If you want significantly cheaper access, then I guess you would need to move to downtown Tokyo, or downtown Shanghai, and live like a sardine in a tin can.
No pro here, just a residential user. But I so agree with your point. My DSL provider, CenturyLink (formerly CenturyTel) often allows my 10 mbps download to exceed 12 mbps, which is admittedly gratifying (but still insufficient for my needs). But the upload speed rarely even reaches its advertised max.750 mbps (yes, that's 750k), much less exceeds it. I run no servers, but I still find myself wishing for better upstream bandwidth.
Wow, while reading the second paragraph of your description of Kafka's stories, I thought,"Geez, I've had nightmares like that!" Then you provided the definition. Well done, sir.
As someone suffering to find anything even remotely watchable on American TV, I wish more people would adopt this kind of attitude.
Just before I read this, I thought to myself, "Watterson speaks the exact same attitude shown by the writers, creators and distributor of television's best show ever: The Wire." To quote another pretty good writer, "You've got to know when to fold 'em."
Which brings up this: How the hell does anyone know what gender these cartoon characters were to begin with? Did they have genitalia before this guy drew them on? What if the accused drew Bart with a *a*ina and Lisa with a *eni* (sarcastic self-censorship)? Would it still have been porno if he left off the genitals and just drew the characters without clothing? What about if he drew just the genitalia and imagined them as belonging to a Bart Maggie or Lisa? You know, in his head? Would that have been arrestable? I don't particularly want to defend chesters, but this seems little mmm... what's the word I'm seeking? "Nuts" maybe?
What if it turns out that every time a child kneels beside her bed to recite, "Now I lay me down to sleep...", God bellows, "SMITHERS, RELEASE THE HOUNDS!" Then what? What are we gonna do then, huh?
Back in the nineties there was a teapot tempest around an issue with Intuit's Quicken personal finance software. Users could "encrypt" their Quicken data files, but the password they created to access it was easily recoverable by simply looking at the plain text raw data stored on hard drive sectors. I had Norton Utilities which allowed me to examine drive sectors, and sure enough, there was my Quicken password (altho the actual data was encrypted).
That's what this reminds me of. Is this a valid -if perhaps incomplete- comparison?
The more I read arguments against socialized healthcare, the more those arguments seem disconnected from reality. For example: my employer (a very large company) pays its well-known commercial health care "insurer" $800 per month per employee, including me. $800 per month! This is the amount the company uses to figure out how much they are really compensating us.
Last month, my doctor prescribed 2 different flu shots, which I took. My wife did not. Now she is sick as a dog, drowning in her own snot and generously sharing her illness with others everywhere she goes. Me? I'm perfectly healthy. I go to work. I produce value for my employer. I'm not coughing on the food at the grocery store.
Last Wednesday, I got a letter from my company's insurance carrier informing me that they will not pay, that I am responsible for the crappy $100 charge for the flu shots as well as several other basic health care services totaling over $1,000. $1,000 is just 25% more than my company pays these thieves in a single month. It makes me wonder if the executives at my "insurance" carrier have coverage that would take care of a richly-deserved icepick through their neck.
If private "insurers" actually "insured" anything, Republicans might have a point. Unfortunately for them and you, the so-called "industry" you champion AND the system that created it is at best nothing more than a bunch of unproductive leeches and thieves who profit handsomely while contributing as little as possible to the well-being of their victims... I mean, their "customers". Maybe that's why over 80% of respondents who are genuinely concerned about this country think we need health care reform to benefit people, not the over-compensated beancounting math-impaired executives of an industry that brought us to this insanely unbalanced point in the first place.
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If you want significantly cheaper access, then I guess you would need to move to downtown Tokyo, or downtown Shanghai, and live like a sardine in a tin can.
Oh, is that where sardines live?
[...] in the news it is seriously out of control
Yep, that's exactly where it is out of control.
No pro here, just a residential user. But I so agree with your point. My DSL provider, CenturyLink (formerly CenturyTel) often allows my 10 mbps download to exceed 12 mbps, which is admittedly gratifying (but still insufficient for my needs). But the upload speed rarely even reaches its advertised max .750 mbps (yes, that's 750k), much less exceeds it. I run no servers, but I still find myself wishing for better upstream bandwidth.
Wow, while reading the second paragraph of your description of Kafka's stories, I thought,"Geez, I've had nightmares like that!" Then you provided the definition. Well done, sir.
Just before I read this, I thought to myself, "Watterson speaks the exact same attitude shown by the writers, creators and distributor of television's best show ever: The Wire." To quote another pretty good writer, "You've got to know when to fold 'em."
Which brings up this: How the hell does anyone know what gender these cartoon characters were to begin with? Did they have genitalia before this guy drew them on? What if the accused drew Bart with a *a*ina and Lisa with a *eni* (sarcastic self-censorship)? Would it still have been porno if he left off the genitals and just drew the characters without clothing? What about if he drew just the genitalia and imagined them as belonging to a Bart Maggie or Lisa? You know, in his head? Would that have been arrestable? I don't particularly want to defend chesters, but this seems little mmm... what's the word I'm seeking? "Nuts" maybe?
What if it turns out that every time a child kneels beside her bed to recite, "Now I lay me down to sleep...", God bellows, "SMITHERS, RELEASE THE HOUNDS!" Then what? What are we gonna do then, huh?
Back in the nineties there was a teapot tempest around an issue with Intuit's Quicken personal finance software. Users could "encrypt" their Quicken data files, but the password they created to access it was easily recoverable by simply looking at the plain text raw data stored on hard drive sectors. I had Norton Utilities which allowed me to examine drive sectors, and sure enough, there was my Quicken password (altho the actual data was encrypted).
That's what this reminds me of. Is this a valid -if perhaps incomplete- comparison?
at least my friends wait until they're really drunk before they break out the Toby Keith.
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The more I read arguments against socialized healthcare, the more those arguments seem disconnected from reality. For example: my employer (a very large company) pays its well-known commercial health care "insurer" $800 per month per employee, including me. $800 per month! This is the amount the company uses to figure out how much they are really compensating us.
Last month, my doctor prescribed 2 different flu shots, which I took. My wife did not. Now she is sick as a dog, drowning in her own snot and generously sharing her illness with others everywhere she goes. Me? I'm perfectly healthy. I go to work. I produce value for my employer. I'm not coughing on the food at the grocery store.
Last Wednesday, I got a letter from my company's insurance carrier informing me that they will not pay, that I am responsible for the crappy $100 charge for the flu shots as well as several other basic health care services totaling over $1,000. $1,000 is just 25% more than my company pays these thieves in a single month. It makes me wonder if the executives at my "insurance" carrier have coverage that would take care of a richly-deserved icepick through their neck.
If private "insurers" actually "insured" anything, Republicans might have a point. Unfortunately for them and you, the so-called "industry" you champion AND the system that created it is at best nothing more than a bunch of unproductive leeches and thieves who profit handsomely while contributing as little as possible to the well-being of their victims... I mean, their "customers". Maybe that's why over 80% of respondents who are genuinely concerned about this country think we need health care reform to benefit people, not the over-compensated beancounting math-impaired executives of an industry that brought us to this insanely unbalanced point in the first place.