A foreign entity wouldn't have targeted a 20 year old weather satellite. They would have hit a major new spy sat.
Except if you want to see if it works. target something no one is going to miss. What do you think would happen if a brand spanking new spy sat or something blew up? They would want to know what the fuck happened and investigate a lot more thoroughly than they will for this.
Judging on my past usage patterns, a lack of a removable battery isn't a big deal for me; but the SD card is.
Anyone have any suggestions for a good new model phone that still comes with one, since Samsung is apparently out?
Pretty much everything else that doesn't start with an i. HTC's m9 looks quite nice, SD slot present and accounted for. Sony's xperia line is nice too, but it is sony and the one I have (Z) is very quiet on it's external speakers, so much so that with any real background noise you have to hold it by your ear to hear anything anyway. HTC or possible ship jump to a nokia windows phone is looking like a winner to me.
These phones are not hard to aquire. Sure if you want to buy it flat out sim free you're looking at a steep price tag, but like 90% of people (statistic provided by my ass) you get one on contact, so unless you have less than £20/30 (dunno what price contacts run in US) and can afford the monthly payment you can get practically any phone you want. Not hard, not exclusive, certainly not for the blessed few. Even fucking tesco workers are running around with latest model phone (or n-1 if their contract still has another year to run). If you can't afford one (if you want one) then you have a real shit job that pays peanuts, or no job at all.
That's what me and my brother thought, dependant on a number of factors. But when it was on the news we were both seeing the different colours, regardless of viewing angle or distance or any other factors. The effect was even carried through to a photo on my phone of the paused tv screen. It's the most bizarre thing.
The trouble with any such reliable way of communicating with the divine is that it would, ultimately, deprive us of our dignity as truly independent beings. Once the creator makes himself be known in unambiguous terms that are obvious to everyone, you are no longer a truly independent entity, now are you? Sure, you still have your free will, but how much is that worth in a world where you know, for sure, that the Devil exists? How much choice does that leave you, to decide between good and evil?
Is that why Jesus walked around performing miracles? And also why there's such heavy consequence for making the 'wrong' choice? Also I'm pretty sure most people would choose good, especially when given all the information to make an informed choice.
"Hospitals, in western culture, are a result of religious people. Schools, colleges, and universities are the result of religious people. Religious people claim many good and wholesome actions as a result of communicating with their god.
People did that, the fact they were christian is moot. Those things predate christianity by a long stretch. In fact if prayer worked the way the bible says it does (when it says they do as opposed to when it says they don't) none of those would be needed.
I'm also concerned partially because at its root, the problem with broadband in this country is a lack of local choice.
Why would anybody want to invest large bucks in broadband if the FCC can just come around and kick over your business model at any time through regulation?
I believe competition (such as Google Fiber) going up against the phone company and the cable company would help lower prices
Well, so why do the federal government and local government conspire to create huge barriers to entry?
Seems like the system you argue against is alot like what we have here in the UK, a ton of providers with general oversight being treated like a utiity. We can get internet as cheap as £3.75 a month (https://www.plus.net/) to full on fibre/tv/phone packages up to ~£100 for everything. The lions share of deals are also unlimited downloads. The only bad bit is you have to pay line rental regardless of isp at around £15 a month. The whole infrastructure is operated by openreach who only deal with isp's then isp deal with customers. For the most part it works pretty well. A shit load better than what you have.
It's not like that's a uniform spread. You may have a low overall density but you also have massive chunks of nothing. People in Bumsville Idaho or Shittown Kentucky* might not get great connections but that is no excuse for your cities having just as crummy service. You may have guessed I'm not American so have no first hand experience but from what I gather, even in downtown LA or NY you still get very limited choice, not great service and high costs compared to other countries.
*No offence intended to people from Idaho or Kentucky.
Say two people are sitting there on a bus having a chat, do you give a shit? I doubt it. Replace one with a device and while it can be vaguely irritating it's really no cause for violence. Chill the fuck out dude.
I also got really bored of music about 5+ years ago. I still have and listen to all the music I bought before that but a switched seemed to flip in my head one day and said, right you've got enough. I've bought maybe 3 albums since and only downloaded stuff I own because it was easier than digging out the cd to digitize. Never bothered with spotify et al. I do occasionally go on internet radio sites and try to find the most shouty alex jones type ranting about stuff I can but they're few and far between nowadays. There used to be station out of New York called Angry Radio which was great but they also just stopped one day.
It isn't that people are set on getting "free shit"
Yes it fucking is. I've been seeing these stupid arguments on Slashdot and other "tech" blogs for the better part of two decades, and every time, every single fucking time, it is obvious that the detractors of intellectual property, copyrights, and patents, and the like flat-out feel entitled to the fruits of others' labor without compensation. That's all it's ever about. From the DVD deCSS decryption stuff to the Pirate Bay to the rates of pay for streaming, it has always and ever shall be about the Free Shit (free as in beer, yuk yuk). No matter how much a bunch of basement-dwelling nerds try to dress it up in lofty principles, when it comes down to it they simply want access to every single thing anyone has ever created, at the push of a button, for zero money. That's it. These conversations would be a lot shorter if at least a few people would come clean and just acknowledge it once in a while.
Maybe that might be the kids mentality but for most of the people I know that download stuff it's because they're unable to buy what they want. CD/DVDs out of print. Shows locked to Netflix/hulu/streaming site x in the us only, DRM, people who travel, stuff not available in your region etc etc. So it's on a distribution method (the internet) that has no reason we can't get the stuff other than they won't let us so no wonder people say well it's available for free right there so fuck you. Most people who can afford to buy what they want would if they could. Kids cant buy crap anyway that's why they gorge when they can get it for free, but make what we want easy to buy and we'll certainly fucking buy it.
Fuck those money-grubbing artists. Tell them to vote for a basic income, funded the same way the private sector funds itself, through money creation. Then let ppl make music because they love it, not to get paid.
Fuck those money grubbing labels. They're the ones that rape every facet of the industry and keep all the riches for themselves. Support the artists, fuck the labels.
Slashdot Mirror
because wires don't follow political boundaries
your fiber is our fiber and visa versa. it's all bound up. a message you send from Vancouver to Halifax may/ probably crosses the border into the USA
Regardless of the physical path the 1's and 0's take the US can't arbitrarily declare things illegal and expect the rest of the world to follow suit.
Because Republicans snuck a ban into a completely unrelated port security bill that they knew nobody could vote against right before an election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_Enforcement_Act_of_2006#Legislative_history
How is that even a legal thing that they can do that?
MASA will put a whale on the moon for 200 bucks.
or a false flag action of the US to accuse a foreign power. To get more funding for the space defense toys.
Anything that gets more money in the hands of nasa can't be all bad.
A foreign entity wouldn't have targeted a 20 year old weather satellite. They would have hit a major new spy sat.
Except if you want to see if it works. target something no one is going to miss. What do you think would happen if a brand spanking new spy sat or something blew up? They would want to know what the fuck happened and investigate a lot more thoroughly than they will for this.
Judging on my past usage patterns, a lack of a removable battery isn't a big deal for me; but the SD card is. Anyone have any suggestions for a good new model phone that still comes with one, since Samsung is apparently out?
Pretty much everything else that doesn't start with an i. HTC's m9 looks quite nice, SD slot present and accounted for. Sony's xperia line is nice too, but it is sony and the one I have (Z) is very quiet on it's external speakers, so much so that with any real background noise you have to hold it by your ear to hear anything anyway. HTC or possible ship jump to a nokia windows phone is looking like a winner to me.
These phones are not hard to aquire. Sure if you want to buy it flat out sim free you're looking at a steep price tag, but like 90% of people (statistic provided by my ass) you get one on contact, so unless you have less than £20/30 (dunno what price contacts run in US) and can afford the monthly payment you can get practically any phone you want. Not hard, not exclusive, certainly not for the blessed few. Even fucking tesco workers are running around with latest model phone (or n-1 if their contract still has another year to run). If you can't afford one (if you want one) then you have a real shit job that pays peanuts, or no job at all.
Non-user-replaceable battery, and no SD expansion.
Stick it up your backside, Samsung, and stop emulating the WORST features of your competitors.
Non replaceable battery, meh. Non expandable memory, now that is a show stopper right there.
That's what me and my brother thought, dependant on a number of factors. But when it was on the news we were both seeing the different colours, regardless of viewing angle or distance or any other factors. The effect was even carried through to a photo on my phone of the paused tv screen. It's the most bizarre thing.
The trouble with any such reliable way of communicating with the divine is that it would, ultimately, deprive us of our dignity as truly independent beings. Once the creator makes himself be known in unambiguous terms that are obvious to everyone, you are no longer a truly independent entity, now are you? Sure, you still have your free will, but how much is that worth in a world where you know, for sure, that the Devil exists? How much choice does that leave you, to decide between good and evil?
Is that why Jesus walked around performing miracles? And also why there's such heavy consequence for making the 'wrong' choice? Also I'm pretty sure most people would choose good, especially when given all the information to make an informed choice.
Don't forget to leave it somewhere easily accessible and in plain sight.
"Hospitals, in western culture, are a result of religious people. Schools, colleges, and universities are the result of religious people. Religious people claim many good and wholesome actions as a result of communicating with their god.
People did that, the fact they were christian is moot. Those things predate christianity by a long stretch. In fact if prayer worked the way the bible says it does (when it says they do as opposed to when it says they don't) none of those would be needed.
flexibilisation
Nice.
You didn't think before you replied! I'm a lady!
Well I suppose that smell is more bearable. Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why would anybody want to invest large bucks in broadband if the FCC can just come around and kick over your business model at any time through regulation?
Well, so why do the federal government and local government conspire to create huge barriers to entry?
Seems like the system you argue against is alot like what we have here in the UK, a ton of providers with general oversight being treated like a utiity. We can get internet as cheap as £3.75 a month (https://www.plus.net/) to full on fibre/tv/phone packages up to ~£100 for everything. The lions share of deals are also unlimited downloads. The only bad bit is you have to pay line rental regardless of isp at around £15 a month. The whole infrastructure is operated by openreach who only deal with isp's then isp deal with customers. For the most part it works pretty well. A shit load better than what you have.
It's not like that's a uniform spread. You may have a low overall density but you also have massive chunks of nothing. People in Bumsville Idaho or Shittown Kentucky* might not get great connections but that is no excuse for your cities having just as crummy service. You may have guessed I'm not American so have no first hand experience but from what I gather, even in downtown LA or NY you still get very limited choice, not great service and high costs compared to other countries.
*No offence intended to people from Idaho or Kentucky.
As long as you hold your nose when you make a call you'll be grand ;)
Say two people are sitting there on a bus having a chat, do you give a shit? I doubt it. Replace one with a device and while it can be vaguely irritating it's really no cause for violence. Chill the fuck out dude.
ask me the time and you will get one of two responses. Daytime or Nighttime depending on the darkness.
How big are your pockets that you need to fumble for your phone? Do you have wallet, keys, phone, and a bunch of other crap all in the one pocket?
Here in the U.S., we have to 'vote with our dollars' or nothing is going to change.
Except that if you don't buy it they assume you downloaded it and cry piracy.
I also got really bored of music about 5+ years ago. I still have and listen to all the music I bought before that but a switched seemed to flip in my head one day and said, right you've got enough. I've bought maybe 3 albums since and only downloaded stuff I own because it was easier than digging out the cd to digitize. Never bothered with spotify et al. I do occasionally go on internet radio sites and try to find the most shouty alex jones type ranting about stuff I can but they're few and far between nowadays. There used to be station out of New York called Angry Radio which was great but they also just stopped one day.
Yes it fucking is. I've been seeing these stupid arguments on Slashdot and other "tech" blogs for the better part of two decades, and every time, every single fucking time, it is obvious that the detractors of intellectual property, copyrights, and patents, and the like flat-out feel entitled to the fruits of others' labor without compensation. That's all it's ever about. From the DVD deCSS decryption stuff to the Pirate Bay to the rates of pay for streaming, it has always and ever shall be about the Free Shit (free as in beer, yuk yuk). No matter how much a bunch of basement-dwelling nerds try to dress it up in lofty principles, when it comes down to it they simply want access to every single thing anyone has ever created, at the push of a button, for zero money. That's it. These conversations would be a lot shorter if at least a few people would come clean and just acknowledge it once in a while.
Maybe that might be the kids mentality but for most of the people I know that download stuff it's because they're unable to buy what they want. CD/DVDs out of print. Shows locked to Netflix/hulu/streaming site x in the us only, DRM, people who travel, stuff not available in your region etc etc. So it's on a distribution method (the internet) that has no reason we can't get the stuff other than they won't let us so no wonder people say well it's available for free right there so fuck you. Most people who can afford to buy what they want would if they could. Kids cant buy crap anyway that's why they gorge when they can get it for free, but make what we want easy to buy and we'll certainly fucking buy it.
Fuck those money-grubbing artists. Tell them to vote for a basic income, funded the same way the private sector funds itself, through money creation. Then let ppl make music because they love it, not to get paid.
Fuck those money grubbing labels. They're the ones that rape every facet of the industry and keep all the riches for themselves. Support the artists, fuck the labels.
You certainly don't plan to inflict 1000 civilian casualties
Not always, but targeting civilians is still an option in warfare.
FTFY