"There's nothing Apple nor anyone else can do that will change things."
Reminds me of presidential candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 quip (at nattering TV media hysterical talking heads portending inevitable, unavoidable, inescapable, unswayable doom for no USA presidential candidate before had lost the Iowa caucus, as he had, and then won the presidency): "Things are the same until they aren't."
``The problem is that you don't get the advantage of having an unlocked phone, which ought to be portability.
The ideal situation''...would be that Google took the daring move to partner with the like of MetroPCS, BoostMobile, prepaid mobile companies to offer national mobile data plans for a sub $50, sub $40 monthly cost!
I would buy a $600 Android phone in a flash, if I would get a cheap data plan, on which I could use VOIP for voice, and use all the unmetered data I could want for WWW, SMS, video, Google Ads/search/Gmail/Gmaps/Buzz/etc. And I had the freedom to walk away at any time from my carrier, as I should after shelling out BIG phone costs myself.
Cringely reported a few years ago that Google was buying ungodly amounts of unused bandwidth to one day get around the peering/carrying charges and the lackadaisical infrastructure investments from the wireless carriers, and also their net neutrality sabotage as well. So, one day soon watching that video all day long would be routed not through the com carriers but through the Google backbone. Add the reported likely reason that Google did not itself become a wireless carrier by buying some of the recently auctioned spectrum was to stay out of the retail mobile business but rather to concentrate on what they do well. I don't see what they're waiting for, except that they are daring the future to pass them by out of fear, lack of imagination, or vacillating. Shame.
``There are pleanty of other resources out there, why come all they way here to get them?''
Maybe they don't like future competition so they kill all intelligent civilizations in their infancy? Someone already had the idea and wrote a nice book on it:
>>>
The killing star
Authors Charles R. Pellegrino, George Zebrowski
<<<
Good read, although the Buddha, Jesus sections are very weak.
"It is sheer folly to think that an advance race went through all the trouble to cross many, many light-years of intergalactic space just to say "Hi".
The enormity of the effort they would have to mount given the physics of space travel"
To a cargo cult society anything other than basic objects are magical. That is to say, cars, planes, armaments, modern technological devices, communications all are Godly stuff. They do not understand how another society can manufacture such powerful objects that they can't---so easily. You don't seem the kind to wowed by a two-day cross country car ride across the continental United States, a one time godly act. Thus, why do you assume a cargo cult mentality on intergalactic space travel? Or any other magical act from your perspective? Or are you from the Intergalactic Turnpike Authority?
Hello there, anyone who can hear me!
My name is Linksys!
You can tell me apart from other folks with the same name because I'm XX:YY:ZZ:AA:BB:CC!
If you like, I can give you an IPv4 address!
No, no, I haven't been told to exclude anyone who doesn't know my favorite word or phrase!
Please talk to me! I love you!
I see the problem, thus the answer is stickers on your car, forehead and/or broadcasting X-No-Archive-Google-Inc: yes
This is common in NYC. Here MCDonalds, Wendy'ses, a subway clerk wont accept 50s or 100s. A subway clerk wont accept pennies, by MTA edict. A local East Asian market wont accept charges for less than "$10," flouting city and CC co. law, a common occurrence. In NYC you can't have and will be laughed at for _inquiring_ whether soda refills are free at a fast food hamburger place, common practice in most of the USA.
"Standard barcodes hold suprisingly little info. 5-20 digits. Thats it"
I read the Times article days ago when it was published and before it reached the dotering^Wdoddering masses, anyway. I thought the article typical of Times writers lately was imprecise, fuzzy came to my mind, ambiguous; why the fuck not just insert a serial number and do a DB lookup on all sorts of shit. Never addressed the obvious point. Getting past any possible physical limitations of the barcode in the coupon. I figured the dumb fucking reporter was omitting the simple mechanics of the newer coupons I see. Ones that look like a mass of dots resembling a profusion of concentric circles. I figure those have a higher content limit.
It is axiomatic that humans can dual-task well? Since when? Citation needed. In fact University of Utah researcehrs that is the rare 2.5% of the population that can truly "supertask" two activities without any loss in efficinecy. For example, drive and talk on a mobile. Citation needed?
"15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week, for around 65 cents per hour. Microsoft said it"... would follow all "the rules and laws in China." They're not like those the-new-generation, idealistic, principled hippies in Mountain View.
Never! Bad fucking mistake. Typosquaters---ha, ha, ha, mmmmmmm?
Also don't fucking assume spit: oh, yeah omega watches let me buy one online, for example: [www.omega.com]. Fuck you. Google, and learn that it's [www.omegawatches.com]. IOW, bookmark your bank sites, etc. And a newbie isn't half wrong when he uses google in the FF address bar or to find official sites---gad forbid s/he listens to the assholes in here authoritatively.
"They're the only ones with the ability to stop it, and they should be the ones that bear the full economic incentive for managing fraud."
Respectfully, you are wrong. All costs are passed down to you. ALL. I, paying cash, even have to pay, along with you, for your slothy behavior in not wasnting to be bothered in carrying, counting dealing with cash. That milk, bread, shampoo, toaster, all that wonderful shit available at Wegmans, Fairways, Wholefoods includes the extra fees, the extra costs that your VISA logoed, the behemoth in this segment, credit card foists onto that vendor you use.
You see, VISA networks doesn't lose jackshit. You're CC stolen and abused, pass fees onto you---they own the palying field in this huge niche. They force high commision rates onto the vendor, they pass it onto you with higher prices. For everything you buy and from everyone who buys, even when you only pay cash. Why do you think in harsgh times such as these, especiually, gasoline stations charhe higher prices for CC users. They don't want to, can't presently afford to carry your CC charging, VISA logo monopoly ass. Newsflash: your typical commercial bank is in on the scam too. Here for you ignnorant know nothing debit card bashers, banks hate them, even the VISA logoed ones. Ever had the clerk ask you when you want to use your CC or debit card, "charge or debit?" If you choose debit they, VISA and your bank, are cut out of a fee via virtue of you having to use your PIN! Different protocol SOP, no lucrative gouge on that. SO, fuckers, I have to carry, subsidize your lousy asses because I like to use PIN debit, with similar federal CC protections, as DCs don't report to credit reporting agencies. Or is sifted into a database nation to be used by the fucking car, home, health insurer industries amongst endless others to monitor my life and judge what rates they deign to offer me without my explicit consent for using my personal information. Dumbfuckers, read a newspaper, get off the facile cracks and make a fucking effort out of your shithead overly geeky ways.
Know what, security analyst jobs became common and then we had these periodic reports of `vendor ignores for-long-time reported insecure flaws, errors, etc.' bullshit. Fuckthat! go back to the ole publish to Bugtraq all warts most post haste. But then you don't get legally usable cred for your resume---oh, excuse me, Curriculum vitae, oh so sorry, CV---awww.
A more apropos story. The Plain Dealer of Cleveland recently outed the poster of anonymous comments, after, it decided to violate accepted anonymity norms. There was not a subpoena issued to the paper, the paper's TOS were not violated, no legal complaint had been threatened, no gross defamation of another individual had been established. The Dealer just decided to violate anonymity norms.
Compounding the issue it decided to then out the poster in a news article. Ratings and readership trumped the accepted, common, longtime practice of respecting posters' anonymity.
The paper accused Judge, Shirley Strickland Saffold of posting negative comments about an attorney with pending cases under her purview. Anonymously. The judge is suing the paper, no surprise. Her daughter has claimed ownership of some comments, Judge Strickland Saffold denies the remaining postings. The ``paper acknowledged that it had broken with the tradition of allowing commenters to hide behind screen names, but it served notice that anonymity was a habit, not a guarantee.'' That's not a paper I'd continue to support.
What matters is that a non-trivial number of newspapers, news media blogs are disenchanted with the trolling behavior of some, and want to supplant anonymity with demanded real names. No verification is suggested, there is the expectation that such a thing will weed the worst of the lot.
Supposedly comments are seeing as of little commercial value, so they can press the issue and or offend posters. I couldn't disagree more. I found tha Amazon comments, the/. comments of immense value. Amazon's moderation is of extreme value to me, and a source of loyalty from me to them. Worthless? Ha. Foolish. They have even thought out the moderation posse bias that can occur, and is rampnat here on/.. Let me tell you now, fuck you/. reader, mod me down. I see shit moderated down offtopic whilst other shit floats to the top. So here goes again, fuck you reader! mod me down troll, offtopic. It's not reverse psychology appealment, I just think the preponderance of 5 comments are shit and waste my time. I regularly wade through 30-40 five-rated comments that utterly waste my time. This shit began, what, 5-6 years ago when moderation points were given to ANY registered poster from time to time. Prior to that you earned mod points by receiving them from others for your outstading comments,. IOW, once you had to earn those fucking points you were wary to dole them back out except to outstanding posts from others. In those days, five-tared comments per any story were 3, 4 or five tops. Four-rated were a multiple of that. Now, shit floats to the top, in vast fucking numbers, and one's reading time is supremely being wasted.
The Huffington Post, The Wsahington Post and others are going to remove anonymity, amongst others. Drop dead. I was going to include a link but go fucking search it yourself.
Man, the China's (PRC) trade protectionists have nothing on the former Japanese trade tactics. If this line of logic surprises you, you haven't been around for the 1980s Japanese protectionism on rice, beef, fruits, apples.
* USA beef not good nor compatible with the Japanese digestive system. [shit you not, MITI's excuse at the time] * Japanese rice is unique, it is not substitutable with American rice exports. Japanese can not eat American rice. [shit you not, MITI's excuse at the time] * !American !beef! [a huge USA export] is not an aliment worthy of the Japanese. Japanese can eat only Japanese beef, it is soft and only the Japanse digestive enzimes can digest Japanese beef. [shit you not, MITI's excuse at the time] * American Apples can not meet the physical perfection of Japanese apples. [shit you not, MITI's excuse at the time]
"Remember, it was less than a decade ago that they finally convinced the last Japanese soldier to come out of the jungle."
And he was still murdering local island inhabitants in the name of the Japanese Empire, for plunder, for collusion with the enemy. He murdered at least 2 of his fellow lunatic comrades in that past decade, for attempted desertion, I believe. He was/is treated as an exemplar hero by Japan's ultra nationalists. Not a pacifist.
``If you don't want to see the ads, don't buy ad-supported apps. There is almost always a more expensive ad-free version.''
Gad! Stop kidding yourself with statements like these: you paid full price so ads wont appear for the now fully fed. Fallacious: see cinemas with 30 minutes of boring-obnoxious ads & trailers!
See paid! cable television "broadcasts" riddled with ads. See PBS shows larded with 5 minutes of introductory wheat fields, granaries, mines, wind fields ads. See XM/Sirius radio with... ^.^
In 1995, I cruised on the Net for the first time at uni, in a Sun station, in the engineering building. The USA was in the vanguard of network buildout, and national broadband plans in Europe/East Asia were not in exisntence---that I recollect, or have since heard about.
But then, am I wrong?!
Was there, in Sweden, in 1996 retail, civilian access to 100 megabit Internet access??????????
Not busting your chops; but there are the speed bump[1], and the speed hump[2]. Two different animals. Both fall under the category of Vertical Deflection, in traffic industry parlance. I drive and tally ho "vertical deflection" to my gf as I ride through NYC when encountering them, she finds the nomenclature silly. ^.^
The bump is narrow, whilst the hump is much deeper, to wit, one ft vs. 5 or more feet. Height differs too. I'd rather not encounter a bump, but a hump. Wider, smoother, can be taken at speed, alas, will make you porpoise for fun if entered well. "Yipeee Kayay, Mr. Johnson."
Nothing in this article is new, I do not know of what CT study you speak but these issues are thoroughly studied yet mocked, unknown, misunderstood by the layman and politician. Generally. Tom Vandervilt's "Traffic" covers all this, thoroughly, Though Is till WHOLEHEARTEDLY DISAGREE with his notion that 'Left Lane is for passing' enforcement yields trivial flow improvements. I live in NYC and man! I wanna vaporize the fuckers that hog the left lane with ~20 car lengths ahead of them and 10, 20 miles under the flow speed. In road rage they _slam_ the brakes when you flash them---I mean hard lock braking. WTF, you made out of marshmallows, dude? How illogical, but irrational, entitled road rage. *sigh*
Think of the things mntioned in the piece as friction to speed. Think about it, when you are on a desolate road you speed, if that road suddenly has parked cars you SENSE your velocity and you tend to slow. It's natural to disconnect from your physical surroundings. Trees! do the same trick, and are known to slow flow. Increasing the proximity, i.e., reducing the setback of homes to road creates friction, again. Think about it. You've been on roads where the setback is 75-100 feet, e.g., Los Angeles County, and you flow speed increases. Why? I can see way ahead I can brake if some stuff happens, but these are residentail areas and sooner or later pedestrians will cross the road and they will be strcuk with greater kinetic energy, increasing the likelihood of death, death rates rise disproportionally per capita, the local road becomes extremely hazardous to venture near, etc. This is known to transportation industry insiders, yet you are unaware.
I'll blow your mind to a great degree. Did you know that in Denmark (I don't think that it's in Holland, but) the goal is to remove all signage! All traffic lights! All traffic barriers! ALL! And get this even to remove sidewalks! SHIT, my Gad, those Danes are fucking suicidal. Empirical data all show, experience shows you would be Completely wrong. The cities, villages, highway off ramps become safer. Why? Speed friction, IOW, again, psychological drag on the human tendency to speed, to disconnect from our physical surroundings. Why that? Because we are a bipedal race, we have been achieving these incredible feats of speed, en masse, whithin the last 100 years. This our mental, experiential, cognitive makeup has not evolutionarily developed to these new challenges.
BTW did you also know that roundabouts, more common in Europe, are statiscally MUCH safer than traffic-lighted intersections? Why? Note, roundabouts have no traffic lighting, no flow signage, therefore they demand ATTENTION from the driver, and it is this attention to flow, the required decision making that activated the great safety device of all, the stuff between your ears. Your brain. Hence, the Denmark approach. Encountering an intersection where you could crash if inattentive, you approach attentively. When you enter a town, a village without sidewalks and you see children, dogs playing inches from the road-sidewalk you slow, you pay attention. When you want to cross the street to go from the patisserie to the chocolatier you could enter the roundabout walking backward without looking back because you know everyone in the busy roundabout is attentively navigating the traffic, are in slow speed having been bedragged to it by the lack of signage, lights, sidewalks, barriers between people and cars, etc.
Did you know that after a street bike lane has been painted motorists will drive with much less distance from a bicyclist. I sensed that before I saw the facts, but
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Reminds me of presidential candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 quip (at nattering TV media hysterical talking heads portending inevitable, unavoidable, inescapable, unswayable doom for no USA presidential candidate before had lost the Iowa caucus, as he had, and then won the presidency): "Things are the same until they aren't."
Adapt, I Ching, roll with it, whatever.
"I think we would be a decade ahead if AMD didn't come along." = If she wasn't so fine I wouldn't have raped her?
WTF
``there's usually a way to bypass this''
Yes, there is Google Public DNS. A gratis service provided to any desiring user.
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
``What is Google Public DNS?
Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. ''
``The problem is that you don't get the advantage of having an unlocked phone, which ought to be portability.
The ideal situation'' ...would be that Google took the daring move to partner with the like of MetroPCS, BoostMobile, prepaid mobile companies to offer national mobile data plans for a sub $50, sub $40 monthly cost!
I would buy a $600 Android phone in a flash, if I would get a cheap data plan, on which I could use VOIP for voice, and use all the unmetered data I could want for WWW, SMS, video, Google Ads/search/Gmail/Gmaps/Buzz/etc. And I had the freedom to walk away at any time from my carrier, as I should after shelling out BIG phone costs myself.
Cringely reported a few years ago that Google was buying ungodly amounts of unused bandwidth to one day get around the peering/carrying charges and the lackadaisical infrastructure investments from the wireless carriers, and also their net neutrality sabotage as well. So, one day soon watching that video all day long would be routed not through the com carriers but through the Google backbone. Add the reported likely reason that Google did not itself become a wireless carrier by buying some of the recently auctioned spectrum was to stay out of the retail mobile business but rather to concentrate on what they do well. I don't see what they're waiting for, except that they are daring the future to pass them by out of fear, lack of imagination, or vacillating. Shame.
Maybe they don't like future competition so they kill all intelligent civilizations in their infancy? Someone already had the idea and wrote a nice book on it:
>>>
The killing star
Authors Charles R. Pellegrino, George Zebrowski
<<<
Good read, although the Buddha, Jesus sections are very weak.
"It is sheer folly to think that an advance race went through all the trouble to cross many, many light-years of intergalactic space just to say "Hi".
The enormity of the effort they would have to mount given the physics of space travel"
To a cargo cult society anything other than basic objects are magical. That is to say, cars, planes, armaments, modern technological devices, communications all are Godly stuff. They do not understand how another society can manufacture such powerful objects that they can't---so easily. You don't seem the kind to wowed by a two-day cross country car ride across the continental United States, a one time godly act. Thus, why do you assume a cargo cult mentality on intergalactic space travel? Or any other magical act from your perspective? Or are you from the Intergalactic Turnpike Authority?
This fact is never mentioned nor alluded to in year after year of articles on this entity, brand, nom de plume. Feed a brother a clue.
how would they map the SSID to you?
C-o-l-l-a-t-i-n-g. 1a, 1b, 3b
Hello there, anyone who can hear me! My name is Linksys! You can tell me apart from other folks with the same name because I'm XX:YY:ZZ:AA:BB:CC! If you like, I can give you an IPv4 address! No, no, I haven't been told to exclude anyone who doesn't know my favorite word or phrase! Please talk to me! I love you!
I see the problem, thus the answer is stickers on your car, forehead and/or broadcasting X-No-Archive-Google-Inc: yes
This is common in NYC. Here MCDonalds, Wendy'ses, a subway clerk wont accept 50s or 100s. A subway clerk wont accept pennies, by MTA edict. A local East Asian market wont accept charges for less than "$10," flouting city and CC co. law, a common occurrence. In NYC you can't have and will be laughed at for _inquiring_ whether soda refills are free at a fast food hamburger place, common practice in most of the USA.
"Standard barcodes hold suprisingly little info. 5-20 digits. Thats it"
I read the Times article days ago when it was published and before it reached the dotering^Wdoddering masses, anyway. I thought the article typical of Times writers lately was imprecise, fuzzy came to my mind, ambiguous; why the fuck not just insert a serial number and do a DB lookup on all sorts of shit. Never addressed the obvious point. Getting past any possible physical limitations of the barcode in the coupon. I figured the dumb fucking reporter was omitting the simple mechanics of the newer coupons I see. Ones that look like a mass of dots resembling a profusion of concentric circles. I figure those have a higher content limit.
It is axiomatic that humans can dual-task well? Since when? Citation needed. In fact University of Utah researcehrs that is the rare 2.5% of the population that can truly "supertask" two activities without any loss in efficinecy. For example, drive and talk on a mobile. Citation needed?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/only-a-few-can-multi-task/?ref=technology
.
"15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week, for around 65 cents per hour. Microsoft said it" ... would follow all "the rules and laws in China." They're not like those the-new-generation, idealistic, principled hippies in Mountain View.
Maybe djb has it right? Sender's server holds email to be fetched. Your dime if you spam.
"type in the bank's URL"
Never! Bad fucking mistake. Typosquaters---ha, ha, ha, mmmmmmm?
Also don't fucking assume spit: oh, yeah omega watches let me buy one online, for example: [www.omega.com]. Fuck you. Google, and learn that it's [www.omegawatches.com]. IOW, bookmark your bank sites, etc. And a newbie isn't half wrong when he uses google in the FF address bar or to find official sites---gad forbid s/he listens to the assholes in here authoritatively.
"They're the only ones with the ability to stop it, and they should be the ones that bear the full economic incentive for managing fraud."
Respectfully, you are wrong. All costs are passed down to you. ALL. I, paying cash, even have to pay, along with you, for your slothy behavior in not wasnting to be bothered in carrying, counting dealing with cash. That milk, bread, shampoo, toaster, all that wonderful shit available at Wegmans, Fairways, Wholefoods includes the extra fees, the extra costs that your VISA logoed, the behemoth in this segment, credit card foists onto that vendor you use.
You see, VISA networks doesn't lose jackshit. You're CC stolen and abused, pass fees onto you---they own the palying field in this huge niche. They force high commision rates onto the vendor, they pass it onto you with higher prices. For everything you buy and from everyone who buys, even when you only pay cash. Why do you think in harsgh times such as these, especiually, gasoline stations charhe higher prices for CC users. They don't want to, can't presently afford to carry your CC charging, VISA logo monopoly ass. Newsflash: your typical commercial bank is in on the scam too. Here for you ignnorant know nothing debit card bashers, banks hate them, even the VISA logoed ones. Ever had the clerk ask you when you want to use your CC or debit card, "charge or debit?" If you choose debit they, VISA and your bank, are cut out of a fee via virtue of you having to use your PIN! Different protocol SOP, no lucrative gouge on that. SO, fuckers, I have to carry, subsidize your lousy asses because I like to use PIN debit, with similar federal CC protections, as DCs don't report to credit reporting agencies. Or is sifted into a database nation to be used by the fucking car, home, health insurer industries amongst endless others to monitor my life and judge what rates they deign to offer me without my explicit consent for using my personal information. Dumbfuckers, read a newspaper, get off the facile cracks and make a fucking effort out of your shithead overly geeky ways.
Know what, security analyst jobs became common and then we had these periodic reports of `vendor ignores for-long-time reported insecure flaws, errors, etc.' bullshit. Fuckthat! go back to the ole publish to Bugtraq all warts most post haste. But then you don't get legally usable cred for your resume---oh, excuse me, Curriculum vitae, oh so sorry, CV---awww.
A more apropos story. The Plain Dealer of Cleveland recently outed the poster of anonymous comments, after, it decided to violate accepted anonymity norms. There was not a subpoena issued to the paper, the paper's TOS were not violated, no legal complaint had been threatened, no gross defamation of another individual had been established. The Dealer just decided to violate anonymity norms.
Compounding the issue it decided to then out the poster in a news article. Ratings and readership trumped the accepted, common, longtime practice of respecting posters' anonymity.
The paper accused Judge, Shirley Strickland Saffold of posting negative comments about an attorney with pending cases under her purview. Anonymously. The judge is suing the paper, no surprise. Her daughter has claimed ownership of some comments, Judge Strickland Saffold denies the remaining postings. The ``paper acknowledged that it had broken with the tradition of allowing commenters to hide behind screen names, but it served notice that anonymity was a habit, not a guarantee.'' That's not a paper I'd continue to support.
What matters is that a non-trivial number of newspapers, news media blogs are disenchanted with the trolling behavior of some, and want to supplant anonymity with demanded real names. No verification is suggested, there is the expectation that such a thing will weed the worst of the lot.
Supposedly comments are seeing as of little commercial value, so they can press the issue and or offend posters. I couldn't disagree more. I found tha Amazon comments, the /. comments of immense value. Amazon's moderation is of extreme value to me, and a source of loyalty from me to them. Worthless? Ha. Foolish. They have even thought out the moderation posse bias that can occur, and is rampnat here on /.. Let me tell you now, fuck you /. reader, mod me down. I see shit moderated down offtopic whilst other shit floats to the top. So here goes again, fuck you reader! mod me down troll, offtopic. It's not reverse psychology appealment, I just think the preponderance of 5 comments are shit and waste my time. I regularly wade through 30-40 five-rated comments that utterly waste my time. This shit began, what, 5-6 years ago when moderation points were given to ANY registered poster from time to time. Prior to that you earned mod points by receiving them from others for your outstading comments,. IOW, once you had to earn those fucking points you were wary to dole them back out except to outstanding posts from others. In those days, five-tared comments per any story were 3, 4 or five tops. Four-rated were a multiple of that. Now, shit floats to the top, in vast fucking numbers, and one's reading time is supremely being wasted.
The Huffington Post, The Wsahington Post and others are going to remove anonymity, amongst others. Drop dead. I was going to include a link but go fucking search it yourself.
Man, the China's (PRC) trade protectionists have nothing on the former Japanese trade tactics. If this line of logic surprises you, you haven't been around for the 1980s Japanese protectionism on rice, beef, fruits, apples.
* USA beef not good nor compatible with the Japanese digestive system. [shit you not, MITI's excuse at the time]
* Japanese rice is unique, it is not substitutable with American rice exports. Japanese can not eat American rice. [shit you not, MITI's excuse at the time]
* !American !beef! [a huge USA export] is not an aliment worthy of the Japanese. Japanese can eat only Japanese beef, it is soft and only the Japanse digestive enzimes can digest Japanese beef. [shit you not, MITI's excuse at the time]
* American Apples can not meet the physical perfection of Japanese apples. [shit you not, MITI's excuse at the time]
"Remember, it was less than a decade ago that they finally convinced the last Japanese soldier to come out of the jungle."
And he was still murdering local island inhabitants in the name of the Japanese Empire, for plunder, for collusion with the enemy. He murdered at least 2 of his fellow lunatic comrades in that past decade, for attempted desertion, I believe. He was/is treated as an exemplar hero by Japan's ultra nationalists. Not a pacifist.
``If you don't want to see the ads, don't buy ad-supported apps. There is almost always a more expensive ad-free version.''
Gad! Stop kidding yourself with statements like these: you paid full price so ads wont appear for the now fully fed. Fallacious: see cinemas with 30 minutes of boring-obnoxious ads & trailers!
See paid! cable television "broadcasts" riddled with ads. See PBS shows larded with 5 minutes of introductory wheat fields, granaries, mines, wind fields ads. See XM/Sirius radio with ... ^.^
Can someone verify this claim, please?
In 1995, I cruised on the Net for the first time at uni, in a Sun station, in the engineering building. The USA was in the vanguard of network buildout, and national broadband plans in Europe/East Asia were not in exisntence---that I recollect, or have since heard about.
But then, am I wrong?!
Was there, in Sweden, in 1996 retail, civilian access to 100 megabit Internet access??????????
Not busting your chops; but there are the speed bump[1], and the speed hump[2]. Two different animals. Both fall under the category of Vertical Deflection, in traffic industry parlance. I drive and tally ho "vertical deflection" to my gf as I ride through NYC when encountering them, she finds the nomenclature silly. ^.^
The bump is narrow, whilst the hump is much deeper, to wit, one ft vs. 5 or more feet. Height differs too. I'd rather not encounter a bump, but a hump. Wider, smoother, can be taken at speed, alas, will make you porpoise for fun if entered well. "Yipeee Kayay, Mr. Johnson."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_bump
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_hump
Nothing in this article is new, I do not know of what CT study you speak but these issues are thoroughly studied yet mocked, unknown, misunderstood by the layman and politician. Generally. Tom Vandervilt's "Traffic" covers all this, thoroughly, Though Is till WHOLEHEARTEDLY DISAGREE with his notion that 'Left Lane is for passing' enforcement yields trivial flow improvements. I live in NYC and man! I wanna vaporize the fuckers that hog the left lane with ~20 car lengths ahead of them and 10, 20 miles under the flow speed. In road rage they _slam_ the brakes when you flash them---I mean hard lock braking. WTF, you made out of marshmallows, dude? How illogical, but irrational, entitled road rage. *sigh*
Think of the things mntioned in the piece as friction to speed. Think about it, when you are on a desolate road you speed, if that road suddenly has parked cars you SENSE your velocity and you tend to slow. It's natural to disconnect from your physical surroundings. Trees! do the same trick, and are known to slow flow. Increasing the proximity, i.e., reducing the setback of homes to road creates friction, again. Think about it. You've been on roads where the setback is 75-100 feet, e.g., Los Angeles County, and you flow speed increases. Why? I can see way ahead I can brake if some stuff happens, but these are residentail areas and sooner or later pedestrians will cross the road and they will be strcuk with greater kinetic energy, increasing the likelihood of death, death rates rise disproportionally per capita, the local road becomes extremely hazardous to venture near, etc. This is known to transportation industry insiders, yet you are unaware.
I'll blow your mind to a great degree. Did you know that in Denmark (I don't think that it's in Holland, but) the goal is to remove all signage! All traffic lights! All traffic barriers! ALL! And get this even to remove sidewalks! SHIT, my Gad, those Danes are fucking suicidal. Empirical data all show, experience shows you would be Completely wrong. The cities, villages, highway off ramps become safer. Why? Speed friction, IOW, again, psychological drag on the human tendency to speed, to disconnect from our physical surroundings. Why that? Because we are a bipedal race, we have been achieving these incredible feats of speed, en masse, whithin the last 100 years. This our mental, experiential, cognitive makeup has not evolutionarily developed to these new challenges.
BTW did you also know that roundabouts, more common in Europe, are statiscally MUCH safer than traffic-lighted intersections? Why? Note, roundabouts have no traffic lighting, no flow signage, therefore they demand ATTENTION from the driver, and it is this attention to flow, the required decision making that activated the great safety device of all, the stuff between your ears. Your brain. Hence, the Denmark approach. Encountering an intersection where you could crash if inattentive, you approach attentively. When you enter a town, a village without sidewalks and you see children, dogs playing inches from the road-sidewalk you slow, you pay attention. When you want to cross the street to go from the patisserie to the chocolatier you could enter the roundabout walking backward without looking back because you know everyone in the busy roundabout is attentively navigating the traffic, are in slow speed having been bedragged to it by the lack of signage, lights, sidewalks, barriers between people and cars, etc.
All the examples I have given you are not manufactured they are documented, heavily! See "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" by Tom Vanderbilt ( http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307264785 ). Blog is at http://www.howwedrive.com/ . It's fascinating stuff.
Did you know that after a street bike lane has been painted motorists will drive with much less distance from a bicyclist. I sensed that before I saw the facts, but