Has not the Business Community learned yet how much the public detests advertisements. Why do they feel that simply because their product is in electronic data format that they are entitled to shove more advertisements down our throats. People don't really buy shit from all these ads do they? Where are these people, we need to stop them and then maybe the Business Community will figure out that the shit doesn't work on people with intellect. Where is my right to not be subjected to unrelenting advertisement going to be created? Is not a popup ad just as invasive as a telemarketer who would call the households trying to sell a product during dinnertime? Popup ads, and ads everywhere we look is more disturbing, and why, for the love of God, do we as consumers still tolerate this crap?
My fear with those human looking pylons is that the electricity will be connected wrong, and in some freak incident, the damn things will come alive and start stepping on people.
But it's sure would be cool as shit to see that Irrational Fear come to pass also.
Correlation does not imply causation. There are a boatload of other factors that take place. This planet used to be very lush with rain forests. And with the ever increasing population of man on this planet, and our need to destroy without care, lower rainfall amounts and drought are more likely to occur. So as we lose more and more forest / rain forests the correlations will appear to be more and will be naturally lead people to believe that it is causeation.
All this is, is a way to for TV/Movie companies to justify the degradation of quality visual and sound in programming and movies. As a country (in the USA) we were forced to leave analog signal for digital, but shit, digital has some major flaws. So now we pay big $ for digital TV's for bad visual/audio quality. Because digital can be compressed, and it's expected, the results can be atrocious. When a movie like Blade Runner that looked pretty good for its time on anolog looks like garbage in digital, that just says the industry is out for cash and thinks society is too stupid to care.
... which is vital. If a person builds a pool and skips out of the permit, they could find themselves in dire straits should someone ever drown in said pool. If proper safety specs are not met, the pool could be dangerous in how it was designed and built. And in some cases, if a person is too cheap to get the permit, they're likely getting the pool for as cheap as possible.
Permits are necessary for displacement of land. If you remove trees to put in your pool, you're losing one of natures ways of keeping erosiion under control and other environmental issues that might take place. When a neighborhood gets some massive flooding, and the county has worked to ensure proper drainage for that home and neighborhood and now someone comes along and builds a pool without considering that drainage, that pool may upset the designed flow and cause flooding in certain circumstances.
Besides, permits that they are dodging, their may be additional taxes and proper insurance that is required. People who do this are very selfish.
I think (not sure) that city govt. personnel don't have permission to just walk onto someone's property even if they suspect unlawful building. Google Earth allows the city/county employees to perform the jobs that we, the tax payers pay them to do without violating any laws.
I'm perfectly happy that they have found a safe and legal way of enforcing city/county ordinances.
.... but this, along with a lot of changes made with the last few adminstrations is getting ridiculous. Why must those of us who are law abiding put up with our civil liberties being stripped away piece by layered piece until we are truly in Orwell's "1984". I know that the reason that is being touted is to help the FBI and other agencies catch those would mean to cause harm upon us, but this is not the right way to go about this.
To counter the arguement "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide", I have done nothing wrong and I simply would like to continue to have my privacy that is part of my civil liberties. Just because someone does no wrong doesn't mean they wish to be an open book.
I prefer my habits via driving, phoning, texting, or web surfing to be my business, not yours or anyone else's.
Ok so if I remember correctly, the center of a golf ball is made with a rubberband like substance, and then is covered with that nice hard plastic shell. But as a golf ball lands and rolls, wouldn't that spin cause the same reaction as what is in that video? Or could we assume that it is so tightly wound and then encased with little to no wiggle room that this alteration of shape would not take place? I'm thinking it's the latter.
Next I'd love to see the same thing performed with the traditional egg drop experiment and how long the egg would last.
What about a wicked lightning storm that brews up due to air currents and someone dies from a lightning strike....I'm sorry, but nature is nature. Scientist are making assessments based on the facet they think they know and the little knowledge they really have about the world we live in. If we could predict things to that level of accuracy, then we would understand precisely our level of impact on the world as a whole. Geologist can no more predict an earthquake than the weatherman can tell you where a hurrican will go when it forms off the coast of Africa. If you live in an area that will someday be hit by a hurricane, then all I can say, is Buyer Beware. This logic is no different for those individual who live in flood plains, or live below sea level (New Orleans), or on or near a fault line (San Andreas Fault example). Come on people, if you buy a house near a volcano, you can't honestly think it will never errupt. It's the earth.
Homer: Ohhhh! Why Me? Marge: Homey, it's a great accomplishment. Homer: Will I get donuts? mmmmmmm Donuts mmmmmmmmmm Marge: No, but you're more entertaining than Peter Griffen. Homer: Whoo Hoo!
Plain and simple folks, those who illegally download a copy of the Hurtlocker or any other copyrighted materials has committed a crime. If you don't like the cost, don't see the movie or whatever the item is. But it's against the law to steal. These movie studios have a right to protect their property. Just because copyrighted materials are on the internet does not mean obtaining a copy without paying for it is ok. Period.
If all the pirating people would stop stealing then maybe, just maybe, the cost of ticket prices or DVDs won't be raised to offset the theft.
I hope the US Govt. doesn't feel the need to ban such a beer from reaching the citizens. Limits on %'s that different alcohols can be sold at is just stupid in my book.
I've been with a few different ones and never get what I'm paying for. Bandwidth Speed tests don't prove very much unless you're expanding your testing to check points of origins of requests back to requestor. If two different providers take different paths, then the comparisons are poor. If I use 3 providers at the same time to access the same info from the same point of orgin and they take the same path, then I can provide a more accurate picture of what the results are. But as I understand it, the internet is designed such that if one path is not available, the request will look for an available path until it either finds one or not.
I want to see this test done, not because I want the FCC to have a case to make to gain control, but to help show what all of us are already aware of, that internet providers do not live up to their service agreements.
Free help is pretty effective. You're helping to educate the public. You're involving the public in the resulting science. This is a very smart way of doing things. Based on your attitude we should wait on doing anything useful until our machine overlords are here and doing it for us, doh!
So you join a Free Social Networking site, that is maintained and updated all the time. How do you think this shit is paid for? Advertisements! How best to make Advertisements work then to target them to the audience. Of course they're sharing this data, the Ad Agencies want it and are willing to pay for it. The Privacy concerns are the issues for Facebook, not the Ad Agencies. The only way to go after them is if they bought data that was illegal to sell or share. As much as I'm not a fan of this reality, there is nothing private on the internet.
If you're collecting data you must know how to store it. And IP addresses are pretty discernable. So regardless of the stupidity of the general person leaving their WiFi unprotected, Google knew. They have brilliant minds at Google, ignorance of this SNAFU is complete and utter Bull Shit.
I agree people need to close off their WiFi to protect personal data, but Google knew what they were doing.
That's just wrong on so many levels. I can see kids buying these and then using them to pick on other school kids they don't like. Such as putting them in some kid's underwear when he/she is showering after the gym class.
This type of item used as a gag gift could have serious consequences for the recipient. If it's a student who is the recipient, then schools kick them out until they're free and clear. Parents may miss work to be home with student. Lice spread easily.
There is absolutely nothing good from this./facepalm
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Has not the Business Community learned yet how much the public detests advertisements. Why do they feel that simply because their product is in electronic data format that they are entitled to shove more advertisements down our throats. People don't really buy shit from all these ads do they? Where are these people, we need to stop them and then maybe the Business Community will figure out that the shit doesn't work on people with intellect. Where is my right to not be subjected to unrelenting advertisement going to be created? Is not a popup ad just as invasive as a telemarketer who would call the households trying to sell a product during dinnertime? Popup ads, and ads everywhere we look is more disturbing, and why, for the love of God, do we as consumers still tolerate this crap?
I want a National, DO NOT ADVERTISE TO ME list.
My fear with those human looking pylons is that the electricity will be connected wrong, and in some freak incident, the damn things will come alive and start stepping on people.
But it's sure would be cool as shit to see that Irrational Fear come to pass also.
Nevermind me.... I'm silly.
Correlation does not imply causation. There are a boatload of other factors that take place. This planet used to be very lush with rain forests. And with the ever increasing population of man on this planet, and our need to destroy without care, lower rainfall amounts and drought are more likely to occur. So as we lose more and more forest / rain forests the correlations will appear to be more and will be naturally lead people to believe that it is causeation.
All this is, is a way to for TV/Movie companies to justify the degradation of quality visual and sound in programming and movies. As a country (in the USA) we were forced to leave analog signal for digital, but shit, digital has some major flaws. So now we pay big $ for digital TV's for bad visual/audio quality. Because digital can be compressed, and it's expected, the results can be atrocious. When a movie like Blade Runner that looked pretty good for its time on anolog looks like garbage in digital, that just says the industry is out for cash and thinks society is too stupid to care.
The last line of the opera is "Today is a Good day to Die" sung in harmony with those that will do battle before they kill each other.
... which is vital. If a person builds a pool and skips out of the permit, they could find themselves in dire straits should someone ever drown in said pool. If proper safety specs are not met, the pool could be dangerous in how it was designed and built. And in some cases, if a person is too cheap to get the permit, they're likely getting the pool for as cheap as possible.
Permits are necessary for displacement of land. If you remove trees to put in your pool, you're losing one of natures ways of keeping erosiion under control and other environmental issues that might take place. When a neighborhood gets some massive flooding, and the county has worked to ensure proper drainage for that home and neighborhood and now someone comes along and builds a pool without considering that drainage, that pool may upset the designed flow and cause flooding in certain circumstances.
Besides, permits that they are dodging, their may be additional taxes and proper insurance that is required. People who do this are very selfish.
I think (not sure) that city govt. personnel don't have permission to just walk onto someone's property even if they suspect unlawful building. Google Earth allows the city/county employees to perform the jobs that we, the tax payers pay them to do without violating any laws.
I'm perfectly happy that they have found a safe and legal way of enforcing city/county ordinances.
.... but this, along with a lot of changes made with the last few adminstrations is getting ridiculous. Why must those of us who are law abiding put up with our civil liberties being stripped away piece by layered piece until we are truly in Orwell's "1984". I know that the reason that is being touted is to help the FBI and other agencies catch those would mean to cause harm upon us, but this is not the right way to go about this.
To counter the arguement "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide", I have done nothing wrong and I simply would like to continue to have my privacy that is part of my civil liberties. Just because someone does no wrong doesn't mean they wish to be an open book.
I prefer my habits via driving, phoning, texting, or web surfing to be my business, not yours or anyone else's.
Ok so if I remember correctly, the center of a golf ball is made with a rubberband like substance, and then is covered with that nice hard plastic shell. But as a golf ball lands and rolls, wouldn't that spin cause the same reaction as what is in that video? Or could we assume that it is so tightly wound and then encased with little to no wiggle room that this alteration of shape would not take place? I'm thinking it's the latter.
Next I'd love to see the same thing performed with the traditional egg drop experiment and how long the egg would last.
.... bacteria? Eeeeewwwwww.
What about a wicked lightning storm that brews up due to air currents and someone dies from a lightning strike....I'm sorry, but nature is nature. Scientist are making assessments based on the facet they think they know and the little knowledge they really have about the world we live in. If we could predict things to that level of accuracy, then we would understand precisely our level of impact on the world as a whole. Geologist can no more predict an earthquake than the weatherman can tell you where a hurrican will go when it forms off the coast of Africa. If you live in an area that will someday be hit by a hurricane, then all I can say, is Buyer Beware. This logic is no different for those individual who live in flood plains, or live below sea level (New Orleans), or on or near a fault line (San Andreas Fault example). Come on people, if you buy a house near a volcano, you can't honestly think it will never errupt. It's the earth.
It's called cutting the power at power stations that control the power to the internet providers.
Homer: Ohhhh! Why Me?
Marge: Homey, it's a great accomplishment.
Homer: Will I get donuts? mmmmmmm Donuts mmmmmmmmmm
Marge: No, but you're more entertaining than Peter Griffen.
Homer: Whoo Hoo!
Plain and simple folks, those who illegally download a copy of the Hurtlocker or any other copyrighted materials has committed a crime. If you don't like the cost, don't see the movie or whatever the item is. But it's against the law to steal. These movie studios have a right to protect their property. Just because copyrighted materials are on the internet does not mean obtaining a copy without paying for it is ok. Period.
If all the pirating people would stop stealing then maybe, just maybe, the cost of ticket prices or DVDs won't be raised to offset the theft.
I hope the US Govt. doesn't feel the need to ban such a beer from reaching the citizens. Limits on %'s that different alcohols can be sold at is just stupid in my book.
I've been with a few different ones and never get what I'm paying for. Bandwidth Speed tests don't prove very much unless you're expanding your testing to check points of origins of requests back to requestor. If two different providers take different paths, then the comparisons are poor. If I use 3 providers at the same time to access the same info from the same point of orgin and they take the same path, then I can provide a more accurate picture of what the results are. But as I understand it, the internet is designed such that if one path is not available, the request will look for an available path until it either finds one or not.
I want to see this test done, not because I want the FCC to have a case to make to gain control, but to help show what all of us are already aware of, that internet providers do not live up to their service agreements.
Free help is pretty effective. You're helping to educate the public. You're involving the public in the resulting science. This is a very smart way of doing things. Based on your attitude we should wait on doing anything useful until our machine overlords are here and doing it for us, doh!
Now that's is what I call a Friend with Benefit.
So you join a Free Social Networking site, that is maintained and updated all the time. How do you think this shit is paid for? Advertisements! How best to make Advertisements work then to target them to the audience. Of course they're sharing this data, the Ad Agencies want it and are willing to pay for it. The Privacy concerns are the issues for Facebook, not the Ad Agencies. The only way to go after them is if they bought data that was illegal to sell or share. As much as I'm not a fan of this reality, there is nothing private on the internet.
If you're collecting data you must know how to store it. And IP addresses are pretty discernable. So regardless of the stupidity of the general person leaving their WiFi unprotected, Google knew. They have brilliant minds at Google, ignorance of this SNAFU is complete and utter Bull Shit.
I agree people need to close off their WiFi to protect personal data, but Google knew what they were doing.
So if I go to a Porn site, won't I get advertiseing to other porn sites? Aren't those non-family friendly?
Pot meet Kettle...
I would have certainly loved to post Mods all over this Fucking Thread...
There probably won't be one Fucking person who reads this Fucking Post because there are so many Fucking Posts already. God Dammit!
PROTECTED FREE SPEECH! YES!
Oh noes, does this mean that we all have to start believing that the movie 'The Net' was credible?
Nah!!!!! ;)
That's just wrong on so many levels. I can see kids buying these and then using them to pick on other school kids they don't like. Such as putting them in some kid's underwear when he/she is showering after the gym class.
This type of item used as a gag gift could have serious consequences for the recipient. If it's a student who is the recipient, then schools kick them out until they're free and clear. Parents may miss work to be home with student. Lice spread easily.
There is absolutely nothing good from this. /facepalm
... refused to give up his Crackberry upon entering office.
It doesn't matter if you're throttled. I barely use bandwidth, and I'm still throttled all to hell.