IANAL, but the Telephone Consumers Protection Act seems to disagree.
From Subpart L - Restrictions on Telephone Solicitation Section e. 2. v.
"Affiliated persons or entities. In the absence of a specific request by the subscriber to the contrary, a residential subscriber's do-not-call request shall apply to the particular business entity making the call (or on whose behalf a call is made), and will not apply to affiliated entities unless the consumer reasonably would expect them to be included given the identification of the caller and the product being advertised."
I messed with Texas once. It went and got all its state buddies (you know, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Canada, etc.) together and came back and beat the hell out of me. Bastard Texas couldn't fight me on its own. I'm just glad Idaho was out of town that day. I've heard it has a set of brass knuckles.
It's the bit when the narrator is describing the invention of the Infinite Improbability Generator by a lab assistant and the subsequent lynching of same by the scientists who'd been working on it their entire lives.
If they can have Korean animators do it for less and the fans still like it, why should a government step in and tell them they have to pay more just to have it done at home?
Because one of the responsibilities of government is to manage the national economy. When you have massive unemployment due to outsourcing to other countries, your economy suffers.
A responsible government would offer incentives to keep manufacturing jobs in the country without actually passing laws to force it.
You know, I've read numerous times and places that Saturns have really good service and support, but not being an auto nut, I had no idea whether it was just part of a big Saturn marketing effort.
I just turned in my Saturn SL2 that had 160,000 miles on it. It still ran great. I never failed once to have a positive experience when dealing with a Saturn dealership. They were great every. single. time.
On a side note, remember those Saturn "picnics" they'd have where Saturn owners from around the country would come? How did they find their car when it was time to go home?
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Just click Unsubscribe and you're free and clear.
I don't even want "legitimate" spam. Why should I have to unsubscribe from dozens or hundreds or thousands of marketing mailing lists that I never suscribed to in the first place? The DMA should be advocating opt-in rather than opt-out. I have no sympathy for their headaches.
I recently had a long conversation with the guy who runs the spamvertisements for a certain motel chain that sounds like FlooperBait. He said "We process thousands of unsubscribe requests per week!" For some reason, that little tidbit failed to clue him in that he's doing something wrong.
To a certain extent, I agree with your post, but you're missing one critical point: To a journalist, credibility is key and it's the product he's selling. Without credibility, their only career option is the Weekly World News or the New York Times (zing!). When you start to intersperse ads into journalistic content, it blurs the line between impartial reporting and paid shilling and is diametrically opposed to journalism's most basic foundations.
I remember seeing something years ago on TV (Mr. Wizard, probably. Is there anything he *didn't* know?) He demonstrated a sort of squashed-triangle wheel. I don't know what the geometric shape is called, but essentially, it's a triangle, but the sides are somewhat curved out instead of straight.
At any rate, he demonstrated a toy vehicle with these wheels. When he pushed it along the flat table, the bed of the vehicle stayed perfectly level and didn't rise up and down because the diameter of the wheel at any given point was constant. The difference being that it didn't require any special "road" for it to work properly. It also didn't require any of the wheels to be in synch with each other or the road.
If someone has seen this or knows what I'm talking about, please reply, since this clearly shouldn't make sense. I just remember it worked perfectly.
Read the article. The seven-ton weapon, codenamed Blue Peacock, was a state-of-the art munition to be buried on the plains of northern Germany during a British retreat and detonated by remote control or timer to destroy advancing Russian forces in the event of the Third World War.
I just bought a Sony Ericsson T616 with Cingular service from Wal-Mart, believe it or not, that I discovered was unlocked. I bought it in January of this year.
The silver lining? This will probably bite them in the ass. Less people will see flagged movies/shows, which means less ratings, which means less advertising dollars, which makes the movies/shows worth less.
Unfortunately, the studios will completely misunderstand the drop in ratings and they will invariably blame it on piracy or something else. Regardless, it will never occur to them that the ratings sucked because the show was crap or because people couldn't timeshift it. And it will result in them trying to push even *more* restrictive legislation and/or technology. Just like we're already seeing today in the music industry.
Perhaps I wasn't clear with my last comment. I have seen several MP3 players (and similar devices, such as the Sony Minidisc player) where you can transfer content to the device, but you can't transfer it back off again. Some MP3 players have built-in DRM software that modifies or watermarks content when you transfer it to the device, so that when you transfer it back off again it is no longer the same content. One of my Diamond Rios did that after a firmware "upgrade" with the end result being that mp3's played on it sounded flat.
The point of my post was that I applaud Apple's decision to make the use of DRM user-selectable instead of forcing it down our throats. This makes it possible for people to use the technology in the way that best suits their needs. In this case, Jackson was able to use iPods as a sort of multimedia portable harddrive instead of what the iPod was originally designed to be - an MP3 player.
Just goes to show you what enforced DRM and EULA's will do. Hardware and software manufacturers should always let us utilize their products the way we need to, not the way they want us to. You start throwing DRM into the mix and that limits the usefulness of the product. Go iPod!
How do you figure? Ad-Aware 6 came out at the end of January 2003 and has had at least three point releases since then. The most recent signature update I have from them is 1/10/2004. Maybe you're not looking in the right place.
One may as well invest in a multi-disc changer that reads MP3 discs. This way you can have hours upon hours of music that you choose, commercial free.
If you've never used a satellite radio before, then your comment is somewhat uninformed. There are two major downsides to what you propose. The first is that you never get to hear anything new. The only things you will listen to are what you put in your library. The second (and this is the one that most commentors have missed) is that you get a lot more than music on the radio. You also get a dozen news channels, sports, a couple of comedy channels, vintage radio shows (like The Shadow and The Saint, for example).
I'm not saying that satellite radio is for everyone, but oh MAN is it worth it.
One thing that really stood out for me were the costumes and sets. I'm so tired of sci-fi costume and set designers making all costumes out of woven mylar or whatever shiny fabric. Then they make these elaborate CGI cities with spiraling towers and wispy skyways. Honestly, who really believes the future is like that? DS9 tried to break that mold, but failed as miserably as most other sci-fi. The station was supposed to be a seedy marketplace, but instead everyone ended up wearing the same style freshly-laundered jumpsuit but in slightly different colors, maybe with a sash or a hat or something.
BG actually had believable costumes. The characters looked like they were wearing regular comfortable every-day clothes, but there were enough subtle design changes to make it clear that they weren't on Any Street USA. The buildings just looked like regular buildings. It just helped add to the overall experience and I wanted to give a nod to those designers who finally Got It Right.
Personally, I don't see the big deal about keeping your number. If I want to switch carriers, the number is not what's going to stop me. It's the whole "having to buy a completely new handset" thing that ticks me off.
I'm oh-so-happy that I now get to pay another monthly tax (in this case, about $1.50) for yet another service I have no need for. Ya know what? Instead of number portability, why aren't we demanding that carriers fix their infrastructure? In this day and age, why are we still saying things like "You're breaking up, can you please repeat that?" WTF? Are we on walkie-talkies or something?!
Not any different than current flight zone restrictions. Seen any aviation charts lately? The ones I use are a veritable maze of restricted areas. In fact, a "microwave power zone" would likely be a heck of a lot smaller than your typical Class B or even Class C airport (both of which are controlled airspaces).
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IANAL, but the Telephone Consumers Protection Act seems to disagree.
From Subpart L - Restrictions on Telephone Solicitation
Section e. 2. v.
"Affiliated persons or entities. In the absence of a specific request by the subscriber to the contrary, a residential subscriber's do-not-call request shall apply to the particular business entity making the call (or on whose behalf a call is made), and will not apply to affiliated entities unless the consumer reasonably would expect them to be included given the identification of the caller and the product being advertised."
ref. Junkbusters
Otherwise, they know most people are too lazy to report them.
"429,000 Do-Not-Call Complaints"
I think maybe it's just you. Besides, do you really want to go down the road of having the government routinely monitor phone calls?
We all know not to mess with Texas.
I messed with Texas once. It went and got all its state buddies (you know, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Canada, etc.) together and came back and beat the hell out of me. Bastard Texas couldn't fight me on its own. I'm just glad Idaho was out of town that day. I've heard it has a set of brass knuckles.
It's the bit when the narrator is describing the invention of the Infinite Improbability Generator by a lab assistant and the subsequent lynching of same by the scientists who'd been working on it their entire lives.
Are people really this daft?
The fact that Symantec has already cranked it up to "Risk: High" should answer that question for you.
My opinion? You get what you deserve if you refuse to maintain your system. Plus, it's a steady income for us support people, too.
If they can have Korean animators do it for less and the fans still like it, why should a government step in and tell them they have to pay more just to have it done at home?
Because one of the responsibilities of government is to manage the national economy. When you have massive unemployment due to outsourcing to other countries, your economy suffers.
A responsible government would offer incentives to keep manufacturing jobs in the country without actually passing laws to force it.
You know, I've read numerous times and places that Saturns have really good service and support, but not being an auto nut, I had no idea whether it was just part of a big Saturn marketing effort.
I just turned in my Saturn SL2 that had 160,000 miles on it. It still ran great. I never failed once to have a positive experience when dealing with a Saturn dealership. They were great every. single. time.
On a side note, remember those Saturn "picnics" they'd have where Saturn owners from around the country would come? How did they find their car when it was time to go home?
Just click Unsubscribe and you're free and clear.
I don't even want "legitimate" spam. Why should I have to unsubscribe from dozens or hundreds or thousands of marketing mailing lists that I never suscribed to in the first place? The DMA should be advocating opt-in rather than opt-out. I have no sympathy for their headaches.
I recently had a long conversation with the guy who runs the spamvertisements for a certain motel chain that sounds like FlooperBait. He said "We process thousands of unsubscribe requests per week!" For some reason, that little tidbit failed to clue him in that he's doing something wrong.
Shave every day and you'll always look keen.
Holy carp! I used to have that on a 45 RPM when I was a kid! I didn't know anyone else had ever heard of it.
Surely most people will want to see pictures of the product, not some silly Flash animation
I hate waiting for flash animations to load, but in this case, the flash animations *are* the pictures you're looking for.
Roll on XP SP2 with the firewall on by default for everyone
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
To a certain extent, I agree with your post, but you're missing one critical point: To a journalist, credibility is key and it's the product he's selling. Without credibility, their only career option is the Weekly World News or the New York Times (zing!). When you start to intersperse ads into journalistic content, it blurs the line between impartial reporting and paid shilling and is diametrically opposed to journalism's most basic foundations.
I remember seeing something years ago on TV (Mr. Wizard, probably. Is there anything he *didn't* know?) He demonstrated a sort of squashed-triangle wheel. I don't know what the geometric shape is called, but essentially, it's a triangle, but the sides are somewhat curved out instead of straight.
At any rate, he demonstrated a toy vehicle with these wheels. When he pushed it along the flat table, the bed of the vehicle stayed perfectly level and didn't rise up and down because the diameter of the wheel at any given point was constant. The difference being that it didn't require any special "road" for it to work properly. It also didn't require any of the wheels to be in synch with each other or the road.
If someone has seen this or knows what I'm talking about, please reply, since this clearly shouldn't make sense. I just remember it worked perfectly.
Read the article.
The seven-ton weapon, codenamed Blue Peacock, was a state-of-the art munition to be buried on the plains of northern Germany during a British retreat and detonated by remote control or timer to destroy advancing Russian forces in the event of the Third World War.
Impressive! How did you figure out the URL?
:-(
Yeah, no kidding. Especially since the current Akamai url is apparently no longer valid.
This piece of crap crashes on Windows for no reason
;-)
Tried it, blew it off. Highly unrecommended.
Yeah, Windows has that tendency. Glad to see you've decided to switch to another OS.
I just bought a Sony Ericsson T616 with Cingular service from Wal-Mart, believe it or not, that I discovered was unlocked. I bought it in January of this year.
The silver lining? This will probably bite them in the ass. Less people will see flagged movies/shows, which means less ratings, which means less advertising dollars, which makes the movies/shows worth less.
Unfortunately, the studios will completely misunderstand the drop in ratings and they will invariably blame it on piracy or something else. Regardless, it will never occur to them that the ratings sucked because the show was crap or because people couldn't timeshift it. And it will result in them trying to push even *more* restrictive legislation and/or technology. Just like we're already seeing today in the music industry.
What are you on about?
Perhaps I wasn't clear with my last comment. I have seen several MP3 players (and similar devices, such as the Sony Minidisc player) where you can transfer content to the device, but you can't transfer it back off again. Some MP3 players have built-in DRM software that modifies or watermarks content when you transfer it to the device, so that when you transfer it back off again it is no longer the same content. One of my Diamond Rios did that after a firmware "upgrade" with the end result being that mp3's played on it sounded flat.
The point of my post was that I applaud Apple's decision to make the use of DRM user-selectable instead of forcing it down our throats. This makes it possible for people to use the technology in the way that best suits their needs. In this case, Jackson was able to use iPods as a sort of multimedia portable harddrive instead of what the iPod was originally designed to be - an MP3 player.
Just goes to show you what enforced DRM and EULA's will do. Hardware and software manufacturers should always let us utilize their products the way we need to, not the way they want us to. You start throwing DRM into the mix and that limits the usefulness of the product. Go iPod!
Adaware seems to not be maintained anymore
How do you figure? Ad-Aware 6 came out at the end of January 2003 and has had at least three point releases since then. The most recent signature update I have from them is 1/10/2004. Maybe you're not looking in the right place.
One may as well invest in a multi-disc changer that reads MP3 discs. This way you can have hours upon hours of music that you choose, commercial free.
If you've never used a satellite radio before, then your comment is somewhat uninformed. There are two major downsides to what you propose. The first is that you never get to hear anything new. The only things you will listen to are what you put in your library. The second (and this is the one that most commentors have missed) is that you get a lot more than music on the radio. You also get a dozen news channels, sports, a couple of comedy channels, vintage radio shows (like The Shadow and The Saint, for example).
I'm not saying that satellite radio is for everyone, but oh MAN is it worth it.
One thing that really stood out for me were the costumes and sets. I'm so tired of sci-fi costume and set designers making all costumes out of woven mylar or whatever shiny fabric. Then they make these elaborate CGI cities with spiraling towers and wispy skyways. Honestly, who really believes the future is like that? DS9 tried to break that mold, but failed as miserably as most other sci-fi. The station was supposed to be a seedy marketplace, but instead everyone ended up wearing the same style freshly-laundered jumpsuit but in slightly different colors, maybe with a sash or a hat or something.
BG actually had believable costumes. The characters looked like they were wearing regular comfortable every-day clothes, but there were enough subtle design changes to make it clear that they weren't on Any Street USA. The buildings just looked like regular buildings. It just helped add to the overall experience and I wanted to give a nod to those designers who finally Got It Right.
Personally, I don't see the big deal about keeping your number. If I want to switch carriers, the number is not what's going to stop me. It's the whole "having to buy a completely new handset" thing that ticks me off.
I'm oh-so-happy that I now get to pay another monthly tax (in this case, about $1.50) for yet another service I have no need for. Ya know what? Instead of number portability, why aren't we demanding that carriers fix their infrastructure? In this day and age, why are we still saying things like "You're breaking up, can you please repeat that?" WTF? Are we on walkie-talkies or something?!
Not any different than current flight zone restrictions. Seen any aviation charts lately? The ones I use are a veritable maze of restricted areas. In fact, a "microwave power zone" would likely be a heck of a lot smaller than your typical Class B or even Class C airport (both of which are controlled airspaces).