That's not surprising-- dream state isn't "deep sleep" per se, or so I'm told. I've had similar experiences as a fellow poster involving a nightmare; I'm usually able to force myself awake and "reboot" the dream that way, which is probably a really hamfisted way of going about it, but I don't get nightmares very often-- the brain chemistry apparently has to be at a certain balance or imbalance in my case.
In other words, if parents teach it to kids willingly, the federal government is OK with it. The simple fact is, we are afraid of parents because parents are afraid that their kids are not the innocent angels they can never be.
I remember when MythBusters did the show on turd-polishing, and they couldn't say "turd" or "crap" (much to Jamie's chagrin), but they could say "feces, scat, guano... doo-doo, poo-poo, and poop". Yes, lawyers and paranoid parents have turned a discussion on excrement into kindergarten dialogue.
30% ? what kind of whacked out rate is that ? loansharks' ?
It's about the rate of a very high APR credit card. Payday lenders and the like can have effective rates that are in excess of 100%-- they'll never admit as much, because they use several accounting tricks to wring more money out of the people they loan money to.
And the next thing you know, Facebook will spin this as, "See? We're not as bad as payday lenders." *facepalm*
And yet, after a brief stint where netbooks used Linux, nearly all of them (in the US anyway) have Windows pre-installed.
Or, if you want a Linux netbook or laptop, you have to specifically hunt for it, often in the business section (or hide them behind volume licenses like HP does-- "We support Linux!... but not for you, pauper!").
I think there should be less cowering in fear of liability/support cost and more alternatives that don't pad the dominant software corporation's bottom line because there effectively is no competition.
Spoken by someone who is waiting to hear if they disabled his account, if his account got hacked, or what, since he's unable to log in with the new client.
I got into a rut where I couldn't log in with the beta client, and the problem went away when I uninstalled and reverted to the standard client (which is impossible now, but a clean reinstall may fix your woes).
The "unable to log in" problem can be caused by many things, some of which survive through uninstalls; I don't think they've completely solved this particular bug. I wouldn't attribute this to a disabled/hacked account unless you can't log into your account from any computer.
But you know they won't-- largely because many of the regulations that would otherwise have restrained unnecessarily risky activity were legislated out of existence or poorly enforced in the past 40 years. The stuff the fat cats did was technically legal, if morally and ethically wrong.
The difference between the comparison you and others are making is accessory to crime, versus a corrupt institution with many friends in Congress.
It's quite simple, really: they multiply the MSRP times (1 plus the drag coefficient of the box) with the population of the US, give or take a few million times some number they yank out of their behinds (don't ask me how, you don't want to know).
If the company uses a larger loss figure for its shareholder report than it does on its tax returns, I think the SEC, FTC (etc.) and IRS should have a little chat with the company...
This worked fine for consoles that plugged into the wall for power, but for handhelds, there was no high-capacity disk/disc format that could work while ensuring that battery power would last over a couple of hours. I'm sure others aside from Sony's UMD attempt have been tried before, but the prime weakness of disk media was highlighted in handhelds: they were slow to load, particularly since the reader had to be both small and power-conserving. Besides that, carts are much more compact at handheld scale, particularly because NAND flash memory is more and more space-efficient-- something you cannot get with disks unless you can swap out the reader and its driver.
And back in the days before the compact disc, optical media was friggen' huge (laserdiscs, while impressive, were not nearly designed with games in mind) and the other option, magnetic disk, was slower still and prone to degradation. Cartridges were simply the best option until Nintendo in all its infinitesimal wisdom decided to try and scam Sony out of a lucrative deal.
(this will probably mean raising taxes) but American citizens wont permit this.
Correction: The wealthiest 5% of Americans will not permit this, therefore they will spend their money on lobbyists, PR firms, and advertising front groups to bamboozle the remaining 95% that their taxes will be raised by an indefinite amount (which everyone for some reason knows is going to be over 400%).
Consider how the Tea Parties got their initial growth spurt. It wasn't Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, it was Rick Santelli's rant on the exchange floor. He was very likely bought by the wealthy to get the populace into the deception. Yet no one called him on it except for Comedy Central's Jon Stewart.
And there isn't really a choice in the first place, the choice is more cores and a better experience or getting stuck at XGHz and having to pipe liquid Hydrogen into your home.
Hydrogen?? Bah! Real overclockers use liquid oxygen!
I mean, who wouldn't want a rig to fail spectacularly when it dies? This way you get a boom and a fire.
Rebuild a PC? no issue, unlimited re-downloads, much easier to kick off steam and walk away than dig out masses of discs, then go through hours or hunt and patch, etc.
This. This (and Blizzard's following suit with unlimited downloads per license of their games) is why I am no longer going to buy physical media for games ever again.
Though Blizzard did see some of my money repeatedly because I was lousy at maintaining my Starcraft discs...
A and B were a little pissed because they were without internet, and without their computers for a little while (which just made me upset because I didn't start the problem, but I had to fix it).
Welcome to the world of IT, where people don't care about you until something breaks, then it's your fault until it's fixed.
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Ever try publishing something for, say, Verizon branded phones?
I'm sure they make it hell for nearly all of their phones, but for some reason they are being remarkably lenient when it comes to their first-gen Motorola Droid.
Let's also not be complacent and vote for the other party either-- Mary Landrieu is one of the biggest supporters— and beneficiaries— of the petroleum industry. She would have been chanting that slogan along with Sarah Palin and the rest of them were it not for her party identification.
There have been a lot of efforts at liberal talk radio and they have all failed. None of them had enough listeners to make the money needed to stay on the air. Whose fault is that? Conservatives? Don't make me laugh.
Same with TV. It's the number of viewers who decide what the most popular talking head shows are. If the liberal news shows were the most popular then they would have the most viewers.
The greatest irony (and I agree with Bill Moyer that this is one of the greatest lies ever embedded in the American consciousness) of this is, conservatives will still claim that their viewpoint is a minority in the media, despite complete domination of talk radio, the most successful cable news channel (though IMO that's an affront to the practice of journalism), and numerous conservative publications, blogs, and think tanks.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it seems as though the Right wants complete domination of all information sources.
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That's not surprising-- dream state isn't "deep sleep" per se, or so I'm told. I've had similar experiences as a fellow poster involving a nightmare; I'm usually able to force myself awake and "reboot" the dream that way, which is probably a really hamfisted way of going about it, but I don't get nightmares very often-- the brain chemistry apparently has to be at a certain balance or imbalance in my case.
In other words, if parents teach it to kids willingly, the federal government is OK with it. The simple fact is, we are afraid of parents because parents are afraid that their kids are not the innocent angels they can never be.
I remember when MythBusters did the show on turd-polishing, and they couldn't say "turd" or "crap" (much to Jamie's chagrin), but they could say "feces, scat, guano ... doo-doo, poo-poo, and poop". Yes, lawyers and paranoid parents have turned a discussion on excrement into kindergarten dialogue.
Fascinating use of doro-dango, however...
OT snark #1: Are you sure you've addressed the nuclear power plant?
OT snark #2: Reminds me of the time I tested out the dialogue of the Protoss Immortal:
It's about the rate of a very high APR credit card. Payday lenders and the like can have effective rates that are in excess of 100%-- they'll never admit as much, because they use several accounting tricks to wring more money out of the people they loan money to.
And the next thing you know, Facebook will spin this as, "See? We're not as bad as payday lenders." *facepalm*
And yet, after a brief stint where netbooks used Linux, nearly all of them (in the US anyway) have Windows pre-installed.
Or, if you want a Linux netbook or laptop, you have to specifically hunt for it, often in the business section (or hide them behind volume licenses like HP does-- "We support Linux!... but not for you, pauper!").
I think there should be less cowering in fear of liability/support cost and more alternatives that don't pad the dominant software corporation's bottom line because there effectively is no competition.
I got into a rut where I couldn't log in with the beta client, and the problem went away when I uninstalled and reverted to the standard client (which is impossible now, but a clean reinstall may fix your woes).
The "unable to log in" problem can be caused by many things, some of which survive through uninstalls; I don't think they've completely solved this particular bug. I wouldn't attribute this to a disabled/hacked account unless you can't log into your account from any computer.
But you know they won't-- largely because many of the regulations that would otherwise have restrained unnecessarily risky activity were legislated out of existence or poorly enforced in the past 40 years. The stuff the fat cats did was technically legal, if morally and ethically wrong.
The difference between the comparison you and others are making is accessory to crime, versus a corrupt institution with many friends in Congress.
I wonder what completely wrong definition they'll assign "net neutrality" to?
Given that their first 2 scare lines involved the phrase "government takeover", I think they'll take a similar route...
I remember hearing about a guy allowing himself to be infected with hookworms to cure an allergic reaction.
He tried to market his, ah, passengers. Modern Western health law won't permit that, of course, so he does it rather illicitly... I think.
It's quite simple, really: they multiply the MSRP times (1 plus the drag coefficient of the box) with the population of the US, give or take a few million times some number they yank out of their behinds (don't ask me how, you don't want to know).
If the company uses a larger loss figure for its shareholder report than it does on its tax returns, I think the SEC, FTC (etc.) and IRS should have a little chat with the company...
You fire them, and they end up as security guards at schools.
I wish I were joking. Now instead of a fraction of the people they interact with being children, a solid majority will be children.
This worked fine for consoles that plugged into the wall for power, but for handhelds, there was no high-capacity disk/disc format that could work while ensuring that battery power would last over a couple of hours. I'm sure others aside from Sony's UMD attempt have been tried before, but the prime weakness of disk media was highlighted in handhelds: they were slow to load, particularly since the reader had to be both small and power-conserving. Besides that, carts are much more compact at handheld scale, particularly because NAND flash memory is more and more space-efficient-- something you cannot get with disks unless you can swap out the reader and its driver.
And back in the days before the compact disc, optical media was friggen' huge (laserdiscs, while impressive, were not nearly designed with games in mind) and the other option, magnetic disk, was slower still and prone to degradation. Cartridges were simply the best option until Nintendo in all its infinitesimal wisdom decided to try and scam Sony out of a lucrative deal.
Correction: The wealthiest 5% of Americans will not permit this, therefore they will spend their money on lobbyists, PR firms, and advertising front groups to bamboozle the remaining 95% that their taxes will be raised by an indefinite amount (which everyone for some reason knows is going to be over 400%).
Consider how the Tea Parties got their initial growth spurt. It wasn't Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, it was Rick Santelli's rant on the exchange floor. He was very likely bought by the wealthy to get the populace into the deception. Yet no one called him on it except for Comedy Central's Jon Stewart.
You're neglecting the people who are short on the market, and that's probably because you are one of them, whether you admit it or not.
Shorting is one form of speculation.
Reminds me of Tabasco advertisement...
Hydrogen?? Bah! Real overclockers use liquid oxygen!
I mean, who wouldn't want a rig to fail spectacularly when it dies? This way you get a boom and a fire.
I wonder what the achievement title for that would be.
How about "Somali Pirates FTW"?
This. This (and Blizzard's following suit with unlimited downloads per license of their games) is why I am no longer going to buy physical media for games ever again.
Though Blizzard did see some of my money repeatedly because I was lousy at maintaining my Starcraft discs...
Given Ubuntu's nomenclature, we could easily turn this into a new Chinese zodiac.
2010: Year of the Ibex. Or was that Jackalope?
Welcome to the world of IT, where people don't care about you until something breaks, then it's your fault until it's fixed.
I'm sure they make it hell for nearly all of their phones, but for some reason they are being remarkably lenient when it comes to their first-gen Motorola Droid.
I think that was Photoshop's way of saying, "That's a push-up bra-- you don't want to see her when her garments are invisible."
Let's also not be complacent and vote for the other party either-- Mary Landrieu is one of the biggest supporters— and beneficiaries— of the petroleum industry. She would have been chanting that slogan along with Sarah Palin and the rest of them were it not for her party identification.
The greatest irony (and I agree with Bill Moyer that this is one of the greatest lies ever embedded in the American consciousness) of this is, conservatives will still claim that their viewpoint is a minority in the media, despite complete domination of talk radio, the most successful cable news channel (though IMO that's an affront to the practice of journalism), and numerous conservative publications, blogs, and think tanks.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it seems as though the Right wants complete domination of all information sources.