You misunderstood my comments. I simply meant that the cable companies should charge premiums for faster connections, not by-the-byte metering. If a customer wants his pr0n faster, he can pay for it. On the other hand, if all someone wants to do is check their e-mail or order Cubs tickets online, they don't need the speed.
So go ahead and throttle those connections. I don't mind. I just want to be able to use that 10 megabits they promise me. If they only promise me 4 megabits, that's fine too. Just don't make me pay for 10 and only let me use 4. That's bullshit.
So capacity upgrades are 'expensive and needless', eh? Is that why we're among the worst in the developed world for broadband speed and penetration? I don't know about anyone else, but I heard, "If our customers would only stop using our services, we wouldn't have to throttle them!"
Maybe if they advertised lower peak speeds and limited their customers to those speeds and charged a premium for higher speeds, we wouldn't have this problem.
I got mine for Christmas the year the original came out. I also got a copy of Tennis for it. I got so mad at that game, I slammed the GB against my head and destroyed the screen. I had to pay $30 of my own money to replace it, too, which for a 13 year old in 1990 with no allowance, was rough.
You serve politicians up questions like that, where their answers will either alienate the Slashdot population or the general electorate, and you expect answers? Come on. Those were cherry picked by Ron Paul fanboys. The pot smoking question especially.
I'll probably get buried for pointing out an unpopular fact, but the framers never intended the separation clause to mean total rejection of all religion -- just ambivalence toward specific religions. It was intended to prevent any European style offical state 'church' such as the Lutheran church in Denmark -- where taxes are collected to support the church -- or the Anglican church in England. It's designed to allow all peoples to worship as they see fit, not to prevent people from worshipping just because some other people object to their views and methods. So, if a plurality of the people in a given locality support a specific set of beliefs, it is perfectly acceptable for them to exercise those beliefs through government, which is made up of the people themselves, so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others to worship or not worship as they see fit. For evidence, I submit an excerpt from a letter from president Tyler written in 1843:
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgment. The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. The Mohammedan, if he will to come among us would have the privilege guaranteed to him by the Constitution to worship according to the Koran; and the East Indian might erect a shrine to Brahma if it so pleased him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political institutions... The Hebrew persecuted and down trodden in other regions takes up his abode among us with none to make him afraid... and the Aegis of the government is over him to defend and protect him. Such is the great experiment which we have tried, and such are the happy fruits which have resulted from it; our system of free government would be imperfect without it.
This is easy to work around -- just mark the bar code with a sharpie. The machine won't be able to read it, and they'll be forced to check your ID the old fashioned way.
Umm, the money doesn't go into the public school fund, it goes into the general fund. They only tell you it goes into the school fund. What really happens is, for ever dollar the lottery collects, they put that dollar into the school fund, which means they don't have to allocate that dollar to the school system from the general fund. In the end, the schools don't get any more money, it's just more money the state legislators have to spend on pork barrel projects.
The procedure is called an Allogenic Stem Cell Transplant. The procedure has been in use for well over a decade, and it replaced the old Bone Marrow Transplant techniques that used to be used for conditions such as leukemia, various cancers, lymphoma, and other immune system disorders.
The only thing remarkable about this is the fact that the stem cells the man received were from cord blood instead of adult stem cells from a matched donor.
Wikipedia has an excellent article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_transplantation The applicable section to this article reads as such: "Umbilical cord blood is obtained when a mother donates her infant's umbilical cord and placenta after birth. Cord blood has a higher concentration of HSC (hematopoietic stem cells --ed.) than is normally found in adult blood. However, the small quantity of blood obtained from an umbilical cord (typically about 50 mL) makes it more suitable for transplantation into small children than into adults. Newer techniques using ex-vivo expansion of cord blood units or the use of two cord blood units from different donors are being explored to allow cord blood transplants to be used in adults."
I spent six months in Seattle as a caregiver for a patient undergoing this procedure. The work they do at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center there is second to none.
I prefer the eight hour "symphony of white noise", which took exactly eight hours to compose and record.
Seriously, I gave up on modern music after the whole Napster crackdown. When Lars Ulrich came out and bitched about his fans 'stealing' his music, I realized that modern rockers are just RIAA stooges taking advantage of kids like drug pushers. I pretty much only listen to talk radio now, but will throw in some classical, jazz, or classic rock on the rare whim. These morons will never get another dime from me.
The situation you speak of is the tendency of employers to only hire people with the exact skill set they're looking for. Much of the time, the people with those skills just don't exist. The solution is not to reject all applicants, but to hire someone who, though they may not possess the specific skills the employer needs, can come up to speed on the relevant technology.
The problem is also one of education. Employers are looking for Java programmers with experience in J2EE, SOAP, XML, SOA, OMGWTFBBQ, and whatever other acronyms du jour they're working with. Universities teach data structures, systems design, and object oriented programming. Obviously, there is a *huge* disconnect between what employers want and what universities produce. In order to solve this (un)employment dilemma, somebody's got to give. Either universities are going to have to start teaching students how to code to a specific standard instead of general concepts, or employers are going to have to pay to train new employees to do the specific jobs they need instead of expecting to find a rhombus shaped peg in a job market full of round ones.
Unlike Satellite, antennas don't require line-of-sight. I have mine installed in my attic. My only suggestion for the temporary problem you have is to try to find one that's easy to remove when you're ready to go. There are a few compact, relatively high-gain UHF antennas out there...
The true testament to any civilized society is that it has the guns, money, and the means to control other people -- but still uses those things responsibly. History is littered with dictators who have sought the means to control other people. Our present day world is full of those who would rule the world (or settle for their little section of it) with force. These people, had they the means to do so, would not wield power responsibly, with respect for the rights of the people. On the contrary, they would rather kill and enslave their populations out of fear of their populations, or even simple greed. It's our responsibility to make sure these people do as little damage to their own people and to their neighbors as possible, without becoming too entangled as to cause ourselves more problems.
So let's invite them over for dinner, sit in a circle around a camp fire, and sing kum-ba-ya while we buy each other a Coke(TM) and live in perfect harmony.
So long as the west has something that third world psychos want but don't have, like guns, money, and the means to control other people, the west will be a target of third world psychos. This isn't about the west 'meddling' in the affairs of foreign countries, it's about psychopaths trying to use us to get what they want.
It's ok. When some evil dude decides to build a shitload of robots and try to take over, we'll just have another evil dude build an army of clones to smack them down.
This is definitely not a car oriented towards commuting suburbanites.
I don't know about that... I live about 25 miles west of Chicago, and drive about 10 miles to the train station in order to get to the city every morning. I could definitely use one of these as a commuter and save the big car for family trips, if they can get the price down to below $10k, battery included.
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You misunderstood my comments. I simply meant that the cable companies should charge premiums for faster connections, not by-the-byte metering. If a customer wants his pr0n faster, he can pay for it. On the other hand, if all someone wants to do is check their e-mail or order Cubs tickets online, they don't need the speed.
So go ahead and throttle those connections. I don't mind. I just want to be able to use that 10 megabits they promise me. If they only promise me 4 megabits, that's fine too. Just don't make me pay for 10 and only let me use 4. That's bullshit.
So capacity upgrades are 'expensive and needless', eh? Is that why we're among the worst in the developed world for broadband speed and penetration? I don't know about anyone else, but I heard, "If our customers would only stop using our services, we wouldn't have to throttle them!"
Maybe if they advertised lower peak speeds and limited their customers to those speeds and charged a premium for higher speeds, we wouldn't have this problem.
Because if Obama came out and said, unequivocally, that he's in favor of legalizing marijuana, he'd lose.
I got mine for Christmas the year the original came out. I also got a copy of Tennis for it. I got so mad at that game, I slammed the GB against my head and destroyed the screen. I had to pay $30 of my own money to replace it, too, which for a 13 year old in 1990 with no allowance, was rough.
You serve politicians up questions like that, where their answers will either alienate the Slashdot population or the general electorate, and you expect answers? Come on. Those were cherry picked by Ron Paul fanboys. The pot smoking question especially.
Somebody get that one into Fortune.
And risk getting busted for KP? How many idiot high school kids post naughty pics of themselves on there?
Speak for yourself! I'm waiting for the day I can plug my ear into the USB port of my computer and download pr0n straight to my brain.
This is easy to work around -- just mark the bar code with a sharpie. The machine won't be able to read it, and they'll be forced to check your ID the old fashioned way.
...an interstellar war. Some alien species just lit off a nuke the size of a supernova. At least, it would be bad ass if that were the case.
The mere fact that you posted this shows that you're either in denial or so far in the closet you're seeing stuff from 1980.
Umm, the money doesn't go into the public school fund, it goes into the general fund. They only tell you it goes into the school fund. What really happens is, for ever dollar the lottery collects, they put that dollar into the school fund, which means they don't have to allocate that dollar to the school system from the general fund. In the end, the schools don't get any more money, it's just more money the state legislators have to spend on pork barrel projects.
The procedure is called an Allogenic Stem Cell Transplant. The procedure has been in use for well over a decade, and it replaced the old Bone Marrow Transplant techniques that used to be used for conditions such as leukemia, various cancers, lymphoma, and other immune system disorders.
The only thing remarkable about this is the fact that the stem cells the man received were from cord blood instead of adult stem cells from a matched donor.
Wikipedia has an excellent article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_transplantation
The applicable section to this article reads as such:
"Umbilical cord blood is obtained when a mother donates her infant's umbilical cord and placenta after birth. Cord blood has a higher concentration of HSC (hematopoietic stem cells --ed.) than is normally found in adult blood. However, the small quantity of blood obtained from an umbilical cord (typically about 50 mL) makes it more suitable for transplantation into small children than into adults. Newer techniques using ex-vivo expansion of cord blood units or the use of two cord blood units from different donors are being explored to allow cord blood transplants to be used in adults."
I spent six months in Seattle as a caregiver for a patient undergoing this procedure. The work they do at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center there is second to none.
I prefer the eight hour "symphony of white noise", which took exactly eight hours to compose and record.
Seriously, I gave up on modern music after the whole Napster crackdown. When Lars Ulrich came out and bitched about his fans 'stealing' his music, I realized that modern rockers are just RIAA stooges taking advantage of kids like drug pushers. I pretty much only listen to talk radio now, but will throw in some classical, jazz, or classic rock on the rare whim. These morons will never get another dime from me.
That's about what it would take for me to pick up anything by Radiohead, so long as they didn't force me to listen to it.
The situation you speak of is the tendency of employers to only hire people with the exact skill set they're looking for. Much of the time, the people with those skills just don't exist. The solution is not to reject all applicants, but to hire someone who, though they may not possess the specific skills the employer needs, can come up to speed on the relevant technology.
The problem is also one of education. Employers are looking for Java programmers with experience in J2EE, SOAP, XML, SOA, OMGWTFBBQ, and whatever other acronyms du jour they're working with. Universities teach data structures, systems design, and object oriented programming. Obviously, there is a *huge* disconnect between what employers want and what universities produce. In order to solve this (un)employment dilemma, somebody's got to give. Either universities are going to have to start teaching students how to code to a specific standard instead of general concepts, or employers are going to have to pay to train new employees to do the specific jobs they need instead of expecting to find a rhombus shaped peg in a job market full of round ones.
See, this is where typing in a British accent makes you sound to us on this side of the pond like you're from Utah.
Unlike Satellite, antennas don't require line-of-sight. I have mine installed in my attic. My only suggestion for the temporary problem you have is to try to find one that's easy to remove when you're ready to go. There are a few compact, relatively high-gain UHF antennas out there...
Your problem is you have rabbit ears. You need to upgrade to a higher gain, permanently mounted antenna.
I installed one in my attic, and the difference in reception capabilities was dramatic. Thou shouldst go here for further antenna assistance.
The true testament to any civilized society is that it has the guns, money, and the means to control other people -- but still uses those things responsibly. History is littered with dictators who have sought the means to control other people. Our present day world is full of those who would rule the world (or settle for their little section of it) with force. These people, had they the means to do so, would not wield power responsibly, with respect for the rights of the people. On the contrary, they would rather kill and enslave their populations out of fear of their populations, or even simple greed. It's our responsibility to make sure these people do as little damage to their own people and to their neighbors as possible, without becoming too entangled as to cause ourselves more problems.
So let's invite them over for dinner, sit in a circle around a camp fire, and sing kum-ba-ya while we buy each other a Coke(TM) and live in perfect harmony.
So long as the west has something that third world psychos want but don't have, like guns, money, and the means to control other people, the west will be a target of third world psychos. This isn't about the west 'meddling' in the affairs of foreign countries, it's about psychopaths trying to use us to get what they want.
Even if they do come out, unless they sticker under $40k, nobody's going to buy them. Nice idea, but way too impractical.
It's ok. When some evil dude decides to build a shitload of robots and try to take over, we'll just have another evil dude build an army of clones to smack them down.
I don't know about that... I live about 25 miles west of Chicago, and drive about 10 miles to the train station in order to get to the city every morning. I could definitely use one of these as a commuter and save the big car for family trips, if they can get the price down to below $10k, battery included.