No other administration has circumvented the three branches or government and/or the constitution with the abuse of executive power worse than the tyrant known as Obama.
Over twenty years ago GM made the EV-1 electric car. It was only available for lease. The leasees were so happy with it that they wanted to buy the car, but the cars were reclaimed and destroyed under very questionable circumstances and production lines were promptly shut down. There are GM executives who are known to be rabidly hostile to EVs. Chevron, in collusion with the automakers, ultimately bought the patent to the EV-ideal environmentally-friendly NiMh battery and refuses to license it in a format suitable for EVs.
The oil and auto industries colluded to keep EVs and any other competitive technology from eroding the profits of Big Oil. They did it before when they conspired through shell companies to acquire and destroy streetcar companies. Streetcars were powered by electricity not fossil fuel, so by forcing consumers away from streetcars they had little choice but to buy cars. Auto makers fattened their profits, as did oil companies.
I find it hard to believe that GM is at all serious about EVs.
This is a very dangerous direction and is another tool that Obama can use to punish his political enemies as he has wielded throughout his time in office. A likely scenario is if a college publishes studies that establishes facts that conflict with political agendas, they could find their federal aid withheld like the IRS has been doing with conservative groups. The potential for abuse is too great and the consequences too disastrous. Obama needs to stop his campaign attack mode since taking office, start governing with all branches, and start staffing his cabinet with qualified candidates who listen to all sides and not political rewardees who contributed to his campaign.
What the IAB doesn't tell you is they want to exploit bandwidth at the recipients' expense. I paid for my ISP, I paid for my bandwidth, and I expect to be in control of how that bandwidth is used not some organization crying "hijacking" and "judge and jury". If I want to block ads because I hate them and they can potentially deliver malware and the IAB doesn't like it, then they can cry me a river.
My ISP has a cap on download. Video ads eat up bandwidth and nudges my usage towards that monthly cap. The day that FB launches video ads, I will no longer patronize FB because it is costing ME $$$, not to mention intruding my limited personal time on the internet.
Is this the same Yahoo! who showed their disrespect for user data privacy when they ignored and/or reset the "do not spam" preferences of their user account without users' knowledge? I knew of this because I supplied an alternate email address used for nothing but Yahoo! and I STILL got spam there.
It's not so much that reading habits are shifting from paper to digital as it is the limited tablet computer market. Apple iPad has a strong foothold in the tablet market. Few people want another tablet to carry around not to mention one that is focused on eReading and not much else.
The judge correctly ruled that Fox Searchlight Pictures did not followed the criteria laid out by the U.S. Department of Labor.
The movie industry has a long history of exploiting the law. About d@mn time they got their a## handed to them. And after the file-sharing shaming ads which depicted a lowly set worker loathing his lack of income due to file-sharing, this case further highlights the hypocrasy of the movie industry.
Sites like Facebook collect an astounding amount of information from your activity, more than you likely suspect.
A friend just had a baby, he refused to use the FB birth announcement for the same reasons.
When I signed up on FB this past fall, I purposely left few personal details in my profile. Having been a victim of identity theft, I am militant about protecting my privacy. I also despise advertising and am well aware of FB using personal profiles for advertising, and I do not want ads targetted to me based on where I live, where I work, my interests, etc. I take the usual precautions such as no discussion of vacation or business travel until after I return, etc.
Yet FB has a system that can "guess" details like where you live and your interests based on what FB sites you "like". Every time I log onto FB, the top of my newsfeed nags me to complete my profile including its "guesses" where I live. One of my friends remotely filled in my hometown thinking she was doing me a favor, which I quickly removed and took her off my newsfeed. I work for a company with valuable IP and am well aware that listing my workplace on FB would draw malware hackers to me like flies to honey. I make a habit of hiding ads and citing "offensive" as the reason I am hiding them.
Not surprisingly there's no option to tell the system turn off the nagging and I am not completing my personal profile.
They don't want you to able to access your stuff if you're not on Facebook. This "encourages" you to stay on Facebook.
Deja Vu... AOL tried the same tactic with their "walled garden" in which they did everything possible to keep you inside AOL - news, purchases, chats, everything was done inside AOL. And like FB, these tactics gradually appeared due to shareholder pressure after they went public.
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it's just a coincidence that the lines that carry the most politicians are actually funded and effective, while the rest of the country languishes due to underfunding.
Not just coincidence. It's fact. In the early days of Amtrak in the early 1970s, most of the routes catered to whomever was in a position of power in elected office. Ten years prior to Amtrak, railroads were in dire financial condition and federal regulators required them to run the passenger trains even if they were empty. Railroads were so anxious to get out of the moneypit passenger hauling business that they deferred maintenance on passenger cars and right of way to drive passengers away, even to the point of replacing dining service with impersonal vending machines. By the time Amtrak took over, there was no money to replace the 30-year-old badly neglected rolling stock. Most of the distribution of equipment was subject to the whims of politicians.
Today the northeast corrider still gets the bulk of the revenue and service upgrades, but at least the other routes now travel with modern clean well riding equipment.
Knowing the liberal left-leaning's penchant for retaliation, what is to stop them from exploiting the warrantless search to spy on election campaign offices...?
Thirty years I outgrew video games while in college because I recognized early that they were addictive and they burned a hole in your pocket. But I never outgrew pinball machines. I always preferred the arcade games that relied on predictable real life attributes such as gravity and inertia, and video games don't offer that. With pinball machines you didn't burn a hole in your pocket trying to decipher patterns like you did with video games. But video games drew better money because of the addiction so the arcade owners gradually displaced pinball machines. There aren't many pinball machines around anymore, but when I cross paths with one I just have to play them.
The old pinball machines from 1960 onward are really easy to fix. When I was in high school I completely restored one that belonged to a neighbor and didn't have to spend one dime on parts - most of the work was restoring mechanical parts such as solenoids, relays, springs, contacts, etc. Projects like that were the impetus to my earning an engineering degree from college.
There are resellers making good money from scavenging parts to resell to pinball enthusiasts. Many pinball machines survive from as far back as the 1950s. With a few exceptions, you don't see that kind of loyalty with video games because the effort isn't worth it and spare parts are an issue. Replacing a CRT in today's flat screen world? Forget it. Video game computer flaking out? You need expensive test equipment and good diagnostic skills to fix them. Many video games from the 1970s and 1980s used ICs whose substrates suffered from chemical reactions over time that ultimately rendered a dead chip. Fixing a video game quickly reaches the point of diminishing returns because with their lower market value you will never recover the restoration costs.
Playing a pinball machine gives you physical feedback. You can't feel the bumpers kick or the solenoids advancing the score counters on a video game. Bells and tonebars sound much more natural than electronic blips and bleeps. The playfields and backglass on many pinball machines are works of art, further highlighted by flashing lights. Video games are no match for the visual impact of a chrome plated ball dashing around bumpers, ramps, dropholes, et al with lights which react to impacts from the ball. Some of the later pinball machines did integrate sound effects but nothing corny like video games. And some of the themed pinball machines are downright excellent - you haven't played pinball until you played The Simpsons themed pinball machine.
Providing a CC account to PP is a recipe for CC theft which happened to me one time too many. When I signed up for PP, the system demanded a CC for overdraft so I provided a CC that I was going to close shortly. I never needed ANY overdraft because the PP account was tied to a bank savings account soley used for PP transactions and I simply moved $$$ between banks when I wanted to make a transaction. The bank account has no overdraft and has zero connection to the bank where my payroll check is direct deposited. When PP nagged me about the CC expiration approaching, I ignored it. That was over three years ago and I'm still using PP.
+1 on ditching soda drinks. Read up on nutrition and the problem with processed junk like partially hydrogenated oils (transfats) and high *tose syrups which soda drinks are loaded with. That junk is in a lot of convenient foods today, in restaurants and grocery stores. Stay away from cafeteria or fast food chains for meals, BYOM (BYO meals).
Once while passing the cafeteria I spotted a plastic jug labeled "butter flavoring". Curious, I looked at the ingredients. Number one ingredient was TRANSFAT. That was when I decided to drastically cut back meals at restaurants.
My legs get restless every couple of hours and I like to walk. So I walk at a fast pace. Doing that twenty minutes twice a day will get your heart rate up briefly. Any occasion during the workday that you can walk, do it at a fast pace. Then you can use work time for brief aerobics.
I've done this for years and was able to maintain my weight.
Almost any kind of troubles. The Olympic did crash into a British warship, the collision holing her both below and above the waterline, but no one was hurt in that one and neither the Olympic nor the warship sank.
That collision was shortly before the Titanic sailed. Over twenty years later towards the end of her career, Olympic had another collision. It collided with and sank the Nantucket lightship with loss of life from the lightship.
Order a free copy of your credit report pronto and check for suspicious activity. Call the credit reporting agencies and put a fraud alert on your account - by providing a phone number only you have access to, any financial institution attempting to open a credit line or loan from someone using you stolen identity will see the fraud alert and call the phone number listed before approving. The fraud alert stays on your record for five years.
My soon-to-be-ex-wife attempted to open a $13,000 credit card in my name using stolen mail. The fraud alert put a stop to any more attempts. That fraud event came out in divorce court and the judge was not too pleased with her.
Regarding the emails to confirm or reset accounts, look for a link to report fraud. Use it (but not the p0rno emails, those bastards will just spam you forever since you just confirmed a live human on the other end).
Back in 2000 I got so fed up with all the advertising on TV and radio and print, coupled with the poor quality of content and product placement, that I ceased listening to broadcast TV/radio and cancelled magazine subscriptions that are heavy in ads. I actively avoid ads and will not patronize chains that advertise movies (I'm talking to YOU, Burger King and Pizza Hut). Today I don't know the latest movie or TV show or any Lady GaGa songs, and I DON'T CARE. My personal life is so much better not being bombarded with ads.
I really despised TV news broadcasts using movie advertisements disguised as "news", and this is an advertising gimmick disguised as "security". I won't recognize most brands today, will not waste my time researching them, and will move to another web resource without flinching. Ad-based CAPTCHAs is a big fail.
My reaction to a situation like this is to explain my relevant experience. Nothing more. If they insist on focusing on the problem at hand, then my decision has been made and I would no longer want to work for that company. I recognize free consulting when I see it, it is highly inappropriate during an interview, and I did not spend a fortune on college education and work years in a distinguished career to give away solutions.
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Nah, I care more about being faster than my friend(s) running from the tiger.
No other administration has circumvented the three branches or government and/or the constitution with the abuse of executive power worse than the tyrant known as Obama.
Over twenty years ago GM made the EV-1 electric car. It was only available for lease. The leasees were so happy with it that they wanted to buy the car, but the cars were reclaimed and destroyed under very questionable circumstances and production lines were promptly shut down. There are GM executives who are known to be rabidly hostile to EVs. Chevron, in collusion with the automakers, ultimately bought the patent to the EV-ideal environmentally-friendly NiMh battery and refuses to license it in a format suitable for EVs.
The oil and auto industries colluded to keep EVs and any other competitive technology from eroding the profits of Big Oil. They did it before when they conspired through shell companies to acquire and destroy streetcar companies. Streetcars were powered by electricity not fossil fuel, so by forcing consumers away from streetcars they had little choice but to buy cars. Auto makers fattened their profits, as did oil companies.
I find it hard to believe that GM is at all serious about EVs.
This is a very dangerous direction and is another tool that Obama can use to punish his political enemies as he has wielded throughout his time in office. A likely scenario is if a college publishes studies that establishes facts that conflict with political agendas, they could find their federal aid withheld like the IRS has been doing with conservative groups. The potential for abuse is too great and the consequences too disastrous. Obama needs to stop his campaign attack mode since taking office, start governing with all branches, and start staffing his cabinet with qualified candidates who listen to all sides and not political rewardees who contributed to his campaign.
What the IAB doesn't tell you is they want to exploit bandwidth at the recipients' expense. I paid for my ISP, I paid for my bandwidth, and I expect to be in control of how that bandwidth is used not some organization crying "hijacking" and "judge and jury". If I want to block ads because I hate them and they can potentially deliver malware and the IAB doesn't like it, then they can cry me a river.
My ISP has a cap on download. Video ads eat up bandwidth and nudges my usage towards that monthly cap. The day that FB launches video ads, I will no longer patronize FB because it is costing ME $$$, not to mention intruding my limited personal time on the internet.
With Tyson biting your ear claiming the "state secret" clause
Is this the same Yahoo! who showed their disrespect for user data privacy when they ignored and/or reset the "do not spam" preferences of their user account without users' knowledge? I knew of this because I supplied an alternate email address used for nothing but Yahoo! and I STILL got spam there.
It's not so much that reading habits are shifting from paper to digital as it is the limited tablet computer market. Apple iPad has a strong foothold in the tablet market. Few people want another tablet to carry around not to mention one that is focused on eReading and not much else.
Well, China would have it easy when the article submitter misspells COMPUTER...
Apple beat MS with the store concept years ago.
After tiring of poor quality MS products and the upgrade treadmill, I switched to Apple computers.
It is only fitting that a MS store can be found within a store whose primary trademark color - BLUE - is the same as the MS "BSOD"
The movie industry has a long history of exploiting the law. About d@mn time they got their a## handed to them. And after the file-sharing shaming ads which depicted a lowly set worker loathing his lack of income due to file-sharing, this case further highlights the hypocrasy of the movie industry.
Sites like Facebook collect an astounding amount of information from your activity, more than you likely suspect.
A friend just had a baby, he refused to use the FB birth announcement for the same reasons.
When I signed up on FB this past fall, I purposely left few personal details in my profile. Having been a victim of identity theft, I am militant about protecting my privacy. I also despise advertising and am well aware of FB using personal profiles for advertising, and I do not want ads targetted to me based on where I live, where I work, my interests, etc. I take the usual precautions such as no discussion of vacation or business travel until after I return, etc.
Yet FB has a system that can "guess" details like where you live and your interests based on what FB sites you "like". Every time I log onto FB, the top of my newsfeed nags me to complete my profile including its "guesses" where I live. One of my friends remotely filled in my hometown thinking she was doing me a favor, which I quickly removed and took her off my newsfeed. I work for a company with valuable IP and am well aware that listing my workplace on FB would draw malware hackers to me like flies to honey. I make a habit of hiding ads and citing "offensive" as the reason I am hiding them.
Not surprisingly there's no option to tell the system turn off the nagging and I am not completing my personal profile.
Deja Vu... AOL tried the same tactic with their "walled garden" in which they did everything possible to keep you inside AOL - news, purchases, chats, everything was done inside AOL. And like FB, these tactics gradually appeared due to shareholder pressure after they went public.
Not just coincidence. It's fact. In the early days of Amtrak in the early 1970s, most of the routes catered to whomever was in a position of power in elected office. Ten years prior to Amtrak, railroads were in dire financial condition and federal regulators required them to run the passenger trains even if they were empty. Railroads were so anxious to get out of the moneypit passenger hauling business that they deferred maintenance on passenger cars and right of way to drive passengers away, even to the point of replacing dining service with impersonal vending machines. By the time Amtrak took over, there was no money to replace the 30-year-old badly neglected rolling stock. Most of the distribution of equipment was subject to the whims of politicians.
Today the northeast corrider still gets the bulk of the revenue and service upgrades, but at least the other routes now travel with modern clean well riding equipment.
Knowing the liberal left-leaning's penchant for retaliation, what is to stop them from exploiting the warrantless search to spy on election campaign offices...?
Thirty years I outgrew video games while in college because I recognized early that they were addictive and they burned a hole in your pocket. But I never outgrew pinball machines. I always preferred the arcade games that relied on predictable real life attributes such as gravity and inertia, and video games don't offer that. With pinball machines you didn't burn a hole in your pocket trying to decipher patterns like you did with video games. But video games drew better money because of the addiction so the arcade owners gradually displaced pinball machines. There aren't many pinball machines around anymore, but when I cross paths with one I just have to play them.
The old pinball machines from 1960 onward are really easy to fix. When I was in high school I completely restored one that belonged to a neighbor and didn't have to spend one dime on parts - most of the work was restoring mechanical parts such as solenoids, relays, springs, contacts, etc. Projects like that were the impetus to my earning an engineering degree from college.
There are resellers making good money from scavenging parts to resell to pinball enthusiasts. Many pinball machines survive from as far back as the 1950s. With a few exceptions, you don't see that kind of loyalty with video games because the effort isn't worth it and spare parts are an issue. Replacing a CRT in today's flat screen world? Forget it. Video game computer flaking out? You need expensive test equipment and good diagnostic skills to fix them. Many video games from the 1970s and 1980s used ICs whose substrates suffered from chemical reactions over time that ultimately rendered a dead chip. Fixing a video game quickly reaches the point of diminishing returns because with their lower market value you will never recover the restoration costs.
Playing a pinball machine gives you physical feedback. You can't feel the bumpers kick or the solenoids advancing the score counters on a video game. Bells and tonebars sound much more natural than electronic blips and bleeps. The playfields and backglass on many pinball machines are works of art, further highlighted by flashing lights. Video games are no match for the visual impact of a chrome plated ball dashing around bumpers, ramps, dropholes, et al with lights which react to impacts from the ball. Some of the later pinball machines did integrate sound effects but nothing corny like video games. And some of the themed pinball machines are downright excellent - you haven't played pinball until you played The Simpsons themed pinball machine.
Providing a CC account to PP is a recipe for CC theft which happened to me one time too many. When I signed up for PP, the system demanded a CC for overdraft so I provided a CC that I was going to close shortly. I never needed ANY overdraft because the PP account was tied to a bank savings account soley used for PP transactions and I simply moved $$$ between banks when I wanted to make a transaction. The bank account has no overdraft and has zero connection to the bank where my payroll check is direct deposited. When PP nagged me about the CC expiration approaching, I ignored it. That was over three years ago and I'm still using PP.
You don't need a CC to use PP.
+1 on ditching soda drinks. Read up on nutrition and the problem with processed junk like partially hydrogenated oils (transfats) and high *tose syrups which soda drinks are loaded with. That junk is in a lot of convenient foods today, in restaurants and grocery stores. Stay away from cafeteria or fast food chains for meals, BYOM (BYO meals).
Once while passing the cafeteria I spotted a plastic jug labeled "butter flavoring". Curious, I looked at the ingredients. Number one ingredient was TRANSFAT. That was when I decided to drastically cut back meals at restaurants.
My legs get restless every couple of hours and I like to walk. So I walk at a fast pace. Doing that twenty minutes twice a day will get your heart rate up briefly. Any occasion during the workday that you can walk, do it at a fast pace. Then you can use work time for brief aerobics.
I've done this for years and was able to maintain my weight.
That collision was shortly before the Titanic sailed. Over twenty years later towards the end of her career, Olympic had another collision. It collided with and sank the Nantucket lightship with loss of life from the lightship.
Order a free copy of your credit report pronto and check for suspicious activity. Call the credit reporting agencies and put a fraud alert on your account - by providing a phone number only you have access to, any financial institution attempting to open a credit line or loan from someone using you stolen identity will see the fraud alert and call the phone number listed before approving. The fraud alert stays on your record for five years.
My soon-to-be-ex-wife attempted to open a $13,000 credit card in my name using stolen mail. The fraud alert put a stop to any more attempts. That fraud event came out in divorce court and the judge was not too pleased with her.
Regarding the emails to confirm or reset accounts, look for a link to report fraud. Use it (but not the p0rno emails, those bastards will just spam you forever since you just confirmed a live human on the other end).
Back in 2000 I got so fed up with all the advertising on TV and radio and print, coupled with the poor quality of content and product placement, that I ceased listening to broadcast TV/radio and cancelled magazine subscriptions that are heavy in ads. I actively avoid ads and will not patronize chains that advertise movies (I'm talking to YOU, Burger King and Pizza Hut). Today I don't know the latest movie or TV show or any Lady GaGa songs, and I DON'T CARE. My personal life is so much better not being bombarded with ads.
I really despised TV news broadcasts using movie advertisements disguised as "news", and this is an advertising gimmick disguised as "security". I won't recognize most brands today, will not waste my time researching them, and will move to another web resource without flinching. Ad-based CAPTCHAs is a big fail.
Mine says "Never mind the dog - beware of OWNER"
My reaction to a situation like this is to explain my relevant experience. Nothing more. If they insist on focusing on the problem at hand, then my decision has been made and I would no longer want to work for that company. I recognize free consulting when I see it, it is highly inappropriate during an interview, and I did not spend a fortune on college education and work years in a distinguished career to give away solutions.
MS sounds a lot like my ex-wife - it's everyone else's fault and she is not to blame.