I use the phishtank plugin for firefox. And when I have a minute I jump on and rate some submitted phishes. One thing I disagree on is if a site is offline already people vote it as a not phish. I say if they are trying they need to be rated bad to build a history.
On 6.99 items you may be right. Power equipment is in a different category. After you spend a few hours messing with a cheap piece of junk in the heat that few hundred dollars doesn't seem so bad. Mowers, string trimmers, chainsaws et.. After you realize that you are risking health, limb or life that price difference shrinks. I am glad there is a choice though. At any one time I might not be able to afford to go get a $300 snapper so it is nice to know I can go grab a $90 Walxxx to get the grass cut this season.
I have had two DISH systems for 2 years and the customer servcie is great. Never had a problem. And you can run your DISH and TV off a 12 volt battery with an inverter if power is ever out. After two years I still look at the crystal clear picture in amazement. The cable companies wouldn't do anything if it wasn't for the sattelite competion. As for TIVO i bought one for my mom as a gift with a lifetime subscription but this new agreement may mean the first and last one I buy. Was getting ready to buy one for myself but think I will look at DVR's.
There was an expert on CNN saying that this was a succes as far as the saftey of the grid was concered. It knocked out 20% of the Eastern US grid. The country also has the Western grid and the Texas area grid.
http://www.zondervanbibles.com/0310929555.htm Her e is an excellent study bible. Reading this morning I found out it has been revised and am getting ready to buy a new one. Probably from Amazon or similiar.
I knew it but my first search query showed the numbers well.
This comparison gives the false impression that such deaths are a huge problem and that buying back guns from private owners will save a lot of lives. But gun accidents in recent years have killed fewer children under 15 than bicycles. In 1997, two hundred kids were killed by bike accidents compared to a hundred and forty-two by firearms accidents. But two-thousand, nine hundred children under fifteen died in automobile accidents.
If we want to reduce accidental deaths of children, it obviously would make more sense to spend the money on measures that will reduce car accidents, not gun accidents, because car accidents kill twenty times as many children. No one is proposing to spend $15 million to buy back cars in hopes that would reduce the number of accidents significantly. Since so many car accidents are caused by drunk drivers, a program to reduce drunk-driving would make a lot more sense.
Gun-buy-back programs will not reduce gun-related accidents. They may increase violent crime. Those who turn in guns give up the protection they have from criminals. This is especially true in the high-crime areas that the federal buyback program will target. John Lott of the Yale Law School has done research that shows that the thirty-one states that allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons have seen their violent crime rates drop significantly more than in the states that restrict this right. Lott says that law-abiding citizens carrying concealed weapons increase the hazard for criminals, who prefer to prey on the defenseless. His book, "More Guns, Less Crime," offers persuasive proof of that, but the media have paid little attention to it.
I rarely bought CD's before I found MP3.com. Now I regularly buy CD's from there. You can find first rate music produced by artists that are as good as anything you hear in the commercial mainstream and the artists have full control of their music. They also usually have one or more MP3 downloads to preview.
When I checked on higher speed access the only thing available was frame-relay that was reasonable but not practical for home ($64/mo)use so I stick with my local dialup. I have a choice of two for $19.95 a month. I got my bill and had a late charge and just picked up the phone (could have used email) and called the Owner/manager. Told me they took off Christmas and didn't email statements and just knock off the late charge and make a quarterly payment if I wanted and they would send a hard copy each time. For dial-up access do you think anybody would switch to a big co. if the locals are available with the great customer service? I know the users on this site tend to forget that the majority of net users are going to be ordianry people who use the net for a month what some of us probably use it in two days and DSL is not really that attractive unless it comes down in price and ease of installation of modem dialup. And forget cable, unless you have a certain density of population per mile you'll never see cable. Even the high speed over copper will be a long time in coming when you are not near the central PBX.
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I use the phishtank plugin for firefox. And when I have a minute I jump on and rate some submitted phishes. One thing I disagree on is if a site is offline already people vote it as a not phish. I say if they are trying they need to be rated bad to build a history.
A 44 year old that plays video games? In 20 years, you'll be the best granddad of them all...LOL. 44 won't seem so old when you get there.
On 6.99 items you may be right. Power equipment is in a different category. After you spend a few hours messing with a cheap piece of junk in the heat that few hundred dollars doesn't seem so bad.
Mowers, string trimmers, chainsaws et.. After you realize that you are risking health, limb or life that price difference shrinks. I am glad there is a choice though. At any one time I might not be able to afford to go get a $300 snapper so it is nice to know I can go grab a $90 Walxxx to get the grass cut this season.
I have had two DISH systems for 2 years and the customer servcie is great. Never had a problem. And you can run your DISH and TV off a 12 volt battery with an inverter if power is ever out. After two years I still look at the crystal clear picture in amazement. The cable companies
wouldn't do anything if it wasn't for the sattelite competion. As for TIVO i bought one for my mom as a gift with a lifetime subscription but this new agreement may mean the first and last one I buy. Was getting ready to buy one for myself but think I will look at DVR's.
There was an expert on CNN saying that this was a succes as far as the saftey of the grid was concered. It knocked out 20% of the Eastern US grid.
The country also has the Western grid and the Texas area grid.
As I'm in the 80% part I have to agree with him.
http://www.zondervanbibles.com/0310929555.htmr e is an excellent study bible.
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Reading this morning I found out it has been revised and am getting ready to buy a new one. Probably from
Amazon or similiar.
http://www.alfnra.org/carsvsguns.htm
I knew it but my first search query showed the numbers well.
This comparison gives the false impression that such deaths are a huge problem and that buying back guns from private owners will save a lot of lives. But gun accidents in recent years have killed fewer children under 15 than bicycles. In 1997, two hundred kids were killed by bike accidents compared to a hundred and forty-two by firearms accidents. But two-thousand, nine hundred children under fifteen died in automobile accidents.
If we want to reduce accidental deaths of children, it obviously would make more sense to spend the money on measures that will reduce car accidents, not gun accidents, because car accidents kill twenty times as many children. No one is proposing to spend $15 million to buy back cars in hopes that would reduce the number of accidents significantly. Since so many car accidents are caused by drunk drivers, a program to reduce drunk-driving would make a lot more sense.
Gun-buy-back programs will not reduce gun-related accidents. They may increase violent crime. Those who turn in guns give up the protection they have from criminals. This is especially true in the high-crime areas that the federal buyback program will target. John Lott of the Yale Law School has done research that shows that the thirty-one states that allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons have seen their violent crime rates drop significantly more than in the states that restrict this right. Lott says that law-abiding citizens carrying concealed weapons increase the hazard for criminals, who prefer to prey on the defenseless. His book, "More Guns, Less Crime," offers persuasive proof of that, but the media have paid little attention to it.
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Eric Raymond and The Cathedral.
Now I know what it means.
You da man! Glad to see there are more "mecho-geeks" out there.
I rarely bought CD's before I found MP3.com. Now I regularly buy CD's from there. You can find first rate music produced by artists that are as good as anything you hear in the commercial mainstream and the artists have full control of their music. They also usually have one or more MP3 downloads to preview.
When I checked on higher speed access the only thing available was frame-relay that was reasonable but not practical for home ($64 /mo)use so I stick with my local dialup. I have a choice of two for $19.95 a month. I got my bill and had a late charge and just picked up the phone (could have used email) and called the Owner/manager. Told me they took off Christmas and didn't email statements and just knock off the late charge and make a quarterly payment if I wanted and they would send a hard copy each time. For dial-up access do you think anybody would switch to a big co. if the locals are available with the great customer service? I know the users on this site tend to forget that the majority of net users are going to be ordianry people who use the net for a month what some of us probably use it in two days and DSL is not really that attractive unless it comes down in price and ease of installation of modem dialup. And forget cable, unless you have a certain density of population per mile you'll never see cable. Even the high speed over copper will be a long time in coming when you are not near the central PBX.
Also connects to Yahoo. Thank you very much for this tip. Rob
I did this today for the first time. Much more satisfying thatn getting mad.