It depends on the person's preferences. Some people say nothing is quite like living in New York. And that may very well be true, but on that same token, other people really seem to hate New York.
The only time I complain about people living in those conditions are the ones who believe that they somehow have a god-given right to live there without having to pay to live there. It's a simple supply and demand situation - lots of people want to live there, and there's only so many places to live there, so naturally the price goes up. That said, if you insist upon living in New York, but can't afford to live in New York...well then tough shit, go live somewhere else.
This is why I hate the Occupy Wall Street movement. They seem to believe that a high paying salary is an inalienable right so that they can pay the rent without having to live paycheck to paycheck, no matter how much it costs to live where they live. Here's a newsflash for them though: Most places aren't anywhere near as expensive to live as New York, but they seem to assume that to be the case anyways, and then invent this stupid concept of social justice to get what they "deserve" just for being a human being.
Trying to get people charged with crimes like rape to trial is the very thing the EAW was created for. In what bloody world is rape not a "serious crime"?
I'm trying to figure out why on earth Sweden would be any more prone to sending him to the US than England. In fact I think England is far more likely to do that.
Actually I think some major research institution (I don't recall witch) was trying to understand how you can tell where a sound is coming from, and they were doing this as part of some kind of aerospace research to send directional audio cues to pilots. You can actually do it better than you probably think you can. They actually came up with a technique where they could map your ear canal by placing a speaker inside of it, and they could then make sounds seem like they're coming from different directions by altering them based on how they would end up by the time they hit your ear drum. Supposedly it worked pretty well. SRS from what I understand was developed based on this principle (but since it isn't unique to you, it doesn't work particularly well.)
I should have been explicit about context, but in a situation where using the light metals they described, you'd probably be in too far advanced of a stage that chemo would have a good chance of success.
I'm not trying to be a conspiracy theorist and imply that chemo is just a ruse to make you more sick (believe me I've seen enough of those, including those alex jones types who believe that cancer is a fungus that is cured with baking soda but "they" don't want you to know this "inexpensive easy secret.")
Actually Amazon usually gave me WAY better buyback rates than that eFollett shit store that holds a monopoly on most campuses. Granted Amazon's buybacks were in the form of Amazon gift cards, it wasn't a bad deal at all considering that you just reinvest that money into new books on Amazon, which were always cheaper anyways. And even if you didn't do that, I can't think of any one product I'd use that I can't find on Amazon, who usually ends up being cheaper than B&M stores anyways.
(Oh, and that eFollett company claims rather boldly that their book prices are low priced, when in reality they're perhaps the most expensive book store that exists. What's shitty is they're almost always the exclusive seller of those one off books that your professor may have written himself, and they sometimes won't even buy them back, or if they do it's at a stupidly low price.)
Most of the ones who were dismissed as such probably still are. Usually those types of people listen to Alex Jones. And you know what? They're still equally nutty and in some cases downright silly. Examples of such silliness: They believe IPv6 is a Cisco plot in tandem with the Illuminati and/or the NWO to take over the world. Yeah you read that right; and you can't make this shit up:
As I said in an earlier post, I like how hardcore and bold the NWO is. A teeny fraction of the world's internet users use IPv6, and Cisco and the other globalist cyber false-flagger corporations believe all of the world's sheeple will just ease into the new global cattle pen with no resistance.
IPv6 must be resisted.
I like how these guys use a bunch of tiny truths to point to one big "TRUTH!" that is really a horribly retarded conclusion. Any IP engineer will easily point out however why their little "TRUFES!" don't point to what they think it does.
The only purpose of technological advance is to reduce the time people need to spend working.
This is half right and half wrong. There's that need to reduce the amount of work they have to do to accomplish the same thing, and there's also that they want technology so that they can do things that they haven't been able to do before. Take for example, building and flying jumbo jets instead of walking (without these, a trip from say New York to Paris would be incredibly more expensive and time consuming.)
Technology likewise also increases the amount of work for people to do. For example, (and ignoring the staff needed for the transportation itself) if you used that jumbo jet to take a trip to Brazil, the hotel staff would need to be paid, whereas without that jumbo jet you would have simply taken a trip down to Grandma's house in the next state.
I myself have had it happen numerous times that people will just call me up and ask if I can fix this or that for them, and I'll be occupied with something else. I'll let them know this, and that maybe I'll come do it some other day when I'm not really doing much. I've had it happen where they really want it done sooner, so they offer to pay me (sometimes at a rate of about $40'ish per hour, though usually these people are friends who are running some kind of business) if I can come over and take care of it right away, even knowing that had they just waited a few days I would have done it for free anyways.
Scenarios like that will always happen. This is why the economy of Star Trek is pure fantasy. There will never be a day where there's no longer anything that somebody else doesn't want bad enough that they aren't willing to pay somebody else for it, unless human nature changes. People are just never content. The "if you give a mouse a cookie" analogy applies pretty much universally. If they were always content, then they'd probably get bored, depressed, suicidal, etc. This is also why communism doesn't work.
I doubt the death would be painful, if it happened. At least, I can't see it being any more painful than chemo already is.
With chemo there's always the debate over which is worse: the disease, or the cure? Most of the time chemo doesn't work, in which case I could see this being used instead.
I think if I was a corporation I would prefer solar and wind, actually.
Nuclear is so burdened by regulation and NIMBY that investments into it are such a crapshoot. Just as you think you might finally get to break ground on a new power plant, some government entity you've never heard of puts an indefinite hold on it.
Solar panels (at least for home use) allow you to stick the home owner and potentially future owners under a binding energy lease, and the government actually pays you (the manufacturer) money to do so.
Wind isn't anything special in that regard, but so long as you own land you monopolize it just like any other power source, and obtaining the materials for building them isn't terribly difficult or encumbered by federal regulations (some local ones vary however, especially in areas governed by animal rights activists.)
By your signature I'm guessing that you are at least somewhat familiar with psychology. That's good because it will save me some time.
The reason I quote Mike Rowe is because this one line says a lot. I find that a lot of people go around with this constant attitude that somebody is out to make their life shitty (whether that is the big corporations, the government, the communists, rich people, aliens from outer space, etc.) This is the reason why a lot of people are very unhappy. This is why I see people on slashdot that seem to always be unhappy (they're always complaining about this or that.)
Life is only as crappy as you think it is. Doesn't matter if your rich or poor, disabled, etc. How you feel about how good or bad your life is, is entirely up to you. A lot of people get offended when they hear that, but even empirical science has proven it, and it's a fact whether it offends you or not.
The guy I replied to obviously thinks the Republicans are out to destroy the world. He probably drives himself crazy with rage every time he hears about X, Y, or Z that a Republican has done. Many Republicans do the same thing with Democrats. But really they're all just making themselves miserable.
So yes, I'll quote Mike Rowe on this, as I feel it is very appropriate to slashdot. Mike Rowe didn't even believe it himself at first, and I thought it was neat reading about how he came to realize it.
Don't forget: We also hate the poor and minorities too. We want to see them all die so that there is nothing left in this universe but a few rich white men with no earth (because as you yourself state, we hate that too.)
(Disclaimer: I'm not a Republican, but I typically get lumped with them because most people can't see beyond simple left and right.)
Posts like these are just random pot shots looking for a response. Chances are he doesn't even believe what he says, rather he just wants to cause somebody to come out speak in a righteous manner. Mission accomplished, I think?
I bet I know why they rejected it: If they accept it, then they'll miss out on the $2 billion Sprint will have to pay them when Club Fed rejects the takeover.
However after that takeover fails (you already know it will,) they pass go and collect $2 billion, and then they can consider Iliad's bid again.
The fact that you as a niche user can't do something doesn't mean the OS is bad.
This is very wrong. It very much does. The whole purpose of an app ecosystem these days is to be able to provide services and functions that the OS itself cannot. Otherwise why even have an app ecosystem? Let's just place a web browser in it and be done with it.
And that's another problem I have with both Windows Phone and Windows RT: The apps they run can't seem to be able to do anything that you can't already do with a web browser. Just look at games for example -- Chrome has a bigger selection than RT and WP.
Again it would be understandable if the apps just weren't ported, but that isn't the problem WP suffers.
Why does the OS lack when there's just a lack of apps? Seriously? The OS is fine.
No, it's not. If it were just a lack of apps being ported to it, that's one thing, but that isn't it.
The point of a smartphone (to some people such as myself) is to have a swiss army knife for information gathering. As a network admin, one of my things is being able to troubleshoot network problems. Android (and iOS as well, though I don't own an iPhone) allow for these kinds of features really well, and I can use apps like Fing and WiFi Analyzer. However the underlying OS code for those two apps cannot be done on either Windows RT or Windows Phone.
The same story can be said for a lot of things. There quite a number of WP apps where if you read where users are complaining about why the WP version of X app doesn't support Y feature that it also does on Android, and they blame the developer for being "lazy" but the truth is that WP doesn't support the underlying feature in most cases.
A lot of countries don't like search results found on Google.com, but none of them demand that Google filter them on the behalf of those countries. China is one such country. That said, Google can't and shouldn't bow to the censorship demands of every nation-state in the world.
If Europe doesn't like its citizens seeing content available on Google.com, then they should follow China's example and create a "Great Firewall of Europe" or something, use it to block Google.com with a message saying something to the effect of "Content on this page is deemed by your superiors to be unfit for your viewing and has been blocked." and see how far that gets them.
A lot of us really don't like that president. We tend to get accused of being all sorts of things when we express how much we don't like this guy (the most common thing is being accused of being racist, and usually by Europeans ironically.)
I personally thought it was incredibly stupid that he makes the patent rules apply to Samsung but but in the exact same circumstances they don't apply to Apple.
But then again I'm also of the mind that discriminating against foreign manufacturers is bad too, which a lot of his party believe is good (and want things like tariffs.)
Yeah but you do two traceroutes. First, from outside of the VPN, you'd have to trace the route to the VPN entry point IP address. Then from inside the VPN you'd trace to your destination. When you trace inside of a VPN, the first hop is always the VPN endpoint, so you'd never see which verizon peers you're going through if you do it that way.
Sprint is kind of notorious as a holdout in that area in that they don't permit you to take another carrier's phone to their network even if it is completely compatible.
But Sprint service is shitty. I mean like dogshit shitty. In fact T-mobile recently overtook them as the third largest carrier:
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Correct. Instead of a lobby that everybody can potentially be aware of, you just pay the fine to the politician directly.
It depends on the person's preferences. Some people say nothing is quite like living in New York. And that may very well be true, but on that same token, other people really seem to hate New York.
The only time I complain about people living in those conditions are the ones who believe that they somehow have a god-given right to live there without having to pay to live there. It's a simple supply and demand situation - lots of people want to live there, and there's only so many places to live there, so naturally the price goes up. That said, if you insist upon living in New York, but can't afford to live in New York...well then tough shit, go live somewhere else.
This is why I hate the Occupy Wall Street movement. They seem to believe that a high paying salary is an inalienable right so that they can pay the rent without having to live paycheck to paycheck, no matter how much it costs to live where they live. Here's a newsflash for them though: Most places aren't anywhere near as expensive to live as New York, but they seem to assume that to be the case anyways, and then invent this stupid concept of social justice to get what they "deserve" just for being a human being.
Trying to get people charged with crimes like rape to trial is the very thing the EAW was created for. In what bloody world is rape not a "serious crime"?
Iran I think.
I'm trying to figure out why on earth Sweden would be any more prone to sending him to the US than England. In fact I think England is far more likely to do that.
I don't think they are cowards, rather I think they are just uninhibited. Or at least, psychology refers to it as the disinhibition effect.
Actually I think some major research institution (I don't recall witch) was trying to understand how you can tell where a sound is coming from, and they were doing this as part of some kind of aerospace research to send directional audio cues to pilots. You can actually do it better than you probably think you can. They actually came up with a technique where they could map your ear canal by placing a speaker inside of it, and they could then make sounds seem like they're coming from different directions by altering them based on how they would end up by the time they hit your ear drum. Supposedly it worked pretty well. SRS from what I understand was developed based on this principle (but since it isn't unique to you, it doesn't work particularly well.)
I should have been explicit about context, but in a situation where using the light metals they described, you'd probably be in too far advanced of a stage that chemo would have a good chance of success.
I'm not trying to be a conspiracy theorist and imply that chemo is just a ruse to make you more sick (believe me I've seen enough of those, including those alex jones types who believe that cancer is a fungus that is cured with baking soda but "they" don't want you to know this "inexpensive easy secret.")
Actually Amazon usually gave me WAY better buyback rates than that eFollett shit store that holds a monopoly on most campuses. Granted Amazon's buybacks were in the form of Amazon gift cards, it wasn't a bad deal at all considering that you just reinvest that money into new books on Amazon, which were always cheaper anyways. And even if you didn't do that, I can't think of any one product I'd use that I can't find on Amazon, who usually ends up being cheaper than B&M stores anyways.
(Oh, and that eFollett company claims rather boldly that their book prices are low priced, when in reality they're perhaps the most expensive book store that exists. What's shitty is they're almost always the exclusive seller of those one off books that your professor may have written himself, and they sometimes won't even buy them back, or if they do it's at a stupidly low price.)
Most of the ones who were dismissed as such probably still are. Usually those types of people listen to Alex Jones. And you know what? They're still equally nutty and in some cases downright silly. Examples of such silliness: They believe IPv6 is a Cisco plot in tandem with the Illuminati and/or the NWO to take over the world. Yeah you read that right; and you can't make this shit up:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/...
Here's an actual quote from the website:
As I said in an earlier post, I like how hardcore and bold the NWO is. A teeny fraction of the world's internet users use IPv6, and Cisco and the other globalist cyber false-flagger corporations believe all of the world's sheeple will just ease into the new global cattle pen with no resistance.
IPv6 must be resisted.
I like how these guys use a bunch of tiny truths to point to one big "TRUTH!" that is really a horribly retarded conclusion. Any IP engineer will easily point out however why their little "TRUFES!" don't point to what they think it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The only purpose of technological advance is to reduce the time people need to spend working.
This is half right and half wrong. There's that need to reduce the amount of work they have to do to accomplish the same thing, and there's also that they want technology so that they can do things that they haven't been able to do before. Take for example, building and flying jumbo jets instead of walking (without these, a trip from say New York to Paris would be incredibly more expensive and time consuming.)
Technology likewise also increases the amount of work for people to do. For example, (and ignoring the staff needed for the transportation itself) if you used that jumbo jet to take a trip to Brazil, the hotel staff would need to be paid, whereas without that jumbo jet you would have simply taken a trip down to Grandma's house in the next state.
I myself have had it happen numerous times that people will just call me up and ask if I can fix this or that for them, and I'll be occupied with something else. I'll let them know this, and that maybe I'll come do it some other day when I'm not really doing much. I've had it happen where they really want it done sooner, so they offer to pay me (sometimes at a rate of about $40'ish per hour, though usually these people are friends who are running some kind of business) if I can come over and take care of it right away, even knowing that had they just waited a few days I would have done it for free anyways.
Scenarios like that will always happen. This is why the economy of Star Trek is pure fantasy. There will never be a day where there's no longer anything that somebody else doesn't want bad enough that they aren't willing to pay somebody else for it, unless human nature changes. People are just never content. The "if you give a mouse a cookie" analogy applies pretty much universally. If they were always content, then they'd probably get bored, depressed, suicidal, etc. This is also why communism doesn't work.
You don't have to have the source to modify it, it just makes it dramatically easier. So you can still have 1 and 3 without the source.
People who pirate software or crack drm don't ever have the source. They rely on debugging and binary patching.
I doubt the death would be painful, if it happened. At least, I can't see it being any more painful than chemo already is.
With chemo there's always the debate over which is worse: the disease, or the cure? Most of the time chemo doesn't work, in which case I could see this being used instead.
I think if I was a corporation I would prefer solar and wind, actually.
Nuclear is so burdened by regulation and NIMBY that investments into it are such a crapshoot. Just as you think you might finally get to break ground on a new power plant, some government entity you've never heard of puts an indefinite hold on it.
Solar panels (at least for home use) allow you to stick the home owner and potentially future owners under a binding energy lease, and the government actually pays you (the manufacturer) money to do so.
Wind isn't anything special in that regard, but so long as you own land you monopolize it just like any other power source, and obtaining the materials for building them isn't terribly difficult or encumbered by federal regulations (some local ones vary however, especially in areas governed by animal rights activists.)
By your signature I'm guessing that you are at least somewhat familiar with psychology. That's good because it will save me some time.
The reason I quote Mike Rowe is because this one line says a lot. I find that a lot of people go around with this constant attitude that somebody is out to make their life shitty (whether that is the big corporations, the government, the communists, rich people, aliens from outer space, etc.) This is the reason why a lot of people are very unhappy. This is why I see people on slashdot that seem to always be unhappy (they're always complaining about this or that.)
Life is only as crappy as you think it is. Doesn't matter if your rich or poor, disabled, etc. How you feel about how good or bad your life is, is entirely up to you. A lot of people get offended when they hear that, but even empirical science has proven it, and it's a fact whether it offends you or not.
The guy I replied to obviously thinks the Republicans are out to destroy the world. He probably drives himself crazy with rage every time he hears about X, Y, or Z that a Republican has done. Many Republicans do the same thing with Democrats. But really they're all just making themselves miserable.
So yes, I'll quote Mike Rowe on this, as I feel it is very appropriate to slashdot. Mike Rowe didn't even believe it himself at first, and I thought it was neat reading about how he came to realize it.
Don't forget: We also hate the poor and minorities too. We want to see them all die so that there is nothing left in this universe but a few rich white men with no earth (because as you yourself state, we hate that too.)
(Disclaimer: I'm not a Republican, but I typically get lumped with them because most people can't see beyond simple left and right.)
Posts like these are just random pot shots looking for a response. Chances are he doesn't even believe what he says, rather he just wants to cause somebody to come out speak in a righteous manner. Mission accomplished, I think?
Interesting theory considering they already threw out the at&t buyout offer.
I bet I know why they rejected it: If they accept it, then they'll miss out on the $2 billion Sprint will have to pay them when Club Fed rejects the takeover.
However after that takeover fails (you already know it will,) they pass go and collect $2 billion, and then they can consider Iliad's bid again.
Less, because I assume the 20Eu service will still have federal taxes/fees.
Don't forget state fees. Most states still have the mindset that having a mobile phone is a rich man's luxury, so they tax the shit out of it.
Go to a state like Washington and you pay 24% in taxes. Go just a little south to Oregon and it's 7%.
http://www.mywireless.org/stat...
The fact that you as a niche user can't do something doesn't mean the OS is bad.
This is very wrong. It very much does. The whole purpose of an app ecosystem these days is to be able to provide services and functions that the OS itself cannot. Otherwise why even have an app ecosystem? Let's just place a web browser in it and be done with it.
And that's another problem I have with both Windows Phone and Windows RT: The apps they run can't seem to be able to do anything that you can't already do with a web browser. Just look at games for example -- Chrome has a bigger selection than RT and WP.
Again it would be understandable if the apps just weren't ported, but that isn't the problem WP suffers.
Why does the OS lack when there's just a lack of apps? Seriously? The OS is fine.
No, it's not. If it were just a lack of apps being ported to it, that's one thing, but that isn't it.
The point of a smartphone (to some people such as myself) is to have a swiss army knife for information gathering. As a network admin, one of my things is being able to troubleshoot network problems. Android (and iOS as well, though I don't own an iPhone) allow for these kinds of features really well, and I can use apps like Fing and WiFi Analyzer. However the underlying OS code for those two apps cannot be done on either Windows RT or Windows Phone.
The same story can be said for a lot of things. There quite a number of WP apps where if you read where users are complaining about why the WP version of X app doesn't support Y feature that it also does on Android, and they blame the developer for being "lazy" but the truth is that WP doesn't support the underlying feature in most cases.
A lot of countries don't like search results found on Google.com, but none of them demand that Google filter them on the behalf of those countries. China is one such country. That said, Google can't and shouldn't bow to the censorship demands of every nation-state in the world.
If Europe doesn't like its citizens seeing content available on Google.com, then they should follow China's example and create a "Great Firewall of Europe" or something, use it to block Google.com with a message saying something to the effect of "Content on this page is deemed by your superiors to be unfit for your viewing and has been blocked." and see how far that gets them.
A lot of us really don't like that president. We tend to get accused of being all sorts of things when we express how much we don't like this guy (the most common thing is being accused of being racist, and usually by Europeans ironically.)
I personally thought it was incredibly stupid that he makes the patent rules apply to Samsung but but in the exact same circumstances they don't apply to Apple.
But then again I'm also of the mind that discriminating against foreign manufacturers is bad too, which a lot of his party believe is good (and want things like tariffs.)
Yeah but you do two traceroutes. First, from outside of the VPN, you'd have to trace the route to the VPN entry point IP address. Then from inside the VPN you'd trace to your destination. When you trace inside of a VPN, the first hop is always the VPN endpoint, so you'd never see which verizon peers you're going through if you do it that way.
Sprint is kind of notorious as a holdout in that area in that they don't permit you to take another carrier's phone to their network even if it is completely compatible.
But Sprint service is shitty. I mean like dogshit shitty. In fact T-mobile recently overtook them as the third largest carrier:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo...
So really it's kind of a non-issue. Nobody would actually voluntarily switch to Sprint unless they were mentally disabled, so who cares.