive that night. The police making it home should be secondary to that. That is why they have training and body armor, and they knew and willingly accepted the risk of them not coming home when they signed up for the job.
Not necessarily. Most machine malfunctions that I deal with are from parts wearing out. Reels hanging/catching, etc. That is not a design imperfection, it's a materials failure, and an expected one. That's why machine errors void the play.
If parts are wearing out then the machines need to be serviced better/more often and have the parts replaced before they show enough wear to impact reliability. Therefore, it's a human error.
The prize was up to $500 I don't know about SC but in my state you can cash in a winning ticket less than $600 at a local retailer. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them where cashed in prior to them finding out.
The ones that cashed out quickly probably got paid. The ones that got greedy and spent an hour driving around to different gas stations and collecting 20K worth of "winning" tickets probably didn't because the system quickly realized there was a problem and blocked those tickets. One article I read interviewed one person who said when they tried to cash out the system wouldn't let them as it was already identified as an error or incorrect ticket.
Programming errors do not invalidate a win since it is human error and not an equipment malfunction.
Then in that case everything is a human error since if equipment malfunctioned it was either designed, manufactured, or serviced incorrectly, all of which involve human input at some level. It's humans all the way down, not turtles.
No one identified the real problem. Let's not dance around the issue because we're afraid to tell it like it is. The violence is caused by Islam.
Too bad South Sudan is predominantly Christian. Islam is such a small minority that it doesn't even make the CIA World Factbook on South Sudan. There are more animists than Muslims.
The problem with "reforming" Islam is that the typical way in which a religion is reformed is that someone, or multiple someones, goes back to the original scripture for that religion, ignores most of the tradition and interpretation which has grown up, and ossified, around it over the years, and freshly interprets that scripture. Doing that with the Islamic holy books is what gave us the basis for Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other groups which are promoting Islamic violence.
All that it takes to fix that is enough clerics to come out with their own (or supporting another) counter interpretation. We already saw how much of the Muslim world pretty quickly denounced ISIS. Even al Qaeda basically said "this is too much".
It's a little bit simplistic, but one way I look at it is this: Islam started roughly 600-650 years after Christianity. Go back 650 years from now and you have the Spanish Inquisition. Take the Christianity from 1450 and stick it in the modern world and it will have issues just like Islam does. Think of what it had to go through between then and now to get where it is today, and realize that Islam basically has to go through that same process, but with modern technology, modern weapons, and access to modern levels of wealth and/or wealth inequality. The growing pains are going to be rough, and we sure aren't doing anything calculated to help.
It would be more fair to say that Mormonism has evolved so that it no longer promotes/tolerates violence nor polygamy, just as modern day Christianity mostly does not (barring of course evangelicals who are pushing for wars in the Middle East in order to start the second coming/rapture/Armageddon).
Where would you get the idea that Christianity promotes violence? I know that's a popular meme but as with so many memes it lacks a basis in facts. Please point me towards the New Testament verses promoting wars, I must have missed them. Along the same lines, please point me towards the New Testament verses promoting polygamy as I must have missed those too.
Where did I say that? I said most Christians don't support violence.
This is the issue for Islam: there are many within it that are resisting efforts to modernize the religion. If you want to fix things you can't demonize Islam, you have to support those within the religion who want to moderate and modernize Islam. Animosity and hatred only feeds those who seek to keep Islam in the past.
You do know that the standard practice for an invading Muslim army is to give the conquered people 3 options: convert, die, or become a slave. That's literally taken out of the Koran, it cannot be attributed to wayward followers. There is no reforming that as it's directly from Mohammed. I'm curious where you got the notion that Islam can be reformed.
The natives of South and Central America would like to have a word with you regarding forced conversions to Christianity. And Christian Crusaders would often kill, enslave, and/or rape the entire population of a sacked city, including other Christians.
You missed the entire point of my post: Christianity evolved past the violence of the Crusades (of course it took plenty of wars, persecutions, and inquisitions for it to do so). Islam needs to be given the time and support to do so as well, and that change needs to come from within.
While that list contains incidents where Mormons were victims as well as perpetrators, they were pretty violent in the early days of the religion.
As bad as that situation was, I don't think it's completely fair to judge the Mormons as being "pretty violent" in the early days.
They were violent, but you are right in that it is important to put them into context: the mid 1800s in the American West/Midwest was a pretty violent time anyway. Even today we recognize the inherent right of people to protect themselves, and you certainly can't blame people for reacting harshly when they were treated the way Mormons were. The Mormons came to the conclusion that they would need a certain level of ruthlessness to protect themselves. But this proves my point: as society evolved the Mormon church evolved with it, both to realize that they no longer need violence and that polygamy should no longer be accepted(it is also fair to note that they didn't exactly come to the conclusion regarding polygamy on their own, there was a certain amount of external coercion involved). We have to allow Islam to do the same.
Polygamy isn't responsible for violence. The Mormons, weird as they are, are not violent.
????? Want to check your facts on that? While that list contains incidents where Mormons were victims as well as perpetrators, they were pretty violent in the early days of the religion. Over the years Mormonism has gotten less violent (and also much less tolerant of polygamy, to the point now where it is no longer openly permitted if I understand correctly). It would be more fair to say that Mormonism has evolved so that it no longer promotes/tolerates violence nor polygamy, just as modern day Christianity mostly does not (barring of course evangelicals who are pushing for wars in the Middle East in order to start the second coming/rapture/Armageddon).
This is the issue for Islam: there are many within it that are resisting efforts to modernize the religion. If you want to fix things you can't demonize Islam, you have to support those within the religion who want to moderate and modernize Islam. Animosity and hatred only feeds those who seek to keep Islam in the past.
Best watch I own is a Kommandirski my mom picked up back in the 80s in Poland when she was visiting her sister who was working in the embassy. You have to wind it but it's light, and the face design is really cool in an 80s, Soviet-retro way.
No sane person thinks Putin likes Trump, but Trump thinks he does. Putin is trying to keep the US divided and knows as long as he keeps praising Trump, Trump's ego will keep him from doing anything while Putin does whatever he wants. Trump is very much a stooge, and like most stooged unwittingly so.
What about protecting the Palestinians against terrorism? You know, like arresting children and locking them up for years in administrative detention without a trial? Or raids on Palestinian villages from illegal Israeli settlements where they burn down houses with people still inside? Oh, yeah, and sentencing a soldier to only 14 months in prison when he shot a wounded Palestinian in the head and was caught on film doing it . And lets not forget shooting protestors, including children, who throw rocks at armored vehicles. But oh, yes, gotta make sure we protect Israel from a few home made rockets.
So....Facebook basically offers a service to organizations that will guide and train them to use features of Facebook. Don't a lot of large companies offer training services to users of their product(s)?
If intelligent origins (low chance), it would be presumptuous for us to assume it was meant for us.
Cheap is the key word here. With high enough tech, lobbing a few hunks of rock around the galaxy could be a very cheap way to send out a remote satellite or life-seeding system.
So....what you're saying is we should probably call up Casper Van Dien and tell him to get ready? Better visit Buenos Aires while you still can.
At the moment the ISP are saying they are not planning on blocking anything, or throttling down anything. But they put in a lot of political capital to get this removed... Which make me wonder why the effort if they are not planning to do something.
All they really spent was some money. Political capital doesn't mean as much as it used to. Used to politicians at least had to pass the "what have you done for me lately" test to stay in office, but in today's hyper partisan climate the only test that matters is what letter comes after your last name. To merge an old analogy with a Douglas Adams quote: the foxes have gotten the chickens to elect a fox to guard the henhouse because they don't want to pick the wrong fox and at least he is their fox.
Except Bitcoin is going through hyperinflation right now. With massive swings in value, outrageous transaction fees, and weeks to process transactions.
The sad thing is that, even though those points are true, it's still more stable and reliable than Venezuela's currency.
I've always wondered what's going to happen to those 55+ "active adult" communities in 30 years when all the original owners are dead or in nursing homes.
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There is definitely a market for cheap handsets here. Not everyone lives in LA, SF, NYC, or Austin, and has the dosh to buy a new iPhone X or whatever Apple is selling on release date. In fact, most of the country is barely getting by, with the best times in memory all behind them.....None of this is rocket science here. The only thing that really is an obstacle is selling the devices in the US is the fact that companies think every Tom, Dick, and Harry can blow quad digits for a phone... which is not true.
Here you go. Unlocked phones for as little as $40. Sorry to spoil your rant.
The first goal for police should be that all civilian go home alive that night. The police making it home should be secondary to that. That is why they have training and body armor, and they knew and willingly accepted the risk of them not coming home when they signed up for the job.
You realize that's a troll account, right?
Not necessarily. Most machine malfunctions that I deal with are from parts wearing out. Reels hanging/catching, etc. That is not a design imperfection, it's a materials failure, and an expected one. That's why machine errors void the play.
If parts are wearing out then the machines need to be serviced better/more often and have the parts replaced before they show enough wear to impact reliability. Therefore, it's a human error.
The prize was up to $500 I don't know about SC but in my state you can cash in a winning ticket less than $600 at a local retailer. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them where cashed in prior to them finding out.
The ones that cashed out quickly probably got paid. The ones that got greedy and spent an hour driving around to different gas stations and collecting 20K worth of "winning" tickets probably didn't because the system quickly realized there was a problem and blocked those tickets. One article I read interviewed one person who said when they tried to cash out the system wouldn't let them as it was already identified as an error or incorrect ticket.
Programming errors do not invalidate a win since it is human error and not an equipment malfunction.
Then in that case everything is a human error since if equipment malfunctioned it was either designed, manufactured, or serviced incorrectly, all of which involve human input at some level. It's humans all the way down, not turtles.
Someone doesn't watch Live PD. There's already an Obama gas station
The Philippines and Vietnam are in the US now? Those jobs aren't going to the US, they are just going somewhere even cheaper than India
No one identified the real problem. Let's not dance around the issue because we're afraid to tell it like it is. The violence is caused by Islam.
Too bad South Sudan is predominantly Christian. Islam is such a small minority that it doesn't even make the CIA World Factbook on South Sudan. There are more animists than Muslims.
The problem with "reforming" Islam is that the typical way in which a religion is reformed is that someone, or multiple someones, goes back to the original scripture for that religion, ignores most of the tradition and interpretation which has grown up, and ossified, around it over the years, and freshly interprets that scripture. Doing that with the Islamic holy books is what gave us the basis for Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other groups which are promoting Islamic violence.
All that it takes to fix that is enough clerics to come out with their own (or supporting another) counter interpretation. We already saw how much of the Muslim world pretty quickly denounced ISIS. Even al Qaeda basically said "this is too much".
It's a little bit simplistic, but one way I look at it is this: Islam started roughly 600-650 years after Christianity. Go back 650 years from now and you have the Spanish Inquisition. Take the Christianity from 1450 and stick it in the modern world and it will have issues just like Islam does. Think of what it had to go through between then and now to get where it is today, and realize that Islam basically has to go through that same process, but with modern technology, modern weapons, and access to modern levels of wealth and/or wealth inequality. The growing pains are going to be rough, and we sure aren't doing anything calculated to help.
It would be more fair to say that Mormonism has evolved so that it no longer promotes/tolerates violence nor polygamy, just as modern day Christianity mostly does not (barring of course evangelicals who are pushing for wars in the Middle East in order to start the second coming/rapture/Armageddon).
Where would you get the idea that Christianity promotes violence? I know that's a popular meme but as with so many memes it lacks a basis in facts. Please point me towards the New Testament verses promoting wars, I must have missed them. Along the same lines, please point me towards the New Testament verses promoting polygamy as I must have missed those too.
Where did I say that? I said most Christians don't support violence.
This is the issue for Islam: there are many within it that are resisting efforts to modernize the religion. If you want to fix things you can't demonize Islam, you have to support those within the religion who want to moderate and modernize Islam. Animosity and hatred only feeds those who seek to keep Islam in the past.
You do know that the standard practice for an invading Muslim army is to give the conquered people 3 options: convert, die, or become a slave. That's literally taken out of the Koran, it cannot be attributed to wayward followers. There is no reforming that as it's directly from Mohammed. I'm curious where you got the notion that Islam can be reformed.
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The natives of South and Central America would like to have a word with you regarding forced conversions to Christianity. And Christian Crusaders would often kill, enslave, and/or rape the entire population of a sacked city, including other Christians.
You missed the entire point of my post: Christianity evolved past the violence of the Crusades (of course it took plenty of wars, persecutions, and inquisitions for it to do so). Islam needs to be given the time and support to do so as well, and that change needs to come from within.
While that list contains incidents where Mormons were victims as well as perpetrators, they were pretty violent in the early days of the religion.
As bad as that situation was, I don't think it's completely fair to judge the Mormons as being "pretty violent" in the early days.
They were violent, but you are right in that it is important to put them into context: the mid 1800s in the American West/Midwest was a pretty violent time anyway. Even today we recognize the inherent right of people to protect themselves, and you certainly can't blame people for reacting harshly when they were treated the way Mormons were. The Mormons came to the conclusion that they would need a certain level of ruthlessness to protect themselves. But this proves my point: as society evolved the Mormon church evolved with it, both to realize that they no longer need violence and that polygamy should no longer be accepted(it is also fair to note that they didn't exactly come to the conclusion regarding polygamy on their own, there was a certain amount of external coercion involved). We have to allow Islam to do the same.
Polygamy isn't responsible for violence. The Mormons, weird as they are, are not violent.
????? Want to check your facts on that? While that list contains incidents where Mormons were victims as well as perpetrators, they were pretty violent in the early days of the religion. Over the years Mormonism has gotten less violent (and also much less tolerant of polygamy, to the point now where it is no longer openly permitted if I understand correctly). It would be more fair to say that Mormonism has evolved so that it no longer promotes/tolerates violence nor polygamy, just as modern day Christianity mostly does not (barring of course evangelicals who are pushing for wars in the Middle East in order to start the second coming/rapture/Armageddon).
This is the issue for Islam: there are many within it that are resisting efforts to modernize the religion. If you want to fix things you can't demonize Islam, you have to support those within the religion who want to moderate and modernize Islam. Animosity and hatred only feeds those who seek to keep Islam in the past.
I'm thinking more The Orville with badges and the coffee shop not serving anyone with over 500,000 down votes.
Best watch I own is a Kommandirski my mom picked up back in the 80s in Poland when she was visiting her sister who was working in the embassy. You have to wind it but it's light, and the face design is really cool in an 80s, Soviet-retro way.
No sane person thinks Putin likes Trump, but Trump thinks he does. Putin is trying to keep the US divided and knows as long as he keeps praising Trump, Trump's ego will keep him from doing anything while Putin does whatever he wants. Trump is very much a stooge, and like most stooged unwittingly so.
So what about the foo fighters reported by airmen as far back as 1941 in both the Pacific and Europe?
What about protecting the Palestinians against terrorism? You know, like arresting children and locking them up for years in administrative detention without a trial? Or raids on Palestinian villages from illegal Israeli settlements where they burn down houses with people still inside? Oh, yeah, and sentencing a soldier to only 14 months in prison when he shot a wounded Palestinian in the head and was caught on film doing it . And lets not forget shooting protestors, including children, who throw rocks at armored vehicles. But oh, yes, gotta make sure we protect Israel from a few home made rockets.
So....Facebook basically offers a service to organizations that will guide and train them to use features of Facebook. Don't a lot of large companies offer training services to users of their product(s)?
All the water was used to fill Waldo and Carmen San Diego's pool. Find them and you find the water.
If intelligent origins (low chance), it would be presumptuous for us to assume it was meant for us.
Cheap is the key word here. With high enough tech, lobbing a few hunks of rock around the galaxy could be a very cheap way to send out a remote satellite or life-seeding system.
So....what you're saying is we should probably call up Casper Van Dien and tell him to get ready? Better visit Buenos Aires while you still can.
You keep saying that and I keep making money... Litecoin is going to break $500 by the end of the week.
So...how much have you actually cashed out, and how much of your "wealth" is stuck propping up the value like in Bitcoin?
At the moment the ISP are saying they are not planning on blocking anything, or throttling down anything. But they put in a lot of political capital to get this removed... Which make me wonder why the effort if they are not planning to do something.
All they really spent was some money. Political capital doesn't mean as much as it used to. Used to politicians at least had to pass the "what have you done for me lately" test to stay in office, but in today's hyper partisan climate the only test that matters is what letter comes after your last name. To merge an old analogy with a Douglas Adams quote: the foxes have gotten the chickens to elect a fox to guard the henhouse because they don't want to pick the wrong fox and at least he is their fox.
Except Bitcoin is going through hyperinflation right now. With massive swings in value, outrageous transaction fees, and weeks to process transactions.
The sad thing is that, even though those points are true, it's still more stable and reliable than Venezuela's currency.
I've always wondered what's going to happen to those 55+ "active adult" communities in 30 years when all the original owners are dead or in nursing homes.