That wouldnt even help me with my senator. I live in one of the few zip codes in Georgia that has both black people and gay people in it. I am sure that just postmarking a letter gets it binned instantly.
Or maybe even if it is veto-proof, our leader could, well , you know.. LEAD or something. Veto the damn thing if you dont like it, and it could be that others may change their vote if they see that someone is willing to start things in motion. If everyone believes that they will be alone in opposition, then the safe move is to not oppose. All these paid off crooks could go back to their bosses and show that they voted yes on the first pass, but things just werent going to work out.
I always thought the purpose was to change the party responsible for enforcing this nonsense. The current rules are civil law, so the owners have to pursue the offenders, with all of the costs and PR hits that come with being assholes. Now, the rules will be criminal, and then government will enforce. They can just shrug and say " sorry, just enforcing the laws, and we all agreed on what those would be " .
exactly. One day the neat all in one tv will have a new blu-ray disc placed in , that requires a simple firmware update. This update removes the dvd functionality of the drive, and the inability to play original blu-rays of a certain age. Now all of this content is unavailable, and connecting extra devices is only a feature that pirates would use.
like a set top box that outputs video to the screen. My god, this is groundbreaking.
I also would actually consider buying a TV with some processing power and USB inputs, so that the TV runs the thinking. The USB keys could hold whatever software may be needed for clients/OS/whatever. Of course, this would only cause an upgrade war to USB somehow.
I still live by a rule of no more than $100/year for a tv. My last is was under 300 dollars, and is over 3 years old, so I could be in the market, but I am not jumping on the forced upgrade cycle.
It is an option that ATT can offer. If I tried to open Joe's app store, no one would bother with it... what could i offer that would give reason for people to choose to shop there, or developers to work with me for marketing? Well, ATT has the reason for devs to go there, to the tune of millions of eyeballs, and there are plenty of those they can re-direct without them realizing what is happening. Many customers will just see an options portal to control their account.
AT&T doesnt have the killer app, but they have the app store killer. The android market place and apple app store give access to customers to developers for the platform. ATT can circumvent those by supplying their own store with access to all of their customers ( which is a huge base). Platform wont matter, and apps written will have APIs into many ATT services... you need identity, music services , TV (u-verse) , all linked in through their own playground with their own tools. By pushing to hmtl5, the restrictions on what gets approved to the iphone is circumvented.
Most of this article is speculation and wrong, but there is an interesting play by ATT to become more than just a line operator and carrier. The biggest miss in the article is the assumption that wireline services are important to this effort. ATT knows that sending a signal through copper , and renting that access to everyone is not where the big profits are at. They want the 30% cut of everyone else's ideas, and to facilitate the next twitter or facebook from within their control, so they wont just be a simple supplier to the ones making huge profits.
In my version of not mandatory, I would be allowed to say no and continue doing whatever it is I was going to do. If not agreeing to the non-mandatory search prevents me from doing something, then it has become a mandatory part of the something.
If you ask for a warrant instead of agreeing, will you be allowed to continue, asked to leave, or asked to stay while a warrant is retrieved? There is no suspicion other than requesting a warrant to validate the need for one, which to me starts to place this action way passed the grey area.
I would agree to a search if they produce a reason to search me, this would give a requirement for reasonable suspicion, and allow me to prove my innocence and disprove their idea of my guilt. I dont think, however, that this warrant would be retrieved, I would be asked to leave the station ( not on a train), and all of this shows that the search is warrantless, without cause, and mandatory.
wow, this is painful. There truly is no money to be made from letting a sleeping dog lie. As government budgets must be spent, and there is rarely anyone that actually avoids useless spending of this money, then obviously the thing to do when all installations are done and running is not maintain and monitor, but to scrap it all and rebuild a new way. If this initiative is brought to large scale public attention, we will get to see a lot of spin on job creation and "green-ness".
One thing to remember, we have some US dollars purchasing other debts too. This is at a rate of nearly 89% of dollars purchased by others. Then, consider that our interest rates our low ( payback to the owners of the debt is small) and the currencies we purchase have high interest rates in comparison. It is a net loss for the US, but not nearly as much as the rhetoric about being owned by China can appear to be when presented in a vacuum.
I am ignorant on the loss that GoDaddy is incurring. Is there any monthly recurring fees that they are losing for all of this, or is everyone just making a point of moving now to get their attention, and then the simple renewals with fees will then go to a competitor? It seems that teh competition is getting a great deal of transfers and making money from it, but I dont see where GoDaddy is losing yet. Am I wrong? I dont know their service offerings, but I am enjoying the rage and activity around all of this.
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Well, my sister died less than a week ago, and was fighting her cancer for about a year and a half. The conversations were pretty normal actually. I would ask how she was doing, not to bring up the impending death, but to see how she was feeling at that time. The chemo may be giving bad results, or not so bad. If she didnt want to talk about it then she wouldnt. We never really spoke about how dire the situation was for a long time, as she always had the perspective that it would pass like a bad flu. I wished that she had less treatment sometimes, as the days of recovery from medication took away more good days then she could have had with nothing, but she was insisting on remaining active and alive for as long as possible, and actually made a lot out of the days that she had. I made sure to do the fun things that we liked to do together, partially to distract her, and partially so I could have the memories now that she is gone. The important thing for me was to just continue to be alive with her. We got to have a lot of time that was just like always, but she made sure to fit in as much as she could. Dont ignore the situation, but dont focus on death... focus on being alive.
Wait until you see how much money they make from late fees from this. They wont care when the envelope was postmarked, or when the check was dated. The day the money clears into their account is the day the bill is paid, and so sorry to everyone that it may take them some time to handle the transactions.
Changing carrier is better, but how long until they all do this.
SMS should be free, yet we all pay high amounts for this "service" . There is no way to avoid this, except to find the plan/carrier that allows you the cheapest version of the plan that fits your use pattern.
I am not saying it isnt horseshit, I am saying that they have no responsibility to share their own convenience ( at least from their perspective ). when they see a convenience for the customer , they charge for it. I like the idea in a comment around here that everyone should pay in person, with pennies. 8000 pennies per month per customer is going to break the brinks trucks hauling them to the banks. That would be justice for this move.
It probably does have a chance of backfiring, but I am sure they know how locked in their customers are, and how unwilling others may be to move. The risk is likely outweighed by the profit, and the bad PR will be replaced shortly by another cell company being even more assholish.
of course it is cheaper for them, that has nothing to do with the fee. Paying online or over the phone is quicker, easier, and cheaper for the consumer, therefore more convenient. If Verizon can leverage that convenience as a premium service, then they will bill for it. There are plenty of colleges and utilities that do this same thing. Pisses me off, but at least with Verizon there is some chance of moving to another company ( in some locations) as opposed to my water bill, which I pretty much just have to suck it up.
These are the things that made AT&T swallowing T-mobile such a bad deal. More competition actually removes this kind of crap. Fewer companies makes collusion easier, and these fees will pop up everywhere.
yup, this place is full of anonymous cowards that deny the existence of what actually happened. Or are you saying that Apple only prevented someone from selling the devices, because then you would be correct. Samsung can make tons of these , just not market and sell them.
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That wouldnt even help me with my senator. I live in one of the few zip codes in Georgia that has both black people and gay people in it. I am sure that just postmarking a letter gets it binned instantly.
Space Piss! Can sell that for a fortune. At least get an article written about it.
in fact, from some perspectives , earth IS a space rock. Just throw some dirt in it and jack up the price.
Or maybe even if it is veto-proof, our leader could, well , you know.. LEAD or something. Veto the damn thing if you dont like it, and it could be that others may change their vote if they see that someone is willing to start things in motion. If everyone believes that they will be alone in opposition, then the safe move is to not oppose. All these paid off crooks could go back to their bosses and show that they voted yes on the first pass, but things just werent going to work out.
I always thought the purpose was to change the party responsible for enforcing this nonsense. The current rules are civil law, so the owners have to pursue the offenders, with all of the costs and PR hits that come with being assholes. Now, the rules will be criminal, and then government will enforce. They can just shrug and say " sorry, just enforcing the laws, and we all agreed on what those would be " .
exactly. One day the neat all in one tv will have a new blu-ray disc placed in , that requires a simple firmware update. This update removes the dvd functionality of the drive, and the inability to play original blu-rays of a certain age. Now all of this content is unavailable, and connecting extra devices is only a feature that pirates would use.
how did you get the dog to press the tiny buttons on the TV?
My cat refused to obey, so I just throw her at the power button and hope that I want whatever the last person was watching.
this TV, should you choose to accept it ...
like a set top box that outputs video to the screen. My god, this is groundbreaking.
I also would actually consider buying a TV with some processing power and USB inputs, so that the TV runs the thinking. The USB keys could hold whatever software may be needed for clients/OS/whatever. Of course, this would only cause an upgrade war to USB somehow.
I still live by a rule of no more than $100/year for a tv. My last is was under 300 dollars, and is over 3 years old, so I could be in the market, but I am not jumping on the forced upgrade cycle.
Finally, the year of linux on the TV is here !
It is an option that ATT can offer. If I tried to open Joe's app store, no one would bother with it... what could i offer that would give reason for people to choose to shop there, or developers to work with me for marketing? Well, ATT has the reason for devs to go there, to the tune of millions of eyeballs, and there are plenty of those they can re-direct without them realizing what is happening. Many customers will just see an options portal to control their account.
AT&T doesnt have the killer app, but they have the app store killer. The android market place and apple app store give access to customers to developers for the platform. ATT can circumvent those by supplying their own store with access to all of their customers ( which is a huge base). Platform wont matter, and apps written will have APIs into many ATT services... you need identity, music services , TV (u-verse) , all linked in through their own playground with their own tools. By pushing to hmtl5, the restrictions on what gets approved to the iphone is circumvented.
Most of this article is speculation and wrong, but there is an interesting play by ATT to become more than just a line operator and carrier. The biggest miss in the article is the assumption that wireline services are important to this effort. ATT knows that sending a signal through copper , and renting that access to everyone is not where the big profits are at. They want the 30% cut of everyone else's ideas, and to facilitate the next twitter or facebook from within their control, so they wont just be a simple supplier to the ones making huge profits.
In my version of not mandatory, I would be allowed to say no and continue doing whatever it is I was going to do. If not agreeing to the non-mandatory search prevents me from doing something, then it has become a mandatory part of the something.
If you ask for a warrant instead of agreeing, will you be allowed to continue, asked to leave, or asked to stay while a warrant is retrieved? There is no suspicion other than requesting a warrant to validate the need for one, which to me starts to place this action way passed the grey area.
I would agree to a search if they produce a reason to search me, this would give a requirement for reasonable suspicion, and allow me to prove my innocence and disprove their idea of my guilt. I dont think, however, that this warrant would be retrieved, I would be asked to leave the station ( not on a train), and all of this shows that the search is warrantless, without cause, and mandatory.
I bet you use emacs
wow, this is painful. There truly is no money to be made from letting a sleeping dog lie. As government budgets must be spent, and there is rarely anyone that actually avoids useless spending of this money, then obviously the thing to do when all installations are done and running is not maintain and monitor, but to scrap it all and rebuild a new way. If this initiative is brought to large scale public attention, we will get to see a lot of spin on job creation and "green-ness".
One thing to remember, we have some US dollars purchasing other debts too. This is at a rate of nearly 89% of dollars purchased by others. Then, consider that our interest rates our low ( payback to the owners of the debt is small) and the currencies we purchase have high interest rates in comparison. It is a net loss for the US, but not nearly as much as the rhetoric about being owned by China can appear to be when presented in a vacuum.
a principled stand may start to look like that, but we dont know , as it hasnt ever happened
I am ignorant on the loss that GoDaddy is incurring. Is there any monthly recurring fees that they are losing for all of this, or is everyone just making a point of moving now to get their attention, and then the simple renewals with fees will then go to a competitor? It seems that teh competition is getting a great deal of transfers and making money from it, but I dont see where GoDaddy is losing yet. Am I wrong? I dont know their service offerings, but I am enjoying the rage and activity around all of this.
Well, my sister died less than a week ago, and was fighting her cancer for about a year and a half. The conversations were pretty normal actually. I would ask how she was doing, not to bring up the impending death, but to see how she was feeling at that time. The chemo may be giving bad results, or not so bad. If she didnt want to talk about it then she wouldnt. We never really spoke about how dire the situation was for a long time, as she always had the perspective that it would pass like a bad flu. I wished that she had less treatment sometimes, as the days of recovery from medication took away more good days then she could have had with nothing, but she was insisting on remaining active and alive for as long as possible, and actually made a lot out of the days that she had. I made sure to do the fun things that we liked to do together, partially to distract her, and partially so I could have the memories now that she is gone. The important thing for me was to just continue to be alive with her. We got to have a lot of time that was just like always, but she made sure to fit in as much as she could. Dont ignore the situation, but dont focus on death ... focus on being alive.
Wait until you see how much money they make from late fees from this. They wont care when the envelope was postmarked, or when the check was dated. The day the money clears into their account is the day the bill is paid, and so sorry to everyone that it may take them some time to handle the transactions.
Changing carrier is better, but how long until they all do this.
SMS should be free, yet we all pay high amounts for this "service" . There is no way to avoid this, except to find the plan/carrier that allows you the cheapest version of the plan that fits your use pattern.
I am not saying it isnt horseshit, I am saying that they have no responsibility to share their own convenience ( at least from their perspective ). when they see a convenience for the customer , they charge for it. I like the idea in a comment around here that everyone should pay in person, with pennies. 8000 pennies per month per customer is going to break the brinks trucks hauling them to the banks. That would be justice for this move.
It probably does have a chance of backfiring, but I am sure they know how locked in their customers are, and how unwilling others may be to move. The risk is likely outweighed by the profit, and the bad PR will be replaced shortly by another cell company being even more assholish.
Now this is a protest that I would appreciate.
of course it is cheaper for them, that has nothing to do with the fee. Paying online or over the phone is quicker, easier, and cheaper for the consumer, therefore more convenient. If Verizon can leverage that convenience as a premium service, then they will bill for it. There are plenty of colleges and utilities that do this same thing. Pisses me off, but at least with Verizon there is some chance of moving to another company ( in some locations) as opposed to my water bill, which I pretty much just have to suck it up.
These are the things that made AT&T swallowing T-mobile such a bad deal. More competition actually removes this kind of crap. Fewer companies makes collusion easier, and these fees will pop up everywhere.
yup, this place is full of anonymous cowards that deny the existence of what actually happened. Or are you saying that Apple only prevented someone from selling the devices, because then you would be correct. Samsung can make tons of these , just not market and sell them.