We had cable until COX took Turner Classic Movies off of analog cable and put it on digital cable, at which point we had enough. Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, and Sci-Fi/SyFy were already on the way down but hadn't hit rock bottom yet.
We don't miss it. Between XBMC, free content or ad-supported streaming content via our network-connected Blu-ray player, and free content via web browser, there's no reason to pay for content that still comes with ads anymore.
Cut the cord permanently.
Dish cutting AMC was the last straw for me. Now I survive on Netflix streaming, Hulu and and Redbox along with what I buy in DVDs, Blu-ray and iTunes. I save a bundle every month and I don't miss all the lame cable channels. When you have 300 to 500 channels and nothing worth watching it's time for on demand!
Also trademark his name and use it to post ads for Viagra and adult diapers on the site. You don't even have to make statements about him personally let the ads do the talking for you.
These idiots post a "steal me" list of people with guns so now criminals have a shopping list and now they hire armed guards to protect them because gun owners are angry? To quote Ripley, "did IQs drop sharply while I was away""
Windows users won't understand but on a Mac iTunes will constantly take over your machine and doesn't like to go away. All you have to do is start your machine or insert a back up CD or DVD with an audio file on it and iTunes launches without asking you. Then the fun begins. They removed ""Hide iTunes" from the top menu so you either have to turn it off or click in the window and mouse over the bottom bar and wait several seconds for the bar to come up then start another software to escape iTunes. It's become one of the most obnoxious softwares I've ever used and now they made a mess of it so it defaults to the "Store" making purchases easier and using anything else a headache. Apparently their marketing department has been put in charge of the software. They are starting to remind me of Sirius Cybernetics in the Hitchhiker books.
Adam was very clearly mentally ill. All this BS that they've got going about is just really trying to find something else to blame than the real truth of things.
People want easy answers and don't want to do the hard work. Most of these high school shooters were abused or bullied. Notice how no one is talking about that they want gun and video game bans and no one is talking about prevention. Most of these same people look the other way at abuse and odds are their kids are doing the bullying since these days it's popular kids verses the unpopular ones so they don't want to talk about bullying. Attacking guns and video games is feel good crap. It won't end the violence but they get to feel like they accomplished something. If guns and video games were the cause these attacks would be commonplace where as they are quite rare, the media makes them look more pervasive by running the stories into the ground.
So you're planning to hitchhike to Tau Ceti? You do know it's off season and the hotel rates are insane? You don't even want to know what a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster will set you back.
Yeah the argument that all radiation is created equal is ridiculous. They might as well say you don't get cancer from light bulbs so the scanners are safe. I think the risk is low for some one that flies once a year but children and frequent fliers are another matter. Yes you get more radiation from the flight itself but is the extra exposure causing damage? The ugly truth is ignoring the health risks and privacy loss they haven't caught a single would be terrorist with one so they are a waste of money, period!
Amazing how often these are claimed to be innocent mistakes. I'd call bullshit on that one. They know exactly what's in these contracts they just hope you won't notice. Since they weren't even required to notify you if they were to be used your first clue would be your vacation picture of the Grand Canyon appearing on a billboard. Odds are 99 out of a 100 would never know. I think getting outed this early on sent them back to the drawing board. What do you want to make a bet they offer an option next year so you can click on a box agreeing to allow your photos to be sold and you get a small percentage. That was probably the long range plan all along but they figured they could get a few years of collecting a 100% of the royalties before they had to surrender and offer you a cut.
The article makes claims like it's the first time ever. Maybe at that specific site but that's not what it says. They've been drilling ice cores for decades and a lot deeper than 2,000 years old. I think the oldest are closer to a million years, I believe those were taken in Greenland. The point is there have been older cores drilled in Antarctica. It's good to hear more are being drilled because it adds to the record but the article was written by some one that knew nothing about the subject.
You would destroy all of the freedoms so many have died for you to obtain -- if only because a group is using speech you deem unacceptable. Shame. Shame on you sir.
These thugs are on pare with Neonazis marching through Jewish and black neighborhoods. I put this type of behavior on the level of yelling fire in a crowded movie theater. It should not be protected. It's not speech it's trouble making. They are obviously free to say whatever they want but this is done for attention nothing more. FYI I find it's interesting you should condemn some one for exercising free speech while defending a group for hate speech.
I used to know 20 years ago a lot of people contracting with Disney. Most were prop builders and designers but one handled their aquariums. Even the aquarium guy had trouble getting paid. Their 90 day payment scam was so you couldn't bother them for 90 days. It didn't mean you'd get paid in 90 days. They took pride in the fact they had drove so many companies into bankruptcy because of all the non payments. The problem is there was always another company out there hungry for the contract. How bad can it get get? I know the aquarium guy was 18 months behind at one point. A lot of these companies will keep delaying payments until they get you six to twelve months behind then they find some one else and hand it off to their lawyers. They know the worst that will happen if you sue them is they will have to pay what they owe. The catch-22 is if you sue them in the corporate world you get known as some one that will sue so you become a risk. I found out the hard way arbitration is a waste of time because the arbiters effectively work for the corporations no matter what anyone tells you. It's like the old Wargames line, the only way to win is not play the game.
I'd appreciate you forwarding the journal since I'll be out of the office for some time. If any Germans, especially one with a burned hand, attempt to claim the journal please deny any knowledge of it's existence.
Sincerely Indy
Okay for all the anti solar people which are most of Slashdot here are the facts. You said the system would run 30K or 10K out of pocket after tax breaks. Say you have a $200 a month power bill which is fairly average nation wide. With the tax break you are talking a little over 4 years for pay back, say 4 1/2 years. Since solar cells have a life of 25 to 30 years we're talking 20 to 25 years of free power and after that it tappers off for another say 20 years! Even without the breaks you are talking around a 7 year pay off resulting in 18 to 23 years without a power bill and a smaller return after that for another 20 years. Forget we are talking solar verse nuclear which this is really about. Let's say I offered you a stock. At a 10K investment in 4.5 years I return a hundred percent of your investment then pay you $2,400 a year for the next 25 years with a smaller return for another 20 years would you consider that a sound investment? The numbers look excellent. FYI those generators aren't rated for very many hours and some areas end up without power for a month. They are really meant for a day or two's use. This is about largely wiping out your power bill and with a little extra expense you can spend blackouts watching your big screen and not sweating the month's worth of meat in your freezer. Where solar shines is it's a great way of spreading the load since it works best when demand is highest and it decentralizes the power. How is this a bad thing???
Regan's Star Wars was a similar money pit just smaller. He was only after a few hundred billion. A Death Star would mean trillions going to no bid contractors. It's a Congressional wet dream. I'd bet they'd fund it quicker than a Mars trip. Obviously the real Death Star isn't possible to build but say something that was anywhere from a 1,000' across to a mile could be built with current technology. Sell it as an ultimate defense/offensive platform. Even standard ICBMs launched from it would be nearly impossible to shoot down since they could reach targets in minutes. It could be multi-purpose from communications to a support system for satellites. It could even be equipment with particle beam and laser weapons forming a defensive platform for incoming attacks. It'd break a bunch of treaties and cost trillions but imagine how many corporations would get rich off it's construction.
A lot fo the magic of film was 24fps.
sure its outdated, but so is 48 fps.
broadcast TV has been 50 for years, with more recent forays with high def into 120hz (no idea of the actual frame rate with digital, but I could image its up there)
why are the doing this now? and why only 48fps?
"Fields" not frames. A field is a half frame. It's persistence of vision that makes it look like 25 frames, I assume you're in Europe. The field rate is based on the number of cycles for simplicity's sake. Europe and much of the world is 50 cycle making 50 fields easy to sync. The US is 60 cycles so our video is 60 fields. This is PAL/NTSC bullshit and it's dying slowly because of all the old equipment and systems it needs to support.
Actually they've been showing the probes the Twilight movies in an endless loop for weeks now. The probes seem quite excited at the prospect of dying on the mission.
By "Made Up" I'm talking religions that came to be in modern times as in post industrial revolution. This puts it ahead of Scientology and Mormonism. Also one of my personal favorites, Jehovah Witness. I am surprised it passed up Pastafarianism. The Flying Spaghetti Monster definitely makes as much sense as Scientology or Mormonism.
In the last 20 years there have been quite a few of these objects passing within the orbit of the moon, prior to that there were few announcements and it's debatable how many were actually tracked. A disturbing number have been found within days as passing and a few were found after they passed. Just looking at the numbers I'd place the odds at high of an impact. We're coming up on a hundred year anniversary of Tunguska so I'd say we're due for a similar impact any day now. It could be tomorrow or a hundred years from now but statistically we're due now. We aren't talking end of the world because most of the world was only affected by the dust of the last major impact and the odds of one hitting a major city are similar to winning the lottery. Unfortunately the odds are high of an ocean impact and that could be worse than a land impact. Very few of these objects are being tracked in the northern hemisphere and virtually none in the lower hemisphere, I can't remember but I think it's a few percent for the south. We spend trillions on defending against Arab rednecks and a few million a year on tracking near Earth Objects. Our priorities are sadly are on the wrong threats.
North Korean succeeds again, our new satellite is able to spin faster than any imperialist satellites and is expected to make a triumphant return any second now.
for a few weeks of some of the funniest shit a celeb has done in quite awhile.
I think we're all gonna miss McAfee since it looks like it's Lohan's turn at bat. Fingers crossed McAfee tried to claim political asylum when Belize wants his ass back.
may infect more than just humans. The pathogen may also be able to infect cells from pigs and a wide range of bat species
Oh Noes! Batmans in double trouble!
Actually this is pretty scary. Bats are one of the best carriers of disease because of their communal lifestyle and the fact they can cover many miles a night. The point that wasn't made strong enough is it infected every tissue sample they tried it on so far. This has pandemic written all over it. It's still localized and it has yet to break out but if it does it could infect tens of millions. Hard to say the mortality rate but it could be high. We're due for another pandemic so every source like this needs to be watched closely.
I used to keep pythons. They're surprisingly intelligent and even have personalities. I had a 10' albino that was my favorite. He'd curl up in my lap while I watched TV. I think they are a terrible pet for the average person but the laws they passed are ridiculous because they force most owners into a situation of either having their snakes put to sleep or releasing them. What people don't realize is Florida is the only state in the union that they can survive in. They are extremely sensitive to cold and don't like dry conditions. Banning the transportation in the other lower 48 is nuts. Ban importation fine, ban the sale in Florida fine. In Florida they need a system where people can turn them in no questions asked and hopefully to wildlife rescues and not to be put down. Owners can grow really attached to them and may foolishly release them so they aren't killed. Also ban the breeding of Pythons in Florida. The problem could disappear as in new releases if they aren't allowed to breed. Unfortunately they should have never been allowed in Florida. Now the situation is nearly impossible to control. Florida is still dragging their feet on the solution. There's hunting restrictions in many areas where as they should be encouraged. It'd be worth putting a bounty on them and it could even be partly paid by the sale of the skins. When I was in New Zealand they were selling items like fur covered notepads made of Opossum fur. They imported a type of Opossum from Australia a 100 years ago to start a fur industry. They population is out of control so they are trying everything to irradicate them. Florida needs to get aggressive. Sell python based products and use the money to fund hunts. It may be impossible to get rid of them but you can seriously reduce the numbers.
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We had cable until COX took Turner Classic Movies off of analog cable and put it on digital cable, at which point we had enough. Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, and Sci-Fi/SyFy were already on the way down but hadn't hit rock bottom yet. We don't miss it. Between XBMC, free content or ad-supported streaming content via our network-connected Blu-ray player, and free content via web browser, there's no reason to pay for content that still comes with ads anymore. Cut the cord permanently.
Dish cutting AMC was the last straw for me. Now I survive on Netflix streaming, Hulu and and Redbox along with what I buy in DVDs, Blu-ray and iTunes. I save a bundle every month and I don't miss all the lame cable channels. When you have 300 to 500 channels and nothing worth watching it's time for on demand!
It would be trademark, not copyright.
Also trademark his name and use it to post ads for Viagra and adult diapers on the site. You don't even have to make statements about him personally let the ads do the talking for you.
These idiots post a "steal me" list of people with guns so now criminals have a shopping list and now they hire armed guards to protect them because gun owners are angry? To quote Ripley, "did IQs drop sharply while I was away""
Windows users won't understand but on a Mac iTunes will constantly take over your machine and doesn't like to go away. All you have to do is start your machine or insert a back up CD or DVD with an audio file on it and iTunes launches without asking you. Then the fun begins. They removed ""Hide iTunes" from the top menu so you either have to turn it off or click in the window and mouse over the bottom bar and wait several seconds for the bar to come up then start another software to escape iTunes. It's become one of the most obnoxious softwares I've ever used and now they made a mess of it so it defaults to the "Store" making purchases easier and using anything else a headache. Apparently their marketing department has been put in charge of the software. They are starting to remind me of Sirius Cybernetics in the Hitchhiker books.
And they're still missing the real problem.
Adam was very clearly mentally ill. All this BS that they've got going about is just really trying to find something else to blame than the real truth of things.
People want easy answers and don't want to do the hard work. Most of these high school shooters were abused or bullied. Notice how no one is talking about that they want gun and video game bans and no one is talking about prevention. Most of these same people look the other way at abuse and odds are their kids are doing the bullying since these days it's popular kids verses the unpopular ones so they don't want to talk about bullying. Attacking guns and video games is feel good crap. It won't end the violence but they get to feel like they accomplished something. If guns and video games were the cause these attacks would be commonplace where as they are quite rare, the media makes them look more pervasive by running the stories into the ground.
Helmet? What about a towel?
So you're planning to hitchhike to Tau Ceti? You do know it's off season and the hotel rates are insane? You don't even want to know what a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster will set you back.
Yeah the argument that all radiation is created equal is ridiculous. They might as well say you don't get cancer from light bulbs so the scanners are safe. I think the risk is low for some one that flies once a year but children and frequent fliers are another matter. Yes you get more radiation from the flight itself but is the extra exposure causing damage? The ugly truth is ignoring the health risks and privacy loss they haven't caught a single would be terrorist with one so they are a waste of money, period!
Amazing how often these are claimed to be innocent mistakes. I'd call bullshit on that one. They know exactly what's in these contracts they just hope you won't notice. Since they weren't even required to notify you if they were to be used your first clue would be your vacation picture of the Grand Canyon appearing on a billboard. Odds are 99 out of a 100 would never know. I think getting outed this early on sent them back to the drawing board. What do you want to make a bet they offer an option next year so you can click on a box agreeing to allow your photos to be sold and you get a small percentage. That was probably the long range plan all along but they figured they could get a few years of collecting a 100% of the royalties before they had to surrender and offer you a cut.
The article makes claims like it's the first time ever. Maybe at that specific site but that's not what it says. They've been drilling ice cores for decades and a lot deeper than 2,000 years old. I think the oldest are closer to a million years, I believe those were taken in Greenland. The point is there have been older cores drilled in Antarctica. It's good to hear more are being drilled because it adds to the record but the article was written by some one that knew nothing about the subject.
You would destroy all of the freedoms so many have died for you to obtain -- if only because a group is using speech you deem unacceptable. Shame. Shame on you sir.
These thugs are on pare with Neonazis marching through Jewish and black neighborhoods. I put this type of behavior on the level of yelling fire in a crowded movie theater. It should not be protected. It's not speech it's trouble making. They are obviously free to say whatever they want but this is done for attention nothing more. FYI I find it's interesting you should condemn some one for exercising free speech while defending a group for hate speech.
I used to know 20 years ago a lot of people contracting with Disney. Most were prop builders and designers but one handled their aquariums. Even the aquarium guy had trouble getting paid. Their 90 day payment scam was so you couldn't bother them for 90 days. It didn't mean you'd get paid in 90 days. They took pride in the fact they had drove so many companies into bankruptcy because of all the non payments. The problem is there was always another company out there hungry for the contract. How bad can it get get? I know the aquarium guy was 18 months behind at one point. A lot of these companies will keep delaying payments until they get you six to twelve months behind then they find some one else and hand it off to their lawyers. They know the worst that will happen if you sue them is they will have to pay what they owe. The catch-22 is if you sue them in the corporate world you get known as some one that will sue so you become a risk. I found out the hard way arbitration is a waste of time because the arbiters effectively work for the corporations no matter what anyone tells you. It's like the old Wargames line, the only way to win is not play the game.
I'd appreciate you forwarding the journal since I'll be out of the office for some time. If any Germans, especially one with a burned hand, attempt to claim the journal please deny any knowledge of it's existence. Sincerely Indy
Okay for all the anti solar people which are most of Slashdot here are the facts. You said the system would run 30K or 10K out of pocket after tax breaks. Say you have a $200 a month power bill which is fairly average nation wide. With the tax break you are talking a little over 4 years for pay back, say 4 1/2 years. Since solar cells have a life of 25 to 30 years we're talking 20 to 25 years of free power and after that it tappers off for another say 20 years! Even without the breaks you are talking around a 7 year pay off resulting in 18 to 23 years without a power bill and a smaller return after that for another 20 years. Forget we are talking solar verse nuclear which this is really about. Let's say I offered you a stock. At a 10K investment in 4.5 years I return a hundred percent of your investment then pay you $2,400 a year for the next 25 years with a smaller return for another 20 years would you consider that a sound investment? The numbers look excellent. FYI those generators aren't rated for very many hours and some areas end up without power for a month. They are really meant for a day or two's use. This is about largely wiping out your power bill and with a little extra expense you can spend blackouts watching your big screen and not sweating the month's worth of meat in your freezer. Where solar shines is it's a great way of spreading the load since it works best when demand is highest and it decentralizes the power. How is this a bad thing???
Regan's Star Wars was a similar money pit just smaller. He was only after a few hundred billion. A Death Star would mean trillions going to no bid contractors. It's a Congressional wet dream. I'd bet they'd fund it quicker than a Mars trip. Obviously the real Death Star isn't possible to build but say something that was anywhere from a 1,000' across to a mile could be built with current technology. Sell it as an ultimate defense/offensive platform. Even standard ICBMs launched from it would be nearly impossible to shoot down since they could reach targets in minutes. It could be multi-purpose from communications to a support system for satellites. It could even be equipment with particle beam and laser weapons forming a defensive platform for incoming attacks. It'd break a bunch of treaties and cost trillions but imagine how many corporations would get rich off it's construction.
A lot fo the magic of film was 24fps. sure its outdated, but so is 48 fps. broadcast TV has been 50 for years, with more recent forays with high def into 120hz (no idea of the actual frame rate with digital, but I could image its up there) why are the doing this now? and why only 48fps?
"Fields" not frames. A field is a half frame. It's persistence of vision that makes it look like 25 frames, I assume you're in Europe. The field rate is based on the number of cycles for simplicity's sake. Europe and much of the world is 50 cycle making 50 fields easy to sync. The US is 60 cycles so our video is 60 fields. This is PAL/NTSC bullshit and it's dying slowly because of all the old equipment and systems it needs to support.
Suicide mission eh! Is this part of the NASA outreach to Muslims?
Actually they've been showing the probes the Twilight movies in an endless loop for weeks now. The probes seem quite excited at the prospect of dying on the mission.
By "Made Up" I'm talking religions that came to be in modern times as in post industrial revolution. This puts it ahead of Scientology and Mormonism. Also one of my personal favorites, Jehovah Witness. I am surprised it passed up Pastafarianism. The Flying Spaghetti Monster definitely makes as much sense as Scientology or Mormonism.
In the last 20 years there have been quite a few of these objects passing within the orbit of the moon, prior to that there were few announcements and it's debatable how many were actually tracked. A disturbing number have been found within days as passing and a few were found after they passed. Just looking at the numbers I'd place the odds at high of an impact. We're coming up on a hundred year anniversary of Tunguska so I'd say we're due for a similar impact any day now. It could be tomorrow or a hundred years from now but statistically we're due now. We aren't talking end of the world because most of the world was only affected by the dust of the last major impact and the odds of one hitting a major city are similar to winning the lottery. Unfortunately the odds are high of an ocean impact and that could be worse than a land impact. Very few of these objects are being tracked in the northern hemisphere and virtually none in the lower hemisphere, I can't remember but I think it's a few percent for the south. We spend trillions on defending against Arab rednecks and a few million a year on tracking near Earth Objects. Our priorities are sadly are on the wrong threats.
North Korean succeeds again, our new satellite is able to spin faster than any imperialist satellites and is expected to make a triumphant return any second now.
for a few weeks of some of the funniest shit a celeb has done in quite awhile.
I think we're all gonna miss McAfee since it looks like it's Lohan's turn at bat. Fingers crossed McAfee tried to claim political asylum when Belize wants his ass back.
Did OJ ever find the real killer(s)???
He searched every golf course and strip club in Florida but OJ never found his ex-wife's killer!
may infect more than just humans. The pathogen may also be able to infect cells from pigs and a wide range of bat species
Oh Noes! Batmans in double trouble!
Actually this is pretty scary. Bats are one of the best carriers of disease because of their communal lifestyle and the fact they can cover many miles a night. The point that wasn't made strong enough is it infected every tissue sample they tried it on so far. This has pandemic written all over it. It's still localized and it has yet to break out but if it does it could infect tens of millions. Hard to say the mortality rate but it could be high. We're due for another pandemic so every source like this needs to be watched closely.
I thought it said Chinese cyborgs rise in 2030
We finally have scientific explanation for the deficit and the fiscal cliff.
I used to keep pythons. They're surprisingly intelligent and even have personalities. I had a 10' albino that was my favorite. He'd curl up in my lap while I watched TV. I think they are a terrible pet for the average person but the laws they passed are ridiculous because they force most owners into a situation of either having their snakes put to sleep or releasing them. What people don't realize is Florida is the only state in the union that they can survive in. They are extremely sensitive to cold and don't like dry conditions. Banning the transportation in the other lower 48 is nuts. Ban importation fine, ban the sale in Florida fine. In Florida they need a system where people can turn them in no questions asked and hopefully to wildlife rescues and not to be put down. Owners can grow really attached to them and may foolishly release them so they aren't killed. Also ban the breeding of Pythons in Florida. The problem could disappear as in new releases if they aren't allowed to breed. Unfortunately they should have never been allowed in Florida. Now the situation is nearly impossible to control. Florida is still dragging their feet on the solution. There's hunting restrictions in many areas where as they should be encouraged. It'd be worth putting a bounty on them and it could even be partly paid by the sale of the skins. When I was in New Zealand they were selling items like fur covered notepads made of Opossum fur. They imported a type of Opossum from Australia a 100 years ago to start a fur industry. They population is out of control so they are trying everything to irradicate them. Florida needs to get aggressive. Sell python based products and use the money to fund hunts. It may be impossible to get rid of them but you can seriously reduce the numbers.