This is true. Never was a parking brake and should never be used for parking. Might work in a warmer climate but where winters freeze... they can too. So you'll be parked for a helluva long time if you pick up some moisture in the cable.
As far as stick shift, the proper way to "park" is put it in low or reverse gear and turn your wheels to the curb.
Well back in the day when a show was picked up it ran 23 episodes per season. Today... lucky if they make 13. (If it even gets past the pilot) So more often than not that "new" show has 13 episodes and 13 reruns per season.
And gone are the days when your fav show came on say a Monday nite and you added that time to your schedule. Now... phttt... more often than not it's a rerun so folks pretty much got used to not wasting their time with anything.
Have to agree with this point. At first they are really majestic and awesome to watch. Problem is, the longer you watch them the uglier they get. Go figger.
Yeah, sad but true. The US slid into fascism quite some time ago. Most don't have a clue as to what that word means or what socialism, communism etc. mean either, for that matter.
1980 x 1200 hanns G is under $300. Not an amazing monitor but decent with a 3 year warranty. So the prices are "slowly" dropping. But there still isn't anything like a CRT!:)
Well, problem if you live in an area that has say... 1000 people on line. You end up with them all dropping their service and everyone using your wifi. (Which would obviously make it quicker for you to write a letter and send it via snail mail)
And how does the ISP stay in business with only one paying customer?
Cool. Instead of using say a half dozen smaller drives and losing some data to drive failure, now you can put it all in one place and lose it all at once!
Interestingly I was reading an article a few months back about obese people undergoing gastric bypass. The report said something like 60 people were followed and 20 had diabetes. Strange thing is, as soon as the operations were over, the diabetes disappeared. Instantly. In all the diabetic patients. No one knows why.
On the other hand, those who have been working overtime for years wouldn't be able to handle the pay cut they now depend on. So they end up looking for a second job and therefore work even longer hours. Catch-22.
Most miss the point entirely. There is marketing and there's marketing 101. Jobs was up to marketing 2,847.3. He was a marketing genius.
It doesn't matter if they win or lose. The idea is to get the competition blocked from sales for as long as possible. The Mac or whatever gains ground while the competition has to sit on it's hands. Their (in this case, apple) market share increases. Their power increases.
If they can hold them off long enough, no one (where the competition was blocked) would even consider another product since everyone has a mac tablet (or whatever). It becomes the standard since while it was in litigation it's all they can buy..
The general population falls for it and wants "the real thing", not a rip off of the original. Even if that "rip off" is light years ahead of it. Pretty much sales by deception. The product doesn't have to be better. Just perceived as better.
Well, let's just say there is no reason anymore to program. Ok, hold it!!! LOL
Years past, when you first got a computer you were excited. Back then, you turned it on (boot was an alien word) and... you got a c prompt. It blinked. You blinked back. It kept blinking. No matter how much you blinked all you got was a blink back. Excitement turned into WTF?
So unless you wanted the neighborhoods first electronic boat anchor you had to learn to program. From hello world to batch files. And batch files were fun! Back in the DOS days practically everyone could do some sort of programming.
Then along came the GUI. No programming required. And it's been all downhill since. If you don't *have* to do it, you probably won't.
Yes but no one really knows what caused the demise of the flintstones. The whole danger of the wheel was hidden from history for thousands of years. Seems when the vehicles reached a certain speed the flintstone wheel set everything afire! Hence causing cancellation of the show and the wheel was set aside until the invention of round wood.
And therin lies the problem. You can't get a brighter bulb. Well not easily anyway. The "equivalant" of 100w is available but it's not just the lumens. It's the temp. And how many can you buy before you finally (maybe?) get one you can live with? Now they have 9,547.2 different types of bulbs out there. Soon lighting will be proprietary. Oh, wait... even some of the "right" size bulbs don't fit the socket they're supposed to fit. Now the standard incandescent may not be going awat too soon, but shop for lighting. Go ahead. Find something that takes an old fashioned bulb.
And the gov gives no thought to the older generation when they mandate getting rid of incandescent bulbs and have us use the "energy saving", (what amounts to dim candles) bulbs.
Why not a fridge on line? You aren't looking hard enuff.:) Lot of wholesale appliance stores out there and most price with free shipping. Yeah, even on a fridge. Or freezer. Generator. Stove. You name it, you can get it cheaper on line.
Well that's how the state gets them. Big on line companies offer affiliate programs.
That is, a way for folks to sign up with them and put ads on theire web page for their products. Amazon pays them a commission when they push a sale to them.
Look at the bottom of virtually any big name web page. You'll see affiliates, partners, whatever the wording. That's not other companies. Amazon does it, walmart, kmart, new egg, best buy and on and on.
So, if even one person lives in that state, the state says the company has a presence there. And that's how they're gettin away with charging tax in that state.
And the company will generally cut commissions to anyone in that state so the little guy essentially goes out of business.
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This is true. Never was a parking brake and should never be used for parking. Might work in a warmer climate but where winters freeze... they can too. So you'll be parked for a helluva long time if you pick up some moisture in the cable.
As far as stick shift, the proper way to "park" is put it in low or reverse gear and turn your wheels to the curb.
Well back in the day when a show was picked up it ran 23 episodes per season. Today... lucky if they make 13. (If it even gets past the pilot) So more often than not that "new" show has 13 episodes and 13 reruns per season.
And gone are the days when your fav show came on say a Monday nite and you added that time to your schedule. Now... phttt... more often than not it's a rerun so folks pretty much got used to not wasting their time with anything.
Have to agree with this point. At first they are really majestic and awesome to watch. Problem is, the longer you watch them the uglier they get.
Go figger.
Yeah, sad but true. The US slid into fascism quite some time ago. Most don't have a clue as to what that word means or what socialism, communism etc. mean either, for that matter.
1980 x 1200 hanns G is under $300. Not an amazing monitor but decent with a 3 year warranty. So the prices are "slowly" dropping. But there still isn't anything like a CRT! :)
Well, problem if you live in an area that has say... 1000 people on line. You end up with them all dropping their service and everyone using your wifi. (Which would obviously make it quicker for you to write a letter and send it via snail mail)
And how does the ISP stay in business with only one paying customer?
Cool. Instead of using say a half dozen smaller drives and losing some data to drive failure, now you can put it all in one place and lose it all at once!
5 minutes or so isn't a big deal. Problem is they never tell you when it's "safe" to turn them back on.
Maybe it's time for a "shut off devices" sign next to the fasten seat belt sign?
Interestingly I was reading an article a few months back about obese people undergoing gastric bypass. The report said something like 60 people were followed and 20 had diabetes. Strange thing is, as soon as the operations were over, the diabetes disappeared. Instantly. In all the diabetic patients. No one knows why.
On the other hand, those who have been working overtime for years wouldn't be able to handle the pay cut they now depend on. So they end up looking for a second job and therefore work even longer hours. Catch-22.
Most miss the point entirely. There is marketing and there's marketing 101. Jobs was up to marketing 2,847.3. He was a marketing genius.
It doesn't matter if they win or lose. The idea is to get the competition blocked from sales for as long as possible. The Mac or whatever gains ground while the competition has to sit on it's hands. Their (in this case, apple) market share increases. Their power increases.
If they can hold them off long enough, no one (where the competition was blocked) would even consider another product since everyone has a mac tablet (or whatever). It becomes the standard since while it was in litigation it's all they can buy..
The general population falls for it and wants "the real thing", not a rip off of the original. Even if that "rip off" is light years ahead of it. Pretty much sales by deception. The product doesn't have to be better. Just perceived as better.
Well, let's just say there is no reason anymore to program. Ok, hold it!!! LOL
Years past, when you first got a computer you were excited. Back then, you turned it on (boot was an alien word) and... you got a c prompt. It blinked. You blinked back. It kept blinking. No matter how much you blinked all you got was a blink back. Excitement turned into WTF?
So unless you wanted the neighborhoods first electronic boat anchor you had to learn to program. From hello world to batch files. And batch files were fun! Back in the DOS days practically everyone could do some sort of programming.
Then along came the GUI. No programming required. And it's been all downhill since. If you don't *have* to do it, you probably won't.
I'll drink to that. If they want to really move console games all they have to do is make a keyboard for it.
"democratic elections produce mediocre leadership and policies"
Not quite true. If you change "mediocre" to "corrupt" you're right on the money.
Yes but no one really knows what caused the demise of the flintstones. The whole danger of the wheel was hidden from history for thousands of years. Seems when the vehicles reached a certain speed the flintstone wheel set everything afire! Hence causing cancellation of the show and the wheel was set aside until the invention of round wood.
But no one told you that Jobs was a marketing genius. ;)
And therin lies the problem. You can't get a brighter bulb. Well not easily anyway. The "equivalant" of 100w is available but it's not just the lumens. It's the temp. And how many can you buy before you finally (maybe?) get one you can live with?
Now they have 9,547.2 different types of bulbs out there. Soon lighting will be proprietary. Oh, wait... even some of the "right" size bulbs don't fit the socket they're supposed to fit.
Now the standard incandescent may not be going awat too soon, but shop for lighting. Go ahead. Find something that takes an old fashioned bulb.
Ok. Since when do you sign a passport?
And the gov gives no thought to the older generation when they mandate getting rid of incandescent bulbs and have us use the "energy saving", (what amounts to dim candles) bulbs.
Hope they do better than Chevy's Vega.
And then there is monoprice.com that hacks the crap out of all of them for cables n' such.
Why not a fridge on line? You aren't looking hard enuff. :) Lot of wholesale appliance stores out there and most price with free shipping. Yeah, even on a fridge. Or freezer. Generator. Stove. You name it, you can get it cheaper on line.
I tried Mac. They suck.
Become the buyers? Never, thanx to the record/film industry lawyers and lobbyists who've stuffed congressmens pockets with big bucks for years.
Well that's how the state gets them. Big on line companies offer affiliate programs.
That is, a way for folks to sign up with them and put ads on theire web page for their products. Amazon pays them a commission when they push a sale to them.
Look at the bottom of virtually any big name web page. You'll see affiliates, partners, whatever the wording. That's not other companies. Amazon does it, walmart, kmart, new egg, best buy and on and on.
So, if even one person lives in that state, the state says the company has a presence there. And that's how they're gettin away with charging tax in that state.
And the company will generally cut commissions to anyone in that state so the little guy essentially goes out of business.