Well, it is technically possible to build 10k ft^2 houses that are cheaper to heat etc. than a 1k ft^2 house. And if you have a 10k house, it follows logically that you are very likely to have a big piece of land that it's sitting on.
That'd allow you to have say your own personal windmill. Add in solar power etc. and you can come out way ahead.
But I've no clue if this is actually the case here. I'm just saying that pointing fingers at someone for owning a big house as if that's bad, is like pointing at someone with black hair and saying that's bad.
If anything, you should probably point out how Al Gore gets around instead. As I understand it, he uses his own private jet and big ass SUV's, but I've no references to where I read that.
is not true. You pay for incoming calls, it's just you pay for them when you initiate the call, not when you receive it.
Granted, I don't know from first hand experience how the US system works in general, but as I understand it, if I receive a phone call on a US cellphone, I'll be deducted X for receiving that call. I don't know if the caller also has to pay X though.
Here, you pay Y to initiate a phone call, and Y has to be spelled out in your contract.
Since I have a prepaid phone, it runs out of money from time to time. Sure, I can't make calls or send messages, but I can receive as much as I want until the contract is cancelled (I think 6 months after it runs dry is the norm).
You live in a non-regulated market with regards to cell phones (as I understand it at least). I live in a fairly heavily regulated market (Denmark).
Here, with the most expensive plan being prepaid phones, I pay about 4.3 cents/SMS including a 25% sales tax. About 14 cents/minute to make phone calls I think (I don't make that many - others call me) Sure, we may not get as "awesome" a phoneplan as you guys do, and thus we probably don't get the phones as cheaply as you do. But we don't pay for incomming calls or SMS' at all, which is rather nice - especially on a prepaid phone.
Also, when we go shopping for a phone, the sellers are required by law to tell us exactly the minimum price of purchace including the minimum price of any required plans (which can't go beyond 6 months btw).
Example: Sony Ericsson W810i Cheapest I can find is US$ 247 (minimum price during the 6 months) This is 104$ for the phone, 17$ for the start-up fee, 125$ for a 6 month plan (and a bit of rounding).
Those 125$ (20.84$ a month) are simply the minimum cost - if you call, SMS/MMS etc for less than that per month, they'll just charge you the full monthly price.
I realise that French is supposed to be the language of love, but come on - why no English version? And plain text? I would think part of the allure of the Kamasutra is the pictures.
Now, if "also" and "uses" were acronyms, that'd be one hell of a sentence. Oh, wait, they are:
ALSO: Advanced Language Solutions and Operations (system for effective use of language) Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Alternative Lifestyle Organisation (Melbourne, Australia) American Law Sources On-line
Or better yet, they get photoshopped to try and screw the insurgients into planning their attack with the wrong data.
Brilliant. It's a PR wet dream.
"Yes, the insurgents tried to level our base in Bagdad with a barrage of mortar fire, but since we had fed them the wrong data, they instead managed to level a school, a hospital and three apartment buildings instead. No US personel was injured in the attack."
Or how about "By Allah, the infidel dogs hid behind schools, hospitals and civilians by changing the maps. May Allah bring peace to the souls of our brothers, who were killed by the cowardice of the infidel oppressors!"
When Darth Maul and Qui-Gon Jinn are waiting for the force fields to part, there could have been some dialog about the rivalry between the Sith and the Jedi, possibly referring to the prophecy about balance in the Force.
Why? That scene was perfect, imho. We see the huge difference between a sith and a jedi. It's the difference between an angry caged tiger and a martial arts master. The sith is the epitome of the dark side - he's angry and impatient. The jedi is the epitome of the light side - he's patient and calm, using the small reprieve to meditate.
Hell it even allows the musical score to shine much brighter. Most of that huge fight scene is done almost entirely without dialog, hinging instead on the tone of the music.
I'll agree with you on the other parts - those were just silly. But that one shouldn't be changed. Ever.
Another man interviewed by the Daily Show was labeled as Saddam Huessein's *dead* son, whose age would have required Saddam to have sired him at the age of 11!.
You sir take that back! I've only seen every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus twice...TWICE! That is unacceptible! Unexpectidly unacceptible. As unexpected as...
This kinda makes me want to ask the nimwit: "Just how does one dive without swimming?"
If he can successfully explain that to me, without resorting to silly nilly things like "sky diving" or the like, then I might be willing to have sympathy to his cause.
Now, I realise that I am a rather strange individual, but I tend to be awake when I'm awake, no matter what timezone you make reference to. For instance, if you're in EST, I'm still awake as I write this little post. Same if you're in CET. Or PST. Or GMT+11. Hell, even GMT-11.
But I'm sure you meant something completely different.
Problem is, what if your application is made well enough, that you hardly ever get any support requests? Yes, it happens - especially when the application comes with well made and thurough documentation.
Then it still costs a fortune to make, but we're not supposed to charge for that. Still costs next to nothing to make copies of (disregarding the cost and time of burning to a media or traffic for downloads) Still costs next to nothing to support.
Where are we supposed to make money?
If our application costs $100,000 to develop, implement and document, and we expect 10,000 users, and expect maybe one percent of our users requirering our support, are we supposed to charge them $1,000 for support, just to break even? Or should we be allowed to charge $20 per copy/licence to make some money?
Charging for support can be profitable I suppose, but I believe it also breeds an artificial need for bad documentation and buggy software. After all, if the documentation is perfect and the software hardly in need of support, where are you supposed to make your money?
Odd. I've used Opera since about 3.5, and I can't remember that it ever changed image file associations. Adware, yes - they gave you the option of either using adds in the tool bar or paying for it.
I don't think there's even an OPTION to have images open in Opera other than doing it on the OS.
Frank Lee Smith, Florida Convicted 1985; cleared (after death) in 2000
Mr. Smith was convicted of the rape and murder of a child. After the trial and sentencing the chief witness recanted her testimony. But Smith nevertheless was scheduled for execution. He died of cancer in January 2000, while on death row before the completion of the DNA test results that proved his innocence ten months later.
Now obviously, being cleared 15 years after your first conviction doesn't count. Nor does having the chief witness recanting their testimony.
But who cares. It's not like it was important, right? After all, he was a filthy child raping murderer, who deserved what he got.
And just what does banning trans-fat acids in food have to do with banning good tasting food?
Such a ban has been in effect in Denmark since 2004, and I'm yet to see any restaurants close over it or any chefs complain that now they can't make their favorite dishes.
Hell, even McDonalds got on board very quickly. And they've even announced their intentions of extending the restrictions on transfatty acids to all of their European restaurents - all 6,300 of them. Even Kentucky Fried Chicken announced similar goals (they have restaurents in Denmark as well).
And all that without changing the way food tastes.
Oh, wait. You were being obtuse, weren't you?
What next? Going to complain that we don't allow odd things like, say, tar and mercury in your food due to health issues? I mean, people could just steer clear of the foods that contained that kind of stuff, right?
'People don't say, "I want to see user-generated content,"' said Lloyd Braun, who runs Yahoo's media group. 'They want to see Michael Richards in the club
Who are these people? And could we possibly get them all to congregate at a remote nuclear testing area?
Seriously, I'm sick and tired of "having" to see "news" about celebrities who are pregnant, dizzy, out shopping, picking up the newspaper from their front lawn, etc., etc., etc.
Sure, I could choose not to turn on the TV, choose not to read the newspapers, read newssites etc., but damnit - if we can get spamfilters for other crud, why not for this crud?
Well, unless you're talking armor plate steel, you can... wait for it... bend the sharp and pointy plastic ends out of the way. Or, in the case of really bad packaging, cut multiple stratigicly plads snippets along the intended path of the scissors allowing the plastic to come off completely.
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It's a jalapeno on a stick. Cept it's not hot.
Well, it is technically possible to build 10k ft^2 houses that are cheaper to heat etc. than a 1k ft^2 house. And if you have a 10k house, it follows logically that you are very likely to have a big piece of land that it's sitting on.
That'd allow you to have say your own personal windmill. Add in solar power etc. and you can come out way ahead.
But I've no clue if this is actually the case here. I'm just saying that pointing fingers at someone for owning a big house as if that's bad, is like pointing at someone with black hair and saying that's bad.
If anything, you should probably point out how Al Gore gets around instead. As I understand it, he uses his own private jet and big ass SUV's, but I've no references to where I read that.
Here, you pay Y to initiate a phone call, and Y has to be spelled out in your contract.
Since I have a prepaid phone, it runs out of money from time to time. Sure, I can't make calls or send messages, but I can receive as much as I want until the contract is cancelled (I think 6 months after it runs dry is the norm).
You live in a non-regulated market with regards to cell phones (as I understand it at least).
I live in a fairly heavily regulated market (Denmark).
Here, with the most expensive plan being prepaid phones, I pay about 4.3 cents/SMS including a 25% sales tax. About 14 cents/minute to make phone calls I think (I don't make that many - others call me)
Sure, we may not get as "awesome" a phoneplan as you guys do, and thus we probably don't get the phones as cheaply as you do.
But we don't pay for incomming calls or SMS' at all, which is rather nice - especially on a prepaid phone.
Also, when we go shopping for a phone, the sellers are required by law to tell us exactly the minimum price of purchace including the minimum price of any required plans (which can't go beyond 6 months btw).
Example:
Sony Ericsson W810i
Cheapest I can find is US$ 247 (minimum price during the 6 months)
This is 104$ for the phone, 17$ for the start-up fee, 125$ for a 6 month plan (and a bit of rounding).
Those 125$ (20.84$ a month) are simply the minimum cost - if you call, SMS/MMS etc for less than that per month, they'll just charge you the full monthly price.
Long live the free and unburdened market.
I realise that French is supposed to be the language of love, but come on - why no English version? And plain text? I would think part of the allure of the Kamasutra is the pictures.
I didn't know Ben Affleck posted on Slashdot.
ALSO:
Advanced Language Solutions and Operations (system for effective use of language)
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics
Alternative Lifestyle Organisation (Melbourne, Australia)
American Law Sources On-line
USES:
United States Employment Service
Actually this DID coinside with a minor earth quake in the rocky mountains, which some speculate is due to three seperate mountains twisting.
"Yes, the insurgents tried to level our base in Bagdad with a barrage of mortar fire, but since we had fed them the wrong data, they instead managed to level a school, a hospital and three apartment buildings instead. No US personel was injured in the attack."
Or how about "By Allah, the infidel dogs hid behind schools, hospitals and civilians by changing the maps. May Allah bring peace to the souls of our brothers, who were killed by the cowardice of the infidel oppressors!"
Hell it even allows the musical score to shine much brighter. Most of that huge fight scene is done almost entirely without dialog, hinging instead on the tone of the music.
I'll agree with you on the other parts - those were just silly. But that one shouldn't be changed. Ever.
This kinda makes me want to ask the nimwit: "Just how does one dive without swimming?"
If he can successfully explain that to me, without resorting to silly nilly things like "sky diving" or the like, then I might be willing to have sympathy to his cause.
Sure, but ... does it play pong?
Now, I realise that I am a rather strange individual, but I tend to be awake when I'm awake, no matter what timezone you make reference to. For instance, if you're in EST, I'm still awake as I write this little post. Same if you're in CET. Or PST. Or GMT+11. Hell, even GMT-11.
But I'm sure you meant something completely different.
It runs on humour.
Problem is, what if your application is made well enough, that you hardly ever get any support requests? Yes, it happens - especially when the application comes with well made and thurough documentation.
Then it still costs a fortune to make, but we're not supposed to charge for that.
Still costs next to nothing to make copies of (disregarding the cost and time of burning to a media or traffic for downloads)
Still costs next to nothing to support.
Where are we supposed to make money?
If our application costs $100,000 to develop, implement and document, and we expect 10,000 users, and expect maybe one percent of our users requirering our support, are we supposed to charge them $1,000 for support, just to break even? Or should we be allowed to charge $20 per copy/licence to make some money?
Charging for support can be profitable I suppose, but I believe it also breeds an artificial need for bad documentation and buggy software. After all, if the documentation is perfect and the software hardly in need of support, where are you supposed to make your money?
Odd. I've used Opera since about 3.5, and I can't remember that it ever changed image file associations. Adware, yes - they gave you the option of either using adds in the tool bar or paying for it.
I don't think there's even an OPTION to have images open in Opera other than doing it on the OS.
Sir... we can't call it the "Enterprise"
Of course, the ACLU seems to think differently:
Now obviously, being cleared 15 years after your first conviction doesn't count. Nor does having the chief witness recanting their testimony.
But who cares. It's not like it was important, right? After all, he was a filthy child raping murderer, who deserved what he got.
Oh, wait.
And just what does banning trans-fat acids in food have to do with banning good tasting food?
Such a ban has been in effect in Denmark since 2004, and I'm yet to see any restaurants close over it or any chefs complain that now they can't make their favorite dishes.
Hell, even McDonalds got on board very quickly. And they've even announced their intentions of extending the restrictions on transfatty acids to all of their European restaurents - all 6,300 of them. Even Kentucky Fried Chicken announced similar goals (they have restaurents in Denmark as well).
And all that without changing the way food tastes.
Oh, wait. You were being obtuse, weren't you?
What next? Going to complain that we don't allow odd things like, say, tar and mercury in your food due to health issues? I mean, people could just steer clear of the foods that contained that kind of stuff, right?
Seriously, I'm sick and tired of "having" to see "news" about celebrities who are pregnant, dizzy, out shopping, picking up the newspaper from their front lawn, etc., etc., etc.
Sure, I could choose not to turn on the TV, choose not to read the newspapers, read newssites etc., but damnit - if we can get spamfilters for other crud, why not for this crud?
Well, unless you're talking armor plate steel, you can ... wait for it ... bend the sharp and pointy plastic ends out of the way. Or, in the case of really bad packaging, cut multiple stratigicly plads snippets along the intended path of the scissors allowing the plastic to come off completely.
Annoying? Very. Cause for imminent damage? No.
Even if they somehow knew, wouldn't a more apt name have been something like "devil's bellybutton"?