Ditto, I was waiting on a second gen Android phone.
I never particularly liked the regular blackberries, the screen was too small and I don't text that much. But the storm has twice the screen and since I got mine several other coworkers switched, so now the BBMessenger is somewhat handy.
The real plus is that the Storm is the first phone I've had where I didn't feel like Verizon was trying to rape my wallet, but that is because it is a blackberry(yay RIM) and not anything Verizon did. It's nice actually being able to transfer files to my phone or use the onboard GPS without paying Verizon for the privilege.
Maybe rates have gone up to pay for their buy 1 get 1 promo. The cheapest data rate I could see now in my area is 39.99 addtl for data or 49.99 if you just get the data, no voice.
It's a personal phone, so no discounts other than it's a family plan, so the voice part is cheaper, but that hasn't changed from back when I had a regular phone. On the other hand, I live in the middle of nowhere.
Not necessarily. I have a not-very common name, yet there is one person with a similar name who lived where I was born. My family left there before I could walk, several years before he lived there. He, of course, has a different SSN and is way older than me. He also committed a few crimes when I was 14(and hadn't lived in that state for over a decade).
This occasionally showed up on badly done backgrounds checks when I was younger.
I lost a summer job in college because of this and it was especially annoying as the report had his age and SSN, but the yoink in HR, who couldn't tell the difference between an ID that had "Under 21" stamped on it and someone old enough to run for president, voided my paperwork before talking to my boss. On the plus side, I got paid four weeks for 3 days of work.
On the down side, FSM help me if Homeland Security were to accidently hit page-down when looking up my file.
For a non-work related crime, not really. For accepting bribes to change how people were sentenced? I'd pile it on to the legal maximum, if any.
A review board should be on a doctor taking bribes to prescribe someone an unneeded drug, or IA on a cop taking bribes to deliberately ticket somebody. It makes your profession look bad, so you should smack it down.
They can only be sued for (in Sweden and in this trial) those copies that has been made in Sweden.
That makes life easy. Ban all swedish IPs, so both the seed and the leeches are outside of Sweden.
Swedes will just have to use the canadian or finnish affiliate sites, kinda like if you live next door to an Amazon warehouse, you will never get a delivery from that warehouse, to avoid taxes.
You have a point. TPB is more like "Bob's Discount Motel. We don't have whores, but our rooms are billed in 5 minute increments. No drugs, either, but surgical tubing is available at the front desk, there is a sharps box under the sink, and the guy down the street delivers if you yell."
The basis of the legal argument is the action of saying "that IP over there is either engaged in, or assisting in, the infringement of copyright" is a crime.
By the media saying "hey, you can engage in the infringement of copyright at TPB", the media is then assisting in the infringement of copyright in a similar, if less automated, manner as TPB and thus subject to the same argument.
I thought the click screen was stupid when I saw it, but while it might be slower than a regular touchscreen, it solves the one thing I hate about them: no key travel.
While other touch phones do allow you to select without activating by activating on finger up or on double tap, I also like that I can't "accidently" click something.
Oh, and being able to cut& paste, as well as select multiple messages by using two fingers(technically it can do multi-touch, just not any of the gestures Apple patented).
Ouch, you're getting screwed, or I have a very different plan. Did you accidently get the corporate plan, or the tethering plan? My data plan, through Verizon, is only $30.
I didn't think I'd ever like a touchscreen keyboard until my wife got me a Blackberry Storm. It still sucks compared to an IBM keyboard(what doesn't) and I can't type on it without looking at it, but the physical switch screen beats any other phone-sized device I've used. I probably can't type as fast as someone who has been using a regular blackberry for awhile or has a Psion-style fold open keyboard, but after a month I'm typing fast enough for anything I'd do on a phone.
Well. Except for when I screwed up when calculating the mass a hogshead of plutonium would move in an earlier thread, but that's really the screen size, not the keyboard.
While it isn't F/OSS like Android, the dev license is only $20 bucks. So between that and the clickable screen, the Storm has pretty much killed my desire for an Android phone.
All of those are true, except for the cash discount. You are not allowed to charge CC customers more, but you are allowed to discounts cash customers.
It's all in how you word the signs.
Also, while I dislike the "no minimum", I only dislike it because of the 20-30 cent base transaction fee. If CC companies would switch to a straight percentage, I'd wouldn't want a minimum fee.
Although I could get along with a 1 penny base transaction fee
Plutonium 19.86 g per cm^3 1 liter=1000 cm^3 238500 grams/hoghshead
238500/19.86=12009 grams of plutonium(call it 12 kilos)
1 kilo plutonium, fissioned=20,000 tons tnt
240,000 tons tnt
1 ton tnt=4.184 Gj
1004160 Gj of energy per hogshead of plutonium
40 rods=201 meters
1004160 Gj/201 meters
or a hair under 5,000,000,000 kilonewtons
1 newton being the energy to accelerate 1 kilo to 1 meter per second and the earth being a bit under 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms, I don't think we'd notice much.
The british sub, weighing about 14,500,000 kilograms, would get something like 344 meters/second out of it. Or just about the speed of sound at sea level. I imagine that might be a first, for a sub, breaking the sound barrier and taking flight(plummeting glide, really) with those stubby dive planes.
Some one will now rip my math into shreds of sobbing uselessness, probably around the newtons to meters/second part.
I'm very sympathetic to their R&D costs, those that aren't already paid for by the government. Even more for the costs of safety trials, those they don't fake.
But since they could easily halve their drug costs by eliminating their "doctor schmoozing" division and their "Ads for hypochondriacs" division, which together cost more than their actual drug producing departments, I don't have much sympathy for the companies as a whole.
Many genes are only activated in the presence of certain helper chemicals. Similarly, some proteins can only fold properly with the assistance of helper enzymes. Some of these helper systems form a loop and are kickstarted by the uterine environment.
If you disrupt one of those loops by injecting hormones or other methods of altering body chemistry, like scaring the living shit of a mouse at an early age, the cycle will break and thus affect the uterine environment and not kickstart the next mouse's production of those chemicals.
I could've sworn it had already been shown that pumping adrenaline into young female mice caused them to be adrenaline-sensitive and their progeny to be maternal inheritably adrenaline sensitive, but I can't find a link for it.
True, almost no-one changes stereos anymore, but he mentioned how nice his was so I figured either he swapped a new one, or paid a fair bit a while ago and might not mind keeping it up to date.
Mine is stock and nearly 2 years old, actually, although I did upgrade to the second crappiest stereo for the USB plug. I figured that 2nd crappiest two years ago might be standard, now-a-days.
What we really need is a return to bang-path routing. Everything after there was just downhill. Hard to use for newbies and not terribly hard for anyone with a clue.
And if the net was slow, you might actually be able to do something about it, not just hope your upstream got a freaking clue.
Lately, it has been. My car came with Sirius & 6 months free. I listened for about 3, they merged with XM and replaced all the stations I listened to with stuff I didn't like.
Then I realized that I could pop a 500 gig USB drive into my stereo and just play that, plus whatever podcasts were on my blackberry, and pretend my phone company just took 15 bucks off my data plan.
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Ditto, I was waiting on a second gen Android phone.
I never particularly liked the regular blackberries, the screen was too small and I don't text that much. But the storm has twice the screen and since I got mine several other coworkers switched, so now the BBMessenger is somewhat handy.
The real plus is that the Storm is the first phone I've had where I didn't feel like Verizon was trying to rape my wallet, but that is because it is a blackberry(yay RIM) and not anything Verizon did. It's nice actually being able to transfer files to my phone or use the onboard GPS without paying Verizon for the privilege.
Maybe rates have gone up to pay for their buy 1 get 1 promo. The cheapest data rate I could see now in my area is 39.99 addtl for data or 49.99 if you just get the data, no voice.
It's a personal phone, so no discounts other than it's a family plan, so the voice part is cheaper, but that hasn't changed from back when I had a regular phone. On the other hand, I live in the middle of nowhere.
Of course not. A male scientist would look for a urinary tract infection that made salt & vinegar dressing taste like chocolate.
Not necessarily. I have a not-very common name, yet there is one person with a similar name who lived where I was born. My family left there before I could walk, several years before he lived there. He, of course, has a different SSN and is way older than me. He also committed a few crimes when I was 14(and hadn't lived in that state for over a decade).
This occasionally showed up on badly done backgrounds checks when I was younger.
I lost a summer job in college because of this and it was especially annoying as the report had his age and SSN, but the yoink in HR, who couldn't tell the difference between an ID that had "Under 21" stamped on it and someone old enough to run for president, voided my paperwork before talking to my boss. On the plus side, I got paid four weeks for 3 days of work.
On the down side, FSM help me if Homeland Security were to accidently hit page-down when looking up my file.
For a non-work related crime, not really. For accepting bribes to change how people were sentenced? I'd pile it on to the legal maximum, if any.
A review board should be on a doctor taking bribes to prescribe someone an unneeded drug, or IA on a cop taking bribes to deliberately ticket somebody. It makes your profession look bad, so you should smack it down.
Make them wash dishes.
Larger casinos check for radio transmissions.
That makes life easy. Ban all swedish IPs, so both the seed and the leeches are outside of Sweden.
Swedes will just have to use the canadian or finnish affiliate sites, kinda like if you live next door to an Amazon warehouse, you will never get a delivery from that warehouse, to avoid taxes.
You have a point. TPB is more like "Bob's Discount Motel. We don't have whores, but our rooms are billed in 5 minute increments. No drugs, either, but surgical tubing is available at the front desk, there is a sharps box under the sink, and the guy down the street delivers if you yell."
The basis of the legal argument is the action of saying "that IP over there is either engaged in, or assisting in, the infringement of copyright" is a crime.
By the media saying "hey, you can engage in the infringement of copyright at TPB", the media is then assisting in the infringement of copyright in a similar, if less automated, manner as TPB and thus subject to the same argument.
Who cares if it has spam and vandalism, no-one will read it. It's just there to keep away the lawyers.
I thought the click screen was stupid when I saw it, but while it might be slower than a regular touchscreen, it solves the one thing I hate about them: no key travel.
While other touch phones do allow you to select without activating by activating on finger up or on double tap, I also like that I can't "accidently" click something.
Oh, and being able to cut& paste, as well as select multiple messages by using two fingers(technically it can do multi-touch, just not any of the gestures Apple patented).
Ouch, you're getting screwed, or I have a very different plan. Did you accidently get the corporate plan, or the tethering plan? My data plan, through Verizon, is only $30.
I didn't think I'd ever like a touchscreen keyboard until my wife got me a Blackberry Storm. It still sucks compared to an IBM keyboard(what doesn't) and I can't type on it without looking at it, but the physical switch screen beats any other phone-sized device I've used. I probably can't type as fast as someone who has been using a regular blackberry for awhile or has a Psion-style fold open keyboard, but after a month I'm typing fast enough for anything I'd do on a phone.
Well. Except for when I screwed up when calculating the mass a hogshead of plutonium would move in an earlier thread, but that's really the screen size, not the keyboard.
While it isn't F/OSS like Android, the dev license is only $20 bucks. So between that and the clickable screen, the Storm has pretty much killed my desire for an Android phone.
Yes, but then you have everyone who has actually seen a gun saying "Why are they shooting at the wall?"
Let them take the powder burns, call it method acting when they start flinching on cue.
All of those are true, except for the cash discount. You are not allowed to charge CC customers more, but you are allowed to discounts cash customers.
It's all in how you word the signs.
Also, while I dislike the "no minimum", I only dislike it because of the 20-30 cent base transaction fee. If CC companies would switch to a straight percentage, I'd wouldn't want a minimum fee.
Although I could get along with a 1 penny base transaction fee
Give him a small break, the plans do indicate using aeroponics.
So instead of tons of dirt & water, the building only needs a 90% humidity level.
Just imagine the mold on your servers.
Even if you could get a combine up there, good luck finding someone to drive it.
There aren't any railings!
Hell, if they did convince someone to do so, I'd stay fair clear of it lest I became combined with the concrete after one went over.
1 hogshead=238.5 L
238.5 L in 1 hogshead
Plutonium 19.86 g per cm^3
1 liter=1000 cm^3
238500 grams/hoghshead
238500/19.86=12009 grams of plutonium(call it 12 kilos)
1 kilo plutonium, fissioned=20,000 tons tnt
240,000 tons tnt
1 ton tnt=4.184 Gj
1004160 Gj of energy per hogshead of plutonium
40 rods=201 meters
1004160 Gj/201 meters
or a hair under 5,000,000,000 kilonewtons
1 newton being the energy to accelerate 1 kilo to 1 meter per second and the earth being a bit under 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms, I don't think we'd notice much.
The british sub, weighing about 14,500,000 kilograms, would get something like 344 meters/second out of it. Or just about the speed of sound at sea level. I imagine that might be a first, for a sub, breaking the sound barrier and taking flight(plummeting glide, really) with those stubby dive planes.
Some one will now rip my math into shreds of sobbing uselessness, probably around the newtons to meters/second part.
I'm very sympathetic to their R&D costs, those that aren't already paid for by the government. Even more for the costs of safety trials, those they don't fake.
But since they could easily halve their drug costs by eliminating their "doctor schmoozing" division and their "Ads for hypochondriacs" division, which together cost more than their actual drug producing departments, I don't have much sympathy for the companies as a whole.
Many genes are only activated in the presence of certain helper chemicals. Similarly, some proteins can only fold properly with the assistance of helper enzymes. Some of these helper systems form a loop and are kickstarted by the uterine environment.
If you disrupt one of those loops by injecting hormones or other methods of altering body chemistry, like scaring the living shit of a mouse at an early age, the cycle will break and thus affect the uterine environment and not kickstart the next mouse's production of those chemicals.
I could've sworn it had already been shown that pumping adrenaline into young female mice caused them to be adrenaline-sensitive and their progeny to be maternal inheritably adrenaline sensitive, but I can't find a link for it.
True, almost no-one changes stereos anymore, but he mentioned how nice his was so I figured either he swapped a new one, or paid a fair bit a while ago and might not mind keeping it up to date.
Mine is stock and nearly 2 years old, actually, although I did upgrade to the second crappiest stereo for the USB plug. I figured that 2nd crappiest two years ago might be standard, now-a-days.
Yes, that'd be awesome. It might be hard to find stuff(which has advantages, along with the annoyance), but I imagine Google is up to the challenge.
What we really need is a return to bang-path routing. Everything after there was just downhill. Hard to use for newbies and not terribly hard for anyone with a clue.
And if the net was slow, you might actually be able to do something about it, not just hope your upstream got a freaking clue.
Lately, it has been. My car came with Sirius & 6 months free. I listened for about 3, they merged with XM and replaced all the stations I listened to with stuff I didn't like.
Then I realized that I could pop a 500 gig USB drive into my stereo and just play that, plus whatever podcasts were on my blackberry, and pretend my phone company just took 15 bucks off my data plan.