I got a virgin mobile 3g/4g hotspot. I got the 2GB for $35/mo, which comes with unlimited wimax. Now, after 10GB/mo they will throttle you to 2mb/s, so it won't compare to Google Fiber, FIOS, or anything of that nature. In my experience it's more reliable and better speeds than Clear. So what I did was take my service-less Android, set up Google Voice, and downloaded Groove IP for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gvoip&hl=en . So now I can make outbound and take inbound calls using Google Voice, carry the wireless hotspot in my pocket, disable 4g mode, and basically have phone and internet for $35/mo. As a single guy, this is pretty sweet. The virgin mobile is a little hard to activate, but the investment in terms of effort is worth it.
I'm 'grandfathered' in to VM's $25 plan, but there is a "hack" for you to get the same plan you have for $25.
After you've been a VM customer for a month or two, call them and tell them you would like to cancel your service with them because you found the same plan somewhere else for cheaper. VM will offer you the same plan for $25, because they want to keep you as a customer. It's worth a try, worst that can happen is they don't make the offer and you stay at $35.
I made up a little angled tablet stand out of cardboard/duct tape that works well. It isn't as pretty as the $14.95 one in your link, but all it cost me was an hour of time.:^)
The tablet tower isn't a bad idea, though I could see the milk crate tower easily buckling and collapsing, breaking the tablet when it falls from that height. You can get a package of cheap zip-ties to tightly connect the milk crates together, then put the heaviest items in the bottom crate for a safer, stabler 'tower'.
Oh, and just to correct the errors... muskets during the revolution were almost exclusively not rifles. And an expert musketeer could load and fire on the order of three balls in a minute.
And this notion that somehow a modern society is somehow immune to being abused by its government is ludicrous. The complacency of it blinding. Self-protection against a tyrannical government is as valid today as it was during the revolution. More pertinent, many would say...
Okay, still, if you had a musket pistol and didn't kill on your first shot I have a fighting chance then to get away or disarm you. When a person can enter a theater or classroom and wipe out most people in it, that is a major concern/problem that needs to get addressed/fixed. Mind you, I don't claim to have the easy solution to this dilemma.
Nice reply there, I happen to agree with you, except for the high capacity magazines arguement, there's no need for 50plus mags unless you are in a war. You sound like a rational citizen, the gun arguement will go on forever, the genie's long out of that bottle. I have no problem with responsible gun owners. I've known hunters who are great people, and have gone along with them on deer and rabbit hunting excursions, although I've never needed to kill an animal for food (a McDonalds is always down the road).
And having a gun can mean the difference in an encounter with criminals. They can also be taken/wrested away from the (now) victim and used against them. That hunting family I knew, some months after a kick in attempted robbery (where the wife & mother of 3 sons was alone and kept a shotgun aimed at the perp until he left), one day a son calls the work office answering machine where we are eating lunch. His mom had heard someone upstairs and was shooting up there (it was her son), he's asking us to call her downstairs and convince her that it's just him upstairs. She was having some type of psychotic episode that was a direct result from her encounter several months earlier.
The real problem now is how do you determine who is a responsible owner? How can you confirm that they consistently secure their weapons properly? Do waiting and cooling off periods need to be lengthened? No easy answers. Now in the news is the 15 year old New Mexico kid who killed is family members, and they'll be another equally horrible gun violence story again in a few days from now, I'm sure. It's the ease of access that neds to be more locked down.
The sale price is rather high for a modified stock car, but hey, it is ~the~ Batmobile, the one that everyone alive then remembers seeing on TV. So, if the buyer could auction or resell it later and turn a profit, maybe it isn't a bad idea to pay that number. You can rent it out for any number of publicity stunts. I've said the same as you over things I wouldn't buy, only to later learn the buyer turned it around and sold it for a large profit.
Back in the 60's, Burt Ward and Adam West were getting a lot of female fan/groupie action. I've seen interviews of Mr. Ward talking about this, and the grin on his face said way more than he could politely say to the interviewer. They may have had to wear silly costumes in that series, but the job did come with side benefits.
Given all the attention recently put on beef, I expect McDonalds to be truthful on their page talking about their meats:
Do you use American meat?
We do. All of our chicken comes from our trusted USDA-inspected suppliers in the U.S., like Tyson Foods and Keystone Foods. Our beef and pork products also come from trusted USDA-inspected suppliers, such as Lopez Foods. In order to keep up with demand, a small percentage of our 100% pure beef is imported from USDA-inspected suppliers in Australia and New Zealand
Thank you for your link, I was educated by it. Good stuff.
Okay, 'Molecule' is the word the poster used. He wants a magic molecule or something that would magically fix problems in a human body. And he wants it yesterday. Modern medicine is good nowadays, but it's not 'that' good, yet. I want a flying car NOW already! Doesn't mean I'm getting what I want when I want it. That's all I was saying.
Tofu is bland, tasteless and very healthy and low in fat. Basically, food that tastes good to us is bad for us. So if it isn't tofu, it'll kill you somehow.
No, the name 'angus beef' has legal protection. Either it's certified angus beef, or it's breaking the law. It's one of the few meat products McD sells which the consumer actually knows what it is.....
I believe U.S. McDonalds imports all their meat from countries outside the U.S. This allows for them to get around U.S.D.A. regulations, also I presume they are able to buy it for a lower cost.
Are you suggesting that when you were a fetus that you were'nt a viable form of life? One that a good society would demand rights to it life, even though you were to immature still to be able to protect yourself? Just wonderin'...
Well, they're not going to go up against the govt. by breaking newly made laws that way, that would be kind of dumb to. They don't want to get their publishing business shut down over an act of civil disobediance, or whatever it'd be called. The law is brand new, if they decide to challenge it at a later date, they'll still be able to, no sense in becoming a defunct martyr over this, live to fight another day...
Gotta' give them credit though, using the power of a free press they did get their point across.
Instead of rehashing 1970s tech, could we PLEASE start understanding how the human body works and why some bodies destroy themselves in this way? It would be FAR cooler to have a molecule that goes in there and repairs this damage. Atoms arranged THEMSELVES into working nerves once, they can do it again.
Is this too complex for us as a species? What happened to the "we choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard" spirit?
Hey, we didn't know that was so important to you, or of course, we would've ''got 'er done'' for you already. So, all you need is a 'magic' atom, huh? I'll get right on that for you. Figure it'll get done by Tuesday for ya'.
"Both products cost just £1 a box, as do similar frozen burgers sold by Iceland. The Oakhurst 100% Beef Quarter Pounders, sold by Aldi and implicated in the scandal, cost £1.39 for a box of eight."
That is pretty cheap for eight pattys though. How can an American get these in the U.S.?
Oi! You keep your cheap petrol. So kindly leave us to our ground coagulated offal, hooves and rat nose burgers! For Christmas they even grind some horse's willies into it.
Could be worse. Could be beef.
Well, if you aren't going to share your 'offal' burgers with us, we aren't going to share our american hot dogs with you!
So there.
--
And you do not want someone telling you what's 'really' in your hot dog while you're enjoying it (trust me.).
So start proposing a repeal of the Second Amendment. Be honest.
The founding fathers never envisioned semi-automatic weapons. Musket rifles were inaccurate and single shot weapons that took an expert at least a full minute to reload. How about you come to realize that the 1700's are long over, and arguments that were valid at that time are not applicable to modern weaponry and modern society?
"The presence of horsemeat in value beefburgers has caused a furore. But what is usually in the patties? It has been a sobering week for fans of the beefburger. Tesco have used full-page adverts in national newspapers to apologise for selling burgers in the UK that were found to contain 29% horsemeat. Traces of horse DNA were also detected by the Food Standards Agency of Ireland in products sold by Iceland, Lidl, Aldi and Dunnes. But a beefburger rarely contains 100% beef."
"An eight-pack of Tesco Everyday Value Beefburgers, one of the products cited as potentially containing horse flesh, contains 63% beef, 10% onion and unlisted percentages of wheat flour, water, beef fat, soya protein isolate, salt, onion powder, yeast, sugar, barley malt extract, garlic powder, white pepper extract, celery extract and onion extract. Asda's Smartprice Economy Beefburgers -not among those identified by the Irish testers as containing horse or pig DNA -contain 59% beef along with other ingredients such as rusk, water, stabilisers (diphosphates and triphosphates) and beef fat."
So the English and the Irish have been unknowingly been eating 'Flicka'?! Ew-w-w!!
"Both products cost just £1 a box, as do similar frozen burgers sold by Iceland. The Oakhurst 100% Beef Quarter Pounders, sold by Aldi and implicated in the scandal, cost £1.39 for a box of eight."
That is pretty cheap for eight pattys though. How can an American get these in the U.S.?
Always more stricter? When doest it stop? When your fantasy of hiding all firearm is fulfilled of course. If you got a problem with mental health then discuss mental health issues.
And for the record I don't own nor ever used any firearms. I am just stick of that sterile debate that only serve as an excuse to avoid debating the real problems. Fuck off
Enough with your "f yous", angry boy. You know when it "doest"stop-eths? When no one in this country has been killed by an angry person with a too easily accesible firearm. And it's going to take a longish time to implement the needed stricter firearm laws/penalties. 30 years or so ago drunk driving wasn't a crime, todays laws mean you risk losing everything if you're found to be driving while under the influence of substances (prescripton/illegal drugs and alcohol (also a 'drug'). And those laws are good ones that have prevented preventable deaths/injuries from happening. Now it's time for our society to take another "big adult step" in its evolution by creating the means needed to begin reducing such easy access to killing machines.
FYI, I am a former gun owner. My thinking about guns has evolved over the years. Time to realize that imurders by gun have gotten way out of hand, and it's a problem that needs to get fixed, asap! So some gun owners who (for whatever reason) are found to not deserve the 'priveledge' (it should not be a right, but a priveledge, imo) of owning a gun and aren't allowed to own a killing weapon anymore. I will applaud that as loudly as I applaud it every time a drunk/addict has their driving priviledges taken from them, and that's loud applause from me.
Hold the adult pool owners fully responsible for fencing in and locking up the access to their unattended pool, no excuses, or do not have a pool.
How about hold the gun owner responsible for locking access of their unattended firearm? Oh wait, that is already the case.
Lawful gun owner that has a permit are responsible already. Fuck off.
A permit is just not enough obviously. Make the laws stricter and penalties much much harsher for irresponsible gun owners. And if gun owners don't/can't/won't abide by the stricter gun control laws, then they MUST turn them in for smelting. We will have to go through several years of news stories about the latest asshole survivalist mental patient who holed up in his apartment and died in a shootout with SWAT teams. After a few years of full on violence by the assholes who should never have had access to guns to begin with, it will be a rare news story of a maniac with a gun killing innocent people/kids that we have to hear about. "F" me??! "F" you! Find yourself a different 'hobby' for yourself, fool. One that doesn't involve harming living things. I suggest you take up tennis. It's healthy for you, and the odds of harming/killing someone with an errant tennis 'shot' are nil!
More children are killed each year by swimming pools than firearms. Time to ban all swimming pools?
More children are killed each year by automobiles than firearms. Time to ban all automobiles?
More children are killed each day by abortions (average 300 per day in the USA) than by firearms in a year. Time to ban all abortions?
Children are still killed by guns, right? Who gives a damn about your statistics? Not me. If one innocent is killed that's one too many. Period. Make cars safer. Make pools safer. However it gets done, get it done. Hold the adult pool owners fully responsible for fencing in and locking up the access to their unattended pool, no excuses, or do not have a pool. If an unsecured gun is left lying around and in any way kills a kid, have punitive laws on the books already and lock up that gun owner for life. Because if they had taken their gun ownership responsibilities seriously, that gun would never had been accessible to harm that innocent kid.
This weekend in the U.S., 4 idiot gun nuts were shot accidentally at 3 seperate gun show events, non life threatening 'accidental' discharges. Assholes with guns. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious
Hasson wrote that her staff had received "hundreds of threats" after the list's publishing. Staff members' addresses were published, death threats were issued, and, consequently, a branch of the paper hired armed guards.
Hasson also mentioned the new gun legislation, writing "we do not endorse the way the legislature has chosen to limit public access to gun permit data. The statute is very broad and allows anyone who meets certain criteria within qualifying categories to keep their permit information private...But we are not deaf to voices who have said that new rules should be set for gun permit data." In a statement to the New York Times, Hasson said, "While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit."
The map was viewed over 1.2 million times in 27 days, according to The Journal News.
The submitted story states that The Journal News 'caved' and removed the list, not true according to the publisher. Below I've pasted an excerpt from Gawker.com (Jan 17, 2013) with the publisher's statement...
By Taylor Berman:
On Friday, The Journal News took down its controversial, interactive online map of licensed gun owners in Westchester and Rockland counties in New York. According to Journal News publisher Janet Hasson, the move was in response to recently passed gun legislation in New York, which includes a provision prohibiting the release of information about gun owners, and not because of the firestorm of criticism the paper's received since publishing the list four weeks ago. From publisher Janet Hasson's statement on the Journal News' website:
"Today The Journal News has removed the permit data from lohud.com. Our decision to do so is not a concession to critics that no value was served by the posting of the map in the first place. On the contrary, we've heard from too many grateful community members to consider our decision to post information contained in the public record to have been a mistake. Nor is our decision made because we were intimidated by those who threatened the safety of our staffers. We know our business is a controversial one, and we do not cower."
Damn it! iPhone is once again not affected. One of these days I'll get the chance to welcome the malware overlords!
I wouldn't act so apple-ey smug, if I were you. Apple iPhones have infected apps out there in the wild also, same as Android. If you jailbreak your phone and download apps from outside the apple store, you too will be risking getting malware.
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I got a virgin mobile 3g/4g hotspot. I got the 2GB for $35/mo, which comes with unlimited wimax. Now, after 10GB/mo they will throttle you to 2mb/s, so it won't compare to Google Fiber, FIOS, or anything of that nature. In my experience it's more reliable and better speeds than Clear. So what I did was take my service-less Android, set up Google Voice, and downloaded Groove IP for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gvoip&hl=en . So now I can make outbound and take inbound calls using Google Voice, carry the wireless hotspot in my pocket, disable 4g mode, and basically have phone and internet for $35/mo. As a single guy, this is pretty sweet. The virgin mobile is a little hard to activate, but the investment in terms of effort is worth it.
I'm 'grandfathered' in to VM's $25 plan, but there is a "hack" for you to get the same plan you have for $25.
After you've been a VM customer for a month or two, call them and tell them you would like to cancel your service with them because you found the same plan somewhere else for cheaper. VM will offer you the same plan for $25, because they want to keep you as a customer. It's worth a try, worst that can happen is they don't make the offer and you stay at $35.
I made up a little angled tablet stand out of cardboard/duct tape that works well. It isn't as pretty as the $14.95 one in your link, but all it cost me was an hour of time. :^)
The tablet tower isn't a bad idea, though I could see the milk crate tower easily buckling and collapsing, breaking the tablet when it falls from that height. You can get a package of cheap zip-ties to tightly connect the milk crates together, then put the heaviest items in the bottom crate for a safer, stabler 'tower'.
Oh, and just to correct the errors... muskets during the revolution were almost exclusively not rifles. And an expert musketeer could load and fire on the order of three balls in a minute.
And this notion that somehow a modern society is somehow immune to being abused by its government is ludicrous. The complacency of it blinding. Self-protection against a tyrannical government is as valid today as it was during the revolution. More pertinent, many would say...
Okay, still, if you had a musket pistol and didn't kill on your first shot I have a fighting chance then to get away or disarm you. When a person can enter a theater or classroom and wipe out most people in it, that is a major concern/problem that needs to get addressed/fixed. Mind you, I don't claim to have the easy solution to this dilemma.
And having a gun can mean the difference in an encounter with criminals. They can also be taken/wrested away from the (now) victim and used against them. That hunting family I knew, some months after a kick in attempted robbery (where the wife & mother of 3 sons was alone and kept a shotgun aimed at the perp until he left), one day a son calls the work office answering machine where we are eating lunch. His mom had heard someone upstairs and was shooting up there (it was her son), he's asking us to call her downstairs and convince her that it's just him upstairs. She was having some type of psychotic episode that was a direct result from her encounter several months earlier.
The real problem now is how do you determine who is a responsible owner? How can you confirm that they consistently secure their weapons properly? Do waiting and cooling off periods need to be lengthened? No easy answers. Now in the news is the 15 year old New Mexico kid who killed is family members, and they'll be another equally horrible gun violence story again in a few days from now, I'm sure. It's the ease of access that neds to be more locked down.
The sale price is rather high for a modified stock car, but hey, it is ~the~ Batmobile, the one that everyone alive then remembers seeing on TV. So, if the buyer could auction or resell it later and turn a profit, maybe it isn't a bad idea to pay that number. You can rent it out for any number of publicity stunts. I've said the same as you over things I wouldn't buy, only to later learn the buyer turned it around and sold it for a large profit.
Back in the 60's, Burt Ward and Adam West were getting a lot of female fan/groupie action. I've seen interviews of Mr. Ward talking about this, and the grin on his face said way more than he could politely say to the interviewer. They may have had to wear silly costumes in that series, but the job did come with side benefits.
Given all the attention recently put on beef, I expect McDonalds to be truthful on their page talking about their meats:
Do you use American meat?
We do. All of our chicken comes from our trusted USDA-inspected suppliers in the U.S., like Tyson Foods and Keystone Foods. Our beef and pork products also come from trusted USDA-inspected suppliers, such as Lopez Foods. In order to keep up with demand, a small percentage of our 100% pure beef is imported from USDA-inspected suppliers in Australia and New Zealand
Thank you for your link, I was educated by it. Good stuff.
Okay, 'Molecule' is the word the poster used. He wants a magic molecule or something that would magically fix problems in a human body. And he wants it yesterday. Modern medicine is good nowadays, but it's not 'that' good, yet. I want a flying car NOW already! Doesn't mean I'm getting what I want when I want it. That's all I was saying.
Tofu is bland, tasteless and very healthy and low in fat. Basically, food that tastes good to us is bad for us. So if it isn't tofu, it'll kill you somehow.
No, the name 'angus beef' has legal protection. Either it's certified angus beef, or it's breaking the law. It's one of the few meat products McD sells which the consumer actually knows what it is.....
I believe U.S. McDonalds imports all their meat from countries outside the U.S. This allows for them to get around U.S.D.A. regulations, also I presume they are able to buy it for a lower cost.
Are you suggesting that when you were a fetus that you were'nt a viable form of life? One that a good society would demand rights to it life, even though you were to immature still to be able to protect yourself? Just wonderin'...
Gotta' give them credit though, using the power of a free press they did get their point across.
Instead of rehashing 1970s tech, could we PLEASE start understanding how the human body works and why some bodies destroy themselves in this way? It would be FAR cooler to have a molecule that goes in there and repairs this damage. Atoms arranged THEMSELVES into working nerves once, they can do it again.
Is this too complex for us as a species? What happened to the "we choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard" spirit?
Hey, we didn't know that was so important to you, or of course, we would've ''got 'er done'' for you already. So, all you need is a 'magic' atom, huh? I'll get right on that for you. Figure it'll get done by Tuesday for ya'.
"Both products cost just £1 a box, as do similar frozen burgers sold by Iceland. The Oakhurst 100% Beef Quarter Pounders, sold by Aldi and implicated in the scandal, cost £1.39 for a box of eight."
That is pretty cheap for eight pattys though. How can an American get these in the U.S.?
Oi! You keep your cheap petrol. So kindly leave us to our ground coagulated offal, hooves and rat nose burgers! For Christmas they even grind some horse's willies into it. Could be worse. Could be beef.
Well, if you aren't going to share your 'offal' burgers with us, we aren't going to share our american hot dogs with you!
So there.
--
And you do not want someone telling you what's 'really' in your hot dog while you're enjoying it (trust me.).
So start proposing a repeal of the Second Amendment. Be honest.
The founding fathers never envisioned semi-automatic weapons. Musket rifles were inaccurate and single shot weapons that took an expert at least a full minute to reload. How about you come to realize that the 1700's are long over, and arguments that were valid at that time are not applicable to modern weaponry and modern society?
"The presence of horsemeat in value beefburgers has caused a furore. But what is usually in the patties? It has been a sobering week for fans of the beefburger. Tesco have used full-page adverts in national newspapers to apologise for selling burgers in the UK that were found to contain 29% horsemeat. Traces of horse DNA were also detected by the Food Standards Agency of Ireland in products sold by Iceland, Lidl, Aldi and Dunnes. But a beefburger rarely contains 100% beef."
"An eight-pack of Tesco Everyday Value Beefburgers, one of the products cited as potentially containing horse flesh, contains 63% beef, 10% onion and unlisted percentages of wheat flour, water, beef fat, soya protein isolate, salt, onion powder, yeast, sugar, barley malt extract, garlic powder, white pepper extract, celery extract and onion extract. Asda's Smartprice Economy Beefburgers -not among those identified by the Irish testers as containing horse or pig DNA -contain 59% beef along with other ingredients such as rusk, water, stabilisers (diphosphates and triphosphates) and beef fat."
So the English and the Irish have been unknowingly been eating 'Flicka'?! Ew-w-w!!
"Both products cost just £1 a box, as do similar frozen burgers sold by Iceland. The Oakhurst 100% Beef Quarter Pounders, sold by Aldi and implicated in the scandal, cost £1.39 for a box of eight."
That is pretty cheap for eight pattys though. How can an American get these in the U.S.?
Always more stricter? When doest it stop? When your fantasy of hiding all firearm is fulfilled of course. If you got a problem with mental health then discuss mental health issues.
And for the record I don't own nor ever used any firearms. I am just stick of that sterile debate that only serve as an excuse to avoid debating the real problems. Fuck off
Enough with your "f yous", angry boy. You know when it "doest"stop-eths? When no one in this country has been killed by an angry person with a too easily accesible firearm. And it's going to take a longish time to implement the needed stricter firearm laws/penalties. 30 years or so ago drunk driving wasn't a crime, todays laws mean you risk losing everything if you're found to be driving while under the influence of substances (prescripton/illegal drugs and alcohol (also a 'drug'). And those laws are good ones that have prevented preventable deaths/injuries from happening. Now it's time for our society to take another "big adult step" in its evolution by creating the means needed to begin reducing such easy access to killing machines.
FYI, I am a former gun owner. My thinking about guns has evolved over the years. Time to realize that imurders by gun have gotten way out of hand, and it's a problem that needs to get fixed, asap! So some gun owners who (for whatever reason) are found to not deserve the 'priveledge' (it should not be a right, but a priveledge, imo) of owning a gun and aren't allowed to own a killing weapon anymore. I will applaud that as loudly as I applaud it every time a drunk/addict has their driving priviledges taken from them, and that's loud applause from me.
Hold the adult pool owners fully responsible for fencing in and locking up the access to their unattended pool, no excuses, or do not have a pool.
How about hold the gun owner responsible for locking access of their unattended firearm? Oh wait, that is already the case.
Lawful gun owner that has a permit are responsible already. Fuck off.
A permit is just not enough obviously. Make the laws stricter and penalties much much harsher for irresponsible gun owners. And if gun owners don't/can't/won't abide by the stricter gun control laws, then they MUST turn them in for smelting. We will have to go through several years of news stories about the latest asshole survivalist mental patient who holed up in his apartment and died in a shootout with SWAT teams. After a few years of full on violence by the assholes who should never have had access to guns to begin with, it will be a rare news story of a maniac with a gun killing innocent people/kids that we have to hear about. "F" me??! "F" you! Find yourself a different 'hobby' for yourself, fool. One that doesn't involve harming living things. I suggest you take up tennis. It's healthy for you, and the odds of harming/killing someone with an errant tennis 'shot' are nil!
More children are killed each year by swimming pools than firearms. Time to ban all swimming pools? More children are killed each year by automobiles than firearms. Time to ban all automobiles? More children are killed each day by abortions (average 300 per day in the USA) than by firearms in a year. Time to ban all abortions?
Children are still killed by guns, right? Who gives a damn about your statistics? Not me. If one innocent is killed that's one too many. Period. Make cars safer. Make pools safer. However it gets done, get it done. Hold the adult pool owners fully responsible for fencing in and locking up the access to their unattended pool, no excuses, or do not have a pool. If an unsecured gun is left lying around and in any way kills a kid, have punitive laws on the books already and lock up that gun owner for life. Because if they had taken their gun ownership responsibilities seriously, that gun would never had been accessible to harm that innocent kid.
This weekend in the U.S., 4 idiot gun nuts were shot accidentally at 3 seperate gun show events, non life threatening 'accidental' discharges. Assholes with guns. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious
They tried that, but the spacecraft has been in lunar orbit for a while now and the cable got all tangled up.
Well, see, that explains why they decided to go with wireless. :)
Hasson wrote that her staff had received "hundreds of threats" after the list's publishing. Staff members' addresses were published, death threats were issued, and, consequently, a branch of the paper hired armed guards.
Hasson also mentioned the new gun legislation, writing "we do not endorse the way the legislature has chosen to limit public access to gun permit data. The statute is very broad and allows anyone who meets certain criteria within qualifying categories to keep their permit information private...But we are not deaf to voices who have said that new rules should be set for gun permit data." In a statement to the New York Times, Hasson said, "While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit."
The map was viewed over 1.2 million times in 27 days, according to The Journal News.
http://gawker.com/5977304/the-journal-news-took-down-its-controversial-map-of-gun-owners
By Taylor Berman:
On Friday, The Journal News took down its controversial, interactive online map of licensed gun owners in Westchester and Rockland counties in New York. According to Journal News publisher Janet Hasson, the move was in response to recently passed gun legislation in New York, which includes a provision prohibiting the release of information about gun owners, and not because of the firestorm of criticism the paper's received since publishing the list four weeks ago. From publisher Janet Hasson's statement on the Journal News' website:
"Today The Journal News has removed the permit data from lohud.com. Our decision to do so is not a concession to critics that no value was served by the posting of the map in the first place. On the contrary, we've heard from too many grateful community members to consider our decision to post information contained in the public record to have been a mistake. Nor is our decision made because we were intimidated by those who threatened the safety of our staffers. We know our business is a controversial one, and we do not cower."
http://gawker.com/5977304/the-journal-news-took-down-its-controversial-map-of-gun-owners
No budget left over to get FIOS?
Damn it! iPhone is once again not affected. One of these days I'll get the chance to welcome the malware overlords!
I wouldn't act so apple-ey smug, if I were you. Apple iPhones have infected apps out there in the wild also, same as Android. If you jailbreak your phone and download apps from outside the apple store, you too will be risking getting malware.