Get an answering machine, set it to ring eight times - then have a three to five minute message stating "Place me on the "do not call" list - and remind friends and family at the same time to call you on your cellphone.
Remove all the phones from that line - and never be bothered. My phone and dsl account - which for some reason I am required to maintain both - rings to 32 bucks a month.
If you are asked for your home number - give it freely. Use the cell for only friends and family.
Voila - telemarkiting calls forever banished. It's been 14 months since my last call/answering machine telemarketing message.
people claim "prior art" each and every time some other company than Apple goes to court - and here is an actaul case of prior art, and suddenly there is a whole bunch of folks running forward to defend apple?
Anyone know how to lodge a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Jack for delaying and damaging my activities by filing idiotic lawsuits designed to promote his point of view?
I'm so behind the times with games that sometimes I end up paying nothing, like with Starcraft 2.
I still play x-com.
But beside that - I'm not interested in FPS games. Which eliminates half of the crop, I'm not interested in MMORPGS, so there goes another chunk, not interested in sports games, and not interested in abortions like MOO 3
Look , go back to something like MOO2 or X-Com and update the graphics / sound. Some of us LIKE turn based games, Some of us LIKE strategy, Some of us DON'T want to play with 13 yeaar olds that have no life.
Maybe you'll sell more games (well, after the games hit the bargain counter since I won't be shelling out more than 30 per game ever again).
Me too. there are three services that windows requires to get the free updates. They demand one of them is set to launch "automatic".
I reenable the services, and get the updates - I then disable the services and guess what?
No phoning home.
Automatic Updates (allows the site to find, download and install high-priority updates for your computer) Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) (helps updates download more quickly and without problems if the download process is interrupted) Event Log (keeps a record of updating activities to help with troubleshooting, if needed)
A savvy Parent can sue on the monors behalf as there is no legal way to make or enforce a contract with a minor or someone totally inebriated (or both).
So, once again, if they do "Ruin the disc" there's still an avenue.
because why would anyone buy something if they could get it for free?
Two words.
"Bottled Water"
On a side note - when Napster was rocking, I was buying two to three cds a week. Since they shut Napster down I have purchased only 4 cds = All of them from patchouli.net .
"I have political capital, and I intend to spend it."
And his approval rating just keeps going down. This post is not meant to be political or anything, just it sounds rather similar. From my personal experience in the world, it seems that whenever someone is bragging about things they did *before* it's usually because they don't have anything to brag about now. maybe i'm wrong.//start sarcasm
Gosh, You think this will hurt his chances of getting re-elected?//end sarcasm
30 year 6.5% fixed thru FHA. And yes, I did not stutter, the Seller paid the down payment via a mortgage program my lender told me about. the seller paid the down payment out of the equity in the house - It was part of the offer they told me to pitch. When they cut all the checks I actually recieved 400 bucks back at the time of sale.
Go ask a mortgage lender (not a bank) on what programs you qualify for - right now the interest rates are still low enough to get a great deal. The value of my home has already increased by 30 grand in the past two years because of the area, and if I put in a garage, should give me another 10 grand after the expenses are accounted for.
It's all about equity - you build it in a house, and toss it away renting.
That's correct - no down payment. Seller paid it along with the program I used to get the FHA loan. BTW - that 720 also covers the PMI I have to pay until I get 20% equity in the house - then the payment drops by 90 bucks.
And so far nothing's broken on the house. And - saving 300-400 per month for 24 months will cover anything that does break...
estimates that final break between the human and chimpanzee species did not come until 6.3 million years ago at the earliest, and probably less than 5.4 million years ago.
Kadin2048 you got it right. 20/20 hindsight is crystal clear. Prior to this all hijackings ended on a runway somewhere with the bad guys dead and the passengers safe. Blowing up a plane at that time would of enraged people.
(As an aside but on topic - I laugh when folks point to enriching haliburton as a reason to invade Iraq - Guess what country Clinton chose when we invaded Bosnia)
I prefer using my PC to play them since generally the interface is better than just "button mashing" on a cramped controller.
Besides - how is your game console going to play all of the content the internet has? Ebaumsworld regularly has neat little flash games to play that I'm sure cannot be played on the playstations and nintendos and x-boxxen..
Whistleblower Yep, Whistlblower does not apply - he never alerted the government/state, nor was he fired for his revelations, nor was what going on meriting the need to reveal since (sadly) some places rely on securirity thru obscurity.
Slashdot Mirror
Get an answering machine, set it to ring eight times - then have a three to five minute message stating "Place me on the "do not call" list - and remind friends and family at the same time to call you on your cellphone.
Remove all the phones from that line - and never be bothered. My phone and dsl account - which for some reason I am required to maintain both - rings to 32 bucks a month.
If you are asked for your home number - give it freely. Use the cell for only friends and family.
Voila - telemarkiting calls forever banished. It's been 14 months since my last call/answering machine telemarketing message.
people claim "prior art" each and every time some other company than Apple goes to court - and here is an actaul case of prior art, and suddenly there is a whole bunch of folks running forward to defend apple?
Seriously - Prior art - its documented.
If those other companies wanted to defend their marks, that was up to them. They chose not to. End of story.
3
When Apple sues - the apologists defend, When Microsoft sues - well, they're just plain evil
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/19/13323
hypocrisy - It's what's for dinner....
{snicker}
Anyone know how to lodge a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Jack for delaying and damaging my activities by filing idiotic lawsuits designed to promote his point of view?
I'm so behind the times with games that sometimes I end up paying nothing, like with Starcraft 2.
I still play x-com.
But beside that - I'm not interested in FPS games. Which eliminates half of the crop, I'm not interested in MMORPGS, so there goes another chunk, not interested in sports games, and not interested in abortions like MOO 3
Look , go back to something like MOO2 or X-Com and update the graphics / sound. Some of us LIKE turn based games, Some of us LIKE strategy, Some of us DON'T want to play with 13 yeaar olds that have no life.
Maybe you'll sell more games (well, after the games hit the bargain counter since I won't be shelling out more than 30 per game ever again).
I can disable it at will.
Me too. there are three services that windows requires to get the free updates. They demand one of them is set to launch "automatic".
I reenable the services, and get the updates - I then disable the services and guess what?
No phoning home.
Automatic Updates (allows the site to find, download and install high-priority updates for your computer)
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) (helps updates download more quickly and without problems if the download process is interrupted)
Event Log (keeps a record of updating activities to help with troubleshooting, if needed)
make them manual -
Automatic Updates is the one that phones home.
It's trivially easy to shut off.
Look, if you need the mechanics explained - start by searching for "Pr0n" on google....
The chicken came first - Eggs don't have sex organs (vital)...
been hosting with them for about 4 years now.
And yes, they now do linux...
Bingo.
A savvy Parent can sue on the monors behalf as there is no legal way to make or enforce a contract with a minor or someone totally inebriated (or both).
So, once again, if they do "Ruin the disc" there's still an avenue.
How will they enforce a contract with a nine year old?
because why would anyone buy something if they could get it for free?
Two words.
"Bottled Water"
On a side note - when Napster was rocking, I was buying two to three cds a week. Since they shut Napster down I have purchased only 4 cds = All of them from patchouli.net .
Remember, after the 2004 election:
//start sarcasm
//end sarcasm
"I have political capital, and I intend to spend it."
And his approval rating just keeps going down. This post is not meant to be political or anything, just it sounds rather similar. From my personal experience in the world, it seems that whenever someone is bragging about things they did *before* it's usually because they don't have anything to brag about now. maybe i'm wrong.
Gosh, You think this will hurt his chances of getting re-elected?
30 year 6.5% fixed thru FHA. And yes, I did not stutter, the Seller paid the down payment via a mortgage program my lender told me about. the seller paid the down payment out of the equity in the house - It was part of the offer they told me to pitch. When they cut all the checks I actually recieved 400 bucks back at the time of sale.
Go ask a mortgage lender (not a bank) on what programs you qualify for - right now the interest rates are still low enough to get a great deal. The value of my home has already increased by 30 grand in the past two years because of the area, and if I put in a garage, should give me another 10 grand after the expenses are accounted for.
It's all about equity - you build it in a house, and toss it away renting.
That's correct - no down payment. Seller paid it along with the program I used to get the FHA loan. BTW - that 720 also covers the PMI I have to pay until I get 20% equity in the house - then the payment drops by 90 bucks.
And so far nothing's broken on the house. And - saving 300-400 per month for 24 months will cover anything that does break...
It would take years to pay as much in rent as you would to buy the house. It's not comparable at all.
Renting a Home in my area is around 1000.00 to 1200.00 a month for rent (and that does not include water/gas/electric.
I bought a house two years ago - and My house payment is 720.00
estimates that final break between the human and chimpanzee species did not come until 6.3 million years ago at the earliest, and probably less than 5.4 million years ago.
Did someone forget to inform Michael Jackson?
err - need my coffee - meant "Company" not "Country"
Kadin2048 you got it right. 20/20 hindsight is crystal clear. Prior to this all hijackings ended on a runway somewhere with the bad guys dead and the passengers safe. Blowing up a plane at that time would of enraged people.
(As an aside but on topic - I laugh when folks point to enriching haliburton as a reason to invade Iraq - Guess what country Clinton chose when we invaded Bosnia)
If you want to play games buy a console.
No.
I prefer using my PC to play them since generally the interface is better than just "button mashing" on a cramped controller.
Besides - how is your game console going to play all of the content the internet has? Ebaumsworld regularly has neat little flash games to play that I'm sure cannot be played on the playstations and nintendos and x-boxxen..
I thought these plants were supposed to convert sewage already
isn't one online in Missouri right now?
eh? the tags vanished?
l ower
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=whistleb
And now I have to wait 5 minutes to fix the tags vanishing?
Whistleblower
Yep, Whistlblower does not apply - he never alerted the government/state, nor was he fired for his revelations, nor was what going on meriting the need to reveal since (sadly) some places rely on securirity thru obscurity.
I don't think "Whistleblower" applies here, there was no illegal activity, but there is a tinge of "Get evenism" reeking from his actions.
Nevertheless - if a NDA was signed then he'd be totally in the wrong.
What does the first Amendmant have to do with the private sector?