Siriusly (sic)? And even if you don't want to pay $10-13 a month for that, is there a problem with listening to Pandora on your computer and clicking the buy link on tracks that you think you might want to listen to in the car? Or maybe you can hop on over to a mall and grab some albums out of FYE, or if you're more rural even Wal-mart has some. Of course, if you're more rural, how many FM stations do you actually get? And what kind of variety can you pull? And if you don't want to have to pay for the music...well I'm sure there's a few pirating options left.
And personally the FM stations tend to have too many commercials for me to be able to enjoy any real music time on my commute. Generally after every 3rd song there's about 10 minutes worth of commercials, and the way the stations tend to time it, I wind up catching the commercials at the start of the commute, have a few tunes in the middle, and finish up the rest of the commute with more commercials. It's also no sense in listening to FM in the mornings since all the rock stations around here play John Boy and Billy.
tl;dr: I much prefer the drone of the engine to any of the torture that local FM has to offer.
Individually, they do not have your complete credit history on file. For that, you do have to access each one to pull down all three parts of your complete story. However, individually, all three have at least your Name, Address, Social Security Number, Drivers License, and at least a partial phone history, on file.
tl;dr: Each of the three companies, individually, has enough identifying information to ruin you for life.
I'm sick of this damn strawman argument making excuses for these fucking fat-cats. America has plenty of high-density urban areas that are just about as archaic in their infrastructure as the Rural Co-Ops. In my state, Cox cable only rolled out proper RG-6 cable lines to handle the digital signal about 5 years ago, and there are still neighborhoods using the old RG-59 standard to the home, which is a bleeding nightmare to get proper speeds on. Proper speeds being about 10Mbps. Comcast is running tiered service, and I haven't heard anything but complaints about quality. Standard Cable is a fucking joke. AT&T DSL doesn't have nearly enough CO's to handle the number of people who want to get broadband, and no plans on building up any more for the forseeable (5 year) future. In fact, the best service I've heard about in Georgia is from a fucking electric Co-Op that's bringing FTTH service that provides Electricity, TV, Phone, and 10Mbps Uncapped Internet for better overall rates than Cox does for just TV, Phone, and 200GB monthly cap Internet. Exact comparisons: BRMEMC's price for Electricity, TV, Phone, AND Uncapped internet on the combined bill runs roughly $50 to $100 CHEAPER than Cox for just TV, Phone, and 200GB Internet.
There is nothing that stops these companies from providing higher throughput with current technologies that are in place except for greed and the desire to milk subscribers for every penny they have. I know for a fact that every service Truck that Cox owns has a Ladder or bucket and several 2,000' Spools of RG-6 cable and no shortage of high throughput line taps to be able to upgrade every single customer still on the old standard to the proper lines for sustained service. There is no reason for Cox to not be able to make a huge profit on providing $50 1Gbps service. Instead, we've got all these fucking companies going the other way and saying that we need to provide less service for the same fucking money. Instead of increasing to come closer to matching the rest of the world, our fucking service providers are shoving it up our collective asses and DEGRADING our services.
That's it! It's time for the tech minded to Unite and take this damn Country in the right direction towards faster propagation of information instead of the current trend towards slower. This means we need to start making our own active business war against the Data conglomerate! I don't care if a good deal of the bandwidth winds up being used for Cat videos, the Internet is now our emergency communication system, there is no current technology any faster to be able to spread news across the entire continent, and the trend for degradation of these speeds will only serve to make us more and more vulnerable.
until we start interconnecting bbs at the local level again. I don't know about the rest of Slashdot, but I alone have the know-how, the equipment, the balls of brass, and the resources to interconnect everyone on my street. There are many others like me in my town. If we have to, we can pool our resources and build a local information community in a matter of weeks. There's also another factor that would make this all the more easy. The cable companies have given us a bus network. All we have to do is put modems of our own control on the same lines that the cable companies are using to push their systems and BOOM! there's a mini-net on their infrastructure that they wouldn't necessarily be able to understand, since the community router system would be capable of piping everything encrypted. It would be a trivial matter to set this up among those who are so technically inclined.
In my home I have dual LCD Widescreen setups, both 1080p, one is a 23", the other is a 20". I have the desk space so that they are the proper distance where I can see from the left edge of the 23" on the left all the way to the right edge of the 20" on the right. The one on the right I primarily use as a status display, giving me readouts on system temps, cpu usage, memory usage, gpu status, etc. Or I'll have instructional sites open on the secondary while I'm programming or gaming on the primary. Seeing everything is never more involved than rolling my eyes in their sockets. The reason I have larger monitors is so that I can read the text on the screen at a distance where I don't have to be right up on the screen to see it... which will invariably give me eyestrain and neck strain no matter what size the monitor is. I'd actually love to have a nice 40-50" 4K monitor as a primary with the 23" as a secondary for having all that real estate for applications on the forefront of what I'm doing. Unfortunately, my desk doesn't have the real estate to support a monitor that big at a comfortable distance.
This is why I want a neural interface for my phone. Fail in that... maybe a nice Throat Mic would help with the privacy thing, if I could get one for my phone. Not a perfect solution, but whispering a message is still better than shouting one.
Towards the end of my last stint at RadioShack they started having us do cold calling of the people who bought cell phones from us and were nearing the end of their contract. I maybe called 6 numbers my entire stint there. Once I had called two people back to back that said they didn't sign anything authorizing the call. Unfortunately, they did... it was just buried in all the paperwork when they signed RadioShack's copy of the carrier contract. After that, I only went through and marked off the numbers in the call list as they came up. Also, just before the customer got to the section that gave RadioShack the authorization I made up my own spiel to say "Before you sign this, understand that the only purpose of this page is saying that you're giving us permission to interrupt your dinner in two years to harass you into coming into the store for an upgrade. It is not required for your contract to go through." My manager was pissed when he realized what I was saying... I didn't care. He never argued it or wrote me up for it.
I gave up a lot of my soul in doing sales, but there's one bit of integrity that I didn't let go. At least now I'm in a position where I can start getting a good bit of my soul back.
I feel your pain. I'm an amateur photographer with all the high end equipment I need to capture beautiful shots (I prefer landscapes and still life). I absolutely abhor being told by my wife or parents that I'm going to be the designated photographer for an event, and, after losing yet another explosive argument where they won't accept "No" as an answer, I will often "forget" my camera equipment accidentally on purpose, and remind them that I said flatly...no. I'm going to an event to partake in it! Just by being behind a lens of any kind, be it smart phone, Digital Cam, Film Cam, Google Glass... I'm no longer a participant; I'm relegated to an objective observer, and my family doesn't understand why it pisses me off so much.
Then that is how their publishers / production houses must have wanted it...
FTFY
Let's get one thing straight here; Unless the creator was very good with contract negotiations and/or was a very big name on his/her own (Seus, Rand, Stephen King, etc) , it's the distribution houses that got the copyright and it's the distribution houses that are getting these extensions. And even in the name of Seus or Tolkein, it's not even the author that's making money off his works any more. It's his freakin' estate getting a free ride on his fame rather than doing anything productive themselves. Those are the damn freeloaders you need to pull the rug out from under, not the downloader.
Claiming "self-employed" during periods of unemployment is a perfectly viable tactic as you can use the "odd-jobs" that you perform during this time as working experience. One thing that I would quite often do is for every client I had when I was self-employed I'd offer a discount on my labor rate or parts markup if they wrote a letter of reference. In this way, my resume has not had a period of inactivity to explain away, and Department Managers would be given a book of glowing reviews at interviews. This technique has not failed me yet.
Or he could also have considerably more than just 4 systems, but since the burglars only disabled 3 he didn't have to reveal that there are 37 other alarms. Just had to reveal one more than they found to rub in their failure at the same time as make them feel special that they were "almost" able to get away with it.
He hasn't been caught. He's not in Guantanimo. Unless there's some fancy political footwork, it's not likely that Russia is just going to turn him over to us.
I'd say he's done a pretty good job of surviving so far.
There's a certain irony there. Selling ones soul for money is most certainly something that Benjamin Franklin, the face upon the American $100 bill, would not have honored in the least, yet the face upon the American $50 bill, Ulysses S. Grant, is a person who's Presidency was remembered as marred by corruption[1]. So I suppose it could be said on multiple levels of inference that no, Mr. Schuarmer's soul is not worth a Benjamin (yet another irony that he shares a name Ben isn't worth a Ben.)
The third option sounds the best. You cannot help others until you help yourself first. Once the American economy is again self sufficient, and we tackle the problems of hunger within our own borders, then we will be in a better position to be able to help those outside our borders with what is left over. I say to hell with a global economy. One piece of regulation that American really needs that a decent portion of the rest of the civilized world has is "If you want to sell here, it must be built here." This means stop importing rubber dog shit and other such shiny from Asia; electronic entertainment systems, phones, etc. all need to be manufactured here. This means stop accepting Indian call centers on American services; if AT&T wants to have 24 hour service, there are more than enough people right here willing to put in night shift hours. The only trade agreements that we should have with other countries is when they involve raw materials that cannot be found local within our borders. This means that we should be refining and using our own oil, rather than giving money to those who would just as soon stick us in the eye as look at you.
Also note, just because I want to give a hand up to those within our borders and spread the American GDP among legal American citizens, it doesn't mean that the people should be allowed to take that for granted. If the people that receive a handout refuse to take the steps to be a productive member of the society around them, then they should be left behind. America was once a great nation that didn't get to its greatness by catering to the lowest common denominator, but by pushing those who fell in that bracket to try and better themselves, or leave them behind. We made it to the Moon...and then, for all intents and purposes, stopped. If the nation stopped trying to cater to this lowest denominator on a federal level and instead let the local levels handle the work to find what will increase the lowest of values, we might just be able to start rolling forward again and hopefully reverse the downward course we've been travelling for the last 30 years.
At least it would if it weren't implemented by 535 people with serious cases of cranial rectal inversion who can't see the forest for the trees and turn everything into a party issue to the detriment of real progress.
To those who are unwilling to work, they deserve nothing. To those who are very willing but unable to work, they need the help to live comfortably. To those who are willing and able, they need compensation equal to their skill with a bare minimum to cover temperature controlled housing, food, transportation, utilities, and monthly entertainment for a family of 4. Where I live, this amounts to a net pay of about $2-4K per month. The current minimum wage does not come close to this requirement. Having both parents making minimum wage just barely covers this, but then there is no one to stay at home to ensure that the young one(s) are properly taught the very basics
In the current state of things, your average person has to work is ass off to barely tread water while you have the ultra fat-cats with enough personal GDP to tow the rest of the population through the ocean at the speed of a Cigarette.
My other peeve with the current state of how things are: There are disabled people in America who are very willing to work and quite capable of performing many roles but cannot get stable employment. I personally know of several who are in this boat. One is disabled from birth with a mild physical form of Cerebral Palsy but is mentally very sharp. She acquired a degree in networking and has put together some of the most stable high end systems I've ever seen. She's never been able to get a position in the field of her degree or aptitude. She doesn't have the rounded aptitude to be able to manage her own business, and places that she's worked or tried to work will normally cut her off just before the date when her benefits would kick in (usually the day before her three month anniversary with a company). She needed a hand up, and I got along quite well with her personally, so I married her.
There are many other people that I know of that have very useful skill sets and aptitudes, but they cannot maintain employment because employers around here only see people with disabilities as liabilities. Most of the big name employers will hire people with disabilities for the PR or to fill the ADA quota that shows that they don't discriminate, placed in some kind of showcase position (like door greeter at Wal-Mart), and in all but the most exceptional cases people with disabilities are usually terminated around the time that their benefits package would activate (3-6 months).
You don't just fill the water-bottle with it and re-apply as needed through the windshield-wash control? Or is the pump disabled for some reason where it won't spray anymore?
In fact it's only the Guardian that mentions the words "temporary" and "accidentally". Stands to reason that regaining access in July is only a temporary loss, after all.
...[Amazon] gave him a different reason: "Amazon has explained to me that Disney can pull their content at any time and 'at this time they've pulled that show for exclusivity on their own channel.'" - The Guardian
..."Amazon has explained to me that Disney can pull their content at any time and 'at this time they've pulled that show for exclusivity on their own channel.' In other words, Amazon sold me a Christmas special my kids can't watch during the run up to Christmas. It'll be available in July though!" - Customer as quoted by Boing Boing
It's in my nature to believe what a company first tells a single angry customer over what they try to say in a PR backpedal.
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Depending on the source, at the time of the incident the city owned between 10 and 40.
My wife would have no problem with me doing that. I'd be the one with a problem when the images wind up on photobucket, instagram, and tumblr.
How about "If you want to sell it here, it has to be built here"?
Siriusly (sic)? And even if you don't want to pay $10-13 a month for that, is there a problem with listening to Pandora on your computer and clicking the buy link on tracks that you think you might want to listen to in the car? Or maybe you can hop on over to a mall and grab some albums out of FYE, or if you're more rural even Wal-mart has some. Of course, if you're more rural, how many FM stations do you actually get? And what kind of variety can you pull? And if you don't want to have to pay for the music...well I'm sure there's a few pirating options left.
And personally the FM stations tend to have too many commercials for me to be able to enjoy any real music time on my commute. Generally after every 3rd song there's about 10 minutes worth of commercials, and the way the stations tend to time it, I wind up catching the commercials at the start of the commute, have a few tunes in the middle, and finish up the rest of the commute with more commercials. It's also no sense in listening to FM in the mornings since all the rock stations around here play John Boy and Billy.
tl;dr: I much prefer the drone of the engine to any of the torture that local FM has to offer.
Actually...yes they are.
Individually, they do not have your complete credit history on file. For that, you do have to access each one to pull down all three parts of your complete story. However, individually, all three have at least your Name, Address, Social Security Number, Drivers License, and at least a partial phone history, on file.
tl;dr: Each of the three companies, individually, has enough identifying information to ruin you for life.
I'm sick of this damn strawman argument making excuses for these fucking fat-cats. America has plenty of high-density urban areas that are just about as archaic in their infrastructure as the Rural Co-Ops. In my state, Cox cable only rolled out proper RG-6 cable lines to handle the digital signal about 5 years ago, and there are still neighborhoods using the old RG-59 standard to the home, which is a bleeding nightmare to get proper speeds on. Proper speeds being about 10Mbps. Comcast is running tiered service, and I haven't heard anything but complaints about quality. Standard Cable is a fucking joke. AT&T DSL doesn't have nearly enough CO's to handle the number of people who want to get broadband, and no plans on building up any more for the forseeable (5 year) future. In fact, the best service I've heard about in Georgia is from a fucking electric Co-Op that's bringing FTTH service that provides Electricity, TV, Phone, and 10Mbps Uncapped Internet for better overall rates than Cox does for just TV, Phone, and 200GB monthly cap Internet. Exact comparisons: BRMEMC's price for Electricity, TV, Phone, AND Uncapped internet on the combined bill runs roughly $50 to $100 CHEAPER than Cox for just TV, Phone, and 200GB Internet.
There is nothing that stops these companies from providing higher throughput with current technologies that are in place except for greed and the desire to milk subscribers for every penny they have. I know for a fact that every service Truck that Cox owns has a Ladder or bucket and several 2,000' Spools of RG-6 cable and no shortage of high throughput line taps to be able to upgrade every single customer still on the old standard to the proper lines for sustained service. There is no reason for Cox to not be able to make a huge profit on providing $50 1Gbps service. Instead, we've got all these fucking companies going the other way and saying that we need to provide less service for the same fucking money. Instead of increasing to come closer to matching the rest of the world, our fucking service providers are shoving it up our collective asses and DEGRADING our services.
That's it! It's time for the tech minded to Unite and take this damn Country in the right direction towards faster propagation of information instead of the current trend towards slower. This means we need to start making our own active business war against the Data conglomerate! I don't care if a good deal of the bandwidth winds up being used for Cat videos, the Internet is now our emergency communication system, there is no current technology any faster to be able to spread news across the entire continent, and the trend for degradation of these speeds will only serve to make us more and more vulnerable.
until we start interconnecting bbs at the local level again. I don't know about the rest of Slashdot, but I alone have the know-how, the equipment, the balls of brass, and the resources to interconnect everyone on my street. There are many others like me in my town. If we have to, we can pool our resources and build a local information community in a matter of weeks. There's also another factor that would make this all the more easy. The cable companies have given us a bus network. All we have to do is put modems of our own control on the same lines that the cable companies are using to push their systems and BOOM! there's a mini-net on their infrastructure that they wouldn't necessarily be able to understand, since the community router system would be capable of piping everything encrypted. It would be a trivial matter to set this up among those who are so technically inclined.
In my home I have dual LCD Widescreen setups, both 1080p, one is a 23", the other is a 20". I have the desk space so that they are the proper distance where I can see from the left edge of the 23" on the left all the way to the right edge of the 20" on the right. The one on the right I primarily use as a status display, giving me readouts on system temps, cpu usage, memory usage, gpu status, etc. Or I'll have instructional sites open on the secondary while I'm programming or gaming on the primary. Seeing everything is never more involved than rolling my eyes in their sockets. The reason I have larger monitors is so that I can read the text on the screen at a distance where I don't have to be right up on the screen to see it... which will invariably give me eyestrain and neck strain no matter what size the monitor is. I'd actually love to have a nice 40-50" 4K monitor as a primary with the 23" as a secondary for having all that real estate for applications on the forefront of what I'm doing. Unfortunately, my desk doesn't have the real estate to support a monitor that big at a comfortable distance.
I'm sure you could find some here.
This is why I want a neural interface for my phone. Fail in that... maybe a nice Throat Mic would help with the privacy thing, if I could get one for my phone. Not a perfect solution, but whispering a message is still better than shouting one.
Towards the end of my last stint at RadioShack they started having us do cold calling of the people who bought cell phones from us and were nearing the end of their contract. I maybe called 6 numbers my entire stint there. Once I had called two people back to back that said they didn't sign anything authorizing the call. Unfortunately, they did... it was just buried in all the paperwork when they signed RadioShack's copy of the carrier contract. After that, I only went through and marked off the numbers in the call list as they came up. Also, just before the customer got to the section that gave RadioShack the authorization I made up my own spiel to say "Before you sign this, understand that the only purpose of this page is saying that you're giving us permission to interrupt your dinner in two years to harass you into coming into the store for an upgrade. It is not required for your contract to go through." My manager was pissed when he realized what I was saying... I didn't care. He never argued it or wrote me up for it.
I gave up a lot of my soul in doing sales, but there's one bit of integrity that I didn't let go. At least now I'm in a position where I can start getting a good bit of my soul back.
You forgot "Welcome to Facebook"
I feel your pain. I'm an amateur photographer with all the high end equipment I need to capture beautiful shots (I prefer landscapes and still life). I absolutely abhor being told by my wife or parents that I'm going to be the designated photographer for an event, and, after losing yet another explosive argument where they won't accept "No" as an answer, I will often "forget" my camera equipment accidentally on purpose, and remind them that I said flatly...no. I'm going to an event to partake in it! Just by being behind a lens of any kind, be it smart phone, Digital Cam, Film Cam, Google Glass... I'm no longer a participant; I'm relegated to an objective observer, and my family doesn't understand why it pisses me off so much.
Then that is how their publishers / production houses must have wanted it...
FTFY
Let's get one thing straight here; Unless the creator was very good with contract negotiations and/or was a very big name on his/her own (Seus, Rand, Stephen King, etc) , it's the distribution houses that got the copyright and it's the distribution houses that are getting these extensions. And even in the name of Seus or Tolkein, it's not even the author that's making money off his works any more. It's his freakin' estate getting a free ride on his fame rather than doing anything productive themselves. Those are the damn freeloaders you need to pull the rug out from under, not the downloader.
Claiming "self-employed" during periods of unemployment is a perfectly viable tactic as you can use the "odd-jobs" that you perform during this time as working experience. One thing that I would quite often do is for every client I had when I was self-employed I'd offer a discount on my labor rate or parts markup if they wrote a letter of reference. In this way, my resume has not had a period of inactivity to explain away, and Department Managers would be given a book of glowing reviews at interviews. This technique has not failed me yet.
Or he could also have considerably more than just 4 systems, but since the burglars only disabled 3 he didn't have to reveal that there are 37 other alarms. Just had to reveal one more than they found to rub in their failure at the same time as make them feel special that they were "almost" able to get away with it.
He hasn't been caught. He's not in Guantanimo. Unless there's some fancy political footwork, it's not likely that Russia is just going to turn him over to us. I'd say he's done a pretty good job of surviving so far.
The overwhelming majority of police are, frankly, pretty good folk who actually enjoy serving the public.
If you really believe this you are either willfully ignorant or a child,
... or a cop.
-1, Redundant :p
There's a certain irony there. Selling ones soul for money is most certainly something that Benjamin Franklin, the face upon the American $100 bill, would not have honored in the least, yet the face upon the American $50 bill, Ulysses S. Grant, is a person who's Presidency was remembered as marred by corruption[1]. So I suppose it could be said on multiple levels of inference that no, Mr. Schuarmer's soul is not worth a Benjamin (yet another irony that he shares a name Ben isn't worth a Ben.)
The third option sounds the best. You cannot help others until you help yourself first. Once the American economy is again self sufficient, and we tackle the problems of hunger within our own borders, then we will be in a better position to be able to help those outside our borders with what is left over. I say to hell with a global economy. One piece of regulation that American really needs that a decent portion of the rest of the civilized world has is "If you want to sell here, it must be built here." This means stop importing rubber dog shit and other such shiny from Asia; electronic entertainment systems, phones, etc. all need to be manufactured here. This means stop accepting Indian call centers on American services; if AT&T wants to have 24 hour service, there are more than enough people right here willing to put in night shift hours. The only trade agreements that we should have with other countries is when they involve raw materials that cannot be found local within our borders. This means that we should be refining and using our own oil, rather than giving money to those who would just as soon stick us in the eye as look at you.
Also note, just because I want to give a hand up to those within our borders and spread the American GDP among legal American citizens, it doesn't mean that the people should be allowed to take that for granted. If the people that receive a handout refuse to take the steps to be a productive member of the society around them, then they should be left behind. America was once a great nation that didn't get to its greatness by catering to the lowest common denominator, but by pushing those who fell in that bracket to try and better themselves, or leave them behind. We made it to the Moon...and then, for all intents and purposes, stopped. If the nation stopped trying to cater to this lowest denominator on a federal level and instead let the local levels handle the work to find what will increase the lowest of values, we might just be able to start rolling forward again and hopefully reverse the downward course we've been travelling for the last 30 years.
At least it would if it weren't implemented by 535 people with serious cases of cranial rectal inversion who can't see the forest for the trees and turn everything into a party issue to the detriment of real progress.
To those who are unwilling to work, they deserve nothing. To those who are very willing but unable to work, they need the help to live comfortably. To those who are willing and able, they need compensation equal to their skill with a bare minimum to cover temperature controlled housing, food, transportation, utilities, and monthly entertainment for a family of 4. Where I live, this amounts to a net pay of about $2-4K per month. The current minimum wage does not come close to this requirement. Having both parents making minimum wage just barely covers this, but then there is no one to stay at home to ensure that the young one(s) are properly taught the very basics
In the current state of things, your average person has to work is ass off to barely tread water while you have the ultra fat-cats with enough personal GDP to tow the rest of the population through the ocean at the speed of a Cigarette.
My other peeve with the current state of how things are: There are disabled people in America who are very willing to work and quite capable of performing many roles but cannot get stable employment. I personally know of several who are in this boat. One is disabled from birth with a mild physical form of Cerebral Palsy but is mentally very sharp. She acquired a degree in networking and has put together some of the most stable high end systems I've ever seen. She's never been able to get a position in the field of her degree or aptitude. She doesn't have the rounded aptitude to be able to manage her own business, and places that she's worked or tried to work will normally cut her off just before the date when her benefits would kick in (usually the day before her three month anniversary with a company). She needed a hand up, and I got along quite well with her personally, so I married her.
There are many other people that I know of that have very useful skill sets and aptitudes, but they cannot maintain employment because employers around here only see people with disabilities as liabilities. Most of the big name employers will hire people with disabilities for the PR or to fill the ADA quota that shows that they don't discriminate, placed in some kind of showcase position (like door greeter at Wal-Mart), and in all but the most exceptional cases people with disabilities are usually terminated around the time that their benefits package would activate (3-6 months).
You don't just fill the water-bottle with it and re-apply as needed through the windshield-wash control? Or is the pump disabled for some reason where it won't spray anymore?
Not even with Russian sandpaper grade industrial toilet paper.
Not here either.
In fact it's only the Guardian that mentions the words "temporary" and "accidentally". Stands to reason that regaining access in July is only a temporary loss, after all.
It's in my nature to believe what a company first tells a single angry customer over what they try to say in a PR backpedal.