The problem is that the percentage of those owning the modem is small. So you can't justify the rate increase on the basis of "AT&T needs money to stay afloat" since the rate increase is really only getting them a small amount of revenue. I think it's plain they just want to discourage people from having their own equipment.
Sony (holding royal flush): I raise you $1. Nintendo (holding 4 aces): I'll see your $1 and raise you $2: MS (holding jack-squat): I'll see your $2 and raise you A MILLION BILLION DOLLARS. Sony: Fold. Nintendo: Fold. MS: Mwahahahahahaha.
Four emails a month does not constitute a "pounding", nor does it constitute a "bombardment". All told, there might be a hundred emails a month going to this nonexistent account. Is his mail server running on a C-64? Can't withstand the constant shelling of 3 emails a day? I mean, fighting spam is noble and all, but using terms like bombardment and pounding with such small numbers just makes him look silly.
Wow that is really sad. Not the death, although that is also sad, but the way he just is not going to move on - ever. He is determined to bring the whole world into his mourning process with this invention that is unfeasible at best. But hey, best of luck to him. Medical science has been outdone before, if I remember the Dean Kamen story correctly anyway.
Supermarket checkout workers make $20/hr in California. They also have full health benfits. There are people who are career checkers. This is not because it costs more to live in California. This is because they have a (mandatory) union. You can bet supermarkets in California pass that cost on to their customers. Tada, higher cost of living for grocery customers (i.e., humans).
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We need some real browser statistics which break down IE into AOL sub-chunks. This is key because AOL's IE is an inferior version of MS's and does not render many pages correctly (a fact which seems to be largely ignored by page designers), driving some AOLers to use the IE within Windows. If we knew what the actual AOL intenal browser percentage was, we could properly gage the effect this will have (assuming people who hate the existing one will ignore Gecko as well).
FYI, in Win2k you can ditch ACPI support without reinstalling by changing the Computer->ACPI PC driver to Standard PC. Windows will grab the other kernel from the CD and make you reboot and re-detect hardware.
I have used AOL recently (for work, not for personal use since 1994), and what they did was put up several ads when I logged on top of one another. There would be two buttons on the bottom, "cancel" and "order" - but they would sometimes swap sides of the window so if you just clicked the same place until the ads went away (which I did once being impatient by the 2nd ad), you would wind up ordering something. Conveniently billed to your credit card of course.
Affecting a transparent society in which people could be seen doing illegal things (like smoking dope) would inevitably result in a society with much higher voter turnout, and less strict laws - I bet marijuana would become legal quickly, for example. What we have now could be argued to be a set of laws based on what most people agree would be a nice way to behave. It would be interesting to see what happens when laws are actually enforceable...
I've seen maybe 2 episodes on actual TV in the last year (was there even a 4th season?) because the show is never on when I tune in to watch it. And I watch football, so I'm there at the end when the show would come on - it usually does not, and when it does it is a rerun. Meanwhile, we get more new-and-awful Simpsons episodes every week. The point: People would watch Futurama if they had a chance, what do you want us to do if not write letters and sign petitions? There is no chance to actually put more eyeballs in front of the show.
...and from what I gather they prioritize as follows:
1) speed
2) saftey
3-99) speed
100) maintaining package integrity
They throw anything throwable (i.e., not extremely heavy) to/from the trucks and conveyors, repack/tape what gets opened, and trash what gets destroyed or falls through the cracks. The main thing is to keep the line moving as any interruption can cause delays all over the place.
The employees that do the unloading/routing/loading are unskilled part-time help (who often here in tejas are illegals who don't speak english yet). Of course, the turnover is massive, because who wants to work like a dog in a warehouse being subjected to whatever the weather is like outside (packages get it worse of course as far as extremes of heat and cold).
Anyway, don't ship any package UPS that you are able to destroy with your own two hands/feet (look for bootmarks on your stuff, it's fun) because they will probably find a way. Unless it's packed very, very well.
In UPS's defense, the guy from the article didn't say beyond bubble wrap what "well packed" was, but bubble wrap is basically useless on something heavy like a PC unless you apply about 20 layers all around. That's why PCs are shipped from manufacturers in styrofoam wedges, because they know what to expect from UPS and other shippers. Follow a manufacturer's example for best results.
The Shoddy Acting hit an all-time high in TPM, from the opening scene where the Jedi's ship captain can't say her lines, to the trade federation lackey who made me laugh out loud at "they've gone up the ventilation shaft" or whatever he said, to the kid ("Are you an Angel?" is bad dialogue made unbearable by bad performance), even including the CG chars - why was Watto a mafia stereotype? Jar-Jar a Jamaican clown? Why oh why? People say it's a kid's movie, what do you expect? The thing is, it's barely on par with a children's TV show if you remove the special effects. Why would Star Wars, with a budget near infinity, hire some of the worst actors the film world has ever known? It's like Lucas was channeling Ed Wood or something.
Two things come to mind re: compensation
on
The Immortal Cell
·
· Score: 1
1) It isn't legal to sell/buy human organs or cadavers
2) It is legal to sell/buy human blood & plasma
Bottom line, this is America baby and if they didn't get a donation form signed by her or the family saying they can do research (and somewhere down the line make $$) with her disembodied cells, they probably owe money. Hence the whole not-even-telling-the-family-so-at-least-they-get-a -good-feeling thing.
We're not talking academia here either, there are some enormously profitable drug companies out there and you can bet they benefited from HeLa cells even if they didn't outright use them.
When the Cancer cure comes (good luck on that but whatever) you can bet it will be in a very expensive pill/shot/whatever, and while BigAssPharmaceutical, Inc will be getting a nice amount of cash on each sale, a certain Lacks family will be doing good just to pay full price for the generic version.
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The problem is that the percentage of those owning the modem is small. So you can't justify the rate increase on the basis of "AT&T needs money to stay afloat" since the rate increase is really only getting them a small amount of revenue. I think it's plain they just want to discourage people from having their own equipment.
Works for me. I didn't get the one with the free DVD though, so I can't speak to that.
Sony (holding royal flush): I raise you $1.
Nintendo (holding 4 aces): I'll see your $1 and raise you $2:
MS (holding jack-squat): I'll see your $2 and raise you A MILLION BILLION DOLLARS.
Sony: Fold.
Nintendo: Fold.
MS: Mwahahahahahaha.
Four emails a month does not constitute a "pounding", nor does it constitute a "bombardment". All told, there might be a hundred emails a month going to this nonexistent account. Is his mail server running on a C-64? Can't withstand the constant shelling of 3 emails a day? I mean, fighting spam is noble and all, but using terms like bombardment and pounding with such small numbers just makes him look silly.
Wow that is really sad. Not the death, although that is also sad, but the way he just is not going to move on - ever. He is determined to bring the whole world into his mourning process with this invention that is unfeasible at best. But hey, best of luck to him. Medical science has been outdone before, if I remember the Dean Kamen story correctly anyway.
"haven't seen it but it sux."
Supermarket checkout workers make $20/hr in California. They also have full health benfits. There are people who are career checkers. This is not because it costs more to live in California. This is because they have a (mandatory) union. You can bet supermarkets in California pass that cost on to their customers. Tada, higher cost of living for grocery customers (i.e., humans).
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We need some real browser statistics which break down IE into AOL sub-chunks. This is key because AOL's IE is an inferior version of MS's and does not render many pages correctly (a fact which seems to be largely ignored by page designers), driving some AOLers to use the IE within Windows. If we knew what the actual AOL intenal browser percentage was, we could properly gage the effect this will have (assuming people who hate the existing one will ignore Gecko as well).
FYI, in Win2k you can ditch ACPI support without reinstalling by changing the Computer->ACPI PC driver to Standard PC. Windows will grab the other kernel from the CD and make you reboot and re-detect hardware.
I have used AOL recently (for work, not for personal use since 1994), and what they did was put up several ads when I logged on top of one another. There would be two buttons on the bottom, "cancel" and "order" - but they would sometimes swap sides of the window so if you just clicked the same place until the ads went away (which I did once being impatient by the 2nd ad), you would wind up ordering something. Conveniently billed to your credit card of course.
Affecting a transparent society in which people could be seen doing illegal things (like smoking dope) would inevitably result in a society with much higher voter turnout, and less strict laws - I bet marijuana would become legal quickly, for example. What we have now could be argued to be a set of laws based on what most people agree would be a nice way to behave. It would be interesting to see what happens when laws are actually enforceable...
I've seen maybe 2 episodes on actual TV in the last year (was there even a 4th season?) because the show is never on when I tune in to watch it. And I watch football, so I'm there at the end when the show would come on - it usually does not, and when it does it is a rerun. Meanwhile, we get more new-and-awful Simpsons episodes every week.
The point:
People would watch Futurama if they had a chance, what do you want us to do if not write letters and sign petitions? There is no chance to actually put more eyeballs in front of the show.
"You sir, are an idiot." - Krusty
It's either a year old or they are just that lame...
Non-net communication can be useful. Call them. They may have you fax something. But you should definitely get results that way.
NSI does suck to work with.
...and from what I gather they prioritize as follows:
1) speed
2) saftey
3-99) speed
100) maintaining package integrity
They throw anything throwable (i.e., not extremely heavy) to/from the trucks and conveyors, repack/tape what gets opened, and trash what gets destroyed or falls through the cracks. The main thing is to keep the line moving as any interruption can cause delays all over the place.
The employees that do the unloading/routing/loading are unskilled part-time help (who often here in tejas are illegals who don't speak english yet). Of course, the turnover is massive, because who wants to work like a dog in a warehouse being subjected to whatever the weather is like outside (packages get it worse of course as far as extremes of heat and cold).
Anyway, don't ship any package UPS that you are able to destroy with your own two hands/feet (look for bootmarks on your stuff, it's fun) because they will probably find a way. Unless it's packed very, very well.
In UPS's defense, the guy from the article didn't say beyond bubble wrap what "well packed" was, but bubble wrap is basically useless on something heavy like a PC unless you apply about 20 layers all around. That's why PCs are shipped from manufacturers in styrofoam wedges, because they know what to expect from UPS and other shippers. Follow a manufacturer's example for best results.
The Shoddy Acting hit an all-time high in TPM, from the opening scene where the Jedi's ship captain can't say her lines, to the trade federation lackey who made me laugh out loud at "they've gone up the ventilation shaft" or whatever he said, to the kid ("Are you an Angel?" is bad dialogue made unbearable by bad performance), even including the CG chars - why was Watto a mafia stereotype? Jar-Jar a Jamaican clown? Why oh why? People say it's a kid's movie, what do you expect? The thing is, it's barely on par with a children's TV show if you remove the special effects. Why would Star Wars, with a budget near infinity, hire some of the worst actors the film world has ever known? It's like Lucas was channeling Ed Wood or something.
1) It isn't legal to sell/buy human organs or cadavers
a -good-feeling thing.
2) It is legal to sell/buy human blood & plasma
Bottom line, this is America baby and if they didn't get a donation form signed by her or the family saying they can do research (and somewhere down the line make $$) with her disembodied cells, they probably owe money. Hence the whole not-even-telling-the-family-so-at-least-they-get-
We're not talking academia here either, there are some enormously profitable drug companies out there and you can bet they benefited from HeLa cells even if they didn't outright use them.
When the Cancer cure comes (good luck on that but whatever) you can bet it will be in a very expensive pill/shot/whatever, and while BigAssPharmaceutical, Inc will be getting a nice amount of cash on each sale, a certain Lacks family will be doing good just to pay full price for the generic version.