It's so nice to see that California has solved its multi billion dollar budget shortfall and has plenty of time to craft bullshit legislation that is obviously a gimme to the MPAA/RIAA drones that are stuffing their pockets with cash.
Schools are funded, everyone has a job, housing market is stable, health care system is awesome. Right? Nope. But hey, we need to allow no-knock warrants where someone might be committing the heinous act of burning a bunch of DVDs. Clearly that is worthy of felony charges and huge fines. The MPAA & RIAA sure think so.
Hopefully the rest of America doesn't. But Feinstein got her "recording device in theater = felony" bill signed into law. Stuff like this slips right under the radar of the average American, especially when "American Idol" is about to finish up another season. Ugh.
Yes. An equal number of men die every year from prostate cancer as women from breast cancer, yet breast cancer receives an overwhelming majority of the press, funding, and research. Look up the article "Politics behind the pink." I guess it's because we all love tatas but the prostate just isn't very sexy. Kind of sad, really..
"Even when the WBC crowd protested military funerals, the worst anyone did was slash their tires."
That's because the WBC is full of lawyers that love to sue everyone they can. If the WBC was full of non-legal types, they would probably have all been beaten to a retarded pulp by now.
I am still disappointed by the lack of HD films. At least give us 720p with 5.1...:/
Time for the movie studios to just STFU and accept reality. But they still want to go down tooth & nail while clinging to their concepts of copyrights, licensing, and royalties...
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I logged into the mess we knew as Slashdot to point out that very same thing. Sun went to the stupid "web portal for everything!" setup way before they were gobbled up by Oracle. It sucked then, and it *really* sucks now.
That package has been discontinued, unfortunately. While you can still do UMA calls, T-Mobile now just expects you to use your minutes. We used to have the unlimited-while-on-UMA package and were very disappointed when it was discontinued.
There are a lot of things that can cause a female to lose interest in sex. She might have a thyroid problem. Low estrogen levels. Heck, even testosterone levels (yes, women have it too) can affect it significantly. Does she have kids? Pregnancy can really tear a woman up inside. Bladder prolapses, uterus prolapses, etc. Both can affect sex in a negative manner. She might be blaming you (the man) for 'not getting her off' but she really might be having some issues that are actually preventing her from getting off. It might not be you.:P
In order to find out, your relationship needs to have something important - communication. She needs to be able to say "Ok, I'm not enjoying sex as much as I should, so instead of casting blame I'm going to talk to my ob/gyn about it." Getting to that step is very very difficult for way too many women.
source: wife has been in ob/gyn for over 12 years and deals with this on a daily basis.
Yes, and we all know how well people stop and read the small print, right?
I agree with AT&T on this one. It's deceptive. Verizon has a long history about lying on their coverage maps. Remember their older maps? They used to show *the entire country* as being served by them, which is complete bullshit.
.......unless it's accompanied by cash, naturally.
Check out the Wikipedia entry for SORBS. Someone pointed out that they blocked entire ISPs for almost nothing, and the SORBS revisionists went and started slapping wikipedia vandalism warnings around.
Fuck SORBS, and screw Wikipedia.:|
SORBS became useless years ago. Filtering evolved significantly, they remained back in the useless stone ages. Good riddance.
I also can't believe that Comcast is getting away with this. The days of 'early AOL' are upon us once again, except that instead of busy signals, we're getting modem disconnects. It's like the DSL ads poking fun at "web hogs" are going to be true.
Throttling, caps, and higher prices. Ugh.
I'd rather they eliminate the caps and just serve a 6mbit/1mbit pipe, unmetered. They know that most people aren't going to use 6mbit sustained 24/7. Then they could actually spend some time adding backhaul capacity. A genius idea!
I'm glad Verizon FIOS is still cap-free and doesn't throttle anything.:|
I worked with a small ISP for a while, and we joked that we had an RFC compliant backup data network. Yep, you guessed it. Pigeons. They would have been faster most of the time too, aside from the occasional bird bath and run in with angry falcons.
I'd happily give Facebook my name, address, social security number, and checking account information if they would only introduce a "HIDE ALL QUIZZES" feature.
God, I am so sick of logging into Facebook only to find the feed populated with stupid quizzes like "What type of garden tool are you?" The quizzes are far more annoying than the apps.
The price drop does make the unit a little more attractive, especially since it now does Netflix streaming as well. I was thinking about getting another Roku box, but this makes the Xbox 360 a more likely purchase. The fact that it can play games is a spiffy feature as well.:)
Although, "Left 4 Dead" might eat up what little free time that I have....
Although, in emergency services we can actually use such photos to help us learn how to better handle such situations. Look at the placement of the vehicle. it was against a bridge pillar and there was a slope. Had there been a viable patient in the vehicle, there would have been a lengthy extrication. Being able to see different situations helps us prepare for the inevitable 'next time.'
Some people can even benefit from it. Others say that the shock stuff doesn't work at all, but I don't think that's true in every case.
I was being vague. He was referring to solar panels. The cost and size of using even 100 square miles of land for solar panels wouldn't produce nearly enough energy. It's not enough to rely on solely, as even in California the sun doesn't shine all of the time.
I see your point, though, and that seems to be "adding them all together would help." I agree with that.
Bloggers are talking trash about Shell because that's popular to do among eco-bloggers. It's popular and gets more blogroll visits and page views when they talk down about the big evil anti-environment, big evil oil corporations.
Pharmaceutical companies are also up on the 'easy target' list. So is Apple. Look how much crap Greenpeace gives Apple, and they're almost always way off base. It's because Apple is an easy target.
I do agree with the other posts - wind & solar doesn't generate enough electricity. Listen to Dr Bill Wattenburg from KGO - he discusses this at length, and has said the same things for many many years. It just doesn't scale. Nuclear power combined with per-home solar panels and wind turbines would help out significantly, IMO.
But this would mean that we'd need a new law, banning any manager from trying to enforce any sort of dress code above and beyond "please wear clothing" for the IT department. If I'm going to be working in a warm data center, there's no way in hell that I'm dressing in 'business casual.' Management can kiss my ass.:)
that's a really expensive way to watch the Detroit Lions get their asses handed to them again, as they continued to do for the entire season. What a way to go.. 0-16. They lost the whole damn season. He should have known the Bears were going to win anyway.:D
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It's so nice to see that California has solved its multi billion dollar budget shortfall and has plenty of time to craft bullshit legislation that is obviously a gimme to the MPAA/RIAA drones that are stuffing their pockets with cash.
Schools are funded, everyone has a job, housing market is stable, health care system is awesome. Right? Nope. But hey, we need to allow no-knock warrants where someone might be committing the heinous act of burning a bunch of DVDs. Clearly that is worthy of felony charges and huge fines. The MPAA & RIAA sure think so.
Hopefully the rest of America doesn't. But Feinstein got her "recording device in theater = felony" bill signed into law. Stuff like this slips right under the radar of the average American, especially when "American Idol" is about to finish up another season. Ugh.
Yes. An equal number of men die every year from prostate cancer as women from breast cancer, yet breast cancer receives an overwhelming majority of the press, funding, and research. Look up the article "Politics behind the pink." I guess it's because we all love tatas but the prostate just isn't very sexy. Kind of sad, really..
"Even when the WBC crowd protested military funerals, the worst anyone did was slash their tires."
That's because the WBC is full of lawyers that love to sue everyone they can. If the WBC was full of non-legal types, they would probably have all been beaten to a retarded pulp by now.
I am still disappointed by the lack of HD films. At least give us 720p with 5.1 ... :/
Time for the movie studios to just STFU and accept reality. But they still want to go down tooth & nail while clinging to their concepts of copyrights, licensing, and royalties...
I logged into the mess we knew as Slashdot to point out that very same thing. Sun went to the stupid "web portal for everything!" setup way before they were gobbled up by Oracle. It sucked then, and it *really* sucks now.
Oracle just turned the suck knob to 11.
That package has been discontinued, unfortunately. While you can still do UMA calls, T-Mobile now just expects you to use your minutes. We used to have the unlimited-while-on-UMA package and were very disappointed when it was discontinued.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile_USA#Unlimited_HotSpot_Calling_and_.40Home
There are a lot of things that can cause a female to lose interest in sex. She might have a thyroid problem. Low estrogen levels. Heck, even testosterone levels (yes, women have it too) can affect it significantly. :P
Does she have kids? Pregnancy can really tear a woman up inside. Bladder prolapses, uterus prolapses, etc. Both can affect sex in a negative manner. She might be blaming you (the man) for 'not getting her off' but she really might be having some issues that are actually preventing her from getting off. It might not be you.
In order to find out, your relationship needs to have something important - communication. She needs to be able to say "Ok, I'm not enjoying sex as much as I should, so instead of casting blame I'm going to talk to my ob/gyn about it." Getting to that step is very very difficult for way too many women.
source: wife has been in ob/gyn for over 12 years and deals with this on a daily basis.
Even that might not work. Look into the case of Michael Savage and "savagestupidity.com" - Michael Savage sued over the domain name, and he lost.
Yes, and we all know how well people stop and read the small print, right?
I agree with AT&T on this one. It's deceptive. Verizon has a long history about lying on their coverage maps. Remember their older maps? They used to show *the entire country* as being served by them, which is complete bullshit.
.......unless it's accompanied by cash, naturally.
Check out the Wikipedia entry for SORBS. Someone pointed out that they blocked entire ISPs for almost nothing, and the SORBS revisionists went and started slapping wikipedia vandalism warnings around.
Fuck SORBS, and screw Wikipedia. :|
SORBS became useless years ago. Filtering evolved significantly, they remained back in the useless stone ages. Good riddance.
Even worse, Comcast will be charging you an Early Termination Fee. http://consumerist.com/5243872/comcast-lowers-your-bill-then-charges-early-termination-fee
I also can't believe that Comcast is getting away with this. The days of 'early AOL' are upon us once again, except that instead of busy signals, we're getting modem disconnects. It's like the DSL ads poking fun at "web hogs" are going to be true.
Throttling, caps, and higher prices. Ugh.
I'd rather they eliminate the caps and just serve a 6mbit/1mbit pipe, unmetered. They know that most people aren't going to use 6mbit sustained 24/7. Then they could actually spend some time adding backhaul capacity. A genius idea!
I'm glad Verizon FIOS is still cap-free and doesn't throttle anything. :|
you know the rules. [citation needed] and/or "Pics or GTFO."
I worked with a small ISP for a while, and we joked that we had an RFC compliant backup data network. Yep, you guessed it. Pigeons. They would have been faster most of the time too, aside from the occasional bird bath and run in with angry falcons.
The court system went down the Stupid Route and said that GPS technology wasn't accurate or reliable enough.
Read up on the case. it's insane. they should have dismissed the damn ticket immediately.
I'd happily give Facebook my name, address, social security number, and checking account information if they would only introduce a "HIDE ALL QUIZZES" feature.
God, I am so sick of logging into Facebook only to find the feed populated with stupid quizzes like "What type of garden tool are you?" The quizzes are far more annoying than the apps.
You must be new here.
The price drop does make the unit a little more attractive, especially since it now does Netflix streaming as well. I was thinking about getting another Roku box, but this makes the Xbox 360 a more likely purchase. The fact that it can play games is a spiffy feature as well. :)
Although, "Left 4 Dead" might eat up what little free time that I have....
Although, in emergency services we can actually use such photos to help us learn how to better handle such situations. Look at the placement of the vehicle. it was against a bridge pillar and there was a slope. Had there been a viable patient in the vehicle, there would have been a lengthy extrication. Being able to see different situations helps us prepare for the inevitable 'next time.'
Some people can even benefit from it. Others say that the shock stuff doesn't work at all, but I don't think that's true in every case.
Although, it's Orange County. High priced cars are the norm, and socialite white folks like to indulge in a little coke every now n' then.
With all of the pro-marijuana activities going on, people are getting mixed signals about drugs. (Not just pot... all of them)
I was being vague. He was referring to solar panels. The cost and size of using even 100 square miles of land for solar panels wouldn't produce nearly enough energy. It's not enough to rely on solely, as even in California the sun doesn't shine all of the time.
I see your point, though, and that seems to be "adding them all together would help." I agree with that.
I've had almost those exact words in an employee manual before.
Then again it was back in Mountain View during the Dot Com Days...
Bloggers are talking trash about Shell because that's popular to do among eco-bloggers. It's popular and gets more blogroll visits and page views when they talk down about the big evil anti-environment, big evil oil corporations.
Pharmaceutical companies are also up on the 'easy target' list. So is Apple. Look how much crap Greenpeace gives Apple, and they're almost always way off base. It's because Apple is an easy target.
I do agree with the other posts - wind & solar doesn't generate enough electricity. Listen to Dr Bill Wattenburg from KGO - he discusses this at length, and has said the same things for many many years. It just doesn't scale. Nuclear power combined with per-home solar panels and wind turbines would help out significantly, IMO.
But this would mean that we'd need a new law, banning any manager from trying to enforce any sort of dress code above and beyond "please wear clothing" for the IT department. If I'm going to be working in a warm data center, there's no way in hell that I'm dressing in 'business casual.' Management can kiss my ass. :)
that's a really expensive way to watch the Detroit Lions get their asses handed to them again, as they continued to do for the entire season. What a way to go.. 0-16. They lost the whole damn season. :D
He should have known the Bears were going to win anyway.
A software limitation? I keep hearing that the reason MKV playback is so shitty (audio lag/etc) is because "your *hardware* is crappy."