IP geolocation doesn't work reliably. To comply with export laws would be an onerous burden for anything on the Internet. No one has accomplished such a feat yet.
Show me a politician that follows through on what they said during the campaigns. Doesn't happen often, therefore.. not the government we wanted. The federal government is especially bad since that's where the worst abuses happen. Patriot Act, domestic spying, IRS retribution, gun smuggling, too big to fail, etc.
I had a similar thought reading the headline. I'm at work in an old DEC facility. All the old farts here are "natives" in that they worked here for DEC and whatever companies happened to call this home ever since.
I guess "digital native" is the positive version of "gen cupcake".
I take it you're referring to the police? I don't know who you think is President, but the real President is certainly not on the side of the police. He called the rioters thugs, which was appropriate, but the rest of his speech was more about holding the authorities responsible than anything else. By doing so, he took on a presumption of guilt against the police. He has done that repeatedly, going all the way back to the incident involving the Boston PD and a professor. In that event, he said the police acted stupidly then admitted he had no knowledge of what actually took place.
There is no "need" for an uprising anywhere in the US. If you want to make change, run for office. Get people to vote for you. It's really not that difficult at the local level.
The TEA Party is not the GOP. I don't know what the point would be of those candidates being labeled RINO since the group wants conservatives to run. If Republicans were the answer, the TEA Party wouldn't need to exist. The TEA Partiers can just call those guys Republicans, they don't need the INO after the R. The problem is, the people rallied and no candidates appeared other than the Rs.
Much of what the federal government does is attaching strings to money, money taken under the threat of force from the residents of those states. Minimum drinking age is one example. If the states refuses, which is its right, no federal highway funds. The feds already took the money from the incomes of the people of the state, which means the state has to make a lot of money magically appear, or relent to the fed's unlawful edicts. Guess which option wins?
Yea, my older receiver had the phone line unplugged almost its entire life span. My current one doesn't actually have wifi, it has a physical ethernet port. I think the newer ones do have wifi.
They have a "start from the beginning" feature now too. So if you start watching a show that's in progress, for many shows, you can stream the part you missed. Only catch is that it disables fast forward so you have to let the commercials play. That's probably the only reason they're allowed to offer the feature. I worked on a similar feature for some of the cable providers and that's why we had to add support for optionally disabling "trick play".
When I was taking electrical engineering classes, we had a midterm while the professor was out. Being the future engineers that we were, we decided upon ourselves to make the midterm a group effort. One of the non-science professors walked by at one point and saw that and decided to make a big deal over it. Funny thing was, our defense was that part of the lessons in that course was to teach the students how to work collaboratively and the importance of that type of effort in engineering. Our professor admitted that the midterm wasn't clear on whether it was to be done individually or not (poor requirements), so we went from being threatened with expulsion to hearing that what we did was actually correct given the recent lessons we had.
I can't tell from this one if it's the professor or not, but it sure could be. Just like any profession, there are good ones and there are not so good ones. Some just like to start fires.
DirecTV does too, last I checked. That's how it does the billing. Also how it gets video-on-demand, which is funny because if everything was available over VOD, the dish on the roof would be pointless.
I'd bet that's why it isn't happening.. so many hated mega-corps could become unnecessary overnight. No one is going to stick with a company like Comcast or the other cable MSOs if they don't have to.
They ran a fine DSL service back when that was semi-new technology. I still have the DirecTV DSL modem somewhere. It was enormous, but it worked great. If not for them, I wouldn't have DSL now. The phone company always refused to fix their crap to get DSL to my part of town. DirecTV managed to force them to act somehow.
I've had DirecTV since 2000-ish and I really hope AT&T doesn't fuck it up. They're a major player in my area (southern NH), there are more houses with DirecTV dishes than there are without. No one likes the other option.. Comcast. Comcast actually sent sales people door to door to beg people to switch. I never saw any dishes come down, so I can guess how that went for them.
Huh? Are you saying DirecTV will help AT&T or the other way around? DirecTV is the reason why cable and Dish subscribers have as many HD channels as they do. HD was going nowhere until DirecTV launched new satellites and made nearly every channel HD. After that, the other providers were forced to get off their asses and do something. They also have whole house DVR, stream to your smartphone etc.
A lot of people buy a new vehicle every x years. So if gas prices are sky high in the year that they're looking, it may influence them to buy one type of vehicle versus another. Especially true for people with longer commutes. The price of gas and the mileage I was driving at the time pushed me to get a hybrid. If I didn't enjoy the hybrid experience and was looking right now, I might go back to a larger vehicle.
Not sure about Cali but in my neck of the woods, low income housing gets to side step a lot of local authority BS. It's meant to combat the local authorities trying to keep out the "unwanted element". The funny thing is that some of the people in that area have probably taken up "the poor" as a celebrity cause and are now going to be in the unpleasant position of either having to fight it, deal with it, or leave.
I don't plan on working in the historical time before unions. I also don't agree with using dues to push political agendas. It's no wonder they're losing members and money. The teamsters hit this head on when they tried to unionize the southern auto workers. The workers didn't see any value in unionizing and instead felt that it would be a bad thing for themselves and the company.
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No one is getting hacked to death on US streets because Christianity demanded it. Trying to compare the two is a BS argument.
IP geolocation doesn't work reliably. To comply with export laws would be an onerous burden for anything on the Internet. No one has accomplished such a feat yet.
Right after the US joins the EU.
Show me a politician that follows through on what they said during the campaigns. Doesn't happen often, therefore.. not the government we wanted. The federal government is especially bad since that's where the worst abuses happen. Patriot Act, domestic spying, IRS retribution, gun smuggling, too big to fail, etc.
It's not the country, it's the federal government.
I had a similar thought reading the headline. I'm at work in an old DEC facility. All the old farts here are "natives" in that they worked here for DEC and whatever companies happened to call this home ever since.
I guess "digital native" is the positive version of "gen cupcake".
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I take it you're referring to the police? I don't know who you think is President, but the real President is certainly not on the side of the police. He called the rioters thugs, which was appropriate, but the rest of his speech was more about holding the authorities responsible than anything else. By doing so, he took on a presumption of guilt against the police. He has done that repeatedly, going all the way back to the incident involving the Boston PD and a professor. In that event, he said the police acted stupidly then admitted he had no knowledge of what actually took place.
There is no "need" for an uprising anywhere in the US. If you want to make change, run for office. Get people to vote for you. It's really not that difficult at the local level.
Huh? Even the President called the Baltimore rioters thugs, which is about the same as calling them violent maniacs. Is the President now a bigot?
The TEA Party is not the GOP. I don't know what the point would be of those candidates being labeled RINO since the group wants conservatives to run. If Republicans were the answer, the TEA Party wouldn't need to exist. The TEA Partiers can just call those guys Republicans, they don't need the INO after the R. The problem is, the people rallied and no candidates appeared other than the Rs.
Why are we getting these asshats?
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Much of what the federal government does is attaching strings to money, money taken under the threat of force from the residents of those states. Minimum drinking age is one example. If the states refuses, which is its right, no federal highway funds. The feds already took the money from the incomes of the people of the state, which means the state has to make a lot of money magically appear, or relent to the fed's unlawful edicts. Guess which option wins?
Just like the climate change zealots!
Yea, my older receiver had the phone line unplugged almost its entire life span. My current one doesn't actually have wifi, it has a physical ethernet port. I think the newer ones do have wifi.
They have a "start from the beginning" feature now too. So if you start watching a show that's in progress, for many shows, you can stream the part you missed. Only catch is that it disables fast forward so you have to let the commercials play. That's probably the only reason they're allowed to offer the feature. I worked on a similar feature for some of the cable providers and that's why we had to add support for optionally disabling "trick play".
When I was taking electrical engineering classes, we had a midterm while the professor was out. Being the future engineers that we were, we decided upon ourselves to make the midterm a group effort. One of the non-science professors walked by at one point and saw that and decided to make a big deal over it. Funny thing was, our defense was that part of the lessons in that course was to teach the students how to work collaboratively and the importance of that type of effort in engineering. Our professor admitted that the midterm wasn't clear on whether it was to be done individually or not (poor requirements), so we went from being threatened with expulsion to hearing that what we did was actually correct given the recent lessons we had.
I can't tell from this one if it's the professor or not, but it sure could be. Just like any profession, there are good ones and there are not so good ones. Some just like to start fires.
DirecTV does too, last I checked. That's how it does the billing. Also how it gets video-on-demand, which is funny because if everything was available over VOD, the dish on the roof would be pointless.
I'd bet that's why it isn't happening.. so many hated mega-corps could become unnecessary overnight. No one is going to stick with a company like Comcast or the other cable MSOs if they don't have to.
They ran a fine DSL service back when that was semi-new technology. I still have the DirecTV DSL modem somewhere. It was enormous, but it worked great. If not for them, I wouldn't have DSL now. The phone company always refused to fix their crap to get DSL to my part of town. DirecTV managed to force them to act somehow.
I've had DirecTV since 2000-ish and I really hope AT&T doesn't fuck it up. They're a major player in my area (southern NH), there are more houses with DirecTV dishes than there are without. No one likes the other option.. Comcast. Comcast actually sent sales people door to door to beg people to switch. I never saw any dishes come down, so I can guess how that went for them.
Huh? Are you saying DirecTV will help AT&T or the other way around? DirecTV is the reason why cable and Dish subscribers have as many HD channels as they do. HD was going nowhere until DirecTV launched new satellites and made nearly every channel HD. After that, the other providers were forced to get off their asses and do something. They also have whole house DVR, stream to your smartphone etc.
A lot of people buy a new vehicle every x years. So if gas prices are sky high in the year that they're looking, it may influence them to buy one type of vehicle versus another. Especially true for people with longer commutes. The price of gas and the mileage I was driving at the time pushed me to get a hybrid. If I didn't enjoy the hybrid experience and was looking right now, I might go back to a larger vehicle.
Not sure about Cali but in my neck of the woods, low income housing gets to side step a lot of local authority BS. It's meant to combat the local authorities trying to keep out the "unwanted element". The funny thing is that some of the people in that area have probably taken up "the poor" as a celebrity cause and are now going to be in the unpleasant position of either having to fight it, deal with it, or leave.
The rich kids go to private school.
I don't plan on working in the historical time before unions. I also don't agree with using dues to push political agendas. It's no wonder they're losing members and money. The teamsters hit this head on when they tried to unionize the southern auto workers. The workers didn't see any value in unionizing and instead felt that it would be a bad thing for themselves and the company.
Yeah fuck those average people, the only people that matter are the people at the top.
You believe that people who can't do the work they were hired to do deserve just as much money as the company's competent employees earn?
We're all equal under law, therefore there's only the statistical meaning.