I am fine with AT&T and Verizon charging Netflix for priority service...if they must list at the top of their contract with you, "We give you unlimited service for xxx dollars a month, except for when you try to use Netflix. In that case, we have threatened to slow down Netflix to irritate you unless Netflix gives us $2 of the $8 a month you give them."
Truth in advertising. Let's see how long these fraudulent extortionists last in their plan when their business model is dragged out in front of the face of their millions of customers.
- Ultra-premium AKA ultra-high-priced franchise, DC superheroes, check! - Massive committees in charge, check! - Done by Turbine, part of Microsoft, check! - YADC (Yet Another DOTA Clone) in an aging genre with a saturated market, check! - DC's move belatedly into "action" MMORPGs, and Marvel's into "action" Diablo-clones both flopped miserably, check!
its a problem with ANY group or individual that want to decide what's "best for you."
what's best for you never seems to be very good for them.
This includes government "groups". I worked for a large multinational with engineering sites in many countries, including over 400 engineere in Germany.
After a large round of layoffs about 10 years ago, the German office was proud to have laid off nobody, bragging about it, and being in accordance with German laws making it tough.
So they went to the German office and government and said, You can either lose 100 jobs, or 400. The choice is yours."
Translation: Holy crap! EverQuest Landmark has fully destructable landscapes, digging and tunneling, and construction that makes Minecraft look like, well, Minecraft.
"Advanced cell phone tracking devices known as StingRays allow police nationwide to home in on suspects and to log individuals present at a given location. But before acquiring a StingRay, state and local police must sign a nondisclosure agreement with the FBI, according todocuments released via a MuckRock FOIA request . As Shawn Musgrave reports,it's an unusual setup arrangement for two public agencies to swear each other to secrecy , but such maneuvers are becoming more common."
Peple blame sugar when it's other carbs that turn into the bulk of glucose in your body.
Almost half the calories in a Big Mac are bun. Non-sugar Carbs, via calories, are why we are fat.Chips, bread with everything, buns. Seriously, watch what's on your plate as you eat for several days.
There was a study 40 years ago where they fed. prisoners two diets of a whipped concoction, with varying amounts of fat and sugar. The fatter you were, the MORE you preferred the. high fat one, and the thinner people preferred the sweeter.
The idea fat people are hooked on sweets is BS. They are hooked on higher-calorie, denser-calorie fatty foods.
I just read an asinine study the other day that incorrectly associated sweeter foods with. higher calorie intake because they were more calorie dense, the authors surmised.
There was a study linking insulin resistance to belly fat 2 years ago, via stress. NPR had a show on it.
antibiotics mess with gut flora gut flora feeds back to brain via a bizarre nerve this feedback induces stress stress induces fat deposition inside the abdomen fat in the abdomen releases chemicals which cause insulin resistance
So...this is one more observation
My gf got it in the 1950s before NAS.
I got it after going off NAS 20 years ago and switching back to normal pop for 2 years.
Here's my solution: AT&T can have their fast lanes and extort Netflix, but the. top of their monthly bill has to print "Of your $10/month Netflix bill, we are extorting from them $2 (or whatever) a month or we will slow them down. Also, we told you a particular speed for you in your contract with us but we are miserable, fraudulent liars."
> At least before voice chat you could close the text box or put it out of your > mind. Now, if I decided to partake, I'd have to deal with 8-year-olds telling > me how they fucked my mother in the ass and how she moaned
How would an 8 year old kn...say, what's your mother's address anyway?
Eh, Quake II single player had jumped the shark anyway, abandoning the fantasy monster model for a dreary grey-and-brownmetal sci-fi affair. Screw up the cool grappling hook so it's a mealey-mouthed humming POS. Get rid of rocket jumping because it's "wrong", then half-assedly add it back under protest with a hack rather than it falling out naturally from the physics. Turn the grenade launcher grenade from a cool thing that bonk bonk bonked around into a horrible orange sweet potato that bounced precisely twice then stopped for "easier placement".
Whoever was in charge obviously got lucky with Quake I in spite of their best efforts.
Here in Rome we don't fear our great generals. So let's just give one some emergency power to one to solve a problem scary to our democratic sensibilities. We can take it away later.
- Accidentally inducing an ice age (which can happen in as little as a year or two) from amelioration efforts: billions
-Successful amelioration efforts backing off GW, with attendant damage to economic dynamism, leaving us with 2050 tech in 2100: hundreds of millions to billions
-GW with slow sea rise but continued powerful economy: Baseline against the ungodly losses of the other two scenarios, but level 2100 tech with its marvels (consider vs. 1900vs today)
Me: Ya know, if CO2 is bad, we should get rid of bans of yard waste in landfills, and requirements labdfills biodegrade. Lawnmowing was a great sequestration method already in-place, before leftover 1970s innumeracy about running out of landfill space illogically gained sway.
Environmentalist: (has mental conflicts like Nomad after Kirk is done with it). No because CO2 isn't a very important greenhouse gas anyway.
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I am fine with AT&T and Verizon charging Netflix for priority service...if they must list at the top of their contract with you, "We give you unlimited service for xxx dollars a month, except for when you try to use Netflix. In that case, we have threatened to slow down Netflix to irritate you unless Netflix gives us $2 of the $8 a month you give them."
Truth in advertising. Let's see how long these fraudulent extortionists last in their plan when their business model is dragged out in front of the face of their millions of customers.
- Ultra-premium AKA ultra-high-priced franchise, DC superheroes, check!
- Massive committees in charge, check!
- Done by Turbine, part of Microsoft, check!
- YADC (Yet Another DOTA Clone) in an aging genre with a saturated market, check!
- DC's move belatedly into "action" MMORPGs, and Marvel's into "action" Diablo-clones both flopped miserably, check!
What could possibly go wrong?
Bulbs used to last a lot longer in the US until the early 1970s. Electric companies gave out free bulbs for burned out ones.
Then Phillips sued claiming something, and a judge ruled for competition, the practice was ended by men with guns, and bulbs got shitty.
its a problem with ANY group or individual that want to decide what's "best for you."
what's best for you never seems to be very good for them.
This includes government "groups". I worked for a large multinational with engineering sites in many countries, including over 400 engineere in Germany.
After a large round of layoffs about 10 years ago, the German office was proud to have laid off nobody, bragging about it, and being in accordance with German laws making it tough.
So they went to the German office and government and said, You can either lose 100 jobs, or 400. The choice is yours."
The government caved.
> "water va-pour"
Sounds like the name of a new DC comic character.
She's a cutie, too. Secret identity real name: Lee Quid.
With sloppy controls and logging, this can be abused by those in power to spy on their political opponents. I am convinced this is goong on in the US.
This is why there are supposed to be things like warrant requirements. If you can skip that with no alarm bells going off, goodbye freedom.
Translation: Holy crap! EverQuest Landmark has fully destructable landscapes, digging and tunneling, and construction that makes Minecraft look like, well, Minecraft.
- Excerpt from the forbidden novel "1983".
$197 billion for a web site? "Really?"
> A near east farmer group, an indigenous hunter gatherer group, and an ancient North Eurasian group from Siberia
I knew German Summer Glau had some Asian in her!
Well, forcing it onto everyone's device is one way to avoid piracy.
Ahhh...the goal of continuous, direct-to-brain, high quality porn streams continue to be driven apace.
Excellent.
Hacking not in Slashdot's niche? Puhleeze.
And this is hacking on an industrial, major-state-actor scale.
Hmmmmm...should I?
Ok, you have been warned.
Since it's in Australia, wouldn't it be a bebodying?
Peple blame sugar when it's other carbs that turn into the bulk of glucose in your body.
Almost half the calories in a Big Mac are bun. Non-sugar Carbs, via calories, are why we are fat.Chips, bread with everything, buns. Seriously, watch what's on your plate as you eat for several days.
There was a study 40 years ago where they fed. prisoners two diets of a whipped concoction, with varying amounts of fat and sugar. The fatter you were, the MORE you preferred the. high fat one, and the thinner people preferred the sweeter.
The idea fat people are hooked on sweets is BS. They are hooked on higher-calorie, denser-calorie fatty foods.
I just read an asinine study the other day that incorrectly associated sweeter foods with. higher calorie intake because they were more calorie dense, the authors surmised.
Gf = grandfather, not gf
There was a study linking insulin resistance to belly fat 2 years ago, via stress. NPR had a show on it.
antibiotics mess with gut flora
gut flora feeds back to brain via a bizarre nerve
this feedback induces stress
stress induces fat deposition inside the abdomen
fat in the abdomen releases chemicals which cause insulin resistance
So...this is one more observation
My gf got it in the 1950s before NAS.
I got it after going off NAS 20 years ago and switching back to normal pop for 2 years.
These new people have some 'splaining to do.
Well, looks like Scottland is gonna get its first influx of engineers in a hundred years.
"Look at all those redshirts!"
"Dude, that's ketchup."
I, for one, welcome our new, umm, overlords.
Here's my solution: AT&T can have their fast lanes and extort Netflix, but the. top of their monthly bill has to print "Of your $10/month Netflix bill, we are extorting from them $2 (or whatever) a month or we will slow them down. Also, we told you a particular speed for you in your contract with us but we are miserable, fraudulent liars."
> At least before voice chat you could close the text box or put it out of your
> mind. Now, if I decided to partake, I'd have to deal with 8-year-olds telling
> me how they fucked my mother in the ass and how she moaned
How would an 8 year old kn...say, what's your mother's address anyway?
Eh, Quake II single player had jumped the shark anyway, abandoning the fantasy monster model for a dreary grey-and-brownmetal sci-fi affair. Screw up the cool grappling hook so it's a mealey-mouthed humming POS. Get rid of rocket jumping because it's "wrong", then half-assedly add it back under protest with a hack rather than it falling out naturally from the physics. Turn the grenade launcher grenade from a cool thing that bonk bonk bonked around into a horrible orange sweet potato that bounced precisely twice then stopped for "easier placement".
Whoever was in charge obviously got lucky with Quake I in spite of their best efforts.
Here in Rome we don't fear our great generals. So let's just give one some emergency power to one to solve a problem scary to our democratic sensibilities. We can take it away later.
Estimated deaths for various future scenarios:
- Accidentally inducing an ice age (which can happen in as little as a year or two) from amelioration efforts: billions
-Successful amelioration efforts backing off GW, with attendant damage to economic dynamism, leaving us with 2050 tech in 2100: hundreds of millions to billions
-GW with slow sea rise but continued powerful economy: Baseline against the ungodly losses of the other two scenarios, but level 2100 tech with its marvels (consider vs. 1900vs today)
I recall this conversation:
Environmentalist: CO2 bad, mmmm'kay?
Me: Ya know, if CO2 is bad, we should get rid of bans of yard waste in landfills, and requirements labdfills biodegrade. Lawnmowing was a great sequestration method already in-place, before leftover 1970s innumeracy about running out of landfill space illogically gained sway.
Environmentalist: (has mental conflicts like Nomad after Kirk is done with it). No because CO2 isn't a very important greenhouse gas anyway.