I very nearly got an Android phone last year, but didn't at the last minute because I learned that Verizon mandated the $30 a month unlimited Internet/Email plan with any smartphone. 1) I didn't intend to use the phone for Internet access all that much, and 2) I simply couldn't afford that. So instead, I opted for a multimedia phone (eNV touch) and pay just $10 a month for limited net/email access. As is, I hardly ever go on the 'net with my phone, or do email, I don't even use anywhere near the allowance I'm given - for one thing, even with an eNV touch, the screen is just too small for browsing -not because of eyesight (being myopic, I can read fine print), but general preference.. though it's good enough for GPS maps.
So for me and probably quite a few like me, this is not a bad thing -I'd still like an Android phone or an iPhone, and now I'll be able to get a cheaper plan.
I realize it's different strokes for different people; I can access the net anytime of day or night, from work or home, having a tower and large screen in front of my face all the time, but for many people that's simply not a viable option, so they rely on their phones.
Verizon hasn't yet announced it's plans and pricing, but if they want to remain competitive, they won't be able to gouge customers.
Maybe, maybe not (example of one on the NYT best sellers list?) -buying a book doesn't necessarily mean the reader believes everything they read inside; but more specifically, I'm referring to this specific "rapture" of May 21, 2011, not the concept of "the Rapture" in general.
No, we just need to wait until Sunday, then stand outside any church and ask the people going inside if it matters if they do that any more.
Any church?
I don't identify myself as a Christian, but you do realize the 175,000 or so whackos who believe this represent just a tiny minority of christians, right? Most are scoffing at this as much as any other religious (or non-religious) group.
Is it just me or does there seem to be a serious coffee lobby / PR organization at work here? No exaggeration, every three months for the last couple decades I've seen some story about the benefits of coffee on health.
I wouldn't be surprised. Where are the studies about drinking tea, and not just green tea, but typical black tea?
Those insensitive clods, I stopped drinking coffee about 4 years ago and switched to tea, either Earl Grey or Chai. Some coffees can leave you with nasty breath too. My wife has "instant coffee" breath after breakfast, yuck.
Ironically, just yesterday I just gave my 10 yr old son a 3DS for his birthday, he's been wanting one for months.
As I was helping him set it up, I came across the Terms button, and almost clicked it to check; but then I realized that the reality was, there was no way I was going to tell this excited happy child, after his drooling for this thing the past 3 months, that his main birthday present, already in his hands, was suddenly going back to the store, -tough luck kid. I figured there'd be some of this kind of nonsense in it, but OTOH, it's not that different from a lot of the boilerplate EULA type stuff. There will also be no modding.
BTW, the cameras on these (there are 2 of them, for 3D) suck compared to the DSi; they're smaller and yield a grainy picture, apparently very light hungry, probably because of the smaller aperture. I can't see Nintendo wanting to use any pictures or videos from these for ad purposes, it wouldn't exactly paint it in a flattering light. Maybe in bright sunlight it looks better, we haven't test that yet.
And then there was the Toyota debacle a year or two ago with the sudden accelerations and the denials. Japan doesn't want to lose much more face in the market.
I'ms ore, McVeigh killed how many children?
19 Children. Dead. Children eh knew where there and he excused their deaths way in pursuit of is ideological goal.
The TSA had NO REASON TO SEARCH THAT PERSON. That's the point.
"; but that the terrorists who try to blow up planes are generally (radical) Muslims. "
The only time that is true is when you try to narrow it down to a specific, and unreasonable, time range. Over the lifetime of airlines, more have been not Muslim.
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"The 19 hijackers of 9-11 all had arabic or similar ethnicity and names, as did the shoe-bomber, and the underwear bomber sure wasn't caucasian."
names? NAMES? wtf does that have to do with anything? oh I get it. The lacks of facts, many examples that you are wrong, your cherry picking of data. You're a racist.
Before I address your flamebait, asinine accusation of racism, no one said anything about killing children as targets, that was completely off the mark and not at all what I was talking about. I was talking about terrorists who use their *own* children in bombing plots, basically training them to become suicide bombers. McVeigh did not do that.
The airlines did not institute all this high level security until *after* 9-11, so clearly, that is the form of terrorism that is relevant, and that's been the past 10 years, roughly. Besides that, it was also the first time anyone deliberately flew planes into buildings on suicide missions, simultaneously killing thousands, where any hijackers from the past were, by comparison, much less of a threat. My facts are just fine, yours are rather irrelevant.
Names? Just another common tie that jihadist tend to have. Guess what, radical islamic terrorists generally don't name their kids, "John Smith" or "Audrey Peterson". Every one of any airline islamic terrorist in the past 10 years, of any note whatsoever, was islamically named. Imagine, an islamic radical from the middle east with an islamic name, what was I thinking?
I have already clearly said not all muslims are terrorists, but fact remains that historically, and more importantly, more recently and pertinently, the main threat airlines face today comes from the islamic brand of terrorists, but you in your ideological fervor can't resist tossing the race card out there to assert your moral superiority. Obviously you have major reading comprehension issues.
I included "names" as one criteria because I know that there are other ethnicities other than Arabic, such as Persian or Pakistani, and I believe there are others, I didn't want to say that all islamic terrorists were Arabic because they're not; but I wasn't sure what they all were -so I used another common tie among jihadists- the islamic name. Therefore, process of elimination; names are just one more common thread of the airline jihadists.
Nowhere, no way, did I suggest that *all* people with such names are terrorists; again, we're talking about a tiny subset of a larger set, but which necessarily have some commonalities. God forbid I acknowledge those commonalities though, that makes me a bigot? That's idiotic. You should work for the TSA.
American terrorists, as in domestic American citizens, I suppose..but I don't think that's the group or ethnicity that the TSA should be most concerned with, based on recent history.
The overwhelming majority of airline related terrorist attempts in the past 10 years -if not all- have been from Islamic extremists with an arabic or similar ethnicity and name, and who don't need to be American citizens to board domestic flights. Further, while many Islamic-based terrorists show no reluctance to use children or women (though not babies) in their attacks, we haven't seen that from homegrown caucasian militant/terrorists such as McVeigh. The 19 hijackers of 9-11 all had arabic or similar ethnicity and names, as did the shoe-bomber, and the underwear bomber sure wasn't caucasian.
This is all about political correctness, and apparently the TSA would rather get us blown up than "offend" someone. When political ideology trumps common sense, we're in trouble.
Note that I am not saying that all Muslims are terrorists, that'd be idiotic; but that the terrorists who try to blow up planes are generally (radical) Muslims. One is a super-set, the other a subset. We're concerned with that subset. Logically, when you search for something, you use the process of elimination, among other tools. Removing the logical process of elimination via "randomizing" searches is illogical.
Yes, because *only* Capitalists are guilty of this. Those in the Kremlin moved to Chernobyl, right?
The fault lies not with a single system, but with human nature.
For what it's worth, I don't have a fundamental problem with the confidentiality agreement: There is no real conflict with Wikileak's mission here, despite what many other people might claim in a kneejerk reaction. Wikileaks doesn't advocate the indiscriminate release of all information...
This is as good a spot as any to interject that "slippery slope" argument one sees daily on slashdot.
Who there gets to choose exactly what is "safe" to release and what isn't, and how are they qualified to judge what repercussions may result from released information? I don't think it's that simple to figure out where to draw that line.
So, this sounds a bit hypocritical to me, kneejerk or not.
I'd be curious to see whether they or not they'd release the photos of bin Laden's corpse, if they get a hold of them.
Yeah, but I don't really need my wall filled up with silly little things like "going to bed now" or "Off to the gym, cya all in a bit" or "Damn, I'm out of toilet paper!" or "OMG I just got gang-raped, someone please call 911".. it's just too much clutter.
Pay extra for the crap that is SyFy? Not in this universe.
I've never liked their original shows very much, and their movies are absolutely laughable garbage. (well.. Grendel was watchable) They remind me of B-rated monster movies from the 60s, and there's usually not a shred of originality in them either, they just rip off the plot of much better SciFi/Fantasy movies that are currently in circulation either at the theatre or on DVD.
I was never a Battlestar fan, nor did I watch Caprica, or Farscape. You'll never catch me watching any of the Stargates on a faithful basis either, I just never got that into them. I have caught Sanctuary from time to time, mostly out of boredom, although Warehouse13 and Eureka are half decent shows, granted, and given that 98% of television sucks anyway.. what else is there to watch?
The only thing I really watch on SyFy now though is "Merlin" since NBC dropped it. SyFy didn't even have the decency to pick up Legend of the Seeker.
They've been the biggest disappointment. I was really psyched when they first came out. Instead of being the "go to" channel for Star Wars, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Dr. Who, Terminator, Predator, Aliens, Buffy, et all.. though, the vast majority of their programming is home brewed camp and schlock. I guess it's not all that shocking though.. TV's track record isn't the best when it comes to SciFi, but with a few exceptions..
It's not that I want to see them gone or anything, I just keep hoping they'll better someday... and hoping.. and hoping..
I've always sort of equated "intellectual elite" with "pseudo-intellectual". After all, the smarter someone really is, the more they should realize how little they actually know compared with how much there is to know. Even a rocket scientist can't do brain surgery and a neurosurgeon isn't likely to successfully design a working rocket.
Keyword though is "should".. there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Don't feel bad, it's occurred to me too.
Improbable, yes, quite, but not absolutely totally impossible- after all, there is much to the universe still not understood.. like dark matter. (Personally I blame anti-dark matter;-D )
Seriously though, if there is something in the galaxy that caused the mass extinction, and it's location at any given time is randomized by the effects of gravity, it's not totally comforting to know we could still come across it at some point, and never even know when it's coming. Or if a totally separate but physically identical effect (gamma ray burst, for example) happens. OTOH, I think the odds are in our favor.
Honestly, I find this report hard to believe.
I wouldn't be totally shocked to find it was embellished to make a point or generate sympathy for evolutionists, because I just can't beleive creationism is gaining a foothold over real science.
How is fixing America's educational system or culture Europe's problem?
You want us to elect Sarah Palin as anything more important than the mayor of Wasilla?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Because Sarah Palin has bugger all to do with any of this. ???
It couldn't be anymore gratuitous or obligatory.
Something about Al Gore, now that would have been more apropos.
Ok, but in the Palin case, the former governor was using this email address to skirt public disclosure requirements.
I've heard this before, but based on what factual evidence? Since there was nothing substantial found in her Hotmail account, I don't see this claim as anything other than character sniping.
Further, comparing this to HP is a bit irrelevant; one is a citizen, one is a corporation; but either way, two wrongs make a right now? Is the gist here, since HP "got away" with something remotely similar, Kernell should be off the hook too? Or is it just maybe that HP should face a stiffer penalty?
I agree that 20 years would be ridiculously extreme, but he won't get that. He'll get a slap on the wrist.
Because the so-called speed limit is usually a bullshit arbitrary number drummed up to generate revenue. Civil designers design roads for higher speeds than what are allowed. It's not speed that kills, it's inconsistent speeds and inattentive drivers.
Most people don't try to drive as fast as they can, they just drive at a rate that feels natural and comfortable. There is a natural flow to traffic. The various levels of government then take this general speed, and drop it down about 15 mph to make it hardly tolerable.. Cha-ching! (Oh, and then they fudge their statistics on fatalities and such, playing games with the numbers, to try and justify it all)
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I think it's going to be a long long time..
Besides, Mars ain't no place to raise your kids, in fact, it's cold as hell..
Or they could just ask Odin if they can borrow Sleipnir..
I very nearly got an Android phone last year, but didn't at the last minute because I learned that Verizon mandated the $30 a month unlimited Internet/Email plan with any smartphone. 1) I didn't intend to use the phone for Internet access all that much, and 2) I simply couldn't afford that. So instead, I opted for a multimedia phone (eNV touch) and pay just $10 a month for limited net/email access. As is, I hardly ever go on the 'net with my phone, or do email, I don't even use anywhere near the allowance I'm given - for one thing, even with an eNV touch, the screen is just too small for browsing -not because of eyesight (being myopic, I can read fine print), but general preference.. though it's good enough for GPS maps.
So for me and probably quite a few like me, this is not a bad thing -I'd still like an Android phone or an iPhone, and now I'll be able to get a cheaper plan.
I realize it's different strokes for different people; I can access the net anytime of day or night, from work or home, having a tower and large screen in front of my face all the time, but for many people that's simply not a viable option, so they rely on their phones.
Verizon hasn't yet announced it's plans and pricing, but if they want to remain competitive, they won't be able to gouge customers.
Maybe, maybe not (example of one on the NYT best sellers list?) -buying a book doesn't necessarily mean the reader believes everything they read inside; but more specifically, I'm referring to this specific "rapture" of May 21, 2011, not the concept of "the Rapture" in general.
No, we just need to wait until Sunday, then stand outside any church and ask the people going inside if it matters if they do that any more.
Any church?
I don't identify myself as a Christian, but you do realize the 175,000 or so whackos who believe this represent just a tiny minority of christians, right? Most are scoffing at this as much as any other religious (or non-religious) group.
Is it just me or does there seem to be a serious coffee lobby / PR organization at work here? No exaggeration, every three months for the last couple decades I've seen some story about the benefits of coffee on health.
I wouldn't be surprised. Where are the studies about drinking tea, and not just green tea, but typical black tea?
Those insensitive clods, I stopped drinking coffee about 4 years ago and switched to tea, either Earl Grey or Chai. Some coffees can leave you with nasty breath too. My wife has "instant coffee" breath after breakfast, yuck.
Ironically, just yesterday I just gave my 10 yr old son a 3DS for his birthday, he's been wanting one for months.
As I was helping him set it up, I came across the Terms button, and almost clicked it to check; but then I realized that the reality was, there was no way I was going to tell this excited happy child, after his drooling for this thing the past 3 months, that his main birthday present, already in his hands, was suddenly going back to the store, -tough luck kid. I figured there'd be some of this kind of nonsense in it, but OTOH, it's not that different from a lot of the boilerplate EULA type stuff. There will also be no modding.
BTW, the cameras on these (there are 2 of them, for 3D) suck compared to the DSi; they're smaller and yield a grainy picture, apparently very light hungry, probably because of the smaller aperture. I can't see Nintendo wanting to use any pictures or videos from these for ad purposes, it wouldn't exactly paint it in a flattering light. Maybe in bright sunlight it looks better, we haven't test that yet.
And then there was the Toyota debacle a year or two ago with the sudden accelerations and the denials. Japan doesn't want to lose much more face in the market.
I'ms ore, McVeigh killed how many children? 19 Children. Dead. Children eh knew where there and he excused their deaths way in pursuit of is ideological goal.
The TSA had NO REASON TO SEARCH THAT PERSON. That's the point.
"; but that the terrorists who try to blow up planes are generally (radical) Muslims. " The only time that is true is when you try to narrow it down to a specific, and unreasonable, time range. Over the lifetime of airlines, more have been not Muslim. \ "The 19 hijackers of 9-11 all had arabic or similar ethnicity and names, as did the shoe-bomber, and the underwear bomber sure wasn't caucasian."
names? NAMES? wtf does that have to do with anything? oh I get it. The lacks of facts, many examples that you are wrong, your cherry picking of data. You're a racist.
Before I address your flamebait, asinine accusation of racism, no one said anything about killing children as targets, that was completely off the mark and not at all what I was talking about. I was talking about terrorists who use their *own* children in bombing plots, basically training them to become suicide bombers. McVeigh did not do that. The airlines did not institute all this high level security until *after* 9-11, so clearly, that is the form of terrorism that is relevant, and that's been the past 10 years, roughly. Besides that, it was also the first time anyone deliberately flew planes into buildings on suicide missions, simultaneously killing thousands, where any hijackers from the past were, by comparison, much less of a threat. My facts are just fine, yours are rather irrelevant. Names? Just another common tie that jihadist tend to have. Guess what, radical islamic terrorists generally don't name their kids, "John Smith" or "Audrey Peterson". Every one of any airline islamic terrorist in the past 10 years, of any note whatsoever, was islamically named. Imagine, an islamic radical from the middle east with an islamic name, what was I thinking?
I have already clearly said not all muslims are terrorists, but fact remains that historically, and more importantly, more recently and pertinently, the main threat airlines face today comes from the islamic brand of terrorists, but you in your ideological fervor can't resist tossing the race card out there to assert your moral superiority. Obviously you have major reading comprehension issues.
I included "names" as one criteria because I know that there are other ethnicities other than Arabic, such as Persian or Pakistani, and I believe there are others, I didn't want to say that all islamic terrorists were Arabic because they're not; but I wasn't sure what they all were -so I used another common tie among jihadists- the islamic name. Therefore, process of elimination; names are just one more common thread of the airline jihadists.
Nowhere, no way, did I suggest that *all* people with such names are terrorists; again, we're talking about a tiny subset of a larger set, but which necessarily have some commonalities. God forbid I acknowledge those commonalities though, that makes me a bigot? That's idiotic. You should work for the TSA.
American terrorists, as in domestic American citizens, I suppose..but I don't think that's the group or ethnicity that the TSA should be most concerned with, based on recent history.
The overwhelming majority of airline related terrorist attempts in the past 10 years -if not all- have been from Islamic extremists with an arabic or similar ethnicity and name, and who don't need to be American citizens to board domestic flights. Further, while many Islamic-based terrorists show no reluctance to use children or women (though not babies) in their attacks, we haven't seen that from homegrown caucasian militant/terrorists such as McVeigh. The 19 hijackers of 9-11 all had arabic or similar ethnicity and names, as did the shoe-bomber, and the underwear bomber sure wasn't caucasian.
This is all about political correctness, and apparently the TSA would rather get us blown up than "offend" someone. When political ideology trumps common sense, we're in trouble.
Note that I am not saying that all Muslims are terrorists, that'd be idiotic; but that the terrorists who try to blow up planes are generally (radical) Muslims. One is a super-set, the other a subset. We're concerned with that subset. Logically, when you search for something, you use the process of elimination, among other tools. Removing the logical process of elimination via "randomizing" searches is illogical.
Yes, because *only* Capitalists are guilty of this. Those in the Kremlin moved to Chernobyl, right?
The fault lies not with a single system, but with human nature.
For what it's worth, I don't have a fundamental problem with the confidentiality agreement: There is no real conflict with Wikileak's mission here, despite what many other people might claim in a kneejerk reaction. Wikileaks doesn't advocate the indiscriminate release of all information...
This is as good a spot as any to interject that "slippery slope" argument one sees daily on slashdot.
Who there gets to choose exactly what is "safe" to release and what isn't, and how are they qualified to judge what repercussions may result from released information? I don't think it's that simple to figure out where to draw that line.
So, this sounds a bit hypocritical to me, kneejerk or not.
I'd be curious to see whether they or not they'd release the photos of bin Laden's corpse, if they get a hold of them.
The unemployed do not have last names.
We'd run out of first names fast
Megamaid!
Just so long as she doesn't go from suck to blow, because that would really suck.. I mean, blow. Whatever.
Yeah, but I don't really need my wall filled up with silly little things like "going to bed now" or "Off to the gym, cya all in a bit" or "Damn, I'm out of toilet paper!" or "OMG I just got gang-raped, someone please call 911".. it's just too much clutter.
FB is overrated anyway. And waay too many people use it as if it were their Twitter account.
Pay extra for the crap that is SyFy? Not in this universe.
I've never liked their original shows very much, and their movies are absolutely laughable garbage. (well.. Grendel was watchable) They remind me of B-rated monster movies from the 60s, and there's usually not a shred of originality in them either, they just rip off the plot of much better SciFi/Fantasy movies that are currently in circulation either at the theatre or on DVD.
I was never a Battlestar fan, nor did I watch Caprica, or Farscape. You'll never catch me watching any of the Stargates on a faithful basis either, I just never got that into them. I have caught Sanctuary from time to time, mostly out of boredom, although Warehouse13 and Eureka are half decent shows, granted, and given that 98% of television sucks anyway.. what else is there to watch?
The only thing I really watch on SyFy now though is "Merlin" since NBC dropped it. SyFy didn't even have the decency to pick up Legend of the Seeker.
They've been the biggest disappointment. I was really psyched when they first came out. Instead of being the "go to" channel for Star Wars, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Dr. Who, Terminator, Predator, Aliens, Buffy, et all.. though, the vast majority of their programming is home brewed camp and schlock. I guess it's not all that shocking though.. TV's track record isn't the best when it comes to SciFi, but with a few exceptions..
It's not that I want to see them gone or anything, I just keep hoping they'll better someday... and hoping.. and hoping..
I've always sort of equated "intellectual elite" with "pseudo-intellectual". After all, the smarter someone really is, the more they should realize how little they actually know compared with how much there is to know. Even a rocket scientist can't do brain surgery and a neurosurgeon isn't likely to successfully design a working rocket.
Keyword though is "should".. there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Don't feel bad, it's occurred to me too. ;-D )
Improbable, yes, quite, but not absolutely totally impossible- after all, there is much to the universe still not understood.. like dark matter. (Personally I blame anti-dark matter
Seriously though, if there is something in the galaxy that caused the mass extinction, and it's location at any given time is randomized by the effects of gravity, it's not totally comforting to know we could still come across it at some point, and never even know when it's coming. Or if a totally separate but physically identical effect (gamma ray burst, for example) happens. OTOH, I think the odds are in our favor.
Not sure about v3.1x, but on v6.5, the other worms are green and cyan (light blue)
Aprils 1st is the perfect day for World Backup Day, since nearly all backup solutions are something of a joke.
Honestly, I find this report hard to believe.
I wouldn't be totally shocked to find it was embellished to make a point or generate sympathy for evolutionists, because I just can't beleive creationism is gaining a foothold over real science.
You want us to elect Sarah Palin as anything more important than the mayor of Wasilla? Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Because Sarah Palin has bugger all to do with any of this. ???
It couldn't be anymore gratuitous or obligatory.
Something about Al Gore, now that would have been more apropos.
Ok, but in the Palin case, the former governor was using this email address to skirt public disclosure requirements.
I've heard this before, but based on what factual evidence? Since there was nothing substantial found in her Hotmail account, I don't see this claim as anything other than character sniping.
Further, comparing this to HP is a bit irrelevant; one is a citizen, one is a corporation; but either way, two wrongs make a right now? Is the gist here, since HP "got away" with something remotely similar, Kernell should be off the hook too? Or is it just maybe that HP should face a stiffer penalty?
I agree that 20 years would be ridiculously extreme, but he won't get that. He'll get a slap on the wrist.
Because the so-called speed limit is usually a bullshit arbitrary number drummed up to generate revenue. Civil designers design roads for higher speeds than what are allowed. It's not speed that kills, it's inconsistent speeds and inattentive drivers.
Most people don't try to drive as fast as they can, they just drive at a rate that feels natural and comfortable. There is a natural flow to traffic. The various levels of government then take this general speed, and drop it down about 15 mph to make it hardly tolerable.. Cha-ching! (Oh, and then they fudge their statistics on fatalities and such, playing games with the numbers, to try and justify it all)